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Mad Max Director Thinks Games Are Surpassing Films In Storytelling
Yesterday, it was Star Ocean 4 designer Yoshinori Yamagishi going on about how video game storytelling could exceed books or film. Today, it’s Mad Max director George Miller. Tomorrow? Who knows. According to the filmmaker, “Games were the poor cousin to feature films when it came to storytelling but I think it’s flipping. Games allow…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rabbi Overcomes Fear Of Nazis, Courtesy Of Call Of Duty
Somewhat understandably, given the fact he’s Jewish, Rabbi Micah Kelber has always had a few issues with Nazis. Until, that is, he played Call of Duty: World at War. Writing for the Jewish newspaper/website Forward, Kelber says that WaW’s in-your-face moral choices (which you get quite often in the Soviet missions) do more than just…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Castle Crashers: The Lucha Libre Connection
Jerry Frissen’s Lucha Libre comic series is already a line of collector’s toys by Muttpop; but toymaker Bob Silva says it was almost a multiplayer game made by The Behemoth. In his blog, the Muttpop president waxes on the development process behind the Luchadores Five figures. Apparently, some of the early sketches were so inspirational…
By AJ Glasser Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Report: Guitar Hero: Van Halen One Of Five “Hero” Games Due In ’09
After the release of Guitar Hero: Metallica, Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits and Guitar Hero: Modern Hits, Activision has plans to release an additional five games in the series, including one based on Van Halen. Sound familiar? It should, because Activision CEO Bobby Kotick hinted this time last year that Van Halen may be one of…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Inafune & Suda 51 Go To Sweden
Capcom’s Keiji Inafune and Grasshopper Manufacture‘s Goichi Suda (aka Suda 51) will speak at the sixth annual Nordic Game 2009 conference this May, should you happen to find yourself there. The Nordic Game Conference pulls devs and industry pundits from all over Europe for their speakers list. As the event has grown in scope and…
By AJ Glasser Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Get The Whole World Of Goo In Your Hands For $5 This Weekend
Stumped for something to play this weekend? Play World of Goo! The 2D Boy developed puzzler is the current Steam Weekend Deal, marked down a ludicrous 75%. That means a paltry $5 to you. You know you want World of Goo. Everybody loved it, including us. And you don’t want to be one of those…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Xbox 360 Elite To Become Xbox 360 Extinct
Microsoft may be putting the Xbox 360 Elite out to pasture, letting stock of its high-end version of the console slowly deplete, saving the hardware configuration for limited edition releases only. According to Fudzilla, citing retail sources, Microsoft may be making the decision to whittle down its hardware lineup to accommodate retailer concerns and as…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rumor-A-Thon
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: “Wondering About The Girls In My Class…” Some interesting leaks are starting to shake loose as we approach the Game Developers Conference. Some new news came out today about Army of Two-Two, and The Beatles: Rock Band. Other tidbits should be hitting over the weekend and tomorrow. Has your rumor…
By Brian Crecente Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Take Our Survey and Get Your Game On (if you’re lucky…)
Fill out this short survey for us, and we’ll send one lucky gamer a $100 gift certificate to Gamestop. Simply email [email protected] with the last question of the survey to enter. Standard contest rules apply.
By Chrissie Lamond Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wii To Get Resident Evil: Code Veronica Update?
Time to put 2+2 together. Capcom marketing man Matt Dahlgren has been giving interviews today. Giving interviews and dropping hints about a new Code Veronica game on the Wii. First, let’s look at how Dahlgren winds up his interview with Game Focus: Game Focus: One of the staff here loves Code Veronica (Fale) and was…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Analyst: Lost And Damned Sales At 1 Million, All-New GTA In 2010
Rockstar Games and Microsoft haven’t disclosed exact sales of the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion The Lost and Damned, only boasting that it has broken Xbox Live Arcade records. But one analyst has a guess. We’re sure it’s more of an informed estimate than a guess, really, considering the source is Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Realism Will Be Key to Beatles Rock Band Experience
When The Beatles come to Rock Band it may not be as different an experience as many had hoped, but what it lacks in new ways to play it will make up for in nuance. When MTV Games, Harmonix and Apple Corps announced an exclusive partnership in October to create a new video game featuring…
By Brian Crecente Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Rock Band Band Tracks Find “Religion”
Consider this. R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” is coming to Rock Band and Rock Band 2 as downloadable content, Harmonix announced today, one of four tracks refreshing the game’s library next week. “Losing My Religion” from Out Of Time will be the second Rock Band playable offering from R.E.M. whose “Orange Crush” was available in the…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Only Game With Techno-Dancing Joseph Stalin
We’re quite confident that this trailer for PC real-time strategy Stalin vs. Martians is the only game trailer ever to feature a techno-dancing Joseph Stalin. We’ve spoken about Stalin vs. Martians in the past. Subtitled “The Unknown Pages of the Second World War”, it delivers just what it promises…the Russian army facing off against Martians,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Don’t Look Back: Seriously, Don’t Look Back
If you find yourself needing an online diversion plus have the keyboard platforming skills and a heap of patience, we’d advise you to spend some of your weekend with Don’t Look Back. We don’t want to spoil too much for you, but as one may be able to glean from the title, Don’t Look Back‘s…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guitar Hero: Modern Hits Is Totally Official
While it’s been no secret that Activision has been planning a Modern Hits sequel to its Guitar Hero: On Tour series of Nintendo DS games, the publisher has decided to make it official. Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits will pack in 25 master tracks when it ships this June (alongside Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits)…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Daft Punk To Spin The Deadly Discs Of The Tron 2 Soundtrack
The planned Tron movie sequel (that may to borrow the name of the 2003 video game) has at least one aspect that’s promising—a soundtrack from French electronic duo Daft Punk. While the return to the video game world of Tron—which has been titled both Tron 2.0 and TR2N during its pre-production—is still shrouded in mystery,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
inFamous Charges Onto PlayStation 3s Worldwide In June
Sony has narrowed down the release date for its upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive inFamous, announcing that the game would launch worldwide in June. The game is Sucker Punch Productions first PlayStation 3 release. Its last was way back in September of 2005, the PlayStation 2 game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. Obviously, inFamous is huge…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009 - Reviews
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh Micro-Review: The End Can’t Come Soon Enough
Watchmen (the movie) comes out today. Seen it yet? Going to see it? If you find yourself nodding “yes”, then you’re just the kind of person Watchmen (the game) is targeted at. But are you the type of person who is going to enjoy Watchmen (the game)? Well now, that depends. On a number of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
After the beat downs I was handed by Street Fighter “honored master” Seth Killian—his official title, I believe—it’s clear I need to re-learn how to play the thing. *dusts off arcade stick* With the PlayStation 3 version of Street Fighter IV arriving at Kotaku Towers West yesterday, I can finally take advantage of my Hori…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 6, 2009