Drink up, kids. It’s time for Kotaku Off Topic, a chance to get anything and everything off your chest, video game related or otherwise. Like your thing for elves for example. I don’t actually have a thing for elves, but I know a guy who does. It may have had something to do with his…
It may not have been a week as rich with reviews as the previous one, but with Iron Man 2, Lost Planet 2 and more in today’s round up, there are some can’t miss video game reviews within. Iron Man 2 Review: A Rusted Development In which Mike Fahey hurls complaints at the guy wearing…
For better or worse, that someday is coming this month, thanks to a bizarre, some might say stylish way to house one’s computer, sure to be the hit at your next LAN party. Taiwanese computer case maker Lian Li will begin selling the Mini-ITX T1 Spider later this month, a product that’s more of a…
In more good news for the PC gaming set, Lionhead’s “touchy” action RPG Fable III may be coming to a computer running Windows near you. That’s according to the game’s Xbox 360 box art, which… hey look, Fable III box art! If Fable III’s box art is accurate, that may help back up previous reports…
Fans of the Japanese style role-playing game, particularly the long-running Ys series, have XSEED Games to thank for bringing a long list of developer Falcom’s games stateside, breathing new life into the PSP. XSEED has inked a deal with Nihon Falcom to bring Ys Seven, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, Ys I & II Chronicles…
After a bit too much of the same old, same old, this week’s contest in the Japanese console war shakes things up, with the Wii and Nintendo DSi gaining ground against the PlayStation family. Like last week, however, the PSP stays on top, thanks to continued strong sales of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The…
PC gamers who felt burned by the decision to drop dedicated server support for Modern Warfare 2 may have a friend in that other Call of Duty developer Treyarch. The developer all but confirms dedicated server multiplayer in Black Ops. Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia tells CVG that dedicated servers are “excellent” and that the…
Who’s up for some horsing around? Me! I’ll be back in the saddle this weekend as I play through Rockstar Games’ latest, Red Dead Redemption. Expect to see me on Xbox Live a lot this weekend. Such will be my time “off,” lassoing and six-gunning my way through the world of Red Dead Redemption. Frankly,…
Too few chesty Valkyria Chronicles statues on display in your bedroom, workplace or dungeon lair? Japanese figure maker Alter’s take on Selvaria Bles will remedy that! We’ve already seen Alter’s top heavy Selvaria in prototype form, but here it is in its near final form, ready to pre-order. This is 10,290 yen worth of finely…
Did you know that the first off topic thread was posted by the ancient Sumerians? Yeah, little known fact. Just the type of trivia we like to talk about in Kotaku Off Topic. Here’s another little factoid. I’m viciously competitive when it comes to contests of trivia. Jeopardy, Trivial Pursuit, Buzz, pub quizzes and the…
In advance of the Xbox 360 game’s release, Alan Wake developer Remedy brings word that the first downloadable add-on episode for the suspenseful adventure will arrive in July. It’ll be free, provided you have a new copy of Alan Wake. Keep your Alan Wake “token card” in a safe place, Xbox 360 owners, because it…
The same kind of touchscreen-controlled, widget-enabled technology that lets us customize and personalize devices like the iPad and Android-powered phones could be coming to your car dashboard. Naturally, we’re thinking “So, what kind of games can we play on it?” The New York Times’ Wheels blog takes a look at one offering from Cisco that…
Instead, appreciate the photorealism of Crytek’s New York set sequel, which looks a lot like this in-game—provided you have the hardware to make Crysis 2 run this well, of course. Crysis 2 is suiting up for a release on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year, some time during EA’s third quarter.…
This brand new look at the sequel to Level 5’s so-so Japanese role-playing game certainly looks to ramp up the excitement, the big bad guys and the JRPG cliches. But White Knight Chronicles 2 will do it in style. This is our first longform look at the PlayStation 3 sequel since its Tokyo Game Show…
The Wii and Nintendo DS killed the competition in the United States last month, partly because the other hardware makers didn’t put up much of a fight. It was, bluntly, an ugly month for video game sales. The Nintendo DS, with a little help from those lovable Pokemon, easily dominated the NPD Group’s sales chart,…
Sam Fisher used little stealth in his slaying of the competition in April, with Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction clearly visible at the top of April’s bestselling games list, according to the NPD Group. Ubisoft’s Xbox 360 exclusive Splinter Cell beat out the latest Pokemon games for the Nintendo DS and New Super Mario Bros.…
Platinum Games’ good witch Bayonetta gets the pin-up treatment from comic book artist Adam Hughes—”I have no idea what they are using it for,” he says—in a piece commissioned by Sega. As seen (larger) at Hughes’ deviantArt page.
Snake will settle for second place again this week in the battle of Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The two portable games sit comfortably atop the country’s weekly sales chart. The two games hold spots one and two again, with a string of Nintendo favorites—New Super Mario Bros. Wii,…
It’s more than a miserable little pile of gems—it’s Konami’s new puzzle role-playing game for the iPhone, featuring some of the most memorable characters from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Yeah, we weren’t expecting this either. Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night gives the star of Symphony of the Night, Alucard, a chance to dispatch…
With close to half of the team at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward bailing on the troubled developer, publisher Activision appears to have found a new source for Call of Duty development. Raven Software, the developer of sci-fi shooters Wolfenstein and the recently completed Singularity, has been pulled off its current…
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