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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D Is ‘Crammed’ With New And Interesting Things
Why is Nintendo reviving one of the best Nintendo 64 games, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time for the Nintendo 3DS? Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto says he wanted get a better sense of “really ‘being there’ in 3D” and to give new players a chance to play the Legend of Zelda game he was…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Valve Plans To Bridge Portal And Portal 2 With A Surprise, Keep Gordon Freeman Out Of It
Portal 2 takes place after Portal, long after enough for Aperture Science to be wrecked and covered with plant-life. What happened? Valve plans to explain some of that gap in the coming weeks, before we can play Portal 2 on April 18. “We’re actually going to release something that we’re not talking about yet that…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
This weekend feels like a hack and slash kind of weekend, a chance to play some Torchlight on Xbox Live Arcade—even though I’ve already played the Mac version. Personally, I don’t have a great deal of interest in some of this week’s new releases, like Dragon Age II or Pokemon Black / White. That’s a…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Major Comic Talent Brings Rage To The Page
Crack open a case of ammo and take to the post-apocalyptic wasteland of id Software’s Rage, you’ll be able to crack open a comic book to uncover a dark secret of the game setting with Dark Horse Comics’ Rage miniseries. The three-issue Rage comic book series tells the story of one woman’s struggle to uncover…
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Brief Moment with Firefall, The Free Game That Wants To Be World of Warcraft with Guns
Orange County, California might be bland, confesses one developer of Red 5’s team-based shooter Firefall, but the game certainly is not. Armor-bound medics squirt now de rigueur healing ribbons that glow a pale green to extrude life back into teammates wearing primary yellow or red that’s too busy for G or B. I stood for…
By Joel Johnson Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch A Robot Go From 1to50 In 6.6 Seconds
In popular free iPhone app 1to50, players have to sequentially press the numbers one through fifty as fast as they possibly can. No one is ever going to be this robot’s score. 1to50 is a game that’s all about counting. The timer starts and you’ve got to count with your fingers to press randomly placed…
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PlayStation Network Gets Its First Free-To-Play MMO This Month
After nearly two years in operation on the PC and Mac, Sony Online Entertainment finally brings it’s family-friendly, free-to-play massively multiplayer online game Free Realms to the PlayStation 3 on March 29, making it the first free-to-play console MMO. A colorful clash of social gaming and massively-multiplayer world, Free Realms was originally announced for the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Forlorn Band ‘The National’ Pens Original Dirge for Portal 2
There’s nothing but an announcement for now. And while pop songs in games are hardly new, considering how suited The National’s music is to a dirty, near-future landscape—and how Valve has already shown themselves how capable they are at integrating songs into a game in Portal 2—I think it’s okay to get a little excited…
By Joel Johnson Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedWithout This Guy There’d Be No Mortal Kombat
When Shao Khan threatened to merge our reality with his, the thunder god Raiden appealed to the Elder Gods to give EarthRealm a fighting chance. Where would we be without his timely fight-to-the-death suggestion? This story video for the new Mortal Kombat has me wondering what would have happened if Raiden had been a bit…
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Most Unnerving Tweet Sent to Penny Arcade This Weekend
Mike Krahulik, co-creator of webcomic Penny Arcade, on his strangest inbound tweet from a fan while attending their conference, PAX: “I was the one who scanned your ticket at airport security.”
By Joel Johnson Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedTen Minutes Of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Gameplay
You saw still images of Fuelcell Games’ Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet yesterday. Now bask in ten minutes of deliriously gorgeous gameplay footage direct from PAX East in Boston. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is due out on Xbox Live Arcade not damn soon enough this year.
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Filth And Grime Your Mobile Games Leave Behind
As anyone who owns a touch-screen device will tell you, when fingers are rubbed on screens, things get messy. But have you ever wondered how pretty some of those marks can be? Design Language News used a surprisingly complicated routine involving microfiber cloth and a black matte board to take photos of what an iPad…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
We’ll Be at PAX East So Come Say Hello
This weekend Kotaku editorial will be hanging at PAX East. Check out all of our PAX East coverage here. It’s all thanks to the good folks at Alienware, who will be premiering some killer stuff at PAX East this year, including the Alienware M17x and the M11x gaming laptops. See you in Boston…
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UncategorizedOur First Fleeting Glimpse Of The New Tribes Game
Fans of the deep, strategic, jetpack-powered combat of Tribes have been clamoring for a new game since the 2004 release of Tribes: Vengeance. Hi-Rez Studios delivers this year with Tribes: Ascend, a downloadable game for Xbox 360 and PC. Hi-Rez already had a pretty good head start on creating a Tribes game in their massively-multiplayer…
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Frustrating Fiscal Resilience Of Nintendo Games
In today’s exciting episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Cupids_Hitman waits and waits for prices on first-party Nintendo games to drop, but they never do. What’s up with the pricing of Wii games? My family got a Wii this past Christmas, and so I’ve been looking to play some 1st party Nintendo games, but they’re…
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Bioshock Infinite’s Him Squishes… Him?
SNAPSHOT | PENNY ARCADE EXPO EAST: Imprisoned in Columbia for 15 years, Elizabeth takes a break from Bioshock Infinite to hang with caretaker Him… and squish Totilo. Make sure to hang around for three days of Penny Arcade Expo coverage.
By Brian Crecente Published March 11, 2011
