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Sonic Generations Is Like A Dream Sonic Game, Except It’s Real

Sega’s next Sonic game, Sonic Generations, will let you play as classic, sidescrolling Genesis Sonic or as modern, control-him-from-behind-in-3D Sonic. You’ll control either Sonic in levels inspired by three eras of Sonic games, from the originals, to the Dreamcast era, to modern times. No special powers. No playable friends. Sonic Team is doing development. On…

Which crappy scifi vehicle is right for you?

Let’s face it. If sweet science fictional rides like Airwolf or KITT actually existed, laymen like us wouldn’t get first dibs. No, we’d probably get saddled with whatever comically impractical vehicles the Tony Starks of the world don’t scoop up. Assuming that the most outlandish transports are someday available to consumers, here’s a (not actually)…

Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Screen Shots

First Look At Uncharted 3‘s All-New Multiplayer Mode, Now With Buddies, Splitscreen and High Fives

Soon, you’ll be able to high five your PlayStation Network and Facebook buddies while standing over the corpse of Nathan Drake—and you’ll be rewarded for doing so in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception’s all-new online multiplayer component. PlayStation 3 owners will be able to get their hands on the game’s multiplayer as early as June. Uncharted…

Could Prey 2 Be Red Dead Redemption in Space?

Prey 2, as we expected, will be a very different sort of game then the original. Gone is the conflicted Native American hero. Gone too is the linear gameplay of the original. Instead Prey 2 will drop you into the shoes of US Air Marshall Killian Samuels as he becomes an off-world bounty hunter in…

Mega Man X Marks The Nintendo Download

In a Nintendo Download populated by baby simulations, demos, and piano tutors, only one ancient robot has the power to make this week’s downloadable Nintendo games not completely suck. That robot is Mega Man X, making his Virtual Console debut in the form of the original Super Nintendo game. Dr. Light has been dead for…

New Skyrim Shots Feature Orcs, Cat-People, And The Dreaded Giant Spider

Giant spiders are a staple of fantasy role-playing games, be they pen-and-paper or console-and-controller. Bethesda shows off perhaps the most terrifying giant spider of them all in this latest batch of screens for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Kotaku didn’t make it to Bethesda’s recent BFG event, where Skyrim was on display for all to…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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The Mother of All Motherboard Shoot-Outs

Chipset delays aside, Sandy Bridge has been one of the most anticipated and impressive releases we’ve seen from Intel in recent years. The first wave of processors have demonstrated superior efficiency as they swept aside considerably more expensive processors of previous generations, while consuming even less power. The Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K…

That’s A Nice Suit. Like Something A Professor Would Wear.

TREASURE REPORT | TOKYO, JAPAN: Waterboys’ actor Hiroshi Tamaki appears at a press conference for DS game, Treasure Report. (Photo by Game Watch Impress) These Ladies Go Beyond A Fatal Attraction This week’s cosplay round-up is dominated by the ladies, with not one Felicias but two, some Final Fantasy favourites and a pair of Zelda…

Are These Silent Hill Movie Images Scary?

You’ve see the Silent Hill: Revelation 3D set photos. And if you haven’t here they are. How will the set look in the film? Probably something like this latest batch of movie stills. The images don’t look as unsettling (or beautiful) as the set pics, but they’ve got fire! And fire is scary. It’s warm,…

BulleTrain‘s Open Letter To EA Still Leaves Many Missing The Memo

About a year and a half ago, Pandemic Studios – you may remember them for Full Spectrum Warrior, Mercenaries and Star Wars: Battlefront – was shuttered by Electronic Arts, which bought the studio in 2007. Four developers who were pink-slipped formed Downsized Games, and BulleTrain, released late last year for iOS devices and updated recently,…

Another Game Canceled Due To Japan’s Earthquake

Disaster Report 4, a disaster survival game, was canceled shortly after the Tohoku Earthquake out of respect for victims. The upcoming Momotaro Dentetsu game is joining Disaster Report 4 in the canned bin. Momotaro Dentetsu is a series of dice-based video game board games which take players to different areas of Japan. The reason for…

Baraka Sure Is Ugly

But is he uglier than he was in the original, viral Mortal Kombat clip? For the Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series, the character’s make-up is getting reworked. He looks more troll and monstery and not nearly as unsettling as he did in the original clip. In that re-imagining, Baraka was an expert martial artist who…

These Ladies Go Beyond A Fatal Attraction

This week’s cosplay round-up is dominated by the ladies, with not one Felicias but two, some Final Fantasy favourites and a pair of Zelda cosplayers. They’re far from the only standouts in seven days of people dressing up like fictitious video game characters, though, as Team Fortress 2, Final Fantasy XIII and, amazingly, Command &…

Even Team Fortress 2 Has Gone Portal Crazy

Team Fortress 2’s recent “hatless” update may not have had any hats, but this week there is a new, single accessory: a pin you can stick on your players. A Portal pin. You know, in case anyone hanging around Steam hadn’t seen too much about that game already. Anyone pre-ordering Portal 2 through Valve’s own…

Madden Creative Director Quits EA

Ian Cummings, creative director of the Madden series, has up and left his post. While he still contributed to Madden 12, next year’s game may be a little different!

Resident Evil Reborn As Social Networking Game

This June, Resident Evil: Outbreak Survive will hit Japan’s Gree social networking service. Set in Raccoon City, the game has players work together with friends, sharing healing items and putting together teams of rescued allies to complete missions.

Imagining What Sony’s Next Controller (And Its Box) Will Look Like

My dork tendencies run a little…stranger than most. While I enjoy looking at things like mock-ups of new control pads, for example, I prefer looking at a mock-up of the packaging for said controller. Russian/American designer Ted Meltok figured he’d take a swing at Sony’s next (well, probably next) control pad, the Dualshock 4. Smartly…

Is This Game Ripping Off Final Fantasy?

Pandora’s Tower, an upcoming Nintendo-published role-playing game, looks great. It also looks a lot like Final Fantasy. Japanese netizens are quick to point out that images on the box art for Pandora’s Tower look incredibly similar to character art for Square Enix’s most recent role-playing games, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy XIII. Pandora’s…