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Battlefield’s Stupidest Weapons Don’t Look so Stupid now
Maybe that’s a little harsh. Battlefield‘s defibrillators only look stupid. But everyone knows that, deep down, they’re actually deadly: Fear the man who enters the modern battlefield armed with naught but two hospital paddles. This clip, from Corridor Digital, shows just how great the humble paddles can be, especially when you get imaginative with them.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011 -
Can’t This Vita Lady Get Anything Right? [Update]
Throughout Asia, it’s common to see attractive celebrities pose with game hardware. The celebs might not be gamers themselves, but they’re famous. Most can flub their way through without a gaff. Rainie Yang could not. At a recent press conference in Taiwan, Sony dated the PS Vita for the region, giving it a Dec. 23…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2011 -
Why Video Games Work Better Without Narration
Charming RPG Bastion had some gorgeous visuals, yeah, but it’s going to be remembered more for its novel use of narration than anything else. For Bastion, it worked, and it worked really well, given the way he was used as much to tell a story as to give a play-by-play. Give other games narration, like…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011 -
The New MechWarrior Game is a PC Exclusive
It feels like years since we heard anything about that new Mechwarrior game because, well, it’s actually been years since we heard anything new about that new Mechwarrior game. Until today! The wraps have finally come off the title, and…you may well not be happy with what lies beneath. The game is called MechWarrior Online,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011 -
Nintendo Sent Her Link’s Master Sword and a Stone. But She’s Not Link!
This is Briana McIvor, one of the hosts of video game TV show Electric Playground. She’s trying to pull a fake sword from a fake stone. Who could resist? The sword is a big Zelda promotional prop intended to hype the November release of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Hey, it worked! You can…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 31, 2011 -
The New Trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw Offers Tricks and Treats
What you’ve got to love about Suda51 is the way his avid embrace of junk culture and grindhouse aesthetic informs everything he does. The buckets of gore in all of his games, the lucha libre wrestling mask he used to do interviews in and the foul-mouthed, hormone-plagued tension in No More Heroes and Shadows of…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011 -
An Epic Adventure Inside the Box of the Gigantic Skyrim Collector’s Edition
Unleash the dragon! The collector’s edition of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has arrived, and I’m taking you inside a box so epic it takes two generations of Faheys to get the job done. While it’s much bigger than it looked on the internet, the Skyrim Collector’s Edition is actually rather light, thanks to the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2011 -
Wii Resident Evil Games Ready To Scare the PS3
Wii titles Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles are coming to the PS3 as a HD single title called Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Selection, complete with Move support. Release date is TBA. [4Gamer.net]
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 31, 2011 -
Get the Lowdown on Goldeneye 007: Reloaded’s Mi6 Ops in This New Trailer
There’s less than 24 hours before PS3 and Xbox 360 owners get to engage in hot and heavy James Bond action on their consoles. But, there’s more than just a campaign and multiplayer on the disc. This new video introduces the game’s Mi6 missions, separate chunks of gameplay that task players to complete different objectives…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011 -
He Asked About Misogyny in Street Fighter, and the Game’s Caretakers Didn’t Dodge
At a New York University conference about game design this past weekend, a conversation about misogyny broke out. Street Fighter brought it on, and the answers, some of them from one of the current caretakers of the series at Capcom, were frank. You might have expected defensive answers. People don’t usually react well to being…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 31, 2011 -
Witness the Intense Player Versus Player Combat of The Old Republic‘s Voidstar Warzone
It’s Republic versus Empire, good versus not-so-good, and most importantly, player versus player onboard the legendary prototype Imperial ship, Voidstar. Sabers up, everyone! This is what happens when two sides clash in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. The Imperial players want the information located in the data core at the heart of the Voidstar,…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2011 -
Zelda. Smash!
Mailman vs. Video Game –The disc was intact, but not for the mailman’s lack of trying to squash my copy of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Happy Halloween! Here Are Your Costumes, Kotaku Salutations on Samhain, Kotakuites. Halloween falls on a Monday this year, which means that many of you are nursing candy hangovers…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 31, 2011 -
Battlefield 3‘s Graphically Intensive Ultra Settings Pit AMD Against NVIDIA
Earlier this month we checked out the beta version of Battlefield 3 to see how it played on a range of DirectX 11 graphics cards. The results were concerning as even the latest and greatest graphics cards struggled, especially those who planned to enjoy the game in all of its visual glory. Powerful single-GPU cards…
Steven Walton | Techspot Published October 31, 2011 -
Let’s Hope the Angry Birds Store Is Structurally Sound
Angry Birds is not going away. It’s penetrated the zeitgeist in a way that compares to Pac-Man, Tetris and Super Mario Bros. And now there’s a retail shrine going up in China dedicated to Rovio’s feuding piggies and birdies. According to BetaBeat’s report, the store will be undercutting those profiting from the heavily bootlegged brand’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011 -
I’m Tired of Being a “Woman in Games.” I’m a Person.
Sexism in games remains an unsolved problem, it’s clear. Some of you will be nodding along, and some of you will hear the s-word and roll your eyes and go, “oh, this again?” You guys can piss off-–go click on some new screenshots or a trailer consisting of a release date slowly fading into view.…
Leigh Alexander Published October 31, 2011 -
This Live-Action Angry Birds Halloween Special Brought to You by Smashing Pumpkins
All you need is some painted pumpkins, a few two-by-fours, a couple cinderblocks and a makeshift slingshot and your Halloween celebration can be as exciting as these guys’ was. If only they had had access to a higher grade of explosives, this Angry Birds pumpkin spectacular could have ended with a bang instead of a…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2011 -
Happy Halloween! Here Are Your Costumes, Kotaku
Salutations on Samhain, Kotakuites. Halloween falls on a Monday this year, which means that many of you are nursing candy hangovers after dressing up this weekend. Some good-to-great game- and nerd-themed Halloween costumes wound up in our inbox over the last week or so and we’ve decided to share them with you. The images in…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2011 -
It’s a Massively Multiplayer Online Halloween Spooktacular
With fewer and fewer children donning costumes and hitting the streets every year to celebrate all things sweet and spooky, the Halloween tradition is alive and well in the virtual worlds of today’s massively multiplayer online games. The world’s a scarier place than it was when I was a kid. Back in my day parents…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2011