Great. Now the nightly off-topic thread is infested with zombies. *And* it’s a trap. Guess you better get in here and help talk the rest of us through it. Speaking of zombies, Robert “Doom CMYK” Mangaoang frequently points me to his zombified creations on Twitter, which are gory and good, like this undead Admiral Ackbar.…
Blacklight: Tango Down and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare may be the most exciting new additions to the North American PlayStation Store, but no other piece of content has a name as great as Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman. New demos abound this week, with small samples of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, Majin…
Sony has finally done it. They’ve mated a Sony Ericsson cell phone with a PSP, spawning this… the PlayStation Phone. Don’t call it the PSP2, please. That’s something else entirely. Engadget has first pics of the PlayStation Phone prototype, hopefully just its ugly duckling stage, with the gadget blog saying it’s “headed into the market…
Robotic French duo Daft Punk will be spinning the deadly discs of Tron: Legacy‘s digital soundtrack. They’ll also be making a cameo in Disney’s sequel to the original Tron. Get a sneak peek at both, right now.
The further adventures of Travis Touchdown are coming to the PlayStation 3. No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise is coming to the PS3 in North America, bringing PlayStation Move support along with it. This time, it will be Konami who’s responsible for publishing Grasshopper Manufacture’s high-res port of the Wii original. They’ll do so in North…
They don’t sell PCs like they used to—specifically with sci-fi author Isaac Asimov and his powerful, bushy sideburns. The bewhiskered Asimov pitched Tandy/Radio Shack PCs, like the TRS-80 the first personal computer I ever played a game on. [More PC Gaming Week]
Who else has Halloween fever? If so, can someone recommend a specialist? This is just the off-topic open thread in which to do those kinds of things. It’s also the place for neat internet discoveries like Ray Villafane’s insanely detailed pumpkin carvings. I was going to dedicate some time to pumpkin carving before this weekend,…
Wichita, Kansas police are on the hunt for Benjamin Redgate, who they suspect is partly responsible for the death of Luke German, the result of a disagreement over a “video football game on PlayStation 3.” Benjamin Redgate’s older brother has already been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in relation to the case. The Redgates…
Treyarch and Activision have been relatively quiet on the single-player side of Call of Duty: Black Ops. But it appears Alex Mason, the main protagonist of the next Call of Duty, will have a lot to say. The developers of Black Ops have made a “very deliberate choice” to make Mason a more verbose, more…
Terry Cavanagh’s wonderful VVVVVV is one of the best 2D platformers of 2010. But what if the gravity-flipping spike-filled interstellar adventure ventured into the third-dimension? It might look a little something like this. Sadly, VVVVVVX is just a mock up. Or, as creator “Roxfox” describes it, “just a thing I made in Maya to prove…
November is shaping up to be the second coming of Mr. Pilgrim. In addition to a DVD/Blu-ray release of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and updates to its game adaptation, the video game-infused comic book series is getting attractively boxed. Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley revealed the pretty box set on his personal web…
The second cutest epic for the Wii is coming to North America November 30, giving Mickey Mouse fans a chance to explore the morality of Disney’s most famous mascot. Epic Mickey‘s newest trailer focuses on the epic-ness of it all. Sample Epic Mickey’s lovely opening cinematic and some of its painting and erasing gameplay for…
Video games like LEGO Harry Potter and fancy new controllers—Kinect and PlayStation Move—are among the most wished-for items this holiday, according to a new survey. But it’s Apple’s iOS-based devices that kids are demanding most. According to battery maker Duracell’s survey, the Duracell Toy Report, the most wanted “toy” that kids aged five to 16…
63,500,000. That’s the number of Wii Remotes Nintendo says it has sold in the United States since the Wii launched in November 2006. How did Nintendo manage to move so many of the damn things? Wii Play was a big help, responsible for nearly 13 million Wii Remotes being snapped up by U.S. consumers. Wii…
THQ’s grim view of the future, in which North Korea somehow has the wherewithal to invade the United States, is being ported to books. Homefront is getting a novelization from people who know how to make game stories readable. John Milius, the man who wrote and directed Red Dawn and Conan the Barbarian, is working…
The people who made music games great have delivered their best game yet. Harmonix, the developers behind Guitar Hero and Rock Band, have tweaked, polished, and re-engineered the Rock Band presentation, while also adding all-new ways to play. Rock Band 3 introduces two major innovations to the multiplayer music game: the option to play keyboards…
You know the kind. The kind we like to vent about in our nightly off-topic discussion. Well this is the place, now is the time, and this is the beer. Shit, I’m out of beer. While I got pick up juicy burgers and luxury beers, why don’t you, Kotaku reader, join us for some chit-chat.…
While Pokemon Black and White may still be the hottest thing going in Japan right now, with Kirby’s Epic Yarn only slightly cooler, PlayStation hardware is still doing just fine in Japan. This week, Sony manages to outsell Nintendo hardware overseas, thanks to strong sales of the PSP and comparatively sluggish sales of the Wii.…
Ubisoft and pro snowboarder Shaun White’s inventive skateboarding game is scheduled to launch next week, but it appears the PlayStation 3 version of Shaun White Skateboarding has hit a snag. It’s been delayed. Updated with response from Sony. According to a retail memo obtained by blog Fist Full of Potions, a “big named retailer” writes…
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