Kotaku: Downloads

Ms. 'Splosion Man To Splode on Xbox Live Arcade in July

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:20:00 EDT

Twisted Pixel's sequel to 2009 explosive action-platformer 'Splosion Man, the more feminine Ms. 'Splosion Man, comes to Xbox Live Arcade on July 13, boasting 50 all-new single player levels, 50 multiplayer levels and a "2 Girls 1 Controller" mode. More »

Mortal Kombat Adds Klassic Costumes, Klassic Fatalities and Skarlet With Its First DLK

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:00:00 EDT

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The first batch of downloadable... kontent for NetherRealm Studios' new Mortal Kombat keeps it "klassic" with fancy, old-school ninja duds, fondly remembered fatalities and (at least) one new character, red ninja girl Skarlet. More »

Looks Like More Mass Effect 2 Is Coming With 'Arrival'

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:30:00 EST

Plans for even more downloadable content for Mass Effect 2 is hardly surprising, given BioWare's extended post-launch support for the role-playing game. Somewhat surprising is how we've learned about Arrival, via a patch for the PlayStation 3 version. More »

A Million Demo Downloads Unlocks Dragon Age II Prizes

Mike Fahey — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:20:00 EST

If one million players download the Dragon Age II demo in the week following its February 22 release on the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3, magic artifacts will be theirs for the taking. BioWare issues its Dragon Age II Call to Arms. More »

Mass Effect 2 Is Also Coming To The PlayStation Store

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:40:00 EST

It may be a little late, but Mass Effect 2 for the PlayStation 3 is doing something seriously right. In addition to shipping on good old reliable Blu-ray discs next week, it's also coming to Sony's PlayStation Network. More »

30 Million Accounts And Other Impressive Steam Numbers

Mike Fahey — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:20:00 EDT

What's Steam been doing in the nine months since Valve last released detailed statistics? Adding another five million users and more than 200 new games, for starters. More »

Amazon Casually Launches Digital Game Downloads

Mike Fahey — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:00:00 EST

Amazon.com has officially launched the beta version of their Game Downloads section this morning, offering more than 600 casual titles for digital download, each under $10. More »

iPhone Acconts for 14 Percent of All Mobile Game Downloads

Brian Crecente — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:00:00 EST

iPhone appears to be one of the main drivers behind mobile gaming growth, according to the comScore report released on Friday. More »

Lisa Miskovsky Performs Still Alive For Your Listening/Viewing Pleasure

Stuart Houghton — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:20:00 EST

Lisa Miskovsky - the lady behind the Mirror's Edge theme song Still Alive - is apparently a household name in her native Sweden, although has yet to crack the US charts with her musical stylings. More »

Rockstar Puts Entire Catalogue Up On Metaboli

Stuart Houghton — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:20:00 EST

Rockstar have signed a deal with European games download specialists Metaboli to make their entire back catalogue available for download. More »

Square Enix LA Working On Downloadable Games

Stuart Houghton — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:20:00 EST

Square Enix's new Los Angeles studio is still hiring, but they now have a small core staff of coders. To ease the new kids gently into the world of Squeenix development, the new studio is going to focus on downloadable games. More »

Test Drive Spore Prototypes

Owen Good — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:00 EDT

The Spore creators have started releasing prototypes, apparently modeled on certain parts of the title's overall gameplay, and now you can download and explore the first: "ParticleMan." More »

Preview HAZE In A Not-Too-Gimpy Demo

Mark Wilson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Remember Haze? It was the cross-platform game that went PS3-exclusive last year (when it was originally supposed to be released). Now it's slated for a US launch on May 20th and it's got a demo to boot—with 4-person, drop-in drop out multiplayer (all on top of a more standard single-player experience). More »

Universe At War Demo On Marketplace

Mark Wilson — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Back in Leipzig, McWhertor and I hung out at Sega's booth while Crecente played Universe at War on PC for hours. After a while, he let me take his game for a spin. I immediately blew up a non-replaceable ship. As I may have mentioned before, he was not happy. More »

Sony: By 2018, 90% Of Games Will Be Downloaded

Mark Wilson — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:40:00 EDT

Sony Computer Entertainment UK's Ray Maguire, amidst a discussion on the Byron Report (chastising it for not keeping up with a growing internet-based industry), made a prediction about the future of games:

...ten years from now the ratio of games sales will have gone from 90 per cent in-store to 90 per cent online.

And while that certainly doesn't sound wrong, I think that I speak for everyone here by saying, we know that we'll be downloading games in ten years. We're wondering more about the next five. More »

Unreal Tournament 3 Gets Free Classic Map Pack

Mark Wilson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Epic has just released a 160MB "Bonus Pack" of maps for Unreal Tournament 3 that brings some old faves back along with one new offering. The PC/PS3 update resurrects classics Morbias and Facing Worlds, and it introduces Searchlight (designed for Capture the Flag). Only three maps in all, it's not huge. But it's free on PC and PSN. More »

Mass Effect PC DLC May Be Different

Mark Wilson — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:20:36 EDT

While we've only seen one piece of Mass Effect DLC for the 360, Bioware assures us that new planets, races and missions are still on the way in future expansions. So most of us would expect PC players to one day get all the same stuff. But according to Bioware's Matt Atwood, such is not necessarily the case.

We're asked if we're going to do Bring Down the Sky for PC, and it's a consideration. We're looking in to exactly what we want to do; maybe we'll do something different, because the PC offers some different potentials.

Is that a hint at a complete expansion? We'd usually think so, if Bioware weren't trying to crank out three Mass Effects in a single product cycle. More »

Wait, Now Microsoft Is Pushing Movies Again?

Mark Wilson — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:20:56 EST

We understand that our friends in the UK got access to Microsoft's LIVE video store a little later than us, but it's still a surprise when we read things like this from Xbox LIVE marketing manager (UK) Robin Burrowes:

The advent of Video Store is a competitive advantage from a PR standpoint, alongside the range of games on our platform. In the last two months, since the launch of Video Store in the UK, our audience figures have grown dramatically.

PS3 Regional Icons Sort Accounts, Combat Xenophobia

Mark Wilson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:40:50 EST

Some PlayStation 3 users have been savvy enough to create multiple accounts with different regional access, allowing them to download various area-timed content before it hits locally (like demos and stuff). Keeping these nationalities straight used to ~~be difficult~~ require reading, but now you can download new flag avatars to keep the logins organized (and your PS3 looking Sony-made). NeoGAFer McBacon started the project, creating a slew of smiley flags PNGs for your XMB designed to keep accounts straight, even providing a PSD template for creating your own. That's a lot of TLAs! More »

PS3 Unreal Tournament III Gets Its First User Created Content

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:20:00 EST

The PlayStation 3 version of Epic Games' Unreal Tournament III has long been crowed about as the first game on Sony's console to support user created content, such as mods and maps. Today, owners of UTIII have their first taste of homebrewed PS3 add-ons, as FileFront presents the game's first player-created map, DM-Shrine, for download. The deathmatch map is designed for 2-6 players and was built by 23 year-old Thomas Browett of Nottingham. More »

The Future of the PC PlayStation Store

Mark Wilson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:40:19 EST

The PC-based PlayStation Store hasn't taken the world by storm yet—a PC-based system that allows users to download content to their PSP—but the possibilities seem promising, especially if it gives us a greater chance to get rid of pesky media like UMD. MTV's Stephen Totilo sat down with Eric Lempel, PlayStation director of network operations in charge of the store and asked him if we could expect more digital delivery on the platform ala iPod.

I don't think we're ready to look at that and say, "This is the way it should go right now." But we're at an interesting point in the industry where consumers know they can get things fast and they're getting used to it with other devices from other companies. So it's something we always wanted to do.

So what about the future? More »

EA Recommends Backups on Floppies and Stone Tablets

Mark Wilson — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:00:19 EST

Directly downloading games can save a lot of time and hassle compared to going to the store, but at least one non-US Electronic Arts site wants to make sure that customers don't lose their large, multi-gigabyte downloads.

Save a copy of your downloaded files on a Zip-drive, floppy disk etc. in case you computer breaks down.

Hey EA, the 90s called, and they want their 486s back. More »

PSP Getting 7 Downloadable Games

Mark Wilson — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:00:49 EDT

According to some unofficial news that's leaked, Sony will be releasing at least 7 downloadable titles through their PSP store following its launch in 2008. Said to be one-half to one-third the size of a UMD, the games will offer anywhere from 2 to 10 hours of play. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the titles will consist of:

...three action games, two music-based games, one racing title and a shooting game...

Comcast Clarifies Bandwidth Banning, Around 90GB Limit Per Month

Mark Wilson — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:00:18 EDT

Stories of Comcast banning their high speed customers for excessive use have flooded the Internet this week, and many of us began to worry just how much is too much when online games are a mainstay of our existence, complimenting our interest in fully legal, fully decent movie downloads. Comcast clarified the policy a bit with GameDaily. And while we don't have exact numbers, we do know that Comcast deems "excessive use" to:

...any customer who downloads the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month.

Given our rough computations of 3mb/song, that puts our monthly limit right around 90GB or so...which is pretty high, but not an absolutely inconceivable number to reach. So take note crazy download fiends. More »

Correction: XBL Has Reached 45 Million Downloads

Mark Wilson — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:40:05 EDT

More news from Gamerfest 2007: Microsoft announced that 7.1 million Live users have downloaded 25 45 million...things...from XBL. With that level of user base, that puts the download average of everything—from games to themes—at a (what I think is very, very low) ~~average of 3 per person~~. More »

Game Store Taking on PC Downloads

Kim Phu — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:40:00 EDT

That behemoth of a UK videogame store chain GAME has announced that it is backing Game Domain International's new PC download venture. The on-demand service will offer titles from the retailer's website, and, in turn, GAME will support GDI's "A World of My Own" virtual networking space (yes, another one). More »

Rumor: Music Downloads Coming to Xbox 360

Kim Phu — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:40:00 EDT

An unnamed source close to Xbox Evolved hinted that a mussic download service would be coming to the Xbox 360, but for kind of an expensively useless purpose: More »

D3 Publisher Bring Summer Fun to XBLA

Kim Phu — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:40:00 EDT

D3 Publishers of America or D3PA, are bringing more titles to Xbobx LIVE Arcade later this year. D3PA are reponsible for publishing such games as Naruto 3 and HI Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp for the DS. More »

UK Pricing For PS3 Downloads (Mostly) Set

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:40:09 EST

Pricing for upcoming releases on the PlayStation Network has been set, for the most part, for our friends in the UK. It's okay, guys, unlike other PLAYSTATOIN 3 pricing news, this really won't hurt that bad. Three titles will be available on launch day via the PlayStation Store, Blast Factor ( 3.49), Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection ( 6.99) and Gran Turismo HD (free!). More »

Q*bert Coming To PS3 Next Week

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:40:48 EST

Wait. Q*bert?! @!#?@!? More »

New Xbox Live Marketplace Video

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:20:35 EST

Tons of new Video Marketplace content is now available on Xbox Live and Microsoft's Major Nelson has the full rundown. The following television shows and movies have been added, with a couple coming soon: More »

Piano Hero Actually Helps You Learn To Play Music

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:20:13 EST

It may not have the rockstar appeal of playing a miniature plastic guitar, but Piano Hero might learn your ass a thing or two. The freeware open source project lets users with a MIDI-capable keyboard play any MIDI file as if it were a Guitar Hero-style track. Just like that MIDI sequenced version of The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker's "Ocean Music." More »

Happy Holidays From The Godfather

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:20:20 EST

EA is getting a jump on next year's Christmas shopping by giving Xbox Live subscribers the option to download (for a mere 150 Microsoft Points) the Godfather Happy Holiday Theme. They're really on the ball! I wish I could plan my holiday spending 363 days in advance. More »

Oblivion Content For Free Tomorrow

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:20:23 EST

For the next ten days, you can get the Mehrunes Razor download for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion free via Xbox Live. It's spelled out very well in this Bethesda Softworks update: More »

EA Giving Away Something FREE On Xbox Live?

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:40:34 EST

What's this? Have I awakened on the Bizarro World today? EA giving away downloadable content gratis? After low rent moves such as selling in-game tutorials and virtual cash via Xbox Live, it seems that EA is finally giving away something for free. This isn't just some pissant little theme either. More »

PlayStation 3 Network Games Priced, Sized

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:20:16 EST

Sony Computer Entertainment is set to launch the PS3 in like, hours, over in Japan. Yeah, I had kind of forgotten, too. That means the PlayStation Network is going to be officially launching, too. More »

Stealing Mechs From Australia

egauger — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:20:56 EDT

Richard over at Aeropause has succeeded in wresting the Chromehounds demo from Xbox Live's xenophobic Australian servers by dint of some pretty sneaky ninja maneuvers: he made a new account and pretended he was Australian. More »

Sync Button Behind Wii Secret Flap?

brownlee — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:03 EDT

Hmm, even more word on the contents of the Wii's secret flap. From an anonymous tipster sent to GoNintendo: More »

Metric Butt-Ton of Free Games

egauger — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:20:58 EDT

Megagames.com has compiled a gigantic list of free games for those blogging hobos that are popping up everywhere. There are approximately 400 in the list, from the unsightly yiff-fest MMO "Furcadia", to the socially-conscious condom shill "Catch the Sperm". More »

Top 50 Game Ending Songs

egauger — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:40:06 EDT

I poked around on FlymingOmelette.com for a while but can't really determine the purpose of the site. It seems to be one of those old-fashioned "homepages", complete with circa-1996 neon-on-black colorscheme, flaming GIF text, and a vague feeling of claustrophobia. More »