This week’s batch of reviews proves that no site covers games prominently featuring women named Kasumi like Kotaku. Which Kasumi-starring experience, Mass Effect 2: Kasumi – Stolen Memory or Dead or Alive Paradise, did we dislike less? Find out! iPad Review: Is This A Capable Gaming System? In which Mike Fahey feels the magic of…
Mega-publisher Activision filed its counter-suit against two former top Modern Warfare game developers today, claiming that the pair purposely delayed Modern Warfare 3 and had designs to “steal the [Infinity Ward] studio.” What does the other side have to say? The attorney representing Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella call Activision’s allegations “false…
What do you get when you combine the shoot ’em up talents of Gears of War maker Epic Games and Painkiller creators People Can Fly? You get Bulletstorm, a futuristic first-person shooter that lets you play as a drunken pirate. Bulletstorm is that not-so-mysterious game from EA, Epic and People Can Fly, an all-new effort…
It’s Friday, officially the kick off of the weekend for those of us at Kotaku Towers, a chance to kick and play some video games. You know, for fun I’ll be playing two things this weekend, wrapping up God of War III (not pictured) on my PlayStation 3 and Astral Puzzle Meltdown (actually pictured) on…
This week’s new batch of downloadable tracks for Rock Band all have one thing in common. Did you catch it? The post-Easter releases from bands like Anberlin, Hawk Nelson and Skillet all fall under the “Christian rock” label. That’s a fact that wasn’t overtly publicized by MTV Games and Harmonix, who simply referred to the…
Who wants to talk about anything? You? Then get yourself into this Kotaku Off Topic post and chat, seek advice, find like-minded Kotaku readers or share with us some news that we missed. I won’t bore you with a long and involved intro, so make your way to the day’s off-topic links and dive into…
Developer Valve hasn’t announced a PlayStation 3 version of upcoming first-person puzzle game Portal 2—only Xbox 360, PC and Mac versions are official—but one magazine seems to think its coming, naming it among its “must-play PS3 games.” PSM3, an unofficial PlayStation-centric magazine from the UK, implies that Portal 2 is indeed coming to Sony’s current-generation…
You might have noticed that the week’s list of new retail releases is a little slow following the Easter holiday. The same is true for this week’s North American PlayStation Store update. There are two new playable games for the PSP in this week’s PlayStation Store refresh—King of Pool and Freekscape: Escape From Hell—but if…
It’s come down to this, the eighth exciting episode of PlayStation Network reality show The Tester, in which just three contestants are left in the fight for a PlayStation game testing gig. After the departure of Guitar Hero expert Star, the final three consists of Amped, Nauseous and Cyrus. Those PlayStation employee hopefuls will battle…
At least one PlayStation 3 owner has found the silver lining in Sony’s decision to axe the option to install other operating systems like Linux to the console, obtaining a rather substantial refund from Amazon.com for his PS3 purchase. European PS3 owner and NeoGAF forum moderator “iapetus” received more than $100 USD (£84.00) in credit…
Namco Bandai’s gory re-imagining of the 16-bit side-scrolling classic Splatterhouse will come with an unlockable bonus: three 16-bit side-scrolling classic Splatterhouse games. The latest issue of PlayStation: the Official Magazine brings good news for the serious Splatterhouse fan. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game will feature the original arcade version of Splatterhouse—the “uncensored Japanese”…
Metal Gear fans won’t have to settle for the limited edition (and garish) “spirited green” PSP when buying their Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker bundle. The superior “Big Boss” pack is also coming to U.S and Canada. It’s coming to the United States as a GameStop exclusive, which may be bad news to some of…
This week’s bestselling game in Japan, which we’ll call Etrian Odyssey III, keeps Tecmo Koei’s Fist of the North Star game (aka Hokuto Musou) from enjoying a second week in first place. Kenshiro can’t be too happy about that. Sekaiju no Meikyuu III: Seikai no Raihousha—aka Etrian Odyssey III—sold 88,000 copies in its first week…
Epic Games is planning to reveal its next video game within the week, debuting it on national television. Many are expecting it to be the third Gears of War. What might Gears of War 3 bring to the popular third-person shooter series? According to a new report from Edge, Gears of War 3 will introduce…
It’s been a while since we last heard from 4mm Games, Def Jam Interactive and Terminal Reality’s hip hop project Def Jam Rapstar, but there’s good news from the camp today. Konami has picked up the title for a fall release. The PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii game has a new buddy in rhythm…
Like the console version(s) of Cryptic’s superhero MMO Champions Online, Star Trek Online is having a hard time making the leap from PCs to consoles, as if it were caught in some sort of temporal distortion field, Captain. According to Videogamer, Cryptic’s massively multiplayer online take on the Star Trek universe is “on the back…
Music, comedy, jobs, cats, gadgets—these are just a few of the things you may want to talk about in tonight’s Kotaku Off Topic, but we won’t put limitations on you. Consider this post a sandbox-style entry! Me? I want to talk about Star Wars. After having relived some of the horror that is Star Wars:…
Tomorrow was supposed to be the day that Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski was to appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to debut the new Gears of… err… Epic’s new game. There’s been a change of plans. Mr. Huge will now appear on the late night talk show next Monday, April 12, game…
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