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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 - Uncategorized
Is It Time For Modern Warfare 3 Yet?
With glowing green numbers counting down to five days from now and the 2011 Game Developers Conference kicking off on Monday, it looks like we might be getting our first look at the next Modern Warfare on Wednesday morning. As many of you have noticed (OmegaSpartan noticed first), FindMakarov.com is ticking away like a time…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedAn Excellent, Knotty Diversion
Entanglement is the first video game I’ve played that looks like a bowl of spaghetti, though it plays more like a challenge to create the bendiest boulevard in Sim City or Civilization. The game is a descendant of Pipe Mania, a puzzling challenge that has players laying out a circuitous route by applying pieces to…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedSetting The Terrifying Tone Of F.E.A.R. 3
Have we seen all there is to F.E.A.R.? In this behind-the-scenes video the Day 1 Studios team explains how it’s keeping the experience and the terror fresh in F.E.A.R. 3. I am intrigued by this notion of wide-open spaces in what is essentially a horror first-person shooter. Ever since the original Alien I’ve felt the…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Trolling This Post Would Be In Incredibly Poor Taste
Today’s edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku features a heartfelt plea from commenter GeshGav to keep the term ‘Troll’ from being rendered impotent due to overuse. At least I think that’s what he’s saying. Comments are one of those seemingly necessary evils of the blog business. Almost every news-blog has a comments section heaving with observations…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2011 -
ReviewsKillzone 3 is a Colorful, Wonderful, Enthusiastic Mess
Killzone 3 is at its best when it’s most unrecognizable. Killzones of the past have been, at best, games trying to buck the trends that make first-person shooters so familiar and bland; at worst the two previous iterations were amalgams of those myriad tropes. In Killzone 3 we find a game trying so vigorously to…
By Brian Crecente Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Ultimate Douche Gift For The Underperforming Student Gamer
What’s that, little Billy? You say you want a fancy Xbox 360 for your birthday? I’ve got something even better! I remember the days when good grades were the great motivator, the difference between getting the video game system you always wanted, and getting something like this. Don’t worry, parents; it’s called the Cool Gamer…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum. Comment here about the video games you love and about the video games you hate. Thanks to acamas for today’s image. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)
By Stephen Totilo Published February 25, 2011