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Video Games, I’ve Let You Down
It’s hard to explain your favorite games to people who don’t play them, isn’t it? Well, if you think that’s tough, wait ‘til you hear about the time I played Fallout 3 with my parents. Around the time the game launched, they came down to visit me in Brooklyn from Massachusetts. As my dad had…
Leigh Alexander Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Project Natal To Cost Too Much Money
Would you pay $149 USD for Project Natal? According to a report from Edge, that’s what current Xbox 360 owners should expect to pay when the much-hyped motion sensing camera from Microsoft launches later this year. Edge, citing a “trusted source,” the same individual who fed the outlet details on Gears of War 3’s coming…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Game Design as Make-Believe: Depiction vs Narration
Based upon part six of the Mimesis as Make-Believe serial. In Walton’s make-believe theory of representation, there are in effect two different ways in which representations can be constructed: they may be perceptual in nature i.e. making use of one or more of our senses, in which case they are considered a depiction, or they…
By Lauren Orsini Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Guild Wars 2 Character Creation Asks Personal Questions
Selecting your race, class, and look is just the beginning of character creation in Guild Wars 2, with a series of biographical follow-up questions that determine how your personal story unfolds. ArenaNet wants to make Guild Wars 2 unlike any other massively-multiplayer online role-playing game out there, and that all starts with character creation. Borrowing…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Xbox Boss Has A Very Excellent House
Don Mattrick, head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, lives in this house. I think this qualifies as a Gold-tier home. Definitely not Silver. I came across this aerial view of Mattrick’s Vancouver abode during some reporting and researching involving yesterday’s Microsoft executive shake-up. Mattrick’s still at Microsoft. In fact, he now not only runs the Xbox…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2010 - Reviews
ModNation Racers Review: Where The Vinyl Meets The Road
The PlayStation 3 Play Create Share initiative takes to the streets with ModNation Racers, the urban vinyl-fueled kart racer from United Front Games. Let’s take it for a spin. ModNation Racer takes the same creative spirit found in the PlayStation 3’s LittleBigPlanet and applies it to the kart racing genre, providing players with the tools…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
History of Social Games
Social games aren’t new–they’re just games you play with other people. Social games began about 5000 years ago. With some help from the team at Disruptor Beam, we’ve put together a little chart that traces the history of social games from its origins in Ancient Egypt all the way to the present. I’m using the…
By Lauren Orsini Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Get Your ModNation Racers On Live with Game’s Creators
Our review of the Playstation 3’s ModNation Racers won’t be hitting for another hour or so, so why not take the time to talk to the folks behind the game on Kotaku Talk Radio? United Front’s Dan Sochan will hang out with us for one hour, taking your calls about anything you want to know…
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sony Still Teasing North America With Final Fantasy IX
Garnet wants to be kidnapped right away, and while that’s all fine and good in Europe, where Final Fantasy IX is now available for purchase on the PlayStation Network, here in North America we must ignore her desperate pleas. Japan got a PlayStation Network version of Final Fantasy IX on May 20, and now the…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Mafia II Collector’s Edition
2K Games reveals the Mafia II Collector’s Edition, a Steelbook case filled with the game, a hardcover art book, a soundtrack CD, and a tear-resistant map of Empire Bay, as well as free access to the Made Man DLC, with two new cars and matching outfits for Vito. Check out the Mafia II preorder page…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
BioShock, Zelda and Left 4 Dead Never Looked This Cute
shysuiko enjoys drawing little Chibi versions of video game characters in her spare time. The style normally isn’t my favourite, but when it’s applied to Andrew Ryan and a Hunter from Left 4 Dead, I can come around. She’s drawn series of characters from Left 4 Dead, BioShock, Zelda, Silent Hill, Odin Sphere and even…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kane & Lynch Play Cops And Robbers
Following up the original game’s Fragile Alliance, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days makes some Cops and Robbers action. You have and five cohorts have four minutes to steal four million dollars. You’d best hustle. Cops and Robbers is a 12-person team-based multiplayer mode that sounds a lot like the first game’s Fragile Alliance, which…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedSonic Colors Streaks To The Wii And DS
With fans eagerly awaiting the retro Sonic 4, Sega pulls back the curtain on Sonic Colors, a brand new adventure for the Nintendo Wii and DS, heading our way by the end of 2010. Check out the reveal trailer! Sonic Colors sees our blue hedgehog hero speeding through theme-park inspired worlds as he attempts to…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedHow The Pros Mock Nintendo
For two decades, people have been paid to make fun of Nintendo. These professionals are hired by big companies that either hate Nintendo or consider Nintendo to be semi-ridiculous. (Irony: These pros never laugh last.) Here are their finest works. We’ll start with a recent example, to put this trend in a modern context. We’ve…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Now it’s Warhammer 40K…
plus one! As seen on deviantART. Thanks miodrag.
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Gears of War 2 Gets Social
“Social Matches” are coming to Gears of War 2 in today’s patch for the game. The new feature allows players to jump in or out of multiplayer games without disruptions. The catch? You’ll need to own all four download map packs
By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Bukkake Is Totally Delicious, Totally Safe For Work
EVERYONE WHO CLICKED THIS GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER! This is bukkake udon. That’s what it’s called! If you go to a restaurant and order bukkake udon, you will get something like this. Not exactly this, but like it. In its purest sense, bukkake means something like “splash” or “slosh”, and this is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apple On the Factory Suicides
This year, ten employees have died at the Foxconn Shenzhen plant. Foxconn produces products for Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Apple. Apple has stepped forward and finally commented on the issue. According to sister site Gizmodo, Apple has released a statement that it is “saddened and upset by the recent suicides at Foxconn”. What’s more, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Beach Author Washes Up On Level Design
Alex Garland made a name for himself as the writer of the novel The Beach. Then he wrote the script for horror flick 28 Days Later and the one for sci-fi film Sunshine. Now? He is not only writing futuristic action title Enslaved, but he ended up doing much more than that says developer Ninja…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2010