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UncategorizedThis Soulcalibur V Trailer Slices Up Gamescom
As gamers from around the globe descend on Cologne for Gamescom, Namco Bandai is releasing the latest trailer for upcoming weapon-based combat title Soulcalibur V The game is the seventh entry in Namco’s “Soul” games, and is set 17 years after Soulcalibur IV. Which means that Ivy is middle-aged and should look old. But she…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Minecraft – Pocket Edition Hits Select Android’s Xperia Play Today for $7
Minecraft – Pocket Edition hits the Android Xperia Play today exclusively for $6.99 with later Android versions hitting in the near future. The best part? Staying true to their roots, the game’s first version is an alpha build. The first version, Alpha 0.1, will focus on the “creative aspects of Minecraft,” The folks at developer…
By Brian Crecente Published August 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
45-Year-Old Bikini Pin-Up: Get Laid for Your Career
Youth is at a premium in Japan. Video game characters are often in their teens (or younger). And in candy-coated world of idols, girls start young. But decade after decade, there’s been one pin-up who keeps on keeping on: 45-year-old Natsuki Okamoto. And there’s a reason for that. She puts out. Not to be confused…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedYour First Look at Borderlands 2 Teaser Footage
Gearbox Software, makers of Borderlands 1, is making Borderlands 2. This is the game’s first teaser. Borderlands 2 was first revealed earlier this month. “Combining invention and evolution, Borderlands 2 features all-new characters, skills, environments, enemies, weapons and equipment, which come together in an ambitiously crafted story,” said publisher 2K Games in an official statement…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Daily Beast Reader is Annnnngry About Angry Birds
Daily Beast political blogger Andrew Sullivan likes a lot of things. He likes views from your window and midday pop-culture digressions; he likes mercilessly ripping on Sarah Palin. He also likes Angry Birds, and often takes breaks from reacting to the political news of the day to share super-cute pictures of things relating to Chillingo’s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedClassic Halo Map “Blood Gulch” Re-Created in Minecraft
Aah, such fond memories of Blood Gulch. It was easily the most enjoyable CTF map in the original Halo, and it’s never been far from Halo players’ hearts; it’s even playable in Halo: Reach YouTube user HitmarkerVS agrees, and has gone so far as to immortalize the classic map in Minecraft. Lookin’ good, HitmarkerVS. You…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
If you Squint, these Four DOTA Games All Look the Same
I’m sure that, like snowflakes or explanations for the finale of Lost, no two DOTA games are alike. But when a non-DOTA player like me sees a pair of group shots of DOTA games, I can’t help but wonder about the range of visual variation in one of gaming’s hottest genres. These shots show, clockwise,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
I Just Wanted to Let My Brother Know there’s a New Elevator Action on the Way
When I was young and couldn’t really stop my older brother from playing whatever he wanted to play next on our cousin’s Nintendo, my brother liked to play Elevator Action. If we went to our cousins’ house for the holidays, he went to the basement to fire up that game. I wanted to play other…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Wii U Controller Patent Shows Magnetic Sensor and Flash Memory
New patent documents for the Wii U’s controller reveal all manner of bells and whistles, including a couple that we hadn’t heard about. Sure, it’s got a screen; of course it’s got a camera. It’s got an accelerometer, too, whoop-dee-do. But it’s also got flash memory, though how much memory has yet to be revealed.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedRick Perry’s Idea of American Ingenuity is a Canadian Video Game
Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is as wholesome and American as they come. He believes in hard work, patriotism, faith in god, and good old American ingenuity, even if we have to import it from Canada. Rick Perry’s first web video since joining the presidential race is mostly as generic a political ad…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Let’s Get Ready For Gamescom!
Gamers from around the world descend upon Cologne, Germany this week for the world’s largest public celebration of gaming, and Kotaku will be bringing you live coverage starting tomorrow and lasting until the last Euro-cosplayer washes the color from their hair. Festivities kick off tomorrow with a series of pre-show press events thrown by the…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Stealth Gameplay Isn’t Enough: Give Me the Thrill of the Hunt
I finally finished Crytek’s Crysis 2 last week and surprised myself by immediately firing up a new game and starting it over from the beginning. Sure, Crysis 2 is a slick, well-made first-person shooter, but it’s fairly unremarkable on the surface. So why, when I had so many other games I could (or should) be…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
If Bioshock Infinite Encourages Cosplay Like This, I’m All For It
Russian cosplayer Ormeli offers her take on Bioshock Infinite‘s “Elizabeth”, the emotive sidekick that accompanies you throughout your adventure in a time-rent floating city. It’s a little bit Alice in Wonderland, a little bit Alice in Wonderland at the adult costume shop. Either way: bring on the Lizbots! Elizabeth Cosplay [Flickr via Reddit]
By Joel Johnson Published August 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Galaga and Germany Are Calling!
Ms. Galaga – Spotted this Galaga Ms. Pac-Man machine right outside the gate for my flight to London. The spirit of video gaming is calling me. These Orangutans Play with iPads Orangutans, it turns out, love the iPad and its games just as much as some humans do. A budding program at the Milwaukee County…
By Brian Crecente Published August 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis is How Spider-Man: Edge of Time Does Mary Jane
Clark Kent’s Kryptonian cousin Laura Vandervoort crosses the DC / Marvel line this October in Spider-Man: Edge of Time, trading her Supergirl undies for the damsel-in-distress role of Mary Jane Watson. It’s nice to see Laura cast as a more down-to-earth character for once. The problem with possessing otherworldly beautiful is you soon get typecast…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis is Definitely the First Real DOTA 2 Trailer
Were those real DOTA 2 screenshots we saw earlier today? Maybe. Is this a real trailer for the game, released by Valve today? Definitely. DOTA 2: Valve’s most Blizzardy game ever? The game will make its public debut at Gamescom 2011 in Germany this week as part of a 16-player $1 million tournament called The…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedUpcoming Adventure Game To The Moon Will Be One Part Eternal Sunshine, One Part Chrono Trigger, Three Parts Raw Emotion
“When a video game can make us cry,” the saying goes, “that is when we will know that games are art.” But what if a video game trailer can make us cry? Test the strength of your stoic resolve by watching the painfully nostalgic trailer for Kan Gao’s upcoming indie adventure game To The Moon.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedToy Soldiers: Cold War is the Perfect Game for our Stupidest War. And I Can Prove it in this Video.
Great wars deserve great video games. Or something. Maybe that’s true. Maybe it isn’t. But I do know that the Cold War—a war of cheesy movies, ridiculous potential world-ending brinksmanship and, oh yeah, the meddling in the affairs of most of the nations on this earth—deserves an absurd video game. It gets one in the…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedNew Deus Ex Ad Features Mechanical Evolution, Gives Us Indie Heavyweights [Update]
The smartest and strongest may not always survive, but it never hurts to have some wall busting fists. Adam Jensen goes through his cybernetic transformation in the newest commercial for Deus Ex: Human Revolution That music in the background is performed by Susanna Waiche of The Dirty Projectors and Kenseth Thibideau of Pinback, who recently…
By Max Abrams Published August 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedSeven Minutes in Hard Reset‘s Cyberpunk Shooter Heaven
Earlier this month I took a good hard look at Hard Reset, the upcoming single-player shooter coming out next month from Polish developer Flying Wild Hog, telling you all about my favorite parts of the game. Now I can show you. Thanks to Hard Reset‘s experimentally short public relations campaign, only a week and a…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2011