Team Bondi‘s long in the making L.A. Noire, the murder mystery set in “a perfectly re-created Los Angeles” of the late 1940s, will have its “long-awaited reveal” in print next month, Rockstar Games says. In addition to an official response to the “Determined Devoted Wives of Rockstar San Diego employees” allegations, Rockstar Games’ Asked &…
Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep managed to maintain its bestselling status in Japan this week, fending off the triple platinum seller New Super Mario Bros. Wii in it second week. The newest Kingdom Hearts for the PSP didn’t have much in the way of competition, with the exception of top ten debuts Resident…
Nintendo is letting another game that isn’t New Super Mario Bros. Wii break the tradition of white Wii game cases, giving Sandlot’s Zangeki no REGINLEIV a chance to stand out from its peers with a sharp looking black box. The gory, giant slaying action game Zangeki no REGINLEIV—formerly known as Dynamic Zan—is scheduled for a…
Because you demanded it, Sony is launching its first PlayStation Network reality show later this year, The Tester. Eleven contestants will battle for the “gamer’s ultimate dream job,” testing PlayStation games. These are those eleven contestants. The cast of The Tester is, as aptly described by the PlayStation.blog, a diverse group, with gamers from 22-…
Sega of Europe, perhaps seeing the sales boost a plastic shell that looks like a steering wheel and holds a Wii Remote can offer a game, is giving Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing the Wii wheel bundle treatment. Oh, but only in the UK, for now, where Sega seems more willing to offer bundles and…
Tonight’s Kotaku Off Topic is a little horrific, not for the faint of heart. Enter the non-video game related discussion… if you dare! Speaking of faint of heart, I used to be pretty squeamish when it came to horror films. Movies like The Return of the Living Dead and Poltergeist used to make my skin…
Alexey Pajitnov might just have something here with this Tetris thing. According to early word from EA Mobile and Tetris rights holder Blue Planet Software, mobile users have racked up more than 100,000,000 downloads. That’s paid downloads. The Associated Press reports that the 100 million milestone will be officially announced on Thursday, but that EA…
Harmonix already has Green Day: Rock Band on its 2010 slate as a follow up to last year’s The Beatles: Rock Band, but the popular punk trio’s game won’t be the only music game from publisher MTV Games this year. Senior VP of MTV Games Paul DeGooyer tells Newsarama that Green Day’s release is “of…
Nintendo of America has taken the somewhat unexpected step of reviving its Luigi’s Mansion trademark, either a sign of its very protective trademarking desires or a renewed interest in giving Luigi more face time with gamers. It may be nothing more than the former, as Nintendo already has seven Luigi’s Mansion trademarks—three “live,” four “dead”…
The folks at GameTrailers invited us to take part in the most recent episode of Bonus Round, a chance to chat about (some of) the year’s biggest games hitting in 2010. This is that episode! At least, it’s part one of that episode, featuring host Geoff Keighley, Wedbush Securities prognosticator Michael Pachter, Shacknews editor Garnett…
Greg Zeschuk, co-founder of Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare, says that the sci-fi franchise will live on in other games after the role-playing game trilogy wraps up in Mass Effect 3. Zeschuk said during today’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio that the Mass Effect property is a “valuable universe,” that the end of…
Crytek’s sequel to the tropical island set first-person shooter Crysis has a new Nanosuit, new platforms on which to play it and an all new urban setting, New York City, according to the latest issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine. Crysis 2 takes players to a new urban jungle in the sequel, bound for the…
Today Sony Computer Entertainment America announced the domestic release of the game previously known as One Million Ton Bara Bara, now known as Patchwork Heroes, an original action puzzle game for the PlayStation Portable. So what is Patchwork Heroes? A game about destroying massive sky ships, tearing them apart piece by piece, and, you know,…
The library of Xbox 360 games available “on demand” has expanded by two today with the addition of EA’s original Skate and Brave? Brave: A Warrior’s Tale? Something like that. Pricing on Skate (aka skate.), as I see it in U.S. dollars is $19.99. In line with budget pricing for Xbox 360 games, it seems,…
Welcome back to Kotaku Off Topic, where things not necessarily video game related are discussed. Up for discussion tonight? Whatever you want. Actually, what do you want? My daily internet travels are often limited to a tiny subset of the internet, generally movies, music, world news, technology, general nerdiness. But what do you read on…
The NPD Group has compiled fifteen years worth of video game sales in the United States, determining that Nintendo’s 2006 release Wii Play is the industry’s top seller, beating out Grand Theft Autos and Call of Dutys easily. And it did it on one platform, with its nearest competitor, Guitar Hero III relying on four…
The latest issue of Game Informer magazine has a bit of potential bad news for Gordon Freeman fans, casting doubt on the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Three in 2010. Specifically, Game Informer’s rumor-centric Loose Talk column notes that there “won’t be any game from the [Half-Life] franchise in 2010, and what will finally come…
Blizzard’s sphere of influence knows no bounds as Swedish health care and beauty company Oriflame’s recent Russian shampoo men’s fragrance ad confirms. See if you can spot the World of Warcraft influence. If your memory is hazy, Blizzard’s epic frosty trailer for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion is embedded below. As egear points…
Sony was among the many home electronics makers getting behind the 3D revolution at CES 2010, offering a handful of PlayStation 3 games playable in 3D. The latest PS3 game to get the 3D makeover? LittleBigPlanet. Media Molecule’s DIY platformer joins games like Super Stardust HD and Gran Turismo 5 as one of many possible…
Sony’s stab at motion control for the PlayStation 3 is currently known only as the PlayStation 3 Motion Controller, a name that likely won’t stick. But is the glowing magic wand ultimately going to be known as Arc? That’s what VG247 says, citing an unnamed but “concrete source” who outs the PlayStation Eye powered wand…
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