Welcome to the February 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of the best original coverage, including reviews, previews, features, weekly columns and more, from Kotaku. Don’t miss our reporting from this year’s DICE summit, where video game industry vets reveal secrets about their games and speak frankly about the industry. For…
Disney held a special screening in Los Angeles today, giving us a sneak peek at the brand new Tron Legacy theatrical trailer, a brief return to the video game world of 1982 computer graphics landmark Tron. Then we saw it again. While other cities held their own Tron Legacy events today, offering a painfully quick…
Thank goodness it’s Friday. And thank the heavens for Kotaku Off Topic, where non-video game related conversation kicks off the weekend, a chance to let off some steam about whatever subject is on your mind. No dilly-dallying. This is an open topic, yours for the steering. Here are a few things to get the conversation…
This is Rittai Kakushi e Attakoreda, a DSiWare game that makes brilliant use of the Nintendo DSi’s built-in cameras to control an in-game camera that lets the player explore a 3D diorama to find hidden objects. The downloadable game, right now for Japan only, comes courtesy of Wario Land: Shake It! developer Good-Feel. As one…
Next week’s batch of Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and LEGO Rock Band downloadable tracks leads with mood rockers Disturbed, who bring more of The Sickness to Harmonix and MTV Games’ music game. A three pack of Disturbed tracks will come to various Rock Band games (but not the family friendly LEGO spin-off), with tracks…
Atlus is bringing From Software’s 3D Dot Game Heroes to North America this May, a PlayStation 3 exclusive adventure that’s full of tiny, blocky, brave adventurers sporting monster blades and here are six scorching shots full of huge hard steel. Oh, and one rare fish. For a quick video primer on just what 3D Dot…
It was a week infested with zombies, Nazi zombies and micro-reviews, the smaller format reserved for Kotaku reviews of downloadable video games and downloadable game add-ons. It was also the week that featured our first massive-review. That would have been Mike Fahey’s review and four week long log of massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star…
Specifically the Eegra version, as seen in Xbox Live Indie Games release Avatar Showdown.
Hello Games’ Joe Danger is on a very, very short list of downloadable games that we’re unreasonably excited about here at Kotaku, a game that got its first official video showing during last night’s GameTrailers TV. While Joe Danger may not have gotten the airtime that Kratos did on the show’s God of War III…
After a long day in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, one builds up a big Orcish thirst. The best way to quench said thirst? Drinking your beverage of choice (mead, ale, blood, etc.) from an officially licensed WAR stein. Those lager or Mountain Dew-holding steins can be pre-purchased as of right now, one in Order…
The PlayStation family bookends this week’s Media Create hardware sales chart thanks to strong sales of Biohazard 5 Alternative Edition and God Eater, as well as dwindling sales of the PlayStation 2 and PSPgo. Sony’s PSP and PlayStation 3 secure spots one and two on this week’s Japanese hardware chart, each platform giving a bit…
Despite how former Sega mascot Alex Kidd looks in Sega & Sonic All-Stars Racing—a little off, in my opinion—I’ll be racing my hardest to unlock the paper-rock-scissors expert in the game this weekend. Somehow, Sega & Sonic All-Stars Racing has taken hold of me, presumably because of its well-distributed Achievements and its appeal to the…
Remember when someone stared at Super Mario Galaxy’s logo a little too long, deciphering the hidden message “U R MR GAY” cleverly encoded by Nintendo’s cheeky box art designers? Well, Nintendo has nipped that in the bud for the sequel. While the first Super Mario Galaxy logo featured twinkling star placement that some found suspiciously…
This edition of Kotaku Off Topic is definitely not about video games. I mean, there is a Mac at the top of the post, which should make that pretty obvious. It can, of course, be about anything. But since I just got a new iMac from the FedEx man today it can be about recent…
Mass Effect 2 owners—specifically, original owners—will get all new downloadable content via the game’s Cerberus Network, with five new missions coming next month in the “Firewalker” pack. The downloadable mission pack features the Hammerhead heavy assault vehicle prominently, one that “hovers over the battlefield at up to 120 kilometers per hour and features a guided…
Hurry, get yourself to your PlayStation 3 and download the God of War III demo before everyone else starts putting a hurtin’ on the PlayStation Network. Actually, there’s a lot of new stuff on the PlayStation Store this week. The North American version of the store has the new PSone Classic Grandia, plus that Darksiders…
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Jack Tretton seems incredibly pleased with Heavy Rain’s reception with PlayStation 3 owners, saying that the newly released game’s pre-sales were “off the charts,” underscoring that there’s no need yet for a PlayStation 4. Tretton tells Fast Company that the next generation of the PlayStation family won’t arrive until there’s a…
PlayStation Network reality show The Tester enters its second week, with just nine contestants vying for a Sony Computer Entertainment America QA testing job and no hope for cancellation. The newest episode “Communication Breakdown” is now live. Let’s watch! For those who may have missed last week’s debut episode, two contestants were eliminated, the bevested…
Atari is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Missile Command this year, offering up one more playable version of the venerable city defense twitch game, this time online and totally free. Missile Command fans and the reader looking to lose a few hours to a quality Flash game should try out OMGPOP’s take on the tried…
Gosh! It’s been a while since we’ve heard about the PlayStation Network port of The Behemoth’s Castle Crashers. The game is still coming (whew!), reassures the game’s developer, making that reassurance sweeter with the addition of volleyball mini-games(!!!). Castle Crashers in its PlayStation 3 form will coming with the most robust volleyball addition The Behemoth…
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