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Multiyear Pact Puts Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC on Xbox 360 First
Microsoft struck a deal with Activision guaranteeing all map packs and game add-ons for Call of Duty: Black Ops will release first for the Xbox 360. The agreement, just announced at Microsoft’s E3 news conference, runs from 2010 to 2012. “When you want to play Call of Duty over the next few years, you’ll want…
By Owen Good Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
This DS Japanese Lady Drawing Is So Accurate
Meet Ayako Imoto. The 24-year-old actress appears on variety programs. And this Nintendo DS drawing of her is not entirely accurate. Slightly better. By “better”, I don’t mean better There we go! Imoto typically plays a young, kid sister type character in a Japanese schoolgirl sailor suit. Her eyebrows are for comic effect! She also…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 At E3 2010 Live! [UPDATE]
It’s Xbox 360 E3 liveblog time here in Los Angeles. And you can watch the event live yourself. Look below for all your E3 news needs, as the biggest announcements from Microsoft of the week for Xbox 360 and Kinect go live at 11 a.m. PT. Follow our Kotaku Liveblog: Click to viewE3 2010 –…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kinect Gives Free Helicopters to VIPs
At first I thought this was a Marine CH-46 ferrying a extremely large, green hot dog. No, it’s actually an Army Chinook carrying a raft. Microsoft gave out this Kinect Adventures Avatar toy to everyone at last night’s Kinect event.
By Owen Good Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Tiny Wii Controllers For Your Freakishly Small Hands
Are Nintendo’s Wii remote and nunchuk controllers too big for your hands? Power A has your freakishly misshapen appendages covered with the charmingly named MiniRemote and MiniChuck. E3 isn’t just about the games. It’s also a place for companies like Power A to march out odd little accessories like this MiniRemote and MiniChuck combo. Retailing…
By Mike Fahey Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Hey, Maybe Eminem is Appearing for Call of Duty
Eminem tweeted he’d appear in Activision’s event at E3, and yesterday I joked “I don’t think he’s appearing on behalf of Call of Duty: Black Ops.” Maybe he is. A track from his new album will be in the game. Most would think of DJ Hero 2 first, but in a news release touting the…
By Owen Good Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Delightful Chat With the Most Hated Man in Video Games
For Bobby Kotick, it all started with a handshake in a parking garage under an Atlantic City casino. The story of Kotick is the story of video game juggernaut Activision, a tale of chance meetings and unbelievable circumstance, of Apple founder Steve Jobs and millionaire recluse Howard Hughes. But before the story there’s the cheesecake.…
By Brian Crecente Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Previously, On Mass Effect
BioWare is kicking off a playable demo for Mass Effect 2 tomorrow, which comes complete with a “story so far” video for players who never played the first game. This is that video. So Mass Effect newbies should be able to watch this video and be completely up to speed on Mass Effect. That way,…
By Mike Fahey Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
4-0
To: Team Los Angeles From: Team Australia So, Australia’s World Cup campaign got off to as poor a start as you (well, I) could possibly imagine, with a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Germany. Making matters worse was the fact I got up at 4:30am to watch it. Football, as they say, can be…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
What The World Needs Is A Lady Gaga Kind of First Person Shooter
Stuart Black was going to make a typically dreary first person shooter. Then he went to see a Lady Gaga concert. Out went his original shooter game play. “It had a very serious tone to it,” he told me on a visit from his native England during a recent interview in New York. “And then…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood’s E3 Trailer
The franchise’s father may have walked out, but his baby lives on, with the latest in a long line of trailers showing an Assassin working his way through a crowd, a trail of corpses in his wake. I’d love to say no horses were harmed during the production of this trailer, but…clearly, one horse is…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rumor: 500GB PlayStation 3 Coming, Includes New Wi-Fi, Move
According to an “industry source” speaking with games site CVG, Sony will later this year release two new PS3 bundles, both including the PlayStation Move motion controller, and one of them packing a monster hard drive. We knew Move bundles were coming, as Sony said as much earlier in the year, but releasing two bundles…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
360 Avatars Get In The World Cup Spirit
The 2010 World Cup has hit Xbox Live Marketplace, with a range of official and unofficial team merchandise now available for your Xbox 360’s avatar. Finally delivering on a promise that’s gone unfulfilled ever since the avatars were first released, fans of the beautiful game can buy official jerseys, shorts, socks, boots and even supporter…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Get A Look At Kinect’s Star Wars Game
Perhaps the best “game” we saw yesterday at Microsoft’s Kinect launch event was a Star Wars title. Why? Why don’t you take a look yourself. Take all this with a sizable grain of salt, of course, as you always should with on-stage demonstrations, but anyone that watches this and isn’t at least a little excited…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Force Unleashed II’s Gameplay Shows Stormtrooper’s Aim Has Not Improved
While Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II’s cinematic trailer is very impressive, it also contains not a second of gameplay footage. That’s what this gameplay clip is for! Things look much the same as they did back in 2008 with the original, the only real noticeable upgrades being a shinier floor and some nice weather…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2010 - Uncategorized
Fake Families Put Kinect Through Its Paces
You already knew that much of Kinect’s early marketing would be targeted at a casual crowd. So when you watch this collection of game “demonstrations”, try and keep that in mind. At least, try and keep it in mind until the horrors of the dancing game’s “guitar throw”. Those who want to see what Kinect’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 14, 2010