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These Big Video Games Won’t Be Out Until 2012
Hopefully you are not on the edge of your seat waiting for the next Tomb Raider. Warning: even if you are an Olympic athlete, you should consider inhaling and exhaling a few times between now and the release of Mass Effect 3. Never mind their 2011 hype. They’re next year’s games. As we’ve done before,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 22, 2011 -
UncategorizedSee Xbox 360’s Kinect-Enabled Advertising in Action
This video gives us a unique opportunity to see behind the wall that one would hope separates entertainment from advertising. I’m not saying there is anything terribly wrong with adding new functionality to the advertising that pops up on an Xbox 360 console. I just hate how this video makes it feel like the console…
By Brian Crecente Published June 22, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Day in the Life of Shadows of the Damned
The Internet, Twitter in particular, seems to be heads-over-heels in love with Shadows of the Damned This video explains a little of the reason behind that. Come on, those Spanish lesson’s aren’t just great, they’re liable to get you killed in some places.
By Brian Crecente Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Control a Drill Robot, Space Squirrel, or Jetpack Kitty in this Xbox Indie Game Rundown
Every couple of weeks, we recommend some of the best games on the Xbox Live Indie channel. These are the games on the fringe of the Xbox 360 platform, made by regular folks and indie dreamers. They’re peer-reviewed, not Microsoft-approved and thankfully they’re not all about talking to pretty girls or posing your Xbox Avatar.…
By Jen Schiller Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dead or Alive: Dimensions Gets Mature in Australia
After being pulled to get reclassified, Dead or Alive: Dimensions isn’t rated MA+15 (a rating that caused outrage in Australia), but is now rated Mature (a rating that hopefully…won’t?). Yep, the game was bumped up one rating. [Kotaku Australia]
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow To Rule Supreme at Gears of War 3‘s Horde Mode
Here’s a quick look at the upgrades coming to Gears of War 3‘s Horde mode 2.0. Narrated by COG dispatcher-turned-soldier, Anya Stroud, the video briefs you on the new features they’ll find in the upgrade’s cooperative mode. Think of it as Gears‘ horde mode with a bit of tower defense built in for good measure.
By Brian Crecente Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Year’s Tokyo Game Show Will Be Good for the Environment. And So Effing Sweaty.
With the earthquake, there was concern whether the Tokyo Game Show would happen. It will, and TGS will reduce energy consumption by 25 percent by doing things like switching to LED lights and limiting electricity use at the booths. [TGS]
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Liveblogging Whatever Smart Stuff Gabe Newell Has to Say Today
Valve Software chief Gabe Newell, a man who seems to always be ahead of the curve on everything happening in video games is speaking at New York University today. He’s keynoting the Games For Change festival’s Games For Learning Institute‘s keynote address. Newell could be keynoting a crochet festival and we’d still be able to…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
This One Goes Out to All the Ladies
Reader Bondage_Zombie has spent over a decade in video game drag. He’d like this option in more games, but not just for his sake. He thinks that there aren’t enough female gamers out there and it could be the developers’ faults. So what can devs do to bring in the elusive audience? It seems like…
By Sam Winstrom Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Rarest (and Most Touching) NES Game in the World
Twenty years ago on Christmas Day, Andrzej Zamoyski and his brother Adam spent the day playing with their new toy: a Nintendo Entertainment System. Andrzej was Mario, and he let his little brother play as Luigi. “More than a decade later, we again found ourselves sat side by side, this time testing Fable at Lionhead…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Playable Gears of War 3 Goes on Nationwide Tour of WalMarts This Summer
Gears of War 3 is going on a nationwide tour of Walmarts starting on June 24 in Dallas. The Gamecenter Mobile Tour will give gamers a chance to play Gears 3 and check out Horde mode 2.0 before the game’s September launch, according to a press release. You can check out the full list of…
By Brian Crecente Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s Wednesday! Now go Talk Amongst Yourselves, but please keep the topic to video games. I know. What a silly request. Special thanks goes out (again!!) to Incursor for today’s image. Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Jen Schiller Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
How the Wii U One Ups Television
The master controller for Nintendo’s Wii U was born not of a desire to replace television, but to fix one of television’s very small problems. Those few second between when a person presses the power button on a remote control and when a television blinks to life prevents gaming consoles from becoming the sort of…
By Brian Crecente Published June 22, 2011 -
Uncategorized1-Bit Ninja is a Sublime Paper Mario, Super Mario Mash-Up
At first blush 1-bit Ninja looks like another iPhone game knock-off, but spend ten seconds with the game and you’ll dismiss that notion. Spend a minute with it and you’ll be ready to toss your phone at the wall… and then pick it up and keep playing. 1-bit Ninja is a sort of mash-up of…
By Brian Crecente Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Beatles or Stones? Pick!
Sympathy | JULY 1968: The Stones on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s documentary. (Photo: Keystone Features | Hulton Archive) PS3 Hacker Resigned to Prison Sentence after Money Dries Up American hacker George Hotz got all the headlines for his exploits trying to bring Linux back to the PS3, but he was only one of many…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Report: Dragon Quest X to Surface on Wii U?
Nintendo is working on a new console. Square Enix is working on a new Dragon Quest. See where this is going? This past May, Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama seemed to indicate that DQX will be out in 2012, saying, “I’m aiming for next year and am in the middle of composing music for Dragon…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
When Did Sony Start Giving Birth to the PS Vita?
Kotaku already broke that Sony had a ¥25,000 pricetag in mind when it began work on the PS Vita and that the company almost dropped the rear-touch feature. Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida filled in more details with Famitsu, like that work began on the Vita in spring 2009 and that the current button layout was created…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2011 - Culture
The Dangerous Art of Tomb Raider
The new Tomb Raider game flips everything we know about Lara Croft on its head, turning one of gaming’s most dangerous superstars into a broken, vulnerable human being. Just like the rest of us. To really nail that sense that the world is a dangerous place, the game’s artists needed to make sure the landscape…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2011 -
UncategorizedEVE Online is Selling Horse Armour. In Space.
It’s been over five years since Horse Armor, and still, developers and publishers are struggling with how much to charge for downloadable content. Just ask EVE Online developers CCP. They’ve got no idea A new EVE Online store opened this week (along with major new updates like an interactive “Captain’s Quarters”), with a new currency…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2011