Shunning the traditional notion of episodic release, doled out over weeks, months or even years, Microsoft and Telltale Games will be hitting Xbox Live Arcade with three times the Wallace & Gromit this Wednesday. That’s right. Three episodes of the comedic adventures of the claymated duo for the price of three. Just all in one…
Media Molecule‘s creative PS3 platformer LittleBigPlanet is one year old as of last week, so the developer is doing something to celebrate, giving away Sackboy costumes, including one that’s been unavailable for download for the better part of a year. That would be the launch ready Space Suit Sackboy Costume, re-releasing the week of November…
According to Enterbrain, the folks who publish Famitsu magazine, the newest PlayStation Portable sold 28,275 units on its first day on the Japanese market. Good? Bad? Probably somewhere closer to the former. That sales data doesn’t tell us too much about the PSPgo’s reception in Japan, considering Enterbrain only tracked one day, November 1—the platform’s…
Hardware buying was down ever so slightly in Japan this week, with Media Create‘s sales figures showing the Wii bearing the brunt of that slowdown. Two consoles were up, however — the Nintendo DS Lite and Xbox 360. The latter likely has Forza Motorsport 3 to thank for its jump in sales. And though the…
Act fast, N-Gage users. You only have until September 2010 to snap up games for the platform, as Nokia Oyj is putting the oft-ridiculed mobile platform turned mobile games service down for good. Nokia will not publish any new games for the N-Gage platform, according to a notice published on its blog, and it will…
Forza Motorsport 3 gives the Xbox 360 a rare top ten placement on Media Create‘s weekly list of the bestselling games in Japan. It’s one of a handful of new debuts that came nowhere near unseating Pokemon as software champ. Yes, Pokemons Heart Gold and Soul Silver once again top the Media Create software chart,…
Hey, Kotaku readership. You may want to check your e-mail, as God of War III demos appear to be going out unsolicited to “valued PlayStation Network user[s].” We’ve heard from a handful of Kotaku readers in the United States, UK and Poland—we would never forget Poland—who have been surprised with download vouchers for the God…
Oh, Panda does. That mountain of an unlockable King of Iron Fist contestant finds some time to shed layers of hibernation fat in Namco Bandai‘s latest promotional attempt for Wii game We Cheer 2. According to an announcement from Namco Bandai, Panda’s appearance in the Wii game will occur during the game’s Workout Mode, a…
If I play anything this weekend, you can be damn sure that I’ll be playing a copy of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, earning double the virtual money. A complimentary copy of the PlayStation 3 game arrived while I was away. Away doing what? Away playing a video game for an upcoming Kotaku review, two days…
Surely you’ve seen Final Fantasy XIII’s version of Odin, the summon that can be called to aid our heroine Lightning in battle. And surely you’ve seen Odin’s horsey “gestalt” variation, turning him into deadly four-legged transport. Get ready for more! Square Enix has updated the official Japanese Final Fantasy XIII web site, giving us a…
The next time you fire up Uncharted 2: Among Thieves—if you haven’t done so already—expect to update your copy of the PlayStation 3 game, fixing various issues. You should probably update, if you want to play this weekend. Because the Danish Trophy description has finally been fixed. Wait. I mean… Because this weekend, the Naughty…
The addition of larger 4.2″ LCD screens on the Nintendo DSi XL (or DSi LL) may initially lead one to believe it’s targeted at old folk. But its larger, wider viewing angle screens give the portable platform additional appeal. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said at the company’s semi-annual financial briefing that the boost in LCD…
First off, full disclosure: I’ve never seen any of the Saw movies. I’m not sure why. I guess I just fail to see their appeal. Along those same lines, I’m not really fond of survival horror games, either. In this case, though, I have a very good reason. It’s because I’m a giant wuss. Scary…
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Heed Punch-Out!! trainer Doc Louis’ sage advice, “Check your e-mail, Mac!” Because if you’re a member of Club Nintendo U.S. and opted for a digital copy of Doc Louis’ Punch-Out!!, you may already have it. The same is true for the other goods Club Nintendo gave away to Gold and Silver members, with reports from…
Too often we forget to offer you galleries filled with high-resolution (or at least pretty high-resolution) art assets from attractive video games. Sorry about that. Here’s some New Super Mario Bros. Wii art as a formal apology. Since these pictures are worth 13,000 words at current conversion rates, we’d say that’s an ample apology. Personally,…
Sony and Netflix’s announcement that the movie rental company’s streaming service would be coming to the PlayStation 3 later this year left us with a few questions of our own. Fortunately, Netflix was nice enough to answer those questions. Netflix reps say the company will begin shipping out the Blu-ray discs that make streaming via…
EA and Visceral Games are being very frugal with their dissemination of screen shots for the PSP version of Dante’s Inferno. Though, we’re not angered by their decision, we just lust for more. A trio of new Dante’s Inferno screens, brightly lit and bigger than any PSP resolution you’ve ever seen, might turn you on…
Arc System Works’ incremental follow up to original 2D brawler BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger features a larger roster, thanks to the addition of a handful of new fighters, plus one flashy intro full of hot licks and cool riffs. Yes, there’s a little gameplay mixed in to the newly released trailer for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, but…
Gearbox Software’s Borderlands, while entertaining, is not perfect. From a technical standpoint anyway, things could go seriously wrong (and have) for some players, including the corrupting of character data and the resetting of hard-earned skill points. An ongoing list of the game’s technical shortcomings, ones that may reduce you to crying or controller throwing, is…
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