The IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games kicks off in Culver City, California tomorrow, October 1, a four day blowout of events, exhibitions and keynotes that highlight the best of independent games. You should go! For game enthusiasts who may find themselves in the greater Los Angeles area, you’ll be lucky enough to have access…
Halo 3: ODST’s amazing live action trailer didn’t just happen by itself. No, it took dozens of people, hundreds of man hours and a light sprinkling of movie magic to create. Here’s how. This behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Halo 3: ODST spot offers more than just a peek at how Brute’s are…
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be introducing digital copies of movies on upcoming Blu-ray releases that are exclusively offered for use on the PSP. That should make the process of adding portable copies a bit easier for PlayStation family owners. According to a report from Blu-ray.com, the first Blu-ray releases to feature said PSP copies…
Denizens of PlayStation Home should warm up the internet connection for tomorrow, as the latest and greatest update to the virtual hang out service will hit Thursday, October 1. Version 1.3 of Home, as previously detailed, will add universal game launching from within the service. No need to stop doing the Running Man just to…
Last night, the British Broadcasting Corporation aired Charlie Brooker‘s Gameswipe, a humorous (and informative!) look at the history and present of the video game, presented in the style of the broadcaster’s Newswipe and Screenwipe. And it was quite good. The 50 minute one-off program was part obligatory primer, explaining genre types like platformer, shoot ’em…
Two of my favorite series are making the jump to Xbox Live Arcade this week, as Bust A Move Live and Military Madness Nectaris make an appearance on the Xbox Live Marketplace starting Wednesday. In addition to those two higher-definition classics, expect Football Genius – The Ultimate Quiz to become suddenly available to Xbox 360…
Last night’s episode of zany Fox medical drama House MD, in which kooky medical maladies are discovered, cured and humorously quipped in 44 minutes, took place in The Future. It was a very special video game-themed sci-fi episode. Or maybe the writers of House MD just haven’t played a video game recently, because the appropriately…
Of the handful of Xbox Live Arcade games playable at Microsoft’s Tokyo Game Show booth space, only RayStorm HD, the remake of the 13 year old shooter, had a line. And it was not a short wait, some 20 to 30 minutes worth to play what was essentially a prettier looking version of the game…
Microsoft will be cozying up retailer shelves this holiday season with a pair of bundles for the Xbox 360 crowd, including one that officially confirms this week old rumor. So, what’s in the box(es)? The big one comes carefully stuffed with a 120GB Xbox 360 Elite, one copy of LEGO Batman: The Video Game and…
Konami and Climax’s re-imagining of the first Silent Hill is a risky prospect, a wildly different take on the PlayStation horror classic. As a fan of the series, the remixed, retold Silent Hill: Shattered Memories just felt… unnecessary. That was until I had played through the Tokyo Game Show demo. The section we were coaxed…
If you’re still playing Left 4 Dead, you’re probably well aware that the ‘Crash Course’ episode was due for release today on Steam and Xbox Live Marketplace. If not, hey, new DLC! To commemorate the new mini-chapter, plus the new Achievements (*drooooool*), Valve is slashing the price of the Steam version by 50%, giving you…
Day three? But there are only two public days at Tokyo Game Show. That means two cosplaying days. So, why a third batch of high-caliber dressing up? Would you believe I forgot to upload some of these? I know, I know. Looking at the Sazh and Lightning cosplay, it sounds like an impossibility that one…
Wait. Did I really fly all the way to Tokyo and brave the TGS masses to play Snoopy Flying Ace? Yup. After all, the Xbox Live Arcade game had one of the more promising gameplay trailers this year. Snoopy Flying Ace is a fairly straightforward dogfighting game with a cute, younger-skewing bent to it. In…
Cave general manager Makato Asada has plans to bring the company’s frantic shoot-em-ups to a larger audience, one that spans beyond Japanese arcades and a few import enthusiasts. Maybe even to your PC. While Cave’s releases, titles like DoDonPachi, Mushihime-sama and Death Smiles, are readily available in Japan, getting your hands on them in the…
Normally, we politely but clearly decline accepting catalogs and promotional books at game conventions. (They quickly add up.) But when someone hands you a Metal Gear promo item, you’d be a fool to leave it in a booth companion’s hands. Kojima Productions knows how to put together some informative literature, as you might be able…
We braved a sea of outrageously sized cameras and sweat-stained shirts for the second day of Japanese kids wearing do-it-yourself homages to Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter, The King of Fighters, Guilty Gear and more to bring you… digital photographs! The quality is just as good—particularly the Dragon Quest obsessed fan who cosplayed a Mimic yesterday—and…
Square Enix’s attempt to shift the Front Mission series from turn-based strategy role-playing game to third-person shooter was finally playable to the public at Tokyo Game Show. That gave us a chance to see just how Front Mission has “evolved.” The demo that we played—once on the PlayStation 3, once on the Xbox 360—was largely…
Speaking with Cave’s Makato Asada at Tokyo Game Show, we inquired about the developer’s upcoming shoot-em-up release Mushihime-sama Futari for the Xbox 360, wondering if the title would be mercifully region-free and therefore import friendly. He had good news. “We had a lot of good feedback from overseas users,” Asada told Kotaku, happy with the…
Tokyo Game Show’s “Cosplay Alley” is bustling with girls and boys in carefully crafted homemade outfits—and the portly photographers who long to capture them on film, for whatever reason. On day one of the Tokyo Game Show’s public days, the cosplayers came out in full force, repping multiple Final Fantasys, The King of Fighters, Metal…
The PlayStation 3 version of PlatinumGames’ Bayonetta has become somewhat of a point of contention, given that the developer of the game has handed off development duties to Sega for that platform and that it reportedly… doesn’t look so good. Well, we decided to check the PS3 version of the non-stop climax action game for…
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