PlayStation

LittleBigPlanet Karting And Going Back To The Things You Love

Kotaku AU

“You have to make games for someone you love,” says William, “because that way you can imagine who you’re making it for.

“You can imagine the smiles the game will bring to their face; you can imagine the good times that people you care about can have with your game.”

William Ho, Design Director at United Front Games, is making LittleBigPlanet Karting for someone he loves.


March 23, 2012
PlayStation

The LittleBigPlanet Karting Game We Didn’t Ask For Actually Looks Good

Take a look at the first trailer for LittleBigPlanet Karting the PlayStation 3 game whose very existence is something of en eye-roller, except… that trailer actually looks pretty good.


September 29, 2010
News

ModNation Racers Joins The Line-up Of Cheaper PS3 Games

Earlier today, Sony welcomed a new batch of value priced Greatest Hits games for the PlayStation 3. Turns out MAG, Demon’s Souls and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift aren’t the only PS3 exclusives having their prices slashed.


August 6, 2010
News

True Crime: Hong Kong Exported To 2011

Activision did its part to thin the typically obese Christmas release schedule today, delaying True Crime: Hong Kong to next year. Originally planned for release in November, the PS3, PC and Xbox 360 game will hit in 2011. Why?


July 31, 2010
Uncategorized

Sony Claims ModNation Racers Patch May Halve Load Times

In late May, ModNations Racers producer Dan Sochan told Kotaku a patch was in the works that would shorten the game’s lengthy load times. Today, IGN reports that such a patch will be out next week.


July 13, 2010
News

ModNation Racers Gets More ‘Casual’ With Less Aggressive Update

United Front Games will make playing its DIY kart racer ModNation Racers a little easier with its next update. The PS3 game is getting a less-challenging career mode option, according to the PlayStation.blog.


June 23, 2010

A Brief Taste Of True Crime: Hong Kong

One of Activision’s big spring games is a revival of its open-world True Crime series, the closest thing the publisher has to a Grand Theft Auto.


May 27, 2010
News

ModNation Racers Creator Talks Playing, Creating And Sharing Beer

Find out how cake and beer helped one studio produce the massive creative racing engine that is ModNation Racers in this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio Podcast, now available for download.


March 22, 2010
News

ModNation Racers Has 4-Player Splitscreen Possibly Thanks To You

What’s the point of a beta test for a video game these days, other than to drum up publicity? The makers of upcoming PlayStation 3 game ModNation Racers say it got them to add a feature.


March 20, 2010

ModNation Racers Was My Favourite Low-Expectation Game

I care little for kart-racing games and seldom generate any user-generated content. So, to be honest, I did not rush at the chance I was given last week to play ModNation Racers at Game Developer’s Conference 2010. My mistake.