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C’est La Guerre: Here’s a Look at Modern Warfare 3 Spec Ops Survival in Paris
Survival Mode’s one of the biggest tweaks to the multiplayer portion of Activision’s upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It’s a variation on Gear of Wars‘ Horde Mode experience but wrapped up in present-day paramilitary flavor that’s made the Modern Warfare series such a dominant franchise. The look and feel of Spec Ops Survival…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
You guys might hate spoilers but I am pretty sure these are the new console exclusive characters for Soul Caliber 5. Agree?Disagree? Talk Amongst Yourselves. Congratulations Giorgio Anselmi for winning the TAYpic of the week, I hope all your future endeavors are left unspoiled. Want to have your TAYpic featured here? If you think you’ve…
By Chris Carolan Published October 4, 2011 -
Game Reviewers Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Rage
Yes, I’m remixing lines from Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night”, but only because game reviewers’ mixed reactions to id Software’s Rage have my head spinning. From the creators of Doom and Quake comes a whole new game with shooting and a one word title, only this time instead of fighting…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2011 -
This is Your First $10 Gears of War 3 DLC
On November 1, you can buy $10 more of Gears of War 3 in the form of the Horde Command Pack. The pack adds three maps to the game’s Horde and Beast mode (Blood Drive, Rustlung and Azura), three new characters (Onyx guard, Big Rig Dizzy and Bernie Mataki), two new weapon skins (Team Plasma…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2011 -
Slam Dunk King: Chop off my Legs and Arms? Still Dunking
It’s a sign of the iPhone’s growing maturity as a platform that I can now have a favourite iOS developer. And that developer is PikPok. The New Zealand studio, who we’ve featured once or twice on Kotaku before, has just released another sports game, only this one is a little different from its previous efforts.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
Retro Gaming Idol Had Her Own Booth
Pink | CHIBA, JAPAN – At TGS 2011, Haruna Anno had her own booth, which Kotaku didn’t get to visit. Sadly. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) RAGE Has Been a Long, Long Time Coming It’s not every day you get to play a new id game. If you’re not counting iPhone games (and we’re not counting…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2011 -
Gears of War Designer Isn’t Sick of Gears of War
Now that Gears of War 3 is out and reviewed, it’s time to talk about future Gears games. Because, why not? Those games make cashola! And Gears designer Cliff Bleszinski isn’t sick of them. Yet. Bleszinski told Develop that “there’s the long history of this war, tons of different stories to tell and thematically if…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2011 -
Battlefield 3‘s Flying Tank Bug. (What the Fuck?!)
Kotaku‘s already shown twenty-three blissful minutes of lag-free Battlefield 3. The game looks realistic. It’s like you’re right there on the Caspian border. Know what’s not realistic? Flying tanks. Oh, and spinning jeeps. Floating dudes, too. The above clip is from the Caspian Border map. In what it lacks in lengthy, lag-free gaming, it more…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2011 -
Monsters vs. Aliens Scares Up 3DS Content. Just in time for Halloween.
Nintendo revealed this morning that 3D video shorts featuring DreamWorks Animation slated for Oct. as well as another Blue Man Group video. That’s not all, 3net is also providing a handful of clips. DreamWorks Animation is creating two Halloween-themed shorts for the 3DS, premiering this month. The first one is available starting today, and it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2011 -
A Closed World, a Role-Playing Game About Growing Up Queer
For someone growing up gay, life can be a challenge. So the team behind A Closed World decided to turn it into one of gaming’s most institutionalised ordeals: the Japanese role-playing game. It’s a great project, using the genre as a means to both parody games and use them as a productive tool to do…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
Japanese Television Ruining Uncharted
Starting Oct. 3 on late night television, TV Tokyo is broadcasting a new program to promote Uncharted 3. It will ruin the game’s prequel. Literally. The show, dubbed UnchaTV, isn’t a live action drama, but the cutscenes from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves edited together into sixteen episodes. File this under either “spoilers” or “lazy”. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2011 -
Turning Video Game Food Into Real, Delicious Food
Daniella Zelli is making me hungry. She runs a website called Gourmet Gaming, which exists solely to take the food found in video games and bring it into the real world. Notice how video games never really feature bad food? It’s always pies, or drumsticks, or pizza. The good stuff. Stuff that Zelli takes to…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
When Cosplayers Get in the Way of Crazy Cars
Over the weekend, bishoujo (beautiful young girl) game festival Dream Party steamrolled through Tokyo. Computer games weren’t the only place bishoujo popped up. They also decorated itasha Itasha, or literally “painmobiles”, are covered in decals that feature characters from popular anime, manga, and video games. This year’s Dream Party had tuned itasha on display. I’d…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2011 -
Modern Classics Reborn on NES Cartridges
Cult classic PlayStation 2 game Okami got a Wii port. It never got a NES version, because that system was well before the game’s time. But what if it did? Website 72pins reckons that the game’s 8-bit cartridge would look something like this. It also reckons that you can buy this mock-up for US$20. Other…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2011 -
This Four Year-Old Kid Lets us Relive the Magic of Star Wars All Over Again
After so many decades, so much merchandise and so much tinkering, it’s easy to forget just why so many people fell in love with Star Wars as a kid. It’s because of moments like this. Watch, as four year-old Faris is treated to his first viewing of Empire Strikes Back, the film’s spoiler having been…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
Kinect Hacked for Bigger Boobs
Kinect hacks provide an endless rabbit hole of would-be tech wizards using the peripheral for a rainbow of results. Some of them are amazing, such as this Kinect-controlled drone. Some of them are silly, such as this. This is a multiplayer-supported Kinect hack that gives both women and men “giant breasts” that they can shake…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2011 -
Remember, Those Downloadable PS2 Games Don’t Have any Extra Stuff
There are PS2 games coming to the PlayStation Store. An inevitable, if unfortunate turn of events. And just to be clear, these are PS2 games through and through: no remastering, no fancy updates, nothing. I mean, that seemed fairly obvious yesterday (given the nature of the announcement and the means of delivery), but there are…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
A Japanese Schoolgirl Finally Rides with Kamen Rider
Ever since Kamen Rider first fired up his motorcycle over forty years ago and kicked evil Shocker ass, one thing has been missing: a pleated-skirt and sailor-suit-wearing rider. That will change. Kamen Rider is a tokusatsu series that debuted in the early 1970s. It’s since spun off movies, toys, and video games. This December, Kamen…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2011 -
Zombie Luigi is Trying to Bite Mario’s Face Off
Custom toy creator KodyKoala, who you’ve seen here once or twice (or thrice!) , is back with another great piece based on the Mushroom Kingdom. And it’s a Mushroom Kingdom gone bad. Luigi has eaten a zombie mushroom and turned flesh-eater, depicted here trying to eat his brother’s face off and wear his guts for…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
Xbox Live Brought Down by “Human Error”
Earlier this morning, at around 9am Pacific, Xbox Live went down for a little while. What’s interesting is not the downtime itself (it was brief), but the cause: human error. A Microsoft statement issued later in the day reads: The root cause of this outage was human error. A change resulted in an interruption to…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011