The new Tomb Raider game flips everything we know about Lara Croft on its head, turning one of gaming’s most dangerous superstars into a broken, vulnerable human being. Just like the rest of us. To really nail that sense that the world is a dangerous place, the game’s artists needed to make sure the landscape…
It’s been over five years since Horse Armor, and still, developers and publishers are struggling with how much to charge for downloadable content. Just ask EVE Online developers CCP. They’ve got no idea A new EVE Online store opened this week (along with major new updates like an interactive “Captain’s Quarters”), with a new currency…
When I need to use a control pad with my PC, I use an Xbox 360 pad. It’s reliable, it’s comfortable, and best of all, it’s subtle. This controller? Not subtle. It couldn’t even tell you what subtle meant, let alone spell it. It’s the Warrior, a USB control pad for PCs that takes a…
Still no “Meet the Medic”, but continuing the festivities this week, Team Fortress 2’s Scout class has gotten an update, adding three weapons to the smart-mouthed guy’s arsenal. [TF2]
They’re big! Yes, yes —we know Universal Studios and Capcom are teaming up to recreate Monster Hunter this August in the Osaka theme park. Here are some more details. According to Capcom, the collaboration will produce 1:1 scale versions of monsters like the Rathalos Rare Species, the Silver Rathalos. It will be over 20 meters…
Using the game’s in-built level creation tools, Halo: Reach player Pete_the_duck has been able to construct a working pinball game within the Xbox 360 shooter that uses sniper rifles and land mines to get the job done. Halo, Pinball Edition [Halo, via GameSetWatch]
Now that Yakuza: Of the End has moved 400,000 copies, Sega has shipped over 5 million copies of the Yakuza games worldwide since it debuted on the PS2 in 2005. [ファミ通]
American hacker George Hotz got all the headlines for his exploits trying to bring Linux back to the PS3, but he was only one of many working towards the same goal. And while Hotz today walks free, not everybody is so lucky. Fellow hacker Alexander “graf_chokolo” Egorenkov, whose home was raided in February by police,…
The main appeal of the Wii U, other than the promise of Mario and Zelda in HD, is its large controller with a fancy touch screen. That controller wasn’t ordained to be a controller from the start, though. “During the roundtable discussions there were such arguments about should we make it capable of being a…
This week, pop superstar Lady Gaga arrived in Japan, sporting the aqua colored hair she’s had for weeks now. She’s in the country for a Japanese earthquake charity event. She wore wrist bands that read “Pray for Japan” in English and Japanese. But as soon as she stepped off the plane, her Japanese fans wondered…
Sucks to be a Heroes of Newerth player this week (or next week, or the week after), after the game’s servers suffered what’s being called “a catastrophic hardware failure”. The DotA clone, a popular online game in the niche PC strategy genre, will be out of action without an estimated time of return after the…
A 21-year old Bronx woman has been charged with murder and manslaughter after the death of her five year-old son, killed after he “broke the television while playing Nintendo Wii”. Kim Crawford stands accused of murdering Jamar Johnson after telling police she struck him on the chest and back “harder than I’ve ever hit him”…
The upcoming Wii U is hoping to change the way we think of controllers forever. Whether it does that or not is anybody’s guess, but if it does, it won’t be the first time Nintendo has pulled off that coup. While Nintendo’s franchises and consoles often get all the praise for the company’s success, let’s…
Good evening and good Tuesday, Kotaku readers. Tonight’s open thread is of a themed variety, in which I might ask you a question, you might want to answer. Tonight’s recurring question is “What are you reading?” Me, I’m still bearing down on Don DeLillo’s Underworld, an activity that I don’t seem to have much time…
I worry about Sony’s new PSP. After the shock of the impressive visuals of Sony’s next-generation portable, the PlayStation Vita, had become familiar, after the pleasant surprise of the new handheld’s price settled in ($249 USD, the launch price of a PSPgo), I started thinking about the harsher realities of the Vita. Is it just…
The “biggest, most ambitious update” for Team Fortress 2 is detailed further today with a not so big, not so ambitious update for the multiplayer game’s Sniper and Demoman, both of which will be rattling all-new sabers soon. Following on yesterday’s Heayy and Spy update, the Team Fortress 2 blog did not release “Meet the…
The Call of Duty: Black Ops Limited Edition hits Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next week at North American retailers, packing in one game and one token for “First Strike” downloadable content that originally hit in February. Cost? $59.99 USD.
The nominees for the Game Critics Awards’ “Best of E3 2011” are in, with two games vying for Best of Show, Irrational Games’ BioShock Infinite and Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Those two games lead the E3 2011 pack with four category nominations each, also battling for Best Action/Adventure Game and Best Console game.…
The World of Warcraft fan art of Chinese artist Jian Guo lies somewhere between medieval storybook art and stained glass window, telling visual stories of Warcraft lore in gorgeous, highly-detailed works. Below is Guo’s “Fall of Arthas,” one of a handful of lovely art pieces inspired by World of Warcraft. Other must-see storybook murals from…
RGM | Retro Game Master fridge magnets. (Photo by Brian Crecente) Great Ads, If Not Great Games, Coming to the Xbox 360 Kinect Soon Xbox 360 gamers will be able to get some use out of their Kinect: Interacting with a new suite of multimedia advertising set to hit the console and its $150 peripheral…
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