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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
As I mentioned in my review this week, I came to the Prototype continuity late. Now that I’m not hustled for time to pump out a review of a game the day after it releases, I feel like revisiting New York and finishing out the original Prototype, especially as I’ll get to stomp around a…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2012 -
Gameloft’s Newest Mobile Game Looks A Lot Like… Crysis 2?
People give the mobile-game developer Gameloft guff for making games that are perhaps overly-“inspired” by other popular games. But it’s interesting to look at them as a reflection of the increasing horsepower and ambition of mobile games—they’ve certainly come a long way since Hero of Sparta, anyway. This exclusive trailer for their newest game, Nova…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 27, 2012 -
Does This Mean Metal Gear Rising is Coming to Vita? [Update]
We’ve heard rumors before that Konami would be releasing Metal Gear: Rising on the PlayStation Vita handheld in addition to home consoles. This page from the Vita presentation during the AT&T Developer Summit appears to reveal that in addition to the other franchises we already knew about (including Bioshock and Call of Duty), Metal Gear…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 27, 2012 -
Hitler Recaps the Week in Video Gaming
Godwin’s Law states that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” As basically all video game discussion takes place online, let’s just cut to the chase and give der fuehrer’s take on recent topics of interest to gamers. Hitler Reacts to Sniper Elite v2 Part…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2012 -
Backhanded Box Quotes: “Metacritic Reviews Are Often Avenues for Trolling”
Welcome to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of super pissed-off user reviews from people just like you! Whoa, whoa, don’t take that personal. This week’s scan of proportionate reactions to entertainment products includes condemnation for something almost universally acclaimed and a scalding appraisal of a football video game from EA Sports that is not named…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2012 -
Out of Hand—Is it Ever OK to Throw a Controller?
Two weeks ago, a million-dollar contest supplied an interesting prism through which to view the reactions to different people’s failure to accomplish the same thing in a video game. In one, a gamer stretched a remarkable achievement into an inhuman streak of perfection, ultimately snapped as much by bad luck as his own physical limitations.…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2012 -
One Leaves, One Enters Kotaku‘s Power 40
If you scan the column to the right of the Kotaku.com/Power 40 list, you’ll find our reorganized list updated for April complete with individual updates where relevant, and a returning addition: Capcom With sales on Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City doing well after release, and Resident Evil 6 coming together nicely, it’s about time Capcom…
By Tina Amini Published April 27, 2012 -
Rosman Stadium—the House that Prototype 2 Built
Prototype‘s continuity is set in New York. Well, it’s set in “New York Zero,” which is what the city has become after an apocalyptic biological disaster. Still, it’s New York, home of some of the most famous athletic venues in the world. The original Prototype, set entirely on Manhattan, featured a Madison Square Garden-style building,…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2012 -
MLB 2K12‘s Perfect Game Challenge Does Judge You on Your Physical Skill
To throw a perfect game, a single pitcher must retire every batter, and at least 27 of them, in a victory. That we know. 2K Sports, in its “$1 Million Perfect Game Challenge, on Major League Baseball 2K12, applies a formula to those games, rating their degree of “perfection,” so to speak, according to factors…
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2012 -
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From the Worldwide Leader in Sports … Video Games, your 6 p.m. Sportaku begins now.
By Owen Good Published April 27, 2012 -
Pre-Order Cards Show Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 As Coming November 13th
Rumors have pegged this year’s Call of Duty as a sequel to the Treyarch-developed Black Ops. Now, an image of Target pre-order cards running on IGN appears to confirm the title and show a release date of November 13th. If you’re keeping score, that’s one week after Halo 4 The release date follows rumors of…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
Target Specific Organs This Week in Gaming Apps
It doesn’t matter how good the rest of this week’s Gaming App of the Day apps were, we should have just dropped the mic and called it when Monday featured a hunting game that lets players target specific organs. If I had been paying closer attention, I would have had Ashcraft save Deer Hunter Reloaded…
By Mike Fahey Published April 27, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Bonus Weekends Finally Available on PS3
BioWare has been running regular multiplayer bonus weekend events in Mass Effect 3 since March, but until now, PlayStation 3 owners had been unable to participate. An earlier statement from BioWare seemed to point the finger at an issue with approval on Sony’s end, leaving players hanging. However, today BioWare announced that effective this weekend,…
By Kate Cox Published April 27, 2012 -
5 Reasons The Walking Dead Game Is Better Than The TV Show
I wanted to like the television adaptation of The Walking Dead when it premiered on AMC back in 2010. I like zombies; I like Frank Darabont. I’d heard nothing but good things about the comics the show was based on. And I liked the pilot; I really did. But immediately after that… they lost me.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 27, 2012 -
To-Do in New York: Play the Next Indie Sensations Before Anyone Else
Indie games that capture your imagination like Canabalt, Sword & Sworcery and Beat Sneak Bandit seem to come out of nowhere sometimes. But, in the case of other ambitious titles, like Mark Essen’s Nidhogg or Terry Cavanaugh’s At a Distance actually get commissioned by New York University’s Game Center for their yearly No Quarter exhibition.…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
Come Here And Nominate This Week’s Best Comment
Happy Friday, Kotaku. I am writing to you from a cabin. In the middle of the woods. We have Internet here. You (hopefully) know the drill by now. If you saw a comment this week that you liked enough to be featured on tomorrow’s Best of Kotaku feature, please bring it to my attention in…
By Tina Amini Published April 27, 2012 -
The Real Reason Aeris’s Death Made You Cry
Let me paint you a picture. You’re Cloud, standing in the middle of an ancient city, surrounded by crystals and conch shells and crystallized conch shells. Your hair is irresponsibly spiky. Before you kneels Aeris, that flower girl you’re sorta kinda crushing on. Her eyes are closed. She’s praying. Whoosh. Down comes that douchebag Sephiroth,…
By Jason Schreier Published April 27, 2012