PC

Mass Effect 3′s Free Rebellion Pack Drops Next Week

Outed earlier this month via Sony Hong Kong, Mass Effect 3‘s free Rebellion Pack adds two new maps and a slew of new characters to the game’s multiplayer experience on May 29 for PC, Xbox 360 and North American PlayStation 3s, with the Euro PS3 version following a day after.


May 10, 2012
PC

Nearly 23 Million Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Matches, And Yet The Reapers Just Keep Coming

A scant two weeks after Mass Effect 3 launched, BioWare shared some stats about how the galaxy of multiplayer reaper-killing fared. Now, two months later, they’re back with an update.


May 9, 2012
PC

Rockstar Games’ Social Club Just Got A Lot More Social

In preparation for next week’s release of Max Payne 3 and the launch of the Crews system, Rockstar Games has given its Social Club site a complete overhaul, complete with user profiles, a new friends system, and integration with Facebook and Twitter. In short, this time it’s social.


April 25, 2012
PC

Mass Effect 3′s Multiplayer Got Me To Trade My Cynicism For Addiction

I spend a lot of time with the quarian lately; she’s become my favourite. Though if I’m being strictly honest, she’s actually the third quarian. The first two long since reached the limits of their potential with me, and are now off fighting some other battles elsewhere in the galaxy.


April 13, 2012
PlayStation

Demon’s Souls Servers Shutting Down On May 31

The asynchronous multiplayer in Demon’s Souls helped make Atlus’ 2009 PS3 exclusive a cult hit. And now it’s going away forever.


March 23, 2012
PC

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier’s Online Co-op Requires Synchronicity, Stealth, And Shooting People In The Head

Ubisoft IP director Adrian Lacy makes the coordination, concentration, and carnage of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier‘s ‘Valiant Hammer’ online cooperative campaign mission seem so natural in his narration of this walkthrough video that you almost forget it’s a group of people that know the game inside-and-out are playing.


March 6, 2012
Xbox

Control The Ultimate Weapon In Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

Launching exclusively with the Xbox 360 version of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City on June 19, the online multiplayer Nemesis Mode sees the USS fighting against the Spec Ops for control of one of the series’ most powerful enemies.


February 14, 2012
PlayStation

Binary Domain Multiplayer Trailer Arrives

I’ve not played any of Sega’s upcoming sci-fi shooter Binary Domain, so it could be the best game ever created by human humans for all I know. I’m having an incredibly difficult time mustering any excitement at all for the title, and this new multiplayer trailer isn’t helping at all.


January 6, 2012
PC

An Angry Exit From Online Multiplayer

Commenter Seivewright has completely had it with online multiplayer games and he isn’t going to take it anymore. Find out why in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku.


November 11, 2011
Xbox

Halo: Reach Picks Up Anniversary’s Maps Next Week

If you have last year’s Halo: Reach and aren’t interested in the Halo: Anniversary high-definition remastering of the original game, you still can get up the four classic multiplayer maps shipping with it.