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Kotaku Talk Radio: On The Move, On The Air
Our voluminous coverage of the PlayStation Move arrived early this morning, providing Crecente and Totilo the perfect opportunity to recap their thoughts and reviews, and take your questions, on Kotaku Talk Radio’s broadcast – now available for download! Other subjects include Apple’s news conference this morning in San Francisco and Kotaku’s ongoing Gun Week package…
By Owen Good Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Call of Duty: Black Ops Multiplayer Preview Event Tonight
Tonight, publisher Activision and developer Treyarch will be holding a multiplayer preview event for the next game in the wildly successful Call of Duty series. Kotaku will be there, enjoying our first hands-on time with Call of Duty: Black Ops. Keep an eye peeled for new Call of Duty: Black Ops video, gameplay impressions and…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 1, 2010 -
UncategorizedWith This Gun, Your First-Person Shooters Can Surround You
In Dallas, last month, I spotted a big inflatable igloo. It had been erected by a company called Microvision on the exhibition floor at QuakeCon. Inside of it, I discovered, was a man holding this gun. The Microvision people were getting QuakeCon attendees to line up for Project Tuatara, an experimental technology designed to be…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sign Endorsements In NBA 2K11’s Career Mode
As surmised, 2K Sports is upping the role-playing aspect in the second year of its “My Player” singleplayer career mode. Two screens and a quick comment today say your player will get endorsement opportunities if he becomes a big enough star. “Become a star in My Player mode and you’ll get sponsorships from iconic brands,”…
By Owen Good Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sweet Sleep
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Don’t You Just Love All Nighters? I’m running on no sleep Ash, NO SLEEP! Well, that’s not exactly true. I went to bed about 4:30 a.m. and woke up about 7 a.m. So I’m actually running on two and a half hours sleep. Phhhh, that’s plenty. Did I ever tell…
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
New Back to the Future Games Nab Original Film Talent
Telltale Games, creators of Sam & Max and Monkey Island episodic games, are hard at work on all-new Back to the Future games chronicling the time-traveling adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown. Today, they bring good BTTF news. The developer has tapped the talents of Christopher Lloyd to voice ol’ Doc Brown, with Back…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 1, 2010 -
UncategorizedSomeone Should Get A Medal For This Real-Life Rocket Jump
A month ago, Freddie Wong gave us a look at aimbots (and bunny hops) in live action. In another clever short film, Wong gives us the allegorical real-life birth of the leetest tactical innovation – the rocket jump. Don’t try this at home, kids. Rocket jumps hurt if they’re poorly timed. And they’re all poorly…
By Owen Good Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Speak-Up On Kotaku: Headset Shopping, The Other Guys, Samus’ Surprise, And The GT500
Today in Speak-Up on Kotaku, M0squ1t0, Ameenshake, Joecapps1127, and Acebuckeye13 have something to say about a sexy Samus shirt, headset shopping, Will Ferrell’s The Other Guys, and the lovely GT500, asit appears in Burnout Paradise. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
LucasArts Confirms Layoffs, Ex-Staffers Speak Out
Star Wars game developer LucasArts has confirmed to Kotaku that it’s making cutbacks at its internal studios today. Word from those affected by LucasArts layoffs indicating deep cuts. One former LucasArts developer, let go from the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II team, called today’s round of layoffs a “massacre,” with an estimated 60 people…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 1, 2010 -
UncategorizedOut Of Ammo: Our Favorite Shooter Melee Weapons
Whether you’re seriously low on ammo or just want to make someone’s life completely miserable, there’s nothing quite like bringing a hammer, crowbar, or chainsaw to a gun fight. Here are some of our favorite gun alternatives. Over the years, melee weapons in first-person shooters have transformed. They started off as a way to add…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Author On Roger Ebert’s Remarks: Insane
This past April, film critic Roger Ebert wrote a post called “Video games can never be art” that carried dogmatic statements like this: “Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form”. Alex Garland, author of the book The Beach and screenwriter…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apple Boasts iPod touch The ‘#1 Portable Game Player’
Some gamers may not consider Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch platform a viable video game device, but the company’s CEO sure does, calling it “the number one portable game player” on the market, just before introducing the iPod’s latest iteration. CEO Steve Jobs claims the Apple device has “50%+ the marketshare for portable game players…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Get Your Hands-On Killzone 3 Multiplayer At PAX 2010
We played Killzone 3’s multiplayer at Gamescom. Now’s your chance, as Guerrilla Games and Sony hold the first public hands-on with the game’s online component at PAX in Seattle this weekend. Sony’s booth at PAX is sure to be a crowded spot, with eight-on-either matches of Killzone 2 multiplayer running from the time the show…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2010 -
UncategorizedMortal Kombat Takes Its Shadow Boxing Seriously
Fan favorite characters fight in the shadows in a trailer for the new Mortal Kombat so dark and moody they had to play Disturbed’s new song “Another Way to Die” to lighten things up. “Another Way to Die” is a track off Disturbed’s Asylum album, and it’s a perfect fit for a teaser of the…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Complete Playstation Move Compendium
The Playstation Move brings Playstation 3 owners into the world of motion gaming with a high-definition bang. Are you ready? Here’s a run down of everything we know about the hardware, about the games, about the technology. This round-up includes more than a baker’s dozen game reviews and impressions, more than 20 original videos showing…
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Play With The Unreal Engine On Your iPhone With Epic Citadel
The creators of the Unreal Engine and the games that run on it have brought their tech to the iPhone. Epic Games is now letting iPhone owners see how well their engine works with a free demo, Epic Citadel. Epic Citadel is not the newly announced iPhone and iPad game from Epic Games. The creators…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
Turn Your PlayStation Camera Into A 3D Scanner
The PlayStation Eye is fairly handy as a console camera, a PC webcam and even part of Sony’s Move setup. But it’s even handier as a 3D scanner. That means that with the Eye, some software and a home-made rig, you can create your own 3D scans, which can then be used as mere models…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Ultimate Guide To The PlayStation Move
This is your guide to everything you need to know about the PlayStation Move: how it works, what it costs, and what games you can play on it. What Is The PlayStation Move? The PlayStation Move is a motion-sensing game controller platform for the PlayStation 3. It consists of a wand-shaped controller the player holds…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2010 -
UncategorizedGunfusion: The Force Feedback, Pistol-Gripped, 3D Mouse Controller
Somewhere between a light gun and a 3D mouse things went sideways over at peripheral maker Novint’s laboratories. The end result: This monstrosity. The Novint Falcon Pistol Grib controller never quite took off, though you can now pick it up for 80 percent off over at Novint Check out our impressions of the controller to…
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Look At Monster Hunter Portable 3rd
Capcom is making another Monster Hunter Portable game for the PSP. It’s the sequel to Monster Hunter Portable 2nd and called…Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. Boy, that’s clever. So here, have a look. As previously detailed here the game is dated for December 1 in Japan and will be playable at this Year’s Tokyo Game Show.
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2010