This month, many of the nation’s video game sellers and makers met in Houston, Texas with Sony to talk all things PlayStation. At the top of the list was the entertainment behemoth’s plans for a renaissance of the PlayStation Portable. The PSP revival is being led by three key factors: A resurgence in developer interest…
If you live in the UK make sure to catch the Resident Evil 5 special that’s airing this weekend. The program on cable and satellite channel Bravo includes new interviews with the development team, previously unseen levels and game features and walks viewers through the history of the video game franchise and movie spin-offs. “For…
In the PlayStation 3 exclusive Killzone 2, players take the fight to the red-eyed Helghast, invading their barren home planet of Helghan to try and capture the warmongering leader Emperor Scolar Visari. It is, on its surface, a big ball of science fiction and video game cliches, but what first-person shooter isn’t? What matters here…
Ready at Dawn, the development studio behind two of the most popular titles for the Playstation Portable, may be returning to PSP development. The studio famously got out of the PSP-development business last year, returning their development kits to Sony and moving on to other things. But John Koller, director of hardware marketing for Sony…
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai will continue to oversee Playstation in his new role as the head of the Networked Products and Services Group. Earlier this morning Sony announced a major restructuring of their company, with Sony CEO Howard Stringer being named president of the company and the formation of two new groups within…
While not outright denying rumors of a UMD-free Playstation Portable, the head of Sony’s hardware marketing said that the UMD business is “critical to us this year and beyond.” Earlier this week, Acclaim chief creative officer David Perry said that he knows a developer who is working on games for a Playstation Portable that won’t…
The recently announced Playstation Portable version of LittleBigPlanet is being developed by with help by Media Molecule and will likely be able to connect in someway with the Playstation 3 version. The PSP’s LittleBigPlanet will also tap into the three tenets of the original title: Playing, creating and sharing, John Koller, director of hardware marketing…
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: (@_@) Wow, so today Scripps announced that after 150 years of publishing the Rocky Mountain News would be printing their last paper this Friday. I’m not really directly impacted by this closure. I have a fulltime job at Kotaku, thank you very much. But it’s still horrible news. I called…
As I see it, the biggest problem Apple’s iPhone faces as a gaming platform is the flood, the sheer wall of games now available on the system. The last I heard, and I’m sure it’s well past this by now, is that there are 15,000 applications on the App Store right now, many of them…
In this latest episode of MadWorld’s Death Watch we catch a glimpse of some of the over-the-top brutal game’s bosses. First up, we catch a glimpse of Little Eddie, a ball-and-chain-wielding behemoth. The trailer also shows us glimpses of Herr Frederick von Twirlenkiller and the female boss of Asiantown. The video wraps up with quick…
Rockstar just dropped the first official trailer for the Nintendo DS-bound Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The snippets—very brief snippets—of gameplay shown might be missed during your first viewing. Oh, they’re in there… In Chinatown Wars, you will play as Huang Lee out to avenge his father’s death and restore his family’s “honor,” something that…
Super Mario Kart has the longest legacy and the biggest impact on video games in history, according to Guinness World Records which compiled a list of the top 50 consoles games of all time. Tasked with selecting the best console games of all time, contributors of this year’s Gamer’s Edition reviewed hundreds of releases to…
Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb shot this quick video of an unboxed Xbox 360 Elite Limited Edition Resident Evil 5 version to show off the red console and the goodies it comes with. Besides the red Xbox 360, matching red Xbox 360 controller and black headset, you get a copy of Super Street Fighter Turbo…
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis will be the first EA Sports games to feature Wii MotionPlus, Electronic Arts confirmed in a press release detailing the games. “On the Wii, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 and EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis bring the authentic motion and excitement of championship golf…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Today, I Dropped My Car Keys In Doggy Doo-Doo Lots of interesting information hitting today about a possible new Playstation Portable 2. Not sure why Acclaim’s David Perry would be spilling the beans, but I can’t imagine he’s just making it up. Besides, I’ve been hearing from other folks now…
Namco Bandai today officially unveiled Dead to Rights: Retribution for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, calling the 2009 game a gritty crime drama third-person shooter. The game will be set in Grant City where vice-cop Jack Slate is thrust into the epicenter of an “intensely dark, dangerous and tragic narrative” along with his dog…
Ubisoft today released the first trailer and game details for their upcoming western-shooter Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, due out this summer on the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The game, in development by Techland, will tell the story of the McCall brothers and take place in a variety of settings from “a…
Indie darling of 2008, Braid is heading to Steam next month for $15. We loved it. The Interactive Achievement Awards loved it. And now on March 31 you can love it too. “Braid is arguably the strongest example of what can be accomplished by an independent game designer,” said Jason Holtman, director of business development…
The UMD-free PlayStation Portable 2 is indeed real and could hit as early as this fall, David Perry, chief creative officer at Acclaim, told Kotaku today. “I spoke to a developer who is working on it right now,” he said. “I know this developer is already working on it, so that means they have a…
Gold’s Gym and Ubisoft are teaming up to create a cardio workout game for the Wii and its weight-measuring balance board, the companies announced today. “We are excited to partner with Ubisoft on our first video game,” commented Lisa Zoellner, chief marketing officer of Gold’s Gym International. “It is a natural extension of our brand…
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