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The Last Story Finishes First In Japan
The creator of Final Fantasy brought his latest adventure, Mistwalker’s The Last Story, to Japan this past week, with the Wii game debuting at the top of the country’s bestseller list. But this week’s chart definitely belongs to the PSP. The top ten bestselling games in Japan is dominated by new PSP games, including Sega’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 2, 2011 -
We Got Armored Core V Screens Incoming!
The team behind the Armored Core series is giving fans another dose of massive mech-on-mech action next year. Armored Core V from FromSoftware mixes things up with new “atmosphere” and online action “newly designed to focus on huge team-based battles on a global scale.” Armored Core V will be available throughout North America and Europe…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 2, 2011 -
First Look At Dark Souls, The New Demon’s Souls, In Action
FromSoftware is giving Demon’s Souls fans more of the punishing same with Dark Souls, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 follow-up to 2009’s brilliant and unforgiving role-playing game. Here is Dark Souls’ first glorious trailer. Formerly known as Project Dark, Dark Souls appears to deliver more tense dungeon crawling, strategic combat and innovative online multiplayer…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 2, 2011 -
Dark Souls Screens And Artwork
By Michael McWhertor Published February 2, 2011 -
Dragon Age II Demo Hits February 23, But Some Get It Earlier
BioWare will apparently release a demo version of Dragon Age II—at the very least for PC players—only February 23, according to an e-mail sent to GameStop employees. Those lucky retail warriors will get access to said demo even earlier. One of the perks of working at GameStop is early access to the Dragon Age II…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
What Are You Listening To?
You know what Kotaku’s semi-nightly open thread needs? Or could possibly benefit from? Themed Tuesdays. Yeah, let’s guide this off-topic conversation toward the new world of music. Yes, that can include video game music! How about, let’s say, once a month we share our current playlists so that we can turn each other on to…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
New Creative Ways Of Crushing Humans Comes To Resistance 3
The folks behind Resistance and Ratchet & Clank may be best known for their inventive, sometimes kooky weapons, but Insomniac Games are also developing new ways of turning bodies into lifeless piles of meat. The latest Resistance 3 trailer not only features the glorious return of the weapon wheel—missed you, weapon wheel!—but introduces the Chimeran…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
Over 60 Billion Dead In The Battle of Call of Duty: Black Ops
Since its launch in November, Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has racked up more than 5 billion headshots, downed more than a billion aircraft and killed virtual soldiers to the tune of nine times the world’s population. That’s about 62 billion and change, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s world population clock Activision hit…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
Vault Bikinis Offer Little Protection Against Fallout Mini-nukes
Charlotte‘s custom Fallout 3 character Jinx Jones wiped Megaton straight off the Wasteland map! Also, check out her Fallout: New Vegas art piece HERE Related Rampage: Red Dead Redemption – Marston Tenpenny Babe by Charlotte / hel999 Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
PlayStation Store Update: Rearmed With A Mustache
This week’s North American PlayStation Store update brings a great deal of mustache, thanks to the arrival of Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2, now with 100% more soup strainer. What else is on tap? The Clash’s London Calling might be the best music you can download this week, unless you’re adamantly against Rock Band 3 or…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
A New Super Mario Bros. Is Coming To Nintendo 3DS ASAP
After the runaway success of New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS and New Super Mario Bros. Wii for Nintendo’s home console, news of a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo 3DS is probably not a surprise. So, we won’t pretend that Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto promising a new Super Mario Bros.…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
Street Fighter IV Ultra Combos Look Ultra Cool In Real Life
When Street Fighter IV’s ultra combos are recreated in the real world, is the result silly looking or totally bad-ass? As “action company” Thousand Pounds, demonstrates, it’s somewhere in the middle. Watch as Vonzell Carter, James Young and David ‘Dax’ Bauer beat each other up with a series of dramatic, slow motion death blows lifted…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
Meet The Ladies Of Infamous 2
Infamous 2‘s Cole will be joined by a pair of lovely lady co-stars in Sucker Punch’s PlayStation 3 sequel, two representations of the game’s karma system. Meet Kuo and Nix. Nix, pictured above, is “a New Marais native that grew up in the swamps,” complete with a burning hatred borne from the murder of her…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
Which Indie Game Deserves To Win The IGF’s Audience Award? You Decide!
The 2011 Independent Game Festival has opened voting for the public to decide this year’s Audience Award. Should Amnesia win? Cave Story? Nidhogg? Minecraft? Download these games and vote now!
By Michael McWhertor Published February 1, 2011 -
When It’s Time To Party, Party Hard
Would you like to chat about anything and everything, video game related or not? The semi-nightly open thread on Kotaku is the venue for that. Come, party with us. The heaviest partying I did this weekend was go on a Party Down bender, watching six episodes of season one of the criminally canceled TV series…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 31, 2011 -
Mega Man X(treme)
Jeffrey Cruz gave Mega Man X a hilarious old school Rob Liefeld (Comic Artist) look just for fun. I would say that it is spot on. Related Rampages: It’s time to Rock, man | 80’s Worlds Collide Is this necessary? by Jeffrey ‘CHAMBA’ Cruz / lastscionz (deviantART) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy?…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 31, 2011 -
In Praise Of The New Game Plus
Last week, I played through Dead Space 2. This week, I’ll see it through to the end one more time, perhaps having more fun, feeling less stressed, better appreciating its immense technical and visual artistry. Let’s hear it for New Game Plus. Visceral Games’ Dead Space 2, like the original, is an experience designed to…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 31, 2011 -
PlayStation Move Getting Opened Up For The PC?
The PlayStation Move motion sensing controller could, someday soon, work officially with more than just your PlayStation 3. Thanks to a project called Move Server, enthusiast game developers and academics may one day build Move-powered games for the PC. Move Server is briefly detailed in a Sony-sponsored session planned for this year’s Game Developers Conference.…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 31, 2011 -
Triple The Splinter Cell Heading To PS3 In HD And 3D
A triple dose of Sam Fisher comes to the PlayStation 3 this March with the long-rumored release of the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell HD trilogy. He’ll be joined by three times the Prince of Persia on a Blu-ray disc. Ubisoft will pack three classic Sam Fisher stealth games—Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 31, 2011
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