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New Call of Duty: Black Ops ‘Escalation’ Screens Will Give You An Itchy Trigger Finger
Here are a zoo-full of new screenshots from the next Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack, Escalation, which show off the add-on’s four new multiplayer levels; a Soviet zoo, a Cuban hotel, a Russian suburb, and an American convoy besieged by Russian troops. The new zombie map, Call of the Dead, is still shrouded…
By Mike Epstein Published April 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Rainbow-Shitting Unicorn May Be The Greatest New Video Game Weapon
YouTube video sensation Freddie Wong and friends introduce us to Mr. Toots, a candy-colored unicorn with a magical gift: the ability to emit a high-powered rainbow beam from its anus, capable of destroying anything in its path. But what does this have to do with video games? Turns out Mr. Toots here is the property…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedCome Get Some New, NSFW Duke Nukem Forever Footage
If you’re just catching up with this whole Duke Nukem Forever thing, this brand new video of Gearbox Software and 3D Realms’ game in action sums up this puerile first-person shooter beautifully. It’s all here: pig-faced aliens, catchphrases, monster trucks, first-person urinating, schoolgirls making out, blood, gore, and—of course—strippers. Strippers baring all, with full-on nudity…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Buttload of EA Mobile Games — Including Dead Space — Go On Sale For A Dollar
Dollar days appear to have just begun for EA Mobile’s offerings on the iTunes App Store, where Dead Space, including its HD version on the iPad, is just 99 cents. FIFA 11 is likewise a dollar on both platforms. Dollar apps for iPhone only include NBA Jam, Fight Night Champion, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12,…
By Owen Good Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Child of Eden‘s PS3 Release Pushed to September
Though Child of Eden, the rhythm-action game from Tetsuya Mizuguchi, is still due for a Kinect-enabled June 14 release for Xbox 360, the game’s PS3 release is being pushed into September, says Ubisoft. It is expected to have PlayStation Move support. [IGN]
By Owen Good Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Super Mario 3DS Headed For E3, Out This Year & A Mix Of Two Great Mario Games
The first real Mario game for Nintendo’s new 3DS will indeed be out this year, according to creator Shigeru Miyamoto. And it looks like we’ll get our hands on the game simple known as Super Mario at E3 in June. But wait… there’s more! Miyamoto tells Edge that Super Mario 3DS will “a combination of…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mortal Kombat on Ice
GET OVER HERE | HOLLYWOOD, CA: The unleashing of Warner Bros.’ Mortal Kombat Legacy at Saint Felix II and its lovely ice sculpture. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Warner Bros.) Korea Institutes National Curfew For Kid Gamers South Korea this week passed a new law that would ban children under the age of…
By Brian Crecente Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Our First Look At StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Happens Next Month
Blizzard plans to show off the single-player side of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm for the first time next month, offering an early look at the first expansion for and follow-up to StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. We received an invite to see Heart of the Swarm earlier today, promising that we’d see a…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
We May Have a Whole Bunch of Wii 2 Specs
Courtesy of IGN, we’ve gotten our hands on some details about “Project Cafe” (Or Wii 2, if saying the codename makes you feel silly). IGN says they have intel on many aspects of the new console, ranging from the hard tech to console design. According to their report, Project Cafe will have the following: •…
By Mike Epstein Published April 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedFirst Licensed Sports Indie Game Is Now First Licensed Sports Indie Game With Fighting
NLL Lacrosse, which last year became the first fully-licensed sports game on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel, has released its second version. Though it features all 10 NLL teams and its 230 players, it’s not just a roster update. A completely new game engine, statistics compilation celebrations and fighting are all features debuting in…
By Owen Good Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Leaked Kinect Star Wars Doc Reveals Pod Racing, Rancor Stomping and Lightsaber Action
At last year’s E3 event, Microsoft and LucasArts showed us what a Star Wars game would look like when played with the Xbox 360’s Kinect motion controller. What was demonstrated at E3 2010 focused on a Jedi swinging his lightsaber in a battle against enemy droids and culminated in a showdown with Darth Vader. But…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedDiscover New Ways To Play In Hunted: The Demon’s Forge
“Hunted is running through dungeons and killing monsters with really cool swords, really cool weapons, and amazing spells,” says developer inXile’s president Matt Findley. That’s enough of a description for me. The rest of you should watch this behind-the-scenes trailer. It may look like just another hack-and-slash dungeon crawler, but Hunted: The Demon Forge has…
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
PSPgo Not Dead In North America
Yesterday, Sony Japan said that the PSPgo, the disc-free variation of the PlayStation Portable was no longer in production. Dead. Done. Put to rest. Well, not in America. Clarifying news that broke on IGN, a Sony spokesperson in the U.S. told Kotaku today: “We are continuing production of PSPgo for North America. We will also…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Portal 2 Wasn’t Going To Include Portals, According To New iPad App
For five months in 2008, Valve Software was making a version of Portal 2 that wasn’t going to include Portals. And it was going to be a prequel, set in the ’50s. The game, based on an internal prototype called F-Stop, was built around a new gameplay mechanic that thrilled people at Valve. But the…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Outage Makes Some Capcom Games Unplayable Offline
The ongoing Playstation Network outage also makes a couple Capcom games unplayable, even offline. Capcom confirmed with Kotaku that Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 and the Final Fight/Magic Sword game pack are unplayable without an online connection. The issue is caused by Capcom’s use of a particular form of copy protection for the games which requires…
By Brian Crecente Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Girly Shoot ‘Em Up Otomedius Excellent Still Cute, Still Coming This Year
The side-scrolling shmup that’s part Gradius, part anime fetish fulfillment, Otomedius Excellent, is coming to the Xbox 360 later this year. Konami reassured fans of Gradius gameplay today that the brightly colored arcade shooter that features girls-as-spaceships is still on the cards with a handful of new screen shots. Otomedius Excellent features three-player online and…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedAksys Sees Catherine‘s Sexy And Raises Record Of Agarest War Zero
When Atlus put out a call for fans to appear in the next trailer for the sexy Persona spin-off Catherine, they probably never expected Record of Agarest War Zero publisher Aksys Games to respond. Thanks for sharing, Jeff!
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Is Japan’s Fetish This Week? Glasses
In game after game, comic book after comic book, manga after manga, there they are: characters with glasses. And Japan is totally gaga for them. Of course, glasses fetishism is not unique to Japan as it’s widespread in the West as well. Universally, glasses represent intelligence as well as authority, giving rise to stock characters…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedFather and Son Bonding Over Hateful Robots and Edgeless Cubes
In a darkened room filled with boxes, we sit side-by-side and play. We talk. We laugh. We think. Time spent with my son is always a joyful, bonding experience. Sometimes it’s outside, sometimes it’s over a book, and sometimes it’s with a game controller in our hands. We’ve played through every LEGO game together, we’ve…
By Brian Crecente Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Section 8: Prejudice Versus The Video Game Critics
Can TimeGate Studios possibly succeed with the downloadable sequel to a retail first-person shooter that nobody played in the first place? Find out in the Section 8: Prejudice Frankenreview. Release in the fall of 2009 for the Xbox 360 and PC (a downloadable PlayStation 3 version came later), Section 8 was a first-person shooter with…
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2011