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Break Down Doors With These Medal Of Honor Screens
EA seems particular fond on the door kicking-in scene in its re-launch of the Medal of Honor series, showcasing it in the game’s debut trailer as well as this new set of screens. Perhaps the image of armed soldiers kicking-in doors is EA’s way of communicating its intentions to Activision and its Modern Warfare series,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2010 - Reviews
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Review: A Muddled Mess
Turns out that Percy Jackson isn’t a trouble maker with dyslexia and ADHD, he’s just the son of Poseidon, and you know how those demigods are. Movie Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lighting Thief shows what happened when a 12-year-old is thrust into a training camp for the children of gods and soon after…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedWield The Mighty Skullhammer In Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition
Zeno Clash: Ultimate edition is coming next month to Xbox Live Arcade, bringing with it four new weapons to help decimate the wondrous inhabitants of Zenozoik. No matter how you felt about Zeno Clash’s original release on Steam, you have to admit the art direction and weapons design was quite original. The new weapons introduced…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Judging The Covers Of Games, And How To Make Them Better
You see them every day, whether browsing in a store, clicking through the internet or looking at a shelf in your living room, but have you ever wondered what kind of thinking goes into creating a game’s cover? I have. See, at heart, I’m a bit of a design nerd. I often like seeing, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Snow and Lightning Get Urgent PSICOM Alerts
Snow and Lightning are doing their thing to fight the man. The duo are so very revolutionary that the powers that be in Final Fantasy XIII have released the futureworld version of BOLOs for the two. These two Public Safety and Information Command, or PSICOM, directives arrived at my house printed on thick sheets of…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sega Replacing Broken Alien Facehuggers
Unable to adapt to harsh shipping conditions, many of the Alien Facehuggers included in the Hunter Edition of Aliens Vs. Predator had their tails snap off. Sega’s bio-engineers are on the case. It’s sad that one of the heartiest species in the known galaxy should succumb to something as trifling as being shipped to retail,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Blade Kitten Takes A Stab At PSN This Spring
Krome Studios is bringing the intergalactic adventures of comic book heroine Kit Ballard to the PlayStation Network this spring in Blade Kitten. Who is Kit Ballard? Her tale is one of liberation. Her tail is pink. Blade Kitten is a comic book series created by Krome co-founder Steve Stamatiadis, which tells the tale of cat-girl…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Halo 3 Multiplayer Servers Will Survive Halo Reach’s Launch
Once Halo Reach hits, bringing with it a brand new multiplayer experience and separate servers, does that mean Halo 3’s multiplayer servers will be shut down? “I dont think we would pull the plug,” said Brian Jarrard, Bungie’s community director. “Halo 2 was the number one game until the Halo 3 lauch, and it was…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Civilization V Hexes PCs This Fall
Sid Meier’s Civilization franchise returns this fall with a fifth installment, featuring hexagon tile maps, a new combat system, deeper diplomatic options, and a community hub where players can share content and compete without leaving the game. Civilization marches on relentlessly in the fifth installment of the classic strategy series, published by 2K Games and…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Alan Wake Preview: The First Full Episode
The first two words of Alan Wake are “Stephen King.” The next big Xbox 360 exclusive game is an interactive thriller played in the shadows of America’s Pacific Northwest. I recently played the game’s impressive first full “episode.” Remedy Entertainment’s May-dated game comes on a disc but is divided into episodes. These chapters are sometimes…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Mile Marker 21: Owlboy
Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Owlboy! In A Sentence Mute Owlboy communicates with facial expressions and takes on enemies by clutching friends with weapons and flying around with…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Bungie Explains If Halo Reach Is More of an ODST or a Halo 3 Game
When Halo 3 hit in the fall of 2007 there were celebrations, sick days and sales records broken. Two years later, when Halo sequel ODST made it into stores it couldn’t match its predecessor’s first day sales in two weeks. So I asked the Bungie folks, is Halo Reach going to be more like a…
By Brian Crecente Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Watch Out, Don’t Stop Me Now, I Will See YOU Tomorrow
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Ouch Man, I’m feeling ROUGH. Just sick and tired and fevery, but watch out! Because I’ll tell you what, I’ll be back here tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel. Know why? THIS JOB IS FUN. Seeya tomorrow Kotaku people! What you missed last night Race And Nationality: More Than…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
So How’s The Haruhi Suzumiya Movie Doing?
Pretty darn good. In its debut week, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya hit the box office top ten. Depending on which chart you look at, the film, the first Haruhi Suzumiya animated feature, hung around in the top ten. Animated by Uji-based Kyoto Animation, the film is based on the fourth Haruhi Suzumiya light novel…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Don’t Worry About Final Fantasy XI Just Yet
There have been rumors swirling on the Japanese internet that Square Enix’s MMORPG Final Fantasy XI will be ending this year. Time for Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada to fire up his Twitter account. You know, the one with the fluffy dog avatar. Online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV will be hitting the PS3 and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Capcom’s PSN Range Going For A Song
Capcom announced yesterday that for the next five weeks, the publisher’s range of PlayStation Network titles will see their prices clashed by 50%. Starting tomorrow, Marvel vs Capcom will be down to $7.50 until February 25. Then Street Fighter II HD will go on sale for the same price, and so on and so on,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sony: Wii’s Loss Is Our Gain
Over the past few months, a number of big third-party publishers like EA & Capcom have distanced themselves from the Wii. Ah well. There’s always the PS3! “What publishers have said is they’re not going to spend the resources on Wii… In my job, we compete against Microsoft and Nintendo, and we’re competing for resources”,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
NSFW: One Thing About This Pillow Is Different. What? Dunno.
Japan’s D3 Puplisher, sorry, Publisher released its bar girl hostess simulator Dream Club in Japan last August. Since then, people on the Japanese internet are claiming that blond pigtailed character Mian has changed, it seems. At the recent Wonder Festival event, website Akiba Hobby noticed something at the Hobby Stock booth about these Mian hug…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
It’s Dangerous To Go Alone, Drink This
As seen on deviantART via Albotas.
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2010