Telltale Games’ take on Jurassic Park was supposed to hit in April, bringing prehistoric episodic fun to gamers. But the company behind Jurassic Park: The Game now expects the title to hit this fall, according to an e-mail sent to those who pre-ordered the game. Telltale CEO Dan Connors explains the delay in an e-mail…
For a console with an impressive install base of more 86 million, you might think that Nintendo wouldn’t have any regrets about the Wii. But Nintendo’s CEO says he does have one regret, one that he intends to address in the future. “I now regret that we didn’t tie up with someone outside the company…
Welcome back, Kotaku readers. Here we go. Again. Yes, maybe I do have a case of the Mundays, in part because I didn’t get to post about Phantasy Star Online 2 earlier today. Boy do I have fond memories of playing PSO on the Dreamcast, commandeering my roommate’s phone line in order to take my…
Why is the PlayStation Network still offline? Sony Computer Entertainment America will only cop to an unnervingly vague “external intrusion on our system,” leading those affected by and those taking delight in PSN’s problems to generate their own theories about the disruption that’s now six days old. Perhaps the best? That custom firmware for the…
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle’s Sylvia Christel can soon straddle a beam katana on your toy shelf, thanks to the sculpting talents of master toymaker Mitsumasa Yoshizawa who brings the Grasshopper Manufacture creation to life in pricey polyvinyl chloride form. Ready the wallet! The “Sylvia Christel Complete Figure” from Yamato’s Creator’s Labo line is…
A recently released video game for Google’s Android platform has drawn the ire of the Humane Society for its violent content that includes the ability to train, electrocute and fight virtual dogs. Kage Games‘ Dog Wars (not pictured) has even been frowned upon by former dogfighting enthusiast Michael Vick. The ex-con, Philadelphia Eagles QB and…
The day time soap opera is dying. Perhaps the most clear and recent evidence of its demise is the impending cancellation of long-running soaps All My Children and One Life To Live, shows that have been on the air for more than 40 years. Who’s responsible? Is it Farmville? That’s the theory floated by Adweek…
We’re just a few weeks away from the release of Rockstar’s next big effort, crime drama L.A. Noire. Today, the people behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption give us a peek at L.A. Noire’s vice desk, which apparently deals with Los Angeles’ “dregs, druggies, pimps, pushers, prostitutes, bootleggers, bookies, mob lords, thugs and…
This spring, Microsoft will release an official software development kit for its Kinect camera, catching up to the open source community and giving fully sanctioned creative control of its motion sensing Xbox 360 controller. Here’s Microsoft’s pitch on what Kinect can do in the hands of, well, anyone. And while the tech demos on display…
Developer Sucker Punch is giving Infamous 2 beta testers and early access mission designers more time with the game’s beta. Why? Because the PlayStation Network is still offline, naturally, making it really difficult to beta test. Sucker Punch says on Facebook that the extension period is still TBD. We’ll know after PSN returns.
Newly released documents from Wikileaks related to Guantánamo Bay prisoners have an unusual video game connection. According to the Department of Defense’s assessment records for Guantánamo detainees Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed—who confessed to masterminding the 9/11 terrorist attacks—Al Qaeda once used Sega cartridges as explosives devices. Mohammed’s detainee assessment record,…
Folks, let’s make this short and sweet. Open thread. All yours. Get in here. Comment! I’m off to enjoy a lovely dinner with friends who will probably appreciate it if I shower—one of the dangers of working from home is forgetting to do such things—so I must be off. Hope you’ve had a pleasant week.…
You may have seen games from European PC game publisher Excalibur Publishing before, responsible for mundane transportation sims like German Truck Simulator, Forklift Truck Simulator and Bus Simulator 2. But Excalibur may have outdone itself this time with the arrival of Garbage Truck Simulator, its latest release. Garbage Truck Simulator puts you in control of…
Looks like the enhanced PlayStation port of Square Enix’s seminal role-playing game Chrono Trigger is bound for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. The ESRB has just rated Chrono Trigger for those platforms, so expect the update of that JRPG favorite to show up as a PSone Classic on a PlayStation Store near you soon.
In what may be the most natural of musical team-ups, English punk band The Damned has announced it will be contributing the title track to this summer’s horror adventure Shadows of the Damned. You know, the one from game design oddballs Grasshopper Manufacture? Yeah, the one where you go to Hell to save your girlfriend…
Publisher Activision put its Guitar Hero business on ice earlier this year, signaling the end of a genre that was once white hot, but quickly flamed out. Why did Activision just bail on this formerly billion dollar business instead of taking it in a radical new direction? That’s the question posed in a newly published…
Link’s enemy, the Mighty Darknut, received an ass kicking upgrade thanks to Francisco Perez’s “Hyrule’s Most Wanted” entry for IGN.com Related Rampages: Ganon Vs Link | MODOK Mighty Darknut by Francisco Perez (deviantART) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished…
It’ll be another extremely busy weekend for people who play video games, people like me who are still neck deep in the new Mortal Kombat’s story mode and challenge tower. Man, both are lengthy. But that’s not the only thing I’ll be firing up this weekend. A retail copy of Motorstorm Apocalypse just arrived at…
Guys, I think we might just pull this off. We might actually make it through Judgment Day, because it seems that Skynet was never switched on and I haven’t heard a single nuclear explosion all day. Whew! Of course, there are still a few hours left in the day here on the west coast, but……
YouTube video sensation Freddie Wong and friends introduce us to Mr. Toots, a candy-colored unicorn with a magical gift: the ability to emit a high-powered rainbow beam from its anus, capable of destroying anything in its path. But what does this have to do with video games? Turns out Mr. Toots here is the property…
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