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Kind of Cool, Kind of Creepy
Kind of cool, kind of creepy. I played Google Shoot View in front of Kotaku‘s NYC HQ. -Stephen Totilo For the Right Price These Gamers Will Die For You This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: “I will take bullets for you,” it read. And he did. Contact made,…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Guild Wars 2 Only Thought It Was In Control of the Mesmer Class Reveal
Mesmers are not controlled; a Mesmer does the controlling, which is probably why this video for the final Guild Wars 2 class slipped out a few days earlier than planned. Mind control! Master of illusion and control, the Mesmer class perfectly fits the promises made earlier this year by ArenaNet that the final class revealed…
By Mike Fahey Published December 12, 2011 -
The New Game of Thrones Board Game Sounds Excellent, Diabolical
I haven’t yet been able to track down a copy of the new Game of Thrones board game, let alone carve out four to eight hours to sit down and play through a game. But from the sound of things, that might be for the best. Not because it’s bad, but because it requires so…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 12, 2011 -
The Most Important Artifact in the Diablo Universe
The Book of Cain is the ultimate guide to Diablo lore. It covers every aspect of the world of Sanctuary and its trials, beginning with the creation of the universe and leading right up to the doorstep of Diablo III, one of the most eagerly anticipated video games of 2012. Blizzard assembled a team top…
By Mike Fahey Published December 12, 2011 -
Lost Winds, One of WiiWare’s Best, Looks Good on the iPhone
Here is a trailer for Lost Winds, a ballyhooed WiiWare game that is coming to iOS devices later this month. It’s from Frontier Developments, who created this wind-blown platformer before becoming a leading Kinect developer for the Xbox 360 (See Kinectimals, Disneyland: Kinect Adventures.) We liked the game a lot when it was on the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
BioWare Co-Founder Gets Himself a Star Wars: The Old Republic Tattoo
Can this month’s Star Wars: The Old Republic fulfill years of development effort and hype? Can the new massively multiplayer game from BioWare achieve World of Warcraft-like success? Will it survive as a subscription-based MMO or have to switch, as so many of them do these days, to Free 2 Play? These are old, tired…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Dustforce is, Thankfully, Not Really about Dusting.
I played an early version of the upcoming computer game Dustforce about a year ago, when I was a judge for the Independent Games Festival. The beat-em-up—well, broom-em-up—was in need of a tutorial and/or a gentler learning curve. Otherwise, it was a lot of fun. Up top is a look at a new trailer for…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Sign Up for the Gotham City Impostors Console Beta Before Some Joker Gets Your Spot
Now that November’s PC beta test has come and gone, Warner Bros. and Monolith are ready to get console players into the dopple-gangbanger fun of Gotham City Impostors The war between the madness-embracing Jokerz and stalwart-but-misguided Bats is heating up, and Gotham City Impostors is now inviting Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players to participate…
By Mike Fahey Published December 12, 2011 -
She’s Level 35 in Skyrim. She Makes Villagers Kill Her Dragons.
Some pacifists are nice people who wouldn’t harm an elf. Others would cast a spell on a town full of people and have the crowd beat the elf to a pulp. The second kind of pacifist isn’t really a pacifist, of course. She’s a manipulative monster who keeps her hands clean. That’s who 20-year-old vocal…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Everything You Need to Know About Final Fantasy XII-2 In Four Minutes
After spending months handing out information on the follow-up to Final Fantasy XIII one snippet at a time, Square Enix brings the accumulated sum of Final Fantasy XIII-2 knowledge together in one handy-dandy four-minute-and-change primer video. We’ve got the story, the characters, the battle system in all its newfound complexity, and anything else that might…
By Mike Fahey Published December 12, 2011 -
South Park: The Game is Sorta Like Paper Mario, Only With More Bleeding, Crying Children
Given the paper cutout origins of South Park, it’s no surprise that Obsidian’s upcoming RPG South Park: The Game would take cues from the most famous paper role-playing game of them all. After selecting your character class in South Park: The Game (fighter, thief, mage, cleric, or Jew), you’ll enter a fantasy adventure filled with…
By Mike Fahey Published December 12, 2011 -
Modern Warfare 3 Gets a Bundle of Tweaks with Tonight’s ‘Hot Fix Update’
A slew of multiplayer tweaks will take effect in Modern Warfare 3 via an update to the game tonight, according to Infinity Ward. They include nerfing the Type 95 and fixing Dome map exploits. Read the full change list
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD Was My Favorite VGA Surprise
You can keep your Command & Conquer Generals 2 and The Last of Us; for me the biggest news out of the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards wasn’t a new game but the return of something old: Tony Hawk. Well, not Tony Hawk himself, of course. He’s only 43, and five years older than me…
By Mike Fahey Published December 12, 2011 -
You May Have Seen These Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Screenshots Recently
The first official screenshots for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are now on the brand new Metal Gear Solid website (where, oddly, the age-gate only goes back to 1960… stay away, old people!). The shots appear to be snapped from the big Revengeance trailer that debuted over the weekend. Still, they’re stills and they’re nice to…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011 -
Gifts For Everybody
Everybody games. (Finally!) With a million different types of gamers, there are a million types of gifts to be bought. This year, rather than going very broad, we’ve tried to offer up a few specific different archetypes, the better to actually help you find something for the person you love. We’re not suggesting just video…
By Joel Johnson Published December 12, 2011 -
42 Ways To Kill a Man (in Saints Row 3)
By allowing you to kill with anything from jet bikes to something called an “ethical dance party”, this video shows us how creative you can get in Saints Row 3 Honestly, I think more games need clown cars with roof-mounted cannons. How else will I shoot people at other people?
By Chris Carolan Published December 12, 2011 -
Manhandling the 3DS Add-on Slide Pad Doohickey
Over the weekend, the Circle Pad Pro was released in Japan, meaning that people across the country are playing the 3DS with dual thumb circles. Japanese website Game Watch Impress took some of the best hands-on photos I’ve seen of the device that should clue you regarding what it’s like to hold the device as…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011 -
Behind the Music of Transformers and BioShock Infinites’ Moving VGA Trailers
Ever since Epic’s Gears of War plucked heartstrings with a cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World” game creators have been attempting to recreate that magic, forging an emotional bond between gamers and game through evocative music. Let’s see how good a job Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and BioShock Infinite did of it with their…
By Mike Fahey Published December 12, 2011 -
Everything we Know about The Last of Us
Well, what do you know? The people who made Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter and Uncharted are now making something terrific-looking called The Last of Us The trailer for Naughty Dog’s new PlayStation 3 game premiered on Saturday. A few details have been trickling out, too. Let’s round them up and see what we’ve got.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2011