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UncategorizedBox Scores: The Vacant Confines
Some rivalries are played before sellout crowds, primetime exposure and adoring nationwide coverage. Others finish past midnight with a couple dozen disinterested people left in the bleachers and only two more watching on the TV. The latter would be the final audience for Chewblaha and his Cubs vs. Mike Dukakis’ Mets in a 12-inning affair…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Active Slapped with Trademark Lawsuit
The Active Network has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against EA Sports Active, alleging the fitness title’s online use of scheduling and fitness goals covers purposes for which it holds the trademark “Active.” GameSpot got a look at the suit, which claims The Active Network has since 2008 held the rights to the word “Active”…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Weekend Coupons: You’re Gonna Eat Lightning, and You’re Gonna Crap Coupons
You shoulda seen me when I knocked Giny Russell outta the ring. Outta the goddamn ring. September 14, 1923. The same night that Firpo knocks Dempsey outta the ring. Who gets the publicity? Dempsey. Know why? Because he had COUPONS. Hardware • The new PS3 Slim 250GB “Father’s Day Bundle” with the LittleBigPlanet Game of…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Week in Review: Promise Keepers
The weeks before E3 see lots of speculation about what it will take for one of the big three to “win” this year’s gathering. Stephen Totilo instead recounted the promises of last year’s showing, to remind everyone someone’s keeping score. Nintendo – forget such head-scratching reveals as the Wii Vitality Sensor – shone through with…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Red Faction Armageddon Brings a New Nano Forge, Alien Cocoons
Red Faction Armageddon will take place half a century after the Martian revolution of Red Faction: Guerrilla putting players in the shoes of the grandson of Alec Mason and Samanya, THQ revealed this morning. Here’s the official publisher synopsis of the story: When the massive Terraformer that supplies Mars with its Earth-like air and weather…
By Brian Crecente Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
First Look At New Red Faction Game
Red Faction Armageddon is the follow-up to last year’s surprise hit, Guerilla. Those hoping for more free-wheeling action under a Martian sky may be in for a rude shock. The game’s instead gone underground, having made a sharp turn at Survival Horror Boulevard. Sweeping vistas are being swapped out for underground chambers, and while this…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Vanquish Gameplay Trailer Is A Disco Inferno
Vanquish, the upcoming shooter from Platinum Games and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, sounded like Gears of War on an acid trip. This gameplay trailer only confirms that suspicion. The third-person viewpoint and Space Marine characters may look familiar to Western shooter fans, but everything else looks like a breath of fresh, Japanese air. Dull…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 -
UncategorizedHalf-Life Has Never Looked This Cute
Wolf-Shadow77 has been doing these little Half-Life cartoons for a few years now, but only recently have they really hit their stride, showing Gordon Freeman’s universe in a way we’re not exactly accustomed to seeing it. The short animations use actual in-game sound clips, but then throw up visuals that upon first viewing, don’t exactly…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Is The Cheapest Game You’ve Ever Purchased?
Quiz time. It is time for what? Tell Us Dammit, dammit. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know oodles about us…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
See Fallout: New Vegas In Action
You may want to hit “mute”, but even in silence it’s probably still worth watching this Fallout: New Vegas clip, which features nothing but actual in-game footage. It’s…Fallout 3 in a new location, so it won’t exactly take your breath away, but fans sick of Washington should appreciate the new environments. I also was not…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Lawsuit Filed Against Final Fantasy XIII
Daniel Wolf has filed a class-action lawsuit against both Sony and Square Enix, claiming that Final Fantasy XIII has caused “severe and widespread damage” to PlayStation 3 consoles. Wolf reckons that freezes some players have run into while playing the game have “caused their PS3 consoles to freeze and become totally and permanently inoperable.” “Both…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kim Kardashian As Lara Croft? That Can’t Be Right, Can It?
The Tomb Raider film franchise is on the cusp of a reboot, putting a younger-than-Angelina-Jolie Lara Croft onscreen and spinning a new origin story-type yarn. Could that younger Lara Croft be somehow famous person Kim Kardashian? The next Tomb Raider flick is reportedly going to shoot in 3D and feature “a far more comic-strip version…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Off Topic: headline headghgh
For those of you unable to attend this year’s Kotaku pre-E3 party because of your location, age or crippling shyness, let’s turn this Kotaku Off Topic into a virtual party replacement. Who wants pizza?! Hell, I do. That’s why I am about to order a Chicago deep dish from down the street. Hopefully it will…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
360 Guide
Halo: Reach – After honing its skills over the course of Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, and ODST, Bungie brings us the definitive Halo experience. Dead Rising – One man, three days, 55,000 zombies. Can you survive and make it out of the mall? Grand Theft Auto IV – It may drag in…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
UncategorizedParalyzed Gamer Soldiers On in Modern Warfare 2
Iain Hanson, a 19-year-old from Scotland, broke his neck in a bouncy castle amusement four years ago, losing all function in his fingers. Still he plays Modern Warfare2 on the PS3 – better than I can, for sure. Iain (his account on Twitter) writes that he broke his neck when he was 15, but the…
By Owen Good Published June 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku’s Pre-E3 Party – It’s On Broadway
Aperture Science may have canceled its E3 party plans, but Kotaku’s are officially locked in. As we tend to do the Sunday before E3, Kotaku is having a party. This one will be bigger than ever… and you’re invited. We’re changing locations this year, hopefully leaving the long lines of the Golden Gopher behind and…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Raiders Maintain Commitment to Crapulence in Madden Ratings
The at-launch team ratings for Madden NFL 11 were revealed earlier today and the Raida Organization, despite shoveling 260 pounds of No. 2 from its roster, improved not one whit from last year’s game to this. Oakland’s 71 represents zero improvement over last year’s rating, which must make Jason Campbell, the Raidas’ new quarterback, feel…
By Owen Good Published June 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Review Round Up: Street Racin’, X-Scapin’ & Back Breakin’
Wondering whether Blur is worth taking for a spin? Does Alpha Protocol feel like a game still in beta? What the hell is X-Scape? Let a week’s worth of Kotaku video game reviews answer those questions and more. Round up!! Alpha Protocol Review: Not Quite The Omega “The espionage RPG” stumbles its way into our…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 4, 2010