That Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters Ad is Fabulous — and It’s Real

This stand-up-and-cheer golfer’s fantasy for EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters, seemed a little too good to be true. C’mon, right? No way Augusta National Golf Club, which prizes its privacy and exclusivity, would let a camera crew and a bunch of actors walk all over its storied course for an ad…

Bust-A-Move Universe Is The 3DS Game With Too Much Empty Space

What can the unique hardware of the Nintendo 3DS do to invigorate the 16-year-old Bust-A-Move (aka Puzzle Bobble) puzzle game series? Based on Bust-A-Move Universe, not much. This is a game that strives to be old-school on Nintendo’s modern-day platform. I played about an hour’s worth of Bust-A-Move Universe on the 3DS earlier this week,…

Tactical 3DS

3DS | A pile of games, as seen on my desk. (Photo: Brian Crecente) Bedtime Stories Sad World: An Entire Generation of Video Game Deaths My darling Robert “the” Beschizza of Boing Boing made this wonderful video compilation of deaths from 8- and 16-bit games. I can think of no finer way to start your…

Finally, Some Details On Kinect’s Bloodiest Game Rise of Nightmares

We’ve heard little about Sega’s motion controlled horror game, Rise of Nightmares for Kinect, since the Xbox 360 game was unveiled at Tokyo Game Show 2010. Fortunately, the ESRB comes through with leaked details on this year’s horror adventure. The Mature-rated Kinect game is rated that way for its blood, gore, intense violence, partial nudity,…

A Fistful Of Dollars Gets You An Earful With Turtle Beach’s PX5

Like cleavage, the $249.95 price tag is front, center, and something always on your mind even as you list off the other good reasons you want to spend time with Turtle Beach’s Ear Force PX5. You can talk about the fully customizable audio presets, the 7.1 channel surround sound quality, the Bluetooth support with multiple…

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Real Racing 2 HD Turns Your iPad 2 Into A Console (And A Steering Wheel)

If the iPad does indeed “kill” the home video game console, as some doomsayers have warned, then this video of Firemint’s Real Racing 2 HD running on iPad 2 may be admissible as evidence in the murder case against Apple. This is Real Racing 2 HD running in 1080p on an HDTV, a “first for…

“Sucker Punch” goes beyond awful, to become commentary on the death of moviemaking

Sucker Punch is such a bad movie that it raises the bar for what counts as terrible. That’s because there’s a horrific genius in it. This film will crystallize for you all those half-formed thoughts about what’s wrong with Hollywood. The thing is, director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) has a feel for genre. He understands…

Orcs Must Die, Preferably Due To Multiple Causes

I knew that I would be killing orcs when I played Orcs Must Die at the PAX East gaming convention recently. I knew I would live, and I knew orcs would (virtually) die. I did not know I could kill them in so many ways. Orcs Must Die is a tower defense game. It is…

We’re One Step Closer To Hellraiser, Scream and Children Of The Corn Video Games

Hungry for more video games based on Hollywood movies? Of course you are. Thankfully, The Weinstein Company, the production company started by Miramax founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein, is going to try its hand at making video games. The Weinstein Company is responsible for properties like Hellraiser, Halloween, Scream, Scary Movie and Children of the…

Ghost Recon Shadow Wars Is a 3DS Must Buy

We’ve been worried a bit, here at Kotaku, about the launch titles lined up for this weekend’s kick off of Nintendo’s 3DS. The platform is a neat device with plenty of potential, but the games so far available mostly aren’t quite there. Enter Ghost Recon Shadow Wars. This turn-based strategy game foregos the bells and…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

I’ll be hunkering down on this week’s most interesting new release, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, touchscreening my way through this lovely looking, lovely sounding adventure. Combined with the recently procured Angry Birds Rio, it means my iPhone is getting a lot of attention this weekend. I’ll also be playing things like Rock Band 3…

Moon Diver Does Strider Proud On March 29

Moon Diver, the four-player co-op hack -and-slash platformer from Strider creator Kouichi Yotsui hits the PlayStation Network on March 29. In the meantime, feel free to drool over the launch trailer.

Dungeon Siege III‘s Katarina Is A Real Bullet Witch

Joining the quest to rebuild the Legion and retake the Kingdom of Ehb in Obsidian’s Dungeon Siege III, Katarina combines her father’s mastery of firearms with her mother’s witchcraft to devastating effect. Sorry if that headline brought up bad memories for anyone. Cavia’s Bullet Witch left a bad taste in many people’s mouths, promising a…

Crysis 2 Shoes Want You To “Be Fast”

Crysis 2 is a wonderful, wonderfully different shooter. The shoes? Not so much. We received this shoes today in the mail. While they feature the Nike swoosh and branding, the box says they’re the product of McTiller Martins, the prototype facility that created the original nanosuit. Hmmm, I wonder if these will help me “be…

The $50,000 steering wheels of Formula 1

It wouldn’t be Formula 1 without some kind of constant friction between racers, team owners and organizers, and this year’s kerfuffle involves steering wheels that force drivers to push more buttons than a 747 pilot having a seizure. With the season’s first race in Australia this weekend, drivers are still getting used to the layout…

The Most PSP Game On The 3DS

What would a PSP-style game look like on the 3DS? Samurai Warriors Chronicles has the cut-scenes, the voicework, the multiple loading screens — and the ambition to look and play like a PS2-era home video game — that make it a lot like a PSP game. But the game is a 3DS launch title. Samurai…

Call Of Duty: Black Ops First Strike Map Pack Now Available For PC

PC Black Ops players can finally purchase the First Strike map pack today, adding “Berlin Wall,” “Stadium,” “Discovery,” “Kowloon”, and Zombie level “Ascension” to their arsenal for $14.99.

We Came, We Partied, We Raised…

With just two weeks planning and tons and tons of help from lots of very good people, we managed to raise a record breaking (for us) $7,650 to help earthquake relief efforts in Japan. That doesn’t include all of the people who couldn’t make last night’s Denver party and instead made direct donations to American…

Ten Thousand Tiny Voices Wanting To Provide Us A Beautiful Place To Play

In this moving six-minute microtalk from GDC 2011, Independent Games Festival chairman Brandon Boyer champions the countless independent developers that still have something sincere to say through gaming. “What I want for us all is to be creating and championing the games that remind people everywhere of why they used to play, instead of reminding…