Sega is on a Dreamcast revival kick, re-releasing some of the console’s greatest games, like Crazy Taxi and Space Channel 5, for current generation consoles. It also has this, a port of Chu Chu Rocket in the works for iPhone. We recently got hands-on impressions of Chu Chu Rocket played on an iPad, but didn’t…
Make stalking professional athletes a little more fun with Venus Williams’ newest downloadable casual game, Venus: The Case of the Grand Slam Queen, which covers all aspects of stardom, from being “hounded” by creeps to fantastic fashion shows! What sounds like a pitch for another casual point and click adventure game, this one with Venus…
Another weekend, another chance to play more Rock Band 3, only this time I plan on doing it with a full band, the birthday wish I’ll be forcing upon a few of my friends. While the Kotaku Rock Band 3 review will be running later today, that doesn’t mean I’m done with Harmonix’s latest (and…
StarCraft II players will get four officially sanctioned mods for the real-time strategy title created by Blizzard, new map types that turn the sci-fi war game into a Bejeweled-like puzzler, a co-op survival game and a DotA-style multiplayer scenario. Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime announced at Blizzcon 2010 today that four new mods are coming to Battle.net:…
This is Harmonix playing Rock Band 3. Sample some of Rock Band 3’s included tracks in this song trailer. Rock Band 3 senior designer Sylvain Dubrofsky explains how keyboards work in Rock Band 3. Doobie Brothers “China Grove” on Pro Drums. Yes “Roundabout” full band on Expert.
Greetings, Kotaku readers. Are you in the mood for a little off-topic conversation? This is the place for the discussion about video games and everything else. I’ve been reading more comic books lately, but mostly things that I have owned for years—most Frank Miller and Daniel Clowes stuff—but it’s time to start digging some things…
Kill zombies. Do it with a guitar controller. The concept behind Rock of the Dead sure sounds like a brilliant idea, but the horrible reality of this tedious “strum or die” game quickly sets in. Rock of the Dead feels like an intentional riff on Sega’s The Typing of the Dead, a game that transformed…
The 13th annual Independent Games Festival has named the nearly 400 entrants vying for awards in this year’s competition, an impressive list that includes surprise hit Minecraft, Cave Story, Explosionade and hundreds more. And you can preview every single one. The record number of entries in this year’s IGF battle including plenty of games we’ve…
A pair of die-hard Sonic the Hedgehog fans have released their own high-def homage to the Sonic games of old, Sonic Fan Remix, a side-scrolling platforming adventure that’s dripping with detail. Does it rival the one Sega just released on consoles? While Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I was built by a team of…
Pokemon Black and Pokemon White continue to be super effective at maintaining a stranglehold on Japan’s software sales charts, easily moving past 4 million copies sold overseas and handily defeating Kirby’s Epic Yarn for the Wii. While Kirby’s soft and fuzzy new Wii game opened with respectable sales, it’s clear Nintendo should’ve released two versions,…
The recently launched “Mann-conomy” for Team Fortress 2 has quickly become a profitable venture for the community modelers who cranked out new weapons, hats and accessories for Valve’s game. Valve just sent out royalty check to creators… and they’re big. Five TF2 community members—Rob Laro, Shawn Spetch, Steven Skidmore, Spencer Kern, and Shaylyn Hamm—created new…
Irrational Games, the people behind the BioShock in the sky coming in 2012, have released four new screens of the upcoming BioShock Infinite that might feel a tad familiar. You’ve seen these people, place and things before, but not from these angles. You may have seen these things in gameplay video, perhaps in the game’s…
Sony’s motion controller add-on for the PlayStation 3 has been out for a little more than a month in North America. How’s the PlayStation Move doing, according to Sony? Oh, spectacularly, of course! Sony Computer Entertainment America says it has shipped—meaning sold to retailers, not necessarily to consumers—”over one million units” of the Move in…
A man has reportedly set fire to and barricaded himself within a Roseville, California GameStop location, claiming to have possession of a gun in a stand-off with local police. The Westfield Galleria at Roseville has been evacuated. According to reports from the scene, the fire set by the man has been extinguished by sprinklers and…
Good evening, Kotaku readers. Tonight, we’re excited to share with you an all-new in innovation in open threads. Still the same great non-video game related discussion, but only two-thirds of an inch thick. It really is amazing. So, did anyone out there already drop some cash on Apple’s new products? I’m conflicted about the new…
The co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein is putting his name on something a little friendlier, a Facebook app by the name of Ravenwood Fair. That’s right, John Romero is asking you to suck it down, casually. Romero is part of the team behind the recently launched Ravenwood Fair, VentureBeat reports, a new Facebook app…
Adrian Chmielarz, creative director at Bulletstorm and Painkiller developer People Can Fly, weighs in on iPhone mini-sensation Game Dev Story, later explaining it “might actually be tons of fun for people who are not in game dev, but for us… I mean, what developer’s first hire is a secretary?”
The Piano Man is bringing some of his biggest hits to MTV Games and Harmonix’s Rock Band, arguably the best reason to pick up a copy of Rock Band 3‘s new keyboard controller. Ten tracks from Billy Joel will be coming to Rock Band 3 starting in December, including “Big Shot,” “Captain Jack,” “It’s Still…
Say goodbye to Xbox Live “Silver,” as Microsoft appears to be dropping the name of that tier of its Live service in favor of something less confusing. “Free” is the new “Silver.” It’s little more than a name change for the free entry level version of the Xbox’s online service, but the scrubbing of Silver…
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