Stephen Totilo is live at this week’s annual celebration of all things id: QuakeCon. The keynote is getting ready to kick off, so park your browsers on this page and follow along.
Here’s a short taste of what Quake Arena Arcade will look like when it hits Xbox Live Arcade. And for good measure, here’s a shot of Doom II for Xbox Live Arcade as well, on display at this year’s QuakeCon. Expect an official announcement soon with the QuakeCon 2009 press conference about to get underway.…
Among the towers, the PC accessories, the Galaga spaceships was a bit of early news perhaps including a glimpse at Doom II and Quake Live for the Xbox 360‘s Live Arcade. [UPDATE: I should have just called this Quake Arena Arcade. Sorry about the “Quake Live” confusion.] This top picture shows a bit of both…
As Sega targets 12-and-under gamers as its core Sonic market, company leaders told Kotaku that it has re-thought how to please all Sonic fans. To understand how Sega thinks about its most famous mascot, one must appreciate how differently people responded to 2008’s werewolf version of Sonic, the Werehog. That creature, who was playable in…
9/9/09 will not produce any major Sega events commemorating the Dreamcast launch of 9/9/99, but the company is thinking about the future of its last gaming console in one key way. The head of Sega West, Mike Hayes, told me Wednesday that, despite the pride Sega has in the Dreamcast, it has no formal celebration…
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A brief look at Alpha Protocol yesterday brought to mind how what may be the western-made role-playing-game time-sink of this fall compares to some recent big ones. A quartet of love scenes is but one difference. Alpha Protocol, the spy-themed role-playing game from development studio Obsidian Entertainment and publisher Sega, once expected many months ago,…
Sega announced the delay of Bayonetta last month, making American gamers wait until 2010 to beat up angels as a hot woman dressed only in the hair wrapped around her body. The alternative was too risky, the company told Kotaku. Sega West president Mike Hayes said that theories about the economic recession forcing so many…
Mario and Sonic are bringing their friends to the Winter Olympics, and somehow that got me playing a Wii game with my rear end. Butt-on impressions follow. What is it? Mario And Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is the Wii sequel to the first team-up of gaming’s two most popular characters, Mario and Sonic…
Kotaku sat with the new chief of Sega’s American and European divisions yesterday to get an update on everything from Aliens to Yakuza. Only on his new job for about two and a half weeks, Mike Hayes is the man who now oversees Sega West, the combined domain of Sega of America and Sega of…
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Skipping past dull debates about whether games are art, consider this new DSiWare puzzle game that is labeled as art. Okay. So it’s art. What to make of that fact? Hammers, hula hoops and other things you use with your hands or hips are not often described as art — at least not as frequently…
Xbox gamers can dress as a BioShock Big Daddy or a Halo trooper if they sample the new virtual world fashions launching today. Or they could dress like they’re from the Great Depression. The line’s designer explains why. We dress in mere costumes when we control characters in our Xbox 360s. Michael Connell believes it’s…
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Conflicting schedules indicate that Popular Science and The Science Channel will reveal the future of gaming tonight or a week from now. The future of human bodies takes the other slot. Here’s the description of the Future of Play, possibly premiering tonight: Mixed reality lets you reach into the computer game and control it with…
People always complain that there aren’t enough games on Kotaku. (Actually, they don’t, but just pretend that they do.) So here’s a Twitter-based, gaming-centric quiz for you starring, well, that’s the mystery! Each of the following video-game-related Tweets were added to the omnibus of important Internet conversation that is Twitter.com some time in the last…
Rage showcase? Check. Non-alcoholic drinking contest? Confirmed. Bethesda crashing the party? Uh-huh. This site finally showing up at a QuakeCon? Yep. It’s all set for later this week. The official QuakeCon schedule is now available for public perusal and my personal calendar has been updated. The event happens at the Gaylord Texan just next to…
Proving that you can never know everything about Lost, some of us may have just learned that Galaga is/was/could-be part of ABC’s convoluted hit. As I was listening to the summer edition of the official Lost podcast and trying to not count the months until the show’s final season, I caught this video-game-related snippet. It’s…
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There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? This was a weird week, as a story I was chasing didn’t quite come together. New facts contradicted old facts. It was a wash. Plus, I did an interview on…
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