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echoshift Timed For PlayStation Store Release This Week
The PlayStation Portable’s spin-off of the equally puzzling echochrome, echoshift will be making an appearance on the North American PlayStation Store this Thursday. The PSP-exclusive game plays with one’s perspective on time in a way that its predecessor for the PlayStation 3 and PSP did with one’s perspective on… well, perspective. The game’s time-shifting and…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 23, 2010 -
God Of War III Is Installation Free
Your inevitable purchase of God Of War III won’t inflict massive damage on your available hard drive space. The highly anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusive will be one of the console’s games that doesn’t require a hard drive install. So says Christer Ericson, director of technology at Sony Santa Monica, a person in position to know.…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 23, 2010 -
Kotaku Off-Topic: D-FENS
Let’s all just relax with a big swig of Kotaku Off Topic, shedding our individual cases of the Mondays with some random chatter, whether it be video game related or not. Like, we could even talk about traffic. See, I spent a little time on the road today, a trip down the 101 to the…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 22, 2010 -
Reviews
Plants Vs. Zombies iPhone Micro-Review: Touch The Dead
PopCap Games’ unlikely match up between the walking dead and the powerful flora that keeps your brains and well-kept lawn intact is more than just an attention-grabbing title. Plants Vs. Zombies is simply an excellent “tower defense” game. And now it’s on the iPhone. Trading towers and cannons for stalks and stems, Plants Vs. Zombies…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 22, 2010 -
PlayStation Network, iPhone Getting A Kick-Ass Game
The movie based on the Mark Millar created comic book series Kick-Ass is getting its own adaptation in the form of a video game for the PlayStation Network and iPhone. It will be simply Kick-Ass. IGN reports that WHA Entertainment will be handling the downloadable Kick-Ass game, which should follow the same kids-turned-super heroes plot,…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 22, 2010 -
Valve: No “Tiresome” Zombie Decapitating Mini-Games For Natal, Promise
Half-Life and Portal developer Valve won’t be getting into the shitty mini-game business with the advent of Microsoft’s Project Natal for the Xbox 360, at least not if Left 4 Dead lead Chet Faliszek has anything to do with it. Despite expressing a fondness for the camera add-on, Faliszek tells CVG that Valve won’t be…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 22, 2010 -
Visceral Games Has Some XBLA, PSN Games In The Works Too
Fresh off the release of Dante’s Inferno and with plenty of time between now Dead Space 2’s release, developer Visceral Games has other unannounced titles in the works for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network to keep them busy. Visceral general manager Nick Earl tells Gamasutra that the developer famed for its Dead Space games…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 22, 2010 -
Project Natal’s Lag, As Judged By Stopwatch
Microsoft’s controller-free add-on Project Natal may be perfect for virtual painting and hyperactive ball-swatting, but is it responsive enough for something more intense? What does MTV’s stopwatch tell us? The MTV Multiplayer folks performed a little stopwatch-based survey of Project Natal’s real-life movement to on-screen movement interpretation capabilities, deeming that the average lag time was…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 22, 2010 -
Kotaku-Tan, The T-Shirt For The Kotaku Fan
It’s been a long time since we’ve had Kotaku tees for sale… But now we have Kotaku-tan. Based on the moe anthropomorphism style of 2chan’s OS-tans—or if you prefer, console-style-tans—Kotaku-tan taps into references that are probably familiar to the longtime reader: the friendly Pointer Fish, our unhealthy love of cake, the ‘K’ logo, the… um……
By Michael McWhertor Published February 22, 2010 -
Fret Nice Isn’t Your Only XBLA Game of the Week
Fans of the weekly downloadable Xbox Live Arcade offering will have more than just guitar controller based platforming to enjoy starting Wednesday, as puzzle platforming and online multiplayer strategy gaming combine for 2800 Microsoft Points-worth of new games. Sure, Fret Nice isn’t so new, as PlayStation 3 owners will have been enjoying Tecmo and Pieces…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 22, 2010 -
See Command & Conquer 4 Get “Grittier & Darker”
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is taking a turn for the more serious, away from the B-list celebrity cameo driven novelty of some of its ancestors. Watch this new teaser of EA’s forthcoming real-time strategy game for a taste.
By Michael McWhertor Published February 20, 2010 -
Drop Serious Cash On Into The Pixel Art, Now On eBay
Video game-loving spendthrifts may want to earmark a few spare hundreds to bid on this year’s Into The Pixel auction, the artistic charitable endeavor that runs alongside the annual DICE summit. The former silent auction has been taken to eBay. That means the furious bidding previously only available to video game industry members at DICE…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 19, 2010 -
Kotaku Off Topic: Follow Friday
Welcome to the weekend, Kotaku Off Topic followers. It’s Friday night, Kotaku time, and having just got paid—let’s just assume—we’re sure you’re just ready to cut loose with some on or off topic talk. Since the Twitter tradition is to suggest people of interest to follow their every move, and since I spent plenty of…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 19, 2010 -
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight Hands On: A Less Cheesy Three-way Dip
There will be no celebrity cameos, no professional wrestlers tackling men in bear costumes anywhere in Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, the planned final chapter in EA’s real-time strategy Tiberium saga. But there will be plenty of Kane. While thousands of gamers were playing the long-anticipated StarCraft II beta earlier this week, we were…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 19, 2010 -
Review Round-Up: Week Over, Man! Week Over!!
Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen, because this week’s batch of original Kotaku reviews is in the pipe, five by five. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean, but hey, we reviewed Aliens Vs. Predator this week. We also reviewed all of the following games, some of which involve guns, plus one movie…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 19, 2010 -
Atari’s Missile Command Bound For The Big Screen?
Missile Command rights holder Atari is banking on Hollywood’s creatively bankrupt studios to warm to a movie based on the 30-year-old trackball game in which missiles are commanded and cities are saved. The LA Times reports that Atari is in “active discussions with studios” to option the rights to Missile Command as a film, hinting…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 19, 2010 -
New PSPgo Owners Get Assassin’s Creed or LittleBigPlanet Free*
Are you ready to take the digital download-only plunge? If so, Sony will reward new PSPgo owners with one of two free games, handing out a complementary copy of either the portable port of LittleBigPlanet or Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines. That’s $39.99 USD worth of game, which might make the $249.99 USD asking price of Sony’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 19, 2010 -
Japan’s Hardware War Feeling A Little Too Comfortable
The Japanese hardware market has found a groove, the PSP, Wii and Nintendo DS platform continuing to dominate that charts, the PSPgo untouchable in its abilities to hold tightly onto last place. This week’s tally of winners and losers in the Japanese console war looks remarkably like last week’s (and the week before), making hardware…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 19, 2010
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