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Getting Around In Champions Online

The Champions Online open beta is now in full swing, and here’s a look at how you’ll be swinging, flying, and burrowing your way through the new superhero MMO. My favorite feature of Cryptic’s last superhero game, City of Heroes, was the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound, teleport about the city,…

iPhone Bethesda Project Still Brewing

Back in February, during a panel I co-hosted, one of my very special guests, Bethesda’s Todd Howard said he was cooking up an iPhone game. I asked him last week for an update. The game is “getting closer,” the Fallout and Oblivion game director told me during our interview at QuakeCon in Dallas. “I put…

The Table Problem

Ever walk into a room and get stuck on a table? No? How about in a video game? If so, Paul Wedgwood has a solution for you. Yesterday, I posted about the greatest feeling in video games as determined by Splash Damage’s Paul Wedgwood. I explained how he hopes his studio’s next game, the team-based…

Guild Wars 2 Hype Machine Rumbles To Life

Amidst all of the sound and fury surround the impending release of Aion, NCsoft has been quietly gearing up for a big reveal of Guild Wars 2. The teasing has begun, the website is stirring, and the official Guild Wars 2 Twitter is now active, pointing the said web page, where the above image hovers,…

Don’t Have Time For MotionPlus’ Three Minute Instructional Video?

We’ve shown you the three minute instructional video Nintendo uses to explain how to attach and detach Wii MotionPlus. Recognizing you busy people don’t have three minutes to spare, a GameTrailers user chopped that down to seventeen seconds. WMplus instructions straightforward [GameTrailers]

Why Does The EyePet Box Art Look Different From Other PS3 Games?

The box art for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s EyePet recently made its way out to retailers—like Amazon.co.uk—a new branding treatment for PlayStation 3 games that downplays the console’s previous branding. In particular, the “PlayStation 3” portion. While we’re not clear that EyePet’s box art is final, the assets that Amazon UK has features a slightly…

Bethesda Clarifies No Elder Scrolls V Statement

Last week at QuakeCon 09, Bethesda’s Todd Howard was quoted as saying the company had “no current plans” for a fifth Elder Scrolls game. According to Bethesda, that’s not what Howard said at all. The developer’s Pete Hines posted a statement on the Bethesda Blog today, clarifying Howard’s comments regarding the future of the Elder…

Gearbox’s Amazing Offices, The Sights We’re Allowed To Show

On Friday I strolled three of the four floors Borderlands development studio Gearbox occupies atop an office tower in Plano, Texas. Some wondrous sights did I see, including Aliens game concept art I can’t show (sorry!) and all of this… (Click each thumbnail to enlarge) My tour guide was Gearbox co-founder Randy Pitchford, who walked…

Kotaku Gets To Gamescom, GDC Europe

We’ve touched down in Cologne, already set foot in the Kolnmesse and had a brief taste of GDC Europe. But tomorrow is when the action starts, as Gamescom kicks off in its new location. We’ll miss you Leipzig! Tomorrow, expect big announcements from Electronic Arts and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Both companies will be holding…

Champions Online Open Beta Leaps Into Action

Time to put Cryptic’s latest massively-multiplayer online superhero game to the test, as the FilePlanet open beta for Champions Online launches with only a few slight snags. Right now FilePlanet subscribers and those with preorder codes for Champions Online can download the game and start playing immediately, as long as they don’t run into any…

PS3’s Satin Silver Dualshock

The Playstation’s Dualshock 3 is getting three spiffy new colors this fall: Satin Silver, Deep Red and Metallic Blue. The silver controller, shown here resting in my knobby hands, is already available at GameStop through September. Then in October all three colors will be available at most retailers.

A Sight-Slicing Tour Of Muramasa’s Locales

We know we’ll be killing tons of strange creatures when Ignition releases Muramasa: The Demon Blade for the Nintendo Wii, but where will we be killing them? This locations trailer has the answers. They will fight in the forests…the will fight on the beaches, and in the fields, and on the rooftops…the two main characters…

Poker Game Kept Gabe Newell From Naming Valve “Gearbox” [UPDATE – Story isn’t true.]

We know large rodents helped determine the name of game companies. We now also know that Randy Pitchford vanquished Gabe Newell in a poker match on a riverboat to win the name of the house of Borderlands. [UPDATE: Valve denies.] So reports Joystiq, in a new series that looks at the secrets behind the names…

Earthworm Jim Coming To Wii, PS3, and 360

Seems like your vote for the 20th anniversary Sega Genesis title to hit Xbox Live might not matter much, as Gameloft and Interplay announce Earthworm Jim for WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade, and the PlayStation Network. Interplay has granted Gameloft exclusive rights to develop, distribute, and publish Earthworm Jim as a downloadable title across the current…

Bayonetta Still Turning On Game Reporters

Before beating up a towering boss, Sega’s new hard-bodied heroine told the monstrosity to save the pillow talk for later. The games reporter sitting next to me, watching this cutscene, then said something. “She’s a bitch!” the reporter exclaimed. Then he paused and re-phrased that: “A sexy bitch.” I’ve been to two demos of the…

Academy Of Champions Got Moves

Check out Altair performing his Eagle Strike and the Rabbids’ Plunger Shot in this batch of Gamescom clips and screens of Ubisoft’s Academy of Champions. Ubisoft’s magical cartoon soccer academy game basically does what Nintendo did with Mario Strikers and gives it an Ubisoft spin, with characters from your favorite titles appearing amongst generic children…

Celebrate EverQuest’s 10th With A Coffee Table Book

First announced at CES earlier this year, The 10th Anniversary EverQuest Collector’s Edition coffee table book is now available for purchase at Sony Online Entertainment‘s store, or on my recliner. More than just an art book, this large, hard-bound special edition tome is filled from cover-to-cover with the history of the EverQuest franchise, from the…

Howard: Five Was Enough For Fallout 3 DLC

“I think we’ve put enough content out there for this game,” Fallout 3’s Todd Howard told Kotaku in Dallas last week, having finished offering gamers an unprecedented amount of content fot a single-player game. The August release of the fifth downloadable mission-pack for Fallout 3 wrapped up a hefty mid-year helping of new content for…

DiRT 2 Is Rally Rally Good

Don’t blame us for the horribly punny headline. Responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of Codemasters’ marketing and PR department. This DiRT 2 vid features the hottest cars on the hottest tracks, with real-life and in-game footage mixed together in an inspirational music video format that rally fans just can’t resist. Can you tell the…

Swine Flu: The Video Game

While it might not actually be Swine Flu: The Video Game, a flash game created by Dutch researches aims to raise the awareness of similar outbreaks by having the player control the deadly Gamers Flu. The Great Flu casts the player as the head of the fictional World Pandemic Control. Pick a strain of flu…