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UncategorizedBurgerTime Reboot has a Release Date, at Last
BurgerTime World Tour, the high-definition remake of the 1980s food preparation platformer, will arrive Nov. 2 on Xbox Live, “affordably priced” at 800 Microsoft Points ($10) according to a news release by MonkeyPaw Games. In addition to retooled singleplayer action the game will feature a multiplayer mode, seen above in a trailer released today. You…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Robots, Ninjas, Planes and More in Our Latest Xbox Live Indie Favorites
Every few weeks we here at Kotaku make a selection of some of the best Indie games that Xbox Live has to offer. These are our latest favorites. You’ll be able to find the list here for reference, or in the “Kotaku‘s favorites” channel in the Indie Game section of Xbox Live’s Games Marketplace. Robotriot…
By Matthew Buzzi Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Locked out LeBron Finds Work in Madden
With the first two weeks of the NBA season canceled thanks to the lockout, some players have gone looking for alternative employment. Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz, for example, was in a Starcraft pro gaming tournament this past weekend, just barely finishing out of the money. So it was around Monday when some folks…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Valve Celebrates Mann Co. Birthday & $2 Million in Team Fortress 2 Item Sales With A Mann-sized Update
Has it already been a full year since Valve launched the Team Fortress 2 Mann Co. Store, the in-game shop in which people trade cold hard cash for hats, weapons and hats? Yes, it has. Valve is therefore celebrating the shop’s birthday and $2,000,000 in profits(!) for item creators with a high five-filled update. Today,…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Should You Buy Ace Combat: Assault Horizon? Yes.
Namco Bandai’s Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is out there ready to be purchased, or rented, and played. But should you invest the time and money? Since I’m the only one playing, here’s my split personality Gut Check: Michael Fahey, Die-Hard Ace Combat Fan: What the hell have they done to my series? I depend on…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fruit Ninja Kinect Codes. Fruit Ninja Kinect Codes Here! Get Your Fruit Ninja Kinect Codes! Who’s Ready?
Our good friends from Halfbrick have showered us with free Xbox Live codes for Fruit Ninja Kinect, both for the full title and for all of its downloadable contentā€”the Storm, Art and Space packages of blades, shadows and new achievements. Well, I’m gonna give ’em away via Twitter. You can claim yours by following Kotaku…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Geek Immortal
Team Kotaku Not Pictured – A healthy portion of Kotaku is at the New York Comic Con right now, sadly not in form-fitting Deadpool costumes. More super coverage to come. The Best iOS Gamer in The World Congratulations, JeNeI_7, you are the best iPhone or iPad gamer on the planet. You’re not a machine, are…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Soccer and 48 Pop Idols Show Rage Who’s the Boss in Japan
It was a big week for two very different video games in Japan. One, Konami’s World Soccer Winning Eleven 2012 (a series you may know as Pro Evo), topped the charts overseas, selling more than a quarter million copies in its first week. The other, AKB1/48: Idol to Guam to Koishitara…, the dating simulation that…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sweet and Yummy Tears Fall on Xbox Live in South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge
Eric Cartman’s arch-nemesis returns to South Park to exact his revenge in the Xbox Live exclusive South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge. Why is he so vengeful? I suppose it has something to do with Cartman making him eat his own parents. Developed by Other Ocean Interactive and published by Microsoftl, South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge is a…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Presidential Candidate’s Tax Pledge Brought to You by Sim City 4?
Herman Cain, the pizza baron who has risen to the top of the Republican Party’s half-hour comedy hour of a preliminary presidential campaign, is getting a lot of truck from pundits for his catchy sounding “9-9-9” tax plan. It’s basically a flat 9 percent levy on corporate income, personal income, and sales. That sounds familiar,…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Grand Theft Auto III on iOS Looks Better Than You Remember
Hot on the heels of the announcement earlier today, Rockstar Games made the 10th anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto IIIavailable for attendees to play. After about 10 minutes of hands-on time with the game running on an iPad 2, there’s no mistaking that GTA III on iOS is a loving port of the game…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Next Superman Video Game is Excellent [UPDATE]
Superman 64 sucked. Superman Returns was bad. I’ve read plenty of great Superman comics, but, until yesterday, I never played an excellent Superman game. Yesterday morning, I didn’t even know a new Superman game was coming out. It is. It’s on the iPhone and iPad, but don’t dismiss it for those reasons! It’s the best…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
First Look at Battlefield 3‘s Newest, Biggest and Scariest Multiplayer Maps
Battlefield 3 is going to have some very big, very impressive multiplayer maps. One may not be for the first-person shooter player with a fear of heights. Look to Damavand Peak, the base-jumping map, for proof. The official Battlefield blog offers a design-focused look at three multiplayer maps you may not have seen before (Operation…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Batman: Arkham City‘s Single-player Catwoman Content Demands Buying New or Buying a ‘VIP Pass’
Want to play as Catwoman in Batman: Arkham City? You’ll have to buy the game new or pay for the privilege to do so, publisher Warner Bros. says. That’s right, it’s the on-disc single-player content that’s being put behind an “online pass” style scheme. Batman: Arkham City‘s VIP pass, the one-time use code required to…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Come Talk About Horde and Beast Mode with Kotaku Game Club Right Now!
Gather up people. It’s week four of our Gears of War 3 talks at the Kotaku Game Club. In our final discussion, we’re going to see what everyone thinks about the overhauled Horde mode and its counterpart, the brand new Beast mode. There was a fixation last week on how the addition of the sawed-off…
By Mike Epstein Published October 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedWho Needs Co-op? Here’s the First Few Minutes of Shank 2‘s Single-Player
Inspired as it is by 1980s action-movie tropes, you can probably guess the plot of Shank 2‘s story mode. If your guess involves the hero renouncing his violent ways and trying to embrace a quieter existence, only to have his old life come back to wreak havoc in his new one, then you get a…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Auctions Off Entire Worlds of Warcraft for Charity
Own a piece of World of Warcraft history and help a good cause, as Blizzard prepares to auction off more than 2,000 original server blades for St. Jude’s Childrens’ Research Hospital You’ve owned the server; now’s your chance to actually own the server. Over the next four weeks Blizzard will be auctioning off the server…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Why an ‘Ugly’ Pin-up is Legendary in Japan
Another weekend. Another photo session for 21-year-old Mai Fujiko, no stranger to string bikinis that are more string than bikini. She wasn’t embarrassed in the least, proud of the figure DNA bestowed her. But photographers pressed close and snapped off pic after pic of her mug. She smiled. “I always feel like my heart’s about…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Painwheel, Painwheel, Spinning Around, Skullgirls‘ Latest Fighter is a Spinning Tortured Soul
A scared schoolgirl trapped in a body fuelled by pain and fury, Painwheel dominates the air and pierces her foes with sharp spikes as the latest character introduced for Reverge Labs’ all-girl fighter Skullgirls. You can call her Carol. Carol was just a regular schoolgirl before she was kidnapped and injected with experimental Skullgirls blood,…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2011 -
UncategorizedYou’ll Have to Work Together to Survive These Big Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Co-Op Moments
With only a few days left before Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One hits stores shelves, the folks at Insomniac put together a little video to help four-player gamer gangs prepare themselves for the challenges ahead. I guess I’m just going to have to wait until my boys are a little older before experiencing the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2011