Street Date

Namco Bandai Editor's Day: More Soul Calibur IV

As we previously announced, the big news out of yesterday's Namco Bandai Editor's Day was the announcement of a street date for Soul Calibur IV: July 29, 2008. Also announced was a special Collector's Edition will be made available on the same date for both the 360 and PS3 versions. The Collector's Edition will come in a tin box and includes an art book, a t-shirt, a poster and exclusive access to downloadable content only available in this special edition. Announced at the same time was the news that the Original Soul Calibur will be making it's way to XBLA.

SC IV was on display for everyone to check out, but much like McWhertor's experience at GDC, there were only a limited number of characters to play with. My choices were a bit different than McWertor's however as I got to pick between Taki, Cassandra, Seung Mina and Hilde. I took Cassandra in hand and roundly bested my opponent (who's name I will leave out to save them embarrassment, but You know who you are!) in three rounds. I was also able to check out a little of Hilde and her shiny armor before i had to give up the controller to the next journo in the long line. I really like her fighting style and plan on exploring them more extensively when the final release happens. Something tells me she will be in my regular roster along with Ivy.

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6:00 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By fdemarco
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Latest by argh: The collector's edition should include a bottle of lube and some tissue. more »

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Can Someone Tell Touchstone Turok Came Out Three Days Ago?

I've received quite a few emails this weekend from people saying they had picked up copies of Turok at their local stores. While it's not out of the ordinary for a game's street date to be broken by a single outlet, according to Best Buy, GameStop, GameCrazy and Wal-mart the game came out three days ago on Jan. 31. Apparently no one told this to the game's publisher, Touchstone. The official Turok website has a countdown clock that still has a little over two days left on it. The press materials and game websites like IGN and Gamespot also have it listed as a February 5th release. Is this a matter of a mass mistake on the retailers' part or is Touchstone being sneaky and letting the cat out of the bag early on purpose?

8:00 AM on Sun Feb 3 2008
By fdemarco
7,327 views, 139 comments

Latest by Lot Krotan: @ElektroDragon: You didn't get out of the cave? You know that's only like 2 minutes of the demo... more »

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Mass Effect Street Date Broken Ten Days Early

You know, this whole broken street date is starting to become old hat and normally I wouldn't give it too much thought. But, when the game in question is a title as big as Mass Effect, it bears some looking into. Emails have been coming in over the last four or five hours from happy gamers with attached photos of them delightedly clutching their prizes, their eyes bulging with excitement. Personally I wouldn't even take the time to snap the picture or send the email because I would be too busy playing, but I thank them for their enthusiasm in doing so so we could bring the news to the masses.

So, if you live near a K-Mart and can get there before the word spreads and Bioware makes them yank it of the shelf, you could be playing Mass Effect this afternoon. A check at my local K-mart saw me leave empty handed, but who knows, you may get lucky.

CAGs Score Mass Effect Early at Kmart [CheapAssGamer]

10:00 AM on Sat Nov 10 2007
By fdemarco
15,600 views, 180 comments

Latest by tetracycloide: @justhesh: there's absolutly no reason they wouldn't make a PC version after mass effect 2 is set to release and there are a lot of rea$on$ that they will, wait and see. more »

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Tabula Rasa Dated

I just returned from Richard Garriott's Britainnia Manor, which tonight hosted the Tabula Rasa Logos Academy, a well-crafted event that I will go into at great length at a later date. What I can tell you right now is what was revealed at the end of the event. Tabula Rasa now has an official street date. October 19th is when the game service will officially go live, with preorder customers getting a 3-day head start beginning on October the 16th. A newly redesigned website should be going live within the next day, so keep an eye out on http://www.playtr.com/ for updates throughout the day.

1:10 AM on Thu Sep 6 2007
By Mike Fahey
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Latest by matt57488: Yeah, looks JAMMO, but then, most MMOs look that way to me. The only MMOs I regularly play are Puzzle Pirates and Kingdom of Loathing. more »

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Crackdown Street Date Broken...Again!

Last week, a Kotaku reader sent in his picture of a copy of Crackdown that he purchased at his local Comp USA nearly a week before the game is supposed to hit the streets. This sort of thing seems to happen a lot at retailers where video games are not the main focus, probably because they have so much other product to deal with, that things like launch dates get lost in the mix. So obviously I raised an eyebrow upon receiving this email from Kotakuite, Baukie.

I strolled into my fav game store and I was dumbfounded to see Crackdown in the cabinet and I asked the gent behind the counter if I could have 2 copies and he obliged. The store name rhymes with DB lames.

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9:00 AM on Sun Feb 18 2007
By fdemarco
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Latest by KaneRobot: STFU! If we give you the game early we are doing you a huge favor and we must like you, not only that but we are risking getting a write up and breaking street date AND risking shorting somebody their more »

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Crackdown Street Date Broken

Kotaku reader Brian sends word (and photos) that his local CompUSA retailer has already started selling Crackdown. Let's let him explain: More »

11:00 PM on Tue Feb 13 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
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Burning Crusade Street Date Broken

Retailers on at least two continents have been extremely lax about the World of Warcraft Burning Crusade's January 16th street date. While most major game outlets across the US have been sticking to the agreement, many smaller shops as well as some large retailers already have the games on the shelves for purchase. I found the game at a Target store in Atlanta over the weekend, but since I already have it fully paid for at a midnight launch locations I passed on picking up a copy. More »

10:40 AM on Mon Jan 15 2007
By Mike Fahey
298 views, 30 comments

Latest by rainofwalrus: FYI: I was in Hellfire Penisula at 11:50pm EST on a broken street date copy. Almost 40 minutes before the rest of my IRL friends* got home from the midnight release and logged on. (* that I have actual real-life friends more »