Sony’s PlayStation Portable is still the bestselling (and worst selling) piece of hardware in Japan, moving another 37,000 PSPs of standard variety and nearly another 1300 of the “go” variety. The PSP secured the top spot on the hardware chart once again, in part thanks to the release of chart topper Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen…
Welcome back to Kotaku Off Topic, the nightly not-always-about-video games post that is sometimes about pop culture, sometimes about current events, and sometimes about food. The nightly Kotaku Off Topic post often hits as my dinner plans are forming, so forgive me for Twitter caliber “this is what I will be eating tonight” entries. But…
Tough guy simulator Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen Sensou is Japan’s bestselling video game, the latest entry in the series that has made its way stateside under the name Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble. It dethrones Capcom’s Biohazard 5 re-release this week. While Biohazard 5 Alternative Edition (aka Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition) couldn’t hold onto first…
This week’s North American PlayStation Store update is a good week to both familiarize yourself with Avalanche Studios’ Just Cause 2, one of three new demos, and to catch up on previous PlayStation Network releases. While the PlayStation 3 offerings might be a little slim, the PSP platform is swimming in new releases, including the…
Thank god it’s Thursday, when new episodes of the PlayStation Network’s only reality show, The Tester, brings us new trials, fresh tears and one less contestant vying for a QA position at Sony. Oh! It also brings our weekly liveblog. Don’t worry, above the fold Kotaku readers, we won’t spoil the outcome of previous week…
What is considered out of bounds for the God of War series? It’s not violence, as players will decapitate and eviscerate enemies with gory, glorious detail. It’s not sex, either, as God of War III continues the series’ naughty mini-game tradition. It’s the laughs. “If we start laughing,” God of War III director Stig Asmussen…
Original Xbox games will no longer be playable over Xbox Live as of April 15, but Microsoft is easing the pain of Halo 2 players by offering “avid” players free stuff and a shot at the Halo: Reach beta. Several Kotaku readers have received word from the Xbox Live Team, breaking the bad news about…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony will release a new smart phone “capable of downloading and playing PlayStation games” later this year, as well as a competitor to Apple’s iPad that may also play PSone titles. The Journal notes that the original PlayStation game-playing smart phone is being developed by Sony and mobile handset…
The lawsuit filed against Activision by two ex-Infinity Ward leads alleges that the publisher of its Modern Warfare games carried out an “Orwellian,” “pre-ordained” investigation designed to “manufacture a basis to fire” them in order to avoid paying them bonuses. That suit, filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on March 3, was filed by…
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 producer Gordon Van Dyke joined our illustrious hosts, Brian Crecente and Stephen Totilo, in yesterday’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio to talk about DICE’s latest video game… and, oh, so much more The good news, should you have missed the rare opportunity to call in live and speak with Mr. Van…
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Greetings, people who have interests that are not solely centered on video games. Thanks for sticking with us during our previous 32 video game related posts. Here’s that Kotaku Off Topic opportunity you’ve been waiting for. I was thinking about Doogie Howser, M.D. earlier today, a show that I may have religiously watched from pilot…
Electronic Arts has recently upped its efforts to dissuade gamers from purchasing used copies of games in the form of rewards for “original purchasers” of games like The Saboteur, Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2. Who’s next? You, Take-Two? In an industry starved for original ideas on par with EA’s “Cerberus Network” and other…
Sega and Platinum Games have released first screens of their upcoming third-person shooter Vanquish, the new action title from Resident Evil and God Hand director Shinji Mikami. They’re pretty. Bayonetta pretty. The “speedy” shooter—as clearly evidenced by the employ of motion blur—with a “high-tension” battle system is bound for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360…
Publisher Ubisoft’s latest attempt to curb piracy of its PC games, making its debut appearance in submarine sim Silent Hunter 5, has allegedly been cracked by “sceners” the day after its release. Ubi’s new anti-piracy measure, which will also be employed in the upcoming PC version of Assassin’s Creed II, requires that users maintain a…
2K’s BioShock sequel is off to a good start. Take-Two Interactive announced today that the 2K Marin-developed BioShock 2 has surpassed 3 million in sales since its release on the Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3. Good job, Mr. Bubbles. That’s a positive step in the BioShock 3 direction, with BioShock 2 quickly catching up…
Let the games begin. Again. Valve has whipped the Portal community into a fresh frenzy with one more update to the PC version of the first-person puzzle game. What does the the developer have in store this time? Officially, it has “Added valuable asset retrieval.” So… there you go? No new achievements, but the Steam…
Take-Two Interactive has a very busy fiscal fourth quarter, pegging four big games, L.A. Noire, Mafia II, Max Payne 3 and Sid Meier’s Civilization V, for release between August and October. However, one of those games might not make it. That means another delay for Mafia II, a title that isn’t new to having its…
Is Valve finally ready to make the switch and support Mac OS X? A recent update to Steam hinted at it, now it’s time for the Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress developer to be more blunt about it. The developer has released a series of images “in anticipation of an upcoming announcement from…
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