Give thanks for the opportunity to lob penguins into a basketball hoop this week, courtesy of WiiWare and Snowpack Park, a game you might want to download to your Wii? No? Maybe Tetris then? Nintendo’s Snowpack Park, a penguin hunting and flightless bird mood management sim, leads this week’s list of fresh downloadable options for…
We’ve seen some fun and sometimes funky homebrewed uses of Kinect for the Xbox 360, thanks to the release of open source drivers for Microsoft’s camera sensor, but how many of those apps support house cats? This one does. Robert “Flight404” Hodgin has whipped up a Kinect demo that can bloat or emaciate the body…
2D Boy, makers of WiiWare/PC hit World of Goo, are bringing their game to Apple’s iPad, bringing with it support for up to 11 fingers at once. When can we expect this all-new, touchscreen-controlled World of Goo? “As soon as we get approved by Apple,” explains 2D Boy. “We hope before the holiday season.” The…
Rumor? Ha! Nintendo has made official that Black Friday will get an injection of green and orange with a pair new Nintendo DSi bundles that with either remind you of Halloween, Christmas or Samus Aran. Orange and green Nintendo DSi bundles will hit North American retailers on November 26 for $149.99 USD, with a copy…
The day after Spike TV’s Video Game Awards hit us with a deluge of new trailers, game reveals and celebrity guest appearances, Sony will hold an “exclusive PlayStation 3 reveal” event in Hollywood. What could it be? Uncharted 3? While the invite makes no mention of the game (or games) that Sony will have present…
Wait, is it really Friday already? Huzzah! Let’s kill this work week with a little off-topic conversation. We’ll smother it with chit-chat and dump its body in the river. C’mon. It’ll be fun! As I said last night, I went to see Tron Legacy last night and, man, let me tell you something—the embargo for…
PlayStation 3 owners may still feel the sting of the original BioShock being an Xbox 360 “exclusive,” then eventually getting a port of the game from another developer a year later. Don’t expect similar treatment for BioShock Infinite Irrational Games’ technical director Chris Kline took to the developer’s forums this week to address concerns that…
The studio that started the Call of Duty phenomenon fell to pieces earlier this year with the firing of its co-founders and the following mass exodus of pissed off Infinity Ward employees. With enough money, you can recover from that. And when you’re Activision Blizzard, you can put Infinity Ward back together again. You can…
As much as Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is a success, the company’s other recent franchise release, Tony Hawk: Shred, is not. But Activision isn’t giving up on Shred, even in the face of pitiful sales. Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing tells Gamasutra, that things could turn around for the Tony Hawk franchise…
That Call of Duty: Black Ops ad featuring Kobe Bryant and Jimmy Kimmel is selling more than just copies of Treyarch’s war game. It’s also bringing in cash for The Rolling Stones, thanks to the spot’s use of “Gimme Shelter.” Billboard runs the numbers of the Stones uptick in sales, noting that track sales of…
All it takes is a little red plastic to spur Wii sales in Japan. The Super Mario Bros. 25th anniversary edition of Nintendo’s console went on sale overseas last week, tripling sales of the Wii. Japanese gamers weren’t just hungry for fresh red plastic. There’s a copy of Super Mario Bros. pre-installed on the hard…
Me and Sonic the Hedgehog have some catching up to do, so I’ll be playing Sonic Colors almost exclusively all weekend. Wait. Didn’t I say the exact same thing last week? Indeed I did. But things don’t always work out as planned. Sonic Colors didn’t make it to Kotaku Towers West (South) last week, so…
The people responsible for turning Metroid on its head with Metroid Prime for GameCube now have their hands on Donkey Kong. What have they done with it? Delivered the expected, a Donkey Kong Country game that goes back to basics. Where others have experimented with Donkey Kong adventures in 3D worlds (Donkey Kong 64) and…
Footage from the original Donkey Kong Country for the Super NES. Get ready to hate life at this point in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
Kotaku readers, please use this open thread post to talk amongst yourselves, to stimulate each other in conversation and seek advice about things that may or may not be about video games. I’ll be at the movies. Yeah, sorry, not trying to rub it in, but I’ll be seeing Tron Legacy tonight. Maybe I’ll be…
Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey developer Mistwalker is working with Nintendo on The Last Story, a game from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. That deserves a first-rate presentation, doesn’t it? Nintendo thinks so. In Japan, where we know The Last Story will be released for sure, Nintendo is bundling Mistwalker’s latest RPG with the Wii…
It’s that time of year again, when a group of charitable gamers sit behind the wheel of the infamous Desert Bus and drive endlessly, tirelessly, maybe even masochistically, at a maximum speed of 45mph for nearly a full week For the fourth year in a row, the world’s most boring game will be played marathon…
Remember: If you ever ingest the Battle.net Authenticator you use to protect the integrity of your World of Warcraft account, the first thing you should do is seek medical attention on the official World of Warcraft forums. Just like this WoW player did… Yesterday, World of Warcraft player Preliatus took to the game’s official forums…
Halloween has come and gone, but Double Fine Productions’ candy-coated role-playing game Costume Quest will continue. The first add-on for that downloadable game, Grubbins On Ice, is coming soon. GameSpot has first details on the wintry expansion to Costume Quest, which appears to be a five hour adventure in the vein of the original game,…
Bungie wants you to shape its future. It’s putting out the call for hundreds of thousands of committed, Halo and Marathon-loving Bungie fans to be a part of its focus testing group, a group that could become beta testers for its unannounced game. Signing up to be a Bungie beta tester may be the easiest…
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