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The Very Special Otomedius Excellent Brings Sexy Pillowcases to American Shores
Konami combines Gradius-style, side-scrolling shoot ’em up gameplay with anime fetishes in Otomedius Excellent, coming to the Xbox 360 in North America on July 19. Not content to simply release a video game, Konami will also release a pillowcase The special edition version of Otomedius Excellent comes with the standard goodies—an exclusive art book and…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 1, 2011 -
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is More Than Meets the iPad
Activision may be handling the official movie tie-in games for Transformers: Dark of the Moon as far as consoles and handhelds are concerned, but the iPhone, iPad, and Java/BREW version is all EA Mobile. In the mobile version of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, players step into the giant metal feet of Optimus Prime or…
By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2011 -
Things You Must Know About the New Red Faction (That They Didn’t Tell You)
I finished Red Faction Armageddon on Monday. I finished it in a better mood than I was in when I started it a few days earlier. This is a game that gets much better as it goes along. More importantly, it’s a game that defied my expectations. Hell, it defied what I could have sworn…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 1, 2011 -
Who’s Calling the NGP ‘Vita’ Now? Sony!
Strong evidence that Sony’s Next Generation Portable would actually be called PS Vita emerged earlier this week. That’s still unconfirmed, but Vita is now looking more likely, thanks to a new source: Sony itself. After Sony launched an E3 2011 teaser page, nosy NeoGAF user gofreak dug through the source code of that page, seeing…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 1, 2011 -
These are the Big Role-Playing Games of E3 2011, We Think
Where would we be if there were no roles to play, no experience points to earn, and no levels to gain? Well we certainly wouldn’t be here, looking over the biggest role-playing games of E3 2011. While not nearly as prolific as the first-person shooter this year, the role-playing games of E3 2011 make up…
By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2011 -
Magicka: Nippon Trades Virtual Items for Real World Disaster Relief
Paradox Interactive drops a dollar’s worth of downloadable content today with Magicka: Nippon, three Japanese-flavored items (and a Team Fortress 2 Demoman cowl!) to aid your wizard’s quest, with 50 percent of revenue going towards the Japan Relief Support program.
By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2011 -
Serious Sam 3: BFE‘s First Trailer Promises Eye-ripping Fun, No Cover, All Man
The first trailer for Croteam and Devolver Digital’s Serious Sam 3: BFE has exactly what you’d expect from a Serious Sam game: guns a-blazin’, alien invaders, screen splattering gore and a total disregard for taking cover. And while it doesn’t spell out exactly what the BFE stands for, who really cares? The important information is…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 1, 2011 -
Nope, the Zelda 3DS Cartridge Isn’t Painted Gold
Nintendo sent us a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D a bit early. The game launches later on June 19, but we’ll be able to play it some and tell you about it. No time to play now, though! So just check out the tchotchkes Nintendo sent along (sure to be…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 1, 2011 -
Get Your Fresh Section 8: Prejudice Maps Today
Fans of Timegate Studios downloadable shooter Section 8: Prejudice should be pleased with the change of scenery packed in the two new maps of the Overdrive Map Pack, available now for PC and Xbox 360 for 320 Microsoft Points.
By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2011 -
The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable—Photos
Red Star microdots. (Likely acid.) Price: 7.75 bitcoins ($67) for five. (All photos from Silk Road sellers.) Edgarnumbers is selling these 2C-B “blue bees” tablets. Price: 1.15 bitcoins ($10) per tablet. Avatar acid for sale by Bloomingcolors. “Avatar blotters are VERY strong (180ug per), and have been circulating around the EU for some time now.…
By Adrian Chen Published June 1, 2011 -
Turtle Beach Bolsters Its Ear Force at E3 2011
The audio experts at Turtle Beach are all set to rock E3 2011 next week with a pair of new gaming headsets destined to please the ear canals of countless PlayStation 3 and PC gamers, including a more affordable version of its coveted programmable PX5 Back when I was first diving into the PC scene,…
By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2011 -
Death Trumps War as the Hero of Darksiders II
War rode proud and strong through the battle between good and evil in the original Darksiders, but he’s only one of four apocalyptic horsepersons of interest. War, Famine, and Pestilence take the bench as Death saddles up his pale horse for Darksiders II Vigil’s resident comic book legend Joe Madureira shows off his stunning interpretation…
By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2011 -
Trailer for New L.A. Noire Cases Reveals a Fresh Feature: A Very Large Explosion
Rockstar and Team Bondi have more cases for L.A. Noire gamers to play soon. One, Reefer Madness, surely involves a wacky weed of some sort. The other involves the explosion you see above (well, you’d see it if not for that darn age-gate). Those cases and a pile of other additions to L.A. Noire—suits, guns,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 1, 2011 -
Aliens: Colonial Marines, a ‘True Sequel to James Cameron’s classic Aliens,’ Out in 2012
The long-in-the-making first-person shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines is still alive and coming out in the spring of 2012, according to a chest-beatingbursting announcement from the movie studio behind Aliens, the publisher of Sonic the Hedgehog and the creators of the award-winning game Borderlands The unlikely trio of 20th Century Fox, Sega and development studio Gearbox…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 1, 2011 -
What Games Can Be Played When One’s Thumb Goes Astray?
Commenter BrawlKarter subjected his left thumb to the real-world sport of basketball, resulting in a strain that leaves him effectively thumbless for weeks. What games can he play without his favorite digit? I need some help fellow Kotaku community members. Sprained my left thumb playing basketball yesterday while saving a loose ball and am in…
By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2011 -
The Modern Warfare 3 Files: Team Perks, No Nukes, New Killstreaks
It’s a fair guess that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will follow in the footsteps of last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops, shattering sales records and bringing even more people to video games. But it’s typically not the single player campaign, detailed here, that draws in those record-breaking numbers. While many, including myself,…
By Brian Crecente Published June 1, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s June. Already. It’s so terribly hot out, that I’ll need all of you to talk as much about video games as possible, so that I don’t get a headache or fall asleep. No really, it works. And since this is Talk Amongst Yourselves, there’s no better place for it. Please become acquainted with this…
By Drew Cohen Published June 1, 2011 -
Knight Defense is Chess with a Pac-Man Championship Edition Overhaul
Almost four years ago today, the people who made Pac-Man tried to make Pac-Man better, by giving the game a techno aesthetic and altering—intensifying—its rules of play. Game developer Milan Nikolic’s Knight Defensenow does that for chess. Nikolic hasn’t made chess better. He’d have to be a genius to do that. But he has twisted…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 1, 2011 -
Cosplay for a Good Cause
On March 11, a massive earthquake rocked Japan. Within minutes, a tsunami ravaged the country’s northeast coast. Lives were destroyed, lives were lost. The gaming industry has held charity auctions and donated money to relief efforts. And now, so are cosplayers. A calendar dubbed “Cosplay for a Cause” aims to raise money for the Japanese…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2011