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We Found The Ecto 1 And A Halo Warthog
I went to the Spike Video Game Awards last Friday and… found the Ecto 1? Yes, the car from Ghostbusters was parked in the lot of Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, next to the Green Hornet’s Black Beauty.
Here Is Dark Souls II’s Debut Trailer
Dark Souls II just got a world premiere trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards. See for yourself. Looks … tough, and unforgiving. As usual.
Whatever It Is The Phantom Pain Looks Very Intense
The first all-new game given a trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards is The Phantom Pain, and it seems almost deliberately confusing and vague. That’s fitting given its premise, in which a veteran awakens in a hospital after a long coma, with his left hand amputated. In come the troops hellbent on exterminating the entire hospital population, and we can only guess it goes downhill from there.
Watch Kotaku On The Second-Screen Version Of The VGAs
It’s a big night for video games. We’ve got Spike TV’s 10th annual Video Game Awards airing live at 9pm ET (1pm AEDT), hosted by Samuel L. Jackson. Some of you may tune in to see which games and developers win top honours. I bet a lot of you are going to be most interested in the pile of world premiere trailers and game announcements expected during the show.
Entertainment Weekly Picks The 10 Best Games Of The Decade
Why wait for a year ending in nine or zero or one to pick the best games of the past decade? Entertainment Weekly is picking the best games of the decade this year, 2012. It’s not that they wager the world is ending and that we’re wrapping up the final decade ever. It’s that Spike TV’s Video Game Awards show is running its 10th annual show this year and they want people to decide what was the best game to come out in the VGA era.
