Western game Red Dead Redemption was originally supposed to get in the saddle this April, but has been kicked off its horse and won’t be riding into stores until May. Developer Rockstar needs more time to polish the game, which *fingers crossed* means a better finished product. Still, that leaves us with some dead time…
Not this one. This one is the U.S. promotional poster for the big screen version of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It’s…boring! Russia, god bless ’em, did a much better job. Just look at it! We get the two leads, the dagger, and the backdrop in one fell swoop. The poster informs…
The latest trailer for upcoming multi-platform gangster game Mafia II provides another glimpse of Vito Scaletta as he enters the underworld and becomes a made man. It features the tune Boom Boom by the late, great John Lee Hooker. Developed by studio 2K Czech, Mafia II had a game script that was nearly twice as…
Being a kid is great. Your toys aren’t just toys, they’re real. And your bedroom or table top can serve as the terrain for your imagination. Does Xbox Live Arcade game Toy Soldiers capture the feeling of playing with toy soldiers? Developed by Signal Studios, Toy Soldiers is a tower defense game in which players…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Hump Day Before the talk about hate… Do you know why there was no heavy rain today? No, I’m not talking about the PS3 game…nor about where you are per se. Sorry! When I woke up this morning, I found that Mini Bash had made a teru teru bozu (which…
Ten years ago today, the PlayStation 2 launched in Japan. That makes the PS2 ten years old. After launching worldwide, the console has gone on to sell over 140 million units globally, making it the best selling home console. Ten years in, the console is still alive and kicking. There are still video games being…
Publisher Ubisoft has fired back about rumors that games like Silent Hunter 5 have already been cracked by pirates. As Kotaku posted previously, new anti-piracy measure, which will also be employed in the upcoming PC version of Assassin’s Creed II, requires that users maintain a constant internet connection in order to play their games. There…
The guys from “Xbox Mission Department” have returned and are securing titles for the Xbox 360. The guy with the Xbox 360 logo for a noggin is named Sanrokumaru, or literally three-six-o. He speaks only through the Xbox 360’s “X” noise. In one of the ads below, there is a teaser for the next Xbox…
Things break. And this generation, the Xbox 360 has broken more than any other console. Some gamers might simply become resigned. Jasper Steven is not one of those people. When his Xbox 360 croaked, he decided that he’d had enough so he gutted the machine and made this Xbox 360 sculpture. It is not held…
To promote the upcoming cyberpunk game Deus Ex, game Eidos Montreal posted an image of a lighter. Wow. That’s so exciting! Eidos Montreal community guy René blogs, “I can’t say a darn thing about this other than people who like to go into details will shortly have some new material to dissect.” While the image…
Steven Spielberg, filmmaker and part-time game designer, plans to make a live action version of Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell futuristic cop manga. Scribe Laeta Kalogridis is hard at work on the screenplay. At a recent Q&A for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (she wrote the script), Kalogridis revealed that she’ll “turn in a draft…
This month, Koei is bringing anime/manga series Fist of the North Star to the PS3 and Xbox 360. The company is best known for its Dynasty Warriors hack-and-slash action games. Let’s hope it doesn’t screw this up. The company has roped in popstar Nana Tanimura (pictured) to sing the title’s “image song” Far Away. It…
Long before game designer Ken Levine created games like BioShock and System Shock 2, he was keen to get into the movie business. So keen that he penned a script for a movie starring Amy Grant. Christian music singer Amy Grant is best known for her hits Every Heartbeat and Baby Baby Hollywood hired Levine…
At 13.5 inches, Jonah Falcon may apparently have the biggest penis in the world, but he doesn’t have a full-time job. Funny, that. The Daily Show tries to convince him to enter the obvious profession: pornography. But Falcon isn’t just, you know, a huge dick. Of course not! He also enjoys acting and blogging about…
Square Enix doesn’t only make Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games. It also makes figurines. Diversity! The company’s Play Sarts line is releasing posable figures of DMC4 characters Dante and Nero. The 20cm figs are ¥4,500 each (US$51) and will be out this summer. Pics for your perusal in the gallery. Devil May Cry 4…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: MAN! Love me some Tokyo Jihen. Think they’re on tour soon. Maybe I’ll go see them! What you missed last Where To Next For Call Of Duty? Halo Reach Beta Footage Looks Like A Blast [Update] Five Yakuza Movies You Must See… With The Help of Friends, Blind Man Beats…
Electronic Arts this week let go a number of developers working on Steven Spielberg Wii puzzle tile Boom Blox, the company told Kotaku. The game might have been viewed as a “dud” at first, but the original Boom Blox went on to sell over 450,000 copies. When asked about the decision to let some of…
Dead or Alive developer Tomonobu Itagaki left Tecmo over unpaid wages and started up a new studio. It was originally thought to be called “Tokyo Vikings”. It’s not. The new studio is called “Valhalla” as in Norse mythology. Valhalla is an enormous hall with over five hundred doors and outfitted with spears in the rafters.…
Vanquish is the upcoming title from Shinji Mikami, creator of the Resident Evil series. As revealed in the new issue of game mag Famitsu, the title is a third person action shooter and has elements of cover. It is not a Gears of War-style cover shooter, however. Gameplay is fast and quick with the player…
The last note has apparently been played by Square Enix Music, rumors website Square Enix Music Online. At the end of last year, the group was disbanded for budgetary reason, leaving composer casualties that include: Masashi Hamauzu (Final Fantasy XIII, Dirge of Cerberus, SaGa Frontier II) Junya Nakano (Final Fantasy X, Threads of Fate, Musashi:…
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