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If the New Syndicate Has to Be a First-Person Shooter, It Better Have Awesome Weapons
The shooting might be less tactical, but that doesn’t mean it has to be less entertaining. Let’s take a look at the arsenal Starbreeze Studios has cooked up for next year’s Syndicate reboot. Sure, I’ll miss the sublime combination of shooting and real-time tactics from the Bullfrog original, but I have faith in Starbreeze Studios,…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2011 -
Saints Row‘s Dildo Bat: More Than Two Million Served
Since its introduction two weeks ago in Saints Row: The Third, the game’s four-foot long dildo bat—nom de guerre: “The Penetrator”—has killed more than two million citizens of Steelport, publisher THQ said in announcing a stat-tracking capability that charts all the mayhem taking place in the open-world crime game. The two million penetrated to death…
By Owen Good Published November 30, 2011 -
A Tantalizing Glimpse of Transformers: Rise of Grimlock
You can call it Transformers: Fall of Cybertron all you want. This brief teaser for the trailer airing during the Spike TV Video Game Awards shows who the star of this show really is. Starscream, Ironhide, Optimus, Bumblebee, and Cliffjumper are all well and good, but none of them stack up to a giant robot…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2011 -
Does Choplifter HD Really Need Zombies and Duke Nukem?
Coming this winter to Xbox Live Arcade, inXile Entertainment’s Choplifter HD takes the classic rescue chopper gameplay of the 1982 PC original and “amps it up” with zombies, explosions, and the odd cameo. Fingers crossed for a classic mode! First spotted in a 2009 trademark filing, Choplifter HD is now officially official, descending upon Xbox…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2011 -
The First Screens of Sour Patch Kids: World Gone Sour Leave a Pleasant Taste In My Mouth
The promise of the sweet and sour Method Man video comes to chewy fruition this spring as Capcom picks up publishing duties for Sour Patch Kids: World Gone Sour for Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC. What a ridiculous concept; I must play it. Sure it’s a gigantic candy marketing tool, but it’s…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2011 -
Skyrim Patch 1.2 Discreetly Disposes of Dead Wedding Guests
Already available on the PlayStation 3 (though masquerading under the name 2.01), the 1.2 patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is due out for the PC and Xbox 360 on Wednesday, and the plague of marital corpses finally comes to an end. Containing perhaps the most entertaining bug fix listing I’ve seen since they…
By Mike Fahey Published November 28, 2011 -
The Next Kinect Will Read Your Lips, Know What You’re Feeling
If you look at the fancy Kinect Effect commercial (seen above) Microsoft’s been airing for the one-year anniversary of its best-selling motion-sensing camera, then you’re led to believe that all sorts of innovations might be made manifest via the device’s current iteration. But Kinect 2 might be even more mind-blowing, if a new report at…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 28, 2011 -
Let the Xbox 720 Concepts Begin!
Now that rumours about the next Xbox console are flying thick and fast, those with an eye towards the future and a hand on their mouse are dreaming up concepts of what the next machine will look like. Here’s the first credible one I’ve seen in the wake of the recent rumours, which is the…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 28, 2011 -
Just in Time for Christmas, the Batcave Will Be Arkham City‘s Newest Challenge Map
After being mentioned in the GTTV Presents GameStop Unwrapped TV special on Thanksgiving, it looks like the newest location for players to kick the asses of Gotham’s worst criminals is going to be the Dark Knight’s innermost sanctum. A new DLC pack’s coming on December 20th, which bundles the all-new Batcave challenge map, along with…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 27, 2011 -
Is “Morning Wood” Really a Map Name in Modern Warfare 3‘s First DLC?
Grain-of-salt territory here, but rumors have it that Modern Warfare 3‘s first set of premium downloadable content will feature five maps entitled “Morning Wood,” “Concrete,” “Park,” “Italy,” and “Overwatch.” The title of the first, and the fact “Overwatch” was a map in Modern Warfare 2, calls for some healthy skepticism. Modern Prestige has what it…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 -
Get a Sneak Peek at Gears of War 3‘s New Multiplayer Characters
RAAM’s Shadow, the second downloadable extension to Gears of War 3, is due to arrive Dec. 13, but its six new multiplayer skins have already been exposed through the game’s character-selection stage. Kotaku reader Jestin snapped shots of the new skins with his phone camera but says he didn’t try to download them out of…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2011 -
Xbox Live Hacked? Microsoft Still Says “No.” Tabloid Still Says…
Earlier this week, British tabloid The Sun ran a story, pointing to a series of “phishing” con jobs that were putting Xbox 360 owners at risk. It sounded overblown—phishing scams are hardly new—but the paper cited a late night meeting with Xbox brass in its “exclusive” story. Microsoft responded to the claims, stating that there…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 24, 2011 -
Next Xbox Will Have Two Models, Just Like the Current Xbox
One of the more maddening aspects of the Xbox 360 has been Microsoft’s insistence on a “two model” strategy. A bare-bones, cheap version, and a souped-up expensive one. It’s helped shift units, especially since Kinect’s release, but it’s also held other Xbox 360 games back since developers can’t assume everybody has, say, a hard drive.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 24, 2011 -
Free Gold (Four Day) Weekend Starts Today On Xbox Live
This weekend being Thanksgiving weekend in the US, there’ll be millions of Xbox gamers lounging around, sleeping off food hangovers. What better way to spend it, then, than with a free weekend of Xbox Live. And it’s not just a weekend! It’s the entire mini-holiday period, meaning from today (Thursday November 24) through to Sunday…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 24, 2011 -
The Latest Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 Screens Have Nowhere to Hide
Don’t look at me, I’m just as bewildered as many of you are that Sniper: Ghost Warrior did well enough to score a sequel. Perhaps it had something to do with the sexy scenery City Interactive is showing off in the sequel’s screenshots. While I’m a huge proponent for sniping early and often, I just…
By Mike Fahey Published November 23, 2011 -
The New Final Fantasy XIII-2 Trailer Proves Square Enix Still Knows How to Make a Scene
While the Final Fantasy name may have lost a bit of its drool-inducing powers over the past two entries in the series, the Final Fantasy XIII-2 cinematic team keep the excitement alive in this latest trailer, “Battle of Valhalla”. If the team behind the sequel to one of the most polarizing entries in the series…
By Mike Fahey Published November 23, 2011 -
uDraw Studio Instant Artist Doesn’t Quite Live Up To Its Name
Contrary to what the title led me to believe I was not instantly transformed into an artist upon starting up uDraw Studio Instant Artist, the pack-in software for THQ’s new uDraw Tablet for the Xbox 360. I did, however, manage to record an entire video without drawing one penis. Okay, on my third take I…
By Mike Fahey Published November 23, 2011 -
Microsoft Responds to XBOX CYBER FRAUD Story
Sure, it’s natural to raise an eyebrow or two when a publication like The Sun warns of XBOX CYBER FRAUD, but in this case, the tabloid was spot-on, even if the language could have been a little less inflammatory. Responding to the story, Microsoft has confirmed that “a number of Xbox LIVE members appear to…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2011 -
New Xbox Dashboard Launches On December 6
As the headline states, Microsoft announced overnight that the new Xbox 360 dashboard, one designed to bring the company’s user interfaces on console, PC and mobile phone closer together, will be out on December 6. Aside from looking nicer, the new dash also has better (read: more deeply-integrated) voice recognition for Kinect users, while it’ll…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2011