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Left 4 Dead Comes To Mac, Goes Cheap
Mac owners can start “grabbin’ peels” today with the arrival of the original Left 4 Dead, which Valve has released via Steam. To celebrate the latest Windows-to-Mac port, Left 4 Dead is now 50% off. But wait, there’s more! In addition to Mac support for Left 4 Dead—delivered kind of on time, no less—Valve has…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
These Are Your Best Last Minute Video Game Halloween Costume Ideas
Ninja Golf. Phalanx. Wall Street Kid. David Jaffe. If any of these names ring a bell with you or your friends, you may have a great Halloween costume idea ripe for the taking right here. As is annual tradition, the retro costumesmiths at Vintage Computing and Gaming have put together a can’t lose list of…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress 2 Gets Its First Boss Monster, Second Halloween Update
Halloween has come to Team Fortress 2! And so has the game’s first boss monster, the axe-wielding, jack o’ lantern behatted Horseless Headless Horsemann. It’s all part of Valve’s second annual TF2 Halloween special. The latest update for the oft-updated Team Fortress 2 adds an all-new map, the spooky Mann Manor, as well as a…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Annual EA Layoffs Hit NBA, Skate Teams Hardest, Sources Say
EA has issued its latest round off layoffs today, describing them as “season roll-offs,” which sounds much more pleasant. According to sources claiming knowledge of the situation, EA Canada, developer of Skate and NBA Elite, bore the brunt of those cuts. Electronic Arts reps confirmed to Kotaku that layoffs were happening at the publisher-developer, but…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedA Look At Free-To-Play Star Trek – Infinite Space in Action
Star Trek – Infinite Space gets its first trailer today, giving us a glimpse of what the free-to-play game hopes to deliver. The Galaxy at War trailer launched along side the preview site for the upcoming game, which is set in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine time line. Gameforge promises to update the site…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Borderlands’ Big Level Up Update Explained
Gearbox Software’s promised patch for its smash-hit action RPG Borderlands is coming, raising the level cap for everyone in the pursuit of better loot and harder bosses. When’s it coming? Soon. Soonish. Maybe. An official post on the Gearbox forums says the free title update for Borderlands is finished on the dev side. They just…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Glimpse of The Call of Duty: Black Ops Multiplayer Maps
Here’s a glimpse at the multiplayer map select and killstreak screens of upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops. While McWhertor detailed the killstreaks for Black Ops back in September, I think this is the first time we’ve seen what our source tells us is the full multiplayer map list.
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Winner Is You
To: Ash From: Crecente I love being able to give away cool prizes to our readers, especially during tough economic times like these. I know it’s not a job or mortgage payment, but I’d like to think it brightens the winners day just a bit. As much fun as the contests may be though, I…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedGeek Is…
Geek. This word is power, Chris Metzen, Blizzard’s senior vice president of creative development tells us. This word is identity. This is our word. And for one weekend it was also BlizzCon’s word. After watching this video that is all things us, all things Blizzard, take a minute to read the rest of our coverage…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Show Us Your Gaming Rig
No, this isn’t my current gaming rig. It’s a postmortem picture of the last computer I built myself which died by heat and electrical shorts. These days I run a Voodoo with an AMD 64 FX-60 2.5 GHz dual core processor, 2 gigs of memory and an ATI Radeon X1900 graphics card. It’s in need…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Call of Duty: Black Ops ‘Little Known’ Multiplayer Facts
Treyarch is declassifying information on Call of Duty: Black Ops‘ many multiplayer features, offering a quick briefing on the online half of the game a few weeks before launch. For example, did you know that Black Ops supports split-screen online multiplayer? Oh, you did? That’s why Treyarch community guy Josh Olin is calling these “little-known…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedMinecraft’s Biome Reveal Video Also Prettiest Minecraft Video
Notch, developer of the world carving, item alchemy game Minecraft, is bringing players of the PC hit a treat for Halloween: biomes. What are biomes? This video shows you ten of them. These collections of Minecraft flora and fauna range from arctic to desert zones, with each biome capable of spawning its own monsters and…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
We Have Kinect, Home Testing Begins
I possess this box. In this box was an Xbox 360 Kinect and games. Courtesy of Microsoft, Kotaku is now a gaming news outlet that can be the controller. We have Kinect. One is hooked up to my TV. The Xbox 360 Kinect launches on November 4. As an agreement for getting the device early,…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
BioShock 2 PC DLC Uncanceled
Looks like someone at 2K Games had a little leftover resurrection potion from whatever they used on Duke Nukem Forever because the formerly dead downloadable content for BioShock 2 on PC is alive. It’s coming. Viva PC Gaming Week! Over on the 2K forums, 2K Elizabeth spreads the news that BioShock 2’s PC patch as…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Lots Of New Looks At Dissidia 012[Duodecim]
Character art. Screen shot galores. Pre-rendered scenes. If you were feeling wistful about Final Fantasy fighting game Dissidia 012[Duodeicm], fret not. You can see a lot of the 2011 PSP game, with new images from the house of Final Fantasy, Square-Enix.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedAfter Windows, After Xbox, Kinect Is Microsoft’s Next Planned World-Changer
Microsoft says its next generation video game console is backed by a half-billion dollar ad campaign and packs in technology ripped from the fantasy world of Minority Report. It’s also already sitting in more than 40 million living rooms. It’s not a new version of Microsoft’s Xbox, but the five-year-old Xbox 360 paired with an…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Court Bans Accused PAX Code Thief From Xbox Live, Takes His PC
Accused Penny Arcade Expo code thief Justin D. May was placed on a pre-trial probation this week which includes conditions that he stay in school, forfeit his computer and stay off Xbox Live, court officials tell Kotaku. May, 21, was arrested on Sunday, March 28, after representatives from developer Atomic Games say they caught him…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
The People Who Made GoldenEye Were Almost Purchased By The People Who Are Making GoldenEye
Rare owned by Activision? Could have been! Giant video game company Activision, who are publishing a Wii homage to GoldenEye next month, were thisclose back in the day to buying Rare, the studio behind the original 1997 Nintendo 64 first-person shooter, according to an interview in Develop. Former Microsoft executive Ed Fries, who was instrumental…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedThis Nintendo Chair Would Have Improved My Childhood
I had as joyful a youth as anyone could have. My childhood included a Nintendo Entertainment System. But, man, imagine if my childhood included this Nintendo Super chair. Surely, the Nintendo Chair would have enhanced my experience of Nintendo’s classic games? Surely, this is not the most sturdy video game peripheral ever designed. Who cares?…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Wii Game That Was Briefly Mistaken For An Xbox 360 Game
The sharp-eyed gamer, the jaded gamer and the snob gamer will not mistake the screenshot of Conduit 2 atop this story as an image of an Xbox 360 game. “That’s a Wii game?” they will sneer. “Figures.” You can sneer at Conduit 2. You can roll your eyes. It is one of those Wii game…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010