Some out loud thinking from Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto could be telling of Nintendo’s plans to dedicate more energy to and demand more money for online gaming through the Wii and Nintendo DS. Miyamoto tells Edge that the Wii maker is “desperate to realize” the core part of its online gaming biz. Should it follow…
Stop! Do not buy that copy of Call of Duty: World At War! If you really need a fix of World War II era shoot ‘em up action, cool your jets for this summer’s Call of Duty: The War Collection. Activision appears to be exploiting three of the Call of Duty franchise’s WWII-iest first-person shooters,…
PlayStation 3 do-it-yourself platformer LittleBigPlanet is getting a sequel, a fact confirmed by the latest issue of Game Informer magazine, which spills a sackful of new and fascinating details on developer Media Molecule’s next game. According to early details from the magazine from a NeoGAF forum member, LittleBigPlanet 2 is much more than just a…
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker may not have been the bestselling game in Japan this week, but its strong debut sales helped propel the PSP to the top of the charts (once again), doubling the portable’s sales. Consider the console war stalemate in Japan broken, thanks to Peace Walker’s debut. And, if you’re Microsoft, thank…
Happy Iron Man 2 opening weekend, Kotakus. While my own gaming plans may be up in the air for the weekend, I have at least one pop culture appointment already on the calendar. I won’t be playing Iron Man 2: The Video Game—Fahey will!—but I’ll be at the theater at some point this weekend to…
Footloose Dracula slayer Nick Hagman and his stuffed anipals have done it again. The man who bravely defeated Castlevania using nothing but his feet and a DDR dance mat has danced his way to another victory, defeating Super Mario Bros. Hagman puts his Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix controller to use once again on the…
While the botched “Engrish” translations in video games like Zero Wing, the Ninja Warriors and Metal Gear have provided us with years of amusement and long-running memes, officials in China are trying to stamp out mangled English. The New York Times reports on the Shanghai Commission for the Management of Language Use’s efforts to scrub…
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime believes that the soon to be released fighting game Photo Dojo might be the title that sells you on the XL-sized version of its Nintendo DSi. After competing in eight-player Photo Dojo tournament today, I’m not quite sold on dropping the $189 USD required to buy my fourth variation…
Who’s ready for a laugh? You? Good, then let’s do this Kotaku Off Topic, where we should really talk less about video games and more about laughs. My day has been full of ’em and they’re just going to continue. I was planning on dropping a few favorite jokes of mine in here, but realize…
With Mac users finally getting a crack at Valve’s Steam service—along with games like Portal and Counter-Strike—the developer will face a new challenge: the anal Mac UI enthusiast. Case in point, this Steam for Mac fan-made redesign. Designer Sebastiaan de With gives the current version of Steam for the Mac, still in beta, a once…
The canning of Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella was not a decision that Activision took lightly, says big boss Bobby Kotick, saying that the pair’s conduct was a disappointing “compromise of our friendship.” The man at the top of one of the world’s biggest video game publishers laid out Activision’s side of…
With Valve offering up weekly “Mutations” in its zombie apocalypse shooter Left 4 Dead 2, the gameplay variety will flow as thick as Boomer bile. But will Valve go this far out, adding Jockey races to the game? Jockey Riders is a fan made variation on Left 4 Dead 2’s sprint to the safe room…
The arrival of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker in Japan was outshone by the arrival of another big portable game, Square Enix’s Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2. It put Snake in his place—second—in this week’s contest. The latest Dragon Quest spin-off moved an impressive 624,000 copies in week one, outperforming Peace Walker’s still impressive 434,000…
The edgier, more epic Mickey Mouse adventure coming to the Wii later this year is also making the leap to print. Don’t just play Disney’s Epic Mickey project… read it! A pair of Epic Mickey books are planned for release after the Disney video game, one of which sounds like a straight up novelization with…
Ready the hype engines. Set your expectations to their loftiest, for Nintendo Power is tormenting early subscribers of the mag with a forthcoming reveal of a “huge new title” to debut right around E3 2010. “Next issue’s going to be a big one,” teases the Nintendo focused mag. “In addition to an exclusive cover story…
Things are starting to warm up at Kotaku Towers West, so let’s cool things down with some uncool conversation. Whether it be about video games, science, toys, literature or vampire bats, this post is down with what you’re into. I’ve been watching a lot of vampire related media lately, thanks to a new run through…
So says THQ bossman Brian Farrell, who calms one of our fears about Sony and Microsoft’s venture into the motion control space with PlayStation Move and Project Natal, respectively. His company, at least, sounds uninterested in straight up Wii ports. Well, mostly. Farrell said on bringing its Wii games to new motion controllers for the…
Here it is, kids. The final major Team Fortress 2 character updates (for now). The last-in-line Engineer is due for his big makeover and Valve has officially upgraded our anticipation to Tier 3 with a new teaser. In an update to its celebration of 119 Team Fortress 2 updates, Valve has engineered this brief clip…
If hoodies and t-shirts aren’t going to cut the mustard for your next big Tron cosplay, you have better options: either make your own or have the woman who made Daft Punk’s light-up costumes design it for you. Janet Hansen runs Enlighted Designs a custom clothing company that specializes in the type of glowing get…
Mavis Beacon may be the world’s most famous typing teacher, but her indie cred pales in comparison to Adam Atomic and the nameless jumpman of Canabalt, which now features a white-knuckle edutainment mode. The beautifully minimal Canabalt now offers a handful of new control options in its Flash-based online version—trying to learn typing on the…
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