The current cap on your Xbox Live friends list is—and always has been—set to 100, a paltry figure for some Live social butterflies. The reason that number hasn’t budged in four years is reportedly due to one game. According to G4, that game is Halo 2, built on the old Xbox Live architecture and a…
Just Cause: The Movie may be overthrowing a theater near you soon, as the Eidos action adventure game heavy on the BASE jumping is being worked into a feature film. According to Variety, producer Adrian Askarieh is working to bring Just Cause to the silver screen, securing some $30 million in financing and still shopping…
Rapper 50 Cent will be strapping on the bulletproof vest once again in a video game—but not one of his own. Instead, he’ll be making a cameo in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Fifty won’t be continuing the search for his diamond encrusted skull, however. The rapper will simply lend his vocal talents to…
Regrettably, today’s media update for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Tekken 6 aren’t as sexy as all those new Zafina butterfly screens that recently floated around. But they make up for it in volume. Because, man are those sumo chubby. New media from Tekken 6‘s ‘Scenario Campaign’ and head-to-head fisticuffs in our…
Congratulations to THQ, new owners of a slightly used San Diego game development studio, previously owned by Midway Games. THQ bought the TNA iMPACT! wrestling game development house for $200,000 according to a filing with the SEC. That purchase gets THQ the development studio—well, “substantially all” of its assets—but not the rights to the TNA…
BioWare’s fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins is officially on the books for an October 2009 release date, but two retailers are indicating a slight delay for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, pushing it into November. Shacknews caught wind of the change at two online game retailers, Gamefly and NewEgg, which now show…
While Valve has been largely silent on what’s happening with Half-Life 2: Episode 3, a recent focus test at the developer may point to the inclusion of a deaf character that ties into supporting character Alyx’s past. Valve founder Gabe Newell discusses this character in a newly uploaded YouTube video, which appears to be from…
Digital distribution services Steam and Direct2Drive are battling it out this weekend, attempting to see which PC gaming platform can offer the best indie bundle. The clear winner in this price slashing bloodbath? YOU!! If you’re having difficult answering the question “What are you playing this weekend?” here’s a list of what you could be…
The “Game of the Year Edition” of PlayStation 3 hit LittleBigPlanet is coming later this year with a cheaper price tag and some amount of downloadable content included on the disc. About $30 worth of content, apparently. While details on what that extra content thrown in for free will be aren’t specified in the Amazon.com…
It’s been a busy month, with moving, travel and a handful of guests staying at Kotaku Towers West. Not much time left for gaming… until now! That’s why I’m finally breaking the seal on this copy of Raiden Fighters Aces. That’s just to cleanse the palette, as I’ll be digging into a few downloadable titles…
That’s what happens in this video. Guitar Hero fan and “speedcuber” Julian plays Ozzy Osbourne’s “Mr. Crowley” in Guitar Hero World Tour on expert difficulty while also solving two Rubik’s Cubes with his free hand. Sorry, should’ve warned you to take your shoes off, because your socks were probably just blown right through them. Oh,…
Electronics retailer Best Buy is firing a shot at competitors GameStop and Game Crazy, offering a price match guarantee on video games that would match prices on new titles against other retailers used prices. Yeah, that is awesome. One Cheap Ass Gamer snapped this photo highlighting the promotion at a West Jordan, Utah area Best…
Game retailer GameStop is clearly taking the threat of digital distribution seriously, creating a new position within the company—General Manager, Digital Media—and putting Chris Petrovic to work on generally managing all that stuff. Specifically, Petrovic will “building on the company’s ongoing efforts to integrate digital media into the company’s multi-channel strategy, as well as overseeing…
Sales of the Nintendo Wii skyrocketed in Japan this week, nearly quadrupling its performance from the week prior, thanks to the release of a new, black version of the console and strong sales of Capcom’s Monster Hunter 3. According to Japanese sales tracker Media Create, Wii sales jumped from about 24,000 units last week to…
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THQ has issued a new patch for its Martian hit Red Faction: Guerrilla, fixing bugs, tweaking multiplayer modes and adding a new Wrecking Crew mode. Finally, a chance to wreck things! That new Wrecking Crew “challenge mode” adds three rounds of distinct submode/weapon/backpack settings per level, also making Wrecking Crew available for single-player play. The…
The song list for Guitar Hero: Van Halen certainly seems strong enough, but what about the spandex rendering power of the Guitar Hero expansion? Can current generation console technology keep up with David Lee Roth’s bulging air splits? Unfortunately, that question is clearly answered in the debut trailer for Guitar Hero: Van Halen, which features…
I’d think this week’s PlayStation Store update for North America is a little slim, but the Batman: Arkham Asylum demo and a new Call of Duty: World at War map pack destroy that theory. What this week’s new additions lack in quantity, they make up for in rabid anticipation. Because there’s also a Call of…
Neill Blomkamp was set to have his directing career start strong with a film adaptation of Bungie’s Halo. That movie is dead—but not for a lack of trying on Blomkamp’s part, who worked tirelessly on it for months. Blomkamp tells MTV that he “spent five months working on it, like, 24 hours a day” only…
Activision and Brutal Legend developer Double Fine Productions have reached a settlement over the release of the video game, wrapping up months of totally lame litigation and all but ensuring the game’s safe release this fall. According to a report from the Associated Press on the matter, Activision’s legal team informed a Los Angeles Superior…
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