Advance retail listings forwarded to Kotaku indicate that Nintendo is planning to issue its first price drop on the Wii, with a less expensive version of the console—currently priced at $249 USD—coming the first week of October. That listing comes from an early version of a Walmart ad that loosely dates, but does not price…
You? Well, there you go, one helping of sinewy LEGO minifig Iggy Pop coming right up. Looks like the former Stooges singer will get blocky in-game representation in the younger skewing Rock Band game from Warner Bros. Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” will be featured in LEGO Rock Band soundtrack as will the singer himself, looking…
Naughty Dog‘s highly anticipated action adventure Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a little over a month out. If that 32 day wait seems slightly intolerable to you, a series of sneak peeks at select theaters might tide you over. Sony will be holding four events that will promote Nathan Drake’s newest PS3 outing, showing the…
N+ developers Metanet software have announced their next project will be the intriguingly titled Office Yeti. OK, it’s actually their next next project since Metanet has already announced Robotology, but shown very little of it. So what’s an Office Yeti? In Metanet game terms it’s “a single-player action/puzzle/simulation game in which players assume control of…
According to the leaders of the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott—who recently enjoyed a trip to Valve—there’s more downloadable content already in the works for the original Left 4 Dead, stuff beyond the already announced “Crash Course” episode. According to on and off Left 4 Dead fan Walking_Target, Valve is planning something for release for…
Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi showed Game Developers Conference attendees a painfully brief look at an iPhone prototype of PlayStation 3 game Noby Noby Boy. Now, you can see it. Whatever it is. According to a report from Impress Game Watch, the iPhone spin-off of Noby Noby Boy is about 60% complete. That may help…
Me? Still happily playing Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story for the Nintendo DS. I was hoping to have it completed for a Kotaku review this week, but it looks like life is preventing that from happening. Instead, watch for a review of Bowser’s Inside Story next Monday, when I should be wholly evacuated from…
PlayStation fans in Japan lined up to get their hands on the newer, slimmer, cheaper PS3. Over 150,000 of them invested in the revised PlayStation 3, leading to a giant red slice of Sony dominance at home. That’s a considerable change from the console’s representation from the week prior, when it moved a paltry 1,040…
Sony has been futzing about with head-tracking technology via its PlayStation Eye peripheral for a long time, showing off an early version of the camera trickery at last year’s Game Developers Conference. How far they’ve come! Now, as demonstrated at this year’s CEDEC 09 conference in Japan, the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Eye can interpret…
PlayStation 3 owners and PC gamers jealous of the Xbox Live Arcade timed exclusivity of Star Trek D-A-C will be able to put that pain and suffering behind them soon. And by “soon,” publisher Paramount Digital Entertainment means November. Not quite the “late summer 2009” we were promised earlier this year, but at least it’s…
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello had a right to be discouraged by sales of the latest Madden NFL football game from EA Sports. While it managed to be August’s bestselling game in the U.S., sales were definitely down. Madden NFL 10 leads the NPD Group‘s top ten with 928,000 units sold on the Xbox 360.…
August video game hardware sales were, like most of 2009, down from the previous year. But at least PlayStation 3 sales were up considerably from the month prior, selling almost twice the amount thanks to a mid-month price drop. According to the NPD Group, Sony sold 210,000 PlayStation 3s in the U.S. last month. With…
Ever since Sony got serious about adding PSone Classics to the North American PlayStation Store, the weekly updates to the service have been pretty solid. With Silent Hill and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain hitting today, we’re issuing another “solid.” There’s a lot to play with this week, including the remake TMNT: Turtles in Time…
PlayStation 3 firmware 3.0 brought with it many changes, some of them good and some of them being the Friends List update. Rarely can people universally agree on something, but it appears that everyone hates those Friends List changes. Fortunately, sounds like Sony’s listening to those complaints. Amidst the usual kvetching about cosmetic and functional…
This year’s sales of Madden NFL football may not be living up to Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello’s expectations. He calls sales of Madden NFL 10 “discouraging,” indicating they’re down from the previous year’s. According to an internal communication intercepted by Bloomberg, Riccitiello appears disappointed that “one of our highest-rated and best-marketed ‘Madden’ titles in…
Heading to this year’s Tokyo Game Show? Cool, then you’ll be able to play Kojima Productions‘ latest PSP effort, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker courtesy of a publicly playable demo. Oh, and bring your PSP if you’re coming. Because it looks like Konami will be offering demo kiosks for attendees as well as making the…
Thanks to a spike in Japanese PlayStation 3 sales, the platform claims the top spot in this week’s Media Create software sales chart with Mobile Suit Gundam Senki Record U.C. 0081, one of two new PS3 games to chart highly. The other is Sega’s 428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de, a PS3 game we’re unlikely to…
Last time we played EA Montreal’s co-op shooter Army of Two: The 40th Day, we did so on the side of a partially collapsed building. Yesterday, we played it amongst the corpses of rhinos, hippos and elephants. Our two-player session, played with Electronic Arts own Matt Turner, producer on the Army of Two sequel, dropped…
Last month, Ubisoft’s finely bearded Patrice Desilets walked us through Assassin’s Creed II’s newest features—new weapons, improved free-running and "Eagle Vision" and much, much more. Now’s your chance to revisit a bygone era with this gameplay walkthrough. As someone who was there, I can assure you this virtual recreation of our Gamescom hands-off demo is…
Ninja Theory, the team behind the PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavenly Sword, has made quite clear its intentions to go multi-platform with its next title, a game that will be published by Namco Bandai. That game is Enslaved. According to the newest issue of Game Informer magazine, Enslaved is a “post-apocalyptic journey” and…. well, that’s about…
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