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Valve’s Bringing Dota 2 (and a $1 Million Prize) to Gamescom
Valve’s Dota 2 will be officially shown to the public for the first time at this month’s Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany—the same location that will host the game maker’s first Dota 2 tournament featuring a million dollar prize. That’s right. One. Million. Dollars. “The International” tournament will pit 16 of the world’s top Dota…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Brings Activision’s True Crime Reboot Back From the Dead
The True Crime game canned by publisher Activision earlier this year has been revived. It just won’t bear the True Crime name at its new home, Final Fantasy, Deus Ex and Hitman publisher Square Enix. Gamasutra reports that the game once known as True Crime: Hong Kong has been snapped up by the Japanese publisher.…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedDrafthouse Films Picks Up The FP, Brings Futuristic DDR Fighting To The Masses
Dance dancing has never been so deadly. The FP is a film about a futuristic, post-apocalyptic world in which gang settle scores through Dance Dance Revolution-like gaming. For those who missed this gem at South by Southwest, Drafthouse Films has decided to distribute the film after attending a screening at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival.…
By Max Abrams Published August 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedGiant Gundam Wants You to Boil
Ah, cup noodles. You love ’em, I love ’em, Gundam loves them. This latest Cup Noodles commercial features a giant Gundam mecha and a giant kettle. There was a giant Gundam first erected at Mt. Fuji in 2007. Later, another giant Gundam was created in Tokyo’s Odaiba and then in Shizuoka. Cup noodle fun fact:…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedPhineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension‘s Launch Trailer Has A Few Suggestions
For anyone with a little one at home, or anyone who happens to love surreal animated children’s television, the names Phineas and Ferb resonate strongly. Then a game to captivate your young ones/easily entertained brain is a welcome treat. In this clip Dr. Doofenschmirtz gives some tips on how to play the new game. Shoot…
By Max Abrams Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Who Wants To Be a Gun-Toting, Zombie-Killing Stripper?
Naked Terror, the first of two exclusive levels for House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut for the PlayStation 3, transforms the players from a pair of foul-mouthed men of action into a couple of scantily-clad adult entertainment workers. The Naked Terror level fills in a gap in the House of the Dead: Overkill story,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Words With Friends Takes On Your Facebook Friends
Zynga’s scrabble-style word game, Words With Friends is coming to Facebook. Words With Friends will carry over all of the features and functionality from the Android and iOS versions while adding social features. This is the first time Zynga has moved one of their mobile games to Facebook, not the other way around. Adding a…
By Sam Winstrom Published August 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedIt Looks Like Metroid Starring a Flying Saucer, But it Plays a Little Differently
Can I have six minutes of your time? I’d like to show you what’s good—and what’s not-so-good—about Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet the beautifully-animated downloadable Xbox 360 game coming out this week. Think Metroid with a flying saucer, drawn by the incomparable Michel Gagne. Enjoy the video, folks.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Want to Get into the Kotaku Game Club CivWorld game? Here’s How.
Hello Game Clubbers! I have great news! The good people at 2K have offered to create a CivWorld game especially for our group. However, because they will need to manually add each and every one of us into the game, I will actually need three things from you: Your first and last name Your Facebook…
By Mike Epstein Published August 1, 2011 -
UncategorizedRagnarok Online Goes Offline for the iPhone
One thing about playing the adorable massively-multiplayer online game Ragnarok Online I could never stomach; all the damn Ragnarok Online players. Ragnarok Violet for iOS solves that nagging problem this Friday. Ragnarok Violent is role-playing game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad that allows players to explore Prontera, capital city of the Rune-Midgarts Kingdom,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Rise of Nightmares Cuts a Bloody Swath Through Fourteen Screenshots
I get the point; this is an M-rated Kinect game. Can you please stop throwing blood all over me, Sega? Oh god, it’s in my mouth. Sega’s Rise of Nightmares is the gamer that finally realizes the joy of air-chainsawing the undead into tiny little pieces, even if it still has a way to go…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Digging Into Diablo III’s Beta and Player-Paid Auction House
Our own Michael McWhertor spent the better part of a day last week meeting with Blizzard and playing through a healthy chunk of Diablo III What did he find out? Plenty. For instance, Blizzard is going to require gamers to stay online at all times to play their game. There will also be an auction…
By Brian Crecente Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
How Video Games Make It Harder to Quit Smoking
When attempting kick the cigarette habit, tasks and activities once associated with smoking make the cravings flare. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Peter Pan Complex struggles with video games as a catalyst for puffing his life away. That damn cancer stick. I’ve been trying to quit after 10 years of lighting it up…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
EA Enlists Ex-SAS Operator to Pen Battlefield 3: The Russian
In a world flooded with video game novelizations, only one man has the background to develop the back-story of RU Special Forces operator Dima, one of Battlefield 3‘s playable characters. That man is not Sean Bean, but he was played by Sean Bean, which is pretty much the same thing. The man Sean Bean is…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to another week of Talk Amongst Yourselves. We’ve missed you. Please, share with us your video game exploits and anecdotes, or perhaps what you think this week will bring to your gaming lives. We’re all friends here, let’s talk! And once more it’s time to thank TAY celebrity Incursor for today’s TAYpic. Today…
By Joshua Rivera Published August 1, 2011 - Uncategorized
Are Gaming’s Biggest Portables Becoming Its Smallest Niche?
Last week’s drastic, surprising price drop for Nintendo’s 3DS gaming portable brought turmoil not just to the last major dedicated gaming hardware company in the world, but also the notion of portable gaming. While fans of Nintendo worry what impact the nearly one-third price drop on such a new piece of hardware will have on…
By Brian Crecente Published August 1, 2011