The upcoming release of Eidos and Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum is getting the collector’s edition treatment. The bad news? It’s a cool $100, forty dollars more than the standard edition. The good news? Batarangs!! According to solicitations from retailer GameStop, by way of a Kotaku tipster, the pricey collectors edition comes equipped with a 12″…
Hudson’s Adventure Island was never my thing. Master Higgins’ penchant for 8-bit shirtlessness was kind of a turn off to me. I like my platforming protagonists to exhibit a modicum of decency. Nintendo’s WiiWare service is giving Hudson another opportunity to turn sidescrolling platforming fans onto this whole Adventure Island thing. That means more Master…
Rumors on 2K Marin’s BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams began swirling about the 2K Games forums today, flooding the board with supposed details on the BioShock sequel. Too bad they were mostly bunk. 2K and Game Informer both responded, saying the rumors that BioShock 2 would be Big Daddy-free were untrue. The rest of the…
Someone at sue-happy company PalTalk just got paid. Microsoft has settled with the company that filed suit against the Xbox 360 maker over patent infringement claims related to Halo multiplayer. Make it rain, PalTalk! PalTalk hit Microsoft with a suit over a pair of patents in 2006, claiming that the multiplayer tech that powered some…
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has weighed in on the second downloadable Watchmen episode, which is unfortunately not titled Watchmen: The End is Even Nigher. It sounds like more of the same, just slightly sexier. Watchmen: The End is Nigh II has been rated M for Mature by the ESRB, described as featuring “Sexual Content”…
Thanks to Sony, Sega, Microsoft and Rockstar Games, the Kotaku Towers West staff won’t be lacking in games to play this weekend. However, this Saturday will definitely be dedicated to Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Copies of MadWorld, Sonic and the Black Knight, Phantasy Star Portable, Empire: Total War and Ninja Blade all appeared this…
PopCap Games‘ Peggle comes to Xbox Live Arcade, bringing the super powered pachinko-esque, point and shoot gameplay to Xbox 360s. It’s incredibly addictive, the aim of PopCap’s casual games. Peggle‘s concept is simple: fire metal balls from a cannon, destroying colored pegs with the help of talking unicorns and skateboarding beavers, ultimately resulting in a…
That’s because this is a music video as directed by Llamasoft, creators of tripped out, gamer-bewildering titles like Tempest 2000 and Space Giraffe. The song? Electronic musician Tiga’s "Mind Dimension." Tiga’s and Llamasoft visuals go together like peanut butter and acid, the aesthetic that founder and ruminant obsessive Jeff Minter has become (in)famous for over…
Last week, Sony’s PlayStation 3 had the rare privilege of claiming the top spot on Media Create‘s hardware chart, outselling all hardware competitors. This week it gets knocked down to second place… by the PSP. While the release of Resident Evil 5 in Japan gave the PS3 a noticeable sales boost over its take last…
Don’t expect to see any further The Lord of the Rings games coming from Electronic Arts. The publisher’s license to the property has expired, with rights heading back to Warner Bros. Variety’s The Cut Scene reports that EA’s hold on The Lord of the Rings was up as of December of last year, with Pandemic…
The official Team Fortress 2 blog reveals Valve’s plan to improve your experience while surfing the uncharted waters of public game servers. It has implemented a scoring system that demotes (and sometimes deletes) poor servers. Valve’s Robin Walker explains the scoring system at the official TF2 blog, writing that game servers will be scored higher…
Eidos and Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum game looks good. Possibly good enough to help me overcome my crippling fear of stealth gameplay and unique phobia of millionaire playboys in tights. The Mark Hamill voice over work will probably do it for you, if you were a fan of his work the Batman animated series. Frankly,…
Today’s North American PlayStation Store update brings with it twice the Vin, double the Diesel, as demos for Wheelman and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena are now available for the PlayStation 3. There’s plenty of non-Vin Diesel related content, including four new (or new-ish) playable games for the PS3 and PSP, plus…
When Namco Bandai yanked the modern-day Splatterhouse from developers BottleRocket, it was met with boos and hisses from the angry internet mob. But Namco’s Makoto Iwai says the publisher wasn’t trying to be evil. “Basically, the only reason why publishers pull the project out from the developer is when the developer isn’t really meeting the…
Slow motion makes everything more dramatic, as one can see proven in the new trailer for the PlayStation 3 exclusive inFamous. It cranks the slow motion knob to eleven and never lets up. The new trailer for the Sucker Punch-developed game has more than just a melodramatic soundtrack courtesy of the eminently soundtrack-able band If…
MTV Games rhythm game based on The Beatles will feature more than just the Fab Four’s number ones and B-sides. The Beatles: Rock Band is getting “never been heard, never been released” content too. Dhani Harrison, son of Beatles guitarist George Harrison, tells Billboard that, in addition to being a “totally, historically accurate” trip through…
Sega of Japan is bringing Cyber Troopers Virtual On Oratorio Tangram to Xbox Live Arcade. You probably knew that already. Sega wants you to also know that it’s not just for Japanese gamers. The XBLA release of the 3D mech arcade fighting game will be available to Xbox 360 owners “exclusively” sometime this Spring, Sega…
In February, analyst Mike Hickey indicated a PlayStation 3 price drop would hit near the end of the month. Didn’t happen. He also passed on speculation that Sony would drop the PS3’s Blu-ray drive. Wait. What? Drop the thing that makes the entirety of the PlayStation 3’s physical game library playable? That’s what he said.…
Long lines at electronics stores in Japan translate to big sales of Resident Evil 5, with the survival horror game selling just shy of 400,000 copies in its first week on the market. About 80% of those were of the PlayStation 3 variety, which topped the Media Create charts by a considerable margin. The Xbox…
The PlayStation faithful may want to mark March 24th down on their calendars, as Tecmo says it will be announcing a brand new title on the second day of this year’s Game Developers Conference. Tecmo hasn’t revealed the platform on which this mystery title will be released, but considering the announcement is happening at the…
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