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UncategorizedDuke Nukem Says Hello
John St. John is SO going to be my new ringtone. “Kotako Kotako Kotako” Excellent. North Korean cryptogram in comments. Or soon will be, as promised. Angry Birds, Cut The Rope and Now… Bugs Wars? Shooters struggle to work on the iPhone and iPad because the people who play these sorts of games most, people…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
King’s Quest Finds A New Life
The long dormant King’s Quest series will soon get a new lease on life, thanks to Telltale Games. Add that classic Sierra franchise to Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, The Walking Dead and Fables on the long list of Telltale projects. And add a few more to that too. Telltale Games will also be…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Vegas Club Offers a ‘Wine List’ of Vintage Games
The idea, says Christopher LaPorte, is you’ll come into his club, sit on a large, luxurious couch, and examine a list handed to you by an attractive cocktail waitress. You’ll then say something like, “I’ll have the Mega Man 3, 1990. Please bring two controllers.” “I really want it to be like a wine list,”…
By Owen Good Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I’ve dusted off the old PSP—and I gotta tell ya, it was disgustingly dusty—to play some Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together this weekend. Anybody else up for some turn-based strategy? That’s a genre I rarely find myself with the time and patience to play anymore, as I tend to do most of my gaming…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Bloodiest Football Game You’ll Play Today
While it’s not the most accurate representation of American football, Milkstone Studios’ Zombie Football Carnage still has all the right moves – just a little bloodier. Zombie Football Carnage hit the Xbox Live Indie Games store today, and its colorful Castle Crashers-style graphics caught my eye immediately. The you play a little football helmet wearing…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedAt Last, You Too Can Understand The Confusing, Bewildering Slam Bolt Scrappers
I’ve written about Slam Bolt Scrappers before. It’s got a weird name, but it has merited my attention — and yours. I picked it as one of my two favorite unreleased games from last year’s PAX Eat gaming convention (the other was Monday Night Combat). I’ve tried hard to explain it. But the game is…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedNow You Can Play Gran Turismo 5 On Five HDTVs
The makers of Gran Turismo updated their real driving simulator for the PlayStation 3 earlier today, bringing with it a ton of fixes and features. It also included something for Gran Turismo 5‘s most serious players, multi-monitor support. Yes, you can now play Gran Turismo 5 on up to five monitors at once, provided you…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Five Upcoming iPhone And iPad Games Worth Looking Forward To
We do our best to tell you about wonderful iPhone and iPad games that have just been released, but we don’t often get a chance to play a batch of good ones early. At an event in New York City I got to try a lot of February and March iOS games from EA and…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
You’ve Been Awarded A Medal of Honor Sequel
“Yes, Danger Close is currently working on the next Medal of Honor,” writes the capably bearded exec producer of the modern day reboot of EA’s shooter series. Danger Close’s Greg Goodrich has confirmed that Medal of Honor will be coming back. Again. Goodrich says last year’s Medal of Honor has moved “over 5 million copies”…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Are Video Games Turning Liberals Into Virtual Conservatives?
Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband’s name or dream of ending her career to raise children. In the Sims 3 she’s a married mother that stays home with the kids. In a fascinating article on The American Prospect, Potts explores the phenomenon of players like herself…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedFancy Pants Adventures Is Making The Computer To Console Leap Quite Nicely
I’ve got to play more Flash games, because, earlier this week, I was that guy who’d never heard of Internet phenomenon Fancy Pants Adventures and thought I was seeing a brand-new Xbox Live Arcade game. Nope, Brad Borne, developer of the Flash hit Fancy Pants Adventures told me as he was handing me an Xbox…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Kick to the Balls, Jelly Cars and a StarCraft Clone
Topping my list of gaming apps I need to check out this week is the StarCraft clone McWhertor wrote up yesterday. Much to my own surprise, Flick Kick Football is somehow number two. Here’s your look at this week’s Gaming Apps of the Day. Starfront: Collision Does A Great StarCraft II Impression On iPhone A…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Light-Absorbing Anti-Lasers Could One Day Rule Your Computer
Scientists at Yale University have created the world’s first anti-laser, a device in which two beams of light clash together, ultimately cancelling each other out. How could such a device change the way we do our computing? A laser is a device that emits a focused beam of light using a process of optical amplification.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011 -
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Will Wright: YouTube is the Collective Dreams of a World
Will Wright: Game designer, Montessori adherent, Robot Wars Champion… YouTube Curator? Earlier this week Wright announced that he has been asked to start curating YouTube, something he says is a little odd because he thinks it defeats the purpose of the video viewing service. “YouTube in a sense to me represents the collective dreams of…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
How Samurai Warriors 3DS Plays While You’re Not Playing
With the Nintendo 3DS’s innovative new Street Pass feature, developers now have to figure out how their games will play when the players aren’t playing. In Samurai Warriors Chronicles, your 3DS will fight your battles for you. Street Pass is the Nintendo 3DS feature that allows your 3DS to communicate with other players’ systems while…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedKillzone 3 Is Too Big For Just One Funny TV Ad
With two different ways to play and a special peripheral specifically designed for motion control, Sony spokes model Kevin Butler couldn’t cover all of Killzone 3 in just one ad, so he did two. The first Butlermercial covers the Killzone 3 basics. It’s a shooter. You shoot things. You shoot them dramatically enough to make…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age II Definitely Not As Dumbed Down As Mass Effect
Older gamers worry, with years of justification, that the games they can play today are less complex than the games they played yesterday. Another person’s streamlining is their selling out. They see a game developer saying “simplification,” they hear “over-simplification.” They don’t want their games dumbed down. That river of anxiety is flowing past Dragon…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
inFamous 2 And Its $100 Hero Edition Have A Date With Your PS3
Sony and Sucker Punch have made a date in June for the sequel to the hit PlayStation 3 superhero game inFamous, with a pricey Hero Edition available for players that just can’t get enough Cole MacGrath. Cole and friends travel down south to the city of New Marais to face down the mysterious Beast on…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011 - Uncategorized
What’s Your Super-Powered Signature Move?
Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter GunFlame craves his own super-powered video game special move. If you could have one, which would you choose? I wish I could do a Hadouken…no! a Rising Storm, no! a Buster Wolf, no! a Grand Viper…man, if only I had some kind of sci-mana-magic-tec-arte-skill-spell-synt-hyper-type power…:( About Speak-Up on Kotaku:…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011 -
UncategorizedHe’s Only Crushing People’s Skulls To Save The Earth
Just because Liu Kang is the good guy of the Mortal Kombat series doesn’t mean he can’t crack your skull like a giant, gore-filled walnut. Who’s hungry? We’ve seen his story and now we’re getting a gory look at the brutal moves of the greatest hope for humanity to survive Mortal Kombat. You can’t make…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2011