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Xbox Live’s Hack Wasnt a Hack, Says Microsoft
Last month, a surprisingly large-scale hacking attack went down on Xbox Live, all centred around EA Sports’ FIFA 11 and FIFA 12. Microsoft today acknowledged the intrusions, but is adamant they weren’t the result of hacks Microsoft’s online safety director Doug Park has told Eurogamer “It’s not a hack, it’s really just a different way…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2011 -
Halo: Reach Picks Up Anniversary‘s Maps Next Week
If you have last year’s Halo: Reach and aren’t interested in the Halo: Anniversary high-definition remastering of the original game, you still can get up the four classic multiplayer maps shipping with it. The “Anniversary Map Pack” will include six multiplayer stages—Battle Canyon, Breakneck, High Noon, Penance, Ridgeline and Solitary—plus Installation 04, as a Firefight…
By Owen Good Published November 10, 2011 -
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Has Game Reviewers Shouting Its Name
The launch of a new entry in The Elder Scrolls series isn’t just a game release, it’s the beginning of countless adventures; the origin point for millions of tales waiting to be told. Let’s hear what stories of Skyrim the assembled game reviewers have to share. From imagination-powered origins rises the Dovahkiin, the fabled hero…
By Mike Fahey Published November 10, 2011 -
Crafting My Dragonborn Identity in Skyrim, Now Pronounced “Skrim”
Gather round, boys and girls, and I’ll tell you the heroic tale of the Dragonborn, the legendary Wood Elf, Redguard, or possibly Khajiit man or maybe woman…I suppose we’d better clear up the particulars before moving into the main story. Let’s make us a hero! A warning for those trying to avoid Skyrim coverage today:…
By Mike Fahey Published November 10, 2011 -
Should You Buy The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Yes.
Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls series has been catering to gamers’ open-world fantasy fantasies since 1994, each new title dragging players deeper into the world of Nirn and its thick and hearty fiction. Now the fifth age of The Elder Scrolls is dawning, and Tamriel’s need for heroes has never been greater. Should you heed the…
By Mike Fahey Published November 10, 2011 -
Man Stuffs Xbox Down Pants, Cops Taser His Ass
Stories involving video games and crime can sometimes be sad. Or shocking. Thankfully, this is neither. It’s hilarious. Last week a 23 year-old man by the name of Timothy Joseph Mandes applied for a job at his local Best Buy in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania. When he was turned down, instead of leaving, he promptly walked…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 10, 2011 -
Fight Night Champion Offers Its Modes a la Carte on PSN
As tipped off yesterday, Fight Night Champion is being offered a la carte over PlayStation Network beginning today—gamers can buy the boxing title’s “Champion Mode,” the cinematic narrative of fictious boxer Andre Bishop, for $5. If they enjoy that, they can add other game modes on a piecemeal basis. EA Sports made it official with…
By Owen Good Published November 9, 2011 -
A Very Beginner’s Guide to The King of Fighters XIII
Charming, talented, and highly susceptible to flattery Atlus PR manager Aram Jabbari is joined by Dream Cancel community member Metaphysics in the first in a series of tutorial videos aimed at getting new warriors up-to-speed with the upcoming The King of Fighters XIII While I doubt the series will touch on my special method of…
By Mike Fahey Published November 9, 2011 -
Take the Black in the First Screens from the Game of Thrones Action RPG
Winter is coming. A Lannister always pays his debts. Incest kills the little children. Whichever Game of Thrones catchphrases you prefer, it’s hard to not get excited about Cyanide Studios’ upcoming action role-playing game, especially after seeing the first screens. In development for years at Cyanide and due to be published in early 2012 by…
By Mike Fahey Published November 9, 2011 -
Watch Skyrim’s Masterful Movements in This New Video
The latest in Bethesda’s making-of videos for Skyrim show off how the game’s animation brings its various races and creatures to life. It’s one thing to mo-cap humans but how does one imagine the movements of a giant dragon? Go to the latest Elder Scrolls blog post linked below and find out how the animation…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 9, 2011 -
Trine 2’s an Explosion of Co-Operative Colour
It’s said, sometimes unfairly, that most modern games are little but varying shades of brown and grey. That’s an accusation that could never, ever be levelled against upcoming co-op game Trine 2 Like the first, it’s an explosion of colours and lavish art design, which these new screenshots for the game show off to great…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 9, 2011 -
Reviews
Sonic Generations: The Kotaku Review
Even after 20 years, it’s amazing how quickly muscle memory returns. And not just in the hands or the arms; I’m talking in the extraocular muscles—the ones that move your eyeballs. Blasting through that first, long runway that opens good old Green Hill Zone, Sonic the Hedgehog plowed headfirst into a garden-variety badnik. On restart,…
By Owen Good Published November 8, 2011 -
This is the World You’ll Be Fighting to Save in Skyrim
There’s so much I want to show you folks in The Elder Scrolls V, but I can’t; not yet, at least. In the meantime, here’s an official Bethesda look at the people and places of Skyrim I also wish I was curled up on the couch playing the game right now instead of typing about…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2011 -
Reviews
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North: The Kotaku Review
Why didn’t Gandalf have his giant eagle friends drop the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom and be done with it? This is a question I’ve jokingly put forth to fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy over the years, endlessly amused by the (often angry) responses it generates. “The…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2011 -
The Windows Phone / Xbox 360 Cross-Compatibility You Crave in a Little Furry Package
If you eagerly snatched up a Windows Phone 7 when they launched last year, dreaming of a mobile applications that allowed you to extend your Xbox 360 games beyond the television set, then this is the app for you, only it’s Kinectimals Don’t get me wrong — Kinectimals is a fine game, easily one of…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2011 -
Mass Effect 3’s Story Leaks Online UPDATE
The accidental release of a beta for Mass Effect 3 over the weekend is the least of BioWare’s problems at the moment. More worrying is the fact the game’s story has leaked online. We’re not talking a few clips or scraps of info. We’re talking big chunks of the game’s plot, packed to the rafters…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2011 -
Next Xbox Codenamed “Loop”, Runs On Modified Windows 9
Insider blog MS nerd, which has been right on a few things coming out of Microsoft HQ from time to time, reckons it has some info on the next Xbox console. Currently codenamed “Loop”, the site says the console will have a single main processor that’s joined by “assistive cores” for “graphics, AI, physics, sound,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2011 -
My How Marvel’s Mightiest Have Changed in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 isn’t just an additional twelve characters and a few new game modes, it’s a chance for Capcom to tweak the mechanics and balance of the original game in such a way that it requires four videos to detail the changes to just the Marvel side of the cast. Remember a…
By Mike Fahey Published November 7, 2011 -
Over 13 Minutes of Mass Effect 3 Gameplay Footage
Someone was bright enough over the weekend to not only download the accidentally-leaked Mass Effect 3 beta, but film themselves playing it. What we’ve got here, then, is over 13 minutes of gameplay footage from the singleplayer portion of the game. The first half deals with the Reaper invasion of Earth, the second a mission…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 7, 2011 -
BioWare Responds to Mass Effect Beta’s Leak on Xbox Live
An egg-faced BioWare scrambled this morning to contain any damage done by last night’s leak of the Mass Effect 3 closed beta to some subscribers on Xbox Live. The developer chalked it up to “human error” and ask that everyone please, please remember this is all unfinished stuff. The beta was made available by mistake…
By Owen Good Published November 5, 2011