Kotaku: The Godfather

Judge Foils Dillinger Plan to Get 'Millions' from EA

Owen Good — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:00:00 EDT

Remember that dumbass lawsuit filed against Electronic Arts because they called a gun "the Dillinger" in the two Godfather games? Yeah, that one didn't go so well. The family of the Depression-era gangster lost their case in federal court. More »

The World Ends With Batman, Brando And The Spy

AJ Glasser — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:30:00 EDT

Today's Kotaku pumpkin patch includes the Godfather, Batman, the Spy from Team Fortress 2 and the World Ends With You. Cheers to Chris Wells, Lee Harris, Kevin "ShadesBot" Moore and Chae Wells! More »

EA Threatened Over Godfather Machine Guns

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EDT

EA's Godfather series features two weapons bearing the name "Dillinger". They are, of course, a tip of the hat to bank robber John Dillinger. But the supposed Dillinger estate are having none of it. More »

Godfather: The Lawsuit Settled

Owen Good — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:30:00 EST

Paramount and the estate of "The Godfather" author Mario Puzo settled their $1 million dustup over how much was owed to whom over sales and rentals of the 2006 game. More »

The Godfather II: Build Your Custom Crews

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:40:15 EST

If you missed the option of rollin' with your homies in Grand Theft Auto IV, EA wants to appeal to your crew-building, thug-managing side with The Godfather II. More »

NBA Live 08 To Feature Disappearing Players

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:40:26 EDT

It's no secret that the screenshots marketing departments distribute are regularly touched up by someone in the art department. As they're often not indicative of actual gameplay, what's the harm? None. No one wants to look at ugly screenshots. However, today's screenshot debacle comes from EA's NBA Live 08, also famous for the hilarious single-wheeled car shot from The Godfather. Can't quite see what the hubbub is about, bub? Make the jumpshot for a detailed pic. More »

EA Godfather Sequel?

Kim Phu — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:40:00 EDT

An industry analyst by the name of Todd Greenwald spent some time at Electronic Arts in Redwood City and found out some interesting developments that are happening over in their neck of the woods. After building the open-world engine from the ground up for The Godfather, EA will be cutting costs by using the same engine in five different franchises. One of them includes the sequel to The Godfather (although there was no mention of its release) and another game that is using the engine is the new Simpson's Game coming out later this year. EA has already had a stellar year and since cost-cutting usually doesn't typically pass over to the consumer, we can only hope that at least we'll can squeeze a few extra games out of them in the future. Kim Phu More »

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:01:34 EDT

You'd think that playing brand spankin' new Capcom games for hours yesterday, amid a sea of heavy hors d'oeuvres and free drinks, that I'd somehow tire from the videogame exposure. Wrong! Not only did this editor get the 10:30 PM flight back to Los Angeles in the nick of time, but he braved the slow-as-molasses PlayStation Network download speeds to get his hands on Mortal Kombat II. Then I played until 2 AM. More »

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:40:57 EDT

In a week already rich with videogaming (and writing about videogaming), it makes this associate editor pine for a day off from the digital escapism. We've already played a full workweek's worth of The Godfather Blackhand Edition, we spent hours at the local watering hole playing Guitar Hero II on stage, and last night saw our monthly social gaming event, Geek Night, take place in Culver City. More »

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:40:02 EDT

Sometimes, when faced with pure obligation, one is known to procrastinate. The "one" in this example will be me, for reference. Whether it's paying bills, booking travel for upcoming events, or engaging in simple grooming, things like Desktop Tower Defense and compulsive Gmail checking often find a way to invade my work time and my obligation time. More »

The Godfather: The Don's Edition Early Impressions

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:20:07 EDT

The UPS man showed up at my door yesterday with another package. This time with two copies of EA's recent ports of GTA contender The Godfather. I tried out the PLAYSTATION 3 version this morning, The Godfather: The Don's Edition, and came away pretty happy. More »

EA, Nike Kick Out NBA Street Air Jordans

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:40:51 EST

EA has teamed up with Nike to release a very limited number of NBA Street branded Nike Air Jordan B'Loyals in conjunction with the upcoming PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 release NBA Street Homecourt. Only one hundred pairs will be made, with sixty of those up for grabs in an online contest kicking off soon, according to Hypebeast. More »

Motion Controls Coming to Godfather Wii, PS3

Brian Crecente — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:00:01 EST

Who would have thunk it, Electronic Arts is bringing a popular franchise over to two more consoles? More »

EA Drops Prices On Tons of Titles

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:20:05 EST

Starting tomorrow, a huge number of EA titles are going to see substantial price drops, across virtually every system. Only the Wii and PS3 will continue to see EA published games stay at current prices. The drop affects a number of next-gen priced Xbox 360 games, including Fight Night Round 3, The Godfather, and Battlefield 2 Modern Combat, bringing them to saner MSRPs. More »

Xbox 360: Adult Games For Japanese Adults

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:22:09 EST

With titles like Idolm@ster and Onechanbara, the Xbox 360 is a console for Japanese consumers with discerning tastes. Not only that, but hit "American" titles like Dead Rising and Gears of War get slapped with country's dreaded games-as-porn "Z" rating. And Microsoft is starting to realize this. And hopefully capitalize on it. More »

LucasArts Developing Darth Vader Game

Brian Crecente — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:06:40 EDT

The New York Times looks at the LucasArts revival in a technology story that ran today. Laura M. Holson writes that George Lucas decided in 2004 to reinvigorate their ailing game development arm and strive to make that branch one of the top five game developers in the world. More »

Swiming With Fishes: The Making of The Godfather

Brian Crecente — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:04:43 EST

I see that my review of The Godfather: The Game scored a bit higher than most games sites. It's weird, typically my score tends to be right in there with game sites then occasionally we just completely disagree. For instance, I really didn't like Pursuit Force, I gave it a C-. More »

Games of the Week: Me And My Corleone

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:30:39 EST

This week's releases are so huge that I've had to split them up. And, like I do every Sunday, I don't list everything that's coming out, just the big big stuff (and absolutely no Dragonball games!). Sorry! That's the policy. More »

The Godfather Cost EA $810 Million

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:54:02 EST

No, really. Sure, game development clocked in around $10-20 million, but when EA announced the game would be delayed, missing the critical holiday sales period, the financial impact on the company was somewhere in the realm of $800 mill. Now at the $40 price point, EA is making it even more difficult to recover their losses. More »

EA: Godfather II, Godfather III Coming

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:30:44 EST

The BBC was granted a meeting with the fannuchios at EA, specifically, executive producer David DeMartini who talks about the challenges of one-upping the GTA franchise — it's never fun (or wise) to be tagged by PR folks or press as a genre leader-killer. More »

EA Current-Gen Price Cut Extends Further

lsmith — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:43:54 EST

We reported in January that EA was cutting the price on current generation games, but GameDaily Biz pointed out that these price cuts extended deeper than the Madden and Medal of Honor games that were originally among the reduced price titles. What else? How about EA's first person shooter Black due Feb. 28 and The Godfather both hitting shelves for $39.99? Sounds good. More »

The Godfather Hits March 21

Brian Crecente — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:01:00 EST

Electronic Arts says The Godfather will be hitting the PS2, PC and Xbox on March 21 in the U.S. and March 24 in Europe. More »

EA Delays Godfather on PSP and 360

lsmith — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:40:36 EST

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The headline says it all. GameShout reports that the mafia-based title has been pushed back for what can only be assumed is additional time needed in development. Fear not, however, the current-gen and PC iterations of the game are still on pace to ship in March. More »