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Xbox Live Indie Clips: The Tribes Of Ursea
Centaurs and not-so-centaurs spill blood on the fields of battle in this week’s Xbox Live Indie Clip, the Tribes of Ursea. People often ask me how I chose which games to feature in the weekly Xbox Live Indie Clips article. Sometimes they are suggested to me through friends and co-workers. On occasion the developer themselves…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
The Kotaku Guide To Fall Video Game Hardware And Controllers
With the arrival of fall comes the arrival of expensive shopping decisions. You can shell out for games, but what about game hardware? Do you need the Kinect? The Move? One of the new video game guitars? Or even a new console? This companion to our Guide To Fall Video Games highlights the big hardware…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2010 -
Metropolis And Gotham Are Nice, But You Wouldn’t Want To Live There
It’s like you can’t go five feet in DC Universe Online’s Gotham City or Metropolis without seeing superheroes and super villains duking it out. I bet property values are way down. This batch of screens for Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online show some over-the-top combat going on in the streets of Gotham and Metropolis.…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
Pokemon Helps Keep The DS (Way) On Top In Japan
Another week of outstanding sales for Pokemon Black & White, another week of total Nintendo DS dominance in Japan. More than half of every console sold in Japan this past week, according to sales tracker Media Create, could play Nintendo DS games. The most popular version of Nintendo’s still wildly successful platform was the DSi,…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 1, 2010 -
Man Wins (Ig)Nobel Prize For Swearing
Anyone who’s played a particularly frustrating video game can attest to the therapeutic effect of dropping the F-bomb. The phenomenon has now been scientifically proven, and the man behind the research awarded for his efforts, sort of. Annals of Improbable Research magazine held the 20th annual Ig Nobel awards last night at Harvard University, and…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Will I actually be playing “The Sacrifice” in both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 before Tuesday? God, I hope so. But I’ve got a few back-up games on tap, just in case. I’ll continue to mess around with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock this weekend, despite my dislike for the vast majority…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 1, 2010 -
Is December 7 The World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Release Date?
A day after Amazon.com suggests a January release for World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion, MMO Champion uses a combination of patch info and official forum posts to nail down December 7 as the date. What does Blizzard say? MMO Champion came up with the December 7 date by putting 2 and 2 together. The first…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
In This Video Game, Home Foreclosures Are A Joke
Signs of the worldwide economic downturn, known by some as the Great Recession, are nearly absent from modern video games. So it came as a surprise to me when one my assignments in a new video game was to foreclose on homes. The game is DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, which is an unlikely candidate for…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2010 -
The North Koreans Invade Homefront Multiplayer
You won’t find any opposing forces in this multiplayer trailer for THQ’s Homefront. Just North Koreans in snazzy outfits. This is one very promising trailer. It’s a bit short on action, but the lead up is certainly impressive, and those North Koreans from the future (the game takes place in 2027) certainly know how to…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
The Xbox 360 Dashboard For Dummies
If you’re Microsoft and you’re selling the Xbox 360 this fall to people who would be happy to avoid pressing buttons, how do you coax them into … pressing buttons? This new Xbox 360 dashboard tutorial appeared today on my Xbox 360. It was part of an update to my beta version of the revised…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2010 -
Bulletstorm’s Box Art Kicks You In The Face With Color
The bright and colorful North American box art for Epic’s Bulletstorm is a boot to the head of those more serious first-person shooters. It’s these bright colors that draw me to Bulletstorm. I’ve no problem traversing the dreary grey and brown worlds of games like Resistance, Killzone, or Epic’s own Gears of War. I just…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
Online Move Versus Dualshock Play in Killzone 3 Still Undecided
In this video Guerrilla Games’ Steven Ter Heide walks us through what it’s like to play Killzone 3 with the PS3’s Move controller. He also talks us through some of the design decisions for the motion-control option. Of course, if you’d rather play through the game using your Dualshock, that’s supported too. What Guerrilla Games…
By Brian Crecente Published October 1, 2010 -
Ugly Force Unleashed II Watches Are Collectively Attractive
These Force Unleashed II X G-Shock watches might be hideously ugly, but only 50 pairs are being made, and that makes them beautiful. The two limited edition Force Unleashed II watches from G-Shock (a Casio brand) aren’t the sort of timepieces a person wears anyway. These are watches you keep in a box and sell…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
Microsoft Names New President Of Everything Fun
The man with one of the most impressive houses in the gaming industry now has a title to match, as Microsoft officially makes Don Mattrick the president of its Interactive Entertainment Business. It’s not really that big of a change, moving from senior vice president to president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, at least not…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
Medal of Honor Maker Defends Taliban Renaming, Addresses Free Speech Concerns
The 11th-hour renaming of the playable Taliban fighters as the “Opposing Force” in this month’s forthcoming Medal of Honor game is upsetting some gamers who say publisher Electronic Arts isn’t standing up for games or free speech. To those gamers, EA said today, try the demo version of the game and see what impact the…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2010 -
Chinese Youth Dies At Boot Camp
The Chinese government has taken swift steps to deal with teenagers that are addicted to online games and the internet. One step has been the creation of boot camps. Sixteen-year-old Chen Shi was apparently beaten to death at a boot camp in the capital of Hunan province only two days after enrolling in the camp.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2010 -
Massively Multiplayer Online Petz
Fresh off the launch of its first massively multiplayer online game, Might and Magic Heroes Kingdoms, Ubisoft steers its online gaming initiative in a decidedly lighter direction with Petz World. Over the years, the Petz brand has grown from a pair of rudimentary pet sims into a veritable kingdom of animal interaction sims. The original…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2010 -
Multiplayer Customization in Action in Call of Duty: Black Ops
In this latest Call of Duty: Black Ops video we get an in-depth look at the customization of multiplayer in the game, in particular we learn all about the importance of in-game currency and horses that can shoot guns. Customization and personalization are two very important design agendas for the makers of Call of Duty:…
By Brian Crecente Published October 1, 2010 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to October. A new month brings a new image for Talk Amongst Yourselves. This one is by Hans Holbein, 16th century artist behind some creepy made-for-Halloween works like this one. Talk about games here. Go to #TAYpics to begin riffing on this image. I’m excited to see what you come up with. Thanks to…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2010
