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Back This Kickstarter, Get A Ton of Great Video Game Music
The game/music website Nubuwo is holding a kickstarter to raise money to help them launch a couple of different projects centered around video game music. They’re short of their goal with only a few hours to go, but if you pledge, you can score a huge collection of great video game music, featuring work by…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 1, 2012 -
This Amazing Credits Anthem Mostly Plays at Night. Mostly.
Aliens sure are awesome, aren’t they? They are the ultimate killing machine! They’re super sweet-looking! They star in two of the best sci-fi films ever made! The surprisingly cool Nintendo DS (not 3DS) game Aliens Infestation sure did like those titular xenomorphs, merging alien-killing with Metroid-like action to create a surprisingly fun game. [Update 11/1/2016:…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 1, 2012 -
YouTube Users Are Currently Mostly Hating Mass Effect 3‘s Gay Male Sex Scene
You can role-play as a gay man in next week’s Mass Effect 3. Why? because the game’s creators believe in giving their players a choice of who they want to be. Gaming site CVG got a copy of the love scene between a male Commander Shepard and a male lover. They posted it to YouTube…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 1, 2012 -
A Video Introduction to The Show‘s “Diamond Dynasty”
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • The Diamond Dynasty mode for MLB 12 The Show is extremely deep—last week, I hit the broad points, but still there are some details and features that you may not yet know about. Matt Vasgersian, the game’s play-by-play announcer, tries to answer all…
By Owen Good Published March 1, 2012 -
Baseball’s New Playoff Format Will Be Supported in MLB 2K12, Whether It Happens This Year or Not
Though not yet officially ratified by Major League Baseball, a 10-team playoff format said to take effect this season will be supported in the season-long modes of Major League Baseball 2K12 when the game hits shelves on Tuesday, 2K Sports confirmed to Kotaku. A 10-team playoff, in which two wild-card qualifiers from each league play…
By Owen Good Published March 1, 2012 -
Lawsuit Against Facebook, EA, Zynga May Be The Attack of a Patent Troll
GameTek LLC was originally the company that once operated as a video game publisher known for TV game show adaptations. But since the 90s wave of those games has washed over, and the company shut its doors in 1997 after hitting bankruptcy, it has since become the business license of an unknown company. What is…
By Tina Amini Published March 1, 2012 -
Why Can’t Every Game Let you Skip Long-Winded Cutscenes with Violence?
Asura’s Wrath is a game brimming with excellent ideas, most of them involving punching, and while complaints that it’s more cutscene than gameplay are valid, it also features what could be the greatest scene-skipping mechanic in gaming history. Video games (and popular fiction in general) are filled with villains all-too-eager to have a little chat…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2012 -
It Wouldn’t Be Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Without These High-Tech Toys
This isn’t modern warfare, kids. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier brings a whole new level of technology to the battlefield, giving players access to the sort of convoluted electronic goodies that would make your average Call of Duty soldier look like your grandmother trying to program a VCR. Hell, I’ve just dated myself by mentioning the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2012 -
Zynga Launches Its Own Website, Edging Away from Facebook
The time when your Facebook newsfeed isn’t clogged up by Farmville request from friends may be coming soon. Social gaming powerhouse Zynga launched its own dedicated website today, the first step in eventually hosting its vastly popular games somewhere other than the world’s largest social networking site. In an interview with Gamasutra, COO John Schappert…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 -
Sony’s Going to Reveal The Next Wave of Vita Games on March 9th
So, if you’ve been lucky enough to snag a Vita since Sony’s latest handheld made its debut, you’re probably enjoying its standout titles. Sony wants you to know that there’s more on the way. According to Andriasang, the PlayStation company will be announcing updates on games and services in an upcoming webcast.
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 -
Check Out What’s New On Kotaku Melodic, Our Very Own Music Section
Brought to you every Thursday, from 7pm-9pm (EST), Kotaku introduces video game music from menu screens to entire soundtracks and everything in between. The most recent batch of stories include: When I Fell in Love with Grandia III, I Really Fell in Love with a Song Hop on a Bicycle and Cause Some Mischief With…
By Tina Amini Published March 1, 2012 -
Help Us Say Something Nice About Fighting Gamers
The fighting game scene has taken a lot of criticism this week due to the controversy surrounding one player’s harassment of another player on Capcom’s internet reality show Cross Assault As Kotaku has covered these stories, a number of readers in the comments and elsewhere online have questioned why it appears that only negative stories…
By Kate Cox Published March 1, 2012 -
UPDATE: Fighting Game Webcast Issues Statement on Harassment Jokes
Level|Up, the website that produces the Wednesday Night Fights streamcast, has indicated that Christian “ETR” Cain and Martin “Marn” Phan will not be invited back onto the web series. You can read the full statement in an update of the original post here
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 -
SSX Carves the Slippery Slope of Mount Game Reviewer
Just like the fine sport of extreme snowboarding itself, SSX‘s review scores start off pretty high and then suddenly drop. Okay, so technically they start off low and then abruptly rise, but that doesn’t work as a snowboarding metaphor. Either way, the SSX series has triumphantly returned, making its big debut on current generation consoles…
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2012 -
Latest DmC: Devil May Cry Screens Have Fans Seeing Red
Check out the latest batch of screenshots for the upcoming Devil May Cry reboot. Fans might well be disappointed with the stylistic ditching of Dante’s iconic white hair (which actually does appear in his Devil Trigger mode), but there’s no denying that these images scream style. DmC: Devil May Cry releases sometime in 2012, and…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published March 1, 2012 -
The Original Prince of Persia Gets a Gorgeous HD iOS Makeover
Speaking of Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, a beautiful high-definition remaster of his original masterpiece is now available for the iPhone and iPad, complete with new modes and animated cut scenes. Who’s up for a field trip to Persia?
By Mike Fahey Published March 1, 2012 -
A Wonderful Old Letter From One Gaming Legend To Another
Before John Romero co-created Doom he was just a kid. A very smart kid. When he was a teenager, he wrote a letter to Jordan Mechner, a very smart man who made a game young John Romero liked very much. Romero had taste, because Mechner’s Karateka was awesome, as was his later invention, Prince of…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 1, 2012 -
Gravity Rush Floats to the U.S. on June 12th
Ever since it peeked out in early looks at the Vita’s launch line-up, Gravity Rush became the game I was most excited about for Sony’s new gaming handheld. Japan’s had it since the system’s launch there but North America’s had to wait to hear about a release date. We finally know that the game will…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 1, 2012 -
Kotaku Game Club is Back! We’re Playing Mass Effect 3
Hey Game Club, it’s been awhile. 2012 is already shaping to be a year of dramatic changes. We wanted to make sure our next Game Club was suitably epic, so we’re playing Mass Effect 3 One of the year’s biggest and most talked-about games, Mass Effect 3 is already a contextual powderkeg, inciting discussions across…
By Mike Epstein Published March 1, 2012