If Team Fortress 2 had an air supremacy mode, Dogfighter would be it. It really baffles me why this game isn’t more popular. It’s got a great look, fantastically responsive controls, a simple premise – Mario Kart meets the Red Baron in a fight to the death – and right now you can buy the…
Koei Tecmo’s long running hack-and-slash franchise Dynasty Warriors gets a new entry next spring, Dynasty Warriors 7. At a press event attended by Kotaku Japan in Tokyo, Shin Sangoku Musou 6 was made official and dated for March 2011. It is currently only for the PS3 and is 3D compatible. In the West, the Shin…
Looks like Microsoft ponied up a bit of cash to have Kinect appear in this week’s episode of Chuck. I hope it wasn’t much, though, because this isn’t advertising. It’s dissuading. Sweat. Hair. Sweaty hair. Sweaty man chest. Jiggly man chest. If you’ve ever thought “Hey, some friends and some beers will make all this…
Konami has already released a special PS3 bundle for Metal Gear Solid 4. This new bundle isn’t so special. But hey, it’s got Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. The PS3 bundle includes a copy of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, a “best” or budget version of stealth game MGS4 and a Charcoal Black 160GB PlayStation 3. So…
They don’t sell PCs like they used to—specifically with sci-fi author Isaac Asimov and his powerful, bushy sideburns. The bewhiskered Asimov pitched Tandy/Radio Shack PCs, like the TRS-80 the first personal computer I ever played a game on. [More PC Gaming Week]
3D televisions are expected to proliferate. More 3D TVs means more and more 3D games. Japanese research firm goo Ranking (via What Japan Thinks) polled folks in Japan regarding which game series they wanted to play on a 3D TV. The survey sample was mostly female (68.2 percent) and ranged from teenagers to senior citizens…
From Ico to God of War to Sly to Beyond Good & Evil, the PlayStation 3 is currently being inundated by high definition ports of classic PS2 games. The Xbox 360? Notsomuch. “I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad idea,” Microsoft Game Studios Corporate Vice President Phil Spencer told IGN. “I’m going to think about…
What do you call Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap with no Pokémon? Snap? “Originally, Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64 system wasn’t a Pokémon game,” recalls Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, “but rather a normal game in which you took photos, but the motivation for playing the game wasn’t clear.” With the Pocket Monsters got-to-collect-them-all craze…
We know, Kinect is shooting for a market more familiar with the Wii than with Modern Warfare perks, but it’s still a little strange seeing an Xbox 360 console pop up on the Home Shopping Network. Normally, you’d expect to see magic dusters, or crap that cleans silverware, or some revolutionary ab-busting torture device (or…
You may not think iPods are true gaming machines, but retail giant GameStop certainly does, as it may soon be accepting Apple’s handheld devices for trade-in. From ancient iPod Shuffles to the more contemporary iPod Touch, if you’ve got an outdated iPod lying around the house that you can’t offload onto a partner or sibling,…
We want to be king, do we not? We want, at least, to try it, to reign wise and strong, loved, perhaps, or feared. Fable III is the video game that could let you learn which kind of ruler you might be. At least, that was the plan. Fable III is the third game in…
Fable III’s debut trailer Fable III’s E3 2010 trailer Fable III’s heavyweight voice-acting talent at work. Fable III’s multiplayer marriage system.
Who else has Halloween fever? If so, can someone recommend a specialist? This is just the off-topic open thread in which to do those kinds of things. It’s also the place for neat internet discoveries like Ray Villafane’s insanely detailed pumpkin carvings. I was going to dedicate some time to pumpkin carving before this weekend,…
Wichita, Kansas police are on the hunt for Benjamin Redgate, who they suspect is partly responsible for the death of Luke German, the result of a disagreement over a “video football game on PlayStation 3.” Benjamin Redgate’s older brother has already been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in relation to the case. The Redgates…
Treyarch and Activision have been relatively quiet on the single-player side of Call of Duty: Black Ops. But it appears Alex Mason, the main protagonist of the next Call of Duty, will have a lot to say. The developers of Black Ops have made a “very deliberate choice” to make Mason a more verbose, more…
Terry Cavanagh’s wonderful VVVVVV is one of the best 2D platformers of 2010. But what if the gravity-flipping spike-filled interstellar adventure ventured into the third-dimension? It might look a little something like this. Sadly, VVVVVVX is just a mock up. Or, as creator “Roxfox” describes it, “just a thing I made in Maya to prove…
November is shaping up to be the second coming of Mr. Pilgrim. In addition to a DVD/Blu-ray release of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and updates to its game adaptation, the video game-infused comic book series is getting attractively boxed. Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley revealed the pretty box set on his personal web…
The second cutest epic for the Wii is coming to North America November 30, giving Mickey Mouse fans a chance to explore the morality of Disney’s most famous mascot. Epic Mickey‘s newest trailer focuses on the epic-ness of it all. Sample Epic Mickey’s lovely opening cinematic and some of its painting and erasing gameplay for…
To: Ash From: Crecente Today was even more fun than usual at Kotaku Tower. We spent a lot of time, too much time perhaps, talking about computer gaming. I ended up googling tons of Issac Asimov pictures and fantastic TRS-80 game ads on my hunt for the first computer game I ever played. Good times.…
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