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The Motor City’s Blowtorch is a No-Brainer for MLB 2K12‘s Front
Justin Verlander, the Detroit Tigers flamethrower who spun a no-hitter in a season evocative of hall-of-fame names like Koufax, Gibson and Carlton, will grace the packshot of Major League Baseball 2K12, 2K Sports said. Verlander is the third pitcher in the past four years (with Roy Halladay and Tim Lincecum) to hold down MLB 2K‘s…
By Owen Good Published November 4, 2011 -
Rainbow 6: Patriots‘ Tough Choices Brought to Life in this Proof-of-Concept Video
We’ve been telling you about the hard choices being put on the players of Rainbow 6: Patriots since June, now see for yourself in Ubisoft’s proof-of-concept video. Happy birthday to you. While the footage differs slightly from what was leaked to Kotaku earlier this year, it certainly demonstrates the ideas we’ve been discussing since yesterday’s…
By Mike Fahey Published November 4, 2011 -
Kinect for Windows Coming Soon to Change the Way We Do Everything
The sinister phase two of Microsoft’s Kinect plan picks up steam as the company makes Kinect for Windows impeding arrival official. Are you ready to do everything six to eight feet from a computer screen? With hundreds of financial, educational, and commercial companies signed up to see what Kinect can do for them, next year…
By Mike Fahey Published November 4, 2011 -
Vergil and Nova Get the Spotlight in a New Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Video
The Assist Me guys continue their in-depth looks at the new fighters coming to the Ultimate update to Capcom’s crossover, with the spotlight turning to the Devil May Cry series’s doppelganger half-demon Vergil and Nova, Marvel’s cosmic champion. You might think that Vergil would play just like Dante and that the Human Rocket is just…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 4, 2011 -
If You Get Modern Warfare 3 Early, Don’t Play It Online (Yet)
There are stores that are, have been and will be selling Modern Warfare 3 early. If you managed to get hold of a copy, good for you! Just be warned, there might be a downside to your early purchase. Microsoft’s Stephen Toulouse has hit Twitter to warn those already in possession of the game that…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 4, 2011 -
Kinect + GlaDOS is Slightly Terrifying
Who needs a hostile little mobile phone when you can drop Portal’s malevolent artificial intelligence onto a PC and have her watch you via Kinect? Corey Thomas has rigged up his Kinect camera’s voice recognition to not just operate his PC, but to snap back at hi with canned lines from GlaDOS. The implementation isn’t…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 4, 2011 -
EA Sports Avoids Campaign-Year Headache by Keeping Obama Out of NFL Blitz
A year after appearing in NBA Jam (with Vice President Biden, and eight other political figures of both parties), President Obama will not cameo in January’s NFL Blitz, one of the game’s designers said recently. Though Yuri Bialoskursky didn’t say so specifically, it’s probably because a presidential election year is coming up, and EA Sports…
By Owen Good Published November 3, 2011 -
Game Reviewers Protest Middle-Earth’s Senseless War in the North
There once was a small hobbit that left the Shire on a grand adventure, performing brave deeds and overcoming impossible odds for the sake of all Middle-Earth. This is not his story. The Lords of the Rings: War in the North instead follows the story of a trio of adventurers going on a journey so…
By Mike Fahey Published November 3, 2011 -
Get Swept Up in the Sound of Skyrim‘s Barbarian Choir
Back in 2006 Skyrim game director Todd Howard called up composer Jeremy Soule and told him he wanted the music for the game to sound like The Elder Scrolls theme as sung by a barbarian choir. Lacking barbarians, Soule just hired some men with deep voices. I am posting this video specifically so I can…
By Mike Fahey Published November 3, 2011 -
This is How Modern Warfare 3 Will Bring Everyone Together
The Call of Duty series has traditionally been about shooting your enemies apart online, but with the strong social features of Call of Duty Elite and Facebook integrated with Modern Warfare 3 the latest game in the series is more about bringing gamers together. And then killing them. I’m not a big multiplayer shooter person.…
By Mike Fahey Published November 3, 2011 -
Homegrown Terrorists Fight to Take Back America in Rainbow 6: Patriots
After a two-game vacation in Vegas, Tom Clancy’s elite counter-terrorism unit takes on an all-new threat threatening to destroy the U.S. government in Rainbow 6: Patriots now in development for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. In the latest entry in the venerable series, Team Rainbow faces off against the True Patriots, a well-organized…
By Mike Fahey Published November 3, 2011 -
Sonic Generations Has Game Reviewers Running in Circles
Desperately attempting to please two different sets of fans on Sonic the Hedgehog’s 20th anniversary, Sega has crammed two different types of hedgehog gameplay into Sonic Generations, a formula that never fails to create entertaining game reviews. What else can Sega do? Some fans hate 2D Sonic, other fans hate 3D Sonic. They’ve tried making…
By Mike Fahey Published November 3, 2011 -
Joe Danger Rides Over 18 Buses, Lands On Xbox 360
Former PSN exclusive Joe Danger has made a very rare jump to the Xbox 360, Microsoft seemingly content to play second-fiddle for once in exchange for some new goodies. The XBLA version of the game, which I enjoyed very much, will have extras like new characters and new environments. It’ll be coming out sometime around…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 3, 2011 -
Kinect is a Serial Killer, Has the Taste for Blood
For Halloween, Microsoft released an internal gag video that used Kinect as an instrument in a cheesy horror movie. The cheesy parts are a little too cheesy, but the Kinect stuff is interesting. The influence here is clearly Saw, but I can see something more promising: a modern version of Nightmare, the old VHS board…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 3, 2011 -
Run Green Hill Zone in Under 1:50 and Collect Some Nice Sonic Merch
Earlier today I was wondering what qualified me to review Sonic Generations, beyond my capacity for saying “god dammit.” Yet after a solid 24 hours with this game not only are my eyeballs properly tracking its sidescrolling motion, I’ve recovered my innate understanding of the technical requirements of a solid speed-run through a Sonic world.…
By Owen Good Published November 2, 2011 -
Character Creation Is Back and Better Than Ever in Soulcalibur V
My favorite feature of Soulcalibur IV was the ability to create my own custom characters and see how they fare on the stage of history. Judging by this trailer and these new screens, it’ll probably be my favorite feature of Soulcalibur V as well. With the inclusion of stickers and scars, pattern changing and scaling,…
By Mike Fahey Published November 2, 2011 -
It’s Sonic Generations Launch Day
Two generations of hedgehogs collide today in Sonic Generations, and we’ve got the launch trailer to prove it. Just don’t watch it if you’re waiting on the PC version (November 4) or the 3DS one (November 22). Or if you’re in Europe for that matter (November 4). Or Australasia (November 3). Or Japan (December 1).…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2011 -
Battlefield 3 Development Started on PC, But Switched to Consoles
Despite a launch that’s seen 5 million shipped in its first week, Battlefield 3‘s debut has not been without issues. Most of the praise has come for the PC version of the game and the assumption’s been that that where the main development of the military FPS happened, with that code ported over to the…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
As Corporate Propaganda, the Blackwater Video Game Shoots Blanks
There’s no way you can expect Blackwater to be a good game. Ten minutes with it reveals that impossibility. The completely unintuitive controls, the wooden, stiff animation and the below-average graphics and voicework don’t take long to deflate any expectations of quality. But I had different expectations. The name Blackwater is synonymous with the phenomenon…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 1, 2011 -
Gears of War 3’s Horde Command Pack Delayed
The Horde Command Pack release for Gears of War 3 scheduled to hit today is temporarily delayed due to unspecified technical issue, according to the Epic Games forums. “We apologize to those of you who are anxiously awaiting to play. We know this is disappointing news as we’ve seen a lot of posts today showing…
By Brian Crecente Published November 1, 2011