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UncategorizedFirst PlayStation Move Ad Trolls Wii & Natal, Kevin Butler Style
The PlayStation Move controller may have only been officially named last week, but PlayStation VP of Realistic Movements Kevin Butler already has his commercial ready. How? This spot is from The Future, when Sony’s already trolling the motion control competition. Clearly, Kevin and Sony’s shotcallers are not at all embarrassed to be in the position…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2010 -
UncategorizedBetter Days To Die Coming To Star Trek Online
For Klingons, every day is a good day to die, but you might want to wait until Cryptic slips the new Klingon player-versus-enemy content into Star Trek Online, as seem in part two of the Expanding Universe video series. The Klingons need more distractions in Star Trek Online. This is readily evident to any Federation…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Rare Argument For More Linear Video Game Stories
One brilliant thing about video games is that they can react to what players do and have multiple endings. Books can’t do that. Movies can’t, not even Clue. Many in gaming argue for branching storylines. Here’s an argument against: “What we found is that if you over-branch the storylines [is that] if there was one…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2010 -
UncategorizedKane & Lynch Make A Date For Two
Summer is due for some Shanghai shoot ’em up grit and grime, thanks to those lovable scamps Kane and Lynch. The anti-heroes will make their return in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days this August. The sequel to 2007’s coolly received and controversial Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Dog Days lands, appropriately, during what may…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Speak-Up On Kotaku: Metroid Drinks, Proper Baby Prep, Natural City, And Public Gaming Etiquette
After skipping the week of GDC, Speak-Up on Kotaku returns at full force, with contributions by Kotakuites The Drunken Moogle, Rear Admiral Meatwad, Raffleking, and Kyosen! Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Week In Comics
Two new gaming comics this week, one non-gaming comic for you to consider. The non-gaming comic is probably not a classic. It is not created by an all-star cast. No, it merely has an amazing title: Executive Assistant Iris. Army of Two #3 Written by Peter Milligan and drawn by Dexter Soy. Summary Via IDW…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Metroid: Other M and The Great Samus Schism
While Metroid: Other M may feel like a departure for the series in the way it plays and the influences brought in by fabled designers Team Ninja, at its heart it is meant to be a unifying game for the series. In fact, the unifying game for all things Metroid. While Star Wars has its…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Is There Another Star Wars MMO On The Horizon?
With BioWare hard at work on Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars Galaxies hanging onto life, is Sony Online Entertainment working on a browser-based Clone Wars MMO for kids? Rumors say yes. Sony Online Entertainment is making a mint with its free-to-play, browser-based family-friendly MMO Free Realms, which is why the prospect of…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Most Impressive Fireworks On The Wii
The best thing one can write about a game like the upcoming Wii title Sin & Punishment 2 is that it is busy, maybe hyperactive. The June Wii game with the bizarre name is a sequel to the only game I’ve ever played that pits two heroes against a fleet of futuristic aircraft carriers —…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kiss Me, I’m An Irish Video Game Character
It’s Saint Patrick’s Day, and before we get around to drinking ourselves into a stupor and starting fights with inanimate objects, we’re taking a moment to celebrate our favorite fightin’ Irish video game characters. Did you know Anna and Nina Williams were Irish? What about M. Bison? While several of the more prominent Irish video…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010 - Reviews
Yakuza 3: The Kotaku Review
It’s funny, for all the Japanese games you and I have ever played—and they number in the hundreds, if not thousands—few of them are Japanese in the way that Yakuza 3 is. Think about it. How many Japanese games have you played where the recorded dialogue is still in its native tongue? Or that are…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Toy Story 3, Brunswick Pro Bowling Like To PlayStation Move It
Sony has updated its official PlayStation Move page with a couple of new games taking advantage of the PlayStation 3’s upcoming motion controller, Toy Story 2 and Brunswick Pro Bowling. I hope those wrist straps are sturdy. Of the two latest additions to the Move’s list of supported titles, Brunswick Pro Bowling is listed as…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Come Talk Dante’s Inferno With the Developers
Kotaku Talk Radio starts now with special guest Hans ten Cate, senior producer of Dante’s Inferno. Call in! Ask questions! Listen Up! Ten Cate will be talking about Dante’s Inferno, the game’s recently released Dark Woods prequel level and the upcoming downloadable content, including the Trials of St. Lucia, which allows players to create their…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Shocking Study Finds Video Games Interfere With Schoolwork
Direct from the We Could Have Told You That department, a recent study determined that introducing young boys to video games has a direct effect on their academic performance. Introducing a major distraction interferes with learning? Who’d have thought? The study conducted by Robert Weis, a psychologist at Ohio’s Denison University, is the first controlled…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
My Pokemon Battle Went Downhill From Here
That’s me vs. MTV Multiplayer’s Russ Frushtick, before our Poke-battle yesterday. Despite the wonderful Pokemon advice that the world’s best game designers gave me, my Level 15 Totodile could not beat his Level 17 Totodile. Gory details at MTV’s site
By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Comic Book Series Helps Make Sense Of Nier
DC’s Wildstorm imprint makes video game comic book magic once more with Nier, a three-part online comic book series detailing the fall of humanity and its lasting effects in Square Enix’s upcoming action RPG. Nier is a video game with a strong focus on one particular plot point: Nier fights to find a way to…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Drop Into Skate 3 In Early May
Riding high on the failure of Tony Hawk: Ride and feeling absolutely no threat from Ubisoft’s upcoming Shaun White skateboarding title, EA gears up for an early May release for the third installment of the Skate series. Skate 3 isn’t just the latest game in the Skate franchise, complete with a whole new city, a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Guilty Party Offers Billions of Mysteries to Solve
Think of it as Guess Who for the Wii set, or, if you’re in mixed company and want to sound smart, maybe Mastermind. Both classic boardgames have you trying to figure out an unknown variable (a person in the case of Guess Who and a “code” in the case of Mastermind) through the process of…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2010