Nintendo’s recent price drop on its line of portable game machines is giving the platform a big boost in Japan. As it has since becoming cheaper, the XL-sized Nintendo DSi LL reigns supreme on Japan’s sales charts. Add another 32,000-plus Japanese players of the biggest Nintendo DS to date. When combined with the portable’s other…
Welcome to the June 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of the best original coverage, including reviews, previews, features, weekly columns and more from Kotaku. Looking back at June, E3 2010 was responsible for a huge portion of Kotaku’s original coverage, with our first hands-on with the brand new Nintendo 3DS…
The people who make Professor Layton games and the sharp-looking Studio Ghibli game Ni no Kuni have another hit on their hands, the latest sports-themed RPG, Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!!, Japan’s bestselling game. Both versions of Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!! for the Nintendo DS toppled last week’s champ, the…
The people who publish Age of Empires and Halo Wars have a secret real-time strategy title in the works for Games For Windows Live, which Microsoft Games Studios is calling “Project S.” Other people are alpha testing it now. Microsoft is seeking more alpha testers for what it describes as a “groundbreaking,” “giant, revolutionary step…
We interrupt our regularly on-topic conversation for something a little less so. Though, really, anything is fair game on Kotaku. But in this post, the game is even fairer! Join us, won’t you, for some random chatter. As exciting as today is, I’m not yet ready to believe that Beavis & Butthead is making a…
BioWare appears to be just a day away from revealing Dragon Age 2, officially, going by the role-playing game developer’s Twitter tease. Or was it today, when EA and BioWare officially said that Dragon Age 2 is in development? The BioWare biofeed wrote earlier today that “2morrow will be a great day for BioWare fans.…
Faithful followers of Team Fortress 2’s week-long update focused on the Engineer will have a few new items to mull over today, including the new map “Hightower” and a painful looking new wrench. Today’s lower key dose of the Engineer Update for TF2 is largely focused on a new Payload-style map for Valve’s class-based first…
Visceral Games’ sequel to sci-fi horror game Dead Space won’t touch down on the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 until January 2011, but a new “interactive comic-style game” will hit those consoles this fall. The downloadable Dead Space Ignition will take place just before the events of Dead Space 2 and will pack in…
Microsoft’s Xbox Live service has pulled in an estimated $1.2 billion for the Xbox 360 maker, with annual Gold subscription fees and sales of digital content combined, according to Bloomberg. Good news for… Bobby Kotick? According to Microsoft’s Dennis Durkin, the Xbox’s chief operating officer, sales of Live content like movies, TV shows, Avatar items…
EA Sports’ revival of arcade classic NBA Jam may have been pitched as a Wii “exclusive,” but Nintendo’s console might not be the only one to get the over the top basketball game. Germany’s ratings board, the UnterhaltungssoftwareSelbstkontrolle, has just approved EA’s new NBA Jam for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, two platforms for…
Time to slough off that awkward “Kotaku Off Topic” headline prefix, don’t you think? It’s too hot for that. But this is where we talk about anything and everything, from movies to video games to giant double rainbows. From what I hear out of Gawker HQ in New York City, it’s pretty hot out there.…
Germany’s Gamescom convention drew nearly a quarter million attendees last year. This year, there will be at least one major absence in the form of Sega. The Sonic the Hedgehog publisher is sitting out the show, citing a “commercial decision.” Sega’s decision to excuse itself from Gamescom, as confirmed with Sega Europe by VG247, is…
Streaming video service Hulu is coming to the PlayStation 3 this month in subscription form as Hulu Plus. And despite previous reports, you won’t need a second subscription to Sony’s PlayStation Plus service to enjoy it. According to Hulu’s support staff, a PlayStation Plus subscription is “only a requirement during the preview period” and will…
New games, like Monkey Island Special Edition 2 and Family Feud, may lead the North American PlayStation Store this week, but it’s the expansions to Modern Warfare 2, LittleBigPlanet and more that may drain your wallet. The PlayStation 3 version of the most recent Call of Duty gets its second map pack expansion alongside the…
The Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update continues, building up to its end-of-week release, with the Wrangler. If you’ve ever wanted manual control for your sentries and a shield to protect ’em, this is the item for you. The Engineer will swap his trusty pistol for the Wrangler, should he choose to equip it, which will…
Now that Sega’s Japanese gangster series is kicking its way to the PSP with Yakuza: Black Panther, Sega is obligated to make a custom case…. in faux patent alligator! It’s part of the Yakuza: Black Panther limited edition package. [Andriasang]
The people who make the PlayStation have received their share of flak for creating systems that were tougher to make games for than their competitors. That’s something PlayStation big boss Kaz Hirai wants to change. So says Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida, the man charged with guiding Sony’s internal PlayStation games development.…
Microsoft is kicking off its summertime Xbox Live Arcade push with the dark and lovely Limbo, wrapping it up with the Tomb Raider spin-off Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, dating even more downloadable hits through August. The Summer of Arcade download-fest stars on July 21 when Playdead’s puzzle platformer Limbo arrives. It’s great.…
Ubisoft’s new direction for Rayman, revealed at its wacky E3 2010 showing, will tell the story of “the birth of an uncontrollable eggplant in a crazy world” on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this holiday. But that’s not all… For only the first episode of Rayman Origins will make its way to “HD consoles”…
Irrationally excited for the return of Twisted Metal to the PlayStation? The PS3 sequel won’t be out until some time in 2011, but United Front Games’ ModNation Racers is going to make the wait slightly easier. Mr. Tooth will be joining the list of paid and fully authorized racers in the “Play. Create. Share.” PS3…
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