Spoiler alert! If you’re going to play Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and find digitally rendered flaccid penises offensive, you may want to avert your sensitive eyes during one in-game cinematic. Rockstar Games, no stranger to controversy as marketing tool, will likely come under fire for its inclusion of completely uncensored, full…
You know why the call them Xbox Originals? Because you can’t call ’em Xbox Classics. Case in point, Rare’s first Xbox title, Grabbed By The Ghoulies is your next Xbox Original. Oh, I kid, Rare! The UK developer’s debut game under the ownership of Microsoft will drop on the Xbox Live Marketplace next Tuesday, February…
Is there still some confusion about what Noby Noby Boy, creator Keita Takahashi‘s follow up to Katamari Damacy, is all about? Apparently. Why else would Takahashi address it again on the official PlayStation blog? Let’s let the man explain: “Basically players can control and stretch Boy, the main character of the game. As players stretch…
Sales of Wii Fit continue to astound, with 770,000 copies of the exer-game snapped up by U.S. consumers in January. But what about the knock-offs from publishers smart enough to copy Nintendo’s fitness software? They too, impress. Gamasutra reveals exclusive NPD Group sales data that shows that two of Wii Fit‘s third-party clones, Majesco’s Jillian…
Namco Bandai has delivered sixteen new screens of Tekken 6 and they’re very educational. What can new media of the upcoming Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 brawler teach us? Well, as one can see from the shot above, brawler Bryan Fury can balance a giant panda on his toes. What strength! But don’t forget there…
Japanese gamers just aren’t buying hardware right now. Sales are way, way down from the same point last year, with the PSP selling at half the rate and the Wii at a mere quarter. That severe drop in Wii sales overseas has meant a closer weekly race between the PlayStation 3 and Wii, with just…
Spending Valentine’s Day alone and sulking? Take out your lonely frustrations on hordes of undead this weekend, cheaply, thanks to Valve’s weekend deal on Left 4 Dead. The PC shooter is being marked down 50% this weekend—a limited time offer—to give the lovelorn something to bond with. That translates to a $24.99 copy of Left…
I’ve got ten to twelve hours worth of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned ahead of me this weekend, as I ready the official Kotaku review for Rockstar Games’ first downloadable episode. But that’s not all! I’ve got a copy of Auditorium that also needs reviewing, titles that have to be taken care…
Activision may not be giving up Brütal Legend to EA without a fight—or at least a payout. Activision, which abandoned the game last year following its merger with Vivendi, thinks it still has publishing rights. According to a report from Variety, Activision Blizzard has informed Electronic Arts of its claim to Double Fine’s Brütal Legend,…
We’ve seen God of War III in person. We’ve seen it actually being played. And it looks good. Like a painting come to life? Maybe. Worthy of a string of excited expletives? Oh, definitely. God of War III is bigger, gorier, more beautiful than any PlayStation 3 game we’ve seen to date, a game with…
Here it is, your first extended look at God of War III for the PlayStation 3, a small portion of which you may have seen at the Spike TV Video Game Awards. What that trailer didn’t show off was ultimate pay-off at the end, a look at what Kratos is fighting on, one of the…
Man, I don’t know. Why don’t you ask Sega? All we’ve seen so far is a simple teaser page, with an adorable animated silhouette of a clown-shoe wearing girl juggling an apple. That’s all Sega seems willing to divulge about “Project RINGO” on the recently opened teaser page at its Japanese web site. We can…
Why were poor Official Nintendo Magazine subscribers made to suffer a delay in getting their latest issue? Blame Mario, Sonic and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The UK publication put a hold on its latest issue to give everyone else plenty of breathing room to announce Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games three…
Rock Band developer Harmonix is turning the legal tables on Konami, slapping the publisher-developer with a lawsuit of its own. No, not for pain and suffering caused by Rock Revolution, but for patent infringement. Why does this sound eerily familiar? You may recall that Konami, who also developed the rhythm game Guitar Freaks for Japan,…
As Nintendo president Satoru Iwata already revealed last week, Wii owners in the United States are still buying Wii Fit as fast as their chubby little frames will allow, moving at near holiday sales rates. The fitness software racked up 777,000 sales in January, a 22% drop from its December rate. Wii Fit‘s impressive sales…
No one was expecting Nintendo to sell Wii and Nintendo DS hardware at the record-breaking rate it had in December, but January’s take was no drop in the pond, with the Wii dominating sales charts. Nintendo still managed to move over a million pieces of hardware to U.S. consumers in January, with 679,200 Wiis and…
Sony kicks off its “Spring Fever” promotion with the arrival of thatgamecompany’s Flower, this week’s most outstanding PlayStation Store addition. But if you don’t feel like opening up the wallet, there are plenty of freebies. Not much that’s playable, mind you, but plenty to download, including a slew of themes for your PlayStation 3 and…
Metallica announced today that Guitar Hero Metallica will feature Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister as a playable character, presumably when one plays the band’s hit “Ace of Spades,” one of many guest tracks in the game. It should be a very profitable year for the English bassist, as he’ll also be appearing in the similarly umlauted Brütal…
A batch of new software debuts couldn’t unseat Namco Bandai’s Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 as Japan’s bestselling game, including a better than expected showing of the PlayStation 3 exclusive Demon’s Souls. The continued impressive sales of the latest Tales role-playing game and Konami’s World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 gave the PlayStation family…
Wheelman, the open world Vin Diesel racer, may be the first title to be properly reorganized under Midway’s chapter 11 bankruptcy, as Kotaku has heard that the game has found a new home at Ubisoft. We’d learned from a source last week that the game was planned to change publishers, with an announcement from Ubisoft…
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