You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sports game trailer that has a dog, a Centurion (or Spartan?), an American Indian, a bull and a buffalo all in the one video before.
Microsoft’s Xbox Live Indie Games Channel has been hit in recent weeks with some ratings manipulation, which is affecting how games are displayed (and as a result sold) on the service. Here’s what the platform holder is doing about it. “Starting today”, reads a statement issued by Microsoft, “only users with Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions…
Today Sony Computer Entertainment confirmed yesterday’s rumor that its digital-only portable the PSPgo was going out of production. The Tokyo-based electronics giant told Japanese website AV Watch that new PSPgo units would no longer be manufactured or shipped “in order to concentrate on the NGP”. The remaining PSPgo stock, however, will continued to be sold…
If you’ve played a Castlevania video game from the past decade, you’ve likely enjoyed the musical stylings of Japanese composer Michiru Yamane. She’s the musician behind Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and dozens of other Konami games. Now she’s scoring indie 2D fighting game Skullgirls, lending it some jazzy flair. Yamane, who can boasts more…
With Portal 2 knocking Team Fortress 2 from the limelight this week, many people are probably wondering what the hell they’re going to do with all those hats they’ve picked up. Well, you can use them in Portal 2. Six of the most iconic Team Fortress 2 hats – and really, hats is what that…
It all started in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But it wasn’t nearly as sexy. Game makers began releasing titles with 3D polygons, giving shape to what was previously flat. By 1994, Namco released Tekken, one of the first fighters with 3D polygons. Yet that was nothing compared to what Namco did two years…
Sad news out of Sony tonight, as Team Ico boss Fumito Ueda sends word that his studio’s upcoming PS3 game The Last Guardian, along with the HD re-releases of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, have all been delayed. The Ico/SotC collection was originally supposed to be out this Spring. Last Guardian, meanwhile, was supposed…
The Wii’s sensor bar is a flimsy little thing. It’s pretty weak, too. What it needs, then, is MORE POWER, and that’s exactly what these two handymen are proposing. They’ve built the MegaBar, a large, powered infared source that lets you use a Wii Remote with accuracy well beyond the console’s standard range. So, say,…
The short answer: a lot. The long answer: a substantial amount, my dear, it really is quite noticeable. These new comparison shots, put together by NeoGAF user Prime Blue, show some key scenes and locations early on in the game, with the 1998 Nintendo 64 version on the left and the 2011 Nintendo 3DS version…
Haven’t finished Portal 2 yet? Go on and listen to the game’s ending tune. Do it. And those who’ve already breezed through the game, have another listen. The song is by Jonathan Coulton and dubbed “Want You Gone”. Coulton also wrote “Still Alive”, the ending tune for the first Portal. If you’re not familiar with…
Acclaimed British actor Tim Curry may be most famous to regular folk for his roles in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and…Muppet Treasure Island, but he’s most famous around here for his work in video games. You see, Tim Curry – who Infinite Lives reminds us turns 65 today – is Kotaku After Dark’s favourite…
A hundred bucks isn’t what it used to be. It won’t get you a new pair of Jordans or take you halfway to buying your way out of a Union army conscription. But it’ll buy you a half-decent video card. AMD has released three new cards for $100 or less. Ranging from $100 down to…
It’s Tuesday. So let’s ask a question in our semi-nightly open thread, as we tend to do on Tuesdays. Instead of asking what you’re reading, watching, listening to or spending your cash on, I wanna know what you’re drinkin’ these days. Off the top of my head, I’ve been swilling some Guinness Draught, Lost Coast…
A St. Petersburg, Florida man tried—and failed miserably—to rob a convenience store by subjecting the clerk to the business end of a PlayStation controller, reports Bay 9 News. His mistake? By performing said robbery in the presence of “a police officer who walked into the store in the middle of the robbery,” according to police.…
Maybe you’ve seen these screen shots from the next Saints Row. Maybe you’ve seen the high-res concept art. After all, most of this stuff is almost a month old. But maybe you haven’t seen what Saints Row: The Third will look like. If so, this lengthy gallery is for you. See a street thug about…
If the new Mortal Kombat ever makes its way to the PC—and Valve’s Steam service, specifically—we hope the team at Netherrealm Studios gets permission from Valve to include Portal star Chell as an exclusive character. This video proves that a Portal gun is perfect for creatively killing your enemies. The guys from The Country Club…
This is Crash Bandicoot Return, the closest we’ll get to the classic PlayStation platformer looking as good as a Crysis game. This Crash Bandicoot game is actually running on the Crysis engine, because it’s a fan-made mod that pays homage to Naughty Dog’s 15-year-old series. Crash Bandicoot Return is a Crysis mod from Anonym-Art Productions,…
As of March 2011, Apple has sold more than 108 million iPhones, 19 million iPads and 60 million iPod touch devices, according to a recently filed lawsuit against Samsung. That’s more than 180 million iOS devices, an impressive number that’s quickly catching up to the combined install base of the Nintendo DS and PSP. [Bloomberg]
CONDUIT | PAWLING, NEW YORK: Up close with the Conduit 2 collectible figurine. (Photo by Crecente) This Is How a Portal 2 Turret Is Made While frantically escaping through this factory inside the Aperture Science testing facility, I stopped to enjoy these robots making sentry turrets then boxing them up for sale. More » A New…
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