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Left 4 Dead 2 DLC Won’t Release This Month, Will Cost 560 MS Points
A video broadcast to U.K. Xbox Live subscribers confirms suspicions that Left 4 Dead 2’s “The Passing” DLC won’t be available by March 31, with the date moved to a more vague “Spring.” But it will cost 560 Microsoft points. The U.K.’s Xbox Live team says Valve officially confirmed the pushback and the price to…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 -
Puzzle Quest 2 Preview: The Same, Only Different
I got to spend a half hour this morning with Puzzle Quest 2, the sequel to a game I found so addicting that I’d rather play it than write up this preview. Is my life over come late spring? In short, yes. While dramatic changes have been made to the navigation system, experience points, money,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2010 -
Dead Space 2 First Look: Isaac on a Train
About 30 seconds of gameplay from the upcoming Dead Space 2 was just shown at PAX East during a panel discussion of the game. In it, Isaac flies through a few runaway train cars and zaps a necromorph. If you want to see it, skip ahead to 23:50 of the video below. It’s a somewhat…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 -
Hydrophobia Impressions: Mix Water With Exploding Barrels, Please
The best parts of Hydrophobia are, not surprisingly, wet. Today in Boston at PAX East I got a chance to try a demo of Hydrophopbia, a game several years in development by studio Dark Energy Digital that has been announced at this show as an exclusive Xbox Live Arcade game. At first glance it is…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 27, 2010 -
Vegas Kicked My Ass, but I Returned the Favor — With a Video Game
Two weeks ago I simulated the NCAA Tournament on my Xbox 360 and vowed to bet its first round predictions “like a message from the future.” My friends called that the stupidest thing they’d ever heard. They were right. But I did it anyway, hitting Las Vegas for a bachelor party with a sheaf of…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 -
Battle Block Theater Preview: Older-School
The creators of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers have finally named their new game and let us play it again. Here at PAX East I have played Battle Block Theater. We last played the game in the summer at the San Diego Comic-Con in July. What was then called Game 3 has not just a…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 27, 2010 -
Just Cause 2 Won’t Have Multiplayer, Just ‘Cause
The director of Just Cause 2 is loud and proud about the fact they built a single-player game, and shut down thoughts that they could be cooking up multiplayer downloadable content for this game. Still, Magnus Nedfors told Eurogamer that his studio, Avalanche, has had “lots of good ideas” for a multiplayer Just Cause, but…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 -
PAX East Kotaku Party: Scenes From The Rattlesnake Bar
The turnout at last night’s Kotaku Pax East meet-up was nothing short of amazing. There was dancing, drinking, more drinking. After that, we drank a little. Wanna see what that looked like? Here you go. The folks at Alienware, makers of the M11X, which isn’t in my backpack right now thanks to really strong locks,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2010 -
Red Dead Redemption Preview: I’m A No Good Dirty Horse Murderer
The air shimmers with heat as I survey the scrub plain laid out before me. Wild animals frolic. Horsemen go about their business. I whistle for my horse, saddle up, and take my first ride into Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. Red Dead Redemption tells the story of one John Marston, a bad man trying to…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2010 -
Stargate Resistance Sold Off as Bankruptcy Guts Original Publisher
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment started reading Chapter 11 last month, and now a court-appointed official has taken control of the company’s assets, which includes Stargate Resistance. The game has been sold off and will continue to be supported. Cheyenne Mountain, however, sounds like it has gone clank. It has less than $10,000 in the bank (so…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 -
Scott Pilgrim vs. These Screenshots of His Game
The soundtrack composer for the upcoming Scott Pilgrim adaptation (of the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie) debuted one of the game’s songs at PAX East, and screengrabs taken from that video give a glimpse of what to expect in the game. Anamanaguchi, the chiptune punk band that purports to create its songs with a hacked NES,…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 -
Weekend Coupons: Keep On Rockin’ in the Free and Reduced Price World
Sometimes the deals here are so rockin’ I start nodding my head like yeah, yeah, keep on with those Weekend Coupons! And then I start shaking my head like no, no, no don’t stop those Weekend Coupons! Hardware • Of special interest to plenty of you, I’m sure, is the 250 GB hard drive for…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 -
Live At PAX East: The 10 Best Games Of All Time?
Join us live at PAX East as Stephen Totilo, N’Gai Croal, and special guests help redefine the ten best video games of all time. Here’s the starting list, for you playing at home: 1. Legend of Zelda Ocarina 2. Super Mario Galaxy 3. GTA IV 4. Super Mario World. 5. Metroid Prime 6. SoulCalibur 7.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2010 -
Kotaku Originals: Still Pocket Size
Until PAX East kicked in Nintendo’s new handhelds – the upcoming 3DS and the arrival of the DSi XL – told the tale of the week’s big news. Paid DLC, as always, also pushed buttons among the week’s top stories. Kotaku’s PAX East Coverage Kotaku Talk Radio Top Stories Kotaku Census 2010: The Results (In…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 -
PAX East Creates A Game Of Cold-Blooded Journalism
Pen and paper role-playing game designer David Hill tasked a theater packed with PAX East attendees to create an RPG in sixty minutes, resulting in a thrilling game of journalistic intrique – with talking dinosaurs. The Design an RPG in an Hour panel at PAX East was already underway when I arrived, the room overflowing…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2010 -
They Brought The Gamers To Boston
Not everything the men behind the massive PAX East convention here in Boston told me this weekend is true. But most of it was funny and/or illuminating. Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, better known to the millions of fans of their Penny Arcade comic strip as Gabe and Tycho, have brought their giant Penny Arcade…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 27, 2010 -
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Mornin’ gang. Anyone else have an unusual Friday evening? Then again, what the hell is your usual Friday evening? If it includes video games, gab it up here while I make coffee and power on the weekend news-o-tron. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2010 -
The Argument For (And Against) Buying a DSi XL
It’s easy to misjudge Nintendo’s often fanciful video game system redesigns. When the Japanese game maker first unveiled the Game Boy Advance SP, a fancy iteration of the Game Boy Advance that folded in half, people loved the concept. And their initial impressions proved dead on, with the SP selling nearly 44 million units in…
By Brian Crecente Published March 27, 2010 -
Kotaku Census 2010: The Results (In Full)
As you know, the results of our little Kotaku Census are in. And while infographics are pretty, I also promised I’d give you the results in full. So here they are! On the whole, they’re great reading. While some questions presented predictable results, and some didn’t really tell us much (the “genres” question was multi-choice,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2010 -
Nintendo’s New DS Will Still Force You To Re-Buy Your Digital Games
Lagging behind standards maintained by competitors Sony, Microsoft and Apple, Nintendo is launching its second portable gaming system capable of downloading video games, without letting those who downloaded games on their first DS to transfer them to the new one. Nintendo is currently operating a pay-for-it-twice system for its DSiWare line-up, something that will be…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 27, 2010