Fishing Cactus Resurrects Artificial Life with Creatures 4

The adorable Norns return as Belgian development studio Fishing Cactus announces Creatures 4, the first new entry in the popular artificial life simulator series since 1999. The free-to-play game will be available this winter for iOS devices, PC and Mac.

The Life and Times of a Star Wars: The Old Republic Trooper

Long before the clones started fighting the robots, Republic Troopers roamed the galaxy, keeping the peace with the aid of the finest weapons and sexiest armor this side of a Bounty Hunter. Let’s take a look at how Troopers progress in Star Wars: The Old Republic You don’t start out with the good stuff. You…

Controlling the Breath of a God with From Dust

Being a god in Ubisoft’s From Dust ain’t easy. Though you can manipulate the elements of this world, you’ll sometimes feel less like an all-powerful deity than you might a hopeful local politician, a cog in a powerful, sluggish, bureaucratic machine. You may feel as powerful as a child on a beach, building a sand…

It’s Nice to See Mortal Kombat Putting Skin On for Once

As reported yesterday, the new Mortal Kombat‘s first dose of downloadable content delivers new skins for the game’s wacky human ninja crew, in honor of the early 90’s law of ninja costume conservation. In order to keep this from being the laziest collection of downloadable content ever, the MK team has also brought three classic…

In The Virtual World, His Fiancée Never Died

“Obviously, I can’t bring people back to life,” Jon Jacobs recently told me. Obviously. It was morning when he told me that. He was on his way to work in Los Angeles, chatting with me on his cell phone. His wife, a singer named Cheri, was driving him to work that day. He and I…

Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale: Hacking, Slashing, Looting and Leveling

Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale, released this week, provides a fun (if somewhat predictable) dose of RPG action based on D&D 4th edition rules. Team up with friends to save the Dalelands from the Zhentarim threat, and see how many times you laugh out loud at the stilted dialogue. Daggerdale is a straightforward hack and slash…

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: The Kotaku Review

The stench hits me first. Before the gurgle and hiss, the skittering of twisted claws against bare stone, the stale air of the abandoned mine delivers a stomach-churning whiff of the creatures’ breath, the miasmal scent of spoiled flesh between rotting teeth. Rotfiends. Eaters of the dead. They overwhelm two of my senses, so I…

Hydro Thunder Go is Definitely a Must-Have Windows Phone 7 Game

After launching out of the starting gate with an impressive collection of titles the release of quality Xbox Live-enabled games for the Windows Phone 7 slowed to a trickle. Now Microsoft speeds things up a bit with six weeks of “Must-Have” Windows Phone games, and what better way to increase velocity than with the action-packed…

This Man Was a Hero (Britain Be Proud)

Stache | LONDON, ENGLAND: In May 1939, Harry Williams claimed to have the longest moustache in Britain. (Photo: London Express | Hulton Archive) Win Prizes Like These at Japanese Arcades In arcades, claw and craw-based redemption machines give gamers the chance to win crap they probably don’t need, but want anyway. The 24th Prize Fair…

Will Metal Gear Solid 5 Be Unveiled at E3? “No.”

In the latest episode of his podcast, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima took the time to bat down rumors in a new segment in which he replies to rumors simply by stating “yes” or “no”. Kojima’s co-host read off a laundry list of rumors. Some of them, like if Kojima Productions developed that Dr. Lautrec…

Sony’s Banks Confident Against Hackers

The PSN was hacked. Then Sony Online Entertainment. Then Sony Thailand’s site, Sony’s internet provider So-Net, Sony Music Indonesia, Sony Music Greece, Sony Ericsson’s Eshop and Sony BMG Japan. But Sony’s banking and insurance arms? They’re not worried. According to Sony Financial Holdings, their systems are different from the ones that were hacked. A spokesperson…

A Man Walking in the Desert. What Could It Mean?

And Sony even has a stupid countdown clock. [Desert]

An Arcade Cabinet for Small, Plastic Gamers

In 2005, Namco released a idol simulator in Japanese arcades called The Idolm@ster. The game ended up being a nerd smash hit, spawning Idolm@ster Xbox 360 and PSP games. It’s 2011, and now the arcade cabinet that spawned it all is getting memorialized—as a 1:12 scale model. The cabinet is a snap-fit type model, so…

Eleven Million Deaths Have Never Looked so Beautiful

Here are the deaths of eleven million Just Cause 2 games, caused by bodies smashing into solid ground, visualised on a map from the heavens. Please, watch it. Deathmapping: Just Cause 2′s 11m Casualties [Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

The Sweet, Yet Slightly Creepy Art of Alice: Madness Returns

A PC cult classic returns (and on consoles this time, too) next month when Alice: Madness Returns hits shelves. The first game was batshit crazy, and beautiful to boot. So it’s little surprise, then, that the sequel looks to be continuing that tradition. In these pieces of concept art for the game (some you may…

Some Parts of Dragon Age II “Must be Improved” In Dragon Age III

Dragon Age II was, for many, a bit of a disappointment. Too many recycled environments, too many cheap waves of bad guys to chop through. It was, you could argue, a bit of a rush job If it makes you feel any better, developers BioWare have heard your complaints. On the company’s forums, writer Mike…

Left 4 Dead Creators Now Working With THQ

Turtle Rock Studios, the group responsible for the creation and much of the development of Left 4 Dead, has “got the band back together” after shifting away from Valve’s ownership and will be releasing its next game for publisher THQ. Having worked with Valve for years, first on the Xbox version of Counter-Strike and then…

Kojima Productions Announces An Announcement

On a recent Kojima Productions Podcast, the Metal Gear studio announced that it would be announcing announcements at E3. It also announced that it would be announcing “something special” (an announcement?) next week before E3 starts. [VideoGamer]