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This Plant Is Your Role Model
To: B.A. (Baracus) From: Mr. T(otilo) Re: This Post Is Not About StarCraft II As day turns to night, as the baton passes from citizens of the free world to the non-Americans on Team Kotaku, as darkness enshrouds the Western hemisphere and I go off to play some Metroid Other M (while magically having a…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Street Soccer Comes To FIFA On Wii
Not wanting to neglect the Wii version of its international seller, EA Sports Canada built a five-on-five street soccer mode into this year’s edition, with venues ranging from indoor (with Andrés Iniesta, pictured), to the streets of Brazil and France. Players will perform in street wear in this mode, and it sounds like it will…
By Owen Good Published July 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedLinkin Park Is Medal Of Honor’s Eminem
EA combats Activision’s inclusion of a soulful song from Eminem’s new album in Call of Duty: Black Ops with the inclusion of a soulful song from Linkin Park’s new album in Medal of Honor. Is there some unwritten rule that big-name first-person shooter releases must contain a new song from musical artists I stopped caring…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedCould A Console Version Of StarCraft II Work?
With a relatively successful, albeit questionably marketed version of the original StarCraft released for the Nintendo 64 in 2000, how would StarCraft II fare on today’s consoles? Two years after the release of the original StarCraft on the PC, StarCraft 64 hit store shelves. Co-developed by Blizzard Entertainment and Mass Media Inc., the game contained…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Disney buys Playdom
Disney is purchasing social gaming company Playdom (Social City, Sorority Life) for half a billion dollars. EA’s got Playfish. Disney now has Playdom. FarmVille maker Zynga still rules. Facebook gaming’s huge and the big companies are clearly very into it.
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Donkey Kong Co-Op Is Friendlier Than Mario Co-Op
During an afternoon full of upcoming Wii and DS games yesterday, I got a chance to play the next Donkey Kong game with a second player. It went better than my first co-op Mario Bros. gaming last year. When I teamed up with other players in 2009’s New Super Mario Bros. Wii I was usually…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Michael Jackson Zombie Moonwalks Away From Plants Vs. Zombies
After more than a year spent dancing into our hearts and gardens, objections from the King of Pop’s estate cause PopCap Games to replace the killer Michael Jackson lookalike in Plants Vs. Zombies. The Dancing Zombie in Plants Vs. Zombies will forever remain the Michael Jackson Zombie in my heart, even if plans are currently…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedAnd Yet It Moves Makes Sense On Wii
There I am playing Wii games, the games I’m writing about all day today, and a Nintendo rep asks me if I want to play a WiiWare game. Sure, I love the weird stuff. WiiWare, folks, is all about the weird stuff. Games about giving vegetables haircuts. Games about throwing pairs of people onto cubes.…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
EverQuest II Goes Free-To-Play In A Different Way
Continuing a trend started by D&D Online and Lord of the Rings Online, Sony Online Entertainment is launching a free-to-play version of EverQuest II, completely separate from the existing game. EverQuest II producer David Georgeson explains why. Free-to-play fever is burning through the massively multiplayer online role-playing game industry like wildfire, and today it consumes…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
First Screens Of Obsidian’s Dungeon Siege 3
The other people’s role-playing game sequalizers at Obsidian have released the first two screens from Dungeon Siege 3. Take a quick peek at what the series’ console debut looks like. Square Enix dropped word that Obsidian Entertainment, the developers behind Alpha Protocol, Knights of the Old Republic 2, and Neverwinter Nights 2, would be taking…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 -
ReviewsTrauma Team Review: One Of Those Better Games
There are the video games we expect to be great, games from which we expect innovation and sophistication. Trauma Team, an interactive medical adventure sold at a discount price, was not supposed to be in that group. But it is. Trauma Team is the fifth game in the Trauma Center series. On both the DS…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Who Wants Some Thor Video Game Concept Art?
And so begins the process of Sega convincing us that a good comic book movie-based video game is in the works, with a pair of concept art shots from Thor: The Video Game You all know how this works. Sega tells us they are making a Marvel comic book movie video game tie-in. We groan.…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedKirby Helps Me Measure The Distance Between Video Game Pacifism And Slaughter
Kirby’s Epic Yarn is an adorable game about a pink puffball made of yarn. But we’ve covered that already. Today’s topic: Why does Kirby kill? … or… Why do I make Kirby kill? This is the latest in our day-long series of impressions of holiday-scheduled WIi and DS games that I played with some Nintendo…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Gorillaz iPhone Game Is Like Rhinestones Falling From The Sky
Pilot Murdoc’s Doom Glider over the skies of Plastic Beach HQ in Escape to Plastic Beach, the virtual band’s very own iPhone and iPad video game. The art of Gorillaz creator Jamie Hewlett comes to life in Escape to Plastic Beach, a combination video game and marketing tool for the band’s latest album, Plastic Beach.…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedTake A Break From StarCraft II With Lost Viking
Real-time strategy gameplay got you down? Slip into the cantina for some pleasant conversation, Night Elf dancing, and a little scrolling-shooter action, courtesy of Lost Viking. McWhertor mentioned the Lost Viking arcade game in his hands-on with StarCraft II’s single-player campaign a few months back, but the game was unfortunately unplayable. Now it’s completely playable,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedWhat If Wii Party Were A Great Game?
The second game of my Nintendo holiday preview was Wii Party. I planned to suffer. A half-hour later I wondered if I had played the best Wii game for this fall. A fake bomb helped. Wii Party seems at first, at second and at third like Nintendo at it’s most cynical. Wii Sports was a…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2010
