Reader P4KO sent in a link to this clip of him rocking out the Punch Out!!! theme on electric guitar. I wonder if he takes requests?
Amazon’s digital games section is worth keeping an eye on. Now and then the retailers drops the price of digital download games below what you’d find on the console. CheapCollegeGamers.com points out that Amazon is running an Xbox Live Arcade sale right now, dropping the price on eight 80’s classics from $5 to $2.96 a…
E3 2009 is just weeks away and with the event once more open to models companies are starting to look for folks to distract gamers from their games. Superannuation took a quick dig through LA’s Craigslist to find a couple casting calls: One for bikini models, the other for a muscular man. Which do you…
It’s a pretty basic premise: You need to make sure the the dropping from parachutes land safely on the boat. But add some lightning, sharks, and spinning helicopter blades and you’ve got a keeper. No word yet on when Parachute Panic is set to hit the iphone or for how much.
The Nintendo World Store hosted a pre-launch Punch Out!!! party in New York this weekend, handing out free t-shirts, candy bars and one title. Reader TheMissing sent in this pic from the party showing off the free t-shirt he snagged and the Doc’s Remedy chocolate bar that was given out with a purchase of the…
So that headline’s probably stating the obvious. I would imagine there are lots of studios working on something besides what they’ve already announced. But with Realtime Worlds well into development of APB, and the original Crackdown under their belt you can’t help but wonder, are they hard at work on Crackdown 2? The recent interest…
Much requested crossover fighter Tatsunoko vs Capcom is coming to the U.S., according to a NeoGaf poster and magazine scan sent to Kotaku. A scan from reader Andrew shows what is supposed to be an image from inside Nintendo Power magazine for an article entitled When Heroes Collide. A paragraph in the top right corner…
Playstation today invaded Best Buys across the country as part of a new outreach program entitled Experience Playstation Now. The idea is that Playstation reps take to stores with some new games and plenty of knowledge to help educate people about the benefits of Playstation ownership. While this means games, it also means showing off…
Vancouver-based game developer United Front Games has partnered with Activision on an action-based game set in Hong Kong, the developer announced this week. United Front Games was formed in 2007 by former employees of Electronic Arts, Radical Entertainment, Black Box Games, Rockstar, Action Pants, Propaganda Games and Next Level Games. “Over the past two decades…
3D Realms never received any of the $12 million that Take-Two is suing the company for, 3D Reamls’ co-founder Scott Miller told Shacknews today. 3D Realms “didn’t get a penny of that [$12 million],” according to Miller. “This, along with so much else, is 100% spin, being eaten up by those who have no clue…
That’s right folks, the first batch of BlizzCon 2009 tickets that went on sale this morning are gone. According to people in the official forums, the tickets sold out in record time, some even say they sold out instantly thanks to Blizzard’s new ticket queue system. There’s always May 30… and eBay.
A few months ago we posted a partial setlist from upcoming Playstation Portable rocker Rock Band Unplugged. It looks like the official website for the game has expanded the list by a few, adding another five or so songs to the list of music coming on the game. On top of that, someone’s posted what…
I used to have this nightmare all the time where I forgot to show up for my Spanish finals in college and couldn’t graduate. See, I was a semester away from graduating when they discovered I needed to take one Spanish class to be able to earn both my degrees. I took the class, but…
Click to viewBatman: Arkham Asylum Exclusive ‘FreeFlow Combat’ Walkthrough Beating the crap out of people as Batman may be only one aspect of Batman: Arkham Asylum, but it sure looks to be the one I’d like to spend the most time on in the game. When I played around with Batman freeflow combat the biggest…
If you want to come to E3 with Kotaku you can’t be dead weight. That’s my job. The winner of our Cover E3 with Kotaku contest is going to have to have the writing chops to sift through the seething turmoil of gaming and come out alive and with something to post on Kotaku. Lots…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: The Most Important Live Blog of The Day Micro-Ash crawling. Congrats man, pretty cool and we were IMing when it happened, so it’s almost like I was there. We kicked off our contest today to fly a reader out to E3 to help us cover the big show, press pass…
MX Vs. ATV Reflex will allow gamers to control the driver and vehicle separately with a controller’s two thumbsticks. During a brief demonstration last week, developers showed onlookers how the “rider reflex” controls can affect stunts and maneuverability. By shifting your riders weight around while driving you can actually put weight on different tires, allowing…
Guitar Hero 5 will let up to four players rock out on the same instrument at the same time. That’s four guitarists or four microphones and yes, even four drummers. The game will also let you mix and match willy nilly what instruments you want to play as a group, so you can set up…
Team Xbox is reporting that Microsoft is in the final design stages of a new digital entertainment handheld, one that would feature Live Anywhere and blur the lines between the Xbox 360 and Zune. Reached for comment today, Microsoft reiterated that they have been saying since January that they will have new hardware and software…
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