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This Week in the Business: ‘Sony’s Bad-Mouthing Microsoft at Every Corner’
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Sony’s bad-mouthing Microsoft at every corner.”—Indie developer Guillaume Boucher-Vidal talks about his frustrations and why he lashed out at Sony and fellow developer Team Meat in an apology letter QUOTE | “Xbox Live Arcade’s health is flagging.”—Ron Carmel of 2D Boy…
James Brightman | IndustryGamers.com Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
AT&T Giving Uverse Subscribers $60 to Go Buy Xbox Live Gold
Wednesday, Microsoft announced that more than 40 providers had signed on to deliver TV programming to Xbox Live. One of those, AT&T, has been supplying content through its Uverse service for about a year, where it’s been available to free subscribers. Now it will completely transition to Xbox Live Gold. Therefore, AT&T is giving its…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Requires a ‘Permanent Internet Connection’
Mandatory constant Internet connections piss off PC gamers. No studio can has yet put that news in any light that didn’t summon an extremely indignant reaction. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2‘s tried to put it in a different light by saying the constant connection is how players will be served actual game content. Like missions. That does not…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedEaster Egg Gives Breaking Bad a Cameo in Rage
Appropriately enough, the season four finale of Breaking Bad is on AMC tomorrow night. You may recall that, in late August, Rage made a strange cameo in the meth-slinging drama, in which someone plays the game with a light gun. Well, Rage has returned the favor with a Breaking Bad prop cameo of its own.…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
They Think I Do Not Know a Buttload of Crap About the Gospel, but I Do
Orphans! Listen to Ignacio. I know it is fun to wrestle. A nice piledrive to the face, or a punch to the face, but you cannot do it. Because it is in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbor. Software • Tuesday, Oct. 11 release Forza 4 regular 360 game comes with $10 eGift Card…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Co-Op Multiplayer for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Arrives Oct. 25
“Exterminatus,” the late-addition cooperative mode for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, will release Oct. 25, publisher THQ said today. It had originally been scheduled for an “early October” release. Exterminatus has two maps, and lets up to four players take control of a Space Marine in what’s essentially a Horde match, fighting wave after wave of…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
L.A. Noire Studio Owes $1 Million to Employees—and a Quarter of That Is Claimed by the Boss
Team Bondi, the Australian studio that saved the worst year of its existence for the one in which it finally delivered L.A. Noire, owes its employees more than $1 million, according to papers filed in the studio’s liquidation. It’s a fitting epitaph for an outfit slagged over the summer for shady employment practices and insider…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Come Into the Light! All Are Welcome!
Kotaku readers! How are you this fine Friday evening? If you feel like responding to that question, or starting a thread of your own, this particular post is wide open for those very purposes. Anyone going to Indiecade in Los Angeles (Culver City) this weekend? If so, I’ll see you there? Sound good? Sounds good.…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Bulletstorm’s Creator Says All the Cussin’ was ‘A Bit More Than We Really Wanted’
Bulletstorm, released in February, is probably still 2011’s most foul-mouthed game. It may be 2012’s most foul-mouthed game, too. It popularized the term “dicktits” after all. Adrian Chmielarz, the creative director at Poland-based People Can Fly, tells the latest edition of Game Developer magazine that he didn’t know just how much swearing was going on…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
So, Who’s the New Guy?
Well met, Kotaku readers. You’ve probably seen my name popping up on the site this week and might be wondering who the hell I am, where I came from and why I’m here. I’ve been writing about video games for about 10 years, getting my start at the late, lamented Teen People magazine. (Oh, sure,…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Battlefield 3 for Xbox 360 Has Something Special On the Second Disc
The Xbox 360 version of DICE’s Battlefield 3 will ship on two discs—one dedicate to single-player, one dedicated to multiplayer. One of those discs will also have something Xbox 360 owners will probably want to clear some hard drive space for. According to a report from Gamerzines, Battlefield 3‘s second disc will also include an…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2011 - Culture
Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick. It’s Right There in the Title
Tearing into my first bite of Jimmy Dean Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick reminded me of an idea that came to me while I was unemployed. It also reminded me of being unemployed, but that’s another story. The idea was something called the Chicken Donut. Basically I’d take a shell donut like the kind…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
There Will Be No Backbreaker 2 as Its Studio is Moving Away from Console Gaming
Backbreaker‘s small but extremely passionate following got some bad, but not really unexpected news. “Unfortunately, and unofficially, it is very unlikely that we will revisit [Backbreaker]/full-on football again,” the game’s lead developer told a forum member. What’s more, Todd Gibbs told the forum user that “the company has changed direction and is currently not looking…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedFor All Its Airplanes, Earthquakes and Explosions, Battlefield 3‘s Campaign Is Remarkably Dull
At EA’s all-day Battlefield 3 event yesterday, I had a chance to play through a handful of single-player missions on PC in addition to the multiplayer modes that I detailed earlier today. It’s been said (and repeated) that “no one plays Battlefield for the campaign,” and that may well be true, but the extreme graphical…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedTake a Gander at Prototype 2‘s Revamped Combat Right Here
Everybody’s favorite super-cannibal franchise is back with more spikiness and more dodging. The open-world whup-ass sequel hits next year. You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
There Might Just Be More Battlefield: Bad Company on the Way
Those guys at DICE, man, they are busy. They’ve got betas to test and bugs to squash as Battlefield 3—undoubtedly one of the biggest games of the year—gears up for release. That’s a lot of work. So, could they possibly be thinking about the story-driven Bad Company branch of their FPS franchise? Turns out the…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Video Games: The Book
Light Reading – This week, two video game books arrived at Kotaku Towers West, the massive Dark Souls strategy guide and the SUPER iam8bit art book. Both are great. My Goodness, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Deserves to be Called an RPG November’s The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword looks almost nothing like the…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Military Game Developer Disputes Green Beret Accusations
Accusations by a group of former Green Berets that Pipeworks Studio head Robert Daly never served in the Special Forces aren’t true, the head of Foundation 9 tells Kotaku. Earlier this week a website dedicated to outing fake soldiers accused Daly, who’s studio made the Xbox Live Arcade title Deadliest Warrior: Legends and has appeared…
By Brian Crecente Published October 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedBuild This Woman a Minecraft Palace and She’ll Live With You Forever
If you build it, there’s a chance you might meet her. Actress / comedian Kristen Schaal wants you to show her how beautiful Minecraft on the Xperia Play can be. In exchange, you might just get to find out how adorable she is up close. And suddenly I wish I had an Xperia Play. The…
By Mike Fahey Published October 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Lyrics You’ll Never Hear to the Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Theme
Over the course of the last few weeks, Ubisoft has been running a contest for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, inviting people to submit entries of themselves singing the game’s theme song. The winner will be featured in the game singing the theme, and credited on the soundtrack! In cooperation with UJAM, Ubisoft opened up the entries…
By Matthew Buzzi Published October 7, 2011