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Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron Graduates To Holocron Canon
Star Wars Battlefront’s story never made it into the books, comics or cartoons that comprise most of the Expanded Universe – but Elite Squadron is completely canon as far as LucasArts is concerned. They’ve got this thing called the “Holocron” which keeps track of continuity in the Star Wars Universe. Most of what gets done…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Undead Knights Preview: Tag! You’re A Zombie!
Undead Knights had nobody representing it at Sony’s PSP media frenzy, but the game pretty much speaks for itself. In the moaning screams of the undead, that is. The story doesn’t seem too hard to follow: there was a king who had some knights and he decided to kill them and one of their girlfriends…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Notebook Dump: Maximum Greg And Patrice, This Clip, And An Unseen Photo
There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? I wound down my coverage this week in preparation for going to Tokyo tomorrow. On Thursday I had my first day of not posting any original stories on Kotaku since…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Latest 2K10 Trailer Takes It Down on the Blocks
Noted low-post inhabitants Kevin Garnett, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard are joined by up-and-comers like Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge in this compilation of post-ups, drop-steps, and duck hooks in NBA 2K10, which hits the streets Oct. 6.
By Owen Good Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valve ‘Pretty Bummed’ by Australia’s Refusal of L4D2
No teeth-gnashing, just subdued disappointment from Valve when asked for comment on the Australian government’s refusal to classify Left 4 Dead 2, effectively banning it for sale there. Maybe Gabe Newell’s gonna talk to someone about it when he visits? Said Doug Lombardi, the Valve spokesman: We were surprised to hear of this news yesterday.…
By Owen Good Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
PSP’s Comic Book Store: Watch Civil War Unfold
I’ve always scorned digital readers because no matter how nifty the controls are, they just don’t have the tangible joy of real books. The PSP Comic Book store, though, puts me in a position where digital reader technology might actually trump the feeling of holding a real comic book in my hand. Because unlike books…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tomorrow Is Pirate Day In The World Of Warcraft
You know Talk Like a Pirate Day is getting out of hand (or hook!) when it gets its very own celebration in World of Warcraft. Yes, tomorrow, September 19th, is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and the folks at Blizzard have whipped up a nautical celebration in Booty Bay that’s sure to please fans of…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fat Princess: Fist Full Of Cake — Cake or Death? That Is The Question
Fat Princess may have disappointed a few fans with its single player mode, but Fist Full of Cake aims to get it right while still keeping the best bits of the PlayStation Network game. To that end, developer Super Villian (working closely with Titan Studios) added 50% more content to Fist Full of Cake, plus…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
LittleBigPlanet PSP Preview: PSP Platforming At Its Cutest
There are plenty of platformers to pick from when it comes to the PSP, but only one of them has Sackboy. Aside from gameplay features like the level editor and the ability to smack your co-op buddies in the dace, there’s a special charm to LittleBigPlanet that sets it apart from other platfomers. Part of…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier PSP Preview: A Blast From The Past
I used to work as a QA tester at Sony Computer Entertainment and while there I met a a Lombax, man named Caley and developed a desperate need for a barrel roll. Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier brought back all of this within seconds because first of all, Jak & Daxter have obvious parallels…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Army of Two: The 40th Day PSP Preview: A Fixed Perspective
I missed the first 39 days of whatever this game is talking about, but the 40th day is pretty exciting. Stuff explodes, people shoot at me and I have a dude to boss around. It’s like one-third of my life in Oakland, California. But enough about me, let’s talk about how to get a third…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines Opens Up Gameplay And Closes The Book On Altair
Ubisoft listened carefully to criticisms of Assassin’s Creed to craft an improved outing for the sequel – but some of that feedback also made its way into Bloodlines on the Playstation Portable. That means that we spend less time with Desmond and actually get to find out what happens to Altair at the end of…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter Preview: Improved DS Scribbling
When is a Scribblenauts story not about Scribblenauts? When it’s about the other ambitious game development studio 5th Cell is releasing on the DS this fall. Before their most recent game became the talk of E3 and the most buzzed about release of the past week, Washington-based 5th Cell was best known for making Drawn…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
This is Getting Wii-diculous
More evidence? Sent from a Best Buy source.
By Brian Crecente Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
APB Is So Very GTA
If the latest gameplay trailer for Realtime Worlds’ APB doesn’t have you drawing comparisons to Grand Theft Auto, then you probably haven’t played Grand Theft Auto. McWhertor mentioned the similarities between the two titles in his impressions of APB from Gamescom in Germany last month, and this gameplay clip completely backs him up. Of course…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
And Here’s A Wii Football Accessory
We mention a plastic football accessory for the Wii in our radio show this week, and a plastic Wii football accessory appears! Coincidence? Probably! Could a plastic football accessory make Madden sell better on the Wii? CTA Digital, the company behind the Wii bowling ball and iPhone steering wheel accessories would like to think so.…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Reviews
WET Review: Swords, Guns and Flawed Fun
Armed with one sword and two of lots of other things, Rubi Malone is a leather-pants wearing, wall-running, pole-spinning death machine. She can shoot two shotguns while flipping through the air, slide under tables to hamstring and gut with her sword, and regains health by swigging liquor. But does the heroine deliver enough fun in…
By Brian Crecente Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Sims 3 World Adventures Goes Underground
The Sims 3 expansion pack World Adventures brings with it a basement tool, which everyone will use to build tombs, and not underground Sim torture chambers. The new basement tool allows The Sims 3 players to create underground structures up to four levels deep, and EA has plenty of new tomb objects in store in…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009