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“Grace’s Diary” Educates About, Explores Teen Dating Violence
Grace’s Diary has players work their way through an interactive story, working to discover what happened to Grace and, perhaps, learning the danger signs of Teen Dating Violence. The game, designed by Hima in Bangkok, Thailand, was named the winner of this year’s Life. Love. Game Design contest, taking home a $2,500 prize. As games…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Takes Off In Japan
It was a super week for Super Mario in Japan, with Super Mario Galaxy 2 seeing super sales. The sequel to Super Mario Galaxy out-supered its nearest competitor, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Masou Kishin – The Lord of Elemental. The latest figures from Japanese sales tracker Media Create put Super Mario Galaxy 2 at…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
We’re Really Not Feeling This Thor Costume Concept Art
Yesterday’s live-action Captain America concept art gave us hope for the next Marvel properties getting the movie and video game treatment. Today’s Thor concept art takes a large hammer to that hope. Yesterday Ain’t It Cool News delivered a set of images purported to be concept art for the upcoming Captain America movie, which of…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 -
UncategorizedReminder: You Could Be Playing This Live-Action Atari Game
The 2010 Come Out & Play Festival will start tomorrow in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve mentioned it before, but now I can show you the test-run for the festival’s live-action version of Atari classic Kaboom. Compare it to the virtual version. Real-life Kaboom is just one of a weekend’s worth of public games, some based on…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Is This Shattered Dimensions’ Spider-Man 2099?
A series of screenshots has slipped onto the web, showing off what looks like confirmation of Spider-Man’s 2099 alter-ego Miguel O’Hara’s appearance in Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. While we were expecting a big reveal of the third of four dimensions featured in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, it looks like someone might have jumped the gun. All…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
F.E.A.R. 3 is Really About Family… A Psychic, Psychotic Family
Psychotic ghost or fratricidal lunatic: Those are your character options in Warner Brother’s upcoming thriller, shooter F.E.A.R. 3. F.E.A.R. 3 is all about dependency, family and the supernatural, as Frank Rooke, director of design at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, tells it. “For those of you who have seen or played a F.E.A.R. game you’ll know…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games
Any game can sell. But any game that sells can collect dust a week after it is bought. These are the 20 games that collect the least dust, that get played the most per user. Welcome back to Kotaku’s monthly update of Nintendo Wii stats. At the beginning of each month we provide the latest…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Square’s New WiiWare Games Are Unbearably Cute
Enter the picture-book world of Kumanage, Square Enix’s adorable WiiWare title that’s actually two different games. Will you choose action or puzzles? According to Japanese gaming news website andriasang, Square Enix’s Kumanage is actually two different games: Kumanage: The Blue Gem that Kiina Hates -Battle Version and Kumanage: The Red Candy that Piina Likes –…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
APB Needs 2Ghz, 2GB, 20 GB
For those of you waiting for the free-roaming cops vs. robbers massively multiplayer APB: All Points Bulletin to hit later this month, here are the PC minimum specs: Core 2 Duo 2Ghz or equivalent, 2GB RAM (3GB for Vista64 / Windows 7 64), nVidia GeForce 7800 – 256MB or equivalent, 20GB Hard disk space, headset…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Sandstorm Kicks Up In Global Agenda
Atlanta-based Hi-Rez Studios launches phase one of the massive Sandstorm patch to Global Agenda today, bringing many much-needed additions to the massively multiplayer online shooter, including revamped Agency-vs-Agency combat, epic weapons, and single player content. Global Agenda is a nifty little online multiplayer shooter that received a relatively warm reception when it launched back in…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Demo Hits This Month
A demo for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Demo hits Xbox Live on June 7. The demo comes to the PC and PS3 later this month. The actual game comes out on June 26 in Europe and June 29 in North America.
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Unicorn Shirt Is Inspirational, Realistic
Adult Swim’s Robot Unicorn is here! On your iPhone now. And the shirt, the shirt hit my back the second it showed up on my doorstep. Is it bad that my wife asked me if I realized that I was still wearing the shirt, after we left the house?
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
The First Killzone 3 Trailer Is A Real Kick In The Face
Celebrating the relaunch of the official Killzone website, Sony delivers the first trailer for Killzone 3, showing off the game’s brutal new melee system. Looks painful! Michael McWhertor got his hands on Killzone 3’s new melee attack system last month, and wasn’t particularly impressed. Perhaps if Sony had shown him this rendered trailer, with its…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dungeon and Dragons Online Gets Airships, Crazy Carnival
Dungeon and Dragons Online’s next update,Update 5: Rise of the Guilds, amplifies the guild experience for players by adding such elements as Guild Levels and Special Guild Trophies, even enticing players with an airship as a possible guild headquarters. The update also adds a Carnival of Shadow adventure pack which looks to deliver an intriguing…
By Amber Nichols Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Massively Multiplayer Mummy? Madness!
Why does it always have to be mummies? Bigpoint is bringing Brendan Fraser-powered film franchise The Mummy online, with a massively multiplayer online game due out in winter 2010. Developed by Pittsburgh-based Schell Games in partnership with Universal Partnerships and Licensing, The Mummy Online is a free-to-play massively multiplayer action RPG set in the 1930’s…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Games Convention Online Shuts Its Doors to the Public
You’re not welcome at this year’s Games Convention Online. No, the former GamesCon, which runs from July 8 to July 10, is open to industry folk only due to a lack of interest from the public. It sounds like GamesCom killed the GamesCon.
By Lauren Orsini Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
First Batch Of BlizzCon 2010 Tickets Hit eBay
Blizzard’s first batch of tickets to BlizzCon 2010 sold out quickly yesterday. As expected, a nice chunk of them are now available on eBay for more than double the price. Now how much would you pay? BlizzCon tickets went on sale yesterday at 7 PM Pacific, and sold out moments later, which should come as…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Egyptian Assassins And Other UbiWorkshop Teases
The UbiWorkshop Twitter account sprung to life today, delivering this teasing glimpse of an Egyptian assassin from Polish artist Gabz, along with news of a secret project from acclaimed comic book artists Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl. “Oh, and before you ask, this has nothing to do with Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood,” Tweets UbiWorkshop, in response…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Why Can’t We Make Another Shadow of the Colossus?
I have a couple topics to write about boiling around in my head, but this one seems to be the most timely considering the rumor going around of a Shadow of the Colossus/Ico HD re-release next year. Shadow of the Colossus (and not Beatles Rock Band, inserting snarky jab at the New York Times here)…
By Lauren Orsini Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
One Year Later, Did These PS3 and PSP Promises Come True?
The PlayStation people promise a lot of things. They did one year ago. Now those promises and plans are being checked, by me, to see which elements of their E3 2009 Sony hype came true and which did not. Sony is the third victim this week, following the Kotaku promise-checking of Microsoft’s E3 2009 festivities…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010