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I Was Impressed By Company of Heroes 2‘s Fire And Snow

The physical feature that most impressed players of the first great Company of Heroes real-time strategy game was the earth. In combat, under the impact of a grenade or tank shell, it cratered. There were many other things to like in the first CoH, which is one of the best-reviewed video games of all time.…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012

Sony Web Address for Next PlayStation Doesn’t Work Anymore

Above, an image screencapped on my computer the day this past March when we broke the news that the so-called PlayStation 4 is codenamed Orbis That URL up there used to work, curiously bringing people to same PlayStation developers’ site that similar web addresses for PS3 would take you to. I tried it again today.…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012

Fallout‘s Chris Avellone Agrees to Join Fan Webseries Project

Fan webseries Fallout: Nuka Break is, as Kotaku once observed, actually pretty good. The first season ran through 2011. Riding the wave of gamer zeitgeist in 2012, the series’ creators have turned to Kickstarter to find the second season. Fans rallied and the Kickstarter campaign met and exceeded its goals some time ago, so the…

By Kate Cox Published May 22, 2012

Modern Warfare Creators Were Going To Make $16 Million Each In The Year They Were Fired

All manner of dirty laundry is currently being aired the ongoing ongoing lawsuit between Activision and Vince Zampella and Jason West, creators of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare A series of internal Activision emails indicate the projected 2009 and 2010 earnings of the most well-paid 30 employees at Infinity Ward. In 2010, the year that…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012

Looks Like Sega’s Publishing Ron Gilbert’s New Adventure Game

If you follow all-around funny guy Ron Gilbert on Twitter, you’ll have noticed that the beloved adventure game designer has been doling out sneak peeks at the playable characters that will be appearing in the game he’s making with Double Fine Productions. Well, the intrepid folks at Sega Bits have matched up the jagged outlines…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012

From Dust Is Now Available on the Chrome Store

Eric Chahi’s distinctive god-game From Dust is now available through the Google Chrome store for a discounted price of $9.99. The game was one of the more pleasant surprises of last year.

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012

I Played XCOM: Enemy Unknown With An Xbox Controller. It Works.

Given its pedigree, you might expect XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the October-scheduled throwback to a classic computer strategy game, to be playable only by mouse and keyboard. Can’t work any other way, right? I played the new turn-based strategy game on a PC last week in Santa Monica. I played it with an Xbox 360 controller…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012

Major League Baseball 2K‘s Cancellation Looms on Grim News from Game’s Creators

Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of 2K Sports, notably left Major League Baseball 2K out of its planned releases in its coming fiscal year in a call with investors today. Kotaku asked Take-Two Interactive if it could confirm the end of the series, and it released this statement: “Our legacy Major League Baseball agreement will…

By Owen Good Published May 22, 2012

Please Stop Complaining About Sequels That Change Things Up

What’s the better game, a sequel that merely enhances ideas established in previous games, or one that goes in a completely new direction? Commenter DanimalCart is tired of people complaining about sequels that aren’t just more of the same. Something has been bothering me in the wake of the release of both Max Payne 3…

Speak Up Published May 22, 2012

Indie Gem J.S. Joust Is Flagrantly Cloned [Update]

Die Gute Fabrik’s hugely enjoyable screenless indie game Johann Sebastian Joust is the latest victim of app-store cloning. An iOS game called Papa Quash released yesterday apes not only Joust‘s core mechanical idea, but shamelessly lifts its marketing, imagery, and overall vibe. Both Joust and now Papa Quash are games that are played outside of…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012

X-Com First Person Shooter Severely Delayed Yet Again

The bold first-person shooter take on classic strategy game X-Com, long in development by BioShock 2 creators 2K Marin, has been pushed back another year by publisher Take Two to some time between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014

By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012

Five Comics That Question Everything You Know This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012

Rainbow Bridge: Marvel and DC Comics Bring Same-Sex Superheroes into the Spotlight

This morning, the ladies of ABC’s The View were talking about a celebrity wedding. Happens all the time, right? But the celebrities in question were the X-Men, not the Kardashians. And the wedding? It’s going to be super-fast adventurer Northstar marrying his longtime boyfriend Kyle. Definitely not your typical talk-show fare. While this storyline was…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012

Marvel Heroes‘ First Gameplay Trailer Features Wolverine, Black Widow and Some Clown Named Deadpool Kicking Ass MMO-Style

After a long time fighting secret development wars, Gazillion Entertainment is finally letting the world look at the massive multiplayer online game featuring dozens, maybe even hundreds of Marvel Comics characters This quick teaser packs in a few Avengers, a couple of mutants and two of Marvel’s biggest bad guys. Marvel Heroes has a storyline…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012

Protecting a World That Hates and Fears It, Panel Discussion Starts Now!

Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this

By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012

If You Have a TV Nearby During E3, Turn on Spike TV

In two week’s time, the E3 press conferences will be over. You’ll have seen the biggest newest from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft. You’ll know all about the Wii U, the next big things for Xbox 360 and the future of PlayStation. But how will you have seen this news? If you are near…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012

I’m Actually On the Bandwagon for a Vita Game Called PulzAR. Join Me?

The first time I saw the word PulzAR on a list of upcoming PlayStation-brand video games, I laughed. Or did I scoff? One of the two. PulzAR?? Really? Having played Halo, I should know that you can’t judge a game by its name. I didn’t have to. PulzAR, I would soon learn is an augmented…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012

Okay, Sure. Maybe The Kinect Can Teach Me Kung Fu.

“It’s just good for dancing games.” That’s been the unofficial but commonly held belief about the Kinect for a good while now— Dance Central and Just Dance have long been the most impressive games to play with Microsoft’s motion-detector. But what about a fighting game? Specifically, a kung fu fighting game? Several fitness games have…

By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012

Three Dollars Adds a Pack of Penthouse Pets to Saints Row the Third

THQ continues to milk the living hell out of its best thing going with today’s release of the Penthouse Pack for Saint’s Row the Third, bolstering the ranks of players’ gangs with a quartet of models from America’s minor league nudie mag. Minor league might be a little harsh, really. I’d say that Penthouse has…

By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2012

Layoffs Hit Star Wars: The Old Republic Developers

It’s been a roller-coaster ride for the sprawling Star Wars-based MMO from EA Bioware. The Old Republic‘s solid debut couldn’t help the game from losing a sizable chunk of players. Now BioWare Austin is losing some of the developers that helped build the game, too, according to a statement issued today by BioWare founders Greg…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012