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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Zombies are trying to eat me and my neighbors, an attack that I’ll be fending off with various plants, seeds and fungi this weekend. That’s right. It’s Plants Vs. Zombies time. On my iPhone! I’ve been playing the iPhone port of PopCap’s brilliant “tower defense” strategy game for the past couple days, a trend I…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 19, 2010 -
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Makes Your VF5R Petition Obsolete
Update your Virtua Fighter 5R petitions—specifically this one—fighting game fans, because Sega has one more version of its Virtua Fighter franchise prepped for Japanese arcades. Meet Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown. Debuting at this week’s AOU show in Tokyo, the newest iteration of Virtua Fighter 5 packs in a ton of new costumes, new animations…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
Kotaku Off Topic: Condensed
Welcome to Kotaku Off Topic. Are you busy watching the Interactive Achievement Awards? No? Would you like to talk about something not particularly video game related? This post is your chance. I am watching the Interactive Achievement Awards which is currently blazing through a bunch of awards like visual engineering awards and game play engineering.…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
Watch The Video Game Industry’s “Oscars” Online Right Now
Couldn’t make it this year’s DICE Summit, but still want to bask in Jay Mohr jokes and watch Interactive Achievement Awards handed out to gaming luminaries? You can do so right now, as the awards show is now streaming online. The video game industry’s equivalent of the Academy Awards, the Interactive Achievement Awards is being…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
Liveblogging The Tester: We Watch Episode 1 So You Don’t Have To
The first episode of the PlayStation Network reality show is here and I’m about to watch all 23 glorious minutes of eleven people fighting for a QA position at Sony Computer Entertainment. Now who has the dream job?! I’ve downloaded the 995 MB episode, in high definition, of course, to see just how entertaining The…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
PlayStation Store Update: Kazuma Kiryu & Ryo Hazuki All-Stars Racing
Sega offers double the demo in this week’s North American PlayStation Store update, with the Yakuza 3 and Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing demos leading the charge of new and interesting things to download to your PlayStation 3. If you’re into downloadable content add-ons for games that you already own, the Assassin’s Creed II “Bonfire…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
Mario, Built From The Corpses Of Broken Skateboards
What can one build from the shattered frames of well used skateboards? If you’re the artist Haroshi, you can build some lovely looking Mario sculptures and skateboarding themed mosaics, not to mention some strong desire to own these works. Japanese artist Haroshi has transformed the snapped, cracked and worn out skate deck into something more…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
These Are The Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XIII Shots You Were Looking For
Last week, Square Enix released new screen shots of Final Fantasy XIII in both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 flavors, sparking a bit of console-centered controversy, due to their clearly doctored nature. Now we’re getting a proper comparison. The previous batch of in-game screens were “mistakenly” released in Square Enix’s asset update for the forthcoming…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
Free Copies Of Red Faction For Every* Darksiders Owner
Even if Darksiders owners didn’t have that special “mystery” coupon that was previously required to secure a free copy of Red Faction Guerrilla, they can still snag a complementary copy of THQ’s Martian shooter. There is, of course, an asterisk. THQ and Vigil are opening up the free copy of Red Faction Guerrilla floodgates to…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
Japan Still Gorging On God Eater
The Monster Hunter-aping formula of God Eater gives the PlayStation Portable its second week atop the Japanese games sales charts, once again proving that hunting big bosses with giant weapons on Sony’s handheld is the path to success. God Eater and regular bestsellers such as Dragon Quest VI and New Super Mario Bros. Wii outsold…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
Final Fantasy XIII – Xbox 360 Screens
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
Kotaku Off Topic: The After School Special
Welcome to a time traveling edition of Kotaku Off Topic, a little late due to an appointment at Electronic Arts Los Angeles, where strategy games are made. Do you want to talk about strategy games? How about illicit drugs? Because I can’t talk about strategy games just yet. But I can tell you I was…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2010 -
Assassin’s Creed II PC’s DRM Sounds As Pleasant As A Stab In The Neck
We’ve known for sometime that Ubisoft’s plans to curb piracy on the PC will include a required internet connection to play the publisher’s games, including the upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed II. But we didn’t know it was this unsavory. We’ve known that there is no “off-line” option, as clearly specified in Ubisoft’s online services…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2010 -
Our Weekly Podcast Is Now Ready To Download In Full 360
Did you miss the live version of today’s Kotaku Talk Radio call-in podcast? Download it now to hear what Xbox 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg has to say, then subscribe so that you don’t ever miss it again. Me? I’m downloading it right now, as I missed today’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio, in which…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2010 -
God Eater’s Brand Of Divine Hack ‘n’ Slash Action Coming To America
Namco Bandai’s Monster Hunter-like action adventure game for the PSP, God Eater, full of big guns, big swords and big deities, is coming to North America. And it’s doing so thanks to D3Publisher, not Namco Bandai. Thanks, D3Publisher! The action adventure game promises more than 100 “exciting missions” for God Eater players, with cooperative play…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2010 -
What Does The Final Fantasy Team Think Of The Last Story?
In January, developer Mistwalker announced it was making The Last Story with Nintendo, a “new form of RPG” bound for the Wii. That’s Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s newest game. What does the Final Fantasy team think about all this? Surely, The Last Story from the creator of Final Fantasy would perk up some ears…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2010 -
Sony Gets Serious On Piracy, Used Game Sales With New PSP SOCOM
Your used (or torrented) copy of SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3, the latest entry in the SOCOM series for the PlayStation Portable, may be missing something: online play. Sony is taking new measures against rampant piracy of PSP games and discouraging used purchases of the latest portable SOCOM by requiring players to register…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2010 -
The StarCraft II Beta Test Has Officially Begun
Hell, it’s about time… to start playing some StarCraft II! Blizzard has announced that the closed beta test for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is officially a go, with invitations going out to “thousands of gamers.” Yeah, check your e-mail! Scratch that. Check your Battle.net account! That’s where you’ll find your StarCraft II closed beta…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2010 -
Konami Sets N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights For Spring Stateside
The follow-up to Phantagram and Q Entertainment’s Ninety-Nine Nights for the Xbox 360, now in the hands of developer Feelplus, is coming to North America. Konami has loosely dated what it’s calling N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights for spring. That’s the same seasonal window for the Japanese release of the hack and slash Xbox 360 exclusive. Based…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2010 -
Ninety-Nine Nights II Screens
By Michael McWhertor Published February 17, 2010
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