Lots of Guild Wars 2 art here, plus this key bit from the fact sheet about ArenaNet’s upcoming PC MMO: “While Guild Wars 2 adds a persistent world, it retains the unique characteristics of the original game, including a strong narrative, extensive instanced game play, an anti-grind design philosophy, and strong support for competitive play.”
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To: Ashcraft From: Totilo Re: If Only There Was German Beer In My Fridge, If Only I have no German beer for you, man. I’m in the U.S. of A! And — shhh — Crecente is sleeping right now. Do you think he’s dreaming of Kotaku? Today wasn’t as insane as yesterday. Sony had already…
We had an international adventure this week on Kotaku Talk Radio, connecting Crecente in Germany at GamesCom with England, the U.S. and an “undisclosed location” to talk Gamescom, PS3 Slim and those darn Starcraft II Internet petitioners. Listen in. Best of all, we had on you, our readers, phoning in live to ask questions and…
Can the PlayStation 3 Slim stand without its fancy stand? Being a vertical-system guy, I had to test this.
Sony is gunning for games — not “apps” — on its new Mini download PSP store, the company told Kotaku about the October-launching service. What it couldn’t tell Kotaku is the answer to the biggest burning October PSP question. John Koller, head of marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment of America told me yesterday that the…
Sony’s surliest hero, Kratos, is showing up at Gamescom in God of War III. A batch of new screens from the 2010 PlayStation 3 game commemorates the event.
In this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll be talking about GamesCom, PS3 Slim, the negatives of Internet petitions and we have a rap song. It won’t be conducted by myself and our very special guest-host, N’Gai Croal. To listen, head over to our BlogTalkRadio page. Unfortunately, you can only listen live on the…
Check back in at 11am MT, 1pm ET. We’ll have a post with all the call-in info live on the site five minutes before showtime.
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Kotaku has learned (again) that there isn’t a SingStar for the Beatles, but you will be able to play the next Beatles game — the one we knew about — like SingStar. Maybe with special mics, even. An MTV Games/Harmonix spokesperson e-mailed Kotaku a statement this morning denying the existence of the SingStar Fab Four…
I watched a man stand on a Wii Balance Board to play a game of Super Monkey Ball last week. And I misheard a key detail for an awkward half-minute. Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll for Wii is coming out from Sega early 2010 and controls exactly as you would expect a Balance Board…
With three key changes to its guts, the new PlayStation 3 is more cost-efficient and poised to boost Sony’s market share, Sony told Kotaku today. Oh, and the slim has no rear power button. Sony is hoping that the the newly-announced slim PlayStation 3, launching in the U.S. on September 1 for $299, will be…
Today’s bath of PlayStation announcements included word of a new PlayStation Network game/thingy called Loco Roco Midnight Carnival. We’ll know more about it when our guys in Germany check it out at GamesCom. Pretty concept art above, screens below. Click that image above so it’s nice and big.
Before and after.
Want a look at the new September-dated PS3 slim? This was on a banner outside of Sony’s press conference today in Germany. (click to enlarge)
Kaz Hirai, head of all things PlayStation, announced that the long-rumored PlayStation 3 Slim will be in stores the first week of September. [UPDATED with official pic] Hirai noted that it will be have the same features and function of the current PS3, with a 120 gb drive. It will be 33 percent smaller, 36…
Marvel comics will be readable (legally!) on PSPs in the coming months. At their Gamescom press conference today, Sony announced the November launch of a digital reader for the PlayStation Portable. Details are scarce about what content will be on the service, but one bit of content is locked: Marvel Comics. The Spider-Man publisher’s Ira…
The story Kotaku ran yesterday regarding the origin of a poker game deciding whether Valve’s Gabe Newell or Randy Pitchford could name their company Gearbox was a “tall tale,” Pitchford told Kotaku this morning. I regret presenting it as fact. The story in question originally ran on Joystiq, which presented a lengthy e-mailed anecdote from…
“When Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ships in March, it will deliver the best online multiplayer experience ever,” Karl Magnus Troedsson, Battlefield’s executive producer announced today. We’ll know soonish. Publisher EA announced that the DICE’s next military shooter will ship for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 2 in the U.S. and March 5…
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