Posts by Stephen Totilo
News
Notebook Dump: Mass Effect 2’s New Helpers And A Failed Quest
11:00AM Stephen Totilo | There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? More »
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Review Round-Up: Dragon Age, Drawn To Life, NBA And More
9:00AM Stephen Totilo | We reviewed the following games this week. None is called Demon’s Souls (Please be patient?). None of them even rhymes with Demon’s Souls. But one does star pro wrestlers… like Demon’s Souls, right? More »
Hands On
8:00AM Stephen Totilo | The only game this season that lets you shout the clothes of Santa Claus is a platformer without a jump button, a mix of Katamari Damacy and Mario, and another strong third-party original for the Wii. More »
Rabbids Go Home Review: Strip-Platforming
8:00AM Stephen Totilo | The only game this season that lets you shout the clothes of Santa Claus is a platformer without a jump button, a mix of Katamari Damacy and Mario, and another strong third-party original for the Wii. More »
Hands On
4:20AM Stephen Totilo | With the subtlety of a tank, EA is making it clear: Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the company’s contender to Call of Duty’s throne. More »
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Impressions
4:20AM Stephen Totilo | With the subtlety of a tank, EA is making it clear: Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the company’s contender to Call of Duty’s throne. More »
Hands On
8:00PM Stephen Totilo | Freeze-bullets. Framerates. Interactive cut-scenes. Even old friends from other Mass Effect games (yes, plural). These are some of the things, new or improved, that I recently saw in Mass Effect 2. More »
Mass Effect 2 Impressions: Looks Better, Shoots Differently
8:00PM Stephen Totilo | Freeze-bullets. Framerates. Interactive cut-scenes. Even old friends from other Mass Effect games (yes, plural). These are some of the things, new or improved, that I recently saw in Mass Effect 2. More »
News
Activision Not Concerned Over Modern Warfare 2 PC Complaints
11:00AM Stephen Totilo | On an earnings call today, Activision president Mike Griffith said his company is “not overly concerned” about gamer complaints regarding the lack of support for dedicated servers in the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. More »
Culture
Old News ‘96: BioWare Started For $US100,000
10:00AM Stephen Totilo | Before they were a part of Electronic Arts and bringing Dragon Age: Origins to the masses, BioWare was small and scrappy. And one of their founders walked around the office barefoot. More »
Culture
Pixelated For Halloween
9:00AM Stephen Totilo | Suitably late, old-School Halloween costume as seen at kindacarsick (via Harvey Smith’s Twitter feed). More »
Culture
Diaries Of Game-Shunning Children
5:40AM Stephen Totilo | “Day 15 – I wanted to play on the Wii but cooked a banana cake instead.” That’s an excerpt from a diary of a nine-year-old who gave up video games for 30 days. More »
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