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Last month Blizzard announced that it's annual fan convention would be skipping a year, returning in 2012 so the developer can focus on things like developing games. Some fans took this well. The Elysiam World of Warcraft guild on the U.S. Shadowmoon server took to song. More »
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Last year Microsoft introduced the Xbox 360 Slim, a darker, skinnier, and prettier version of the Xbox 360. A body that sexy needs a cooling solution to match. Here comes the Nyko Intercooler STS. More »
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Today at the UNIQLO store in New York Metal Gear fans lined up with their best cardboard boxes to meet the man himself, Hideo Kojima. Some waited over 20 hours through sporadic thunderstorms for a chance to see their idol. More »
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In this latest video documentary for Halo Reach, Bungie developers discuss the features of the upcoming multiplayer beta with the same sort of enthusiasm you'd see from a bunch of guys hanging out at a game store. More »
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The annual celebration of all things Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft returns to sunny Anaheim, California this October, as Blizzard reveals the dates for the fifth installment of BlizzCon. More »
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At the big Final Fantasy XIII launch at the HMV store in London, fans show their disapproval of the prospect of winning a free Xbox 360 bundle. Really guys? More »
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If you folks really want Sega to stop making fluffy Sonic games that don't revolve around simply running fast, it would help if you didn't buy six million copies of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Just sayin'. More »
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Nintendo's decision to withhold Fatal Frame 4 from Western release didn't sit well with fans, so a group of them has produced an English patch that translates the game for players in North America and Europe. More »
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Not only that, for $50 you can make your Xbox 360 sound about three times as loud. Here is "leaked R&D" video of ZooZen's "Overcase," which turns your Xbox 360 into a stereo tuner from 1982. More »
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Yesterday 343 Industries released Halo Waypoint, the Xbox 360 destination for all things Halo. Kotaku spoke to Halo franchise executive producer Josh Holmes about how fans will help determine the direction Waypoint takes. More »
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Variety's Ben Fritz posted an interesting response to Leigh Alexander's rant on game criticism (inspired by reviews on Silent Hill: Homecoming) in which she said we should probably do a little less nitpicking and a little more championing, and that we've created a review culture where critics and fans alike are just looking for things to dislike — at least when it comes to details. Fritz maintains that critics are too positive overall, getting sold on games before they're out (Leigh's written about the 'four-month bell curve' that goes from hype to disinterest in titles like Bioshock) and discusses the lack of dissenting opinions on the current gaming achievement of the year. On the other hand, where's the championing of certain games or designers for their creative vision — are we just a bunch of sheep?: More »
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Yes, Diablo III is going to be much more vivid and vibrant than its predecessors, a fact that has some fans signing a petition against the shinier, happier art direction - now with over fifteen thousand signatures. Tracey John over at MTV Multiplayer spoke with Diablo III lead producer Keith Lee about the during the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris this past weekend, who defended the move towards a brighter, more colorful Diablo. More »
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After years of hoping, praying, cajoling, and begging for a follow-up, Blizzard has finally announced Diablo III, and fans all over the world cheered before getting down to business - complaining. A petition has gone up at whiner headquarters PetitionOnline, with over 2,000 fans signing on to complain about the game's art direction. Petitioners feel that the graphics we've seen so far depict a world that is far too bright and cartoony for their liking, citing World of Warcraft as one of the influences ruining their dark and macabre series. Where is the light radius? Why are those shoulder pads so huge? Here's an example of something they are complaining about. More »
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Between my Xbox 360 and my PS3, my living room is often mistaken for an airstrip. There is always some sort of loud fan whirring away, desperately trying to keep my entertainment center cool. ExtremeTech has posted a handy guide for quieting down your 360 fan, which I will condense here. More »
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Meet Alex. Alex is the second guy in line at the Halo 3 launch here in NYC. If you remember from earlier, I told you the first guy in line got there at 6PM yesterday. Those of you mathematically inclined might have already pieced this together. Alex was standing there, minding his own business, when someone handed him this orange sign and asked him to hold it up. It's been photographed, videotapes, and has appeared on the giant monitors outside of the Best Buy. The image will probably appear in local papers and on TV news stations later this evening. It's not entirely a lie, really. Alex has almost been in line for 24 hours, and 50% is totally considered almost in some countries. Silly PR peoples. More »
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Leigh Alexander has a interesting/terrifying history of Final Fantasy VII roleplayers up over at The Escapist. She describes it as "the story of a tragic love affair a group of enormously devoted fans had with a game they couldn't let go of (sob) .... It's a story of open-source gaming in practice, and how the kind of fanatics who love a story enough to make it their own are also the kind who will probably completely ruin it for everyone else." In a gaming landscape that pushes user-driven and -created content more and more, Alexander points out that this sort of stuff is nothing new: there's a whole legion of people who "didn't need Advent Children to tell them what happened after the end of the game; they were light years ahead already." And maybe a little behind on normal life skills: More »
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This week's Bungie Weekly Update is chock full o' information about the recent announcement that four-player co-op over Xbox Live would be available at ship for Halo 3. Bungie's Luke and Frankie are on hand to give you all the details on it down to the minutia which I'm told Halo fans are extremely fond of. Other topics include the AV calibration tool, the massive Halo 3 feature in the most recent EGM and Frankie's trip to Amsterdam. You can even see a larger image of the one posted here so you can drool over another obsessive fan's awesome Master Chief armor. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=286030&view=rss&microfeed=true Being surrounded by clapping teenagers, a shirtless, singing adult in Mario overalls and a video camera-weidling dude in a Toad hat. Yep, this is a Nintendo exec's nightmare. Though, half way through, Nintendo's Senior VP George Harrison does warm up to Game Jew. No wonder: It's not a bad tune, not a bad tune at all. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Web site Translated Memories seems to be the definitive resource for all things Silent Hill. They've gone to great lengths to localize and painstakingly composite the translated text onto a digital copy of "Lost Memories", the bonus series guide that accompanied Silent Hill 3's game guide. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=192349&view=rss&microfeed=true E3 had its fair share of people dressed head to toe. So why do these folk have giant wrenches? Roll the clip to find out. More »
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