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Introducing The King Of Fighters XII

Here is the intro trailer for King of Fighters XII, so you can just press start and skip it once the game is finally released. After watching the intro a few times now, you probably could have just skipped it anyway and not have missed all that much. The seizure-inducing graphics flashing by the screen…

Megadeth, Jane’s Addiction Double Team Wii Rock Band 2

Wii owners get double the album’s worth of new downloadables this week, as Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing’s Shocking and Megadeth’s Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? come to the Rock Band 2 in-game music store. That’s 18 new tracks between the two albums, both of which were released in the second half of the 1980s. Joining Jane’s…

Petroglyph And Trion Team For Online Strategy Title

The strategy game veterans at Petroglyph have teamed up with online game developer Trion World Network to create a new massively-multiplayer online real-time strategy game. Petroglyph is the developer behind Star Wars: Empire at War, risen from the ashes of RTS pioneers Westwood Studios of Dune 2 and Command & Conquer fame. In short, news…

Bethesda’s London Event

Last week, Bethesda Softworks gathered game writers in London to check out their upcoming titles during a two-day long gamers’ day. The event gave those present a look at WET, Rogue Warrior, the latest Fallout 3 downloadable content, and a chance to talk to the publisher and their developer about some of their upcoming games…

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Multiplayer In Action

Naughty Dog is adding multiplayer to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. You might’ve heard. If you had any doubt about the explosive nature of that multiplayer, maybe this trailer will assuage your fears. This is the same trailer that Sony and Naughty Dog showed off at the PlayStation Gamers Day last week, the one that may…

The Fate Of Six Days In Fallujah

Six Days in Fallujah might be down, but it’s not yet out, with developer Atomic Games telling Kotaku to expect to a statement soon regarding the fate of the controversial shooter. While Konami may have dropped its plans to publish the “game-amentary” in the face of public backlash, it’s quite unlikely that developer Atomic Games…

The ESA Nabs Crave, KOEI, and Playlogic

The Entertainment Software Association continues to play “gotta catch ’em all” with small publishers, adding Crave, KOEI, and Playlogic to its ever-growing roster. It still amazes me that the ESA has an ever-growing roster following the rash of companies leaving last year, but the ESA continues to take smaller publishers into the fold. Just last…

Free Realms Goes Free Tomorrow

After only a few weeks of closed beta testing, Sony Online Entertainment has taken down the servers for Free Realms in preparation for tomorrow’s official launch. “It’s your world and nothing’s impossible,” exclaims Free Realm’s theme song by Southern California trio The Dares, and apparently that includes one of the shortest closed beta tests in…

Bethesda Says Snog Me Senseless With Mints

This laptop bag was awaiting game writers upon their arrival in London for Bethesda’s Gamers’ Day. Inside: Bags of crisps, a few candy bars and these odd things from Anatomicals. Rumor has it that a few of the writers present were brave enough to slap an energy patch or two on their arms a day…

Prototype’s Story In Convenient Montage Format

If you want to tell the back story of Radical Entertainment’s Protoype while still remaining cool and mysterious, then you’re going to need a montage. A back story montage! The developers certainly add to the air of mystery surrounding the virus infecting the citizens of New York City and the origin of the game’s protagonist,…

The Nintendo Download: That Nobunaga’s Really Going Places

It’s an ambitious week for The Nintendo Download, with the feudal warlords of Nobunaga’s Ambition marching into battle against paper planes, card games, and a platforming devil. Nobunaga’s Ambition for the Super Nintendo (800 points) leads the Nintendo Download charge this week, delivering deep strategy game play that none of the newer games in the…

Hands-On With Uncharted 2 Multiplayer, 3-Player Coop

Last week, the addition of multiplayer to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was still a surprise to much of the video game press attending Sony’s PlayStation Gamers’ Day. Naughty Dog’s reveal was almost perfect. After inviting us downstairs to the mezzanine of the Andaz Hotel, Naughty Dog president Evan Wells told the crowd that they’d prepared…

Xbox Originals Brings The Payne

Rockstar injects the Xbox 360 with a double dose of gritty film noir and slow-motion gunfire with the release of the first two Max Payne games as Xbox Originals. As foretold by the ESRB last month, both Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne are now available for purchase and play…

Square Enix Lets Eidos Be Eidos

Following the successful completion of its £84 million acquisition last week, Square Enix has announced that UK publisher Eidos shall remain UK publisher Eidos. Eidos has spent nearly two decades developing their brand identity, and that brand identity will remain intact. The company will continue on as an independent organization and wholly-owned subsidiary of Square…

Despite the Trash Talk, No Taunt Button in Rogue Warrior

Rogue Warrior seems to be tapping into a feature-set perfected by 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand: Profanity. As with Blood in the Sand, Rogue Warrior is chock full of four-letter words and profane trash talking. But unlike 50 Cent, Richard Marcinko’s character is on auto pilot when he cuts loose with colorful phrases. I…

Bethesda Teams With Del Rey For Elder Scroll Novels

Elder Scroll Fans don’t worry, Bethesda hasn’t forgotten about you. Despite spending much of their time in London last week talking about Fallout, Rogue Warrior and WET, Bethesda’s Pete Hines couldn’t help but bring up the role-playing game as well. “We’re not talking about the next Elder Scrolls, but that doesn’t mean we’re not doing…

Rogue Warrior Carpet F-Bombs With Rourke

The most impressive thing about the latest iteration of first-person shooter Rogue Warrior is what it used to be, not what it has become. It’s no longer a game being developed by Zombie. It’s no longer using the Unreal Engine 3. It no longer hopes to deliver an on-the fly cooperative experience… or any cooperative…

WET: Guns, Leather, Swords and Acrobatics

WET hopes to be the best of Tarantino, of John Woo: All Crazy 88s, bullet ballets, death in a tight leather suit that flips and spins as she tears through screen after screen of enemies. But the acrobatic shooter dances, sword slicing, guns blazing, on the razor’s edge of sheer spectacle, dangerously close to being…

What Ails The World’s Biggest Gaming Platform?

It is the most powerful gaming platform in the world, and with more than 300 million users, the most widely owned as well, so why does computer gaming seem to be suffering from an inferiority complex? With retail chains increasingly limiting their shelf space for PC games, and most mainstream media coverage of gaming directed…

More Details On New Aliens vs Predator

We got our first look at the game last week, but today, we’ve got a lot more information on Rebellion’s upcoming reboot of their classic Aliens vs Predator shooter. Most exciting is that the Predator class is now no longer just a Marine that can turn invisible. More in line with the species’ abilities in…