The official Nintendo Europe web site has given us a better look at Q-Games next original DSiWare effort, the downloadable DSi game known as Starship Patrol over there, Starship Defense over here. Like Q-Games’ PixelJunk Monsters, Starship Patrol is a classic tower defense style game, but with a focus on resource management, strategic weapons placement…
Yes, Banjo and Kazooie are making a guest appearance in Sega’s Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, something that will likely please Rare fans as much as it will send Nights fans into a petition-signing, blood-boiling frenzy. The Xbox 360 version looks to have taken advantage of Sega’s offer to include bonus mascot characters in the…
New Super Mario Bros. Wii continues its strong sales performance in Japan, moving the Wii game well past the million mark with another 431,000 copies sold. You know, maybe Nintendo should make *more* Mario games! Sure, New Super Mario Bros. Wii’s rock solid performance comes as little surprise and we expect to see the game…
Nintendo has updated its list of rewards for U.S. based Club Nintendo members with extra coins in their virtual bank account. Sorry, no Wario-themed GameCube controllers here, but plenty of greeting cards, folders and bookmarks. Folder sets and bookmarks with Toad & Friends, Mario & Friends and Bowser themes will hit Club Nintendo members in…
2009 was a pretty good year for the Xbox 360, but based on Microsoft’s showing at E3, it felt more like a warm up for 2010, the year the company will launch Project Natal. Now this year was no slouch, with Xbox 360 console exclusives Halo 3: ODST, Forza Motorsport 3, Left 4 Dead 2…
Following a traditionally content-crammed October and November, another year creeps to a close with few higher profile releases hitting in its last few weeks. Don’t tell that to Bethesda Softworks, though, as it infiltrates the holidays with the under-the-radar stealth shooter Rogue Warrior. Though the house that rebooted the Fallout franchise is best known for…
It is the tenth anniversary of Konami’s Silent Hill series, a franchise that has focused more on the psychological side of horror than its peers. The latest, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, delves further into the psyche than ever before. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories tells a very different version of the first Silent Hill game, chronicling…
With a few million people playing and actively trying to exploit your game, some issue are going to crop up. And Modern Warfare 2 has had some issues. But Infinity Ward is tackling them, including that recent infinite ammo thing. IW’s Robert Bowling updated the Modern Warfare 2 masses on the developer’s current plans to…
The guys who are bringing Dungeons & Dragons (unofficially) to Microsoft’s tabletop Surface system have been plugging away at their creation, giving us an extended, in-depth look at how one DMs the world’s most expensive, most technically impressive campaigns. The SurfaceScapes team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University gives us a very…
Final Fantasy XIV’s arrival in 2010 is looking more and more likely, as Square Enix has opened up the application process for the upcoming PC and PlayStation 3 massively multiplayer online role-playing game. So sign up now, if you’re interested. But only if you would like to beta test the PC version, as Square Enix…
Year of the… No, better not go there. But next year the PlayStation 3 should have a huge year in North America, thanks to the arrival of God of War III, Final Fantasy XIII and better-than-ever third-party support. Granted, 2009 will be hard to top, let alone match, thanks to releases like Uncharted 2: Among…
The PlayStation 3 and PSP will have a very good 2010, if Sony’s head PlayStation marketing guy John Koller is right. Part of that will be due to ventures into 3D gaming, a new motion controller and the PlayStation Network. Koller tells GamePro that Sony will add “a number of very critically demanded features” to…
Looking to do a little zombie killing on the cheap? Amazon might have what you’re looking for, frugal gamer, offering Left 4 Dead 2 at deeper discount than one would expect of a game selling pretty darn well. Amazon.com’s Deal of the Day puts L4D2 at just $29.99 USD for the PC version, $39.99 USD…
There’s more to Mass Effect 2 than just excessive emotional engagement. The spacey role-playing game sequel also offer extraterrestrial pole dancing, henchmen hip gyrating, dirty talk and large splashes of blood, says the game’s ESRB description. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board offers an informative, potentially spoiler-filled account of what makes Mass Effect 2 deserving of…
According to word from the latest Famitsu magazine, Tecmo will be bringing the Dead or Alive series to the PlayStation Portable. Great news… if you like everything but the fighting and volleyball portions of past Dead or Alive games. Because Dead or Alive: Paradise is a lot like Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, only…
Back when we knew the sequel to the original Army of Two as simply “Army of Two: TFD,” we solicited suggestions on what that abbreviated sub-title meant. “Total Fistbump Destruction,” suggested lapsed Kotaku commenter strawberrycream. We really liked that. Enough to use it in one of our many previews of Army of Two: The 40th…
The Wii had a good 2009, thanks to the arrival of Nintendo fan-pleasing releases like Punch-Out!! and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. But 2010 should one-up this year’s showing thanks to Nintendo and third-party publishers. 2010 may get off to a slower start—and we may only get to sample the next Legend of Zelda game…
It’s hard to look back upon the original Kane & Lynch and its baggage and remember it too fondly. But IO Interactive and crew are at least turning out intriguing trailers for the sequel, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. The action portions are shot with much of the grainy, shaky cam styling seen in…
That rumor that Rare mascots Banjo and Kazooie would join the cast of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing? Totally true! Well, if you believe Sega.com, which is the source of the miniature, guest star-revealing box art. TSSZ News spotted the pre-announcement reveal of the Xbox 360 version of the box art, which seems to confirm…
The good news for Shin Megami Tensei fans is that the publisher’s upcoming Nintendo DS spin-off, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey has been given the Atlus treatment, now sporting a full soundtrack CD for “each and every launch copy.” The bad news is that the game has been given the other Atlus treatment, missing its…
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