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Live the Dream: Design the Games you Play!
Our unique program is your first step toward becoming an artist and designer in the multi-billion-dollar game design industry. Details after the jump. You’ll learn how to design game play and background, create characters and their environments, and apply your knowledge of video and computer games to evaluate products. You will also learn to plan…
By Chrissie Lamond Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Marge Simpson Enjoys Her First Teabagging In Halo
The twentieth season of Matt Groening’s The Simpsons introduces the corpse-desecrating act of “teabagging” to the stalwart Simpsons fan in a not-so-subtle nod to Bungie’s Halo 2, complete with mostly accurate Xbox controllers. That near-accuracy may lead some to speculate that the grinding of one’s digital undercarriage on the armored cadaver of a fallen foe…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
World At War Map Pack 1 Sells Two Million
The popularity of Nazi zombies is cemented forever in video game sales history, as Activision announces more than two million downloads of the Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1. Released in March, the first map pack for Call of Duty: World at war contained three multiplayer maps players could care less about…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Why Kotaku?
Never mind why your new Deputy Managing Editor has come to Kotaku. Why are you here? What kind of person leaves a nice games-reporting job at MTV News, gives up running their own blog to work under the iron fist of one Brian Crecente? Me — your new Kotaku deputy managing editor. People asked me…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Crytek Helps Free Radical Realize Their Dreams
How did Crytek get picked to purchase Free Radical over the various other companies vying for a piece of the floundering studio? By harnessing the power of dreams. Crytek purchased the TimeSplitters developer in February, following a period of reorganizing that resulted in the layoff of 140 employees. In an interview with Develop, CEO Cevat…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
The People Of Risen
The latest trailer for Piranha Bytes latest role-playing adventure takes a look at the people and places of Risen. First they set the mood with the more wild areas of the volcanic island on which Risen takes place, and now the developers take us into the more populated areas. Children play and adults go about…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age Goes Pen And Paper
BioWare is giving players a whole new old way to experience Dragon Age: Origins, announcing a pen and paper role-playing game based in the Dragon Age universe. Following in the footsteps of games like EverQuest and Street Fighter, Dragon Age is making the leap from video game to pen and paper role-playing game. Green Ronin…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ken Levine’s Other Games
[As seen on A Life Well Wasted] [Others]
By Brian Crecente Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sacred 2 Looks Fine On The PlayStation 3
We’re a week away from the console release for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, and Ascaron has released a lovely set of PlayStation 3 screens just in case anyone doubted that version existed. Sacred 2 media has skewed heavily towards the Xbox 360 up until now, so it’s nice to see some images from the PlayStation…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Battleforge Receives Strategic Price Reduction
EA has announced that their card-based real time strategy game BattleForge is getting a new “competitive pricing strategy”, with the retail price dropping to $29.99. I love the term “competitive pricing strategy”. It’s a lovely way to say that not enough people were buying the game, so we lowered the price. The new price makes…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
PC Broken Steel Error Is A Games For Windows Live Problem
The Broken Steel update for the PC version of Fallout 3 has been taken down for repair. Bethesda explains why. As we reported previously, PC users who downloaded the Broken Steel downloadable content via Games for Windows Live this morning were treated to a “cryptographic message is not formatted correctly” error. We contacted Bethesda’s Pete…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo World Store Hosts Punch-Out!! Challenge
Punch-Out!! fans in the New York City can visit the Nintendo World Store on May 16th for a chance to take part in the Punch-Out!! Challenge and pick up an early copy of the game. On Saturday, May 16th from 1pm to 4pm at the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Plaza, Nintendo will be celebrating…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Beatles: Rock Band Gets The Beatles Guitars
Harmonix and MTV today announce two new Beatles-themed guitar controllers going on sale when The Beatles: Rock Band hits stores in September – the Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet. The Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet are a pair of full-bodied, classic guitars used extensively by John Lennon and George Harrison throughout their careers.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
I Like My Women Like I Like My Gamers – Covered In Fingers
To: Mike From: Luke Re: Where In Greater Los Angeles Is Brian Crecente? Thanks, Mike. Woke up this morning intending to do a full day’s work, not mash my F5 key into dust. Anyway, here’s what you missed while scouring the city looking for stray Crecentes in fetching red fedoras: I’M A MULLET! I’M A…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
So, How Long Until Final Fantasy XIII Is Out In Europe?
As we’ve pointed out with numbers, few Japanese publishers are as tardy with their European releases as Square Enix. So how’s the Final Fantasy XIII localisation coming along, then? In a statement that’s not exactly encouraging for European fans, Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase has told Videogamer: Obviously we would like to release [in Europe] as…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Make Your Own Modded Console Handhelds
Console modder Ben Heckendorn has made quite a name for himself chopping machines apart and making them smaller, sleeker, more portable. Now you can do as he does. To help him sell his book “Hacking Videogame Consoles”, Heckendorn has posted on his website a series of design documents and shopping lists for some of his…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Surprise, Fallout 3’s New DLC Is Broken
Seems that Fallout 3’s latest piece of trouble-plagued downloadable content, Broken Steel, has launched broken. Least, it is on PC. Shocking, I know. A ton of people keen enough to install the game as soon as it went live this morning have been met with the following message: Not a cryptographic message or the cryptographic…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Earthbound Fans Are Crazy, Yo
Somehow a fresh, unopened copy of Earthbound turned up on eBay the other day. Bidding was fierce. And at the auction’s closing bell, the winner had parted with, oh, over $1000. To be exact, the final amount was $1,025.01. For an unopened, store-bought copy of the 1995 classic, is that a steal? We’d say no,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Activision Gets A New Chairman
It’s been announced overnight that Activision Blizzard‘s chairman, who is due to retire later this year, is to be replaced by the Chief Executive of partners Vivendi. The mega-publishers’s current chairman – Rene Penisson – will be stepping down because his “mandate expires this year”. His replacement, Jean-Bernard Levy, has been with Vivendi since 2002,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
