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Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension‘s Launch Trailer Has A Few Suggestions
For anyone with a little one at home, or anyone who happens to love surreal animated children’s television, the names Phineas and Ferb resonate strongly. Then a game to captivate your young ones/easily entertained brain is a welcome treat. In this clip Dr. Doofenschmirtz gives some tips on how to play the new game. Shoot…
By Max Abrams Published August 1, 2011 -
Who Wants To Be a Gun-Toting, Zombie-Killing Stripper?
Naked Terror, the first of two exclusive levels for House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut for the PlayStation 3, transforms the players from a pair of foul-mouthed men of action into a couple of scantily-clad adult entertainment workers. The Naked Terror level fills in a gap in the House of the Dead: Overkill story,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 -
Words With Friends Takes On Your Facebook Friends
Zynga’s scrabble-style word game, Words With Friends is coming to Facebook. Words With Friends will carry over all of the features and functionality from the Android and iOS versions while adding social features. This is the first time Zynga has moved one of their mobile games to Facebook, not the other way around. Adding a…
By Sam Winstrom Published August 1, 2011 -
It Looks Like Metroid Starring a Flying Saucer, But it Plays a Little Differently
Can I have six minutes of your time? I’d like to show you what’s good—and what’s not-so-good—about Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet the beautifully-animated downloadable Xbox 360 game coming out this week. Think Metroid with a flying saucer, drawn by the incomparable Michel Gagne. Enjoy the video, folks.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 1, 2011 -
Want to Get into the Kotaku Game Club CivWorld game? Here’s How.
Hello Game Clubbers! I have great news! The good people at 2K have offered to create a CivWorld game especially for our group. However, because they will need to manually add each and every one of us into the game, I will actually need three things from you: Your first and last name Your Facebook…
By Mike Epstein Published August 1, 2011 -
Ragnarok Online Goes Offline for the iPhone
One thing about playing the adorable massively-multiplayer online game Ragnarok Online I could never stomach; all the damn Ragnarok Online players. Ragnarok Violet for iOS solves that nagging problem this Friday. Ragnarok Violent is role-playing game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad that allows players to explore Prontera, capital city of the Rune-Midgarts Kingdom,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 -
Rise of Nightmares Cuts a Bloody Swath Through Fourteen Screenshots
I get the point; this is an M-rated Kinect game. Can you please stop throwing blood all over me, Sega? Oh god, it’s in my mouth. Sega’s Rise of Nightmares is the gamer that finally realizes the joy of air-chainsawing the undead into tiny little pieces, even if it still has a way to go…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 -
Digging Into Diablo III’s Beta and Player-Paid Auction House
Our own Michael McWhertor spent the better part of a day last week meeting with Blizzard and playing through a healthy chunk of Diablo III What did he find out? Plenty. For instance, Blizzard is going to require gamers to stay online at all times to play their game. There will also be an auction…
By Brian Crecente Published August 1, 2011 -
How Video Games Make It Harder to Quit Smoking
When attempting kick the cigarette habit, tasks and activities once associated with smoking make the cravings flare. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Peter Pan Complex struggles with video games as a catalyst for puffing his life away. That damn cancer stick. I’ve been trying to quit after 10 years of lighting it up…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 -
EA Enlists Ex-SAS Operator to Pen Battlefield 3: The Russian
In a world flooded with video game novelizations, only one man has the background to develop the back-story of RU Special Forces operator Dima, one of Battlefield 3‘s playable characters. That man is not Sean Bean, but he was played by Sean Bean, which is pretty much the same thing. The man Sean Bean is…
By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome back to another week of Talk Amongst Yourselves. We’ve missed you. Please, share with us your video game exploits and anecdotes, or perhaps what you think this week will bring to your gaming lives. We’re all friends here, let’s talk! And once more it’s time to thank TAY celebrity Incursor for today’s TAYpic. Today…
By Joshua Rivera Published August 1, 2011 -
Are Gaming’s Biggest Portables Becoming Its Smallest Niche?
Last week’s drastic, surprising price drop for Nintendo’s 3DS gaming portable brought turmoil not just to the last major dedicated gaming hardware company in the world, but also the notion of portable gaming. While fans of Nintendo worry what impact the nearly one-third price drop on such a new piece of hardware will have on…
By Brian Crecente Published August 1, 2011 -
Flick Rocket is a Daydream of Centipede Asteroid Invaders Command
In third grade, I would draw up notebook-paper hybrids of arcade games. Pac-Man would chase barrels with a hammer and Frogger shot at invaders from the highway. Flick Rocket, a hybridized, deeply nostalgic arcade shooter, strongly appeals to my inner eight-year-old game designer. Drawing on Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede and Missile Command, with nods to…
By Owen Good Published August 1, 2011 -
This Is a Good Way to Promote a 3DS Game
Mysterious | TOKYO, JAPAN: Fifteen meters worth of posters for 3DS game Nazo Waku Yakata adorn Shinjuku Station. (Photo: Famitsu) Hands On with the Diablo III Beta Blizzard won’t be the only one potentially making a profit on Diablo III. Anyone who plays the dark fantasy hack and slash game could, thanks to its Auction…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 1, 2011 -
2012 Will Get a New Super Street Fighter IV Version
Street Fighter IV was released in 2010. This year, in 2011, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition was released. What about next year? 2012 is getting Super Street Fighter IV. At the EVO fighting game championship, Capcom revealed that it was working on Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Ver. 2012 Details about this updated…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 1, 2011 -
Can Nintendo Dominate Digital?
Face it. Nintendo’s never been a powerhouse in digital entertainment, like Sony or Microsoft. That could change. “Regarding if there’s anything we can do from now on that we aren’t currently doing for the 3DS and the upcoming Wii U, of course, whether that means there something we can do for in the digital business…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 1, 2011 -
This Cosplay Will Curbstomp Your Face In
Meagan Marie works for Crystal Dynamics on the Tomb Raider series. You probably know her better, though, as one of the most talented cosplayers (and costume builders) in the world Meagan takes the lead this week in a stellar lineup of cosplay shots, the proximity to last month’s Comic-Con perhaps meaning people still had their…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 1, 2011 -
Mario Is on an Unreal Engine Killing Spree
This is the decidedly 8-bit World 1-1 from Super Mario Bros. rendered using the Unreal Engine, most commonly seen in games like Gears of War If it looks a little rough, that’s because it was an 8-week project, not a polished game release. You can see more clips at 525Leomas‘s YouTube page. What happens when…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 1, 2011