Insomniac Games debuted new footage of Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time at this year’s Comic-Con, showing off some of the time-shifting, cooperative single-player gameplay starring Ratchet’s sidekick Clank. That video is now available for everyone else. Not only does it show off the helpful narration of Insomniac’s creative director Brian Allgeier, it…
BioWare brought the console version of Dragon Age: Origins to Comic-Con, our first opportunity to go hands-on with the game we’d seen in many hands-off demos and always on the PC. The experience was impressive, save for one negative. The Xbox 360 we sidled up to running a playable Dragon Age: Origins featured an already…
THQ is off to a much better year than last, thanks in part to the UFC. The publisher announced record results today, a $243.5 million three month take bolstered by nearly 3 million copies of UFC 2009 Undisputed sold worldwide. THQ’s take of nearly a quarter billion dollars during the April to June quarter was…
Star Ocean: The Last Hope was a good get for Microsoft, moving more than 420,000 copies on the Xbox 360, managing to become bestselling Xbox 360 game in Japan. That game may also be coming to the PlayStation 3. According to a listing from online retailer and rental service Gamefly, a PlayStation 3 port of…
Germany’s annual gaming convention is moving from Leipzig to Cologne this year, redubbed GamesCom, but retaining the spectacle of its eastern predecessor. Everyone’s going, including Square Enix, which will be armed with Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and much, much more. Square Enix will be showing largely what you’d expect, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIV…
Video game hardware sales in Japan are so hot right now, thanks to big spending on Nintendo DSi hardware. This week’s figure may not be as impressive as Dragon Quest IX‘s launch week, but still good news for Nintendo. The ratio is about the same, with the DSi outselling every other platform combined by a…
Army of Two: The 40th Day will expand its cooperative gameplay hook with “Morality Moments,” moral decisions that players will have to make together. An interesting twist on a familiar tactic. What’s interesting is what EA’s doing with that data. Reid Schneider and Alex Hutchinson, executive producer and creative director for Army of Two: The…
The zombie apocalypse isn’t where one expects to find product placement, so it was a little surprising to see Rochelle, one of the new Survivors in Left 4 Dead 2, sporting a pink Depeche Mode t-shirt. Surely, I thought, when first seeing the band’s likeness and logo emblazoned on her tee, that wouldn’t last very…
Can’t get your fill of Jake Gyllenhaal as the hunkiest Prince of Persia to ever grace the screen? Good news, beefcake enthusiasts — more eye candy from the set of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie awaits you. Ever wanted to see what the Prince of Persia riding a horse looks like? Bam!…
Naughty Dog was one of the few developers nice enough to show off something new at Comic-Con, giving us our first chance to play Uncharted 2: Among Thieves‘ recently revealed “Gold Rush” co-op multiplayer mode. How’d that go? Beautifully. “Gold Rush” is not unlike a blend of the Uncharted 2 multiplayer modes we played this…
Square Enix’s Dragon Quest IX held onto its number one spot in its second week on sale in Japan, flirting dangerously close with 3 million copies sold in a rather short amount of time. Success! DQ IX easily outperformed the week’s second bestselling title, Konami’s baseball sim Pro Yakyuu Spirits 6 for the PlayStation 3,…
Not content to let Marvel’s heroes be the only super-powered super-beings in LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule will be releasing Sackboy costumes based on its own super-dude, with a Cole MacGrath—star of inFamous—costume set due next week. LittleBigPlanet-eers can opt to go good or be evil with their Sackboy, as defined by the color of Sack MacGrath’s…
Sega is quite aware that the first Iron Man video game it published wasn’t too warmly received by critics, something the developers of the second game based on the Jon Favreau films are trying to address. “The good news is that everyone in the known universe told us what was wrong with the first game,”…
Infinity Ward has released the first footage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s multiplayer action, revealing the customizable killstreaks players can equip after unlocking them. The debut killstreak bonus is amazing—an AC130 air strike. Yes, you’ll be able to whip out the laptop on the battlefield, then rain hell from above, all from the…
Activision brought a playable Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 to its Comic-Con get together this week, giving us our first hands-on opportunity with the sequel, which has changed developers from Raven Software to Vicarious Visions. While the gameplay is largely similar to the first, putting the player in control of up to four Marvel super heroes,…
We’re all taking the news of Red Steel 2‘s delay pretty hard here at Kotaku Towers. Some of us were really looking forward to seeing the Wii MotionPlus put to use outside of sports games and mini-game collections. To make the wait go a little bit quicker—at least two minutes and thirty seconds worth of…
Reid Schneider and Alex Hutchinson, executive producer and creative director for Army of Two, respectively, spoke about the game’s forthcoming sequel at Comic-Con today. Hutchinson touched on The 40th Day‘s new multiplayer modes, just a bit earlier than officially planned. While the full, official reveal of Army Of Two: The 40th Day‘s versus modes will…
The key people behind DC Universe Online headed to Comic-Con to discuss the upcoming massively multiplayer online game, a panel that included legendary comic book creators Jim Lee, Geoff Johns and Marv Wolfman, plus Sony Online Entertainment‘s Jens Andersson. Lee and Wolfman talked about the challenges of squeezing the 75-year-old DC Universe into the game,…
At today’s Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time Panel, Insomniac Games showed off some of the new weapons Ratchet and Clank will wield in the upcoming PlayStation 3 sequel, including the already revealed Spiral of Death. That fan-submitted addition to the already deep Ratchet & Clank arsenal was revealed at an event earlier…
The House of Ideas had an idea to take a few of its bullpen best and turn them into Sackboys. At today’s “The Next Generation of Marvel Video Games” panel, three new heroic LittleBigPlanet costumes were revealed. Marvel showed off three concept renders of Sackboys that may be coming to the PlayStation 3 exclusive, but…
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