As it is wont to do, Nintendo dominated hardware sales in the United States in March, the Nintendo DS and Wii combining to move more than a million shiny new game machines last month. Topping the hardware list was the Nintendo DS with 700,800 units sold in March, no doubt thanks to impressive sales of…
March was a battle between one very pissed off Spartan, a girl named Lightning and too many Pokemon to count. Who came out on top in U.S. video game sales for the month of March? According to new figures from the NPD Group, God of War III was last month’s bestselling individual video game, moving…
First month figures for Final Fantasy XIII are in, with the North American version of Square Enix’s role-playing game epic moving more than 1.3 million copies in the United States. The vast majority of those were on the PlayStation 3. According to an early statement from Sony Computer Entertainment, the PS3 version of Final Fantasy…
It was kind of a barren wasteland for new releases for video game buying friends in Japan, just one new title sneaking into the week’s bestsellers games. Still, a little surprising to see New Super Mario Bros. Wii take first. Nintendo’s side-scroller for the Wii clearly has legs. New Super Mario Bros. Wii has been…
Lightgun fans, rejoice. Sega is adding to the arcade nostalgia for Wii owners—which is already home to its Ghost Squad and The House of the Dead 2 & 3 games—with two arcade shoot ’em ups you might remember. It looks like Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns, two big, brash shooters from the mid-1990s are coming…
Former Kotaku contributor Alice Taylor responds to Game Developer magazine’s choices for The Game Developer 50, which highlighted gaming’s “important accomplishments of the last year (give or take)… in the categories of art, design, programming, business, and evangelism.” Gamasutra have just posted their “The Game Developer 50“: a list of the most exciting games people…
Surely by now you’ve seen how well a cat can perform when faced with Noby Noby Boy and a virtual piano on an iPad. But what about a Welsh Corgi? Brace for massive head tilting and pure canine cowardice.
Hey, it’s Kotaku Off Topic, where we… aww, you’re probably playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live right now, aren’t you? Getting in those last few hours worth of original Xbox games. Fine, we’ll do tonight’s anything goes discussion without you! Hey, humans. Got any suggestions for artwork to liven up Kotaku Towers West? All I…
Steve Jobs? You’ve probably heard of him. Same with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. But what about the other 48 people on Game Developer’s list of “most important contributors to the current state of the game industry”? Game Developer’s list of the 50 people attached to “important accomplishments of the last year (give or take) [..]…
Japanese PlayStation 3 owners are already enjoying some of the TurboGrafx-16 library, courtesy of Hudson’s “PC Engine Archives” that let modern gamers experience a handful of 16-bit classics. One more console is being added to Hudson’s list: the SuperGrafx. According to a report from Andriasang, sci-fi shooter SuperGrafx title Battle Ace will come to the…
Tonight, original Xbox games goes offline when Microsoft pulls the plug on Xbox Live support for its last-generation console. Some stalwart Phantasy Star Universe players recently experienced the pain of losing their online connection. Sega announced its plans to take the PC and PlayStation 2 versions of Phantasy Star Universe offline in January of this…
European PlayStation 3 owners without the courage or wherewithal to import last year’s brilliant Demon’s Souls may be in luck. Namco Bandai appears to have picked up the brutal, dark role-playing game for your continent. A new listing at Germany’s Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle ratings board all but confirms the long nightmarish wait for Demon’s Souls for…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward continues its slow crumble today with the departure of two more key team members, sources close to the studio tell Kotaku. Longtime Infinity Ward employees Mark Grigsby and Paul Messerly have both left the studio, the team’s lead animator and lead character animator, respectively. Grigsby had…
Dragon Quest X, unsurprisingly, was not revealed today by Square Enix. Instead, another Dragon Quest Wii game was, Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road Victory, nary an X in sight. What is Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road Victory? It’s a Wii port of a Japanese arcade game, one that utilizes a trading card collecting mechanic that…
We’ve heard of sexual predators using Xbox Live as a means to stalk their prey and threaten the rare school shooting threat made over the Xbox 360 online network. But tampering with a witness sounds like a new one. According to a report from the New Haven Register, Anthony Hayward of Hamden, Connecticut was arrested…
Want to know how fast the new Fist of the North Star game loads? On PS3? Xbox 360? How about the Xbox 360 version with the game installed to the hard drive and downloadable content installed? Then watch this video. Some enterprising enthusiast of Tecmo Koei’s recently released Fist of the North Star (aka Hokuo…
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Will “Cyrus” Powers is the winner of the PlayStation Network’s first reality show, a contest called The Tester. His prize? A job, testing video games for Sony Computer Entertainment, which Powers will start on April 19. Powers and ten other hopefuls were the stars of The Tester, an eight episode series that ended its first…
Square Enix may be bringing its lovely looking Final Fantasy spin-off stateside, with the company trademarking The 4 Heroes Of Light, a still unofficially announced video game from the RPG publisher. More than likely, that’s the Western name (or part of the name) of Hikari no 4 Senshi: Final Fantasy Gaiden—a role-playing game that features…
Dragon Quest maker Square Enix has been awfully quiet about the series tenth game, announced in late 2008 for the Wii. Will a Japanese variety show featuring a man-egg finally reveal more about the highly anticipated Dragon Quest X? According to a posting on the blog for Japanese TV program Tama Newtown, spotted and translated…
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