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SSX‘s Finest Trade Their Boards For Balls in NBA Jam: On Fire
If you thought Elise, Mac, and Kaori were hot stuff on the slopes, wait’ll you get a load of their moves on the court in the NBA Jam: On Fire Edition The trio of SSX snowboarders will be unlockable in the upgraded version of everyone’s favorite two-on-two arcade basketball game, hitting the PlayStation Network and…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 -
The Binding of Isaac is a Wonderfully Warped Old Testament Take on The Legend of Zelda
In a world crowded with games spawned from Super Mario Bros. how wonderful it is to see the progeny of the Nintendo Entertainment System’s The Legend of Zelda. That is The Binding of Isaac, a bloody dungeon adventure displayed from an overhead view. The game descends from Zelda, heart health icons and all, but its…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 29, 2011 -
Mortal Kombat Is Koming Back to the Big Screen
Looks like director Kevin Tancharoen’s actually going to get to make that Mortal Kombat movie he pitched to Warner Bros. The director of Mortal Kombat Rebirth and the web series it spawned, Mortal Kombat Legacy, is getting his very own stab at a feature film. Tancharoen will direct an all-new Mortal Kombat movie based on…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 29, 2011 -
Get Your Board Game Fix With Vassal
Into board games? You should check out Vassal, an open source board game engine that lets you add board games to Windows/Mac/Linux. Many supported games feature the real art but lack A.I. so you have to move the pieces yourself.
By Chris Carolan Published September 29, 2011 -
Lets Talk About The Gears of War 3 Finale Right Now
Welcome back everyone! During today’s meeting of the Kotaku Game Club, we’ll be discussing the later three acts of the Gears of War 3 campaign. Warning: For all you Gears players who haven’t finished the campaign yet, there will definitely be spoilers below. Last week, the KGC spent a lot of time discussing the plot…
By Mike Epstein Published September 29, 2011 -
Wow, Psychonauts Just Got A Big Update, Achievements and a Mac Version
Like, totally out of nowhere, Double Fine just hit us with an update to the PC version of “excellent game” Psychonauts, adding Steam Play cloud saves, achievements and support for Mac OS X. Additionally, there’s a “slightly modified Meat Circus.” “We are really excited,” said Double Fine president Tim Schafer in a press release, “to…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 29, 2011 -
Swashbuckling! Romance! Logs! These Skyward Sword Videos Contain All of Those Things
As I mentioned in my preview of the game’s opening hours, swordplay in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is intuitive and fun. This is largely due to the fact that it incorporates the Wii’s Motion Plus controller, allowing for much more nuance in how players swing the blade. In the tutorial video above, we…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 29, 2011 -
Let’s Compare Battlefield 3 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC
You can play Battlefield 3 on a number of beastly machines. Surely, it looks best on PC (no surprise), but how about we let YouTube user Robbaz compare the game on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC? Go for it, Robbaz. You can contact Stephen Totilo, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 29, 2011 -
Dungeons & Dragons‘ Heroes of Neverwinter Venture Forth on Facebook
The city-state of Neverwinter has never been quite as social as it is in Atari’s new turn-based tactical Facebook role-playing game, Heroes of Neverwinter Wizards of the Coast and Atari are pushing the Forgotten Realms Neverwinter brand big time this year, with a new series of books by bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, a full-fledged co-op…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 -
An Outer Space Facebook Game That is Honestly Worth Your Time
Most of the Facebook games that I try lack something important. They don’t ask me to make interesting choices. They just let me click a lot. They let me do obvious things like collect 10 of this thing so I can build one of that thing. Interesting choices, however, are what the best games are…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 29, 2011 -
Bloomberg: Xbox As Cable Provider Could Be Unveiled Next Week
Rumors that U.S. cable providers Comcast and Verizon are on the verge of a deal with Xbox 360 to use the console as a cable box have been circulating for weeks. Today Bloomberg joins the crowd, citing their own sources. The article, which cites people with knowledge of the situation, says that the service could…
By Brian Crecente Published September 29, 2011 -
Notch Vs. Bethesda: The Court Papers
Another batch of documents in the legal wrangling between gaming giant Bethesda and indie darling Mojang hit Twitter today. Minecraft creator Markus Persson Tweeted what appears to be Bethesda’s filings in the upcoming trademark case involving Scrolls and The Elder Scrolls. While Kotaku has the documents in question, no one here speaks Swedish. If you…
By Brian Crecente Published September 29, 2011 -
I Am Alive Lives Up To Its Name Once Again, Winter Release Imminent
Having survived numerous delays and a total re-engineering, Ubisoft’s post-apocalyptic survival adventure I Am Alive is heading to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network this winter, unless it doesn’t. Considering the game’s history, I can’t help but be skeptical when Ubisoft announces a release window. Hopefully this time around they’re really, really serious, and…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 -
In Japan, Wrestling Masks Aren’t Just for Half-Naked Dudes in Boots
It began, as so many things do, with sweaty men in tight underpants. And they wore masks. Let’s not forget the masks. Lucha Libre masks. Those masks might have started in Mexican professional wrestling, but they live on in Japan, whether that be in fashion, manga, pornos and, yes, video games. “You want to know…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 29, 2011 -
Decide-O-Tron 8000 Extrudes My Ten Favorite Games
Penny Arcade’s game-suggesting iPhone app, Decide-O-Tron, is starting to showcase the favorite games of folks perhaps familiar to gamers. They’ve got the favorites of PA’s Gabe and Tycho, Xbox 360’s Major Nelson and now Kotaku’s me. My list of favorite’s went up last night. I’ve never been very good at this list-making thing because my…
By Brian Crecente Published September 29, 2011 -
Twenty-Three Blissfully Lag-Free Minutes in Battlefield 3‘s Caspian Border
Yesterday I showed you all what Battlefield 3’s massive Caspian Border map looked like through the haze of server lag. Now YouTube user jeffriseden gives us a lengthy lag-free look at the gorgeous contested landscape. I’m a bit jealous, to be honest. I’ve managed to hop on a couple of speedier Caspian severs, but nothing…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 -
Zelda and Mario in One Nintendo Download? Is It Our Birthday?
After several weeks of completely forgettable downloadable game offerings, Nintendo drops a free Zelda game, a Super Mario sequel, and a particularly intriguing WiiWare title, all at once. I might faint! Technically the free Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition dropped yesterday, but I’m feeling charitable today, so we’ll accept its inclusion in the…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 -
He’s Getting Too Old For This First-Person Shooter Shit
In today’s rapidly aging edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, old man commenter AcornPop hangs up his first-person shooter guns, unless a loose cannon of a young partner can drag him back in. The Murtaugh Effect: I am now 40 years old. Been playing games since even before the Atari 2600 days. All types of…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011