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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Kicks Off World Tour
To help stoke interest in upcoming Playstation Portable exclusive Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, game creator Hideo Kojima will be traveling the world over the next three months to promote the game. The Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker World Tour 2010 kicks off in Tokyo on April 29 and wraps up nearly three months later…
By Brian Crecente Published April 7, 2010 -
Go Monster Hunting in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker With Snake
As we reported last night, Snake and friends will be able to go Monster Hunting in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker when the PSP game hits. Kotaku Japan was on hand at last night’s official press conference for the game and shot this video showing a team of snakes taking on all sorts of Capcom…
By Brian Crecente Published April 7, 2010 -
Training
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Grade School Is So Long We’re having a dog trainer come to the house in a few minutes. She’s coming to teach Poe some manners. An ill mannered lapdog is one thing, but a 110 pounds, hippo-headed Great Dane that doesn’t know that he can’t sit on your lap or…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 -
Second Out of the E3 Press Conference Gate: Sony!
Last week Microsoft surprised many of us with news that one of their twin E3 press conferences would be on the Sunday before the half-week show. Today Sony tells us when they’ll be dropping their big news. Sony’s official Save the Date for their press conference tells us that they will be taking over the…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 -
Mystery Mailings Point To Radioactive TV Channel, Call of Duty Clues?
A mysterious USB card loaded with strange sounds, a brown envelope sent with no return address, a simple text file: That’s right, it’s time for another marketing push in the guise of a alternative reality game. Yesterday we received a plain black USB drive tucked away in a envelope. On the drive was this sound…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 -
A Glimpse At Canned Mercenaries and Legends Games
There’s a really good chance that neither of these games will ever see the light of day. The never fully titled Mercenaries game was in development by Pandemic Studio when Electronic Arts shut the studio down. Legends, it appears, was canceled back in 2008. Artist Dorian J. Compo, who also worked on Lord of the…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 -
Love of the Pixel Leads to Endearing Game With a Twist
Shaun Inman loves his pixels, the little bits of color that combine to make up video games. “Good pixel art strikes the perfect balance between appreciable craftsmanship and the gestalt,” Inman writes on his site, devoted to his game creations. “A single pixel out of place, one too few or too many, ruins the illusion.…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 -
A Twenty-Eight-Year-Old Video Game High Score Crushed
It stood for 28 years and took 58 hours and one quarter to beat Last night at 10:18 p.m. Pacific, Seattle locksmith John McAllister toppled the 1982 world record for Asteroids, racking up an amazing 41,338,740 points on the 1979 Atari classic arcade machine. He tapped in the letters E L F next to his…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2010 -
Bogu
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: This Post is Not About The iPad Well it’s that time. My kendo sensei has asked me to pick up some bogu (armor) for class. I spent the weekend doing something I never really thought I would invest time in: Shopping for new armor. The stuff you wear in Kendo…
By Brian Crecente Published April 5, 2010 -
Vampires! Mafia Wars! FarmVille! Come Talk Zynga This Wednesday
Join us this Wednesday on Kotaku Talk Radio to discuss the week’s video gaming news and chat with Marcus Segal, the chief operating officer for Zynga. Zynga Games Network is the company behind Mafia Wars, PetVille, Vampires, Dragon Wars and FarmVille. Segal will be on Kotaku Talk Radio this Wednesday at 11 a.m. Kotaku Time…
By Brian Crecente Published April 5, 2010 -
A Video Tour Of The Ultimate Super Mario Beer Pong Table
Incapacitated with a broken ankle, reader lithium017 decided to spend his time doing something a bit more productive than spying on neighbors from his bedroom window: He built a Super Mario Bros. 3 beer pong table. To be more accurate, the six-foot-long table can serve as both a surface for playing Beer Pong on and…
By Brian Crecente Published April 5, 2010 -
Man Versus Machine: Breaking the Unbreakable High Score
As you read this, history is in the making. Asteroids is being played with great verve. High scores will topple. Right now John McAllister, a Washington state locksmith, sits in a game room somewhere in Seattle playing Atari’s 1979 arcade classic Asteroids while cameras and a friend watch on. He’s been playing since Saturday, now…
By Brian Crecente Published April 5, 2010 -
iTunes Chart Toppers: EA Swarms the Chart
Electronic Arts’ Spring sale proves once again that sales can have a HUGE impact on game sales. Just look at all of the EA titles on this chart. Here’s the full list of games: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews Position Title Price Weeks…
By Brian Crecente Published April 5, 2010 -
Nintendo Doesn’t, Shouldn’t Fear the iPad
Gaming for Apple is an estimated half a billion dollar industry, but the company behind the iPhone, iPod Touch and now the iPad still seems reluctant to embrace the popular diversion. Despite launching the”magical and revolutionary” iPad with more than 700 new games this past weekend, gaming gets little face time in the ads and…
By Brian Crecente Published April 5, 2010 -
Happy Early Easter
To: Owen From: Crecente One of the big benefits of no longer working as a night police reporter at a daily newspaper is that I don’t end up working just about every holiday and many weekends. Remember how much that sucked? I used to never get any long weekend with my family. Now? Now I…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010 -
iPad Games: The Ultimate Gamer’s Guide to Apple’s iPad [UPDATED]
Slim, sexy and packed with a library of games, the iPad is shaping up to be a powerful contender in the eyes and for the fingers of gamers. (We’ll be updating this daily, so bookmark it now) While I don’t quite buy Apple’s claims that the iPad is magical, everything we’ve learned about the device…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010 -
iPad Gets Its First Real 3D Game (Glasses Not Included)
Flight Control HD will have an interesting twist when it hits the iPad tomorrow morning: A fully playable 3D version of the game. The 3D view uses the old red/cyan glasses to produce Anaglyph video for the game which will make it appear that the aircraft are floating about the iPad during the game, according…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010 -
Blur Beta Set to Open To All (Xbox 360) Users, And Why It Won’t Come to the PS3
Because of the overwhelming demand for access to upcoming racer Blur’s multiplayer beta, the folks at Bizarre Creations have decided to open the beta to all Xbox 360 users next week. Speaking with Kotaku during our weekly Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, Bizarre Creations’ lead designer Gareth Wilson said the developer ran out of beta keys…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010 -
Episodic Gaming Invades the iPad with Sam & Max
We are, for the most part, limiting news of new games hitting the 700 and growing iPad gaming library to our enormous iPad guide. But Sam & Max deserve their own mention. Digging around in the iTunes story I stumped across a listing for Sam & Max Episode 1: The Penal Zone for the iPad…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2010
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