It’s no secret that Michael Jackson had a thing for video games. His Neverland Ranch arcade collection highlighted his penchant for spending big, but maintaining a respectable level of quality. Oh, and he signed a PlayStation once. That Michael Jackson signed PlayStation is now for sale, seemingly authentic in its scrawling upon by the late…
Earlier today, Microsoft finally offered some details on the South Park game for Xbox Live Arcade it announced at E3 2009. And now we know exactly what South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! looks like in motion. South Park Digital Studios developers offer additional insight into how the game will play in this GameTrailers…
Owners of the Xbox 360 version of The Orange Box were greeted with an update today, one that adds something new to at least one of the included games, Team Fortress 2. Quickly temper your expectations. The update did not manage to stuff in a half-dozen class updates, new maps, and new gameplay modes that…
In addition to a crystal clear look at the virtual crotch of guitarist Carlos Santana, Activision and Neversoft’s Guitar Hero 5 will be adding an extra layer of replayability for the hardcore gamer with song specific Challenges. According to a report from Destructoid, Guitar Hero 5 players won’t be simply seeking five star-rated performances, but…
Raiden IV is coming to North American Xbox 360s, thanks to publisher UFO Interactive. The better news is that the top-down shooter won’t be unceremoniously released. It’s getting double the “limited edition” treatment. Of course, we’re not getting night vision goggles or a replica plasma beam upgrade in the box, but something a little more…
Add BioWare’s Mass Effect to the growing list of video games properties becoming comic book series. Electronic Arts and Dark Horse revealed Mass Effect: Redemption today, a series set before the events of Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect: Redemption will be written by BioWare’s own Mac Walters, responsible for the Mass Effect 2 script. Handling…
Microsoft announced at E3 that a new South Park game would be coming to Xbox Live Arcade this year, but waited until today to offer actual details on South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play!. Yep, it’s tower defense. Microsoft’s Comic-Con presence will feature a playable South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play!, described as…
Hang on, Nathan Drake! Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is almost here, with Sony confirming to us today that the Naughty Dog developed PlayStation 3 game will arrive in the U.S. on October 13th. Start planning your sick days/pre-orders accordingly. Sony also released Uncharted 2‘s final box art, reminding us of Mr. Drake’s expert ability to…
What differentiates The Beatles: Rock Band from Rock Band games that have come before it? Harmonix and MTV Games are releasing more than an artist track pack, with this standalone Rock Band akin more to a playable band biography. The Beatles: Rock Band also adds to the series’ established gameplay by letting up to three…
When Earth Day rolled around, an army of Kotaku tipsters pointed out the Triforce from The Legend of Zelda‘s cameo in Google’s holiday logo. Turns out that’s happened more than once. A lot more than once. Google apparently has an… enthusiastic Legend of Zelda fan on staff, as Google Blogoscoped points out, highlighting eight of…
Electronic Arts will show strongly at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, armed with ten games and plenty of panels. It may be your first chance to go hands on with games like Left 4 Dead 2 and Dragon Age: Origins. Titles planned to be previewed on the show floor, at EA’s booth, include Brütal Legend,…
Stuart Beattie, responsible for big screen adaptations of Pirates of the Caribbean and G.I. Joe, is a big Halo fan, having “read every book, played every game, every graphic novel.” Proof? His unsolicited Halo: Fall of Reach screenplay from 2007. With the Peter Jackson produced Halo film said to be “entirely dead” by the man…
Guerrilla Games will “radically alter the Killzone 2 multiplayer dynamic” next week with the release of the Napalm & Cordite Map Pack, offering two new maps and two new weapons, seen here in action for in this brief trailer. Showcased are the Suljeva Cliffside and Arctower Landing maps, plus the two weapons that give this…
Yesterday, the NPD Group released its estimates for U.S. video game sales for the month of June, with Activision’s Prototype and THQ’s UFC 2009: Undisputed topping the list of bestsellers. That list was missing a few key releases. Games like Atari’s Ghostbusters failed to find a place in the top ten, as did the perennially…
When we spoke to Double Fine Productions‘ Tim Schafer at E3, he teased the reveal of Brütal Legend‘s then unannounced multiplayer modes. Consider (one of) those multiplayer modes a secret no more, thanks to the ancient tomes of Xbox.com!! The game’s product page describes the “four-versus-four ‘skirmish’ multiplayer” mode as a holy union of “action…
The official Braid news blog offers some helpful hints about developer Number None‘s follow-up to the time-bending puzzle-platformer. Just don’t expect that particular game any time soon. The unnamed, unannounced title is described as a “puzzle-exploration game that is philosophical, and quiet” in listings for 3D Environment Concept Artist and Lead Artist positions. The game…
A recently filed trademark from Sony may be good news for PSP and PlayStation 3 owners in the West, as better wireless multiplayer support on the PlayStation Portable may be in our future. Sony Computer Entertainment filed for the trademark “adhocParty” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week, the name of the service…
Dragon Quest IX went on sale in Japan last week. It sold a lot. It also sold a lot of Nintendo DSis. And it certainly didn’t help the competition. While Nintendo DSi sales more than doubled—in part, thanks to a limited edition Dragon Quest-branded version of the device—every other platform saw a decline in sales…
I’ll be giving Twisted Pixel’s ‘Splosion Man a go this weekend, the Xbox Live Arcade game that will kick off Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade festivities. With Totilo going on about Shadow Complex lately, a side-scroller sounds good right about now. In between playing that and prepping for another Blizzard and Comic-Con next week, I will…
MTV Games and Harmonix are opening up the Rock Band music store to everyone later this year. The Rock Band Network allows any artist to upload and price their own tracks for users to download from the game’s music store. According to a report from Billboard, that service will launch sometime this year for the…
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