Activision is catching legal heat from band No Doubt over the group’s appearance in the recently released Band Hero. No Doubt is suing Activision, seeking damages for turning the act into “virtual karaoke players.” Sound familiar? No Doubt says in a statement that the band “agreed to place avatars containing their name and likeness performing…
PC gamers may find one more reason to grumble about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, as Infinity Ward has confirmed that the maximum number of players in the game’s multiplayer mode has taken a hit from 32 to 18. A max of 18 players has been the norm for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox…
The original teaser poster for the movie adaptation of Tekken didn’t offer much. Yep, Tekken starts with a “T”… thanks. But this two page sales art spread gives us a better idea of Tekken: The Movie’s aesthetic. Movie site ComingSoon.net spotted the Tekken promo, featuring the fancy tagline “Survival Is No Game,” at the American…
Your PlayStation 3 may become a reasonably priced, earthbound Satellite of Love, if Sony Computer Entertainment America’s patent application for a Mystery Science Theater 3000-like interactive television becomes a real-life product. Sony’s patent for a “Method and Apparatus For Real-Time Viewer Interaction With A Media Presentation” was filed back in April, but eagle-eyed patent watcher…
Microsoft owned developer Rare won’t be returning to the world of Kameo any time soon, thanks to the studio’s shift toward multiple Project Natal titles, according to unnamed sources cited by CVG. Microsoft is reported to have canceled a sequel. CVG’s source “close to the platform holder” says that sales of action-adventure eyesore Kameo: Elements…
Post price drop sales of the PlayStation 3 in the United States appear to have giving the console “strong momentum” following a “strong surge” that should give the console a “very strong” October, according to GameStop VP Tony Bartel. The vice president of merchandising and marketing tells IndustryGamers that GameStop has seen fit to use…
Valve is earmarking an impressive $25 million in marketing to make sure that everyone with functioning eyes knows that Left 4 Dead 2 is coming this November. That includes at least two putrid trucks, dedicated to promoting the game. One of those trucks was spotted by Kotaku reader Britt, who not only supplied us with…
The bad news for SNK Playmore is that retailer response to The King of Fighters XII, at least at one major Japanese retailer, is that they’d like to be rid of it altogether, marking the fighting game down to $11. The good news is that Bic Camera, the outlet responsible for dropping KOF XII to…
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says that Nintendo is planning to test downloadable demos of some WiiWare games, a program that should kick off—in Japan at least—later this month. That’s according to IGN‘s translation of the oft-cited investor Q&A that Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto dropped minor details at last week—nuggets of news that range from Miyamoto’s…
Banjo Kazooie and Viva Pinata developer Rare has made some important contributions to the first person shooter genre, a space it hasn’t visited since Perfect Dark Zero hit the Xbox 360 in 2005. That may change, thanks to Project Natal. Rare’s Mark Betteridge tells MCV, as part of a feature on the first-person shooter, that…
Ubisoft is unfortunately foregoing offering replica Sam Fisher night-vision goggles for the collector’s edition of Xbox 360 exclusive Splinter Cell Conviction attempts to make up for it elsewhere. Does it succeed? For $79.99 the “limited run” version of Ubisoft Montreal’s stealth action game—still due February 23 in North America—packs in the requisite art book, “collectible”…
Konami may be reaching ever deeper into the intellectual property well, revitalizing one of its more obscure franchises, Jackal, as a Wii game. Do images of a “working prototype” of what appears to Jackal mean a remake is incoming? Not necessarily, but given Konami’s flood of WiiWare versions of Contra, Gradius and Castlevania, released under…
Xbox Live subscribers of Gold distinction can enjoy the Xbox 360 Left 4 Dead 2 demo as of right now. The 1.69 GB demo is yours for the downloading from Xbox Live Marketplace. Second-class Xbox Live Silver members will have to wait another week to get their hands on the Left 4 Dead sequel. But…
As seen on tonight’s episode of Heroes, courtesy of James F.
North American PSP and PlayStation 3 owners will finally get to enjoy Numblast, a PlayStation Network puzzler that does things by the numbers and arrives on the PlayStation Store this Thursday. While Numblast may sound like a topical cream used in more intimate circumstances, it’s actually a video game! It can be enjoyed on the…
Big head mode, an undisputed classic video game Easter Egg, as it turns out, also makes for a damn good Halloween costume. Kotaku reader Eric’s papercraft big head mode version of himself makes normal Eric equally cool and creepy. Eric doesn’t pull off any flaming NBA Jam-style dunks in his Flickr photo gallery, but he…
For the handful of you who may have missed the late October episode of The Martha Stewart Show with Richard “Lord British” Garriott, that show has finally been uploaded for all to enjoy. The Ultima and Tabula Rasa creator brought some of his prized automata and rat tail to the Martha Stewart set, talking about…
BioWare’s purported plans for sci-fi action RPG Mass Effect 2 make the upcoming Xbox 360 and PC game look like a good investment, as rumored downloadable content appears to be expansive enough to dissuade mass trade-ins. According to a report from Destructoid, which cites a retailer-focused Microsoft Expert Zone quiz, Mass Effect 2 will feature…
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is apparently a fan of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series, opting in to judge a fan art contest themed around the second entry in the romantic vampire action series, New Moon. That’s according to a release from Japanese artist network pixiv—pretty much the overseas equivalent of deviantArt—which has tapped Kojima,…
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