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Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure Could Be the Most Expensive Game You Ever Buy

While at least two of us at Kotaku enjoy Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure enough to recommend a purchase, that doesn’t mean we’re oblivious to the costly downsides to a game that sells its downloadable content on toy store shelves. To experience everything Skylanders has to offer as of this writing would cost roughly $225. Merging physical…

By Mike Fahey Published October 18, 2011

47 Billion Shots Were Fired In the Battlefield 3 Beta

Time for some fun with numbers! With the open beta for Battlefield 3 now over, developers DICE and publishers EA have shared some stats from the slaughterthon. It’s the really big ones that grab you first, like 47 billion shots being fired, 1.5 billion kills being recorded or over 8 million players taking part. But…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 18, 2011

Should You Buy Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure? Yes.

Mixing together video games and collectible toys, Activision? How very Captain Power of you. As many will no doubt remember, the good captain and his soldiers of the future wound up defending clearance aisles from evil until fading into obscurity. Should a simillar fate befall Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure? It’s time for a Gut Check. Evan…

By Mike Fahey Published October 17, 2011

How to Play With Your Skylanders Toys on Console, 3DS, and the Web

Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure hit game and toy store shelves, resulting in thousands of children and adults learning a new way to play together. There are many different ways to squeeze fun out of these shiny lumps of plastic; let’s take a look at three of them. There’s the game console version of Skylanders, in which…

By Mike Fahey Published October 17, 2011

I Can Like the New SSX, Which Is Already Better Than The Last Two

I like SSX games so much that I know that the person who created the screenshot atop this story named it wrong. Someone at SSX publisher EA called our boarder here Koari. Her name is Kaori. I know this because no video game took over my house quite the way SSX 3 did several years…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 17, 2011

It’s Modern Sonic’s Turn in the Sonic Generations Demo Spotlight

Classic Sonic got his chance to sell folks on Sonic Generations with his demo back in June. Tomorrow it’s modern Sonic’s time to shine, and he’s a lean, mean, generally screwing things up in 3D machine! Oh, and classic Sonic is coming along for the ride too. Back in June Sega treated fans to a…

By Mike Fahey Published October 17, 2011

There is a Devil May Cry HD Collection in the Works, and This is What It Looks Like

Having long been the subject of rumors, speculation, and ESRB ratings, the Devil May Cry HD Collection is now a real snow-haired, demon-slaying boy, and we’ve got the comparison shots to prove it. The collection brings together remastered versions of the first three titles in the Devil May Cry series, from Dante’s big debut to…

By Mike Fahey Published October 17, 2011

Arkham City’s Launch Trailer Shows Batman Has a lot on his Plate

This is the launch trailer for Batman: Arkham City, out this week on 360 and PS3. It shows most of the people you fight with, and against, in the game. I actually finished the game yesterday. The reason I bring this up is that I didn’t see some of the content in this trailer, meaning…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 17, 2011

Throw Grenades by Voice with Halo: Anniversary‘s Kinect Functionality

You can shout “grenade!” and see Master Chief sling one with the Kinect functionality 343 Industries has added to Halo: Anniversary, the high-definition remake coming Nov. 15. Other voice commands include “reload!” the studio revealed yesterday at Comic-Con. Kinect will also support the spoken command “analyze,” which allows players to capture specific items from the…

By Owen Good Published October 16, 2011

Holiday Ads Bootstrap Microsoft’s Unsexy Products to Xbox and Kinect

This Sunday, Microsoft will launch an ad campaign that tout its “family” of consumer products together, rather than individual campaigns for each. What that really means is the company is ramping up the sex appeal for products like Microsoft Office by including the Xbox 360 and Kinect in the picture. The company’s chief marketing strategist…

By Owen Good Published October 15, 2011

Marvel Pinball Brings the X-Men and Magneto to Its Newest Table

Today Zen Studios revealed that X-Men will be the latest entry in its Vengeance & Virtue series of Marvel-themed tables for Pinball FX2, joining Ghost Rider Pinball wizards will be tasked with assembling the X-Men, teaching them their powers, and overcoming the threat posed by Magneto—who tears up the floor of the machine, destroys ramps…

By Owen Good Published October 15, 2011

You Didn’t Think Battlefield 3 Wouldn’t Require the Online Pass, Did You?

DICE confirmed, via designer Alan Kertz on Twitter, that Battlefield 3 on Xbox 360 and PS3 would require the one-use “Online Pass” code included free in retail copies, but costs $10 for those who have a copy of the game without a code—i.e. those who buy it used. Multiplayer for all EA Sports games have…

By Owen Good Published October 15, 2011

FIFA-Loving Hackers Strike Xbox Live Accounts

Xbox Live users should keep an eye on their accounts, and any credit card associated with that account, and especially take notice of any strange activity involving FIFA 11 or 12. Several users have complained, through multiple gaming publications, of hackers recovering their accounts to a different machine and using them for purchases associated with…

By Owen Good Published October 15, 2011

Should You Buy X-Men: Destiny? No.

X-Men: Destiny has been out on store shelves for a couple of weeks now, so for many of you this comes too late, but in case the New York Comic-Con gets you craving a little mutant-on-mutant violence, Multiple Fahey and his sidekick, Owen, are here to save the day with an untimely Gut Check. Michael…