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Add Pac-Man Championship Edition DX To Your Budget This Week
One addition to this week’s list of new releases is the highly anticipated Pac-Man Championship Edition DX which hits Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday. It’s joined by Alien Breed 3: Descent.
By Michael McWhertor Published November 15, 2010 -
UncategorizedNight Of The Living Dead Returns As Graphical Adventure On YouTube
Using YouTube’s in-video linking feature, design studio Analogue has sliced up George Romero’s horror film Night of the Living Dead into a piece of choose your own adventure interactive fiction. Want to toy with the lives of the stars of the 1968 zombie classic? Editing The Dead lets you decide the fate of zombie and…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Gears of War Getting Kinect Control [Update]
Epic Games’ beefed up Xbox 360 shooter series may be adding a little motion control to its Locust-chainsawing action, according to one report that says Gears of War is getting Kinect enabled. IGN claims that a “reliable source” has indicated to the publication that some type of Gears of War experience with Kinect support will…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Spider-Man musical delivers 8-legged chorus girls…and Carnage!
Annie Leibovitz used the cast of the new Spider-Man musical for a Vogue fashion shoot. Take a closer look at the $60 million musical. Fingers crossed for a Carnage solo where he writes on the walls with his own blood. Here’s a collection of images from the Vogue fashion shoot, which revealed the villain Swiss…
By Meredith Woerner Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
Shopping
To: Ash From: Crecente I published our first gift guide today. You know what that means? You’d better start looking around for presents for your loved ones, if you do that sort of thing. Only a month and a half till the holidays. Get to it. What you missed Killing Castro Marvel Pinball: From Comics…
By Brian Crecente Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
WSJ Reports Tomorrow’s iTunes Event Is Beatlemania
We’ve been waiting. And waiting. And, really, sort of gave up. But after years of speculation and dispute, the Wall Street Journal says The Beatles are arriving on iTunes, tomorrow. Streaming will have to wait for another day. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Details are scant, but they don’t really matter—all the WSJ claims is that EMI, Apple,…
By Sam Biddle Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dead Nation Comes Alive On PlayStation Network Soon
The PlayStation 3 may get its next great top-down shooter later this month when the zombie-infested Dead Nation—you know, from the creators of the most excellent Super Stardust HD—comes to the PlayStation Network. Dead Nation is due for release (at least in North America, anyway) on November 30 via the PlayStation Store. Cost to you…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 15, 2010 -
UncategorizedBlitz Through Time With Back To The Future
You have one minute to reach 88 miles per hour before being trapped forever at the bottom of the leaderboards in Telltale Games’ Back to the Future: Blitz Through Time, now available on Facebook. It’s Bejeweled Blitz with a Back to the Future twist, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Back to the Future: Blitz…
By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kinect Sees A Million Sales In 10 Days
Microsoft says it has already sold one million Kinect sensors to Xbox 360 owners since the add-on for the console launched in the U.S. earlier this month. Xbox man Don Mattrick calls the 10 days worth of sales “a great start to the holiday season.” The Xbox 360 maker hopes to sell 5 million of…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 15, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 Improves With Age
Sure, you’ve weathered plenty of ninja storms in your day, but are you prepared to face the Ultimate Ninja Storm… 2? Developer CyberConnect2 has been telling the story of the absurdly popular Japanese martial arts anime Naruto through the Ninja Storm series since 2003. Part adventure game and part fighting game, each successive title fleshes…
By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games, Breaking The 80-Hour Barrier
Every month we dig into the numbers to find out which 20 Wii games are played the most by the average person who has them. For November, one game finally breaks the 80-hour barrier. That game, of course, is Monster Hunter Tri, the newly-crowned most-played/most-loved Wii game. This is the latest chart we’ve pulled for…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
Mafia Wars Is Partially Responsible For The New Shenmue
If you’re still rooting for Sega’s ambitious Shenmue series, you may, someday, have Mafia Wars and Farmville maker Zynga to thank. Yu Suzuki, creative force behind games like Outrun, Space Harrier, Virtua Fighter and Shenmue, tells Famitsu in a new interview that he was in part inspired to create social game Shenmue City after playing…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
Keeping The Cosplay In The Family
If you’re going to dress up as Final Fantasy X’s Lulu, you either need a moogle doll or a baby. This Youmacon 2010 cosplayer covers both angles, as seen at artist and photographer Kyle Mistry’s website Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
Diablo III Could Also Come To Video Game Consoles [Update]
Could the Diablo series make a return to consoles? A handful of new jobs seeking fresh Blizzard talent with console experience sure makes it look that way. The studio that normally sticks to PC and Mac may be making a console version of Diablo III, according to new job listings spotted by Gamasutra. Blizzard is…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: DSiWare Feels The Need For Speed
As Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Wii owners prepare for Hot Pursuit tomorrow, DSi gamers can download Need for Speed: Nitro-X right now. Need for Speed: Nitro-X is a light version of Need for Speed: Nitro, the colorful candy installment of the franchise that hit the Wii and DS last year. It features 16…
By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
To-Do In New York: Play Spy Party On Thursday
If you’re in New York City this Thursday, you can play Chris Hecker’s incomplete but already-excellent two-player game Spy Party. The game pits one player as a spy, who has to walk their avatar through a cocktail party, secretly planting bugs and doing other subtle spy things. The other player is a sniper who views…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 15, 2010 - Uncategorized
Convert Information into Energy, Just Add Demon
Researchers in Tokyo have taken a physics law-breaking thought experiment from an 18th century Scottish theoretical physicist and made it a reality, converting energy into information using Maxwell’s Demon. James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist who wanted to prove that the second law of thermodynamics only held statistical certainty, and could…
By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2010 -
UncategorizedKotaku’s 2010 iPhone Gift Guide
With just two weeks until the busiest shopping day in the U.S. hits, it’s probably a good time to start thinking about what sorts of gifts you want to give and get this year during the holidays. And don’t think that digital platforms like the iPhone and iPad don’t warrant game gift giving too. Now…
By Brian Crecente Published November 15, 2010