After ten years, San Francisco’s PlayStation Store closed. Fret not! In Japan, the PlayStation shopping experience lives on. As detailed last fall with blurry pics and layout plans, Japanese retailer Labi rolled out redone PlayStation sections for its Ikebukuro branch. The PlayStation concept store provides customers with a throughly stylish and classy PS buying experience…
Playing a Doctor Who Wii game with a Wii-Remote could be fun. This is better. This fall, the British sci-fi series is getting a Wii title called Doctor Who: Return To Earth. The BBC has teamed with a peripheral maker to create a Sonic Screwdriver Wii controller. A Sonic Screwdriver stylus will also be released…
This year is the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. Time for a special logo. Kyoto-based Nintendo has filed a trademark for the pictured anniversary logo. This is it. The logo could be used in the Super Mario All-Stars reissue or any other merchandise Nintendo is planning for this year. For the game’s 20th anniversary,…
3D Blu-ray Playback For PS3 Delayed Comment by: Mancomb Seepgood Nominated by: Callabrantus just felt a great disturbance in the force, as if 0.5% of PS3 owners cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. The Week In Review: Kicking A Hurricane’s Ass, Chewing An Earthquake’s Bubblegum Comment by: Ninelight Nominated by: Pete This morning,…
Is your mouth open? If it’s closed, watch out, because Nintendo’s next console will make you all slack jawed. But relax, we’re a few years off. Go ahead, shut your yapper. Whether it’s been portables, controllers or even 3D, Nintendo has been a trailblazer. And according to Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto, that doesn’t look like…
This winter, role-playing game Ni no Kuni will be released on the Nintendo DS. Know what that means? Marketing blitz! Here are the first ads for the Nintendo DS version, which will be released on December 9 in Japan. The first ad mentions the collaboration between Level-5, the studio behind the Professor Layton games, and…
The cast of Resident Evil: Afterlife are encircled by t-shirt wearing zombies at the movie’s world premiere in Tokyo. As seen on Dengeki
Gran Turismo 5 features car damage — a first for the series. Does developer Polyphony Digital do, dare I say, a bang-up job? The picture quality isn’t great (photos taken off a television screen from a reader’s local Best Buy), but they do provide a look at how the game handles car damage. At August’s…
Hello! It’s Friday, time for — WAIT A SECOND. It’s Monday. Well, let’s do a catch-up version of Tell Us Dammit. Let’s. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in…
Better yet, what game characters do the readers of Japan’s Dengeki want to become chums with. Let’s have a look: 10. Zidane (Final Fantasy IX) 9. Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) 8. Sora (Kingdom Hearts) 7. Amaterasu (Okami) 6. Kyousuke Natsume (Little Busters!) 5. Felynes (Monster Hunter) 4. Yuri Lowell (Tales of Vesperia) 3. Youhei Sunohara…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft …And you were working this morning. I guess that makes you a Labor Day laborer. Congrats! What you missed last night No “Sexy”, “Passion” or “Temptation” For You, China! Report: Korea Might Ban Steam Company Of Heroes Developer Killed In Car Accident Halo Movie Lives On, Well, Sorta
Shigeru Miyamoto is a video game pioneer. He entered the industry in 1977 and has been instrumental in changing the way we play games. He knows where we’ve been, but does he know where we are going? “Thirty years ago, I couldn’t imagine the technological innovation that there is today,” Miyamoto said at a recent…
In China, World of Warcraft and censorship aren’t strangers. Things like blood and skeletons were edited for The People’s Republic, and the release of expansion Wrath of the Lich King was held up due to content Chinese authorities found objectionable. But it isn’t only skeletons and blood that are being nixed. The Rise of the…
Canadian electropop singer Lights got a new haircut. Look familiar? It is. “Anyone that thinks I wouldn’t get my hair cut like Lightning from Final Fantasy xiii doesn’t know me,” the popstar tweeted. She’s a big gamer, it seems — with the World of Warcraft tattoo-age to prove it. She even met her boyfriend in…
In August 2009, Microsoft said that its plans for a big-screen version of Halo were “on hold”. This past spring, Microsoft expressed interest in doing a Halo flick “when the time is right”. Is the time right yet? “We’re still interested in making an excellent ‘Halo’ movie,” Frank O’Connor from Micrsoft’s Halo branch, 343 Industries,…
It wasn’t supposed to be real. It was supposed to be imaginary. Vapor. Yet, Duke Nukem Forever, a game in development for over 13 years, is very real Studio 3DRealms first revealed that it was working in the game in 1997. That means that when development on this game started, Google hadn’t even been founded…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Talibanned I guess for you, the American staffers and our American readers, you all will have a nice long weekend. Any plans? I am going to make RIBS. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. What you missed last night Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath Is Back! There Is No Love For Street Fighters The Ataris That Never…
PSP game Shining Hearts, the last entry in Sega’s Shining fantasy series, was slated for release on December 2. It has been delayed. According to Sega’s site, the game’s quality needs to be improved. However, there has been some speculation that the recently revealed December 1 release date for Monster Hunter 3rd Portable has caused…
Spotted at the recent Chara Hobby expo, cosplayer Sachibudou does her best take on character Reiko Holinger, while cosplayer Punival is Gundam. More pics in the gallery. メカ×セクシー キャラホビのコスプレにはそれが溢れている！ [Moeyo.com]
Spotted by Kotaku reader Chardyll, his t-shirt isn’t for Rockstar’s Western Red Dead Redemption. Nope! Chardyll complemented the customer in his game shop wearing the shirt. “At first, the height of the counter obstructed the big band logo at the bottom of it, so I complemented him on his Red Dead shirt,” Chardyll says. “He…
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