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Take a Hint, Tails
Pondering why Sonic’s fourth game paired him with Knuckles, and not Tails, Dorkly envisions this uncomfortable meeting with the hedgehog’s agent. The audience wants unlikely allies, right? Even as hated, as Jar-Jar-class loathed as Tails is, somehow, we can’t help but think this is where it all started to turn south for the series.
By Owen Good Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
NCAA Football Fans, Your Real Rosters Have Arrived (for Xbox 360)
There’s always a race to publish the first complete, accurately named roster for NCAA Football 12, and this year it was available on the day of release. However, that doesn’t usually address depth chart placement, equipment details, or for some players, position changes and attribute re-ratings. For those Xbox 360 players waiting for truly accurate…
By Owen Good Published July 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedStill We Wonder Who’ll Stop Mortal Kombat‘s Rain
The story of Rain, the latest fighter coming to Mortal Kombat is a story of revenge. Furious that he would be denied the rank he felt he deserved, Rain joined the faction that orphaned him. I’m not sure how being second-in-command there is any better, but there you have the motivation for this character when…
By Owen Good Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Meet Soulcalibur V‘s New Ninja Girl
The man in charge of Soulcalibur V, the entry in Namco’s weapons-based fighting game series, has promised us at least two new characters for next week’s San Diego Comic-Con. One has been semi-revealed and she looks vaguely familiar. Project Soul’s Daishi Odashima took to Twitter today to offer a clear look at the next Soulcalibur…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Cliffy B’s First Game was a Sequel
“Just stumbled upon my first real game I made…on disk,” writes Epic Games’ design director and the creator of the Gears of War series. Weighing in at a whopping 1.44 megabytes is The Palace of Deceit II: The Dragon’s Plight. We’re awaiting a gameplay trailer, Cliff.
By Owen Good Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Week in Gaming Apps
This week Kotaku‘s Gaming Apps of the Day are all over the place, from an arcade fighter to a card game to a … clock? It’s starting to look like the Nintendo Download up in here. What’s next, colored notepads? I suppose it’s okay when the clock in question is Fallout inspired, and it’s not…
By Mike Fahey Published July 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedStarCraft MMO Mod Releases Its Debut Gameplay Trailer
StarCraft Universe, the “World of Starcraft” MMO project that touched off a tense week for the StarCraft II modding community back in January, has released the first trailer of gameplay from its alpha version. You get a wide look at a lot of features of the game in that four-minute trailer, above. Ryan Winzen, the…
By Owen Good Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s OK Buddy, There’s Always Next Year
Iron Men – San Diego Comic-Con is next week. But my desktop toys won’t be going. Nor will I. (Photo by Brian Crecente) Season Four of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Begins Online in Clone Wars Adventures While season four of the popular Cartoon Network series Star Wars: The Clone Wars officially kicks off this…
By Brian Crecente Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Facebook Games More Likely to Please a Woman than Sex
Hold your manhoods cheap, guys. Doritos, of all fuckin’ things, surveyed girl gamers and found that they’re more likely to get off on video games—worse yet, Facebook video games—than doing it with you. A survey of 2,052 lady gamers, commissioned to promote something called (adjusts glasses) “the Doritos Dip Desperado Facebook game,” found that women…
By Owen Good Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Why Sony and Microsoft Teaming Up on Their Next Console Makes a Lot of Sense
Microsoft has trouble making hardware. Sony has trouble running online services. What if the next Xbox and the next PlayStation are one and the same? A few months ago, while reporting about the then unannounced Wii U console for Nintendo, we stumbled on an interesting ancillary rumor: Microsoft and Sony were in active discussions regarding…
By Joel Johnson Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Week in the Business
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week… QUOTE | “Playing a much bigger game.” – EA, fresh off its massive PopCap acquisition, is setting its sights higher than Zynga, noting that Facebook is “just one segment” to leverage. QUOTE | A new study commissioned by Doritos found that girls who enjoy…
By Joel Johnson Published July 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedLana Del Rey Sings a Lonely Song Called “Video Games”
25-year-old Lana Del Rey certainly has a lot to be sad about: she’s gorgeous, talented, and has excellent taste in old Hollywood indulgence. But as a bald traffic cop once wandered by my car and told me, everybody hurts sometimes. And there’s something genuinely affecting in the picture she paints of a relationship that hits…
By Joel Johnson Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Now Make a Castlevania That Copies BloodRayne
Now that I’ve gotten past the shock of the initial reveal and the awe of the first trailer, I’m done referring to BloodRayne: Betrayal as a game that’s trying to be Castlevania. With each new screenshot I find myself wishing there was a Castlevania that looked this good. The screens don’t do the game justice,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Rating for Aliens: Infestation Shows It’s Not Game Over for Aliens on DS
The Nintendo DS game based on the Aliens franchise that leaked more than two years ago looks like its finally going to happen. Proof? Aliens: Infestation for the DS, a side-scrolling, alien-shooting platformer, was just rated by the ESRB. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s description of the game sure sounds a lot like the one…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I’ll catch up with the Kotaku Game Club this weekend by putting an end to Shadows of the Damned, the Suda51 joint that reportedly didn’t sell very well last month. Shame about that. But I’ll give it its due! The other game still on my list to finish is Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fake British Game Designer Is the Funniest Twitter You’re Not Reading
Peter Molyneux is a famed English game designer, member of the Order of the British Empire and a wonderful interview. His games (Black & White, Fable, Magic Carpet, Syndicate, The Movies to name a few) helped shape and continue to influence many facets of the blossoming video game industry. He’s also an iconic game designer…
By Brian Crecente Published July 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Faces Behind Gaming’s Blockbuster Voices
Today is unofficial voice-acting day here at Kotaku. We’ve considered how important voice actors are to video games. We’ll be listening to how their work would have impacted the classics. But right now: here’s a quick look and listen at some of the faces behind some of the biggest games of the current era. So,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Reich Camps of Metro Last Light’s Underground Warzones
Next year’s Metro Last Light will drop you back into the underground post-apocalyptic tunnels of Russia’s metro system. The developers say they want to take last year’s flawed masterpiece, Metro 2033, and make next year’s title simply a masterpiece. This video walks you through some of what I wrote about while checking out the game…
By Brian Crecente Published July 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Captain America Does His Best Mirror’s Edge Impression on the iPhone
He’s not nearly as attractive as Mirror’s Edge heroine Faith, but Captain America certainly has her moves in Sentinel of Liberty, now available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Sentinel of Liberty grants Cap the same endless running, jumping, sliding, and swinging that made the iOS version of Mirror’s Edge such a treat, while…
By Mike Fahey Published July 15, 2011
