Sony is reported to be taking a shot at Apple’s stronghold on the digital music and video market with a brand new multimedia subscription service, coming to the PlayStation Network (and beyond) next year. The Financial Times reports that Sony will unveil that music and video subscription service at the IFA technology show in Berlin…
We’re just a few weeks away from the 2010 Tokyo Game Show and publishers are started to tout their wares. Professor Layton and Dragon Quest developer Level-5 is one of the first to announce its plans… and they’re exciting! Most exciting is that its collaboration with animation experts Studio Ghibli, Ni no Kuni: The Another…
Sega’s “Return of the Dreamcast” starts in September with the re-release of Sonic Adventure on Xbox Live Arcade. Microsoft has put a Sept. 15 release date on the Dreamcast to PC to XBLA port. A PlayStation Network version is also planned.
Bizarre Creations’ take on seminal super spy James Bond is looking better, bigger and just more Bond-like. Or so my recent hands-off time with the cinematic action game, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, at Gamescom made me think. Publisher Activision’s newest trailer of James Bond 007: Blood Stone gives us a more explosive, more boiled-down…
MythBusters, the science-fact television show that started life on the Discovery Channel, has put hundreds of rumors, myths and adages to the test. In the future, they will be tackling the fact and fiction of video games. So said MythBusters co-star Adam Savage at Comic-Con 2010. Addressing an interested MythBusters fan’s request to see, say,…
Let the Kinect product placement commence! Or let it continue, as in addition to making a none-too-subtle cameo on HBO’s Entourage this week, the Xbox 360 motion controller has been featured prominently during Justin Bieber’s current world tour. While Kinect’s appearance on the show is incredibly brief, it does illustrate that in addition to supporting…
Greetings, Kotaku readership. If you’ve been here awhile, you probably know what this nightly thread is for. It’s for off-topic discussion. If you’re not a Kotaku reader—or you have a hard time grasping simple concepts—we’ll explain further. Many other posts on Kotaku are just about video games. This one, not as much. It can be…
UNICO National, the group representing Italian-Americans upset over the portrayal of Italian gangsters in the recently released Mafia II, have scored a win in their battle against 2K Games’ mobster adventure. They claim to have unquestionably pooped 2K’s launch party. Andre’ DiMino, spokesperson and man upset by Mafia II, says that the group’s protest against…
StarCraft and Diablo maker Blizzard already has a World of Warcraft film in development with Spider-man director Sam Raimi. What might twist the arm of Blizzard’s top creators to get a StarCraft movie underway? James Cameron might! Rob Pardo, executive VP of game design at Blizzard, tells MTV Multiplayer that it’s still seeking “the right…
A new face joins the list of bestselling games in Japan this past week as A.C.E.: Another Century’s Episode: R for the PlayStation 3 becomes the country’s currently bestselling game. It’s not the only PS3 game enjoying top ten status. The other, which debuted in third place on Media Create’s sales chart, is Chou Jigen…
Normally, we check in with the Kotaku readership on Fridays to see what’s on the gaming menu for the weekend. Sometimes, we forget. Let’s remedy that with a very (not really) special episode of What Are You Playing This Weekend? Me? I tried my hand at Civilization for the very first time, downloading Civilization IV…
Now might not be the right time to pick up a PSP, should you have waited this long to invest. November, on the other hand, when God of War: Ghost of Sparta comes to North America, might be better. Sony will release a God of War: Ghost of Sparta PSP entertainment pack then, including the…
Gearbox Software’s runaway hit Borderlands is, officially, getting a “Game of the Year” style re-release, compiling anything and everything Borderlands into one complete, Claptrap-filled package. Included in the Borderlands Game of the Year Edition release will be all four of the game’s aftermarket add-ons—The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot, The Secret…
The sky—and everything else—is falling in The Incident, an iPhone and iPad game that combines the randomized chaos of piling trash, a la Katamari Damacy, with the retro, one-button gameplay of platformers of old. The Incident presents a more charming apocalypse than we’re used to. Inexplicably, objects begin falling from the sky. As a high-jumping…
Are you going to this year’s PAX convention in lovely Seattle, Washington this weekend? Kotaku is. Ubisoft is too, giving many attendees their first look at games like Rez spiritual sequel Child of Eden, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and something new. That “something new” is a game known as Outland, “one of Ubisoft’s digital games for…
You may want me as a coop partner in Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, because on day one, I’ll be very familiar with the dungeon crawler’s cooperative combat and puzzle solving. Bethesda’s playable demo of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge at Gamescom was but a smaller slice of a hands-off demo I’d seen before. It starts with…
Finally, you can amputate and decapitate an Orc, thanks to Snowblind Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, the hack, slash and loot adventure with the Tolkien stamp of approval. While the original Fellowship of the J.R.R. Tolkien books (and films) fight their way to Mordor to dispose of that ring, you’ll…
Gamescom offered us our first look at the newest game from Sucker Punch, Infamous 2, its new lead character Cole—redesigned after negative fan feedback—and one of the lightning powered super/anti-hero’s car-tossing superpowers. We also got a look at the game’s new setting, the New Orleans-like fictional bayou town known as New Marais. Sucker Punch founder…
At Gamescom, we sat down with Mortal Kombat co-creator and NetherRealm Studios lead Ed Boon to talk about the newest game in the franchise, life after Midway and what could be next for the fighting game developer. First, the developer has to wrap up work on its new Mortal Kombat fighting game, due sometime in…
The last time I saw James Bond 007: Blood Stone in action, I wasn’t convinced. Something, some hard-to-define Bond quality was missing. But developer Bizarre Creations may have won me over with my second look at Blood Stone. The developer of the new, Daniel Craig-starring James Bond video game brought two new levels with it…
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