Want to express your love eternal to the Left 4 Dead-loving dork or dorkess this Valentine’s Day? Say “I love you enough to print this out from the internet” with “special infected”-filled “Valventines.” Alexandria “Beavotron” Neonakis’ romantic contributions for this year bring out the romantic, fun-loving side of Left 4 Dead‘s survivors and its undead,…
Add another fan-made Guitar Hero-inspired creation to the pile! While the Commodore 64 version may have followed the path set by the Harmonix-developed music game more closely, D-Pad Hero drops guitar controllers altogether. D-Pad Hero, a retro “demake,” uses rather simple-looking pad controls — simply press a button and one of the directional pad’s axes…
TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2009 Outside Looking In Persona 4: Reflecting The Self by Leigh Alexander An American Tale Mr. McGee Goes to Hong Kong by Brian Ashcraft What’s In Your Gamer DNA? In Search of Wisdom from the Crowd of Gamers by Owen Good The Wii’s Gray Christmas Supply Catches Up With Scalpers by…
Nintendo is doing well. The “$17 billion in sales last year” type of well, with more than $2 billion in profit. To help illustrate just how smashingly the company is doing, it generated some charts. Sure, the Negative Nellys out there are going to point out falling profits, but just look at those brightly colored…
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss David Reeves isn’t going to cave. He simply will not tell you when the PlayStation 3 will get a price drop. For now, it will remain the most expensive option. That’s Reeves’ “armadillo” strategy, also known as the “value added” tactic that the PlayStation brass have been touting for many…
If you thought hardware sales in Japan couldn’t bottom out any harder than they did last week, we ask you to politely reconsider. Frankly, we’re starting to worry. You okay, Japanese gamers? ‘Cause if you’re a little short on cash, we could let you borrow some. Admittedly, post holiday sales aren’t typically spectacular, nor is…
Harmonix and MTV will bring seven new tracks to Rock Band and Rock Band 2 rockers next week, including a triple-shot of classic, leather pants-wearing Irish rock from Thin Lizzy. The Thin Lizzy three pack features a trio of live tracks from the band’s Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theater Philadelphia 1977 album. That’s…
Grand Theft Auto IV‘s first dose of downloadable episodic content will hit the Xbox 360 in less than three weeks. Rockstar’s new trailer for said episode, The Lost and Damned, introduces players to Johnny. He’s the episode’s anti-hero, the “reactionary prick” wrapped up in an ugly “ravaged, drug addled exterior,” if those are Mr. Klebitz’s…
The next Team Fortress 2 class to get the upgrade treatment, the smack-talking Scout, should get his gameplay makeover any day now. Valve has taken the opportunity to reminisce on the Scout’s awkward, ugly-duckling past. Robin Walker, [insert title here] at Valve, walks us through a series of initial designs for the Scout, whose early…
Bethesda Softworks’ campaign to incrementally squeeze money from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion players has been a huge success. So much so that offering up downloadable horse armor wasn’t the flop it should have been. In fact, the infamous “Horse Armor” download for Oblivion, released in April of 2006, ranked ninth on the top ten…
That’s right. Me, Fifty, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and DJ Whoo Kid will be spending some quality time together this weekend. I got some 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand previews that need doin’! I also got the old Xbox 360 debug back online, which means I need to poke around the Xbox Live Marketplace…
If Activision’s filing of the trademark for DJ Hero and real-life DJ Paul Oakenfold’s verbal approval of the rhythm game wasn’t ample evidence of the still-unannounced project, hearing it straight from Activision’s boss should be. CEO Bobby Kotick matter-of-factly spoke of the game, rumored to be handled by Activision’s recently acquired FreeStyleGames and detailed first…
Another batch of Vancouver area game developers are looking for work, as sources tell us that EA Canada‘s Burnaby location was the latest to be hit by Electronic Arts’ ongoing layoffs. The count numbered as many as 55 EA staffers, according to a regularly reliable source, one who tells us that the cuts might also…
We’ve already seen the trailer and been properly prepared by Nintendo Power‘s own teasing, so the cover treatment given to Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings isn’t exactly a shocker. But we’ll take it! The March issue of Nintendo Power promises the first (print, we assume) look at LucasArts’ next Indy adventure, in which…
Marvelous Entertainment‘s PSP-bound Yuusha 30 looks clever. Clever enough for us to forgive them their use of a countdown clock teaser that led many to think it was The Legend of Zelda related. As already revealed by Famitsu, Yuusha 30 lets players save the world from evil “Demon Kings” thirty seconds at a time. It’s…
So much to see! So much to do(wnload)! Whether you need PlayStation Network original games or new Sackboy outfits, there’s a lot to like about this week’s North American PlayStation Store update. Let’s look! Savage Moon and Bejeweled 2 give PlayStation 3 owners something new to play, while the new Final Fantasy XIII trailer gives…
The waiting for StarCraft II isn’t the hardest part. It’s determining which media is new. And these, we’re fairly certain, are new screen shots of StarCraft II. This one‘s definitely new. But this one? Pretty sure that last one is old. And by “old,” I mean internet old, possibly as ancient as three weeks under…
Disney Interactive Studios has confirmed to Kotaku “restructuring” at its Propaganda Games studio in Vancouver, clarifying that about half of the number of employees we reported affected by layoffs were let go. Exact numbers weren’t provided, but we were told that approximately 35 or fewer Propaganda Games staffers were laid off, with two development teams…
Owners of the “Games For Windows” release of Gears Of War have found themselves unable to play the game they own today. The reason? An expired Windows digital certificate, which went digitally sour yesterday. Epic Games’ forum dwellers began kvetching about the issue within the past 24 hours, when presented with a warning that read…
Guitar Hero World Tour owners thirsty for new content can drink in Oasis’ latest, as Activision has made Dig Out Your Soul available as downloadable content. What can you look forward to? In addition to the Oasis tracks already released for World Tour, fake rockers can now jam to “The Turning,” “I’m Outta Time,” “(Get…
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