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You Can All Play the New Age of Empires Game This Weekend
Age of Empires Online, currently in closed beta, will this weekend throw open its doors and let any old person who downloads the game client in. I’ve been playing for a few weeks and…it’s not bad, not bad at all, so you could do worse things. [Age Of Empires]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Uncharted Creator Cool with Loosey-Goosey Movie
The Uncharted movie sounds pretty stupid! It’s about a globe-trotting family of antiques collectors that dispense treasure-hunting justice. That doesn’t sound like Uncharted at all. What does Uncharted game designer Amy Henning think of the movie’s concept? Henning told MTV that the game’s developers are “protective” of the Uncharted games, just like the fans. To…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedIt’s Deus Ex Running on Not One, Not Two, but Three Monitors
It was just this morning we were taking a good, long look at using three monitors for your PC gaming. And now, whaddya know, we have footage of Deus Ex running across three monitors! There are some at the pointier edge of the glorious PC master race who will no doubt endorse this kind of…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedToyota’s Nerd Marketing Sure Is Awkward
Toyota is the world’s biggest auto maker. It must be doing something right. This ad, though, isn’t one of them. In the U.S., Toyota is rolling out a Corolla campaign that features virtual idol Miku Hatsune. With the character’s popularity and connection to motorspots, her appearance makes sense somewhat— just not in America. I know…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Cops Catch Killer Using Bugged Xbox Game
A teenager has been arrested in Saskatoon, Canada, after he was caught giving a murder confession. How was he caught? The cops bugged an Xbox 360 game The boy, who can’t be named because he’s under the age of 18, is accused of murdering 16 year-old Charlotte Jolly in 2009, who was shot with a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedYou can now Make Your own Team Fortress 2 Videos
Team Fortress 2 now has its own replay system, letting every user of the game (at least on PC and Mac) save and view footage from the match they just completed. If you’re playing on a server that has the option enabled, every second of a round will be recorded for posterity. Users can then…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Disney Civil War That Led to Arcade Video Game Classics
We don’t often associate Disney with video games – not outside of its current push as a publisher, anyway – but in the late 1970’s, turmoil at the famous animation studio inadvertently led to the creation of two arcade classics. Don Bluth was an animator at Disney in the 60’s and 70’s, who worked on…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get a Good Look at Guardian Heroes HD In Motion for the First Time
GameSpot takes a look at Sega’s newly announced Xbox Live Arcade port of Saturn classic Guardian Heroes in the latest On The Spot. Whether you prefer the original Saturn sprites or the filtered visual upgrade—not my cup of tea—you’re probably going to get excited about Guardian Heroes one more time today.
By Michael McWhertor Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Kinectimals Creator Sets His Sights on Building the $25 PC
David Braben, whose Frontier Developments studio has delivered Elite, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, LostWinds and, yes, Kinectimals, has now created Raspberry Pi. It’s not a game, it’s a working, Linux-based PC on something not much larger than a standard USB memory stick. Raspberry Pi, a nonprofit effort akin to the One Laptop Per Child effort, is…
By Owen Good Published May 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Quick Look at the Visual Evolution of Motorstorm, From Concept to Apocalypse
Since its origins as a PlayStation 3 concept video, Motorstorm has always been known as a series with great visuals. Six years and three console games later, the Motorstorm series still looks damn good. We put three of the PS3 games side-by-side to get a closer look at how the game’s graphics have changed over…
By Mike Epstein Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Fifth of Mayonnaise
Good evening, Kotaku. Are you taking advantage of this day of an excuse to drink? Or are you celebrating for other reasons? Let us know what’s on your mind by joining us in tonight’s open thread. It’s been a day of highs and lows here at Kotaku Towers, and I look forward to capping off…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Square Enix CEO’s 360 Just Shot Itself in the Foot
Remember 2008? Good Lord, was it nearly three years ago, at E3, that Square Enix announced Final Fantasy XIII would have an Xbox 360 release, utterly horrifying fanboys of game, publisher and PS3 alike? Well, if one reading of the karmic law is “we all got it coming, kid,” then Yoichi Wada, the CEO of…
By Owen Good Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tetris Tampons
Feminine hygiene display in an Italian drugstore. The box reads: “It takes more to say than to do,” which idiomatically means, “It’s more trouble to do it than to talk about it.” Maybe the L-piece is pitching condoms and the squiggle’s flacking laxatives. Tampax Houdt Gamesters Droog
By Owen Good Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sony CEO Apologizes To PlayStation Customers for ‘Inconvenience and Concern’ Over PSN Attack
Howard Stringer, the man at the very top of Sony, has released an open letter to customers today, joining PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai in officially apologizing for the “inconvenience and concern” caused by an attack on the company’s PlayStation Network. Stringer goes on to further detail the delay in notifying PlayStation Network and Qriocity customers…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
iTunes Flash Game Ripoffs Get More Brazen with Canabalt Clone
Last week, the outright theft of a Flash game, republished for sale on the iTunes App Store with Apple’s approval, jarred the Flash development community. Though the app later was removed, anecdotal reports of similar ripoffs came trickling back. It was easy to sympathize with both the developers and with Apple. For developers, months of…
By Owen Good Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Network Restoration In ‘Final Stages’ of Testing; Sony Details Free Identity Theft Protection Plan
Expected to return sometime this week, Sony’s PlayStation Network is still offline. But a spokesman for the PlayStation maker says the team responsible for reviving online play and other network services to the PlayStation 3 and PSP has reached “an important step towards restoring” online functionality. “Today our global network and security teams at Sony…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
L.A. Noire Teams up with the L.A. Times
As L.A. Noire‘s release draws near, Rockstar has teamed with the Los Angeles Times for an informative little promotion that highlights the real-world inspirations of the cases the game will throw at you come May 17. L.A. Noire’s case file is based on actual crimes reported in the L.A. area in 1947, ranging from a…
By Owen Good Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Rattled
BUZZ | YouGov tracks brand awareness. This graph shows positive buzz plummeting for Sony in the days following the breach. (YouGov) A New, Five-Minute Look at Id’s Baby They made Doom. They made Quake. And next from the makers of mono-syllabic first-person shooters that always, at least, look great, is Rage. We’ve got a new…
By Brian Crecente Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Catherine Screens Subtitle Sheep in English
No longer will sheep speak confuse fans of Catherine‘s brand of erotic horror puzzle platformer adventure, thanks to new media from the North American version of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game. So, to sum up, here are more images of the localized Catherine, coming to North American consoles on July 26. Get your…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Rage for PC Lets You Mod Right Out of the Box
id Software’s next, Rage, will come with a handy feature for enterprising game modders when the game hits the PC later this year. id Studio, the tools id Software used to build the post-apocalyptic shooter, will be just a few keystrokes away on day one. id creative director Tim Willits told PC Gamer that id…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 5, 2011