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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I shall get my Motorstorm Apocalypse on this weekend, giving the natural disaster racing game a little more attention. Just for fun, mind you, not necessarily for work. But what else is on the gaming menu? Recent releases like Mortal Kombat and Portal 2 will get a little more time, as I’ve barely scratched the…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedBuilding a Better Elise in the New SSX
We’ve all seen the screenshots of the sleeker, more realistic look EA is giving blonde bombshell Elise Riggs in the new SSX game. Now let’s take a look at how she was created, from concept art to modeling her sleeker, more realistic panty line. When I posted the screenshots of Elise’s new SSX look, several…
By Mike Fahey Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Free Portal 2 Content Brings New Test Chambers and Challenge Modes This Summer
Portal 2 will be getting new test chambers, leaderboards and challange mode for single and multiplayer challenge mode this summer, Valve confirmed today. Portal DLC #1 will be free for the PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3. More details to come, we’re told.
By Brian Crecente Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Did Ubisoft Just Leak the Next Assassin’s Creed Game?
A message appearing briefly on the Assassin’s Creed Facebook page lead NeoGAF users to a Flash file urging fans to “Spread the Word” to reveal an exclusive look at the next Assassin’s Creed game, and lurking within the Flash file was this logo. What is Assassin’s Creed: Revelations? The Facebook message appeared for only a…
By Mike Fahey Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dark Horse Digital Comics Debuts with Dungeon Siege III
The comic book publisher behind Hellboy and The Umbrella Academy have launched a digital Dungeon Siege III comic book series, and you can read the first issue right now courtesy of the newly-opened Dark Horse Digital. So they’re a little late to the party. What matters is they made it. Dark Horse Comics launched its…
By Mike Fahey Published April 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Sith Wear the Best Outfits in The Old Republic
The Jedi use their mystical powers for good. The Sith? The Sith use their mystical powers for sexy. Check out what the well-dressed Sith Warrior will be wearing in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic If Star Wars has taught me anything, it’s that the bad guys always look way cooler than the good guys.…
By Mike Fahey Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Developer reveals gameplay, character creation for D&D Daggerdale
Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale is a hack-and-slash action game coming out for Xbox, Playstation and PC in late May. This visit to the Forgotten Realms is the first time console players have been able to play a D&D videogame in several years. Atari Producer Michael Fahrny answered a few of our questions about designing a…
By Ed Grabianowski Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Need for Speed The Run Brings The Story Back To Street Racing
Yesterday we posted the leaked trailer for the next installment of Need for Speed, The Run. Today EA makes it official and tells us what’s so special about this round of illicit, high stakes racing. As McWhertor surmised yesterday, The Run is indeed the next installment of the Need for Speed series from EA’s Black…
By Mike Fahey Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Why Do Video Games Hide Their True Endings?
In today’s slightly spoilery episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter 黒人 laments the games that require a player complete countless complicated steps in order to see their “true” endings. I have a bit of a distaste for “real endings” in games. This doesn’t apply to all games with multiple endings where one of them is…
By Mike Fahey Published April 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedMarvel Pinball Celebrates 50 Years of the Fantastic Four
The family that stays together for 50 years plays pinball together as well. Zen Studios adds to its highly successful Marvel Pinball series with a Fantastic Four table featuring Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing, and…wait, where’s Spider-Man? I guess a product celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Fantastic Four needs to stick with the original…
By Mike Fahey Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Murderous Math of The Darkness II‘s “Quad Wielding”
Balancing the Xbox 360 controller lightly between pinkies and thumbs, I twiddle four trigger fingers in occasionally rhythmic bursts. Each squeeze dispenses death in different, surprisingly creative ways. Bad guys die by gun blast, slashing tentacle, severing cab door, skewering light pole. My thumbs, perched atop the controllers tiny joysticks, swivel in smooth movements, directing…
By Brian Crecente Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves. So it’s Friday. Just one more day until the weekend, so just hold tight and talk about some video games ’til then. Thanks again to Goldfuzzy for the image. (Twice in one week!) Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on…
By Mike Epstein Published April 29, 2011 -
UncategorizedJust How World of Warcraft Is Order & Chaos Online?
Gameloft has finally turned its uncanny game mimicking powers to World of Warcraft and the result is a surprisingly enjoyable iPhone MMO with a great deal of potential. But is it a clone? There are definitely elements of Order & Chaos Online that seem ripped directly from World of Warcraft. The characters, for instance, do…
By Mike Fahey Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
If the PSN Attacks Have You Thinking of a New Credit Card, Know This
In the wake of the attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network, lots of people will be cancelling their credit cards. Just in case. That won’t cost Sony a cent, but boy will it cost the banks. It’s estimated that, with the little slivers of plastic costing banks $3-$5 to replace, if large numbers of PlayStation Network…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Just Another Day at the Office
RIGHT, OFF TO WORK | A Tonberry sets off for another day of…dying horribly, I guess. By Randis FBI Cybercrimes Joins 22 States In Sweeping PlayStation Network Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigations today confirmed to Kotaku that it is looking into the security breach that brought the Playstation Network down and exposed millions of…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 29, 2011 -
ReviewsThe New Mortal Kombat Does More Than Just Gore In Its Killer Celebration Of The Franchise
The ninth major Mortal Kombat does more than just offer a clean slate for the nearly 20-year-old series, famous for its over-the-top blood and gore. NetherRealm Studios’ reboot of the Mortal Kombat franchise sets a new bar for what a fighting game should offer its fans. The new Mortal Kombat returns the series to its…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 29, 2011 - Uncategorized
Australian Officials Investigating Sony As Man Loses $2000 To Fraudsters
The latest international government body to begin investigating Sony’s PlayStation Network attack is Australia’s Privacy Commissioner, on the same day an Adelaide man lost over $2000 in fraudulent credit card charges this week. Rory Spreckley, from the South Australian capital, has lost over AUD$2000 this week after “carders” booked numerous domestic flights and hotel rooms…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 29, 2011
