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Battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder With A Virtual Suicide Bombing
The Humvee drives down a crowded street in a foreign land. A child waves. Merchants display their wares. Suddenly soldiers raise their rifles as a suicide bomber runs into the street, detonating his lethal package. This is virtual PTSD therapy. This graphic simulation of a suicide bombing is part of a program launched earlier this…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 -
It’s Like Uncharted With A Fat Guy
There will be spoilers in the video here, featuring one of the best scenes in the surprisingly excellent expansion to Enslaved: Odyssey To The West. But, really, this is just beautiful (and I’m not giving plot details away.) Pigsy’s Perfect 10 is a $10 single-player expansion to one of 2010’s more quietly superb games, Enslaved.…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2011 -
The Music Of Silent Hill: Downpour Sounds Familiar
The next Silent Hill won’t feature the musical stylings of series mainstay Akira Yamaoka. Dexter composer Daniel Licht is filling the void in Silent Hill: Downpour… and doing a pretty good job of delivering the same musical vibe. Konami has released a sample of Licht’s contribution to Silent Hill: Downpour, about 90 seconds of moodiness,…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 25, 2011 -
PS3 Black Ops Patched Massively
Early this morning Treyarch unleashed a major patch for the PlayStation 3 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops, fixing freezing issues, stability problems, and various other annoying issues. Check out the official forums for full patch notes.
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 -
Enjoy The Chaos And Din Of Killzone 3’s Bilgarsk Boulevard
We’re just a month away from Killzone 3, the next big thing for the PlayStation 3, potentially the system’s next great multiplayer hit. For those who care not for grand spectacle and story, here’s some online multiplayer carnage. Killzone 3’s open “beta”—a limited time multiplayer demo, really—will hit North America early next month. Who’s up…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 25, 2011 -
The Rise Of Egypt And How You’ll Pay For Age Of Empires Online
Age of Empires Online is a free-to-play online game, but every free-to-play game needs to make money somehow. Kotaku spoke to members of the game’s development team about the newly-unveiled Egyptian civilization and how gamers can pay to play. Age of Empires, released in 1997 for the PC, was one of the first real-time strategy…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 -
Did This Student Improve This PS3 Game’s Sound Effects?
Jim McGowan studies sound and music for video games at a school in England. He figured he’d test his skills by trying to improve the sound effects in WipEout HD. Listen to the results. First, we’ve got Jim’s version of the sound effects in the PlayStation 3 racing game. He recommends that you listen with…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2011 -
Russian TV Links Modern Warfare 2 To Russian Massacre
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may have influenced the deadly attack on Russia’s busiest airport earlier this week, state run news network Russia Today suggests. RT points out what they say are similarities between the bloody scenes depicted in the No Russian level of 2009’s game with the gruesome reality of yesterday’s attack at…
By Brian Crecente Published January 25, 2011 -
Witness The Awesome Power Of A Runaway Star
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer captured this amazing image of the star Zeta Ophiuchi plowing through a radiant dust cloud at 54,000 miles per hour. Why is Zeta Ophiuchi on the run? We like to think of stars as fixed objects hanging in the sky, but as we’ve seen before in Kotaku’s daily science post,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 -
Giggling My Way Through The Bloody Bulletstorm Demo
Epic’s demo of its upcoming over-the-top first-person shooter Bulletstorm urges players to kill with skill. Lacking any real skill myself, fits of childish giggling will have to do. Keep in mind this is the first time I’ve gotten my hands on Bulletstorm, and I did sort of skip the tutorial for brevity’s sake, so my…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 -
A Look at the Maps And Zombies of Black Ops First Strike
Call of Duty: Black Ops isn’t just getting four new maps when First Strike hits the Xbox 360 next month, it’s also getting more zombies. While we have already seen a bit of the four multiplayer maps included in First Strike, due to hit the Xbox 360 on Feb. 1 for 1,200 Microsoft points, or…
By Brian Crecente Published January 25, 2011 -
Dead Space 2: Severed DLC Reunites Players With Some Old Friends
Visceral Games’ first batch of downloadable content for Dead Space 2 is Severed, a single-player add-on starring Gabe Weller and Lexine Murdock from Dead Space Extraction. Severed will hit the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live in the coming weeks.
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 -
Killzone 3 Lays Waste To PlayStation Home
The Central Plaza of Sony’s PlayStation 3 virtual playground PlayStation Home has never looked quite as attractive as it will this Thursday. To think all it needed was an alien invasion. Killzone 3 is coming on February 22, but the Helghast are touching down in PlayStation Home a little bit earlier than that. Starting Thursday,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 -
Age of Empires Online Egypt Gallery
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 -
Spell Check: 5 Mistakes To Avoid In Magicka
Co-op wizardly action extravaganza Magicka comes out today, making this the perfect time for the following public service announcement. You will suck at Magicka. You will be so terrible. You’ll be introduced to its innovative element-mixing system, you’ll nod, smile at the power at your disposal, and then proceed to screw up in a thousand…
Quintin Smith, Rock Paper Shotgun Published January 25, 2011 -
Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm Demos Are Live
Free demos for Bulletstorm (single-player) and Crysis 2 (multiplayer demo) are now on Xbox Live. That’s demos of two upcoming first-person shooters for the price of none. The Bulletstorm demo should be downloadable today for PlayStation 3 as well.
By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2011 -
This Is What Super Meat Boy Success Feels Like
Super Meat Boy is a 2D game with relatively simple graphics. That’s what it looks like, at least. This action-packed fan film by Joseph Manalaysay captures what beating one of the game’s brutal levels feels like. As anyone that’s been playing games since the Atari age will tell you, video games don’t need elaborate visuals…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011 -
The Cheaper, Better Tasting Alternative To The Nintendo 3DS
In today’s short but sweet episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter 100Tacks spends a dollar on a portable Nintendo product that does 3D without the aid of special glasses. I got my 3D’S today for one dollar! About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have to say…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2011