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Latest Silent Hill: Downpour Screens Don’t Skimp On The Gondola
The first set of screenshots released for Konami’s Silent Hill: Downpour only featured two shots of a gondola creeping across a chasm. That’s nowhere near enough gondola. Thankfully this next set gives us a couple more. Silent Hill: Downpour’s main character is one Murphy Pendleton, an unfortunate man whose prison transport bus overturns on a…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Green Lantern Might As Well Just Use His Ring To Summon Kratos
The first gameplay trailer for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters is here, with Hal Jordan showing off some very God of War-like maneuvers. Is this how you’d fight if you had a ring that could create anything?
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedParents Concerned Over High School Students Play-Acting Call Of Duty
“It’s too real and too much like the Columbine tragedy,” says one concerned parent regarding a video shot at Rocklin High School in California depicting students pretending to play Call of Duty with imaginary weapons. Oh come on, really? There are no guns in the YouTube video “COD Black Ops JamT productions”, which features students…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedF.E.A.R. 3‘s New Multiplayer Modes Urge You To Fu**ing Run
When John Carpenter tells you to Fu**ing Run, you better well fu**ing run. Warner Bros. Interactive details the terrifying new multiplayer modes appearing in the third installment of the paranormal first-person shooter F.E.A.R. The creators of F.E.A.R. 3 didn’t just tap horror masters John Carpenter (The Thing) and Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) to…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Phyrexians take over in Magic: the Gathering’s upcoming expansion
The release of Magic’s newest set, New Phyrexia, is just one month away. With the Gigeresque Phyrexians winning their war against the Mirrans, the set is sure to be dark and dripping with Phyrexian infection. Check out this gallery of New Phyrexia art, including a couple of exclusives. In Magic’s storyline, the Phyrexians and the…
By Ed Grabianowski Published April 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedMortal Kombat‘s Shang Tsung’s Got Soul, Unfortunately It’s Yours
It’s wonderful to see the traitorous sorcerer Shang Tsung up to his old transforming tricks again, isn’t it? He may be ancient, but he’s still got moves. Shang Tsung, as I mentioned last Friday, is a vile sorcerer that betrayed EarthRealm in order to achieve the sort of power it takes to transform himself from…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
We Can Unlock Portal 2 Early By Playing Indie Games Together
Now we know: Portal 2 will launch early—if enough people get together and play all the indie games in the “Potato Sack” on Steam. The countdown clock ended a noon, revealing the “GLaDOS@Home distributed computational grid status” page, showing what appear to be real-time stats of how many people are playing the games of the…
By Joel Johnson Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Wii 2 Controller “Like an iPad with Buttons”, Says a French Person
Destructoid has done us the kindness of translating some rumors about the upcoming successor to the Nintendo Wii from French gaming site 01net. The most interesting part? There’s a new controller coming around the bend that’s part Wiimote, part mini touchscreen tablet. The controller itself is said to include a 6″ single touch screen, d-pad,…
By Joel Johnson Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Science Of Buying New Video Games
In today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Phantomlink ponders the research that goes into buying a new game, and proffers a mathematical formula for determining if a game was worth your time and money. I was just wondering how fellow Kotakunites go about on purchasing their incoming games, especially with everyone being conscious about…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Will Portal 2 Release Early? We’ll Know In One Hour
The interactive marketing campaign surrounding sure-to-be-megahit Portal 2 has been dropping hints that the game, scheduled for release next Tuesday, might be released earlier. Despite Valve PR holding fast to a Tuesday release date in response to all our queries, a message has been added to the Valve-owned ApertureScience.com website with a countdown timer that’s…
By Joel Johnson Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
MotorStorm Apocalypse Races Into North America Next Month
After missing its original April 12 release date due to issues stemming from the tragic earthquake in Japan last month, the PlayStation 3 earthquake racer MotorStorm Apocalypse finally makes it to North America on May 3
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Kotaku readers, I choose you to talk here about video games. (And make us some more TAY images while you’re at it, huh?) Thanks to blaaps for today’s image. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Stephen Totilo Published April 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedEverything You Need To See In The Gears of War 3 Beta
Kill your enemy. Chainsaw a dude in half. Unlock stuff. Level up. The new Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta on Xbox 360, a sneak preview of the Gears game coming out on the Xbox 360 on September 20, combines the cover-based shooting of old Gears games with that fever for unlocking new medals, weapons…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
I Think I’ll Have The Seafood Cup Ramen, Thank You
INSTANT VENDING | JAPAN: There is even a tray filled with disposable chopsticks. (Photo by Brian Ashcraft) When Competing In Street Fighter Turns Into Racist, Sexist Comments BurnYourBra (above, white shirt) is a very talented Street Fighter player. She’s one of the best in the world, placing in big tournaments like the Evo Championship Series.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
How Did The Japanese Earthquake Impact The 3DS? The PSP?
March’s Tohoku Earthquake destroyed towns, took people’s lives and left tens of thousand homeless. Out of courtesy, game developers postponed games and one company even canceled a title outright. March was a bad month for the video game business in Japan. March was a bad month. Period. According to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, the impact of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedChris And Jill Went Out To Kill In Resident Evil Mercenaries VS
And wouldn’t you know it, Wesker came tumbling after. That’s so Albert. Two Resident Evil heroes and one villain take mobile zombie fighting online in Resident Evil Mercenaries VS for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Resident Evil’s Mercenaries mini-game first appeared in Resident Evil 4 as a special offline game mode. Resident Evil 5 brought…
By Mike Fahey Published April 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedJust Look At All Those Fucking Bullets
Insanity! This is the latest trailer for Akai Katana, the latest shooter from famed arcade developer Cave. The company is known for its vertical scrolling shooters, making Akai Katana one of the few side-scrollers the company’s developed. This May, the game will hit the Xbox 360 as Akai Katana Shin in Japan. More at the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Blindingly Obvious Improvements We Want From Nintendo’s Next Games
We’ve already made clear the blindingly obvious things we want to see Nintendo improve upon with regards to its next piece of home console hardware. Now let’s make clear what we want from that piece of hardware’s games It’s becoming increasingly likely that come E3 – or maybe even later this month – Nintendo will…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 15, 2011
