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The Moneysaver: War for Cyberdeals
A combo pairing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron with its predecessor leads our list of 60 bargains, 35 of them digital downloads and, as usual, most of them available from online retailers. NCAA Football 13 is down to $40 about a month after its release, and the PlayStation Move game Sorcery is just $14.99. Appropriately enough…
By Owen Good Published August 18, 2012 -
The Best Of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where Tina I round up all of this week’s best content. Tina’s off this week, so I’m going to make fun of/pay tribute to her by running this image of her amazing parking job in Sleeping Dogs. Parked vertical on the wall, like a boss. And before anyone else…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 18, 2012 -
A Persian Legend of Zelda? Sure, Why Not.
Artist Lenqi imagines a classic Persian take on The Legend of Zelda. It deserves a round of applause. Not just for shaking up the setting (which to be fair, has in recent years gone both “pirate” and “cowboy”), but for how well it fits. I’m getting visions of a Zelda game with the visuals from…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 18, 2012 -
And Now, Annie From Community Will Gasp Over And Over And Over
It’s been a banner week for TV supercuts, so let’s close it out with this montage of Annie from Community doing her “oh!” gasp over and over and over again. The clip, first seen at The A.V. Club, does a great job of showing how this show both gives its characters signature moves and then…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 17, 2012 -
In the Background of Video Games’ Exclusive Deals, There’s More Than Meets The Eye
They are the heroes of our childhoods. The glory of their times. Their video game comes out later this month. For the entirety of the current console generation, just one mega-publisher has solely controlled the exclusive right to immortalize their triumphs. It’s a deal that has reaped gobs of cash, and the latest edition of…
By Owen Good Published August 17, 2012 -
Video Game Makers Aren’t Your Friends. But If They Were …
Today, Dorkly broke down the major players of the video gaming industry into commonly understood archetypes: Your friends. Doesn’t make them any more tolerable, but it does make them more understandable. Still, I would have figured Activision for your gun-obsessed weightlifter friend who drives a 1989 Celica and listens to the Iron Eagle soundtrack, and…
By Owen Good Published August 17, 2012 -
OnLive Assets Acquired by ‘Newly Formed Company,’ Vows to Continue Service [Corrected]
Bad news always slides under the door at the end of Friday, and today’s was a rumor of some kind of quasi -bankruptcy for the cloud gaming service OnLive and, more importantly, mass layoffs of its employees. After a series of officious no-comments to reporters, OnLive has issued a statement confirming that its sale to…
By Owen Good Published August 17, 2012 -
Playing Again, as Sam, in Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Splinter Cell: Blacklist is next year’s update of the venerable Tom Clancy series from Ubisoft, promising new weapons and classic method, if not the classic Sam Fisher voice actor. Nonetheless, you can catch 12 minutes slam full of gameplay in this annotated developer video. Using the “killing-in-motion” bullet-time feature, watch Sam cut like a hot…
By Owen Good Published August 17, 2012 -
Wondering Just What Darksiders II Is All About? Here’s a Video Overview!
We’ve given you the review, talked about some port problems, and shown you the art. But how does Darksiders II really look? And what’s it all about? Kotaku‘s own Chris Person has created this video overview for those of us who might not have caught the franchise’s first entry. Just what is Death wandering through…
By Kate Cox Published August 17, 2012 -
Get Ready for Madden‘s “Connected Careers” With This 175-Page Guide
Madden NFL 13 this year merges its Franchise, Online Franchise and Superstar modes into a single suite, called “Connected Careers.” We’ve done our best to explain what it is, but in a nutshell, gamers controlling a single player will be able to play in the same league against gamers controlling a single player (edit: and…
By Owen Good Published August 17, 2012 -
Darksiders II And Sleeping Dogs: A Tale Of Two Very Different PC Ports
I played two PC ports of two big, exciting new games this week. One of them worked. One of them didn’t. The two big games in question were Square Enix and United Front’s Hong Kong crime game Sleeping Dogs and THQ and Vigil’s comic-booky fantasy game Darksiders II. Both games came out on Tuesday, both…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 17, 2012 -
Blonde Twins Playing The Elder Scrolls Theme On Harps While Standing In A Forest
From the people who brought you Blonde Twins Playing A Metallica Cover On Harps While Standing In The Desert comes this brave new experience in weird nature-set harp covers. As with the first time around, sometimes a headline is what it is. Sometimes you get exactly what you clicked on.
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 17, 2012 -
The Simpsons are Just the Cursed Topping on One Amazing Week in Gaming Apps
When an official video game based on the most successful mature animated series in the history of television is one of the least exciting items on the list, you know you’re in for one hell of a Week in Gaming Apps. What’s better than Homer Simpson? How about the experiemental music toy-meets-tower defense with a…
By Mike Fahey Published August 17, 2012 -
The Weird Way Reporters Like Me See Video Games
Every so often, I get to go behind closed doors and preview games early. Well, not before signing a non-disclosure agreement and sometimes giving proof that yes, this scrappy looking kid is in fact writing for [insert name of publication.] I got my start on paid writing work with previews, but it wasn’t until recently…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 17, 2012 -
Give Me More World Maps In My RPGs
Here’s to the world map. Here’s to those goofy, disproportionate, inelegant pieces of virtual parchment that we’ve been exploring for the past three decades. Let’s bring’em back. A world map, for those of you who might not be familiar with the concept, is the video game term for the strangely-scaled pieces of geography that string…
By Jason Schreier Published August 17, 2012 -
Source: OnLive Filing for a Form of Bankruptcy, New Company to Take Its Place [UPDATES]
OnLive, the pioneers of cloud gaming, are in dire straits and are preparing to file for a form of bankruptcy, a source inside the company told Kotaku today. An OnLive spokesperson maintains that the OnLive service, which enables people to stream games to their computers and tablets without the need for dedicated hardware, will continue.…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 17, 2012 -
Woman Hopes PlayStation Game About Her Abusive Dad Can Help Others
Magadly Caballero knew that her brother Vander was making a game about their alcoholic father. She’d lived through his scary rages alongside Vander. But she still wasn’t ready for how Papo & Yo would make her feel. Vander Caballero’s sister hasn’t been able to play Papo & Yo yet—Kotaku‘s review is here—but she’s seen videos…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 17, 2012 -
Steam’s “Big Picture” Mode May Reshape the Big Picture of What PC Gaming Really Means
Yesterday, Valve announced that their Big Picture service will be entering a beta phase soon. The Big Picture is a version of Steam optimized for television screens and controllers. Plug your PC into your 50″ TV, and you can kick back on the sofa with a version of Steam that’s designed to be readable from…
By Kate Cox Published August 17, 2012
