PlayStation

The Call Of Duty Tactics Game That Never Happened

Infinity Ward may have created Call of Duty but publisher Activision has always wanted to take the hit war-game series into different directions. Most of those efforts stalled — like the third-person variant that dev studio Sledgehammer was working on — and the public never gets to see what might have been.


July 21, 2011
News

Pulling Action Figures Into A 3DS With Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure

Here is how you take a three-inch high plastic figurine and pull him into your 3DS, without wires, memory cards, or the device’s camera. Just set your character from Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure on that portal, and aim the 3DS at him, and wait for the beam of light. When I did it, I swear I felt the slightest tug when I lined it up correctly.


December 18, 2010
News

Games Makers At The Fore Of Science Education Push

If you’re asking industry heavyweights to make a video to fire up kids about math and science, it’s probably no surprise that the video game maker is the one getting the most views.


June 4, 2010
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The Curtain Rises On Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock

Activision reveals the next entry in the Guitar Hero franchise, Warriors of Rock, featuring more than 90 tracks, a Gene Simmons-powered quest mode, and new challenges for every track in the Guitar Hero catalogue. Check out the first 35 tracks!


February 27, 2010

Transformers: War For Cybertron DS Preview: Grimlock Goes Portable

Don’t get excited about this screenshot. It’s from the console version of Transformers: War For Cybertron. But the game still might turn your head.


September 18, 2009

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Review: It Takes Two, Baby

Marvel’s mightiest heroes converge once again in Activsion’s Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 to face a foe far deadlier than any they’ve encountered thus far: themselves.


September 3, 2009

The Big Bosses Of Dead Space: Extraction

When Dead Space hits the Wii later this month it will be a mostly on-the-rails shooter. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be scary.


August 21, 2009
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DSi Not Popular Enough To Justify Band Hero Development

There aren’t quite enough DSi owners around yet to justify Vicarious Visions adapting their portable version of Guitar Hero to work with Nintendo’s latest portable, the developers told Kotaku this week.


August 11, 2009

Guitar Hero 5 Trailer Gives My Parents Four Good Reasons To Play

If Bob Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower”, The Rolling Stone’s “Sympathy for the Devil”, Santana’s “No One to Depend On” and Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” can’t convince my hippie parents to play Guitar Hero 5, nothing will.


Guitar Hero 5 Wii’s Roadie Battle Preview: Bring On The DS

The last time I previewed a Guitar Hero game, I was drawn to the Wii version because it attracted a less-competitive crowd of music fan. Now I’m drawn to it to kick some arse.