Destineer brings the holiday cheer with We Wish You a Merry Christmas, a collection of mini-games and activities that will surely help families get into the holiday buying spirit. More »
Atomic Games, the developer behind Six Days in Fallujah, have been forced to cut their development staff due to a lack of funding for the controversial game. More »
Bongfish’s follow-up to the Xbox 360 snowboarder Stoked has players barreling down the perilous slops of K2, the second largest mountain in the world. More »
Six Days in Fallujah might be down, but it’s not yet out, with developer Atomic Games expecting to release a statement soon regarding the fate of the controversial shooter. More »
Last week Destineer quietly released Battle Rage: Mech Conflict, a $19.99 robot battler for the Nintendo Wii, and for some odd reason I picked up a copy. Let’s play!
It’s time for your lunchtime musical interlude, courtesy of this new trailer for Destineer’s snowboarder Stoked, featuring the music stylings of pop punk band Quietdrive with “Deliverance”.
It looks like Shaun White may have a bit of competition. While Destineer’s upcoming snowboarder Stoked wasn’t built using the Assassin’s Creed engine (and it doesn’t sport a Wii version with Balance Board support), it does have some things going for it. First off, it was created with the help of snowboarding movie creator Absinthe Films.
“It’s all about defining your riding style and crafting the line that suits you,” said Peter Anthony Chiodo (“Tony”), Destineer’s Director of Product Development. “Stoked leaves well-worn resorts behind and gives players absolute freedom to ride wherever they want and trick off of anything they can find in some of the most famous backcountry locations the world has to offer. Gameplay is focused on style and finesse, not button mashing; Destineer and Bongfish have created a game that looks and plays like a snowboarding movie.”
Adds Patrick “Brusti” Armbruster, co-founder of Absinthe Films: “Developing a snowboard video game has always been a dream of mine. There are endless synergies between a snowboard film production and a game developer that were just waiting to be activated. Bongfish and Destineer have realised this potential, and have shown a real passion for snowboarding, and together we’ve worked to bring snowboarding luminaries from across the planet together for this project.”
Stoked includes five famous mountains featuring over 45 square miles of open terrain in each location, hidden drop points for helicopter starts, dynamic weather, multiplayer support and tons of real world pro riders. Among the list: Travis Rice, Nicolas Mueller, Wolle Nyvelt, Annie Boulanger, Romain de Marchi, Tadashi Fuse, Gigi Ruef, and Bjorn Leines.
Stoked is scheduled for release in November. More details on the jump.
newVideoPlayer("ironchefkotaku_gawker.flv", 463, 387,""); What better way to announce the video game for Food Network’s Iron Chef America than Mr. Mark Dacascos – the chairman himself – name dropping Kotaku? I can’t think of one, which is why I spent all weekend playing this clip over and over again. Ko-Tah-KOO! Destineer and Black Lantern Studios is bringing Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine to the Nintendo Wii and DS this summer, allowing you to face-off in kitchen stadium against world famous chefs. The whole thing sounds a bit like a version of Cooking Mama you can play against the computer, with 15 main ingredients, hundreds of recipe variations, and 300 different mini-game tasks to help you get the job done. Being an embarrassingly huge fan of the show, I will more than likely by this, as long as Alton Brown signs on to do commentary, or failing that – John Madden. just imagine the beauty of that for a moment, and then hit the jump for the full trailer and first screenshot from Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine. More »
TRUE STORY: When the Wii Remote was first shown off, the first thing I thought of was an Iron Chef game. It seemed like the perfect way to make me very happy and make anyone who made it millions of dollars. Fast forward to 2008, and here we have an Iron Chef game! For the Wii! Except…it’s for some bullshit reality TV show that’s not really Iron Chef. No no no no no NO. You can put any mug on the cover you like, if there’s no Takeshi Kaga, there’s no Iron Chef. This has now officially overtaken Sega Superstars Tennis as the most soul-crushing game announcement in recorded history. United Media Licensing [via Go Nintendo]
