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UncategorizedLive Out Your Bank Robbing Fantasies In Payday: The Heist
For all those tired of the same old squad based FPS scenarios, Payday: The Heist offers new settings to take on. Gone are the bands of soldiers and hoards of zombies to mow down, replaced with elaborate capers ranging from bank robberies to armored car hijackings. If blowing off the roof of a bank to…
By Max Abrams Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Your Next Soulcalibur V Opponent Could Be Your Own Creation
Namco Bandai welcomes us back to the stage of history in Soulcalibur V next year, and the developer needs your help creating custom non-player characters to spar with in between the big-name battles. It’s time to give names to the nameless hordes. When you aren’t fighting characters with cool, professionally-crafted names like Patroklos Alexandra in…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
What I Thought I Knew About Assassin’s Creed Revelations Was Partially Wrong
Darby McDevitt told me last week that the lead characters of Assassin’s Creed 1 and 2 aren’t related. I’ve played a lot of each Assassin’s Creed game. I thought I knew the important stuff about Altair and Ezio, the series’ two heroes from the past. But Darby McDevitt, writer of this fall’s Assassin’s Creed Revelations…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedYoshimitsu and Poison Add Much-Needed Class to Street Fighter X Tekken
Look, you can be as mad at Capcom as you want over Mega Man Legends 3‘s cancellation or the repackaged Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 update. They’re putting Poison in Street Fighter X Tekken. I forgive them. Pink hair, wide hips, and cutoffs; that describes my perfect woman. The riding crop is pure bonus. Poison made…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedOn the Bright Side, The Nintendo 3DS Video Service Can Only Get Better Than This [UPDATE]
Our very own Mike Fahey warned me that there were no new videos to watch on the 3DS today, despite today being some sort of 3DS Video Service launch day. Given that I trust Fahey about as far as I can throw him with one hand, I had to go to my 3DS’ eShop and…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
What is America’s Fetish This Week? Armageddon
There was supposed to be chaos. There was supposed to be confusion. There was supposed to be collapse. There’s wasn’t any, of course. Granted, the so-called Carmageddon was predicted to hit the City of Angel hard last week, but it ended up being a non-starter, with people enjoying taking pics of empty streets. But the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Duke Nukem, Jason Rubin, the Rockeeter, and Scourge the Hedgehog All Have New Comics Out This Week
I was supposed to recommend the week’s best new comics yesterday. I’m a day late. Fitting, I guess, because one of the new comics is tied in to Duke Nukem Forever. That’s my excuse. On with the recommendations… Comics You Should Consider Buying (from comics shops) Daredevil #1 A new series for Marvel’s blind super-hero…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedX-Men Destiny Shows Off the Uglier Side of Marvel’s Mutant Menace
The San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing, making it the perfect time to parade out some ugly X-Men cosplayers, courtesy of Activision’s X-Men Destiny The new generation of X-Men making their debut in X-Men Destiny this September look decidedly last-generation, don’t they? Perhaps not the three main characters, a trio of mutant teens just…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Wasteland of Rage is a Delicious Buffet Plate of First-Person Action
The folks over at Id have released their fourth Rage developer video and this time the focus is on the wasteland. Take a look at how Id plans on using the open world to facilitate gameplay, with a few food metaphors thrown in for good measure.
By Joshua Rivera Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Live at Comic-Con’s Kinect Star Wars Panel
LucasArts’ Craig Derrick and Kinect’s Jorg Neumann sit down with USA Today’s Mike Snider to discuss new gameplay from the Kinect-enabled Star Wars game. The panel is said to include new details about the game include an all-new mode. The duo are also supposed to be “unveiling an exciting announcement,” according to the official panel…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download Teases Downloadable Videos to Come
One of these days, when we least expect it, the Nintendo eShop will update and the new Nintendo Video app will be available for download. Until then, it’s simply a placeholder in this week’s Nintendo Download. This morning’s update to Nintendo’s various downloadable game services brings with it an eShop teaser. Heading to the store…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedBane, A Giant Green Baseball, Show Up In The New DC Universe Screens
Turns out it is easy being green. The newest DC Universe images give us a pretty good idea of what’s possible with the green guy’s powers in the new Fight for the Light update. Giant fists too traditional? Why not put your enemy into a man-sized green baseball? If that doesn’t do it for you,…
By Max Abrams Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is This What A Belgian Super Mario Bros. Would Look Like?
The video game version of The Adventures of Tintin isn’t always a platformer, but when it is it feels a lot like a richer, more complex version of the old Super Mario games I love to play. Working your way across the screen as the titular Tintin, down the screen, up the screen, from a…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhen Batman’s Away the Gotham City Impostors Play One Deadly Game
Who patrols the streets when Batman is out of town? Who is next in succession for the title of Clown Prince of Crime? Everybody, if Gotham City Impostors has anything to say about it. In Monolith’s upcoming downloadable multiplayer shooter, hordes of masked vigilantes take to the streets armed with whatever guns, gadgets, and gear…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Portable Doesn’t Have to Mean Pocket-Friendly
Commenter Hongo has had it up to here with people denying devices the label ‘portable’ simply because they can’t fit in their pants pocket. He’d prepared a portable primer for today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. port•a•ble /ˈpôrtəbəl/ Adjective: Able to be easily carried or moved. Noun: A version of something that can be easily carried.…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
NBA 2K12 Cover Adds Magic and Bird to Michael Jordan
When your last game cover features your sport’s greatest player ever, what do you do for an encore? If you’re 2K Sports, you get three of the greatest players ever. Michael Jordan will return as the cover star for NBA 2K12, and will be joined by Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. All three will receive…
By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hurry Up and Wait for the Zelda Symphony Concert
In case you’ve been waiting patiently for The Legend of Zelda Symphony Concert, good news! You’ll only have to keep waiting until October…unless you’re not in L.A. Nintendo has announced via press release that the tour will kick off October 21st in Los Angeles, California at the Pantages Theatre. From there, it will go on…
By Jen Schiller Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
So this guy walks into a bar. It’s a bar where all people do is come in to enjoy each others company and talk about video games. As a matter of fact, this place was called Talk Amongst Yourselves. There are plenty of people here who love to discuss games, so please, feel at home.…
By Joshua Rivera Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedBattlefield 3’s Operation Metro Delivers Multiplayer Mayhem
We had a chance to check out the Playstation 3 version of Battlefield 3 earlier this week. We also spent more time playing through the game’s Operation Metro mulitplayer map. Here’s a quick run through of a single, segmented-map in the game’s multiplayer. Operation Metro, we were told, was designed to look a bit like…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011