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Jimi Hendrix Is Coming To Rock Band In A Bold Way Next Week
Rock Band is getting a powerful hit of Jimi Hendrix starting next week. No, we mean it this time. The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s second album, Axis: Bold As Love, will be downloadable and playable starting on March 30. Harmonix and MTV Games will be releasing “a wave of downloadable content” from Hendrix’s catalog, Rolling Stone…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 25, 2010 -
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Co-op In Hot Three-way Action
We’ve already seen double the Snake-sneaking action in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, perhaps the Biggest Deal to hit the PSP this summer. What about three Snakes buddying up for “super co-op weapon Railgun” thrills? Yes, we’ve seen two, now we see three, and we’re sure to see four Snakes/Big Bosses teaming up for cooperative…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 25, 2010 -
Yakuza 4 Stomps The Competition With Its Gleaming White Shoes
As long as Japanese gamers keep buying Yakuza games at this rate, Sega’s going to keep making them. The latest chapter in Sega’s Japanese gangster series just put a hurt on the competition to the tune of 384,000 copies sold. That’s enough to kick Nintendo’s latest Pokemon spin-off, Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki, from first…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 25, 2010 -
Virtual On, Geometry Wars Xbox Live Arcade Deals Incoming
Please do not purchase a copy of Virtual On Oratorio Tangram on Xbox Live this week. You’ll regret it. Sega’s hi-def remake of the mech on mech arcade fighter is going to be much cheaper next week. Microsoft laid out its plans for Xbox Live Arcade deals of the week, warning latecomers that Cyber Troopers…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 24, 2010 -
Kotaku Off Topic: Beat It
Welcome to the nightly off-topic discussion on Kotaku, which we call Kotaku Off Topic. What’s on the menu tonight? Everything. While you’re chatting off-topically, I’ll be away at a dinner for a friend, a going away party for someone en route to greener pastures. I’ll also be doing my best attempt at avoiding Lost spoilers,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2010 -
F.3.A.R.: They’re Really Calling It That?
The third entry in Monolith Productions’ F.E.A.R. franchise may be getting its big reveal in the next month, as foretold by a teaser in an unnamed Spanish language gaming magazine. The supposed name of that game? F.3.A.R. Carrying on the proud tradition of replacing numbers for letters, as popularized by games like Driv3r, Wip3out and…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2010 -
WarioWare: D.I.Y.’s Monster Manual: A Thick Primer On Micro-game Making
If you plan on picking up WarioWare: D.I.Y. next week—with or without a shiny new Nintendo DSi XL to go along with it—get ready to do some heavy reading, thanks to the game’s bulky instruction booklet. A copy of WarioWare: D.I.Y. just showed up here at Kotaku Towers West (sans gigantic sandwich) and it may…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2010 -
Who’s Responsible For The Game Industry’s Worst Decisions? Indie Man!
Ever wondered who was responsible for Tony Hawk Ride’s skateboard controller? Rock Band: Green Day? Every other headscratching boardroom meeting concept? Meet Indie Man, hero to independent game developers and the enemy to the corporate video game establishment! (This was one of Mega 64’s many contributions to this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2010 -
Trinity Universe Brings Pure PS3 RPG Obscurity To America, Europe
PlayStation 3 owners with a deep, deep appreciation for the art of the Japanese role-playing game will be delighted to learn that NIS America will bring Trinity Universe to North America and Europe this summer. If you’re a casual fan of the JRPG—and somehow missed the original announcement of Trinity Universe—that’s the crossover game co-developed…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2010 -
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Goes Unexpectedly Pop
The next Metal Gear Solid game gets its most unexpected preview clip yet with the sugary sweet pop stylings of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker’s Paz, singing the character theme “Love Deterrence.” Can’t say we saw this one coming. No, it’s not that kind of pop, but it’s just as cloyingly sweet, feeling a little…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2010 -
Left 4 Dead 2’s “The Passing” Adds New Game Modes. Plural.
The first add-on for zombie apocalypse shooter Left 4 Dead 2 may be more expansive than Valve originally lead us to believe. A new update on the downloadable campaign “The Passing” promises new “game modes.” Buried at the bottom of an announcement about a midweek deal on the full version of Left 4 Dead 2—it’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2010 -
Electronic Arts May Have Just Killed The New Syndicate (Or Its Bourne Game)
Starbreeze Studios, developers of The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick, were working on two projects for EA. Now it’s working on one, a potentially bad sign for Syndicate—or Jason Bourne—fans hoping that “Project RedLime” would reinvent the franchise. EA and Starbreeze had partnered to work on two games, one based on Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2010 -
Report: Nintendo 3DS Also Has “3D Joystick,” Force Feedback & More
Nintendo’s fifth generation version of its wildly popular Nintendo DS hardware, the Nintendo 3DS, comes with more than just the power to display 3D images. It also comes with a new joystick and force feedback, according to one report. Fortunately, that report is from the typically reliable Nikkei, who writes that Nintendo “plans to give…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2010 -
Mr. Driller Drops In On DSiWare In April
Namco Bandai is sending Mr. Driller to the land of DSiWare, pegging the next entry in the puzzle series, Mr. Driller: Drill Till You Drop for a release on the Nintendo DSi download service in April. You know the… erm, drill. Work your way through multi-colored blocks, rack up the chains and try your best…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2010 -
Kotaku Off Topic: Life With Oprah Winfrey
It’s Kotaku Off Topic. What we do here is talk about things that don’t necessarily related to video games, but we also don’t discriminate. On or off topic, the conversation is up to you. One thing I’m curious about, however, is how many Kotaku Off Topic readers and commenters watched the North American airing of…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2010 -
Reviews
Perfect Dark Micro-review: Elvis Has Re-entered The Building
Rare’s Nintendo 64 shooter Perfect Dark gets a high-definition makeover for Xbox Live Arcade, the lovely and talented special agent Joanna Dark looking ten years better than she did in her first-person shooter debut. Is Dark still “perfect”? Perfect Dark for XBLA doesn’t attempt to modernize the decade-old original beyond improving its visual fidelity and…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2010 -
When Halo Meets Gundam: The Master Chief Zaku
Model hobbyist and Gundam fan Angelo Guibone’s custom Master Chief Zaku crossover not only appeals to two camps, its will probably appear in a proposal for Microsoft Tecmo Koei’s Halo: Dynasty Warriors: Gundam: Combat Evolved at some point. In more serious matters—this hasn’t happened yet? I see more than one Master Chief custom Transformer out…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2010 -
Will The Next Zelda Game Change Based On Your Pulse?
Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto may be toying with new ways to shake up The Legend of Zelda, adding more than just Wii MotionPlus support for the next adventure of Link. Is he also considering Wii Vitality Sensor-based gameplay? While Miyamoto didn’t confirm whether the next Wii Zelda game would feature pulse-pounding, biometrics-based additions, he…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2010 -
Master Thief Joins The Mass Effect 2 Ranks In April For $7
BioWare further detailed its latest batch of Mass Effect 2 downloadable content today, locking down a price for the “Kasumi – Stolen Memory” add-on, a $7 USD purchase that lets players recruit master thief Kasumi Goto and her “special skills.” The new Stolen Memory DLC will cost, officially, 560 Microsoft Points on the Xbox 360,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2010
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