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Go Play Lumberjacks So You Don’t Have To
It’s been quite awhile, but now we’re back, playing the Nintendo Wii family party game Go Play Lumberjacks, so you don’t have to. Go Play Lumberjacks is, oddly enough, part of Majesco’s new Go Play line of family-friendly titles. Of course, on the Nintendo Wii, family-friendly generally translates into mini-games, and Lumberjacks is no different.…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pieces of You: Rebuilding Myself On Consoles
It’s been three months since the breakup and I still can’t delete my ex’s Mii. I still have Achievements and Trophies to win back and a stack of used games to re-beat. This is what a console identity crisis looks like. It’s not the same as having to return a sweater or divide up a…
By AJ Glasser Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gimli And Gollum Voice Risen
It’s a Lord of the Rings reunion on the PC and Xbox 360, as Andy Serkis and John Rhys Davies join the voice cast of Piranha Byte’s next big role-playing game, Risen. No stranger to portraying digital creations, Andy “Gollum” Serkis will be portraying someone named The Inquisitor in Risen, which sounds fairly ominous and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tune in To Kotaku Talk Radio Now
In this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll be talking about QuakeCon, playing easy in Red Faction: Guerrilla, buying your way to victory in Madden, the posh office settings and flat panels of gaming’s greatest developers and having a quick listen to an 8-bit Weezer tribute album. Better still, myself and guest co-host Russ…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Command & Conquer 4 Crawler Moves Out
This Command & Conquer 4 Crawler mobile base was made for walking, and that’s just what it’ll do. And one of these days this base is gonna walk all over Nod. The Crawler is the GDI’s main unit in the fourth and final installment in the Tiberium Saga, providing all the amenities of a static…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ultima Online’s 8th Expansion Dated
Ultima Online turns twelve-years-old next month, making it the perfect time for Mythic to release the game’s 8th expansion pack, Ultima Online: The Stygian Abyss. Ultima Online channels the classic first-person dungeon crawler Ultima Underworld on September 8th, with the Stygian Abyss expansion adding in the game’s largest dungeon to date. They’ve filled it with…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tim Schafer and Cliff Blezinski: A Peek Inside Their Offices
Last week we ran a feature showing off the desks and play places of some of gaming’s greatest developers and producers. Today we’re adding two more set ups for your perusal. Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine productions and the man behind Brutal Legend, and Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games designer and the face of Gears…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Aion’s Closed Beta Closes This Weekend
This weekend marks the very last closed beta session for NCsoft’s Aion, so if you were looking to give the game a try before the open beta flood, now would be the time. Players who preorder Aion receive a code good for access to all closed beta events leading up to the open beta and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Spyborgs Gets Pushed Up, Celebratory Webisode Commence
Capcom’s cyborg secret agent game is now hitting stores a week earlier than anticipated, and the company celebrates with the release of the first cheese-flavored animated webisode for Spyborgs. In a season full of delays, Capcom pushes up a game for a change, moving Spyborgs’ release date from September 29th to September 22nd. Capcom punctuates…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hitler’s New Look In Wolfenstein RPG
Wolfenstein RPG hit the iPhone last night with a neat, almost cel-shaded look. I was a bit surprised, though, to see Hitler’s new look in the game. Unwilling, it seems, to keep Hitler in the turn-based title, the developers decided the next best thing would be to create a leader who has lower facial hair…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
High Voltage Traps Ghostbusters Engine
High Voltage, the developers behind the Wii-exclusive first-person shooter The Conduit, have signed up for a lifetime license to the Ghostbusters-powering Infernal Engine, gearing up for some Xbox 360 and PC development. With The Conduit out of the way and a couple more Wii projects being polished off, High Voltage Software is now ready to…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Section 8 Allows PC-Hosted Xbox 360 Severs
The Xbox 360 version of Timegate’s Section 8 is getting a multiplayer boost, allowing players to create their own dedicated Xbox 360 server on their PC. Upon the launch of Section 8 on September 1st, Timegate and publisher Southpeak will have free X Server software available for download, which allows players to create their own…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Learning For The Pokemons
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Talk All the Time We made a deal with Mini-Bash: We will only buy him a Pokémon DS game after and only after he learns to read hiragana. He’s been studying and can read, so it looks like we’ll be getting him either of the Gold/Silver remakes. Japanese characters, gotta…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Elite 360 Dropping In Price, RIP Pro Model
Looks like we have an execution date for the Xbox 360 Pro model, with this shot from a Meijer catalogue due on August 30 indicating the 360 Elite is in line for a Pro-sized price cut. You’ll remember, of course, that the origins of this rumour – Ars Technica’s ever-reliable Microsoft mole – are that…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
So, What Was The World’s Very First Gamertag?
While there are millions and millions (and millions!) of gamertags out there now, in the beginning, there was but one. The alpha, the creator, Xbox Live’s Adam, before he lost a rib. So, who was it? As part of a little Q&A about the new Xbox dashboard, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has disclosed that the very…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
New CryEngine 3 Demo
id weren’t the only ones showing off fancy new graphics engines at the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference in New Orleans. Crytek were there too, with a new CryEngine 3 demo. Granted, it’s not the most exciting clip – there’s no guns, Koreans or explosions – but it is showing that, as texture counts become ever less…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Announcing Its Announcing Something At Gamescom About Video Store
Is this thing on? Sony has something to announce. “We will be making an official announcement regarding our forthcoming Video Store, next week, at Gamescom,” says European PlayStation Store manager Angela Madronero. To be fair to her, Madronero could’ve been asked about the video store. To be fair to us, she could cut the corporate…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
If Only There Were PS2 Games On The PSN…
Do you dream about things? We don’t. Dreaming is for dreamers. We prefer to spend our spare time thinking merely of things that should be, but are not. Which is where these new kind of Kotaku posts come in. If you see a post tagged “Let’s Fantasy”, that’s exactly what it is: fantasy. An idea,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Assassin’s Creed II, Patrice Footage
Not only does this Assassin’s Creed II clip have new gameplay footage and concept art, but it also has new footage of AC creative director Patrice and his beard. Patrice does the talking. His beard? The listening.
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2009