Kotaku: Heroes

A Gamestop Manager's Tribute to the Best Big Brother Ever

Kirk Hamilton — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:00:00 EST

Sometimes, it's the little acts of heroism that make the biggest impression. Blogger Kristen Wolfe has written a humbly triumphant tribute to one such everyday hero, a young man who stood up for his little brother's right to enjoy "girly" video games. More »

Val Kilmer and His Amazing Friends Take On Spidey and the X-Men

Mike Fahey — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:40:00 EDT

With the San Diego Comic-Con right around the corner, Activision pulls back the curtain on the top-tier talent lending their voices to Spider-Man: Edge of Time and X-Men Destiny. It's good to see Val Kilmer is still alive, isn't it? More »

Meet the Heroes of Okabu

Sam Winstrom — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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Okabu knows it's not easy being green, but they sure do make it look appealing. More »

From Hairless Hitmen to Heiress Heroines, This is Square Enix's E3 2011 Lineup

Mike Fahey — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:40:00 EDT

Square Enix's booth at E3 is going to be a total sequel fest this year, with new franchise entries for Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, Dungeon Siege and Deus Ex. Are they bringing any games that aren't sequels, prequels, or reboots? More »

Heroes' Hiro Knows His Final Fantasy

Mike Fahey — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:30:00 EDT

Entering the press room at BlizzCon 2010 late Saturday afternoon, I overheard one of Blizzard's PR people arguing that Final Fantasy XIII was the best in the series. I couldn't help but get involved. Neither could Heroes star Masi Oka. More »

Heroes Star Stares Down The Locust Horde In Gears 3

Mike Fahey — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:30:00 EDT

Greg Grunberg, formerly Matt Parkman from the TV show Heroes, screams defiantly in the face of a Locust warrior while doing some voice recording for Gears of War 3, as seen on his Twitter feed. More »

Capcom Brings the Dead, The Fight, The Stache to PAX

Brian Crecente — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:20:00 EDT

Capcom will be invading the Penny Arcade Expo later this week with a chance for you to go hands-on with eight of their upcoming games. More »

Hide Your Valuables, It's A RPG Hero

Mike Fahey — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:30:00 EDT

Why do epic quests to save the world always have to begin with someone breaking into your house and rifling through your valuables? More »

Imagine Town Spearheads Ubisoft's Online Game Initiative

Mike Fahey — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:40:00 EST

Imagine Babies? Imagine Doctor? Try Imagine Town, the virtual world based on the successful game series, spearheading Ubisoft's online gaming lineup for fiscal year 2010-11, with Might & Magic Heroes Kingdoms, Trackmania 2, and two unannounced titles in the works. More »

Heroes' Hiro On Relationships, Filtered Through Chrono Trigger

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:20:00 EST

As seen on tonight's episode of Heroes, courtesy of James F. More »

Heroes Star Producing Family Movie Based On MMORPGs

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:00:00 EDT

Masi Oka, star of TV's Heroes, has pitched a movie concept to studio DreamWorks based on massively multiplayer online role-playing games. More »

Ubisoft - No More 'Heroes'

Stuart Houghton — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:20:00 EST

Ubisoft has cancelled its plans for a game based on NBC's Heroes. More »

Heroes' Producer to Talk at GDC

Brian Crecente — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:00:11 EST

Jamil Moledina, the executive director of the annual Game Developers Conference, kicked off his GDC blog last night by announcing that Jesse Alexander, the executive producer of TV show Heroes, will be giving a talk on creating each season of the show. More »

Heroes Star So Excited About Dragon Ball Movie

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:40:55 EST

So against the wishes of humanity, the Dragon Ball Z movie pushes forward. While we're less than thrilled, Heroes' actor James Kyson Lee is totally jazzed. While at the Pacific Media Expo in Los Angeles, Lee said that he's auditioning for the role of Yamcha in Fox's live-action Dragon Ball Z movie. He gives the DBZ script one big Goku-style kamehameha and says the movie should get a 2010 release. That means the Dragon Ball is safe! For now.
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Heroes Cop Just Not Condemned Enough

Mark Wilson — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:40:59 EDT

You may know Greg Grunberg as the mind-reading cop from, NBC's Heroes, but you may also know Greg Grunberg from even earlier in his career, as the protagonist from Condemned: Criminal Origins. So now that he's on a geek-hit TV show, you'd think he'd be a hot commodity for Condemned 2: Bloodshot. But you'd think wrong. From Monolith's Dave Hasle:

We struggled with this one somewhat. Greg was a pleasure to work with, and he was willing to make the time to work with us on Condemned 2, but we felt we wanted a darker, edgier tone...We loved Gregs work on Condemned; Criminal Origins and found him to be a great voice talent as well as a fantastic person to work with. It was purely a directional choice.

Purely directional, aye? Or was it that you didn't like Mr. Grunberg reading your mind? More »

Ubi Confirms Heroes Game

Brian Crecente — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:32:31 EDT

Comic-Con's just underway and Ubisoft is already rolling out the big news, about 40 minutes ago they released the first-ever in-game clips and screens for Beowulf and now they're confirming what Variety broke days ago, they are indeed working on a video game based on the television show Heroes. More »

Heroes Game To Be Unveiled at Comic-Con

Brian Crecente — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:00:33 EDT

Variety reports that Ubisoft is in the midst of closing two, not one, deals for writes to make games based on Hollywood properties. More »

Ex-Relic Team Forms Smoking Gun

Mike Fahey — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:25:23 EDT

The Exoriare.com mystery that plagued so many of us last week has been solved, and as the smoke clears we are left with, what else? A smoking gun. Senior staff from Relic Entertainment, creators of the amazing PC strategy game Company of Heroes - the highest rated RTS ever - have banded together to form Smoking Gun Studios, focused on "creating innovative award winning cross platform games." If only other development studios shared those goals! More »

New Heavenly Sword Footage On Tonight's Heroes

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:30:14 EST

Viewers of tonight's episode of the NBC hit Heroes ("Like Any Parasite") will have one more reason to geek out, as brand new footage of the upcoming PLAYSTATION 3 game Heavenly Sword will be shown. More »

PSP Firmware 3.1 Hits

Brian Crecente — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:00:15 EST

Playstation Portable Firmware update ahoy! More »

Heroes Gone, So No More Heroes, K?

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:22:41 EST

Upcoming Wii game Heroes has been retitled to No More Heroes. The irony is divine. The game was developed by Suda 51, who also brought us the stylized Killer 7 and sounds intriguing. The plot? You're geeky Travis Touchdown, who wins a Light Saber-type weapon called a Beam Katana and kicks off a new career as a professional killer. It takes place in a fictional city in the Western United States. There's a French chick. It's a sandbox-type game. And the game's hero wears otaku-type shirts which were created by Okama, the character designer behind TV hit Densha Otoko's opening scene (above). Cool t-shirts and Light Sabers, can Suda 51 read minds or what?! Brian Ashcraft More »

Wii Can Be Heroes

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:56:52 EDT

Wii fan site The Wiire has the never-before-seen E3 trailer that Grasshopper Manufacture, creator of mega-sales hit Killer 7 and the forthcoming DS RPG Contact, readied for their Wii title Heroes. Employing the same visual style exec producer Goichi Suda and company used for the artsy Killer 7, the trailer sees bad-ass Travis Touchdown (seriously!) take on heroin chic tough guy Helter Skelter and introduces classy sexpot Sylvia Christel. More »