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Cops in a northeastern Pennsylvania community booked a man on attempted murder charges, saying he tried to strangle his wife with "a video game cord." Either he was playing with wired console controllers from a generation ago, or the guy went and grabbed the Xbox 360 brick to choke his spouse. More »
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Commenter DeuxHero is our choice to kick off what might become a weekly staple of Speak Up on Kotaku, Best Game Ever, in which our readers share their thoughts on their greatest games of all time. More »
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Today, Sony announced its recent financials, and the Tokyo-based electronics giant is hemorrhaging money. More »
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The last thing I want to do is start another debate about video game storytelling. That sounds almost as fun to read as an article about any other dead horse that we've repeatedly body-slammed over the last few years. More »
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So much is made of NFL 2K5 and the blaze-of-glory conclusion to its rivalry with Madden NFL that it's easy to forget another title once threatened EA Sports' glamour franchise. In fact, the Madden team also feared NFL GameDay until the end. More »
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The PlayStation 2 was released back in Oct. 2000. That's well over a decade ago, and the damn thing is still selling—and selling lots. More »
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The last Persona figure Kotaku posted had a crazy crotch. This one does not. It has a television. More »
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Today is the 10th anniversary of the release of Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy on PlayStation 2. Naughty Dog, the game's studio, took a look back at the game's decade of service and wants to be sure it's remembered for its technical merit, too. More »
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There was Sept. 11. Then there was Oct. 22, when Grand Theft Auto III released, at a time when the United States was extremely high strung about things like the violence and moral relativism for which the series is known. Rockstar Games' Dan Houser, in a rare interview, said that the game did strip out some content as a concession to the tension of the current times. More »
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Behold the 10th anniversary for Grand Theft Auto III, a game that came out on October 22, 2001, back before Halo existed (Halo came out a month later, and, man, we're all so old!). More »
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Totally wrong. But bless you. More »
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I've been dreaming for a while now of picking up a PS2 game I already own, putting it in my PS3 and having it work. Ever since my launch console died that's been totally out of the question, so I guess I'll have to settle for the next best thing. More »
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Here, superplayer MON tears through the PS2 version of the notoriously tricky shmup DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou. More »
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Square Enix will bring PlayStation 2 role-playing game Final Fantasy X to the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3, the company announced today, giving the 2001 video game a high definition makeover. More »
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The original North American box art for PlayStation 2 classic ICO is one of the worst things to ever happen to a wonderful game. Sony is making amends for that visual blight on the PS2 library with its high-definition re-release on the PlayStation 3. More »
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When Chiba Institute of Technology students build a radio controlled Molga from the Zoids universe, they needed something to control it. That something was a PS2 DualShock 2. More »
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Amidst the waterfall of new game footage and price drops at today's Sony press conference, a few Twisted Metal screenshots snuck through the cracks, as well. It's not much, but we'll take anything to tide us over until 2012. More »
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So, a London cop says something about Grand Theft Auto and suddenly a British newspaper sees fit to blame the series for the riots that have plagued the English city all week long. More »
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The company doesn't often get much credit for this, but one of the biggest reasons for Sony's success in the video game industry is not its hardware, but in the breadth and scope of its first-party studios. More »
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Many people in the gaming community were taken aback by Nintendo's announcement last night that the 3DS would be dropping price from $250 to $170 only five months after its initial launch in America and after fewer than 900,000 units have sold in the U.S. More »
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Some strange news out of Sony's latest financial earnings release: sales of the PlayStation 3 are down, while sales of the PlayStation 2 are steady and the PSP is making a late-life comeback! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5825485&view=rss&microfeed=true There is "Bonus Content" in the new September 27-dated PlayStation 3 prettier versions of PlayStation 2 classics Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Yay! It mostly involves dynamic PS3 themes and videos. Oh. Some of the video is about the games' spiritual sequel, the long-awaited The Last Guardian. Hopes raised, by the official PlayStation Blog! More »
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Jen: So Sam, If you could have your dream HP video game, what would it be like? More »
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Never one to shy away from porting a game, Square Enix talked about doing just that in the latest issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu. The choice, this time is rather odd. More »
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A Sony development team in the UK is working on a game adaptation of upcoming Bollywood sci-fi flick Ra.One. More »
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Ahans76, a PlayStation collector, is apparently more of a PlayStation collector than most, because he claims to now be in possession of every single North American PS2 game ever released. More »
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Enormous monsters. A haunting landscape. Mysterious figures. All hallmarks of classic PS2 game Shadow of the Colossus, all the stars of this batch of concept art for the game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5816962&view=rss&microfeed=true Ken Kutaragi, creator of the PlayStation, retired from his position as Honorary Chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment on June 28, Sony revealed in an official statement. [Sony (PDF)] More »
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It's perhaps the most iconic design in the world of game controllers, and definitely the longest-serving. Today in Total Recall, we look back at over 15 years of PlayStation control pads. More »
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Back in my day things were different! If I wanted to play a video game I had to use one joystick to move and aim! In the snow! Come to think of it, it wasn't that bad at all. Acast010 thinks that this generation is a lot worse—not the games though. He says the gamers are the problem. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5815806&view=rss&microfeed=true Now that Yakuza: Of the End has moved 400,000 copies, Sega has shipped over 5 million copies of the Yakuza games worldwide since it debuted on the PS2 in 2005. [ファミ通] More »
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Game designer Fumito Ueda has tweeted a nixed ending that never made it to The Shadow of the Colossus. This is it! More »
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How great was God Hand, a 2006 PlayStation 2 game that IGN gave a 3.0 out of 10 to? Very, very great, Kotaku reader Bondage Zombie finally realized. And with that eureka he has sworn off looking at review scores, as he explains in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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Konami is bringing Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker to the PS3 and Xbox 360 as the Metal Gear Solid HD Edition. More »
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Cops trying to get a man to stop walking in traffic had a tougher time convincing him when they found out the dude was strapped—with a PS2. More »
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Actress Keiko Awaji is proof of two things: video games have no age limit and even pretty ladies get old. More »
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Kotaku reader Maxwell passed along this wondrous mixture of old and slightly less old without any sort of source, so I'll just assume it sprang forth from the unspoken desires of gamers everywhere. More »
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When March 11's earthquake shook North-eastern Japan, lives were lost and destroyed. Less importantly, video games ended up delayed and canceled. As the country continues to pull itself from the wreckage, one adult game company is stating that for the time being it cannot go on. More »
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Demian Smith had the (mis)fortune to get a job working as a translator on the very first Yakuza game for the PS2. If you haven't played it, know that for a game set in Japan and called Yakuza, it wasn't that Japanese. More »
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Advertising and branding specialists Millward Brown have released their annual chart detailing the 100 most valuable "brands" in world commerce. The list takes into account not just a company's income, but it's reputation as well. More »
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