I’ve been playing an early build of Super Street Fighter IV for a week or so now, and it’s convinced me of one thing: Picking up this latest Capcom fighter is a must for any fan of the genre. Why? There are the two new fighters: Korea’s first fighter Juri and Turkish oil wrestler Hakan.…
The end time, a doomsday described in many different religions, isn’t a subject typically explored by massively multiplayer online games, which is a bit surprising. Depending on which religion you look to for inspiration, a game based on the end of the world could include zombies, demons, supernatural phenomenon and could even take place in…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Monday, Monday! I’ve been playing around with the DSi XL today, trying to get a feel for what it’s like to play on compared to the DSi. Tristan wandered up to my office in his pajamas while I was playing some Infinite Space on it and asked what it was.…
Electronic Arts tells Kotaku that while they’re exploring different downloadable game strategies, they do not plan to charge gamers for “traditionally free game demos.” The clarification comes after word hit via analyst Michael Pachter’s visit to Electronic Arts, that the company planned to grow their digital game business in part by release what EA called…
A delivery man just brought this to my door. Inside, a DSi XL for reviewing. But what he left in his truck was more interesting. “I’ve got a five-foot sub for ya,” he said smiling. For me??? You know how I love my sandwiches, especially when they are subs delivered to my home. Was this…
While both Sony and Microsoft are focusing on their own forms of motion gaming this year, Nintendo plans to continue their efforts to change the way we play games. Speaking with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime recently, the charismatic executive walked me through some of Nintendo’s 2010 game plans including the publisher’s push to…
Street Fighter IV, despite my love/hate relationship with the game, remains in the top spot of the charts this week. Have you picked it up yet? 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 Last Week…
Late last year two unearthed trademark applications seemed to lend credence to rumors that Electronic Arts was working on a game based on Jack the Ripper, but we haven’t heard anything new about the game since… until now. Buried in analyst Michael Pachter’s report on his recent visit to Electronic Arts is a single mention…
Electronic Arts plans to grow its digital game business to become one-third of their total revenue over the next few years and that includes starting to charge for what one analyst described as very long game demos. The comments came during an analyst visit to Electronic Arts’ Redwood City headquarters and meetings with the company’s…
Two weeks ago the inseparable duo behind popular game-themed web comic Penny Arcade received an award for their work as “video game ambassadors”, this weekend they’ll be earning it… again. Friday marks the kick off of the team’s East Coast expo in Boston, an extension of the popular, often overflowing Penny Arcade Expo held each…
With all of those multi-colored bales of hay in Farmville why aren’t more people doing this? Or maybe they are and I haven’t seen it yet. [Thanks Dom8bit]
No, not yet, but the possibility of Australia getting games rated 18 and older has increased quite a bit with the chief opponent to the move, trouble-plagued South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson, stepping down from office this weekend. Atkinson, who was elected to Parliament in 1989, made public his decision to step down from…
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So all of the neat things you find out when reading Kotaku on a Friday night? Take for instance news that we’ll be hosting our own open-bar party at Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston next week. Stephen Totilo and Michael Fahey will both be in town for PAX East and, much more importantly, to…
As we mentioned earlier this week, GDC got some class this year with some pole-dancing, clothes-on erotic dancers. I’m not quite sure how a cluster of scantily clad women cavorting around metal poles helps to push home the point of a game, but the place was packed when I arrived and remain packed ten minutes…
Street Fighter IV was an exuberant return to the days of classic arcade fighters. It was a game designed specifically to reel back in aging gamers who once dropped pounds of quarters on virtual tournament in arcades around the world. But, it turns out, many of those aging gamers don’t have consoles and aren’t planning…
I had a chance to virtually chair-run my way through the downhill streets of a virtual city last week using the Playstation Move controller. But words don’t adequately describe how strange this game looks in motion. This is the sort of thing I’d like to see more of on the Playstation Move.
Turns out Kratos wasn’t acting out against innocent Best Buy employees because he wanted a copy of God of War III. He was just sick of hanging out in the story reading books, using the restroom, doing… laundry? Wesley Smith dropped us a line to let us know that he was one of the people…
It’s snowing right now, very hard actually, blizzard-like in fact. And I’m off. Yes, I know I’m writing this, but I am in fact off. But first, I need your help. I’m about to head out to a boutique toy shop, one of those fancy ones that still sell board and table top games. But…
Will Wright popped up on the last talk of the last day of the Game Developers Conference to deliver a classic Wright mind-blowing talk on, well, everything. Wright was a bit too far away for me to capture his hour long talk on video, so I did the next best thing. I recorded the audio.…
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