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This is Easily The Single Worst Piece of Marketing at PAX
If you visited any of the restrooms at PAX (well, the Men’s rooms anyway. I don’t know about the ladies’ rooms. I could have checked, but… er, anyway). If you visited any of the men’s rooms at PAX, you probably saw this Prototype 2 sticker on the inside of the stalls and stuck above the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 27, 2011 -
The Voice of Edge of Time‘s Spider-Man is So Dreamy
Why do we have freaky giraffe-necked Andrew Garfield playing Spider-Man in the 2012 film reboot when the voice of Spider-Man from the cartoons and games looks this good? You may not know Josh Keaton’s face, but you know his voice. He’s been Spider-Man in the cartoons, the video games, and anywhere else they’ve needed a…
By Mike Fahey Published August 26, 2011 -
Celtic Rockers Dropkick Murphys Performing at Call of Duty Con
Kanye West isn’t the only musician performing at the first-ever Call of Duty convention, Irish-punk rockers Dropkick Murphys will be closing the first night of the show, Activision said today. The band is performing opening night at 8 p.m. on Sept. 2 at the Call of Duty XP event. Then on Sunday night Kayne West…
By Brian Crecente Published August 25, 2011 -
Another Year, Another Expensive Car Based On a Video Game
Welcome to 2011. Where not only are video game franchises annualised, but expensive, real cars bearing their branding are as well. The Call of Duty Jeep Wrangler, which was released last year in honour of Call of Duty: Black Ops, will be re-released this year, only now with Modern Warfare 3 branding all over it…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2011 -
Blizzard Launches Diablo III Community Site, Beta Sure To Follow
The official community site for Blizzard’s hot-hot-hotly anticipated dungeoneer Diablo III has launched, giving the game’s hordes of fans a centralized place to post about, you know, how mad excited everyone is about the game. The activation of the community site seems to underline a high probability that the Beta will be released soon, at…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 24, 2011 -
Rise From Your Graves, It’s Black Ops Rezurrection Day
It’s time to strap on your space suit, dual wield your space guns, and take out some space zombies on the moon, as Activision and Treyarch launch the all-zombie Rezurrection map pack for Black Ops on the Xbox 360. What you see above is perhaps the most bizarre Call of Duty screenshot I’ve ever posted,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 23, 2011 -
New GoldenEye: Reloaded Screens Classified For All Eyes Only
How many times can we remind you that GoldenEye: Reloaded is not just GoldenEye 007 for the Wii? It’s GoldenEye 007 for the Wii with better graphics, as this fresh batch of 16 screengrabs from nearly all of the game’s stages illustrates. The real difference in the two games is the “MI6 Operations” mode, more…
By Owen Good Published August 20, 2011 -
Peace for Our Time. Battlefield, Call of Duty Makers Play Battlefield 3 Together
EA execs talks smack about Activision’s Call of Duty. Wants it to rot. Predicts it will collapse, and soon. Activision execs rolls their eyes at EA, sigh and suggest there’s enough room for EA’s Battlefield 3 and all the Call of Duty/Modern Warfares to co-exist. Meanwhile… In Germany at Gamescom today, Robert Bowling, creative strategist…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2011 -
Trash-talking Battlefield Publisher Predicts Call of Duty Will Collapse ‘In 2-3 Years’
EA, the publisher of this fall’s Battlefield 3, responded today to a call from their competition for cooler rhetoric with some heated trash talk. “Welcome to the big leagues Eric,” EA spokesperson Jeff Brown said in a comment issued to Kotaku but adressed to Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision and the man who said in…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2011 -
Nine Out of 10 Will Not Finish the Game They are Playing
Just 10 percent of gamers actually finish a game, an industry veteran told CNN in a recent feature, and his colleagues and other figures back him up. “Ninety percent of players who start your game will never see the end of it unless they watch a clip on YouTube,” says Keith Fuller. Raptr, the gaming…
By Owen Good Published August 19, 2011 -
Call of Duty Makers Say Competitor’s Anti-Call of Duty Talk Harms the Gaming Industry
EA CEO John Riccitiello, head of the company making this fall’s premiere Call of Duty competitor, Battlefield 3, recently said he hopes that Call of Duty would “rot from the core.” In Germany, this week, Riccitiello’s counterpart at Actvision, CEO Eric Hirshberg, fired back, defending not just his company’s Call of Duty/Modern Warfare franchise but…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2011 -
And Now a Very Bloody Message from Call of Duty Zombie Labs
At Call of Duty Zombie Labs, the worlds’ top scientists are working around the clock to familiarize themselves with the undead inside and out. And inside-out. Ew. In this exceptionally gory advertisement for Black Ops’ Rezurrection DLC, due out on August 23 for the Xbox 360, we’re given a sneak peek at what happens when…
By Mike Fahey Published August 18, 2011 -
Goldeneye 007: Reloaded Special Missions Make You Roll Like MI6
Like MI6, like MI6; aside from the single player campaign and online multiplayer, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Goldeneye 007: Reloaded will feature standalone missions that will task players with assault, elimination, stealth and defense objectives — like MI6. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You…
By Mike Fahey Published August 17, 2011 -
Let This Prototype 2 Trailer Bring You Up to Speed
Didn’t play the first Prototype, but want to play the second and don’t know what the hell is going on? Well, watch this trailer. Even if you know what’s going on, watch it. Prototype 2 drops next spring. You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 17, 2011 -
There are Few Famous Heroes in this New X-Men: Destiny Trailer
We’ve already given you an early look at X-men: Destiny, the game that lets you choose your powers. Today at Gamescom, new screenshots and a trailer were released showcasing the powers you’ll get to choose from in Marvel’s upcoming game. You can contact Jen Schiller, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Jen Schiller Published August 17, 2011 -
The Black Cat and Katee Sackhoff in One Video? Is it My Birthday?
I know Spider-Man’s on-again, off-again lust interest is supposed to have bad luck powers, but with Battlestar Galactica‘s Katee Sackhoff voicing the 2099 version of the Black Cat, I can’t help but feel like my luck’s taken a turn for the better. Katee Sackhoff’s charm lies in the fact that she reminds most guys of…
By Mike Fahey Published August 17, 2011 -
Brace Yourself for So Many More Call of Duty (Websites)
Hope you like Call of Duty! Because Activision, the game’s publisher, is reportedly going on a domain registering spree. The folks at website Fusible believe Activision has registered the following websites: CODBlackOps3.com, CODBlackOps4.com, CODBlackOps5.com, CODBlackOps6.com, BlackOps4.com, BlackOps5.com, BlackOps6.com, CallOfDutyBlackOps3.com, CallOfDutyBlackOps4.com, CallOfDutyBlackOps5.com, CallOfDutyBlackOps6.com, CallofDutyMW5.com, and CallofDutyMW6.com As Fusible pointed out, the domains were registered by DNS…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 17, 2011 -
Val Kilmer in His Greatest Role (and Hat) Since Real Genius
When film legend Val Kilmer sinks his teeth into the role of the main villain in Spider-Man: Edge of Time, someone’s got to die. Walker Sloan is a scientist from the future that travels back in time to found mega-corporation Alchemax before its time in Spider-Man: Edge of Time. Changing the future affects the past,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 16, 2011 -
This is How Spider-Man: Edge of Time Does Mary Jane
Clark Kent’s Kryptonian cousin Laura Vandervoort crosses the DC / Marvel line this October in Spider-Man: Edge of Time, trading her Supergirl undies for the damsel-in-distress role of Mary Jane Watson. It’s nice to see Laura cast as a more down-to-earth character for once. The problem with possessing otherworldly beautiful is you soon get typecast…
By Mike Fahey Published August 15, 2011 -
Is Iron Wolf the Next Call of Duty?
A pair of hackers that gained access to the Xbox account of a Treyarch employee believes they’ve stumbled across the next entry in the Call of Duty series, code named Iron Wolf. Are they on to something? The Iron Wolf speculation comes after hackers gained access to the Xbox Live account of an internal PartnerNet…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2011