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Something Assassin’s Creed-y Set For Next Year
Fans of Assassin’s Creed like to decode riddles, right? Then they’ll enjoy the cagey way the CEO of Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft described his company’s line-up for next year. On a call to address the company’s financial performance and explain the delays of four upcoming games, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was asked to describe his…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Lessons Learned From Iron Man: The Video Game
Sega is quite aware that the first Iron Man video game it published wasn’t too warmly received by critics, something the developers of the second game based on the Jon Favreau films are trying to address. “The good news is that everyone in the known universe told us what was wrong with the first game,”…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 27, 2009 -
UncategorizedFirst Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Video Shows Killer Killstreaks
Infinity Ward has released the first footage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s multiplayer action, revealing the customizable killstreaks players can equip after unlocking them. The debut killstreak bonus is amazing—an AC130 air strike. Yes, you’ll be able to whip out the laptop on the battlefield, then rain hell from above, all from the…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Hands-On At Comic-Con
Activision brought a playable Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 to its Comic-Con get together this week, giving us our first hands-on opportunity with the sequel, which has changed developers from Raven Software to Vicarious Visions. While the gameplay is largely similar to the first, putting the player in control of up to four Marvel super heroes,…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
DJ Hero Scores The Fresh Prince’s Other Half
DJ Hero might be scoring quite a few new preorders with the news that DJ Jazzy Jeff is contributing his likeness and tracks to the game. While we kid DJ Jazzy Jeff for his ties to Will Smith’s Fresh Prince character, the man is actually a damn fine DJ, as well as a record producer…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Plans to Have Piracy Solution in Place This Year
Piracy has taken a hefty toll on Ubisoft, according to company head Yves Guillemot, but the developer and publisher say they are hard at work on a tool that should help reduce the negative impact. “Altogether on console, the piracy is low,” Guillemot said. “On the PC the piracy is quite a lot. We are…
By Brian Crecente Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
On Designing Red Steel 2’s Hero
We’re all taking the news of Red Steel 2‘s delay pretty hard here at Kotaku Towers. Some of us were really looking forward to seeing the Wii MotionPlus put to use outside of sports games and mini-game collections. To make the wait go a little bit quicker—at least two minutes and thirty seconds worth of…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Punch-Out Devs Talk Graphics, Difficulty, Nixed Princess Peach Idea
Few Wii games have been designed to please long-time Nintendo fans as much as the recent Wii Punch-Out!! Developers on the game recently explained to Kotaku just how the game came together, who did what, and what got left out. Punch-Out on the Wii was a collaboration between Nintendo’s Japan home office and Canadian studio…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Coloring In Your City Of Heroes Powers
During Comic-Con 2009 I got to spend some time hanging with NCsoft’s Matt “Positron” Miller, who walked me through how to show your true colors in the upcoming Issue 16: Power Spectrum update. According to Positron, power customization is something they’ve wanted to include in the game from the very beginning, only to have the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kevin Conroy Doesn’t Remember Batman: Rise Of Sin Tzu
I’m not sure if the fact that the voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, not remembering doing the voice work for Batman: The Rise of Sin Tzu is a good thing or a bad thing. A roundtable discussion with the legendary voice of Batman kicked off on Saturday at Comic-Con with Conroy addressing the question, “Is…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Fat Princess Battle Begins This Week
Hats will fly this Thursday afternoon, when Titan Studios’ Fat Princess finally waddles her way onto the PlayStation Network. The eagerly-awaited multiplayer game of fantasy combat and cake eating is coming with this week’s PlayStation Store update on the 30th, priced to move at $15.00. For those of you unfamiliar with the title, it’s a…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Sees Sharp Drop in Sales, Blames Market, DS Piracy
Sales for Ubisoft’s second quarter is expected to show a more than 50 percent drop from the same quarter last year, the publisher and developer announced today. The expected sales drop is also more than 12 percent lower than initially expected. Yves Guillemot, Chief Executive Officer for Ubisoft, places much of the blame for the…
By Brian Crecente Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Splinter Cell Conviction And Red Steel 2 Slip To 2010
The fall gaming season grows sparser still today, as Ubisoft announces the delay of Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2, with I am Alive and Ghost Recon slipping into the next fiscal year. Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2, two of the breakout titles from this year’s E3 Expo, won’t be making their…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
THQ Smacksdown Jakks Over WWE Suit
THQ is claiming victory over partner Jakks Pacific in the most recent match of the long-running no-holds-barred legal battle royal the two have been in over the licensing rights for World Wrestling Entertainment. In a binding arbitration between the two companies announced today, an arbitrator has ruled that Jakks is only entitled to six percent…
By Brian Crecente Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Arkham Asylum’s Scarecrow Design Is BioShock Creepy
This Friday, GameStop revealed their preorder exclusive Scarecrow Challenge Maps for Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the villain’s new look certainly coincides with his fear-inducing powers. Players who preorder Batman: Arkham Asylum from GameStop will gain access to the Dem Bones Scarecrow Challenge Maps for the game, which pit Batman against a horde of skeletal hallucinations…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Other Real-Life Inspiration For The Saboteur’s Hero
Pandemic’s art director Chris Hunt found the inspiration for The Saboteur‘s main character at a concept artist convention, but not how you’d think. Saboteur protagonist Sean Devlin may have been inspired by real-life Grand Prix motor racing driver and special agent William Grover-Williams, but Grover-Williams’ look didn’t quite fit what Pandemic was looking for in…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Video Games Inescapable At Comic-Con
The San Diego Comic-Con draws more than a hundred thousand people from around the world each year to revel in all things pop-culture. But last weekend’s gathering also highlighted the strengthening connection between comic books and video games. Half a dozen comics and two new cartoons based on video games were announced at the show…
By Brian Crecente Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: Pirates And Musketeers, Living Together
Pirates and musketeers battle card sharks and…Sudoku this week in the once again Virtual Console-less Nintendo download. This marks the second week in a row that we’ve seen no classic games added to Nintendo’s Virtual Console, but with Guybrush Threepwood making his WiiWare debut in the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island (1,000 WiiWare…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
2009 San Diego Comic-Con Round Up
In case you had trouble following our flurry of coverage from the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, we’ve gathered it all together into one giant mass of cosplay, toys, previews, comics, and gaming news. Pre-Show Warm Up Sony Bringing Ratchet, Clank & Drake To Comic-Con Valve Brings Left 4 Dead 2 To Comic-Con, Reveals “Swamp Fever”…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2009
