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Dark Souls II is Coming
Dark Souls II was just announced at the Video Game Awards. There’s a grab from the game’s trailer. The trailer presents a quest driven by some sort of romnace and graphics that look a great deal sharper than From Software’s previous Souls efforts.
By Owen Good Published December 7, 2012 -
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Resurrects Dracula in the Modern Day
We knew some kind of sequel to the last Castlevania game was coming, and a new trailer shown during the VGAs offered up a ton more info. Narrated by the Belmonts’ sworn eternal enemy, the clip showed Dracula recalling past glories and vowing a return to power. The teaser seems to hint that you’ll be…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 7, 2012 -
The Last of Us will release on May 7, 2013, per its trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards.
By Owen Good Published December 7, 2012 -
South Park: The Stick of Truth Gets a Hilarious Trailer, but No Release Date
As irreverent and ribald as you expect South Park to be, here is the trailer for South Park: The Stick of Truth, which premiered at tonight’s Video Game Awards. It gives you a look at the game’s playable classes, plus all sorts of cameos from the show’s long run, and elsewhere. No release date, though…
By Owen Good Published December 7, 2012 -
Whatever It Is, The Phantom Pain Looks Very Intense
The first all-new game given a trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards is The Phantom Pain, and it seems almost deliberately confusing and vague. That’s fitting given its premise, in which a veteran awakens in a hospital after a long coma, with his left hand amputated. In come the troops hellbent on exterminating the…
By Owen Good Published December 7, 2012 -
Watch The 2012 Video Game Awards Live Right Here!
Alright, folks. The 2012 Video Game Awards on Spike TV ain’t just Sam Jackson handing out a bunch of monkeyfighting awards to some Monday-to-Friday games. In fact, one could argue that is the least interesting purpose of what is essentially an E3 keynote in December. Gears of War: Judgment will premiere a trailer showing us…
By Owen Good Published December 7, 2012 -
It Finally Happened. I Chose A Facebook Game Over A Triple-A Game.
You know how people ask where you were when something important happened? Usually it’s for really huge things—a big baseball game, an assassination, a presidential election. They tend to be generation-defining things, stuff that permeates our cultural consciousness. For games it might not be so much “where were you” but “what game were you playing?”…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 7, 2012 -
The Xbox Fan-Voting Stuff for Tonight’s VGAs Is Actually Pretty Cool
Tonight’s Video Game Awards on Spike TV will also be streamed online (including here at Kotaku) as well as through the Xbox 360. It’s via the 360 that viewers will be able to cast votes to tweak the show and one of its exclusives. Spike’s/GTTV‘s Geoff Keighley just shot me a list of the things…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 7, 2012 -
We’ve Hit a New Low In the ‘Angry Gaming Parent Kills Baby’ Story
Looking through our lamentable catalogue of stories in which a baby is killed when a parent or other caregiver has flown into a game-induced rage, most of them involve shaking. Two involved a strike to the body. In one, an infant was dropped on her head. Well, we have a new low in the realm…
By Owen Good Published December 7, 2012 -
The All-New, All-Different Week in Gaming Apps
Traditionally the Week in Gaming Apps has been a weekly round-up of our daily Gaming App of the Day feature, punctuating those Android, iOS and Windows Phone games we’ve deemed worthy of special attention. Now that my entire attention is on the mobile gaming market, I play too many games each week to let them…
By Mike Fahey Published December 7, 2012 -
Nintendo Told Us All Along That Blowing On The Cartridge Wouldn’t Work
The popular myth has been debunked: you can’t blow on cartridges to make them work. Actually, blowing on the cartridge might damage it. Sorry, folks. It’s true. But, apparently the myth never needed to be debunked in the first place. Nintendo has kind of been telling us all along. We just weren’t paying attention. Luke…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 7, 2012 -
Square Enix Sale Drops Mobile Final Fantasy Prices to Near Reasonable Levels
In celebration of the holidays and the impending release of the 3D Nintendo DS Final Fantasy IV remake on iOS. Square Enix has lined up a slew of iOS game sales, starting with slashed prices on those excellent-but-pricey mobile FF games. It’s hard to resist a mobile Final Fantasy game, but those that managed to…
By Mike Fahey Published December 7, 2012 -
Bob Loblaw Would Approve Of These Amazing Arrested Development NES Carts
There may not have been an actual Arrested Development Nintendo game, but that hasn’t stopped the folks at 72Pins from imagining what might have been. You can now get a set of 6 carts for made-up Arrested Development games, each one created by artist Jesse Eisemann. There’s Mr. Bananagrabber, Steve Holt!, and of course, Chicken…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 7, 2012 -
Gorgeous Games of 2012: Journey
2012 was a good year to be moved by visuals in games. I’m not talking graphic fidelity, but rather aesthetics. So many games this year were visually inspired and pleasing to the eye. To commemorate this, I’m creating a series of cinemagraphs (partially animated GIFs) devoted to some the most aesthetically beautiful moments in gaming…
By Chris Person Published December 7, 2012 -
The Recession Killed This Jason-Bourne-Meets-007 Spy RPG By Bioware
Former BioWare game director Trent Oster recently spoke to Eurogamer and revealed a project that was killed by EA. Think James Bond meets Jason Bourne. Okay, now take that and add a focus on digital action and intense drama. That’s what this game was going to be. It had the working title “Agent.” “The idea…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 7, 2012 -
Let’s Take A Tour Through Far Cry 3‘s Rook Islands In 35 Gorgeous Shots
Just cause Jason Brody’s vacation didn’t go exactly according to plan doesn’t mean he’s not going to take advantage of the opportunity to take some quality photographs of his travels. Excluding the bloodier events, let’s sit back and take a virtual tour of Rook Islands, as photographed by Jason Brody himself. Or, more accurately, Redditor…
By Tina Amini Published December 7, 2012 -
Watch A Bit of Kotaku On The Second-Screen Version of the VGAs Tonight
It’s a big night for video games. We’ve got Spike TV’s 10th annual Video Game Awards airing live at 9pm ET/ 6pm PT, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson. Some of you may tune in to see which games and developers win top honors. I bet a lot of you are going to be most interested…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 7, 2012
