Q&A

Rock Band's First Album Announced, Our Harmonix Q&A

Today, Harmonix has officially announced the first album that will hit the Rock Band store: Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengeance. Arriving April 22/24 on Xbox 360/PS3, this10-track album will cost $14.99 with individual tracks being offered for $1.99 apiece. Then in May, The Cars' self-titled record will become the second full-album release from Rock Band. The Pixies' Doolittle will follow in June.

While this is precisely the news that all Rock Band fans have been waiting to hear, it raises a ton of new questions. Is $14.99 the new standard album price? And how often can we expect new albums? Luckily, we had the chance to discuss the announcement with Harmonix's CEO Alex Rigopulos, who was more than happy to answer all of our fanboy questions. We posted an abridged, cleaned (sans-Mark's-question-stuttering-and-boring-parts) Q&A after the jump.

More »

7:00 AM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Mark Wilson
28,237 views, 161 comments

Latest by roggles: @Ryno2323: How could you not have heard of The Cars? Just watch Circuit City ad from the past five years. I am buying rock band just so I can play that album. Nerd Boner! more »

austin gdc 07

Liveblogging The Dave Perry Q&A

The highlight of Friday at the Austin Game Developer's conference is a Q&A session between Shiny Entertainment founder Dave Perry and GDC Director Jamil Moledina. The session is called "When Did (You) Last Level Up? Career Advice From an Industry Veteran, and it is sure to be somewhat helpful to those in the gaming industry as well as those trying to break in. I'll be liveblogging the session from here in beautifully hot and humid Austin Texas, so hit the jump to follow along. This is my first liveblog, so be gentle. More »

10:05 AM on Fri Sep 7 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,679 views, 17 comments

Latest by zingbot: "Disruptive" in this case sounds a bit defensive. Looks like someone had a budget pulled because of Nintendo. more »

q&a

Catan Q&A

Xbox Community Manager and Europe's Major Nelson, Graeme Boyd, just posted a Q&A with Catan lead developer Brian Reynolds. (You may know him from Civ II and Rise of Nations) More »

6:30 PM on Wed May 2 2007
By Brian Crecente
858 views, 23 comments

spore

Popular Science Talks Spore with Wright

OMG that's a long interview, eight pages to be specific. More »

bioshock

Bioshock Community Site Opens

The Cult of Rapture, a new community site for 2k Games' Bioshock, has landed on the tubes. There's quite a bit there, although a lot of it is the same stuff you can find on the game's official website; screenshots, trailers and a description of the game's plot. More »

6:50 PM on Sun Jan 21 2007
By fdemarco
705 views, 17 comments

q&a

22+1 Q&A with Crecente

I completely forgot about this, but awhile back I did a 22+1 question and answer dealio for site Tied the Leader. More »

3:50 PM on Fri Oct 6 2006
By Brian Crecente
77 views, 16 comments

heavenly sword

Heavenly Sword Q&A

Daily Game has an interesting Q&A up with Mat Hart, the producer of PS3 exclusive Heavenly Sword. I actually never got a chance to play the game at E3, but what I saw of it looked pretty impressive, even more so then Resistance: Fall of Man. Of course, that's probably because I love sword games. More »

1:00 PM on Mon Sep 18 2006
By Brian Crecente
282 views, 11 comments

best buy

Not A Best Buy Q&A

The less said about this Best Buy advertisement (which apes a Gamespot 'feature' so successfully that we actually had to rub our eyes a few times in total incredulity few minutes before we discerned the difference), the better. In it, three Best Buy blue shirt putzes regurgitate common gamer knowledge about the next gen with authority. More »

2:40 PM on Tue Jun 20 2006
By brownlee
344 views, 15 comments

ps3

Bald, Buff Space Marines Out, Jungle Adventuring Nice Guys In

I'll admit that I might have drank away most of my impressions from the Sony press conference, but one game that did manage to wake me up after watching Ridge Racer emulated on the PSP was Naughty Dog's untitled PS3 project. Sporting a refreshing look, beautiful animation and lighting, the still moniker-less third person action adventure title looked hot—without a space marine in sight, to boot. More »

12:52 PM on Sat May 27 2006
By Michael McWhertor
429 views, 5 comments

world of warcraft

On Draenei, Jewel Crafting & Mounts in Burning Crusade

Gamespot has posted a Q&A with Blizzard's lead designer Jeff Kandel about the upcoming WoW expansion Burning Crusade. There's lots of questions involving rationale for picking the — hello? — Draenei and the way socketable items and jewel crafting will work, but we personally dug this exchange about falling off of your Pegasus in the Outlands, a mile up: More »

9:40 AM on Thu May 18 2006
By brownlee
606 views, Comment

bungie

What Is Up With That Halo 3 Trailer?

If you're the type of gaming scavenger who likes to tear every available piece of meat from the bones of E3 announcements, Bungie has posted a Q&A, answering some questions about the Halo 3 E3 Trailer as murkily as possible. Halo fans will probably be able to read vast cosmic philosophies of significance into answers like this, though... or so 1UP's brief analysis of the Q&A shows: More »

11:40 AM on Tue May 16 2006
By brownlee
222 views, 10 comments

q&a

Creator of Columbine Game Talks

As a follow up to my interview with Columbine survivor Richard Costaldo about Super Columbine Massacre RPG, I wrote a story about the game for the Rocky Mountain News. More »

9:00 AM on Tue May 16 2006
By Brian Crecente
971 views, Comment

gdc

Firing Squad Interview With GDC Director

GDC doesn't officially get cracking until a bit later, so today's an odd day for us Control + C / Control + V monkeys. The air is filled with the electric thrill of anticipation, making the atmosphere here at Kotaku Towers much like that before a violent lightning storm at the chimpanzee pen at the local zoo. Come on, GDC — start going so we can start posting! More »

12:40 PM on Mon Mar 20 2006
By brownlee
72 views, 2 comments

hellgate:london

42 Hellgate Questions With Flagship Studios

There's an immense, 42 question Q&A with Flagship Studios' Community Manager, Ivan Sulic, over at Hellgate Guru. Obviously, it's about Flagship's upcoming Diablo-2-alike, Hellgate: London, in which you blaze your guns through demon-infested, post-apocalyptic Piccadilly and Trafalgar. Right on. More »

9:20 AM on Tue Mar 14 2006
By brownlee
4,246 views, Comment

wolfenstein

Wolfenstein Xbox 360

id Software is all about Wolfenstein after Enemy Territory hits, it seems. In an interview with Worthplaying, Todd Hollenshead reveals that the next Wolfenstein game will be primarily an Xbox 360 title, but will also hit the PC. He also says that the next movie deal id is likely to work on will be a Wolfenstein adaptation. More »

7:00 AM on Tue Feb 28 2006
By Brian Crecente
317 views, 2 comments

project zero

Project Zero Q&A

Gamesblog has posted up a longish Q&A with Project Zero creator Makoto Shibata. Shibata talks about the game's Japanese influences, his own dealings with real-world ghosts and some of the play mechanics of the game. More »

11:00 AM on Tue Feb 7 2006
By Brian Crecente
82 views, Comment

carmack

Carmack Talks Cells, Indie and His Next Project

Keith Stuart over at The Guardian's Gamesblog did a short email Q&A with John Carmack that just went up on the site. The interview hits a lot of interesting ground for just seven questions. They discuss Doom RPG, gaming on cell phones, the future of the PC market, Carmack's next big thing and the state of indie development. Here's a taste: More »

11:26 AM on Tue Dec 27 2005
By Brian Crecente
86 views, 1 comment

Kotaku

ESA, Game Critics' Awards Debate "Best Of E3" Eligibility

Gawker Media Network