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NBA Jam‘s Next Offering Allows You to Switch Players
At its summer showcase today, EA Sports revealed plans for NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, touting a “tag mode” that allows you to swap players, finally, and “razzle dazzle” moves that ramp up the over-the-top animations as they head to the basket. Players will feature new AI; the game will feature the old P.A.: Tim…
By Owen Good Published July 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedRetro Game Master Episode 3: Bonanza Brothers
In this third episode of Retro Game Master, our game-testing everyman, Shinya Arino, faces off against Bonanza Brothers Released in Japan in 1990 as an arcade game, Bonanza Brothers was later ported to a number of systems including the Sega Mega Drive. In the game, players take on the roles of brothers Robo and Mobo…
By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Retired Sony Engineer Says 3DS Copied His Patent
The Nintendo 3DS uses glasses-free 3D technology that infringes on a patent held by a former Sony engineer, according to a lawsuit filed two weeks ago. Seijiro Tomita, the founder of Tomita Technologies and holder of a glasses-free 3D patent, alleges that neither Nintendo nor Nintendo of America have appropriate licensing to use his invention…
By Owen Good Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
King of iPhone Fighters?
King of Fighters – i | The King of Fighters – i hit the iPhone and iPad today. (Photo by Brian Crecente) Spirit for iPhone & Android Looks Like Geometry Wars, But Plays More Peacefully Marco Mazzoli’s Spirit, a frenetic arcade style app for the iPhone, iPad and Android platforms, may remind you visually of…
By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair Comes To PSN With Comfy Couch Co-op Castle Raiding
Konami’s unusual cooperative multiplayer Castlevania game released last summer on the Xbox 360 is now coming to the PlayStation 3. Your patience for multiplayer Dracula whipping has paid off, PS3 owners, for your version of Castlevania: Harmony of Despair sounds superior. The PlayStation Network release of the (pretty decent) Castlevania: Harmony of Despair will come…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
iPhone and iPad’s Shift 2 Unleashed to Include EA Origin Mobile Extras
Need for Speed Shift 2 Unleashed on the iPhone and iPad will use Electronic Art’s new Origin online service, allowing players to access a universal friend’s list, as well as extra race tracks and in-game cash, the publisher said today. EA showed off Origin Mobile today during their Summer Showcase, noting that players will have…
By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Uncharted Movie Grabs A Burger To Write and Direct
We’ve been spared director David O. Russell‘s unique vision for Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series, but Sony is reportedly soldiering on with an all-new director and writer for the silver screen adaptation of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortuneā€”Neil Burger. Who? He’s the guy responsible for penning and directing two films you might have heard of, Bradley Cooper superdrug…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
The First Major Dragon Age II Expansion Seems Like an Apology
What was wrong with Dragon Age II, Dragon Age fans? Too many recycled environments? Not enough tactical variety? It seems that BioWare has heard you. At a summer showcase for EA games in California, one of Dragon Age‘s producers, Fernando Melo, said that Dragon Age II: Legacy, an expansion set for release on July 26,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Risk Factions Invading Facebook with Donkey Cannons and Mermaids on Segways
Risk Factions, EA’s mutation of the classic board game of world domination, is coming to Facebook, bringing the war between humans, zombies, cats, yetis and robots to your social circle. Spencer Brooks, creative designer on the browser-based port of Risk Factions, which was first released on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in 2010, says…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
iOS FIFA 12 will be Playable on the Big Screen
Soccer fans will be able to play the iPad version of EA Sports’ FIFA on a full-size television set when the game’s next edition arrives this fall, Electronic Arts said at this afternoon’s Summer Showcase. The feature requires an iPad to transmit the signal to a TV, but the game may be controlled with up…
By Owen Good Published July 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Secret World’s Seedy Underbelly Doesn’t Care if You’re Peeing
In the latest trailer for Funcom’s The Secret World, a wannabe John Constantine discovers that the dark and gloomy things lurking just outside of the corner of your eye aren’t too worried about invading your personal space. Funcom actually showed this trailer for the upcoming supernatural MMORPG to the press back at PAX East 2010,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
There Are No Words to Describe Cross-Platform Mobile Scrabble
Scrabble fans might want to sit down before reading this news. During EA’s live summer preview event, EA Mobile demonstrated a live round of Scrabble played across four different platforms: iPad, iPhone, Android, and Facebook. You’re probably floored right now. Catch your breath and read on. Kicking off with next week’s release of the free…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hockey Stars’ Brains and Brawn Matter More in NHL 12
Hockey’s video game superstars will perform more recognizably like their real world counterparts in NHL 12, anticipating turnovers, powering their way to the goal and playing a more proactive defense, the game’s producer said at Electronic Arts’ Summer Showcase this afternoon. In past editions of the ice hockey simulation, players perfomed very reactively, producer David…
By Owen Good Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Now That’s a Controller
With space shuttle Atlantis on the launchpad prepping for its final journey into space, maybe now’s a good time to reflect on just how unlikely it is that our time at a flight sim yoke will ever prepare any of us for the real thing. Check out the full 360-degree version of this image over…
By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Next Burnout Game is Part Pinball, Part Game Show, Part WTF?
Remember that bizarre, leaked Burnout game that added lobster monsters and UFOs to the crashtastic street racing formula? Electronic Arts and developer Criterion Games just made it official, unveiling Burnout CRASH! for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. The official announcement says that CRASH! will bring Burnout‘s “fan-favorite Crash mode to the forefront” and “a…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
We’re Talking About Act 4 of Shadows of the Damned. Right Now.
It’s that time again, folks. Welcome back to the Kotaku Game Club. Today we’re going to discuss Act 4 of Shadows of the Damned So today’s chapter has a theme just staring us in the face. Between the storybook shmup levels and “The Big Boner”, there have been a lot of mini-games in the past…
By Mike Epstein Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Privacy is a Game for Zynga
Zynga’s bajillion dollar bid to go public came with oodles of fun insight into the company, thanks to that filing with the securities and exchange commission. It also landed around the same time that the Facebook game developer launched a new game, one all about your privacy. While Zynga assures users that they take privacy…
By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedIt Takes One Deep Breath to Change the World in From Dust
Breathe in, drain a lake. Breathe out, flood a valley. The battle between god-graced humanity and unforgiving nature is distilled down to two simple actions in Ubisoft’s From Dust An ancient spirit tasked with protecting its tribe and helping its people to advance, The Breath is fully capable of reshaping the world as it sees…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
What’s America’s Fetish This Week? Guns
In approximately 90 days, walk into any bar in the State of Ohio. If there aren’t any signs stating otherwise, feel free to carry your concealed weapon in that watering hole. But don’t order a round. You can’t legally drink if you are packing heat. “It scares the crap out of me because what if…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
These Angry Birds Cakes Look Disgusting, Taste Amazing
Mouldering green pig heads aren’t typically appetizing, but these Angry Birds cakes don’t look half bad. Submitted for the 2011 Threadcakes competition, this depiction of birds perched on a dead pigs head like crows pecking at roadkill is both disturbing and delightfully colorful. Threadcakes is a competition put on by Threadless T-Shirts that asks bakers…
By Sam Winstrom Published July 7, 2011