Not all video games last year were released on tangible discs. There were also games released via digital means, and some of those games were without a doubt among the strongest titles to hit in 2009. And not all games are big, and neither are all awards. Kotaku has already listed its choices for the…
How good you are at video games could be related to the size of certain parts of your brain, researchers suggest. Beyond gaming, the research also suggests differences in learning rates. In the latest issue of everyone’s favorite brain journal Cerebral Cortex, a new study from University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh and Massachusetts…
On January 22, Osaka-based developer SNK Playmore, best known for The King of Fighters series, will be releasing its latest arcade…shoot ’em up. Well, it does feature KOF game characters! Characters like Kyo and Mai Shiranui. Dubbed KOF Sky Stage, the game is a vertical arcade shooting game. The fighting here is for your pocket…
While PS3 exclusive Uncharted is a hugely successful franchise in the West, it has yet to capture the Japanese gaming public’s imagination. That’s not because the Uncharted franchise is not very good — quite the contrary — nor is it because the series doesn’t have appeal in Japan — I believe it very well could.…
Earlier this week, word leaked from the upcoming issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu that PSP stealth game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be getting a PSP bundle. But leaked Famitsu images are usually crap. Famitsu.com images are much better. As Kotaku posted previously, the game will be getting a special camouflage PSP when…
Developer Turn 10, the studio behind popular racing simulator Forza Motorsport, appears to be planning a new title for Microsoft’s upcoming Natal motion system. A job posting for a Turn 10 business development manager position notes this: set strategy and drive high-quality game content for our next generation games including the Natal platform As an…
At last year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced that the first two downloadable maps for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 are timed Xbox 360 exclusives. Timed? How long is that? “We have a 30-day timed exclusive on the Modern Warfare content packs,” a spokesperson told website Eurogamer. “So it will be…
The French developer behind DS title Big Bang Mini, Arkedo, was thinking about making a game for Microsoft’s upcoming Natal motion system, but has decided against it. Arkedo boss Camille Guermonprez posted mock screenshots for a proposed (now dead) brawler called 2-Finger Heroes. Players were to use their fingers to control the characters’ legs. Flicking…
Wii games, cheaper! Nintendo is introducing the “Minna no Osusume Collection” (literally, The Everyone’s Recommendation Collection), a line of cheaper Wii titles. But does low price mean low quality? Nintendo is including titles with high user scores from the Wii’s Minna no Nintendo Channel for the relatively low price of ¥2,800 (US$31). Each title is…
It’s January 2010. The last decade has drawn to a close, and more than anything else in the past ten years, there is one single-player gameplay mechanic that has done more to revolutionize video games. That mechanic is “cover.” Cover: cov-er 1a: to guard from attack b(1): to have within the range of one’s guns…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Fly Away, Fly Away, Fly Away Home Mini-Bash enters FIRST GRADE this spring. And when Japanese kids enter first grade, they get shiny, hard leather backpacks called “land-cell”. They’re priced at anywhere from $200 to $700. (The average price is probably closer to $300 or $400). Kids use the bags…
Europe gets a striking origami cover for upcoming thriller Heavy Rain. America gets wet boobs. Japan? Japan gets a nose. A wet nose. Let’s review: Europe, origami; America, wet boobs; Japan, wet nose. Somehow this all seems mixed up. And you thought Japanese box art was always better. Ha! PS3『ヘビーレイン -心の軋むとき-』の日本版のパッケージデザインがあまりにも酷い [はちま起稿]
Halo: Reach is forthcoming. It will be out later this year. One individual is already leaking beta footage onto the internet. The footage is of the game booting up. There is no game play footage. The screen carries a message which reads: Welcome to the Halo: Reach Public Beta, the experience you are about to…
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Dead or Alive is laying off the fighting and heading back to the beach for upcoming PSP game Dead or Alive Paradise. Like previous Dead or Alive poolside titles, Paradise focuses on volleyball, gambling, ridiculous swimsuits and taking pictures of girls wearing said ridiculous swimsuits. Besides Kasumi, characters Risa, Hitomi, Rio and their breasts will…
Game retailer EB Games has uploaded the first direct feed Halo: Reach screens onto the game’s product page. Anyone with the most recent issue of Game Informer magazine has seen these screens — not everyone has the latest GI, though! That, and these are some of the first proper screens for the game. Halo: Reach…
Nana Mizuki, who voices Costa Rican girl Paz Ortega Andrade in the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, has become the first Japanese voice actress to reach number one on the Japanese pop single charts. Her latest single “Phantom Minds” moved 54,000 copies last week during its first week on sale. This is the first…
Masashi Hamauzu, FFXIII composer, has left game company Square Enix, reports website Square Enix Music Online. He was an employee at Square Enix for the past 15 year. During that time, Hamauzu worked on titles such as SaGa Frontier II, Unlimited SaGa, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII. The official FFXIII soundtrack will be…
When the last Metal Gear Solid game, Portable Ops, was released on the PSP in Japan, it got a premium pack with a camo PSP. Another MGS game is coming to the PSP and guess what? Upcoming title Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be getting a special camouflage PSP when the game is released…
With The Lovely Bones out in theaters, filmmaker Peter Jackson might seems like his schedule has opened up. Not so, the director will be acting as producer on Steven Spielberg Tintin movie. There’s there The Hobbit. Video games, too. Jackson has been spending his free time playing through Modern Warfare 2. “I’m enjoying these games…
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