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Today in TF2 Hat News: Three New DOTA 2 Hats [Update]
No doubt in honor of this weekend’s DOTA 2 International Championship, Valve is now offering there new DOTA 2 hats in Team Fortress 2 Available are: The begoggled Clockwerk hat, the Raidenesque (or really Storm Spiritesque) Storm Spirit Hat, and the Sniper hat, which is a lot like the goggles from Clockwerk but without the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 19, 2011 -
These Guys Win Solitaire Forever
Computer and video games have been inspiring art for years now, but the group Skrekkogle has drawn from classic inspiration for their newest piece Solitaire Win Solitaire Win is a 5 foot wide, 2.3 feet deep, 1.3 foot high sculpture made of black foam, paper and tape. It immortalizes everyone’s favorite end-game sequence, finally in…
By Jen Schiller Published August 19, 2011 -
These Three Fall PSN Games Just Got Release Dates (Guess Which One I Want to Play)
As excited as you can get for a game, all the trailers, screens and hype in the world don’t mean a thing unless you have a release date—a day you can look forward to actually playing said game. I don’t know if you were looking forward to any of these Fall titles published by Sony…
By Joshua Rivera Published August 19, 2011 -
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Instead of playing the latest and greatest games at Cologne’s Gamescom expo, I’ll be playing a 2009 Legend of Zelda game. What else would I do when faced with 12-plus hours of travel? I’ll hopefully wrap up The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks this weekend, somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. I’d really like to put…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2011 -
Invisible Pony Rides, Bill Cosby, and Several Seconds of Borderlands 2 in Action
Earlier today thousands of Borderlands fans flocked to UStream for the chance to catch some gameplay footage of the popular game’s upcoming sequel. They got a little — very little — but first they got a whole lot more. Three days of no sleep and German spirits weigh heavily on Gearbox marketing and PR VP…
By Mike Fahey Published August 19, 2011 -
The Stellar Space Age MMO That’s Played on an Android
After more than five years in development, Spacetime Studios has finally released Star Legends: The Blackstar Chronicles, a massively multiplayer online science fiction game for the Android platform. Wait, there was no Android platform five years ago! That’s right, Spacetime Studios first signed on with MMO publisher NCsoft to create The Blackstar Chronicles as a…
By Mike Fahey Published August 19, 2011 -
Trash-talking Battlefield Publisher Predicts Call of Duty Will Collapse ‘In 2-3 Years’
EA, the publisher of this fall’s Battlefield 3, responded today to a call from their competition for cooler rhetoric with some heated trash talk. “Welcome to the big leagues Eric,” EA spokesperson Jeff Brown said in a comment issued to Kotaku but adressed to Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision and the man who said in…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2011 -
Our Excitement for Capcom’s Biggest Game Ever Remains Low
There are some games we at Kotaku love writing about. Skyrim‘s one. Assassin’s Creed. Whatever Atlus game our Mike Fahey’s obsessed with this month. And then there are games like Dragon’s Dogma which we pass around coverage duties of like soldiers passing around the hand grenade that just fell into their foxhole. There’s something about…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2011 -
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Simplifies With Polished Play
The first thing I noticed while watching a team of two Ubisoft developers play through a new level of Ghost Recon; Future Soldier wasn’t the Zambia setting or the rolling wave of dust and smoke created by a crashing plane, it was how clean everything looked. Gone were the screen-filling, often distracting augmented reality icons…
By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2011 -
Classic Sonic Won’t Speak In Sonic Generations But Maybe He’ll… Turn Into a Werewolf?
For Sonic the Hedgehog’s 20th anniversary, Sega and Sonic Team will bring two versions of its mascot—in “classic” and “modern” flavors—together for a time-traveling, old school-meets-new school adventure. But only one of those Sonics will actually speak in Sonic Generations Sonic Generations spans three eras of Sonic the Hedgehog’s video game history: the Sega Genesis,…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2011 -
This New MMO Will Kill Every Damn Sasquatch In Space
One of the quiet hits of Gamescom so far has been Wildstar, a freshly-unveiled MMO from NCsoft. While it won’t be of much interest to anyone outside the world of MMOs, it does have a great art style, and its blending of fantasy and sci-fi design (along with BRIGHT COLOURS EVERYWHERE) making it very easy…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2011 -
The Ultra Disposable Gun is One of the Great Big Little Improvements in Borderlands 2
The throwaway guns of the original Borderlands, which numbered in the hundreds of bazillions, were nothing compared to the fire and forget disposability of the game’s sequel. And Borderlands 2‘s “disposable razor-style” guns from fictional manufacturer Tediore, the Walmart of intergalactic gunmakers, already stand out as one of the game’s better features. Gearbox Software showed…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2011 -
Free Witcher 2 Patch Adds Horde Mode, Makes Things Darker, Harder
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Version 2.0 will be a free patch that gives PC gamers a new tutorial system, a survival arena mode, a difficulty-increasing dark mode, oodles of patches and all of the previously released download packs. The free patch hits Sept. 29. All new installations of the game will update automatically.…
By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2011 -
Do You Have Few Friends? This Trailer Is for You
Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Portable is the portable version of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai. It’s a PSP game. It was originally a light novel, and Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, which means “I Have Few Friends”, follows a mixed Japanese and British boy at a Catholic school having a hard time making friends.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 19, 2011 -
Watch Blizzard Open the Gates of Hell in Cologne
We showed you that fancy bit of 3D street art Blizzard created for Diablo III earlier this week. Now we have a sped-up video showing how the artists made it look like demons were bursting from the city’s streets. You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find…
By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2011 -
Talk This Guy Into (Or Out Of) Buying a PlayStation 3
This week’s PlayStation 3 price drop leaves one question in the minds of gamers that have been avoiding Sony’s console: To buy, or not to buy? That is the question we’ll be helping commenter GiantBoyDetective answer in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Alright guys. Talk me in to or out of buying a PlayStation 3.…
By Mike Fahey Published August 19, 2011 -
The 3DS Tractor Simulator Genre Has a New Champion
You know, not every game at this year’s Gamescom is an international best-seller. Some games are made with a more local audience in mind, and few are as German as this one. It’s called Landwirtschafts-Simulator 3D, and puts you in control of…tractors. Just chugging around a farm. Doing farm stuff. We’re not doing much farm…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2011 -
The Great Ubisoft Post-It Wars End With a Three-Story Assassination
They say that any war can be ended by a single, well-placed assassin. Ubisoft Paris proves this to be true with what is surely their final salvo in the ongoing Paris Post-It war. Sometimes you just have to think outside the window. For months, Ubisoft Paris and its neighbor, French bank BNP, have been firing…
By Mike Fahey Published August 19, 2011