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UncategorizedKotaku Unboxes Its Nintendo 3DS
The 3DS is Nintendo’s successor to the DS, the most successful game portable. And this is me taking that successor out of its box and getting my fingerprints all over it. Besides the 3DS, it comes bundled with a charging stand, an AC adaptor, a touch pen, a SD memory card and six AR cards.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
No Modern Warfare 3 Reveal Next Week; Activision Says Countdown Site is a Hoax
Activision, the publisher of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, says a countdown website hinting at the announcement of a Modern Warfare sequel next week is a hoax, a company representative says. Activision has nothing to do with it or the mailing of novelty dogtags to the speciality press today, viral promotions that both…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
For The Love Of The Game: A Visit To The American Classic Arcade Museum
The golden age of the American arcade has long since passed, its torch taken up by modern consoles, iPod apps, and Facebook games. But walking down the aisles of vintage game cabinets in the American Classic Arcade Museum, you would never know it. People young and old dart from machine to machine, clutching plastic cups…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Creation of Metal Sonic, By Jesus
Jesus Campos Jimenez gave artist Michelangelo‘s famous piece “The Creation of Adam“, a metal Sonic the Hedgehog spin The Creation of Metal Sonic by Jesus Campos Jimenez / Nerkin Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedOur Second Killzone 3 Review, Angry Angry Gamers and More
It looks like we may have a future home here in New York. It’s in northern Dutchess County and needs a bit of TLC, but it has a great vibe. We’re training out there tomorrow to oversee the inspection and measure everything before flying back to Denver Sunday. If our current buyers don’t back out…
By Brian Crecente Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
God of War III, Uncharted 2 & Heavy Rain Are Now ‘Greatest Hits’
Sony has inducted a handful of new PlayStation 3 games into its budget-friendly Greatest Hits line, taking some of the console’s best games from 2009 and 2010, slashing their prices and busying up their box art. The following titles are now PS3 Greatest Hits, priced at $29.99 USD. God of War III Heavy Rain ModNation…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Original Parasite Eve Bound For PSP & PS3
The ESRB has rated 1998 PlayStation game Parasite Eve for the PlayStation 3 and PSP, a sure sign that the game will receive “PSone Classics” status at some point, likely coming to the U.S. PlayStation Store before the latest entry, The 3rd Birthday, ships stateside on March 29.
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedNeedless to Say, This Bulletstorm Video is NSFW
While no character in Bulletstorm has the name, the game’s script does seem overly concerned with the activities of someone named “Dick.” Here’s a compilation – by no means exhaustive – of two-dozen references to aforesaid Mr. Richard, within the span of a minute. Last year, Mafia II easily beat the video game record for…
By Owen Good Published February 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedNew Hope That The Promising iPhone Game, Sword & Sworcery, Is Coming Soon
It’s been nearly a year since we played the gorgeous Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP for “touch-tronic machinery” like the iPhone (and iPad!) at GDC. Is the wait for this captivating adventure almost over? This new trailer for Sword & Sworcery, a “psychosocial audio visual experiment” tells of its “imminent arrival” on iOS devices and…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedAn Indie Answer To Angry Birds On The Xbox 360
There is currently no way to play Angry Birds on the Xbox 360. Indie developer FrozenSoft fills the gap as best it can with FishCraft, the epic battle between forces aquatic and feline. It’s not all unoriginal! To the untrained eye, FishCraft may look like nothing more than a clone of Rovio’s ridiculously popular bird-flinging…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
They’ll Make You Afraid, Then Sell You A Game
The people who want to sell you the video game Homefront aren’t selling pillows or hot cocoa on a cold day. Their pitch isn’t cozy. It appears to be… fear? At the big E3 show last year, they marched a fake invading army past the Los Angeles Convention Center (pictured above). Next week, outside the…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Fatalities That Got Mortal Kombat ‘Banned’ In Australia
The new Mortal Kombat won’t be making the trip down under, now that Australia’s governing body has effectively banned the gory fighter. Why does Australia object? And what new details on the game did it just reveal? The board’s “decision report,” via Mortal Kombat Online, seems to confirm a pair of Mortal Kombat combatants, outing…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
How To Stop The Anger About Video Games, From Outside And Within
Is it just me, or have things gotten a little uncomfortable around here lately? No, I am not making yet another website redesign joke. I mean our gamer culture, and I think it’s time we had a talk. Video gamers have had a weird past month or two. Fans who follow the culture closely online,…
Leigh Alexander Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Who else will be curling up with a copy of Bulletstorm and foulmouthedly booting and shooting space thugs into oblivion? I know I will, trying to figure out what a “dick tit” is, while also enjoying some time with Tactics Ogre. Playing Gears of War 3 this week didn’t quite scratch the “shoot a bunch…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Age Of Empires Online Switches Developers In Mid-Game
With two civilizations under its belt, Robot Entertainment tags in Chris Taylor’s Gas Powered Games to handle further development of Microsoft’s eagerly anticipated strategy game Age of Empires Online. What gives? Made up of former members of Ensemble Studios, dissolved by Microsoft after creating Halo Wars for the Xbox 360, Robot Entertainment was formed in…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
‘Severed’ Means Multiple Things In Dead Space 2
I thought that next week’s downloadable two-chapter expansion to Dead Space 2 was called Severed because it involved a certain Dead Space character who chopped off his own hand. Wrong. That guy was in Dead Space Extraction, the Wii and PlayStation 3 game that served as both a prequel to the Dead Space saga and…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dancing Queens, Glass Towers and NBA Shakalaka Jams
NBA Jam was likely our top pick of the week for gaming apps, but we also had a look at dancing Japanese idols, a puzzling glass tower and what Totilo calls a “knotty diversion.” You Are This Japanese Dancing Queen’s Only Hope Small Screen NBA Jam is a Ported Trail Blazer Don’t Throw Stones When…
By Brian Crecente Published February 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedAstronomers Bear Witness To The First Planet Birth
Astronomers are abuzz over what could be our very first glimpse of a planet being born in the dust surrounding a young star some 350 light-years away from the earth, but don’t start passing out cigars just yet. The star T Chamaeleontis (T Cha) is only a faint dot in the small southern constellation of…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedGood? Bad? He’s The Guy With Electricity-Based Superpowers
Nothing changes a man like a pair of female embodiments of order and chaos. Check out the changes Cole undergoes in inFamous 2 as his morality gets twisted about, along with a peek at his brand-new ice-based powers. That tingling sensation? That’s not electricity, it’s the excitement building for Sucker Punch’s super powered sequel, due…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
SOCOM 4 Strategically Releases $150 Full Deployment Edition
Sony gives SOCOM fans a chance to gear up for the new age of motion-controlled shooters with the $150 Full Deployment Edition of SOCOM 4. What’s inside? One of the high points of the recently-released Killzone 3 was the brilliantly implemented support for the PlayStation Move controller and Sony’s new Sharp Shooter gun peripheral. With…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2011