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Here Are Four Pokemon For Your Free PokeDex 3D App
This week Nintendo released Pokedex 3D, a 3D Pokemon viewing application that you can download for free on the 3DS’ eShop. They also were handing out Pokemon Augmented Reality Markers at their booth. Each of the four we grabbed are supposed to show different Pokemon on your 3DS when you use the app to scan…
By Brian Crecente Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Barely Feeling the Force in Kinect Star Wars
For as long as brothers have swatted one another with wrapping-paper tubes, Star Wars fans have wanted something, anything, to give them the sensation of wielding a lightsaber, repelling blaster fire and cutting down Stormtroopers in a streak of blue. That, too, is the goal of Kinect Star Wars and all who are making it…
By Owen Good Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
PS Vita to PS3 Connectivity Was Driven by Developers, Could Mean Wii U Style Experiences for Sony’s Console
Perhaps the most potentially compelling argument for owning a PlayStation Vita, Sony’s recently renamed NGP handheld, is how beautifully it can play with the PlayStation 3. Connectivity between Sony’s two consoles was driven by developers prototyping for the Vita, the company says, and may eventually lead to the system doing a fairly good impression of…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Single Sexiest Thing in BloodRayne Betrayal
The developers at Way Forward, veterans of recent 3D remakes and sequels to games like Contra and A Boy and His Blob are turning BloodRayne, a 3D action game series about a sexy lady vampire that launched nine years ago, into a 2D action brawler. They’re emphasizing blood over sex appeal. Lots of blood. And…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch Us Go Croc-Hunting in Metal Gear Solid 3D: Snake Eater
We only played a tiny bit of the Nintendo 3DS remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, but what we did told us one thing. This is definitely a Metal Gear Solid game. We struggled with the controls. Hey, it’s a Metal Gear. Those controls are never that easy to handle. Unfortunately, the demo…
By Mike Epstein Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Three Things Devil’s Third Might Have: Dildo Melee, Hard Gay and Wii U Support
Tomonobu Itagaki, the man formerly behind Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive games, did not bring his latest creation, Devil’s Third, to E3 2011. He promises it will be at Tokyo Game Show, however, and wants to bring death by dildo to yet another THQ-published game. I only wrung a few Devil’s Third updates from…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Latest Ace Combat Gets to the Choppah (and the Bombah)
The aircraft of the venerable Ace Combat series all have been of the fixed-wing variety. The most notable variance in the latest installment Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is the inclusion of helicopters, as many saw when the game’s first trailer showed an Apache Longbow used in gameplay. “If we just wanted to make a jet…
By Owen Good Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
In between writing about all the video games I played at E3 2011 this week, I’ll somehow find the time to play at least one more, Q Games’ Child of Eden, the spiritual sequel to one of my all-time favorites. I’ve tooled around with the game before at events, but I’m looking forward to sitting…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedLeaving Los Angeles, and E3 2011
If you’ve never experienced E3 before, right as you feel like you’ve caught up with the breakneck pace of announcements, presentations and demonstrations, the show is over. It’s one of those weeks that seems to pass in the blink of an eye. Here then, are 3,444 such blinks, glimpses of E3 from start to finish,…
By Joel Johnson Published June 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis is the Assassin’s Creed: Revelations E3 Demo, In All Its Michael Bay Glory
In Assassin’s Creed II, Ezio Auditore became a skilled assassin. In Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood he became a master assassin and one of the most suave killers in video game history, casually lifting a finger to trigger a posse of minions to overwhelm his prey. What you see here is the older Ezio of this fall’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedTake a Tour of BioShock Infinite‘s Thrill Ride in the Sky
Watching the BioShock Infinite demonstration at E3, I formed the mistaken impression that the thrill-ride skylines of Columbia had, within the game’s story, always been intended as a primary mode of personal transportation. They aren’t, as Irrational Games’ Ken Levine explains in this four-minute video featuring lots of gameplay. Originally the skylines were a means…
By Owen Good Published June 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhen Crane Games Eat Children
This isn’t a first. But three year-old Tyler ended up inside a crane game in Sydney when the tyke climbed up the chute, hoping to snag a stuffed tiger. “Tyler was saying, ‘Can I have a tiger?’ I said, ‘No, I don’t have any coins,'” his mother, Catherine Bussier, told the Parramatta Advertiser. After momentarily…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedArmA II is Just Giving Itself Away. For Free. Sort Of.
ArmA II, one of the best war games money can buy, is now giving away half of itself for free. Charity! Develoeprs Bohemia Interactive announced yesterday that the ultra-realistic shooter and sim will have its multiplayer component released for free later this month. You can even build and play custom singleplayer missions. The game’s campaign…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dirt Publisher Codemasters Suffers Major Hack Attack, Personal Data Exposed
U.K.-based video game publisher Codemasters e-mailed its customers today to tell them that the company suffered a major online security breach one week ago. The breach has exposed gamers’ personal information, though Codemasters, the publisher of the recent Dirt 3 and Operation Flashpoint: Red River says payment information was not obtained. “Unfortunately, Codemasters is the…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
The More They Keep Telling Me Star Wars: The Old Republic Isn’t Like World of Warcraft, the Less I Want to Play
I just had a hands-on demo with the hugely anticipated massively multiplayer role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic, but after an hour of watching self-described sizzle reels of prerendered and in-game footage, showing casually pirouetting Jedi and environments full of foxfire and crepitating tails of energy, I couldn’t actually make myself actually play the…
By Joel Johnson Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Dude Who Says He Tagged Nintendo Brass
While at E3 waiting to play the new Nintendo Wii U, reader Dustin and his buddy killed time with their Nintendo 3DS handhelds. Then a nice fellow from Nintendo asked them if they wanted to fill their Pokédex with more Pocket Monsters. “The gentleman from Nintendo opens his 3DS and replied, ‘Hey I just tagged…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Spanish Police: Three Arrested in PSN Hack Attacks
Spanish police this morning say they have arrested three involved in the hacking of Sony’s Playstation Network, which lead to Sony shutting down the Playstation 3’s network for a month, locking nearly 80 million gamers out of playing online. All three were freed without bail pending formal charges. The New York Times reports that they…
By Brian Crecente Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves! E3 is officially over. A lot of has happened this week, so I’m guessing you have plenty to talk about. That said, feel free to talk about any video games that are on your mind. Special thanks to Incursor for today’s image. Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your…
By Mike Epstein Published June 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
RAGE’s Release Pushed Back to October
id’s upcoming RAGE has suffered a slight delay, being pushed back a few weeks from its original release date in September to one in October. It’ll be out in the US on October 4, while it’s now out in Europe on October 7 and Australia on October 5.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2011