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Middleweights Add Another 15 Fighters To EA Sports MMA
Movin’ right along – EA Sports MMA is revealing its roster piecemeal. This week we’re shown 22 fighters eligible at the game’s middleweight class, eight of which were also revealed as light heavyweights last week. Cung Le, Nick Diaz, Frank Shamrock, Ronaldo Souza, Tim Kennedy, Pat Miletich, Jake Shields, Nick Thompson, Robbie Lawler, Benji Radach,…
By Owen Good Published August 24, 2010 -
Angry Birds The Tabletop Version
A fan of iPhone and iPad game Angry Birds is so into the game that she’s created her own tabletop version which she calls Angry Birds Live. To play you toss the Angry Birds Laura created at the paper bag pigs perching inside the cardboard box towers she built. The different birds were created using…
By Brian Crecente Published August 24, 2010 -
Free-to-Play NFL Sim Adds Another Superstar
Quick Hit Football, the browser-based strategy simulation, will re-launch in September with NFL licensing. Though it won’t carry real-life rosters, the game’s maker can cut deals with individual players, and Dallas linebacker DeMarcus Ware has been added to the stable. Ware joins New England wide receiver Randy Moss as stars for this year’s game. Per…
By Owen Good Published August 24, 2010 -
FIFA 11 Is The Sport Of Kings
These crowns were everywhere during Gamescom, including EA’s FIFA 11 booth.
By Mike Fahey Published August 24, 2010 -
A Day With The Finished Halo Reach
Microsoft let me play a finished copy of Halo Reach on one of their Xbox 360s today. They even let me save my progress to my Gamertag.* I can talk about two missions, but I don’t want to spoil things. But, sorry… I can only be so vague. I will give away nothing of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 24, 2010 -
Travel Worn
To: Ash From: Crecente I flew back from Germany Sunday, managing to get perhaps one hour’s sleep over the course of 15 or so hours of travel. So go figure that on Monday, a day I took off to recharge my batteries, I came down with a nasty cold. It’s still fairly bad, but at…
By Brian Crecente Published August 24, 2010 -
Vikings Long Snapper Is Pissed He’s Not In Madden
Pity the poor long snapper – the special-teams player who, unlike the kicker, both gets dirty and speaks English. Also, unlike the kicker, he rarely shows up in Madden NFL. Cullen Loeffler hasn’t made the game in seven years. Game Informer has filed easily the most entertaining training camp report of the 2010 NFL preseason,…
By Owen Good Published August 24, 2010 -
It Doesn’t Get Much More Noir Than Negative Zone Spider-Man
In the shadows of the Spider-Man Noir universe, you can barely even see the Negative Zone alternate costume for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, but it’s definitely there. As we mentioned last month, Best Buy customers get a code to unlock Negative Zone Spider-Man in Shattered Dimensions when they preorder the game. That doesn’t lock other purchasers…
By Mike Fahey Published August 24, 2010 -
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom Wants To Be Your Friend
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom producer Daisuke Uchiyama is tired of over-the-top violence in games, and thinks he’s found a different motivation for playing his new game: Friendship. Daisuke Uchiyama is a friendly sort of person. He wants me to call him Uchi, which I will gladly do. He’s spent the past 15 years producing…
By Mike Fahey Published August 24, 2010 -
Remembering A Red Dead Horse
Is one of the most advanced things created in video games this year a virtual horse? Several months ago, a man who works for Rockstar Games was setting my expectations high. He was being reckless, I thought, because he was telling me nothing less than that the horse in Rockstar’s then-upcoming game Red Dead Redemption…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 24, 2010 -
How Many People Are Playing APB?
Scottish developer Realtime Worlds recently entered administration, and it’s rolling out play and pay stats for the recently released All-Points Bulletin to sweeten the pot for potential buyers. Who’s playing, and what are they paying? Realtime Worlds went into administration last week after being hit with massive layoffs the week previous. That means they need…
By Mike Fahey Published August 24, 2010 -
The Lighting, Lasers and Fire of Darkspore
Here’s a closer look at Darkspore, an action game that seems to neatly blend the best bits of Diablo and Spore. I loved playing it when I checked out the PC game at GamesCom last week. I especially liked the concept of being able to double down on your post-level loot for a chance of…
By Brian Crecente Published August 24, 2010 -
Microsoft: Eerily Familiar “Space Marine” Ad Not Connected to Halo
Samsung’s television commercial for its new Galaxy S phone has a lot of people thinking Halo when they watch it. The armor seems very similar and the look of the action also has a taste of Halo about it. Of course the flying crayfish starship is about as far off as you can get. So…
By Brian Crecente Published August 24, 2010 -
James Cameron Is Earth’s Official Spokesperson
After showing us through the magic of 3D how human beings could potentially screw up an entirely new planet, James Cameron has signed on with NASA to help show how the agency is keeping us from screwing up our own. Cameron stars in a series of three new commercials to help promote NASA’s contributions to…
By Mike Fahey Published August 24, 2010 -
Gears of War: Anvil Gate Novel Tells the Story Before Gears 3
Gears of War: Anvil Gate, the third book in the Gears of War novel series, will tell the story of what happened between the second and third video game. In Anvil Gate New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss writes about the travails of Jacinto’s survivors to rebuild human society following the end of the…
By Brian Crecente Published August 24, 2010 -
Eyes-on With Infamous 2’s New Cole, New Tricks
Gamescom offered us our first look at the newest game from Sucker Punch, Infamous 2, its new lead character Cole—redesigned after negative fan feedback—and one of the lightning powered super/anti-hero’s car-tossing superpowers. We also got a look at the game’s new setting, the New Orleans-like fictional bayou town known as New Marais. Sucker Punch founder…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 24, 2010 -
Microsoft Is Ready To Ban Halo: Reach Pirates
As leaked copies of Halo: Reach hit the torrent sites, Microsoft tells Kotaku that they are aggressively investigating the leak and are fully prepared to hand out bans to anyone caught playing the game pre-release. It happens every time a big game comes out, but when it’s a game as big as Bungie’s final Halo…
By Mike Fahey Published August 24, 2010 -
Possession Is Nine Tenths Of Ghost Trick
At the beginning of Capcom’s Ghost Trick you die. Then the action really starts heating up. I got a chance to play a new level at Gamescom last week, and now I’m going to tell you all about it. Ghost Trick, developed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, could be the most compelling little adventure…
By Mike Fahey Published August 24, 2010 -
What’s Next For Mortal Kombat, NetherRealm Studios
At Gamescom, we sat down with Mortal Kombat co-creator and NetherRealm Studios lead Ed Boon to talk about the newest game in the franchise, life after Midway and what could be next for the fighting game developer. First, the developer has to wrap up work on its new Mortal Kombat fighting game, due sometime in…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 24, 2010 -
Here’s What It Takes to Program a Computer Game
Have you ever wondered what a computer game looks like, from start to finish, as it’s being programmed? If so, then this time-lapse video of one man’s creation of Metagun (for Ludum Dare 18) will truly amaze you. Video inside. [YouTube via Reddit] Click to view
By Matt Cherette Published August 24, 2010