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Rage Avatar Items Not the Doom We Were Looking For
We here at Kotaku are waiting, hoping, wondering if there will be Doom 4 news during the QuakeCon 2011 keynote that is occurring as I type this. We got a new Rage trailer already. We got some iOS id games going on sale. And now…. These Rage avatars are now available for download on the…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2011 -
We’re Talking About CivWorld. Right Here. Right Now.
Welcome, folks, to the first meeting of the Kotaku Game Club, CivWorld edition. I hope everyone’s been enjoying the game so far. For those of you who are having trouble getting into our game, I apologize; we’re working on getting everyone in. Time marches on: That’s what I learned from CivWorld this week. Every time…
By Mike Epstein Published August 4, 2011 -
This Spectacular Rage Trailer Gives Us Something to Fight For
Just in time for the kickoff of QuakeCon 2011, the epic new trailer forRage sheds new light on the forces aligned against humanity’s remnants in id’s post-apocalyptic shooter. As if we needed any more motivation to play what might be the best thing to come out of id since Quake, this intense look at the…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2011 -
New NASA Photo Suggests Signs of Flowing Water on Mars
Revise Red Faction. Update Doom. Go back to the drawing board with that Total Recall remake (actually, please just stop making that). NASA announced today that they may have possible evidence of flowing water on Mars. Official caption for today’s NASA image: “An image combining orbital imagery with 3-D modeling shows flows that appear in…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2011 -
UK Woman Drives Over Boyfriend Twice Because He “Cheated Her at a Computer Game”
Love hurts. Sometimes video games can hurt more. In 2009 a UK woman, Erin Slingsby, 20, had a heated argument with her boyfriend, Kane Charles, 20, over a computer game, an argument that ended in her storming out. Charles stood in front of her car to prevent her from driving away when Slingsby mowed him…
By Max Abrams Published August 4, 2011 -
Steam Honors Quakecon With Weekend Sale, Including 27 Game Pack
Starting today, Steam is celebrating id and Bethesda’s Quakecon with deals on their games. Sales will change daily from now until August 8th. Today’s deals include discounted games, free-to-play Brink, and in-game specials for TF2. Quakecon 2011 Steam Sale [Steam]
By Jen Schiller Published August 4, 2011 -
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By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2011 -
Hard Reset is a Sexy Cyberpunk Shooter That Took Me By Surprise
It’s okay if you’ve never heard of Hard Reset, the new single-player cyberpunk first-person shooter coming next month from Polish developer Flying Wild Hog. Up until a couple of weeks ago, no one had. It happens. It just doesn’t happen often with a game this good being released this soon. Evolve PR is calling Hard…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2011 -
Madden NFL 12’s “Battle of the Gridiron” Tournament
Earlier this year retail giant GameStop and newly created Virgin Gaming announced a partnership that would power online video game tournaments. Gamers who purchased specific games at GameStop could join tournaments through Virgin Gaming registration. “Battle of the Gridiron” was announced today as the inaugural tournament. Anyone who pre-orders or purchases Madden NFL 12 from…
By Max Abrams Published August 4, 2011 -
Watch The Bernese Alps Go From Real Life To Forza Motorsport 4
Turn 10 Studios, the people behind the Forza Motorsport series, have a rough job. In order to make a top-shelf racing game, they had to go to one of the most beautiful places in the world and hike, examine, and photograph the landscape. They have our sympathies. Check out this behind the scenes look at…
By Max Abrams Published August 4, 2011 -
Happy 20th Anniversary, Bungie, This is Your Life
The folks at Bungie are celebrating 20 years of doing whatever it is Bungie does… make games, I think! Halo, Marathon, mystery projects for Activision and stuff. They’ve created a nearly one-hour long documentary about themselves, promising never-before-seen material. They’re calling it “O Brave New World”. Official description: “…a feast of infotainment sure to satisfy…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2011 -
They Don’t Even Bother Coloring WiiWare Games Anymore
I can understand leaving Mario Picross for the original Game Boy in black and white, but in this day and age a WiiWare game needs to be completely filled with vibrant splashes of color. Shame on you, Monochrome Racing I suppose it’s okay to make your game mostly black and white when it’s a design…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2011 -
What Makes Guild Wars 2 Sound So Good?
The answer to the question posed in the headline is a simple one: the Guild Wars 2 sound team. It’s how they do it that’s a little tricky. I’m not going to say that creating the sounds for a regular game isn’t a daunting task. It’s just that normal console and PC games have a…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2011 -
In our WikiLeaks, Cyber-Hacking Era, a Time Travel Video Game May Be a New Line of Defense
I was already interested in Dr. Chris Hazard’s complex time travel war video game when he mentioned the military was interested in it as well. The military cares about a time travel game? Sure, Hazard told me. He mentioned that he’s been talking to three and four-star generals lately at military conferences. “They are very…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2011 -
Rise of Immortals Will Have 3D Support and Give Away 3D Prizes
Rise of Immortals is a free-to-play Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game currently in open beta. The game’s full release will hit this summer, and developers Petroglyph games announced today that when it does, it will have full NVIDIA 3D Vision support. What’s that? You don’t like 3D gaming? Perhaps that’s because you don’t have the…
By Joshua Rivera Published August 4, 2011 -
Nintendo’s Problem Isn’t Hardware — They Stopped Making Killer Bongo Games
Yesterday Stephen Totilo posited that Nintendo’s problems stem from a lack of killer games. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter GeshGav agrees, though his idea of killer games is a little bit different. If I’m known for anything (gaming-wise) in my circle of friends, it’s that I’m a rabid fan of Donkey Konga. The…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2011 -
A Diesel-Punk Shoot’em Up? Sure, Why Not.
Sine Mora is an upcoming shmup from No More Heroes developer Grasshopper Manufacture and Imperium Galactica studio Digital Reality. It’s an unlikely couple, but as Grasshopper honcho Goichi Suda said last August, “We think we can strongly benefit from having an ally such as Digital Reality in the digital publishing realm, who can provide long…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2011 -
One of the iPhone’s Biggest Games Slices Out a Sequel
There are a handful of iPhone games that pretty much everyone who owns an iPhone has. Cut the Rope is one of them. And it’s getting a sequel. Cut the Rope: Experiments follows that little green monster Om Nom as he’s discovered by a scientist, eager to study the critter’s love of candy. The game…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2011