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Second Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack Coming Out In Late 2010
The second map pack for the blockbuster Modern Warfare 2 will be released in the second half of 2010, an Activision executive confirmed today. That will be the first fresh dose of Modern Warfare since the recently-issued Stimulus Pack. During a company financial earnings call, Activision’s Thomas Tippl said that the back half of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Casting A Hex On Civilization V
During this week’s broadcast of our Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, legendary game designer Sid Meier explains how the new hex-based map enriches Civilization V, and why it took so long for the series to go six-sided. The first question that comes to mind when many see Civilization V’s gorgeous new hex-based geography is why hasn’t…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
How Did Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Do In Japan?
The arrival of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker in Japan was outshone by the arrival of another big portable game, Square Enix’s Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2. It put Snake in his place—second—in this week’s contest. The latest Dragon Quest spin-off moved an impressive 624,000 copies in week one, outperforming Peace Walker’s still impressive 434,000…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2010 - Reviews
Dante’s Inferno: The Trials of St. Lucia Review: Totilo’s Inferno
The new expansion to Dante’s Inferno was partially developed by me. And one of you — one of you how can’t appreciate sublime game design — gave my contribution one out of five stars. Dante’s Inferno: The Trials of St. Lucia is a downloadable expansion of the EA Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 Dante’s Inferno…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Disney’s Dark Epic Mickey Also Coming To Children’s Book Form
The edgier, more epic Mickey Mouse adventure coming to the Wii later this year is also making the leap to print. Don’t just play Disney’s Epic Mickey project… read it! A pair of Epic Mickey books are planned for release after the Disney video game, one of which sounds like a straight up novelization with…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Cheaper Time-Limited StarCraft II Sold In Mexico And South America
StarCraft II fans south of the border will have two ways to pay for the game, with Blizzard revealing a less-expensive, time-limited version of the game for players in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. Here’s how this works. Players in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil can pay $299 MXN, $119 ARS, $13,900 CLP, and $49.90…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Recruit Metal Gear Creator In Next Metal Gear Game
Metal Gear Solid creative mastermind Hideo Kojima is now also a video game character. The PSP’s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker lets us recruit virtual Kojima and put him to work. Hideo Kojima is the God of Peace Walker [Andriasang]
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Who Needs Health Packs When We’ve Got Lasers And Nanotech?
While we’re busy fumbling through dark corridors and navigating twisting platforms searching for health packs, food, and other esoteric life-saving items, the Air Force is healing wounds with lasers and nanotechnology. Even the futuristic space adventurers in Star Trek Online are chowing down on food to help regain health, while our military pioneers technology that…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Every Girl’s Crazy ‘Bout a Sharp Dressed Avatar
Clothing puts flesh on the avatar. I’m with Tim Gunn on this one (and really in a sense anthropologists and sociologists before him, like Erving Goffman), fashion is a form of rhetoric. What you put on tends to communicate, be your desire to align yourself with your favorite sports team or with a musical subculture,…
G. Christopher Williams Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Gears Of War 3 Is Like Waterworld, Minus Kevin Costner [CORRECTION]
According to translations of a big Gears of War 3 piece in a Russian gaming mag, giving us our first real details on the game, Epic’s upcoming shooter will take place on the open sea. The story below was originally published on Kotaku on May 5, based on a translated article. A correction/clarification follows. There…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2010 -
UncategorizedEVE Online Pumps Out Another Amazing Trailer
CCP makes outer space look good, and the trend continues with the trailer for EVE Online: Tyrannis, an expansion pack due out this month for the sci-fi MMO that finally opens up New Eden’s planets to resource-hungry players. For seven years now, EVE Online players have been mining asteroids, ignoring planets filled with delicious, profit-heavy…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 - Reviews
Gurlz Vs Robots Micro Review: 11 Fingers of Fun
Gurlz Vs. Robots is the first 11-finger, simultaneous four-player retro arcade game for the iPad. Players gather around each side of the device as it lays on a flat surface and drag directional arrows onto the screen to try and guide the stream of robots away from the other players’ escape pods and to their…
By Brian Crecente Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Top 50 Video Game Franchises Of All Time, Voted By Gamers
The 2010 Guinness Book of World Records Gamer’s Edition features a list of the Top 50 video game series as voted by the gaming public. Which series came out on top between The Legend of Zelda, Call of Duty, and Halo? Instead of opting to go with game review scores or a board of experts,…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
How To Role-Play Your Way Into Becoming A PlayStation 3 Developer
James Marsden, the managing director of developer FuturLab, explains how a budding Flash developer managed to catch the eye and funding of Sony Computer Entertainment. Apparently the key lies in impressing the hell out of everyone, and LARPing. In 2007 Marsden had just finished building FuturLab’s Flash game engine PRISM, and he and his team…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 -
UncategorizedBungie’s Favorite Halo Reach Playbacks
We’ve shown you some glitches, some really bad gameplay and some amazing screenshots, but here are some of Bungie’s favorite gameplay moments from the Halo Reach Beta. Jet Pack Ninja Headbangers Ninja Roof Stick
By Brian Crecente Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Monopoly Gets The Grand Theft Auto III Treatment
After years of top-down and isometric views, EA is taking the Monopoly franchise to the streets, transforming it from board game to a “dynamic, living, 3D world.” Will this be Monopoly’s Grand Theft Auto III? While the Grand Theft Auto series is known today for creating living, breathing, immersive 3D worlds, the series started off…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
More World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Info Than You Can Handle
Say hello to Deathwing the Destroyer, the dragon whose escape from the plane of earth causes devastating changes to the world of Azeroth. It’s just one of hundreds of screens in MMO Champion’s massive World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha update. MMO Champion has access to the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha client, and they’ve posted…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Can Harry Potter Help Redeem Video Gaming’s Soul?
There are two ways that video games might corrupt the people who play them. There are two popular elements that two crowds of people detest, two elements that games usually have more of with each passing year. Violence is the first. Collecting is the second. The former — virtual killing and maiming and blowing things…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2010
