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Can Humanity Triumph Over Game Reviewers in Resistance 3?
The invasion is over, the Chimera have won, and the end of humanity is nigh. But wait? What’s that cresting the horizon? Why it’s the Resistance 3 Frankenreview. Four years after the events of Resistance 2, discharged Sentinel Joseph Capelli (always ready with a friendly bullet to the brain pan) has given up fighting the…
By Mike Fahey Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Win this Custom Space Marine PlayStation 3
Relic’s Space Marine is swinging a chainsword at your favorite console this week—and if that destroyed console happens to be a PlayStation 3, you’re in luck. The Goods One lucky Kotaku reader will win this tough-enough custom-painted Space Marine PlayStation 3—and a copy of Space Marine to slip inside. How to Enter This is very…
By Joel Johnson Published September 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedThere’s More Shooting, Less Screaming in Aliens: Infestation
Aliens: Colonial Marines seeks to create the terror and tension of key moments in the Aliens movie franchise, using high-end graphics and a first-person view to immerse the player. It’s DS counterpart, Infestation, just lets you shoot things. Due out in October, Aliens: Infestation delivers the same movie-reliving experience as its console cousin, only without…
By Mike Fahey Published September 6, 2011 -
ReviewsMadden NFL 12: The Kotaku Review
As the NFL lockout dragged all of the spring and much of the summer, Madden NFL 12 figured to be the only football coming to your TV this year, until a month before its release. From its conception, the game was meant to be a salve for the hurting hardcore fan, not a song for…
By Owen Good Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Evolution of Video Game Controllers in Pretty Poster Form
Brooklyn-based Pop Chart Lab’s latest poster is another attempt to show the lineage of video game controllers, from the twin sticks of Spacewar! to the lonely, somewhat sui generis Wii U tablet sitting lonely at the bottom. A signed and numbered print will run you just 24 clams. I ran up to the Museum of…
By Joel Johnson Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
When You Love the Game But Not Its Creator
In today’s spiteful edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Dracosummoner wonders if you have to love the game’s creators in order to love the game. Have you ever been in a situation where you liked a game or series, but you couldn’t stand the people behind it? (I can just hear the “Activision/EA” responses…
By Mike Fahey Published September 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedThere is Definitely Something Fishy About the Steam Version of Dead Island
Last night before I hit the sack I set up a download of the Steam version of Techland’s Dead Island. This morning I woke up to what many others discovered last night — this doesn’t seem to be the right version of the game. Is it an early build? Did some sort of debug copy…
By Mike Fahey Published September 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedChasing Aurora Can be Your Origami Bird-Racing Game
Confession: I was faking comprehension of Chasing Aurora when I saw it at the Penny Arcade Expo. I don’t blame Clements Scot, the developer who talked me through the video demonstration you can see here. I blame my own state of mind, frazzled as I was last Friday by some hurricane-related travel upheaval. Flight cancellation…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Tuesday is the new Monday this week, as the Labor Day weekend kills a weekday and hides it in the air duct so the others don’t get suspicious. Talk amongst yourselves while we find a mop. Big thanks to JimThePea for this revolutionarily augmented TAYpic! Want to have your TAYpic featured here? If you think…
By Mike Fahey Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Insanity, Players, and Games of Three Huge Gaming Events
It’s been a crazy few weeks here at Kotaku as we scrambled to cover the world’s biggest game show in Germany, the largest Penny Arcade Expo in history and the first ever convention dedicated to all things Call of Duty Maybe you weren’t able to keep up, I know we struggled to. Here, in a…
By Brian Crecente Published September 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedSiege Hero is For Those Who Prefer Vikings to Furious Birds
I’ve never liked Angry Birds. Not because I’m angry with any birds in particular, but because I always preferred the free game that came before it, Crush the Castle Rather than get bitter at Rovio’s billions, Crush’s developers (well, hosts) Armor Games, are sticking at it, and have released on iOS a revision of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Angry Birds Pops Up at Burning Man
Angry Burner | BLACK ROCK DESERT, NV – Spotted by reader Kenji. (Photo: Reader Kenji) This Is the Arcade, Totally Re-Invented In the past decade, retro game bars have popped up across Japan. Part of the appeal is that these water holes have game consoles you can play while getting shitfaced. More » Halo Creative Director…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Godfather of Game Journalism Passed Away
This weekend, Bill Kunkel passed away. He was 61. Considered by many to be the “Father of Game Journalism”, Kunkel co-founded Electronic Games Magazine in 1981. It was America’s first gaming magazine sold on newsstands. As GameSetWatch explained, Kunkel penned his “Game Doctor” column for several magazines, such as EGM Kunkel penned Confessions of the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 Bar Hostess Game Coming to the PS Vita
Dream Club (this NSFW clip is all you need to know) debuted on the Xbox 360. According to Japanese magazine leaps, it’s coming to the PS Vita and will no doubt give the touch screen a good work over. [オレ的]
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Is Holding Up Deus Ex in Japan?
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was supposed to be out Sept. 8 in Japan, but it’s now slated for sometime in Oct. The reason for the delay is that “prohibited images” were found in one place in the game. In its official statement, Square Enix did not clarify what the offending content was. In early August,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 6, 2011 - Culture
The Beasts and Beauties of God of War
A former comic book artist, Andy Park is one of the main men to thank if you liked the look of the last two God of War games, as he was a senior concept artist on both God of War II and God of War III That means many of the series’ classically-inspired nasties, as…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedMinecraft 1.8: It’s (Almost) Adventure Time!
Having given up on Minecraft a long time ago, I’m actually looking forward to the vaunted “Adventure” update, which will finally add a little purpose to the game. Minecraft 1.8, as the Adventure update is more formally known, will add improved graphics, tweaked health systems, improved combat mechanics and, most important of all, stuff to…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedVice City Meets 2011 In Vice City Rage
The last we saw of Grand Theft Auto IV mod Vice City Rage, it was looking a little…empty. A few months on and the team behind the overhaul of the 1986 2002 classic have made some good progress. Star Tommy Vercetti is now in the game engine and sticking to the ground, meaning the building…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Watch Out Hackers! Sony Hired a Homeland Security Official
This spring, a cyber attack resulted in a 23 day outage of the PSN and the theft of personal details from over 77 million accounts. Sony is strengthening its online network and stepping up its security. Sony created a new chief information security officer post, reported Reuters, and selected former U.S. Department of Homeland Security…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Whoops, You Might be Playing An Unfinished Version of Dead Island
Those who have been among the first to download zombie game Dead Island from Steam have been finding things a little odd. A number of features/cheats like no-clipping, which normally aren’t available automatically in games, are just a button press away. And there may be a very good, very funny reason for this. People digging…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011