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UncategorizedPinball FX2 Gets Another Table: ‘Sorcerer’s Lair’
Diehard pinballers looking for another couple thou or so on their Wizard Score in Pinball FX2 can pick up another table on Oct. 12, developer Zen Studios just announced. “Sorcerer’s Lair,” an all-original table, will release then, promising “a gothic world of mystery, ghosts and ginormous spiders!” The table offers six missions. Pricing was not…
By Owen Good Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Put Some Wakka-wakka On Your Walls With Pac-Man Blik Decals
Blik, maker of fine stickables, and Namco Bandai, the people who own Pac-Man, are combining their respective powers to bring Inky, Pinky, Blinky, Clyde and other memorable 8-bit sprites to your wall. Starting today, you can put only the finest of Pac-Man decals on your walls, safely and stylishly. Blik is offering Pac-Man wall decals…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedOh, by the Way, Fez is Delayed. Again.
Earlier this week, Polytron released another “long screenshot” for Fez the perspective-rotating indie platformer stuck in development hell for more than three years now. Promised for release on Xbox Live Arcade this year, Phil Fish just tweeted that his game has been delayed, yet again, until 2012. “(and fez is delayed until early 2012),” Fish…
By Owen Good Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is This The Worst iPhone Game Developer in the World?
What is that… thing? It may look like the NES version of side-scrolling shoot ’em up Contra—horribly smudged—but it’s actually the game (or “game”) Ninja Turtles from Vietnamese developer Namphuong Star. You may know them better as the worst iPhone game developer in the world. Namphuong Star’s Ninja Turtles, which appears on Apple’s iTunes App…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
NBA 2K12 Debuts on iPhone Next Week
2K Sports’ award-winning NBA 2K series will debut on iOS mobile devices next week with NBA 2K12 the same day the title releases on consoles and PC. The game will include the popular “Jordan Challenge” that made last year’s NBA 2K11 such a hit. CNET reported the story first, with gameplay impressions (and a gameplay…
By Owen Good Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Surround Gaming
3Monitors –Joel Johnson plays a round of Battlefield 3 Beta on the Kotaku office gaming rig…. making me almost instantly motion sick. The First Two Dreamlike Hours of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword At times, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword feels a bit like a dream, one of those vivid ones that’s all…
By Brian Crecente Published September 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedOK, SSX, Grinding On the Underside of a Helicopter is Kind of Cool
If you were worried that the new SSX isn’t totally wacko enough, as far as snowboarding video games go, maybe watch the 2012’s game’s latest trailer. It ticks all the correct crazy extreme sports action boxes, including a very nice flip under a helicopter. Wing suits and chopper lifts don’t seem like such bad additions…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Lap Dance Is Always Better When the Stripper Is Decaying
The strippers in Bayou City’s famous Pink Pussycat club are so good at their jobs that they don’t stop at taking off their clothes. And House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut successfully obliterates any desire I might have had to visit a strip club ever again. Thanks, Sega! You can contact Michael Fahey, the…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed Revelations Delayed to December for PC
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations was supposed to be the first time in the series that a game released for all platforms on the same day. Well, it won’t. Ubisoft confirmed to Kotaku that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations has been delayed until December. No specific December date was given, nor a reason, but we’re…
By Owen Good Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
There Are Only Five of These Dark Souls Statues (and You Could Win One)
Man, they’ve even made getting your hands on these collectible Dark Souls statues incredibly difficult. Publisher Namco Bandai have five—count’ em, five!—one-of-a-kind creations immortalizing the cast and creatures of Dark Souls to give away. They could be yours. Those sculpts, created by Dark Souls fan Peter Nordstrom, are an impressive 12″ tall in actual size,…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedSSX‘s Finest Trade Their Boards For Balls in NBA Jam: On Fire
If you thought Elise, Mac, and Kaori were hot stuff on the slopes, wait’ll you get a load of their moves on the court in the NBA Jam: On Fire Edition The trio of SSX snowboarders will be unlockable in the upgraded version of everyone’s favorite two-on-two arcade basketball game, hitting the PlayStation Network and…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Binding of Isaac is a Wonderfully Warped Old Testament Take on The Legend of Zelda
In a world crowded with games spawned from Super Mario Bros. how wonderful it is to see the progeny of the Nintendo Entertainment System’s The Legend of Zelda. That is The Binding of Isaac, a bloody dungeon adventure displayed from an overhead view. The game descends from Zelda, heart health icons and all, but its…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mortal Kombat Is Koming Back to the Big Screen
Looks like director Kevin Tancharoen’s actually going to get to make that Mortal Kombat movie he pitched to Warner Bros. The director of Mortal Kombat Rebirth and the web series it spawned, Mortal Kombat Legacy, is getting his very own stab at a feature film. Tancharoen will direct an all-new Mortal Kombat movie based on…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get Your Board Game Fix With Vassal
Into board games? You should check out Vassal, an open source board game engine that lets you add board games to Windows/Mac/Linux. Many supported games feature the real art but lack A.I. so you have to move the pieces yourself.
By Chris Carolan Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Lets Talk About The Gears of War 3 Finale Right Now
Welcome back everyone! During today’s meeting of the Kotaku Game Club, we’ll be discussing the later three acts of the Gears of War 3 campaign. Warning: For all you Gears players who haven’t finished the campaign yet, there will definitely be spoilers below. Last week, the KGC spent a lot of time discussing the plot…
By Mike Epstein Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Wow, Psychonauts Just Got A Big Update, Achievements and a Mac Version
Like, totally out of nowhere, Double Fine just hit us with an update to the PC version of “excellent game” Psychonauts, adding Steam Play cloud saves, achievements and support for Mac OS X. Additionally, there’s a “slightly modified Meat Circus.” “We are really excited,” said Double Fine president Tim Schafer in a press release, “to…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress Demake Is Out, Free
Team Fortress 2 demake, Team Fortress Arcade, which we showed in the past, is released today, free of charge. Game designer Eric Ruth is the creator, so credit him for this good work! Visit Piki Geek for the download.
By Matthew Buzzi Published September 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedSwashbuckling! Romance! Logs! These Skyward Sword Videos Contain All of Those Things
As I mentioned in my preview of the game’s opening hours, swordplay in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is intuitive and fun. This is largely due to the fact that it incorporates the Wii’s Motion Plus controller, allowing for much more nuance in how players swing the blade. In the tutorial video above, we…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedLet’s Compare Battlefield 3 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC
You can play Battlefield 3 on a number of beastly machines. Surely, it looks best on PC (no surprise), but how about we let YouTube user Robbaz compare the game on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC? Go for it, Robbaz. You can contact Stephen Totilo, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dungeons & Dragons‘ Heroes of Neverwinter Venture Forth on Facebook
The city-state of Neverwinter has never been quite as social as it is in Atari’s new turn-based tactical Facebook role-playing game, Heroes of Neverwinter Wizards of the Coast and Atari are pushing the Forgotten Realms Neverwinter brand big time this year, with a new series of books by bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, a full-fledged co-op…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011