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The Original Xbox Controller is Coming Back in an Extremely Limited Way, Only for ‘Halo Fest’
Halo studio 343 Industries is offering only the most authentic of Halo: Combat Evolved experiences at this year’s Halo Fest, letting players go hands on with the Anniversary remake of the Xbox original with its original controller, the beastly gamepad nicknamed the “Duke.” 343 Industries’ Frank O’Connor let slip on the NeoGAF forum that the…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 15, 2011 -
EA Says It Was Valve Who ‘Expelled’ Crysis 2 from Steam
EA and Crytek’s Crysis 2 was available on Valve’s Steam service until this week. Now it’s available “only on Origin,” Electronic Arts’ new digital store (and a few others, actually). Despite the change and conjecture about the motivations behind it, EA says it was not behind the decision to pull Crysis 2 from Steam. Instead,…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 15, 2011 -
Nintendo’s Favorite and Least Favorite Screenshots
Nintendo has a habit of being especially uptight about the press’ use of imagery from E3. Nintendo sent a message along with the screenshots they distributed at the show, stating that the enclosed images were “prioritized”, and that magazines and blogs like ourselves should try to use the higher rated images if you had to…
By Mike Epstein Published June 15, 2011 -
Flash Game Contest Favors Message over Violence
A recent video game contest asks the question “can you design a game about Teen Dating Violence without using violence itself?” The worldwide answer was a resounding ‘Yes.’ Jennifer Ann’s Group, a non-profit organization aimed at preventing Teen Dating Violence, announced the winners of their Life.Love. Game Design Contest this morning. All of the games…
By Jen Schiller Published June 15, 2011 -
Go Biking With Rockstar Games
The 38th annual Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic kicks off on Father’s Day at Marcy Garvey Park. The annual event, presented by Rockstar Games, is the place to be if you’re in the New York area and are into that sort of thing. Take pics if you go!
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2011 -
Libya Is Quickly Becoming a Level from Twisted Metal
Just this morning we showed you a chopper-rocket-packing truck of the Libyan rebel army. Looks like it wasn’t the only one they’ve got: we found another hybrid missile pod pounder, firing away across flaming war wreckage. The scene is apocalyptically-surreal. DefenseTech speculates the salvaged rocket pod atop this car (in a single model, as opposed…
By Sam Biddle Published June 15, 2011 -
Uncharted 3‘s Creators Plan To Fix The Right Things
A couple of years ago, in the summer before the release of the second Assassin’s Creed I found myself discussing the many things that were wrong about the flawed first game in the series. Once in August and then again in September, senior people on Assassin’s Creed II walked me through some of the many…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 15, 2011 -
Star Rider Races Into My Fantasies
Check out this psychedelic trip of a game, courtesy the bygone days of laserdisc. In the laserdisc/CG arcade game Star Rider, racers are superimposed over a futuristic dreamscape, enabling the background to display much more advanced graphics than were typical at the time. The video only features the CG background, but with a techno soundtrack…
By Max Abrams Published June 15, 2011 -
Robin Williams Named His Daughter After Princess Zelda
It takes a triforce of courage to name your daughter after a video game character, but Robin Williams pulled it off. Watch Williams co-star with his daughter Zelda Williams in this ad for the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for the 3DS.
By Sam Winstrom Published June 15, 2011 -
Prey 2 Steeps in ‘Alien Noir’ Visuals and Red Dead Redemption Gameplay
Prey 2 had me at intergalactic bounty hunter. I don’t need to know how they tie this blending of Red Dead Redemption and Blade Runner into the original Prey, (you’re an air marshal on a plane spotted in just a few minutes of the original game). I don’t need to have new catchy phrases like…
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2011 -
Don’t Get Angry, There’s More Angry Birds
Angry Birds developer Rovio is working on more Angry Birds. One is called Wine and Dine and stars the game’s green pigs instead of the birds. Another game is Angry Birds Magic, a location-based title that rewards players on where they play the game and will interact with the chipped Angry Birds plush toys. With…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 15, 2011 -
Well Checkmaaaaaate, Princess
Ben Howard is the man to thank for this beautiful, hand-made set of The Legend of Zelda chess pieces. Drawing mostly from the designs of the Wind Waker era (though there are a few older styles thrown in, especially for characters not present in the GameCube title), there’s King Daphnes and Zelda leading the charge…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 15, 2011 -
Jay and Silent Bob Advertise the Living Shit Out of Infamous 2
In this week’s episode of Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes’ excellent podcast Jay and Silent Bob Get Old, the dynamic duo spends several minutes hawking Infamous 2. Did you know the game will “suck yo dick?” I’ve been listening to plenty of podcasts lately, as I’ve currently got two babies in two different hospitals on…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2011 -
There Will be no World of Warcraft LEGO, Sadly
Blizzard’s World of Warcraft and StarCraft franchises would be the perfect fit for LEGO sets. Sadly, the company has instead signed a deal with rival Mega Bloks to create toys and sets based on the franchises instead. Mega Blocks? More like Mega Sucks. [MEGA]
By Luke Plunkett Published June 15, 2011 -
When Captain America Throws His Mighty Pinball
On July 22, Captain America becomes the latest Marvel Comics character to get the blockbuster movie treatment, and on June 28 he’ll be busting balls as the latest addition to Zen Studios’ Marvel Pinball and Pinball FX 2 Due out June 28 for the PlayStation Network and June 29 for Xbox Live Arcade’s Pinball FX…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2011 -
I Couldn’t Properly Understand The ‘Kiss Controller’ Until I Glued One To My Tongue
Things were getting weird last week when the cheerful game developer and digital media artist Hye Yeon Nam started gluing a sensor to her tongue, weirder still when she had me glue one to mine. There I was, a couple of hundred paces from the massive PlayStation and Nintendo exhibitions at the E3 circus of…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 15, 2011 -
Negative Duke Reviews Could Lead to PR Shitlist [Update]
A third-party public relations firm tweeted last night that they would be “reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn’t” based on the bad reviews pouring in about Duke Nukem Forever “Too many went too far with their reviews… we r reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn’t based on today’s venom.”…
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
You want to Talk Amongst Yourselves? It’s ok I understand. Just be sure to talk about video games, guys. What games, you ask? Any games you want, of course. Thanks again Incursorfor our TAYpic of the day. Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how…
By Mike Epstein Published June 15, 2011
