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Skyrim Kinect Support And DLC Announcement Coming Tomorrow
Skyrim’s Kinect update will go live tomorrow, Bethesda said this afternoon on its blog. The publisher will also announce the first downloadable content pack for its popular role-playing game, although VP of Marketing Pete Hines warned that we’ll only hear a “tidbit” of information about the upcoming DLC. Bethesda also released a full PDF file…
By Jason Schreier Published April 30, 2012 -
Great Moments in Video Game Humor: Space Quest IV… or XII… Possibly X
What’s so great about Two Guys from Andromeda getting together to make a new game? For the answer, let’s look at the classic adventure Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, an adventure so epic it spans at least three different games. After ripping science fiction a new laugh-hole through three amazing Space…
By Mike Fahey Published April 30, 2012 -
Ride Epic Games’ Massive Metal Slide with Me in First-Person
It seems as if everyone in the Raleigh game development scene have ridden the slide from the second to the first floor of Epic Games’ headquarters. Now, thanks to the magic of shaky iPhone video, you can too. “You can’t miss the slide,” everyone and their brother told me as I prepared for my visit…
By Mike Fahey Published April 30, 2012 -
The Most Brutal Mortal Kombat Fatality Isn’t Always the Bloodiest
Wait, what? I didn’t pay for front row seats to the Mortal Kombat tournament just to be deprived of bloody entertainment! At least that’s what I imagine is running through the heads of the audience when Scorpion decides to forgo a fatality move. They’ve been robbed of the awesomely gruesome fatalities known to the fighting…
By Tina Amini Published April 30, 2012 -
Fake Gamer of the Week: Little Girl Who Just Found Porn On Her Brother’s DS
Oh, Little Girl Who Just Found Porn On Her Brother’s DS. I’m so sorry this happened to you. On behalf of brothers everywhere, I apologize. When your big brother got a 3DS, you were so excited to inherit his old DS that you didn’t even think about clearing out the internal memory. Why would you?…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 30, 2012 -
The Game of Thrones Minecraft Project Is Getting More And More Spectacular
By now you must be familiar with WesterosCraft, the long-running (and long-insane) project to reconstruct the entire world of Game of Thrones on a single Minecraft server Project lead Jacob Granberry has been cranking out videos of the project all month, and it’s looking better than ever. Here are some of the team’s creations: Dragonstone…
By Jason Schreier Published April 30, 2012 -
Get a Look at God of War: Ascension’s Multiplayer Gameplay Right Here
Sony’s made a big revelation today with the disclosure of the multiplayer component coming in God of War: Ascension. Our preview explains the motivations and mechanics of the mythological prequel’s gameplay, but what if you just want to see it in action? Well, then, just click play on the stream above to see game director…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 30, 2012 -
Total War Developer’s Approach to Metacritic May Be ‘Brutal’ But It Works
In an interview with Gamasutra, Tim Heaton, the studio director of Total War developer Creative Assembly, described their development process as Metacritic-focused and “brutal.” As Creative Assembly works on a game, they’ll do what Heaton refers to as “Metacritic analysis,” breaking every feature down and looking at it from both the player’s and reviewer’s points…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 30, 2012 -
Let’s Take a Tour of America’s Most Epic Video Game Company
My trip to North Carolina to attend the East Coast Games Conference in Raleigh last week was a ruse, a feint. My real target was a (mostly) unassuming office structure in the Raleigh suburb of Cary, the birthplace of some of the greatest games of the past decade. The company that was once Epic Megagames…
By Mike Fahey Published April 30, 2012 -
There’s Morse Code on the Call of Duty Website. Here’s What It Says.
It’s quick as can be but there’s an obscure teaser for Activision’s next big first-person shooter on the Call of Duty website. The concentric circles on the loading screen for CallofDuty.com contain morse code. You probably know what it says already, but it’s safe to consider this a sneaky sort-of confirmation from Activision. (If not,…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 30, 2012 -
Piss Off Your Friends Once Again In Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Last Friday, Sega introduced us to the sequel to their alternative to Nintendo’s Mario Kart. Racing against their PR team and the Sonic brand manager, I learned how developer Sumo Digital is working on setting Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed apart from their first Sega kart racing title. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, which Kotaku…
By Tina Amini Published April 30, 2012 -
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By Mike Fahey Published April 30, 2012 -
Glitch Tank Cleverly Turns Your iPad into a 8-Bit Board Game Battlefield
If Battlezone and, say, Risk had a baby, it’d look a lot like Glitch Tank. Michael Brough’s aggressively retro game turns your iPad into an 8-bit theater of sci-fi warfare. Whether it’s you vs. another human or fighting against an AI opponent, the basic mechanics are the same. Each player gets doled out three cards…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 30, 2012 -
Solving a 5×5 Rubik’s Cube in Under Seven Minutes Isn’t Impressive, Unless You’re Blindfolded
Demonstrating the memorization and motor skills of some sort of humanoid robot, Hungary’s Marcell Endrey spends three and a half minutes getting to know a scrambled 5×5 Rubik’s Cube, slips on a blindfold, and solves it in just over four minutes. Not only did Endrey break the world speed record for solving a scrambled 5×5…
By Mike Fahey Published April 30, 2012 -
Final Fantasy‘s Chocobo Theme, In Glorious Acapella
The video is a little dumb, but I really enjoy this acapella cover of Final Fantasy‘s iconic chocobo theme. They’re taking requests for what to do next, so hit up the YouTube comments if you want to make a suggestion. (Aeris’s Theme, perhaps?) GEEKAPELLA #2 – Final Fantasy VII Chocobo Theme (Acapella Cover) [YouTube]
By Jason Schreier Published April 30, 2012 -
Monday Watch This, Play This
Watch! The record for solving a rubik’s cube while blind-folded has been broken. Watch! You wanted to watch something semi creepy today, right? Play! Evan enjoys retro action/strategy with Glitch Tank on his iPad. Watch! Explosions are pretty and, sometimes, useful.
By Tina Amini Published April 30, 2012 -
The Adventures of James Vega
James Vega can be an easy character to overlook, in Mass Effect 3. He’s just another human guy, and the final game in the trilogy is the first time he appears. He hides out down in the Normandy‘s cargo bay, a little out of the way when Shepard’s just making the rounds. But James Vega,…
By Kate Cox Published April 30, 2012 -
Sometimes Real Life Looks Just Like Skyrim
Here’s a surreal, beautiful photograph of an auroral storm over Arctic Henge in northern Iceland, featured today by NASA Looks straight out of Skyrim, doesn’t it? The Northern Lights sometimes pop up while you’re climbing Skyrim‘s frosty mountains, and that structure looks almost exactly like one of the game’s Guardian Stones. I feel like a…
By Jason Schreier Published April 30, 2012
