It’s taken more than a decade and over $100 million USD to get here, but StarCraft II will be hitting store shelves on July 27. And while that hefty development price tag may seem like a lot, well, it’s not. The Wall Street Journal puts StarCraft II’s development costs above the $100 million mark, but…
Two words. Limbo. And then Limbo again. Because that’s what I’ll be playing all weekend, a moody Xbox Live Arcade game so nice I’m forced to play it twice. When I’m not playing Limbo or sleeping, I’ll be playing Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. It’s long. That’s why I’m still playing it.…
The man responsible for inflicting Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid on the world is going to the San Diego Comic-Con next week. Better still he’ll be judging your attempts at cosplay during the event. Hideo Kojima will be heading to San Diego, California next week, signing whatever you put in front of him and…
So, what do you think of Ryan Reynolds as your Green Lantern, fancy computer generated super suit and all? This is the place to discuss it, gang, a post that’s not just about video games. EW has the first pics of DC’s big screen adaptation and, hoo boy, it really makes me appreciate the way…
Remember that loose talk of a new Oddworld game in development? It was true. Only things have changed and now there are multiple Oddworld projects hitting multiple platforms, courtesy of developer Just Add Water. The developer of PlayStation Network and PSP game Gravity Crash is working with Oddworld Inhabitants and the brain of Lorne Lanning…
WiiWare strategy game Swords & Soldiers is getting an HD facelift, making its way to the PlayStation Network “soon.” It has Aztecs, Vikings, ninja and monkeys—MONKEYS—battling it out for 2D dominance. Monkeys, people. Sony Online Entertainment and Ronimo have given the WiiWare version a spit polish—meaning they’ve redone the RTS game’s artwork, resulting in a…
Microsoft is taking its Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 on a summer vacation, hitting up dozens of locations in the United States and offering the public a chance to play with the device before it launches this November. The “Kinect Experience Mobile Demo Tour” will give curious Xbox 360 owners a chance to play…
Just before this year’s E3, the people who make Bulletstorm—EA, Epic Games and People Can Fly—sent us a big wad of meat. In was inedible, thanks to the shell casings, teeth and fingers inside. It was gross. The awful secret of that mystery meat? It was Spam. Well compensated advertising professionals at Wieden + Kennedy…
Nintendo’s newest mini-game good time, Wii Party, makes it debut in Japan, handily defeating its competitors with a strong first week. Does the Wii have a new multi-million-seller on its hands? With 235,000 copies of Wii Party sold in the first week, it doesn’t seem unreasonable for the first-party game to be well on its…
The maker of massively multiplayer online games Star Wars Galaxies and Everquest is making cuts this week, eliminating “just over 4% of its full-time workforce,” Sony Online Entertainment reps tell Kotaku. Those cuts total 35 employees, according to the company, and appear to be affecting multiple SOE divisions. Representatives for the publisher-developer offered the following…
Don’t wait until launch date to download your digital copy of StarCraft II. Grab all seven highly anticipated gigabytes worth of Blizzard’s sequel right now so you’re ready to play on July 27. You don’t even have to pay! Blizzard is opening up digital purchasing for its long in the making sci-fi real-time strategy game…
…well, it could be a few things. What appears to be the final box art for Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is here, thanks to Gamefly, apparently revealing the fourth, still unofficially revealed incarnation of Spidey. And he’s black. That black suit version of Spider-man could be a throwback to the post-Secret Wars webslinger, when Peter…
Lessons learned. That’s what we’re going to talk about in this post powered by the gods of Asgard. If we’re setting expectations in this openly conversational post, it’s that expectations can be way, way off. So let’s not worry too much about how corny Sir Anthony Hopkins looks as Odin in Marvel’s Thor film, with…
Racing games are often judged by their ability to provide more realistic driving experiences, to throw increasingly massive collections of cars at the player or to offer infinite replayability online. Judged normally, Art Style: light trax would be a disappointment. In this Skip-developed WiiWare game—a remake of sorts of “bit Generations” title Dotstream, released only…
Red Dead Redemption is a commercial and critical success, moving more than 1.5 million copies in its first month while wrangling rock-solid reviews. Despite that, Rockstar has axed about 40 employees from the San Diego studio, according to sources close to the developer. Kotaku has heard from multiple sources who say that a “significant” chunk…
Kitchen not Asteroids-referencing enough? Have a Centipede problem in your foyer, as in not enough Centipede stickers slathered upon your walls? Wall experts Blik and retro-game rights holders Atari can fix that right up. Two of Atari’s most recognizable classic games join the long list of Blik wall graphics that can express your personal nerd-style…
This week’s very very special episode of our weekly Kotaku Talk Radio podcast is here! Actually, it’s there, on servers across the internet, waiting for your download. This week, our hosts Stephen Totilo and Brian Crecente talk about video games. The video games being discussed include titles like the recently released DeathSpank and LEGO Harry…
Brutal Legend and Grim Fandango creator Tim Schafer labeled Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick a “dick,” “total prick” and, most damning, a ball bearing enthusiast. Fair enough. Just don’t accuse Mr. Kotick of not liking video games, Activision says. Activision has responded from the video game industry’s playground today, firing back at Schafer (sort of)…
Rocksteady Studios’ Batman: Arkham Asylum was surprisingly excellent, but not without its “mistakes,” including one that made the game’s art director “want to cry a little bit.” It’s a mistake that will be corrected in the sequel. Rocksteady’s David Hego, responsible for the game’s exaggerated aesthetic, said at this week’s Develop conference that Arkham Asylum’s…
You know what the Sonic the Hedgehog series has been missing? Dangerous levels of obesity resulting in adult onset diabetes and eventually death, a glaring omission corrected in the Sega Genesis hack Sonic 2 XL. It makes Sonic a fat-ass. The trick here is to avoid the onion rings scattered about Emerald Hill Zone and…
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