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The Making Of Out Of This World And The Infinite Fax Attack
Eric Chahi, the creator of moody landmark adventure game Out of This World (aka Another World), once fought with his publisher, Interplay, via fax machine. Things got so bad at one point he attacked Interplay’s offices with the dreaded “infinite fax.” Chahi explained what an infinite fax was during his Out of This World post…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 3, 2011 -
Kinect Can Control Octodad, The Octopus Who Puts On His Pants Two Limbs At A Time
Octodad is the video game tale of one suit-wearing dad whose wife and kids don’t realize he is an Octopus. Despite what its developers from DePaul University told me today at the Game Developers Conference, I’m sure it’s not a documentary. I’m also sure that they’ve created a Kinect demo of the game, because otherwise…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 3, 2011 -
A New Guild Wars 2 Class Emerges From The Shadows
Slipping through the shadows unseen, striking from the darkness with a relentless barrage of melee attacks, one could easily mistake the latest class revealed for Guild Wars 2 as some sort of assassin – and they wouldn’t be far off. So far we’ve seen two different flavors of casters and two heavily-armored fighter professions revealed…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011 -
Dead Island Is a Decade’s Worth of Zombie Games in One
There is blood on the wall, a smear that drags down to the floor, bits of hair swaying gently in the breeze. It’s not in the game booting up on the computer, but in the mock-bamboo and straw cabana in which I’m sitting, somewhere in an office tucked away in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2011 -
Microsoft’s SideWinder Gaming Hardware Isn’t Dead Yet
Has the long-lived SideWinder line of gaming-centric computer peripherals finally bitten the dust? Microsoft says it isn’t so. Microsoft’s been releasing computer gaming peripherals under the SideWinder brand for the better part of two decades, pushing out everything from flight sticks to elaborate force feedback steering wheels. The line was put on hiatus in 2003…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011 -
One Version Of Portal 2 Can Be Controlled With Human Eyeballs
Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve has been toying with new ways to use biofeedback—heart rate, facial expressions, eye-tracking, levels of physical arousal—for years. What does that mean for the future of people who like Valve video games? How about controlling games with your eyes? Valve’s Mike Ambinder talked about the sundry ways the…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 3, 2011 -
Dead Island Movie Deal In Works, But Not Quite Landed Yet
Days after the haunting, evocative trailer for Dead Island showed the world that little girls can die in zombie outbreaks too, rumors hit that the game had landed a movie deal. That’s not exactly true, the developers tell us. Variety reported that the producer behind The Mummy had bought the rights to a Dead Island…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2011 -
NCAA Football 12‘s Cover Goes Up For a Vote
Four collegiate standouts – Washington’s Jake Locker, Oklahoma’s Demarco Murray, Alabama’s Mark Ingram, and Nick Fairley of the national champion Auburn Tigers – are candidates for the cover of NCAA Football 12 in a fan-voting contest EA Sports is conducting via Facebook. The winner will be announced April 19.
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2011 -
A Plea For Games To Grow Up
After David Cage’s speech at the Game Developers Conference yesterday, I heard the chatter of people whose minds have been opened, lives possibly changed. There was a room full of video game creators and press, buzzing about Cage’s big ideas. One woman said her hand had cramped, she’d never written notes so furiously. Admirers swarmed…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 3, 2011 -
Three Heroes Converge In Call Of Juarez: The Cartel
Ubisoft’s controversial third entry in the Call of Juarez series tells the story of three very different above-the-law heroes, and players can step into the shoes of any one of them, both online and off. A fictional drug cartel has bombed a U.S. law enforcement agency, killing hundreds of people. Believing the cartel has infiltrated…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011 -
Why Aren’t You Finishing Your Video Games?
In today’s mostly complete episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Dodgerwd wonders if everyone is having the same difficulty finishing their video games as he is. With the release of Radiant Historia I am left with another dilemma and a question for my fellow gamers. You see, I have not completely finished the game I…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011 -
Steam Secures Player Accounts With Random Intel Technology
Digital delivery service Steam wants to keep its users’ accounts secure, but software security is a fragile thing. That’s why Valve has teamed with Intel for Steam Guard, hardware-based security that could make account phishing a thing of the past. Someone has attempted to reset your Steam password. Please verify your information by following this…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011 -
Infinity Blade Goes Dungeon Diving At A Discount
Chair Entertainment spices up sexy iPhone swordfest Infinity Blade with The Deathless Kings, a free update that brings the quest for medieval combat dominance into the darkest dungeon depths, along with a discount to lure new players to their doom. Tired of slashing away at the same old enemies in the same old locations? Sure,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011 -
Resistance 3 Focuses in On Combat With Much Smaller Firefights
Resistance 3 take on multiplayer reduces the player count from 40 to 16, something that turns what were sometimes confusing bulletstorms of back-and-forth gunplay into a more focused experience. Here’s a look at the game in action. Make sure you check out my full impressions too.
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2011 -
Mortal Kombat’s Challenge Tower Turns The Game Upside-Down
The 300 missions in the new Mortal Kombat’s Challenge Tower mode will put even the most accomplished MK player’s skills to the test, turning the world upside-down and offering them a teddy bear for comfort. When I first heard about Challenge Tower, I figured it was simply 300 different Mortal Kombat fights in a row,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011 -
NGP Is Four Times More Powerful Than…
We’ve established that the Sony’s upcoming portable wonder-machine, the NGP, isn’t quite as powerful as a PlayStation 3. Further clarifying how much this thing can bench press, Epic’s Mark Rein tells us that the device, which can run his company’s Unreal graphics engine (think Gears of War, Mass Effect, Infinity Blade, etc), has four times…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 3, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
If you had one place – just one place on Kotaku that acted as an official forum for you to talk about games, would you use it, or would you just let it drop? Thanks to reader Rokeden for today’s Finally Fantastic image. Submit yours to #TAYpics. (Grab this month’s source image here and feel…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2011 -
One Important Thing To Note While In Namcolandy
Remember, when you go into Anpanman’s house at Namcoland TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES. Is Left 4 Dead Getting Ripped Off? Survival shooter Left 4 Dead features a whole cast of memorable zombies. So does upcoming zombie game Yakuza: Of The End. Thing is, I remember them being in Left 4 Dead first. The 3DS Battery…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 3, 2011