Kotaku:
I'm sure opera, movies and cave paintings are fine forms of entertainment, but can any of them derive fun from such a mundane activity as directing traffic? After a several weeks of inactivity, the Art Style series hs returned to North America's DSiWare shop with Digidrive an abstract puzzle game about directing traffic tha (Read More)
GamePolitics News:
Proving that there really is a study for everything, an interesting new analysis applies International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to a variety of war-themed videogames to see how they stack up.Playing by the Rules was undertaken by a pair of Swiss organizations, Pro Juventute, a children’s rights group, and Track Impunity Alway (Read More)
Kotaku:
The Spike TV Video Game Awards will once again double as as an autumnal E3 as new games are revealed, new trailers unveiled. Halo: Reach is coming. As is whatever this game is, teased first on Kotaku right now. Thoughts? Theories? Is it Ken Levine's new game? Is it BioShock 3? Is it related to anything that shows up in Goo (Read More)
Kotaku:
The Spike TV Video Game Awards will once again double as as an autumnal E3 as new games are revealed, new trailers unveiled. Halo: Reach is coming. As is whatever this game is, teased first on Kotaku in video below. Thoughts? Theories? Is it Ken Levine's new game? Is it BioShock 3? Is it related to anything that shows up i (Read More)
MTV Multiplayer:
There isn't a whole lot you can do with the racing game template. Sure you can add power-ups, tweak the physics, and endlessly improve the graphics, but whatever you do, you've basically just got accelerate, brake, and get to the end fast. Instead of trying to add to the racing genre, "Crystal Spear Remake" strips it down (Read More)
Kotaku:
In just over a month since the release of Star Wars Galaxies Chronicle Master mission creation tool, fans have created more than three million pieces of interactive Star Wars fiction. The Chronicle Master system works much like City of Heroes Mission Architect, allowing players to use in-game tools to create their own miss (Read More)
Kotaku:
You remember when "tournament" used to mean knights in armor and jousting and stuff? Of course you don't. Everyone knows "tournament" means "chess" or "video games" now. GameStop announced today that it would hold the "world's largest" Modern Warfare 2 tournament kicking off Nov. 20 both online and at 2,900+ US GameStop loc (Read More)
Kotaku:
We reviewed a bunch of games this week on Kotaku and dare I note that the sequels had a better batting average than the originals? EyePet Review: His Master's Voice In which Luke Plunkett's furniture and lighting fail to meet Sony standards. Command & Conquer: Red Alert Micro-Review: Palm-Size Power Trip In which freelancer (Read More)
Kotaku:
Today's Notebook Dump is different. I usually use the Notebook Dump as a place to tell readers about facts I've picked up that don't merit their own posts. Today, however, it's more relevant to talk about why I don't have as much to share this week. A game reporter spends some weeks... distracted. This week was like that fo (Read More)
Kotaku:
To: LukeFrom: McWhertorRe: Funds Raised! Well, this week sure was capped with blustering nonsense! I can't wait to drink away this work week's worth of silliness, conclusion-jumping and finger-pointing, forgetting my troubles with a few games of Left 4 Dead 2 and whatever libation I choose to purchase from my local Vons. Lo (Read More)
Kotaku:
If you ever wanted to know why Luigi is thinner than Mario or how he bears living in the show of his older brother, this exhaustively researched article over on GamesRadar's got you covered. "Luigi: A life in the shadows" cover the other brother's origins from palette swap to star of his own (two) video games. Anybody else (Read More)
Kotaku:
To: Crecente From: Luke Reader Phillip was kind enough to send some photos in of the big do last night. Looked like a blast! Hope you kids all had a good time. Me, well, it hit 40 degrees here (over 100 American degrees) then rained dust. I know where I'd rather have been. Here's what you missed while drinking drinks and ra (Read More)
Kotaku:
This morning, British publication The Guardian reports that Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is going run ads in Xbox Live "including Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed, to attract quick-thinking 18- to 34-year-olds to its ranks." The Guardian goes on to report that the campaign will run for six weeks, using gam (Read More)
Kotaku:
As if the mall couldn't be any scarier this holiday season, Nintendo is setting a Nintendo Holiday Mall Experience for shoppers to try out mid-mad dash. The Mall Experience is intended to make "it easier than ever for holiday consumers to sample the year's most sought-after games" for the Wii and DS/DSi. Demo stations will (Read More)