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Watch Electronic Arts’ Gamescom Press Conference Live
Electronic Arts tells Kotaku that they will be streaming their Gamescom press conference live on EA’s Gamescom site. The conference takes place on Tuesday at 4 p.m. local (German) time. Which works out to… um… one second… 10 a.m. eastern, 7 a.m. pacific.
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
It May Be a Good Idea to Keep Your Foes at a Distance in Fable: The Journey
You won’t be able to use a sword in Fable: The Journey. Or a gun. You may have been able to surmise this from the game’s E3 demo or from Brian Crecente’s impressions a couple months back. But, speaking to OXM, Peter Molyneux wants to make sure you know the reason behind the design decision.…
By Joshua Rivera Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
FrontierVille Sequel Pioneer Trail Gets Zynga a Little Closer to Making Hardcore Games, Limits Friends
Pioneer Trail is the brand-new, massive sequel to FrontierVille, one of the most popular games on Facebook. It’s got a few twists that are going to throw any FrontierVille fan for a loop. But it also has hints of where the people who made it at Zynga might be going… directions that any hardcore gamer…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is Iron Wolf the Next Call of Duty?
A pair of hackers that gained access to the Xbox account of a Treyarch employee believes they’ve stumbled across the next entry in the Call of Duty series, code named Iron Wolf. Are they on to something? The Iron Wolf speculation comes after hackers gained access to the Xbox Live account of an internal PartnerNet…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Next Katrina Could Make You a Winner
Every year between June and November the North Atlantic is subjected to some of the harshest weather on the planet. Hurricanes and tropical storms takes lives, ruin homes, and have been known to commit large portions of poorly-fortified cities to the briny deep. Predicting these destructive forces of nature is no game, only now it…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Moogle Magic Time in Final Fantasy XIII-2
As far as I’m concerned it’s always Moogle time, but the phrase takes on new meaning in Final Fantasy XIII-2 When a monster appears on the playfield in Final Fantasy XIII-2 a Mog Clock pops up on the screen, granting the player various bonuses based on how long it takes them to make contact with…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Capcom’s Steel Battalion Heavy Armor Gets A Private Gamescom Showing
Hotly anticipated Kinect game Steel Battalion Heavy Armor will be making a brief, private appearance at Gamescom next week. Expect to read all about it the day before the show kicks off next week. And, yes, so far it remains a Kinect-enabled game.
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Counter-Strike is Real, hits PS3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC in Early 2012
The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive rumors were true. Valve Software announced the game today and already added a listing for it to Steam In a press release, Valve said that “CS: GO features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust, etc.). In addition, CS: GO will introduce new…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Technically, this is a new Skyrim Screenshot
After getting an hour with Skyrim at QuakeCon last weekend, I was promised by I’d get a screenshot of the character I’d created from Bethesda when I returned home, like a souvenir. Without further adieu, here is “Prisoner”, an orc character with more or less random settings. He’s rather fetching, with his sexy triceps and…
By Joel Johnson Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Swiss Police Call for Ban on The Darkness II [Updated]
A Swiss police association is calling for a ban on The Darkness II because the game includes moments of police being shot and killed, a Swiss newspaper reports. “Politicians, game producers and sellers have been advised that such games be immediately removed from circulation,” according to The Swiss Christian Police Association. “When police in England…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Video Game Snobbery Started a Long Time Ago
The hate of fake games and fake gamers goes back at least to 1988. That’s when a reporter from the esteemed magazine Newsweek was trying to make sense of the “fun, low-brainpower” games kids were playing in America and wanted to understand how some awful Atari-like crash could be avoided in the new age of…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhat Will Your Gotham City Impostor Look Like?
Why play the Batman or Joker when you can create your own? Check out the ridiculous customization options that will be available in the downloadable online multiplayer shooter Gotham City Imposters When opposing street gangs take up the mantle of Gotham City’s Dark Knight or Clown Prince of Crime, insanity ensues. Imposters will let players…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sing Along With the Gamer Edition of John Lennon’s “Imagine”
Today in Speak Up on Kotaku we’re going to put all of the arguing and hate behind us in favor of a good old-fashioned sing along, courtesy of commenter JesusChrist, one of the few people qualified to rewrite a John Lennon song. To the tune of John Lennon’s “Imagine”: Imagine there’s no fanboys It’s easy…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedJagged Alliance Online Gets Gamescom Showing
The much anticipated, for us at least, turn-based strategy in-browser game Jagged Alliance will be hands-on at Gamescom next week the developers tell us. To celebrate they’ve released this new trailer. Jagged Alliance Online is the “modern version” of the classic Jagged Alliance turn-based strategy game. In it players take control of a group of…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Thirty Years of IBM PCs Means 29.9 Years of PC Gaming
Today’s a special day: The 30-year anniversary of the launch of the IBM PC, a machine created for business that many of us soon discovered made a perfectly wonderful gaming machine. The PC wasn’t my first gaming computer (that was a Radio Shack TRS-80), but it was certainly the one that turned me into a…
By Joel Johnson Published August 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s a beautiful day at the Kotaku compound, why not talk about video games? What’s got you through the typical summer game drought? Going through games you’ve meant to play forever? Picked up a price dropped 3ds yet? Talk it up! Thanks to reader Brian H May for today’s TAYpic We could always use some…
By Max Abrams Published August 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedChild of Eden Hits PS3 with Move, 3D Support in Sept. 27
After some delays, and some uncertainty about Move support, developer Tetsuya Mizuguchi himself takes to YouTube to confirm the game’s release and show us how it will work with Move. Oh! One more thing. It’s also going to work in 3D. Expect your mind to be blown on Sept. 27. Of course, you can still…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Side-By-Side Look At The Glories of Remastered PSP God of War Games Running on a PS3
The PS3 God of War: Origins Collection brings Ready at Dawns two wonderful Playstation Portable games to the PS3. But you can’t just dump them over from portable to console and expect them to look good. These games have been remastered in full HD. That means both games went from 480 x 272 resolution and…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2011 - Reviews
The Alienware M18x Is a Gaming “Laptop” for the Gods
I just got to spend the last two weeks writing, browsing the web and playing all kinds of video games on this. The Alienware M18x. I have never had more fun with a laptop computer in my life. I know Alienware has a certain reputation amongst PC gamers. That for the most part their flashy…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011