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AT&T Giving Uverse Subscribers $60 to Go Buy Xbox Live Gold
Wednesday, Microsoft announced that more than 40 providers had signed on to deliver TV programming to Xbox Live. One of those, AT&T, has been supplying content through its Uverse service for about a year, where it’s been available to free subscribers. Now it will completely transition to Xbox Live Gold. Therefore, AT&T is giving its…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Requires a ‘Permanent Internet Connection’
Mandatory constant Internet connections piss off PC gamers. No studio can has yet put that news in any light that didn’t summon an extremely indignant reaction. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2‘s tried to put it in a different light by saying the constant connection is how players will be served actual game content. Like missions. That does not…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
Easter Egg Gives Breaking Bad a Cameo in Rage
Appropriately enough, the season four finale of Breaking Bad is on AMC tomorrow night. You may recall that, in late August, Rage made a strange cameo in the meth-slinging drama, in which someone plays the game with a light gun. Well, Rage has returned the favor with a Breaking Bad prop cameo of its own.…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
They Think I Do Not Know a Buttload of Crap About the Gospel, but I Do
Orphans! Listen to Ignacio. I know it is fun to wrestle. A nice piledrive to the face, or a punch to the face, but you cannot do it. Because it is in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbor. Software • Tuesday, Oct. 11 release Forza 4 regular 360 game comes with $10 eGift Card…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
Co-Op Multiplayer for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Arrives Oct. 25
“Exterminatus,” the late-addition cooperative mode for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, will release Oct. 25, publisher THQ said today. It had originally been scheduled for an “early October” release. Exterminatus has two maps, and lets up to four players take control of a Space Marine in what’s essentially a Horde match, fighting wave after wave of…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
L.A. Noire Studio Owes $1 Million to Employees—and a Quarter of That Is Claimed by the Boss
Team Bondi, the Australian studio that saved the worst year of its existence for the one in which it finally delivered L.A. Noire, owes its employees more than $1 million, according to papers filed in the studio’s liquidation. It’s a fitting epitaph for an outfit slagged over the summer for shady employment practices and insider…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 -
Come Into the Light! All Are Welcome!
Kotaku readers! How are you this fine Friday evening? If you feel like responding to that question, or starting a thread of your own, this particular post is wide open for those very purposes. Anyone going to Indiecade in Los Angeles (Culver City) this weekend? If so, I’ll see you there? Sound good? Sounds good.…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2011 -
Bulletstorm’s Creator Says All the Cussin’ was ‘A Bit More Than We Really Wanted’
Bulletstorm, released in February, is probably still 2011’s most foul-mouthed game. It may be 2012’s most foul-mouthed game, too. It popularized the term “dicktits” after all. Adrian Chmielarz, the creative director at Poland-based People Can Fly, tells the latest edition of Game Developer magazine that he didn’t know just how much swearing was going on…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 -
So, Who’s the New Guy?
Well met, Kotaku readers. You’ve probably seen my name popping up on the site this week and might be wondering who the hell I am, where I came from and why I’m here. I’ve been writing about video games for about 10 years, getting my start at the late, lamented Teen People magazine. (Oh, sure,…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011 -
Battlefield 3 for Xbox 360 Has Something Special On the Second Disc
The Xbox 360 version of DICE’s Battlefield 3 will ship on two discs—one dedicate to single-player, one dedicated to multiplayer. One of those discs will also have something Xbox 360 owners will probably want to clear some hard drive space for. According to a report from Gamerzines, Battlefield 3‘s second disc will also include an…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2011 -
There Will Be No Backbreaker 2 as Its Studio is Moving Away from Console Gaming
Backbreaker‘s small but extremely passionate following got some bad, but not really unexpected news. “Unfortunately, and unofficially, it is very unlikely that we will revisit [Backbreaker]/full-on football again,” the game’s lead developer told a forum member. What’s more, Todd Gibbs told the forum user that “the company has changed direction and is currently not looking…
By Owen Good Published October 7, 2011 -
For All Its Airplanes, Earthquakes and Explosions, Battlefield 3‘s Campaign Is Remarkably Dull
At EA’s all-day Battlefield 3 event yesterday, I had a chance to play through a handful of single-player missions on PC in addition to the multiplayer modes that I detailed earlier today. It’s been said (and repeated) that “no one plays Battlefield for the campaign,” and that may well be true, but the extreme graphical…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 7, 2011 -
Take a Gander at Prototype 2‘s Revamped Combat Right Here
Everybody’s favorite super-cannibal franchise is back with more spikiness and more dodging. The open-world whup-ass sequel hits next year. You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011 -
There Might Just Be More Battlefield: Bad Company on the Way
Those guys at DICE, man, they are busy. They’ve got betas to test and bugs to squash as Battlefield 3—undoubtedly one of the biggest games of the year—gears up for release. That’s a lot of work. So, could they possibly be thinking about the story-driven Bad Company branch of their FPS franchise? Turns out the…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011 -
Video Games: The Book
Light Reading – This week, two video game books arrived at Kotaku Towers West, the massive Dark Souls strategy guide and the SUPER iam8bit art book. Both are great. My Goodness, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Deserves to be Called an RPG November’s The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword looks almost nothing like the…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2011 -
Military Game Developer Disputes Green Beret Accusations
Accusations by a group of former Green Berets that Pipeworks Studio head Robert Daly never served in the Special Forces aren’t true, the head of Foundation 9 tells Kotaku. Earlier this week a website dedicated to outing fake soldiers accused Daly, who’s studio made the Xbox Live Arcade title Deadliest Warrior: Legends and has appeared…
By Brian Crecente Published October 7, 2011 -
Build This Woman a Minecraft Palace and She’ll Live With You Forever
If you build it, there’s a chance you might meet her. Actress / comedian Kristen Schaal wants you to show her how beautiful Minecraft on the Xperia Play can be. In exchange, you might just get to find out how adorable she is up close. And suddenly I wish I had an Xperia Play. The…
By Mike Fahey Published October 7, 2011 -
The Lyrics You’ll Never Hear to the Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Theme
Over the course of the last few weeks, Ubisoft has been running a contest for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, inviting people to submit entries of themselves singing the game’s theme song. The winner will be featured in the game singing the theme, and credited on the soundtrack! In cooperation with UJAM, Ubisoft opened up the entries…
By Matthew Buzzi Published October 7, 2011 -
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The Dark Souls obsession continues into the weekend for me, as I explore the things I missed during my first playthrough of the PlayStation 3 version and invest in new game+ mode. Yes, I’m still rather obsessed. But I’ll have to break away from Dark Souls a bit this weekend to play video games at…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2011 -
Sony Takes Uncharted 3 Contest Winners to Jordan in Search of Treasure
Nathan Drake lives a pretty sweet existence when you think about it. Glamorous globe-trotting. Incredible agility. Living off of, ahem, borrowed treasure. Guilt-free mass murder. Who doesn’t want to be that guy? Sony’s European PlayStation division let a few lucky contest winners step into the Uncharted hero’s boots with a trip that took them to…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 7, 2011