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UncategorizedSkullgirls Brings 2D Girl On Girl Fighting To Consoles This Summer
If you like your fighting games strictly on a two-dimensional plane and with just a single gender, you might want to start paying attention to Skullgirls, a new independently developed fighting game coming to “high-definition home consoles.” Skullgirls is the work of Reverge Labs, lead by ex-Pandemic developer and fighting game expert Mike “Mike Z”…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
One Ethereal Thing To Get Right About Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
There is a quality that is hard to define but is essential for a great Lego game, John Smith told me yesterday. The man who helps make the many popular Lego video games was trying to articulate it for me. “When you think, ‘I wonder if there’s a…'” He paused, playing the role of pondering,…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
PC Gamers, We Have Some Bad Battlefield News
If you were somehow still holding out hope that the long delayed Battlefield 1943 for the PC would ever become more than a promise, give up now. Developer DICE has finally officially canceled that game (and another Battlefield project). DICE GM Karl Magnus Troedsson writes on the Battlefield Blog today that the World War II…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedDistracted Ten-Year-Old Games Himself Off A Railway Platform
A ten-year-old boy in Italy is saved from possible death by a heroic off-duty policeman after walking off a railway platform while playing his PSP. This is why we do not walk and game at the same time. Technology may truly be the downfall of man, or at least this small boy and that woman…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
Three Hours Or 30 Minutes, What’s The Right Daily Dose Of Gaming For Kids?
In one frame, a mom who cut her kids off from video games and other electronics for six months. In the right frame, a game designer who says kids benefit from up to three hours of gaming a day. In the middle: a Fox News host who limits her kids to 30 minutes of gaming…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Wii Experience, As Summed Up By 12 Plays With Familiar Names
They really did it, and last night I witnessed it. On a frigid evening in New York City, the Ars Nova theater managed to stage a dozen short plays all named after Wi games. Most of the “Wii Plays,” as we’ve noted before, had little to do with video games. Wii Tennis is about a…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
Humanity Poised To Take Its First Steps On Fake Mars
Following up on one of our earliest daily Kotaku science posts, the Mars500 Project is now in orbit, with three crew members preparing to become the first humans to set foot on fake Mars. In an experiment that began in June of last year, six men – three Russians, a Frenchman, a Columbian, and a…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedAnarchy Reigns’ Big Bull Nails You With The Jet Hammer
You want a piece of Big Bull, the latest competitor unveiled for PlatinumGames’ Anarchy Reigns? Oh he’s got a piece for you, and you’re not going to like it one bit. Big Bull is something called a Cybrid, a cyborg in which the only remaining human tissue is the brain. So there’s something human lurking…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress 2 Freebies Packed Inside An Online Fantasy Game
There isn’t much of a crossover audience between a first-person like Team Fortress 2 and the online role-playing game Rift, but that could change now that a Steam preorder of the MMO scores players exclusive content for both games. Here we see one of the benefits of being a company that develops games as well…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Disgusting Way To Introduce The PlayStation Phone To The World
This creepy little clip is supposed to be the first commercial for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, aka the PlayStation Phone. I’d say we found out what’s become of the advertising team behind those PlayStation 3 baby ads While Sony Ericsson still hasn’t officially outed the Xperia Play, everyone and their brother has either seen…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedKillzone 3 Makes Me A Believer In Motion-Controlled Shooters
There is something deeply satisfying about relying on a steady hand, not agile thumbs, to win a gun battle in a graphically stunning world. Killzone 3 is shaping up to be a powerful achievement for the Playstation 3 in its own right, but what it proves for the future of motion games is much more…
By Brian Crecente Published February 3, 2011 - Uncategorized
How Do You Budget Your Gaming Time?
How do you find the time to game? Kotaku commenter Bloodpudding shares his gaming regimen with us in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. Why not share yours? I motivate myself to wake up early by letting myself play video games for one hour each morning. That is to say, I wake up an extra hour earlier…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedSee The Augmented Cyberpunk Side of The New Deus Ex
We’ve talked about the human, first-person shooter side of Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Now see its other facets: stealth, hacking, tech upgrade trees, Adam Jensen’s cybernetically enhanced super skills and more.
By Michael McWhertor Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedFirst Hands-on With Deus Ex: Human Revolution Teaches Us To Walk, Then Fly
I’ve learned to walk in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, seeing its first-person shooter side, getting my feet wet in its sci-fi drama and corporate espionage, before diving into its cyberpunk depths. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a massive, open-ended action role-playing game set against a vast conspiracy. In this cyberpunk fiction, humanity is at a…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedThese Lovely Ladies Are Waiting For You In Yakuza 4’s Hostess Clubs
Sega didn’t think North America was ready for the female-companionship-for-money mechanic of Japan’s hostess bars in Yakuza 3. They aren’t making the same mistake twice. Check out the pretty ladies in “the most controversial trailer for Yakuza 4 yet.” I’m still not sure why Sega balked at including the hostess bars in Yakuza 3. The…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2011 -
UncategorizedIdaho, This Is For You! (Anyone In The Military?)
Following up where the Texas Burger left off… OH! If any readers are (or were) in the military, please shoot me an email at bashcraftATkotakuDotcom. What you missed last night The PS2 Just Will Not Die! What to Expect From Madden If a Lockout Cancels the NFL Season Man Steals $12 Million In Online Cash…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2011
