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Crackdown 2 Screens, Only 492 More To Collect
Crackdown’s Pacific City sure ain’t what it used to be. The buildings got crummier, and the cop’s armour got better. Those delicious green orbs, however, look unchanged. Just goes to show, you can’t improve on perfection.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2010 -
Yakuza Flexes Its Muscle On PS3 Sales In Japan
The PlayStation 3 had a big week in Japan, thanks to the success of Sega’s Yakuza 4, the country’s bestselling game for the country’s bestselling console. It was just a little over a year ago that the previous entry, Yakuza 3, pushed the PS3 to the top of the Media Create hardware chart. It was…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 27, 2010 -
There Once Was A PS2 Assassin’s Creed Game
The first Assassin’s Creed, much like the second, only came out on three systems: the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. But did you know that, alongside production of the original game, another was in development for the PS2 & Xbox? So says Eidos’ Jonathan Jacques-Belletete, who told 1UP that the last-gen game, like Assassin’s Creed…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2010 -
What If Tron Were Released In 1962?
If Disney’s computer generated sci-fi epic appeared a couple decades earlier and title sequence master Saul Bass got the job, well, it would probably look just like this, requiring a massive farm of PDP-1s to render. Oh, sure this Bass-inspired Tron send-up is positively ancient in internet terms—creator Hexagonall uploaded the parody to Vimeo some…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2010 -
Kotaku Off Topic: Junkyard Dogs
Thank goodness it’s Friday, when the off-topic conversation occasionally steers toward the gastronomic. Let’s ring in the weekend by talking about anything we want, as long as that anything is about hot dogs. See, the PAX East festivities happening this weekend made me pine for a Spike’s Junkyard Dog, the “German Shephard” to be precise.…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2010 -
Halo: Reach’s Commendations, Credits & Your Concerns Explained
Bungie is mixing up Halo: Reach multiplayer with all new rules, adding the concepts of Credits, Rank, and Commendations; it’s all part of the Xbox 360 game’s new “Player Investment” system, which sounds way more exciting than the name implies. In Halo: Reach, Bungie is throwing out much of the old way of doing things,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2010 -
Review Round-Up: Steely Damned
It was a week in which new Wii games were reviewed and old Nintendo 64 games were reviewed, as well as one that could’ve have passed for a Super NES game. It was a week’s worth of Kotaku reviews. Get yourself caught up on our weekly batch of scoreless reviews, including new Dante’s Inferno downloadable…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2010 -
Whenever the Next Half-Life Comes Out, It Had Better Be Scary
Games have “gotten away from genuinely scaring the player,” and Half-Life, whenever it deploys its next episode, needs to get back to doing just that, the game’s boss said. Gabe Newell, the Valve honcho, was asked if the game’s tone has matured along with its audience’s over the past 12 years. He told Edge Magazine…
By Owen Good Published March 26, 2010 -
The iPad Launch Games, Now More Expensive
With Apple’s “magical and revolutionary” iPad hitting next week—April 3, to be exact—expect a flood of apps and video games to saturate iTunes at launch. Specifically, expect these games, unearthed from the iPad’s app store. The first wave of iPad games appear to mostly be upscaled upgrades of their iPhone and iPod Touch counterparts, according…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2010 -
Netflix on the Wii Features Some Nice Long Load Times
The Netflix discs enabling streaming video over the Wii are already in the mail and one reader’s uploaded this video, showing us what we can expect – in this case, 30 second loading times to browse the catalog. By this video, booting up the service takes 33 seconds. After registering the device, it’s another 33…
By Owen Good Published March 26, 2010 -
PAX East Cosplay Gallery: Day One – Feeling A Bit Tingly
It’s been a busy first day at PAX East, and we’ve only managed to capture a handful of cosplayers in our mad dash about the convention area, but what they lack in quantity they make up in quality. Okay, maybe not, but they try really hard, and win points for originality? The Tingles are cute?…
By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2010 -
Crackdown 2 Multiplayer Preview: I Don’t Have Your Goddamned Orb
It’s hard to get an accurate feel for the Rocket Tag online multiplayer mode for Crackdown 2 when every time I try to get a word in edgewise – oh dammit I’m dead. That’s pretty much how my ten minute session of Rocket Tag went down. I slipped into one of the last rounds of…
By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2010 -
Kotaku’s PAX East Party: It’s A Happening!
Are you in Boston, Massachusetts and attending PAX East? If you’re in the mood to have a wicked pissa of a night, head over to tonight’s Kotaku party at the lovely Rattlesnake Bar and Grill. We’re buyin’! Well, Alienware’s buying, as they’re sponsoring the thing, providing you with refreshments from 8 p.m until 2 a.m.…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2010 -
Modern Warfare 2 Bigger than Lady Gaga and Transformers Combined
No disc – game, CD, DVD, whatever – sold more in 2009 than Modern Warfare 2, in the U.K. anyway, where the game bested phenomena such as Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle, and standbys like James Bond and Harry Potter. Modern Warfare 2‘s sales triumph over all games of 2009 is common knowledge, but it’s…
By Owen Good Published March 26, 2010 -
Summer Camp
To: Owen From: Crecente Yesterday Tristan tells me that he wants to go away for a week this summer to a Science Summer Camp, a place where they will teach him to take care of animals, play with forensics and all sorts of other cool things. I’m sure he will love it, but man, he’s…
By Brian Crecente Published March 26, 2010 -
Red Dead Redemption, Civ V And The Wil Wheaton Horde: PAX East Sightings From Day One
Not many words for you about PAX East in this post. Just pictures and captions of some of the things we spotted on our first day at PAX East. The back side of Rockstar’s massive Read Dead Redemption booth. The side of Rockstar’s Read Dead Redemption, with a GTA sales pitch. EA’s Dante’s Inferno booth…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 26, 2010 -
Troubled Star Left Out of NBA Jam Roster
NBA all-star Gilbert Arenas, whose joking pistols-at-dawn challenge to a pissed-off teammate was no laughing matter to the league, is absent from fan voting on the NBA Jam roster. EA Sports says it’s not entirely because of his legal troubles. Speaking to The Sporting News‘ First Cuts blog, an Electronic Arts spokesman attributed Arenas’ absence…
By Owen Good Published March 26, 2010 -
Comic Jumper Preview: This Time, It’s Comical
The last video game from Twisted Pixel was a ridiculous exploration of how good a game you can get out of a character who only explodes. Their new hero has a worse affliction. He stars in a bad comic book. I watched a developer from Twisted Pixel play through part of the first level of…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 26, 2010