Hudson’s Wii sports game Deca Sporta is flexing its way onto the Nintendo DS. Loosely translated to Deca Sporta Ten Sporting Events On The DS, the game features ten games on, well, the Nintendo DS. Those games feature ping pong, clay pigeon shooting, arm wrestling, golf, skydiving, climbing, bobsledding, rugby, kick volleyball and cheerleading. There…
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 summer system update has gone live for all Xbox LIVE members. It’s a mandatory update. The update is being rolled out worldwide over the next few hours. Company spokesperson Major Nelson also points these three points out: • While you can browse and purchase Avatar items and full Xbox 360 games in…
Third person role-playing-game Risen from German developer Piranha Bytes has been refused classification in Australia. No reasons were initially given why the game has been banned Down Under. Kotaku Australia contacted Risen‘s Australian distributor Madman Interactive and were told that the country’s Classification Board felt the game contained “sexual activity and drug use related to…
Frito pie, Dr. Pepper and Six Flags Over Texas. Memories of my childhood growing up in 1980s Texas. And I have vague, vague memories of this: Pac-Man Land. Sure, these could be fuzzy memories of something I wish I would’ve have experienced between the ages of 5 and 7 years old, but here it is,…
Modder Pocket Lucho is a mini-arcade cabinet modding genius. For the last five months, he’s been fine tuning his small-sized Neo Geo cabinet design. In the above clip, Lucho shows the fruits of his labor. *applause* Elotrolado via YouTube via Hack A Day via Gizmodo]
Japanese game maker tri-Ace is famous for its Square Enix published games. Titles like the Star Ocean series and the Valkyrie Profile games have cemented tri-Ace’s reputation. But tri-Ace’s upcoming role-playing-game End of Eternity (Resonance of Fate in the West) is being published by SEGA, not Square Enix. Explains tri-Ace developer and EoE director Takayuki…
ToHeart2 on the go! The PC erotic game is coming to the PlayStation Portable — minus the underpants. Developed by Leaf, the game was originally released on the PlayStation 2. An adult 18-years-old-and-up version dubbed ToHeart2 XRATED was released in December 2005. ToHeart2 is arriving back on the PlayStation platform with ToHeart2 Portable. How do…
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SEGA PlayStation platform title Valkyria Chronicles is set in a fictional Europe during the 1930s during a fictional war. Like many games in Japan, the title has spun off a manga and an anime. A DVD of the anime comes with a special bonus clip called “A Day at the Beach.” War gets old, and…
A 29-year-old factory worker has been arrested for burning down his house after an altercation with his mother over manga/anime/video game franchise Gundam. Living outside Kobe, Japan, Yoshifumi Takabe is accused of dousing his room in kerosene and lighting it ablaze with a lighter after his mother disposed of his “precious” Gundam plastic model figurines.…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Was cleaning the porch over the weekend when I saw a WILD BOAR run across about ten meters from where I was and scamper up the hill. I’ve heard we have monkeys and deer here were I live. But boar?! What you missed last night Steven Spielberg To Produce Halo Movie?…
Last year, Activision had a good year. Activision boss Bobby Kotick had a very good year. According to your-source-for-other-people’s-salaries Forbes, his 2008 salary breaks down like this: Thrilling stuff. It must be hard to tell developers to make new Guitar Hero, Call of Duty and, now after the Blizzard merger, World of Warcraft games. We’re…
It’s the dead of summer. Halloween is months away. The folks behind the official Saw haunted attraction are planning to scare the bejeezus out of you with a new one based on Silent Hill. The maze is located in Orange County, CA and appears to have the Konami seal of approval. The maze is open…
Publisher Marvelous Entertainment has sent out “new” No More Heroes 2 screenshots. “New” because most of them showed up in a May issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu. May is not new — it’s an entire season ago. But those blurry magazine scans are blurry. The worst thing about blurry magazine scans? They’re blurry. Have…
Popular Japanese role-playing-game Tales of Vesperia is coming to the big screen on October 3 as Tales of Vesperia ~ The First Strike ~. The film is set before Tales of Vesperia. Voice actors include Mamoru Miyano (who voiced Light in Death Note and Riku in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II) as Flynn Scifo,…
You know what the sexiest thing about WiiWare title Sexy Poker is? The music. Sooooooooooooooooo hot.
You’ve seen the publicity stills. You’ve seen the finalist. You’ve seen just how brown Ryu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza) creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is. Now what the Ryu Ga Gotoku 4 audition trailer. Just look at Nagoshi examine those applications. This is serious stuff!
Australian-born Hollywood scribe Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) loves video games. He even loves writing movie script versions of them. While the Halo flick seemed dead in the water, Beattie went on about how Halo was “our generation’s Star Wars” and even wrote a spec screenplay…
Hi. How are you? I am dandy. Let’s talk. This is TELL US DAMMIT. 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 knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know…
Wii Remote Used For Holograms You Can “Touch” Comment by: FunkyJ Nominated by: (Zombie) Komrade Kayce I honestly can’t believe some of the comments here and on youtube… “I’m not impressed” Seriously W.T.F? This technology is amazing! I mean, imagine if the internet had been around when Edison invented the light bulb… “meh, my candle…
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