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You Just Got An Extra Day To Play Halo: Reach
While originally scheduled to end tomorrow – May 19 – Bungie has decided to keep the Halo: Reach beta open a little longer. “Our official plans as of now are to turn off the Reach beta on Thursday, 5/20 at 10AM PDT”, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard told Joystiq. Since an exact time for the beta’s shutdown…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 19, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Off Topic: —··· · · ·—·
Say, what time is it? Oh, it’s time for Kotaku Off Topic, which usually hits right around now, at exactly beer o’clock. Pop open a drink and join us, while we talk about things video game related and not. I’ll be spending the rest of my evening on a Skype meeting for my other job,…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe New Call of Duty: Black Ops Trailer: ‘Everything You Know Is Wrong’
Activision and Treyarch are done teasing, releasing an extended, gameplay-filled look at their next inevitable blockbuster shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops, one minute and forty-three seconds worth of shoot ’em up spectacle. Now that Treyarch has moved well past World War II and onto Vietnam and war-torn locations far beyond, the developer gets a…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Closes Out Double Down Challenge By Raising $1,000
Enough. I am officially declaring this Double Down-eating developer competition over. Electronic Arts may not have really set the land-speed record for consuming Kentucky Fried lard, but it did raise $1,000 for – wait for it – cancer research. You may remember that when Disney Interactive claimed the record two weeks ago, its champion eaters…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Big Fat Gears Of War 2 Update & Cheap ‘All Fronts Collection’ Incoming
Changes are coming to Epic Games’ Gears of War 2, showing that the title hasn’t been at all forgotten about now that the focus has shifted to Gears of War 3. Better still, there’s a Gears 2 deal inbound. The upcoming title update for Gears of War 2 on the Xbox 360 fixes a long…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedMakers of Wii Bowling Ball Bring You Wii Rowing Machine
The brothers Markowitz at CTA Digital let Totilo inside their Wonkaland of Wii peripherals last November and promised they were working on some peripherals core gamers wouldn’t be embarrassed to use. Does a Wii Fit rowing machine attachment qualify? Well, Doug and Julie, two fit and attractive young adults, certainly think so. Of course, they’re…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dolphins Answer The Call of Duty In Marine Warfare
Gamers who fight in the virtual wars of Call of Dutys and Battlefields have piloted multi-million dollar aircraft and tanks, but is there a new opportunity to put them in control of real-world warriors like Viper or Iceman, military-trained dolphins? The U.S. Navy has trained and employed dolphins and sea lions for more than 40…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Isaac Look Out! New Dead Space 2 Screens!
We’re still a good six months (or more) from the release of Dead Space 2, so a slow trickle of screens from Visceral Games’ sci-fi horror adventure feels more like teasing than anything else. While Dead Space star Isaac Clarke may look slimmer, sleeker and more bad ass in the sequel, those hideous Necromorphs look…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedF.E.A.R. 3 Does Live Action Exploding Barrels
A blend of live action and in-game graphics might seem ill-advised, as the transition to 20 seconds or so of gameplay in this new F.E.A.R. 3 trailer is a little jarring. But one has to consider live action exploding barrels. Cooperative live action exploding barrels, that is, as this cinematic trailer shows off that “divergent…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Latest MLB 10 The Show Patch Includes Scoring Bug
Patch No. 3 for MLB 10 The Show was delivered to PS3 users earlier this morning, but unfortunately contains a rather serious error – runs crossing the plate on a third out are counted, where they shouldn’t. Pasta Padre noticed the glitch earlier today; we emailed Sony Computer Entertainment America to inquire about any fix…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Store Update: Sparkster, Come On Down!
Konami’s side-scrolling opossum Sparkster makes his PlayStation Network debut in Rocket Knight, released alongside the latest Dragon Age: Origins expansion and a third game that’s more than 50 years old. That’d be The Price Is Right, one of a handful of new additions to the North American PlayStation Store. It joins Dragon Age: Origins –…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Are You An Autobot Or A Decepticon?
The co-op campaign in Transformers: War for Cybertron allows players to experience the game as either an Autobot or Decepticon. Which one will you choose first? As game director and snappy dresser Matt Tieger points out during this clip covering the campaign mode in Transformers: War for Cybertron, Hasbro sells an Autobot toy for every…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Facebook, Farmville Reach Truce on Virtual Currency
The maker of Farmville, shedding users by the millions, got a jolt of good news on Tuesday when the game’s parent company reached an agreement with Facebook, settling a standoff over the handling of virtual currency transactions. Specific terms of the five-year pact were not mentioned by Zynga in its news release, but it did…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rebel Scum It Up With New Star Wars Xbox 360 Avatar Gear
Show your Rebel pride, your Imperial allegiance or your carefree bounty hunter love with new The Empire Strikes Back-themed Avatar gear, adorable enough to force almost any Star Wars fan to drop Microsoft Points on virtual clothing. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, LucasArts is exploring new money making opportunities in…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedAn Entirely Different Sort Of LEGO Video Game
Dissatisfied by the video game LEGO offerings released thus far, LEGO enthusiast Ben Fleskes takes matters into his own hands, crafting a working Pac-Man arcade cabinet made almost entirely of LEGO bricks. I’m not actually sure if Fleskes is dissatisfied or not, but I do know he’s got mad LEGO building skills. The electronics and…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedThis Shrunken Head Is Your Game-Winning Prize, Believe It Or Not
A million bucks? A key to the city? Those aren’t the prizes you’ll win if you are among the first 10 people to finish Zon8, a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not webgame launching in June. You’ll get a shrunken head. It’s not a real shrunken head. It’s a replica, Ripley’s Tim O’Brien told me when…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Bigger, Faster, Stronger! The Legendary Z Reborn
Dragon Ball Z Kai Part One features 13 action-packed episodes totally amped up with pulverizing power in a true to the manga director’s cut. Available on May 18 on DVD & Blu-ray. Email us at [email protected] with “DBZ” as the subject line and 5 lucky winners will get a copy! [Rules]
By Gawkercreative Published May 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy Versus XIII On Xbox 360? Square’s ‘Looking Into It’
Will Square Enix’s long-in-the-making Final Fantasy Versus XIII follow the lead of its predecessor and make the leap from the PS3 to the Xbox 360? Probably… err Square Enix is “looking into it,” according to the company’s president. Yoichi Wada told attendees at an investors meeting today in Tokyo that, despite claims that the more…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedYou Can Help Fund Indie Game: The Movie
After covering the 2009 Game Developers Conference, BlinkWorks Media decided they wanted to create a documentary film that studies independent game developers as a way to understand the medium and the theory behind video games. Independent filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot have gathered footage from GDC 2010, along with interviews with creators at Flashbang…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2010