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This fall Ubisoft teams up with CBS to bring the award-winning NCIS series to video games, letting fans of special agent Gibbs and crew perform their own Naval criminal investigations, provided they can figure out that confounded video game system. More »
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Trey Ratcliff sees the world with a gamer's eye. More »
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The very public, very messy late-night fight between Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and NBC didn't just offer interesting insight into the inner workings of network television, it reminded everyone that the TV isn't used only for watching shows anymore. More »
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As part of an agreement signed earlier this month with CBS Radio, Kotaku Talk Radio will be broadcasting live from Chat About It's broadcast studio in New York City beginning next month. More »
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As the year's last title in North America's major team sports, NCAA Basketball 10 faces why-buy questions that NCAA Football and NBA Live just don't. This year EA Canada seeks to answer them with two networks broadcasting from your living room. More »
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Connor Dougan had me at "Nana-na-na-na-NA-na-naaaahhh!" Anyone who's hoisted a driveway three has hummed a TV sports anthem to set it up, and that one's the CBS Road to the Final Four theme, one of two in NCAA Basketball 10. More »
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No lie, the inclusion of CBS's announcers and graphics package with ESPN's for NCAA Basketball 10 fires me up. A dual-network presentation agreement is unprecedented, and EA Sports' development blog gives a little more insight into the effort that required. More »
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OK, I totally missed this yesterday. Remember the CBS Sports presentation package for NCAA Basketball 10? Looks like that's for the postseason and your big Saturday afternoon national game. ESPN's crew has you covered for Big Monday and Rivalry Week. More »
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Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network lend themselves to quick, pretty games with multiplayer – and that's exactly what Star Trek D-A-C aims to be. More »
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CBS and Ludia have teamed up for an exciting race through exotic locales, developing video games based off the Emmy Award-winning reality show The Amazing Race. More »
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CSI Fans always a seem a little ghoulish to me. Admit it - part of the fun is in the increasingly intricate forms of death and the kind forensic detail that could give George Romero the willies. More »
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GameStop's in-store promotional bombardment is about to get a little more...intensive. The company is to launch an improved in-store "TV station" in conjunction with CBS and Reflect Systems, which will see not only select CBS programming (ie TV shows, sports, etc) broadcast directly into stores, but also a range of faux-journalistic services like "previews" and "interviews" with developers. It's to be installed in around 4000 stores across the US, and should begin rolling out next year. More »
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CBS Corporation just announced an agreement to buy CNET for $1.8 billion dollars. Through the deal, all of CNET's network sites, including GameSpot, TV.com mp3.com, CNET news.com, UrbanBaby, CHOW, Search.com, BNET, MySimon and TechRepublic all become property of CBS. More »
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Last night's coverage of the recently released Manhunt 2 on CBS News is now online for anyone who missed it. It's a fairly straightforward look at the game, featuring a focus on the ultra-violent content, the ESRB's rating and plenty of gameplay from writer Scott Steinberg. CBS News focuses mostly on the Wii version of the game, largely due to its motion controls. Correspondent Daniel Sieberg takes time to illustrate the Wii's parental restrictions, a move that hopefully educates some Wii-owning parents. More »
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East coasters may have already watched CBS News' report on the release of Manhunt 2, but those stuck in other time zones still have time to fiddle with their DVR plans to see how the Katie Couric hosted news program handles the topic. A preview of the coverage from CBS newsman Daniel Sieberg provides an early look at the flavor of the piece, as does a brief commentary from Couric. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=316977&view=rss&microfeed=true Tomorrow at noon EST, CBS will be airing the first part of four consisting of footage from last month's World Series of Video Games tournament. We covered this back in May, but the first date is finally upon us. The program will be featuring Guitar Hero II, World of Warcraft and Fight Night Round 3. The New York Times has even picked up on the show and has a quick look at the potentials and pitfalls of bringing gaming to a mainstream channel: More »
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The wide world of "eSports" is coming to a television near you. CBS and the World Series of Video Games have announced that they've partnered to bring four hour-long recaps of WSVG events to television airwaves starting this summer. Competitive gamers will challenge eachother in titles such as World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Guitar Hero II and Fight Night Round 3, among others. More »
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William Vitka, who previously headed CBS's GameCore and who's now at the The New Post, has kicked the paper's online gaming coverage into full gear with a new blog, Post Game Report. Vitka's a sharp journalist, so it's a definite bookmark for me. Head over, and check his this thoughts on Star Wars Galaxies and Sony Online Entertainment. Hint: They ain't happy thoughts. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Professional gaming is set to take television by storm, as the World Series of Video Games announces deals with CBS, CSTV, and Gameplay HD to broadcast coverage of the first annual competition. College Sports Television will actually be airing coverage as five weekly 1 hour episodes in January. Gameplay HD, VOOM's video gaming channel, will be providing continuing coverage throughout the month of December, with more in February. More »
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William Vitka over at CBS's GameCore has an ambitiously fascinating piece up on gaming and storytelling. He puts forth the question of whether or not video games will ever have a Citizen Kane moment. "My first response is to ask whether the analogy is the right one," Henry Jenkins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tells Vitka. "If the question is, 'Will video games become a serious art form in their own right?' I think the answer is inevitably yes." More »
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I live in a foreign country, and the only American TV shows I get are reruns of Full House. So, how am I supposed to check out Fatal1ty's big, fat 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft? Swing by CBS's GameCore, where they've got a clip and summary up for all to hold me over until Uncle Joey starts imitating Bullwinkle. More »
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William from GameCore rang the Kotaku red phone this afternoon alerting us to Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendell's Sunday night appearance on 60 Minutes. GameCore has a preview of the episode up where Wendell attributes part of his training for cyberathleticism to good ol' fashioned physical fitness. Check your local listings to see when 60 Minutes airs on Sunday and set your TiVo. More »
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I received an email last night from Nick. Nick is a little 22-year-old boy diagnosed with CBS (Console Boredom Syndrome). From the site: More »
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