The director of Hellboy and the Oscar-winning Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro, has confirmed reports that he is working with publisher THQ on a series of video games, including one horror game that diverges from the standard video game stuff. Del Toro tells MTV Multiplayer that, yes, he is working with the publisher of Red…
Kotaku readers, join us in this nightly post where your off-topic ramblings and insights are welcome, where we might just discuss the odd Star Wars-related development that isn’t related to a studio named LucasArts. For example, we might discuss the news that the Star Wars saga—which it turns out spans six films!—will be the latest…
Sega will release the first episode of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 starting on October 11 for WiiWare, October 12 for PlayStation Network and October 13 for Xbox Live Arcade in North America. Price is $15 in U.S. dollars. [IGN]
Remember that 7-minute-plus trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow from Tokyo Game Show? Konami’s got more where that came from, issuing a new, gameplay-filled preview of Mercury Steam’s take on Castlevania that can go all night OK, so it really goes for about 11 minutes and change. But it’s narrated by Jason “Lucius Malfoy” Isaacs…
Fable fans will be able to amass a small fortune in the kingdom of Albion well before the next Xbox 360 entry launches next month. And they’ll do it on their smartphones with the soon-to-be-released app Fable III Kingmaker. The smartphone app was spotted by CVG in the latest issue of Xbox World magazine. Similar…
LucasArts has revealed a somewhat unexpected addition to the cast of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, the star of comedic adventure game series Monkey Island. Either some cloning procedure has gone horribly wrong or Guybrush really is that mighty. “Yes, this is real,” reads the official Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Facebook page,…
PlayStation 3 owners can take part in Lara Croft’s latest adventure, as the cooperative game without the Tomb Raider name makes its way to the North American PlayStation Store. What else can PS3 and PSP owners spend hard earned money on? The new DeathSpank, Swords & Soldiers and the latest expansion for Borderlands, for starters.…
Earlier today, Sony welcomed a new batch of value priced Greatest Hits games for the PlayStation 3. Turns out MAG, Demon’s Souls and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift aren’t the only PS3 exclusives having their prices slashed. Add ModNation Racers to the list of cheaper PS3 games, starting right now. The “Play. Create. Share.” kart racing game…
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock’s debut trailer. The girls of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock can transform into far less attractive cobra women, so don’t get too attached. If you’re looking for lurid camera angles, watch this teaser trailer. Megadeth’s “Sudden Death” on Expert difficulty proves that developer Neversoft isn’t letting up on the challenge…
Developer Q? Entertainment’s Child of Eden finds players in a happier place than the game it was inspired by, the trippy 2001 musical shooter Rez. Rez, for those who may have missed it on the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 or Xbox Live Arcade, is an on-rails shooter built on the multi-sensory concept of synaesthesia and the…
Tetsuya Mizuguchi wants to share your “happy feelings” with the world—or at least with the people who play Child of Eden, developer Q? Entertainment’s spiritual sequel to the classic synaesthetic shooter Rez. Ubisoft and Q? announced “The Journey Project,” a user generated submission initiative that will let players share their joy with the world, at…
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A Minecraft player with great ambition and loads of spare time is building a 1:1 replica model of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s massive flagship vessel, the Enterprise D—and he needs some help getting it done. Patient Minecraft fan “halnicholas” has finished preliminary work on the Enterprise’s frame. It’s lacking in warp nacelles, deck details,…
Warning: this episode of our nightly off-topic post, where anyone is welcome to comment on anything they want, might have an odor. Temperatures at Kotaku Towers West today reached a toasty 113º Farenheit and things got a little sweaty. That’s the hottest downtown Los Angeles has ever been, according to the LA Times, so excuse…
Robert “Bobby” Kotick, Activision CEO and widely reviled video game exec, had unkind things to say about one of his company’s biggest rivals, Electronic Arts, blasting his competitor’s “culture,” its games, and claiming “great people don’t really want to work there.” The outspoken Kotick knocked EA in a newly published interview with Edge magazine, claiming…
PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to buy PlayStation Plus membership at retail, with gift cards granting access to Sony’s premium PlayStation Network now deploying to stores in North America. A Kotaku tipster informs us that cards have already arrived at Target stores in the northeast, at least in designations of $17.99 USD for…
Treyarch’s beloved addition of undead to the Call of Duty series looks to continue in the next entry, Call of Duty: Black Ops. Not exactly a surprise, but an returning feature apparently confirmed today by the game’s strategy guide. CVG spotted the inclusion of “Nazi zombie coverage” in the Brady Games official guide to Black…
Blood Drive, Activision’s quick to market roadkill driving game, was officially unveiled earlier this month for release on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this November. How does it look? Still like Carmageddon and Twisted Metal, now with zombie strippers. Like Dead Rising 2, Blood Drive is set in a Las Vegas-like city overrun by…
Charge up the PSP and download the latest firmware in anticipation of the next (potentially) great portable God of War game, which you can play a teensy bit of starting tomorrow. The official PlayStation.blog brings word that the next game in the hyper-violent series, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, will get a downloadable demo…
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