Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Keeps E3 Going With ‘Video Game Week’

Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night talk show gets all video gamey this week, showing off Kinect tonight, Call of Duty: Black Ops Tuesday, the new Need For Speed on Wednesday and Killzone 3 on Thursday. Friday? A “special surprise” is teased. Hmmm…

Fist Of The North Star Gushes More Gore, Retains Japanese Flavor

When Tecmo Koei brings Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage (née Hokuto Musou) to North America this fall, it will be more gore-soaked than ever before. But it will keep one important aspect of its Japanese release. While we’d previously heard that the new Fist of the North Star built in the Dynasty Warriors…

iPhone OS4 Available Now

The new iPhone operating system, iOS4, is available now for iPhone owners, requiring a big new download of a bunch of applications and add-ons, including a new iTunes… so give yourself time, Apple owners. You get multi-tasking on your phone for your troubles.

Red Dead Redemption’s ‘Outlaws To The End’ Explained, Narrated

Have you “herd” about the new downloadable cooperative missions coming to Red Dead Redemption tomorrow? Let Rockstar Games walk you through the new add-on coming to the wild west shooter this week, which won’t cost you a single greenback. The “Outlaws to the End” cooperative mission pack is one of three downloadable expansions Rockstar has…

EA Sports MMA Hands-On: Making Sense of a New Science

Conventional wisdom holds that EA Sports saw UFC Undisputed‘s success, said wait a minute, we’re the Fight Night guys, and started hustling out a competitor. That’s crap, says Peter Moore, and EA Sports MMA‘s floor demo backs him up. At E3, Moore, the EA Sports president, told me this project was greenlit back in 2007.…

Real-Life Pilotwings

To: Brian From: Stephen Re: I’m (Not) Afraid of Americans You love L.A.? That’s weird. I don’t understand how anyone could love L.A. But that is just the thing a New Yorker would say, isn’t it? Is L.A. awesome enough to host a real-life version of Pilotwings? New York is! (That was from last week.)…

Warriors: Legends of Troy, For The Brad Pitt Loving Dynasty Warrior

Having a fondness for Brad Pitt is not required to enjoy the latest tactical hack and slash from the Koei side of Tecmo Koei. Liking the Dynasty Warriors series may be enough to enjoy. Warriors: Legends of Troy as well. Developed by Koei Canada, the team responsible for futuristic racing game Fatal Inertia and Warriors…

Warriors: Legends of Troy Screen Shots

Magic: The Gathering – Duels Of The Planeswalkers PC Review: I’d Tap That

After a highly-successful run on Xbox Live Arcade, the collectible card game craze visits Steam with the PC version of Magic: the Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers. We didn’t get a chance to squeeze in a review for the original release of Duels of the Planeswalkers on Xbox Live Arcade last year, and that’s…

Your First Chance to Play With Tim Tebow is in Madden NFL Arcade

Madden NFL Arcade, the downloadable football shootout that released last Thanksgiving, won’t be getting a second version this year. Instead, EA Sports today pushed out a comprehensive roster update tracking more than 100 player moves, roster promotions and draft choices. That means this game is your first chance to play with first-rounders like Rams quarterback…

Scott Pilgrim Movie Includes Zelda Tunes, Beck As Sex Bob-omb

Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto has apparently given his blessing to the movie adaptation of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, based on the heavily video game-influenced comic of the same name, specifically for its use of video game music. According to a new interview with Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright conducted by star Michael…

How Developers See The PlayStation Move

Seeing the tools developers use to create games on the PlayStation Move could be the key to understanding the device’s full potential. Move research and development lead Dr. Richard Marks walks us through the tools of the trade. While we’ve barely scratched the surface in terms of what the PlayStation Move motion controller is capable…

The Unexpected Gamer Who Runs EA

If we ran a video game company, maybe, just maybe, those of us who play video games would be like John Riccitiello. We really could be a boss. We could believe we’re the good guy. And we would know things about video games. We would possess in our core the knowledge absorbed by holding a…

Alan Wake Ads Inspires Fear Of The Dark In Canada

Our neighbors to the north have likely already seen and been irrevocably horrified by Alan Wake’s big, spooky and, most important, clever ad push, which intimidated Canadians with its warnings about just how evil the darkness is. Ad firm MacLaren McCann‘s promotional push for the Xbox 360 game is likely Old News to some Canadian…

Fable III Really Signals A Larger Microsoft Push For PC Gaming This Time

Microsoft asks itself hard questions in an internal Q&A document obtained by Kotaku, including whether the larger investment in PC gaming brought on by Fable III is different than the other times it promised the same and didn’t deliver. We didn’t ask the question. We didn’t have to. In an internal Q&A document prepared for…

The Day Kinectimals Works

If there comes a day when Kinectimals works, it will be better than Nintendogs. That day is not guaranteed. At E3 last week, I played my first official Xbox 360 Kinect game in the manner one would play with a hard-of-hearing tiger cub: fearless of a mauling, warmed by its cuteness, frustrated it couldn’t hear…

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Hands-on: Whipping Evil A New One

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is the best 3D Castlevania game I’ve ever played at an E3. And I’ve played two of them—not counting Konami’s flirtation with the series as a 3D fighting game. Yes, developer Mercury Steam’s Castlevania does play more like a Devil May Cry or God of War game than the side-scrolling games…

Lords of Shadow Screens

Welcome To The Summer

It’s the first day of summer, and you know what that means — the return of our daily science posts, like this one, explaining why it’s the first day of summer! Note: If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, ignore this post, and enjoy the winter. Today is the summer solstice, which for those of…

iTunes Chart Topper: Pay As You Go Takeover

A new trend seems to have taken root as Tap Fish, Godfinger and Fishies make their debuts. The Business model of these games follow the free with RMT transactions for in game currency method. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all…