Price conscious tipsters have been asking us “Did Microsoft just drop the annual fee for Xbox Live Gold membership?” Despite cheaper subscription rates showing on Xbox.com, Microsoft says the drop is “for a limited time.” “We are currently running a promotion in-dash that gives Silver members a special opportunity to upgrade to the full benefits…
Sony’s PlayStation 2 launched in Japan nine years ago today, ultimately going on to sell over 140 million consoles and, now, entering its tenth year on the market. Japan’s launch of the PlayStation 2 brought with it a half-dozen generation changing games, even if most were largely forgettable. The launch line up on March 4,…
Did you pass on Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts last fall, adamant that the Xbox 360 game was worth the admission price? Well, will twenty dollars do? The Rare-developed vehicular platformer—which we thought was decent if a bit dull—is Amazon’s video game Deal of the Day, a measly $19.99. Not bad for a game that’s a…
The developers of Army of Two and SSX On Tour (oh, and Boogie) are ready to announce their next title. What is it? You’ll find out March 12th, according to an invite from Electronic Arts. The publisher has invited local press to visit the offices of EA Montreal next Monday, then spill all embargoed beans…
Guilty Gear developers Arc System Works dropped BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger in Japanese arcades last November. Today, a console port has been announced, with the 2D fighting game coming to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The latest issue of Famitsu Weekly breaks the news that BlazBlue will make the jump to consoles this Summer. So far,…
Publisher Namco Bandai isn’t shying away from the risk of original IP on the Wii, announcing The Munchables for Nintendo’s bestselling console today. Does fighting a Space Pirate onion interest you? If so, read on. According to the official announcement, the Wii game will put players in the shoes of the titular, happy-go-lucky Munchables, a…
Who truly knows whether Sony is planning on dropping UMDs for the next version of the PSP? Only Sony (and David Perry). Certainly not God of War: Chains of Olympus developer Ready At Dawn. “I really have no clue what Sony’s plans are,” Ready At Dawn CEO Didier Malenfant told Edge Online, despite being a…
Nintendo Power teased us earlier today with a surprise announcement—A Boy And His Blob was coming to the Wii, promising details later. Well, they’re out now and, boy, does this game look spectacular. The re-imagined A Boy And His Blob will be handled by Wayforward, developers of fine products like Contra 4 for the Nintendo…
The continuing adventures of the Freeman family continue in Half Life: Hero Beggining, the third episode in fanfic writer squirrelking’s tales of Gordon Freeman’s bros. It’s heartbreaking what happens to Henry Freeman’s mom. You may remember the events of Half-Life Full Life Consequences 2: What Has Tobe Done in which John Freeman gets an e-mail…
Hey, baseball-loving Kotaku reader, did you like The Bigs? Yeah? Well, we’ve got some good news. There’s going to be a The Bigs 2. Strangely, you don’t seem that surprised by the stealth announcement, made via the soon-to-be-released MLB 2K9 from 2K Sports and rooted out by IGN. But if you’re pleased to read that…
If you’ve ever spent any substantial time on a playground, you’re likely to have heard some tall tales, particularly if the topic is video games. Logically, someone’s created a Wiki full of those lies. The Video Game Lies Wiki is archiving some of the most creative bullshit ever piled upon the video game medium, touching…
Nintendo hit us with an update on a handful of Wii and Nintendo DS games today, including fresh details on the Wii version of Punch-Out!!. Perhaps most exciting is unwavering confirmation of “classic” NES-style controls. Sure, the company has to eat its own dog food and legions of Wii owners are clearly comfortable boxing with…
Rapper 50 Cent and his G-Unit sidekicks have returned, ready to shoot scores of generic Middle Easterners in 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand. The ultimate goal? Get Fiddy’s paycheck, a diamond-encrusted skull. Obviously, the real motivation behind the game is to give 50 Cent an opportunity to make amends for the generally miserable last-generation…
Peggle is coming to the Xbox 360 and its coming in March. Hard. Yeah, that’s this month, meaning you have but mere weeks to sort out your life before you catch EXTREME FEVER. While the Xbox Live Arcade release is still listed as “TBD” on both Xbox.com and the official Peggle web site, the boxed…
Nintendo’s announcement of the existence of Excitebots: Trick Racing—the sequel to Wii launch title Excite Truck—was annoyingly short on details. Consider us detail-free no more, thanks to the latest issue of Nintendo Power. Excitebots: Trick Racing gets properly previewed in the mag’s April issue, a portion of which is now available online. Don’t worry, these…
The men and women who toil away at Sony’s popular Buzz! franchise, churning out sequels and expansions to please their overlords, are hard at work on a secret project, currently known as “Secret Project.” Catchy, eh? Yes, very. While the UK-based Relentless Software isn’t divulging details on its “Secret Project” yet, it has put out…
Pretty odd, but considering the combination of Mark Ecko Entertainment, the iPhone and Showtime’s serial killer drama Dexter, we can’t say we’re surprised. A little more surprising is the combination of gameplay genres. According to the official update on the game, Dexter will feature “puzzle solving, stealth tactics, mini-games, and ‘slashing’ with the iPhone itself”…
Sonic the Hedgehog fans (read: masochists) will be delighted to learn that, should Sega see fit to subject them to another Sonic Unleashed title, the lumbering, stretchy “werehog” is almost guaranteed to return. Sonic and the Black Knight director Tetsu Katano tells Videogamer “You will see the Werehog again.” That’s despite the general shunning of…
.html We thought this U.S. debut trailer for The King of Fighters XII was just going to be an excuse to ogle the SNK Playmore game’s beautifully animated characters. How naive we were. That’s because the game apparently has a North American release window, which was, frankly, (good) news to this casual King of Fighters…
Edge Online has published its annual list of the industry’s “hot” developers, a hundred men and women whose names you should know. Topping the list is Rockstar Games co-founder and VP of Creative Dan Houser. Houser beats out Nintendo’s Hideki Konno and Shigeru Miyamoto, both of whom placed in the top ten alongside industry movers…
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