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Now Everybody Can Play APB Again for Free
Proof that you can’t keep a moderately okay multiplayer online game down, GamersFirst launches the open beta testing phase for APB: Reloaded. Welcome back to San Paro! Originally launched in June of last year, Realtime World’s APB showed a lot of promise, with many referring to it as an online version of Grand Theft Auto.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s E3 2011 Showing Will Be Televised
Fans eager for latest news on the next Nintendo console and the games coming out for it can tune into Nintendo’s E3 website starting June 7, where the company will be streaming its 2011 media event live at 9AM Pacific.
By Mike Fahey Published May 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Witcher Takes a Swing at The Lord of the Rings
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is a dark and gritty sword and sorcery game, so removed from Tolkien’s legendary high fantasy epic that it takes a moment to swipe at it from afar. One of the myriad ways The Witcher 2 improves over the first game in the series is its writing, particularly its…
By Mike Fahey Published May 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow To Kill a Pedestrian in L.A. Noire
The citizens of Los Angeles, as rendered in Team Bondi and Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire are fleet of fun. It is hard to run them down, as we’ve made clear in video before. But it can be done. I had thought, originally, that L.A. Noire‘s pedestrians were unkillable, that their reflexive repulsion from the approaching…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Games Would You Suggest To a New Dreamcast Owner?
Commenter Gigawings is taking the first steps on the wondrous journey we call first time Dreamcast ownership, and wants to know what games he should play first in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. So I finally got my Dreamcast, get a step down converter, and play my first game that comes with it, deSPIRIA. The…
By Mike Fahey Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
99Bullets Should Help Us Survive This Week’s Nintendo Download
In a couple of weeks Nintendo will finally open up its eShop, ushering in a new era of old games remade for the 3DS. In this calm before the storm, 99Bullets is the only sound we hear. 99Bullets is the best and brightest of this week’s Nintendo Download, an easy task considering the competition. We’ve…
By Mike Fahey Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Bumpy Road is a Sweet Trip, Just Not a Smooth One
Bumpy Road is one of those games I’d like to play with someone looking over my shoulder. It’s a delight to look at and to listen to, and its very sweet-natured purpose-follow an aging couple down memory lane-makes it a feel-good story you’d want to share. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make it a game I really…
By Owen Good Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hey Look, Japanese People Playing Kinect!
Connected | TOKYO, JAPAN: Microsoft held a meeting for developers in Japan. (Photo: Famitsu.com) Resident Evil’s Milla Jovovich, Now Yours to Buy Milla Jovovich, star of the Resident Evil series of films, is now the star of an exquisite Resident Evil action figure, with Hong Kong company Hot Toys recreating her in this 28cm piece.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Combing Through Modern Warfare 3 Launch Site
Twitter user @Haakontje shifted through CallofDuty.com’s Modern Warfare 3 site, finding images in the cache and the game’s release date in the site’s source code. None of this is new to those who’ve read Kotaku‘s exclusive details on the game, which Kotaku first broke earlier this month.
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
There’s More Pokémon Incoming, and It’s Kinda Meh
In late April, blurry Japanese magazine scans showed a new Pokémon title. It’s late May, and that new Pokémon title is… A new Pokémon Battrio—you know, those kiddy Pokémon arcade games that children play with “pucks”. The latest iteration features characters from Pokémon: Black and White. Not terribly exciting—unless you’re seven or eight. Even then.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sony Hacked… Yet Again (Though Not Likely PSN-Related)
As Sony gets its PlayStation Network back online in the West, subsidiary So-net, Sony’s internet provider, was hacked earlier last week. Intruders entered So-net’s customer rewards site and made off with USD$1,225 worth of customers’ redeemable gift points. “Although we can’t completely rule out the possibility that there is a connection with the PSN issue,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PSN Attacks Have Cost Sony a Ton of Money
Finally putting some kind of official estimate on the damage caused by last month’s attack on the PlayStation Network, Sony has pegged the total cost to be around USD$170 million “Based on information currently available to Sony, our currently known costs associated with the unauthorized network access are estimated to be approximately 14 billion yen…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sephiroth, an Engineer and Samus Walk into a Bar…
The incredible Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) cosplay you see up top is just a taste of some of the work on display in this week’s cosplay roundup, in which tribute is paid to games like Team Fortress 2, World of Warcraft and Dragon Age 2 Impressive stuff one and all, in fact one of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 23, 2011 - Uncategorized
You Will Not Believe These Star Wars Pictures Are Real
These photos (and they are genuine photos, not a photoshops), of Grand Moff Tarkin, were taken in 2011. Yet the man who played the Star Wars villain, screen legend Peter Cushing, died in 1994. How can this be? Because this is a sculpture. A 1:1, lifesize bust of the character, so impressive in its detail…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 23, 2011 -
UncategorizedDon’t Judge a Kick Ass Gears of War 3 Player by His Rank
Two years ago, gamer Aldo Cauvi started losing his hearing. Then, things got worse. Last year, he lost his hearing completely. And his job. This year, he needed something to keep going. That was Gears of War 3 On April 18, Cauvi began the Gears 3 beta, and by May 15 at 5pm EST, Cauvi…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 23, 2011
