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South Park Presses Square for Doubt on L.A. Noire
Fresh from the vivisection they performed on EA Sports and Peter Moore (which Moore himself quoted on our Twitter feed Thursday), the kids of South Park turned their attention to L.A. Noire in Thursday night’s episode, in which Stan battles chronic cynicsm—aka “Internet commenter’s syndrome.” We can see its more tragic manifestations here in Stan’s…
By Owen Good Published June 11, 2011 -
The Best Videos of the Week
Maybe you’ve been out enjoying the weather all week and didn’t have time for your favorite Gawker Media sites. Or maybe you’re just ready for an air-conditioned afternoon of visual entertainment. Well, whatever the case, we’ve got you covered. Here are some of the most amusing and entertaining videos we watched during the week that…
By Matt Cherette Published June 11, 2011 -
Phishing Threat Closes European Club Nintendo
Nintendo today sent a message to members of its European website saying that a potential phishing threat prompted the company to close down portions of the site, including Club Nintendo “The protection of our customers is our utmost priority and so we have taken the precaution of immediately shutting down some parts of this website…
By Owen Good Published June 11, 2011 -
Triple Crowns are Not Uncommon
The Belmont Stakes runs today, and while there has not been a Triple Crown winner in horse racing since 1978, nor a triple crown winner in Major League Baseball’s hitting categories (batting average, runs batted in, home runs) since 1967, we have seen six triple crowns over the past decade. They’ve just been in a…
By Owen Good Published June 11, 2011 -
Eventually, all Microsoft Games will Employ Kinect
For Microsoft, the E3 2011 recipe read much like E3 2010’s—Kinect, and lots of it. The head of Microsoft’s Game Studios noted the company’s focus on the device and said at some time in the future, all first-party games from the Xbox 360 maker will include Kinect support. “It’s not a mandate that everything we…
By Owen Good Published June 11, 2011 -
Mission Critical Deals
Two actors pose atop vintage armor in the World of Tanks display outside the Los Angeles Convention Center’s South Hall at E3 2011. Image by Isaac Viel. Sorry folks, no snappy film quotes today, just this badass pic to get us back on track coming out of the big week at E3. On with the…
By Owen Good Published June 11, 2011 -
Songs from the Big Chair
Kotaku readers! Let’s put this E3 2011 week to bed with some much-needed catching up on things that did not happen at the Los Angeles Convention Center. So… what happened this week outside that bubble? I need your help! E3 is something a news vacuum, so I’m barely aware that the Earth continued to spin…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011 -
The Latest Victim of the Account Hacking Horde is Epic Games
Gears of War and Unreal Engine developer Epic Games now has something in common with Sony and Codemasters—the company was recently the target of hackers who may have stolen its customers’ personal data. The intrusion into Epic’s web sites and forums appears to be on a much smaller scale than that of other recently hacked…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011 -
E3 2011 Was On A Boat (Don’t You Ever Forget)
The hottest trend at E3 this year? It wasn’t shooters; it wasn’t connectivity; it wasn’t butt-sliding or trains or social network wrappers. It was boats. Did you notice? The people at FirstPlayUK did, selecting the boat-centric scenes from trailers for Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Tomb Raider, Resistance 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Assassin’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011 -
Seeing How the Other Half Fights in Gears of War 3‘s Pulp Fiction-inspired Campaign
If you watched Microsoft’s E3 2011 press briefing for its Gears of War 3 demo—played by Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski and Ice T—you only saw half the story. At an E3 demo, we saw the other half of that Tarantino-inspired battle. That campaign encounter, “Abandon Ship,” pits two teams of COG soldiers against a Locust…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011 -
UFC Undisputed 3 Seeks a Bid to Fighting Game Tournaments
UFC Undisputed may be a sports simulation, but the series has roots in fighting games, says the game’s producer, and UFC 3 will pay tribute to those roots when the game releases in January. Developer Yuke’s Future Media Creators told me at E3 that the point of UFC Undisputed 3’s competition mode is to get…
By Owen Good Published June 10, 2011 -
Here Are Four Pokemon For Your Free PokeDex 3D App
This week Nintendo released Pokedex 3D, a 3D Pokemon viewing application that you can download for free on the 3DS’ eShop. They also were handing out Pokemon Augmented Reality Markers at their booth. Each of the four we grabbed are supposed to show different Pokemon on your 3DS when you use the app to scan…
By Brian Crecente Published June 10, 2011 -
Barely Feeling the Force in Kinect Star Wars
For as long as brothers have swatted one another with wrapping-paper tubes, Star Wars fans have wanted something, anything, to give them the sensation of wielding a lightsaber, repelling blaster fire and cutting down Stormtroopers in a streak of blue. That, too, is the goal of Kinect Star Wars and all who are making it…
By Owen Good Published June 10, 2011 -
PS Vita to PS3 Connectivity Was Driven by Developers, Could Mean Wii U Style Experiences for Sony’s Console
Perhaps the most potentially compelling argument for owning a PlayStation Vita, Sony’s recently renamed NGP handheld, is how beautifully it can play with the PlayStation 3. Connectivity between Sony’s two consoles was driven by developers prototyping for the Vita, the company says, and may eventually lead to the system doing a fairly good impression of…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011 -
The Single Sexiest Thing in BloodRayne Betrayal
The developers at Way Forward, veterans of recent 3D remakes and sequels to games like Contra and A Boy and His Blob are turning BloodRayne, a 3D action game series about a sexy lady vampire that launched nine years ago, into a 2D action brawler. They’re emphasizing blood over sex appeal. Lots of blood. And…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2011 -
Watch Us Go Croc-Hunting in Metal Gear Solid 3D: Snake Eater
We only played a tiny bit of the Nintendo 3DS remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, but what we did told us one thing. This is definitely a Metal Gear Solid game. We struggled with the controls. Hey, it’s a Metal Gear. Those controls are never that easy to handle. Unfortunately, the demo…
By Mike Epstein Published June 10, 2011 -
Three Things Devil’s Third Might Have: Dildo Melee, Hard Gay and Wii U Support
Tomonobu Itagaki, the man formerly behind Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive games, did not bring his latest creation, Devil’s Third, to E3 2011. He promises it will be at Tokyo Game Show, however, and wants to bring death by dildo to yet another THQ-published game. I only wrung a few Devil’s Third updates from…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011 -
The Latest Ace Combat Gets to the Choppah (and the Bombah)
The aircraft of the venerable Ace Combat series all have been of the fixed-wing variety. The most notable variance in the latest installment Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is the inclusion of helicopters, as many saw when the game’s first trailer showed an Apache Longbow used in gameplay. “If we just wanted to make a jet…
By Owen Good Published June 10, 2011 -
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
In between writing about all the video games I played at E3 2011 this week, I’ll somehow find the time to play at least one more, Q Games’ Child of Eden, the spiritual sequel to one of my all-time favorites. I’ve tooled around with the game before at events, but I’m looking forward to sitting…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 10, 2011