There will be far fewer content cuts in the Western release of Yakuza 4 than in the previous overseas release of the Japanese video game crime series, a Sega of America representative told Kotaku yesterday. Hostesses will be back as will be a hostess dress-up mini-games, elements that are sure to please non-Japanese gamers who…
You can now stare at the Blizzcon 2010 schedule and dream. What will they reveal at the keynote if we got Cataclysm revealed last year? What’s with the Diablo III panels? Where is StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm? This is the official Blizzcon schedule, revealed today for anyone attending the annual convention for all…
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We are getting awfully close to the release of Sonic Colors. When will the other shoe drop? When will we discover this is another secretly-displeasing Sonic game? Not today. Not when I saw the game’s multiplayer mode. Sonic Colors has made it through E3 (June) and PAX (September) without letting me down. Each time I…
There are people who want to help you and your distant friends legally put money on the line the next time you play video games. The latest crew with this idea is called Playhem. The group is based in New York and has determined that there are 38 States in America in which gamers will…
Before the upcoming game Splatterhouse let players choose a “coward” difficulty setting, the game’s developers were going to call their easy mode “pussy.” This is no gentleman’s game. We’ve already called Namco’s revival of Splatterhouse the bloodiest game we saw at the big E3 show last June. During a demo of the game shown to…
Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the all-star fighting game, is no longer the most-loved Wii game. Three years since we started measuring these Wii playing-time stats, Smash has been dethroned … by a game whose average user plays for 80 hours. Monster Hunter Tri, the online-oriented co-op game about, well, hunting monsters, is the new number…
Over the last two weeks, Mike McWhertor and I were each given a hands-off demonstration of Call of Duty: Black Ops running in 3D. He saw it in Los Angeles. I saw it in New York. We’ve compared notes. For background, the news that November’s Black Ops will run in 3D on Xbox 360, PS3…
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Costume Quest, the next game from the Psychonauts and Brutal Legend studio DoubleFine — and more importantly, the only trick-or-treating role-playing game of the year — will be released on October 20, the game’s publisher THQ revealed today. Price: $15.
Next spring, we can play a sequel to the only imported PlayStation 2 game I own. This is a new trailer for Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, a game that will hopefully be as insane as its framerate-limit-ignoring PS2 predecessor. Earth Defense Force; Insect Armageddon is set for a spring release on the Xbox 360…
Twenty points per dollar if you buy a game used; 10 if you buy it new. Part of the promotional flyer from GameStop advertising the gaming chain’s new rewards system. Points net you Nintendo Wallets, iTunes cards, Call of Duty dog tags and more
There is a man named Monkey and a woman named Trip. New York City is in shambles, its landmarks collapsed or covered in ivy. What looks like a new co-op game is a single-player epic, gaming’s new sci-fi original. Enslaved: Odyssey To The West comes from Ninja Theory, development studio behind Heavenly Sword which claims…
Andy Serkis, the lead voice and body-acting talent behind Ninja Theory’s Heavenly Sword and Enslaved acting as the digital Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. Heavenly Sword, Enslaved studio Ninja Theory’s 2007 debut PlayStation 3 game. Monkey and Trip in Enslaved: Odyssey To The West Devil May Cry, the next game from the people…
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Forget 2011. Blizzard said today that the next expansion to World of Warcraft will be released on December 7. That’s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm for PC and Mac, in an otherwise barren video game December. Cataclysm is the third expansion to World of Warcaft, following the blockbuster releases of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade and…
With the arrival of fall comes the arrival of expensive shopping decisions. You can shell out for games, but what about game hardware? Do you need the Kinect? The Move? One of the new video game guitars? Or even a new console? This companion to our Guide To Fall Video Games highlights the big hardware…
Thankfully this is not a real meeting of the creators of Assassin’s Creed. These are some of the creators, but Ezio’s flower power is a joke. Right? Right!
Signs of the worldwide economic downturn, known by some as the Great Recession, are nearly absent from modern video games. So it came as a surprise to me when one my assignments in a new video game was to foreclose on homes. The game is DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, which is an unlikely candidate for…
If you’re Microsoft and you’re selling the Xbox 360 this fall to people who would be happy to avoid pressing buttons, how do you coax them into … pressing buttons? This new Xbox 360 dashboard tutorial appeared today on my Xbox 360. It was part of an update to my beta version of the revised…
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