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Fist of the North Star Declares November ‘Already Dead’
The holiday season with be covered in liquefied guts, now that Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage has a release date. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 brawler lands in North America on November 2, Tecmo Koei revealed today.
By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Forza 3 And All Its DLC Ultimately Collected
Microsoft kicks off a multi-year partnership with BBC hit television show Top Gear next month, packing in 90 minutes of Top Gear TV content into the Forza Motorsport 3 Ultimate Collection, along with every bit of DLC released so far. Today is a day for making people feel bad about buying downloadable content. First Dragon…
By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Call of Duty: Black Ops Achievement ‘Leak’ Is Spoiler City
The next big Call of Duty game has just had much of its single-player game spoiled, thanks to an early look at the shooter’s list of achievements and trophies. What do Black Ops‘ achievements tell us about Treyarch’s war game? (Perhaps too much. Stop reading now if you would prefer to keep Black Ops’ locations,…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010 -
UncategorizedVideo Proof That Outland Is The Child Of Ikaruga And A Platformer
We’ve described Outland. We’ve shown screenshots. Now watch the 2011 downloadable game from the makers of Super Stardust HD in action. The trick is the color-switching, Ikaruga-style. When the hero is red, red bullets don’t hurt him and red elevators work. Blue bullets do hurt him, but he can switch to blue. When he’s blue,…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Put A Half-Life 2 Headcrab Zombie On Your Shelf
Who doesn’t love sending Half-Life 2‘s headcrab zombies to the great beyond with a few whacks of Gordon Freeman’s trusty crowbar? And who wouldn’t love to have said bloody, shambling headcrab zombie in statue form? Thankfully, the next great Gaming Heads creation based on Valve’s Half-Life games is coming soon. The figure makers is opening…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010 -
UncategorizedTurning Old Vegas Into New Vegas
In the latest developer diary for Fallout: New Vegas, the team at Obsidian talk about how they tackled turning something old into something new, while keeping it old. I’m confused. Building a world based on the real world das we know it today is easy. With tons of old movies, archive footage, and photographs available,…
By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Running Backwards While Shooting A Shotgun Is A Bad Idea In Real Life
One brave or foolish gamer claims he took out his shotgun, went somewhere remote, and tried a common video game first-person shooter maneuver. The results were painful. This is how one man says he tried to back-up-and-shoot, using a shotgun, a broom, and a warehouse. He suffered some distress. The details were revealed in the…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress 2 Now Lets You Buy Items With Real Money
No longer will you have to endure hours of Team Fortress 2 play just to unlock the game’s hidden weapons, defensive items and wearable accessories. Today, Valve opened the Mann Co. Store, which lets you buy goods with real-world cash. The update not only introduces a way to buy new guns, hats and fish-wrapped-in-newspaper melee…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010 -
UncategorizedFree-To-Play Free Runner FreeJack Enters Open Beta
FreeJack is a parkour MMO that looks like Jet Grind Radio, only without the skates, and starting tomorrow you can test it out. Free run through the streets of New Jack City against thousands of other players in FreeJack, a free-to-play parkour racing MMO from GamerKraft and Games Bridge Entertainment. It’s not the sort of…
By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Wii Drawing Tablet Might Be The Best Wacky Wii Peripheral
Do you look at the Wii Remote and see the potential for an advanced fishing rod or bowling ball? Imagine it as part of a drawing tablet. I tested that set-up this week. It’s what Mario Paint Wii could’ve been. The Wii drawing tablet is technically called the uDraw Game Tablet. It is shipping in…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
MAG Upgrades To Version 2.0
The 2.0 patch for Sony’s MAG went live today, bringing with it PlayStation Move support and enough game tweaks and changes it could be considered a whole new game. The full list of changes hitting in MAG patch 2.0 is huge. Developer Zipper Interactive has upped the level cap 60 to 70. There’s a new…
By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Bungie Made Halo: Reach, Look Mountain Dew and Doritos!
I am to be congratulated, it seems. I am one of just 300 people in the country to receive a Halo: Reach Honor the Code kit in the mail… courtesy of Mountain Dew and Doritos. What’s that entail, you might ask? Why six Halo: Reach-themed Mountain Dew drinks and two packs of Doritos stuffed into…
By Brian Crecente Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Skilled Photographers Struggling To Snap Good Photos Of Nintendo 3DS
The 3DS may be one of the most impressive pieces of gaming hardware ever promised, but it also may be the least photogenic. The glasses-free 3D graphics just don’t show well unless you see them in person. Normal cameras, even the ones wielded by professional photographers at this week’s big Nintendo conference in Japan, reduce…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age DLC Gets All Wrapped Up In The Ultimate Edition
BioWare makes fans feel funny about every dollar they spent on downloadable content with the Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition, which bundles everything Dragon Age together for one low price. How much have you spent on Dragon Age: Origins and its downloadable content? BioWare says the whole shebang, including Awakenings, is worth $114. Players who…
By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Why Not Follow Kotaku on Facebook? Go on, you know you want to
Facebook isn’t just about farming, and mobbing and annoying the ever-loving-hell out of your friends. It’s also a great place to keep track of people and things and by things I mean what’s happening on Kotaku Read the site? Follow the Facebook. Check out who’s already hooked up and then join them and bask in…
By Brian Crecente Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Lex Luthor Is Definitely Compensating For Something
As a balding man, I object to the notion that a person with a hairless skull needs a giant suit of green and purple power armor to be a productive member of superhuman society in DC Universe Online. Lex has spent decades battling Superman to a standstill through sheer intelligence and cunning, but I guess…
By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare Comes To Life
After teasing us for two days, Rockstar finally delivers the terrifying trailer for Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare downloadable content. It was well worth the wait. Click to view The end of the trailer tells us that the Undead Nightmare downloadable content is coming “very soon,” but that’s not soon enough. Multiplayer is entertaining and…
By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010 -
UncategorizedF.E.A.R. The Almaverse
We saw brief, horrifying glimpses of the nightmarish landscape of Alma’s psyche in F.E.A.R. and F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. In F.E.A.R. 3 players will stare directly into its depths. The terror lurking inside Alma’s mind is normally her tool. She uses it to frighten her foes, allowing horrible things to pass into the real world…
By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Does A Programmable Wireless Xbox 360 Controller Count As Cheating?
Datel’s completely unauthorized TurboFire2 wireless Xbox 360 controller not only directly connects to the Xbox 360 without a dongle, you can connect it to your PC to apply “custom controller enhancements.” Microsoft should sue! Oh wait Microsoft filed a lawsuit against British peripheral manufacturer Datel back in April of this year, claiming the company “illegally…
By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010