Stephen Totilo

Castlevania Icon Koji Igarashi Still At Konami, Working On New Project

At E3, it was legendary Metal Gear developer Hideo Kojima who took the stage to announce his oversight of the next Castlevania game, not the man long associated with the series. Today, series publisher Konami addressed that curiosity with Kotaku. Koji Igarashi, who has overseen three critically-lauded Nintendo DS Castlevanias and has been involved with…

How Much Xbox 360 Avatar Clothes And Toys Cost

Earlier today we gave you a video tour of the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (aka the love-child of Home and Miis). Now have a look at the prices for all Avatar clothing and toys… One important metric to note before you start clicking on thumbnails and preparing your shopping list: 80 Microsoft points equals…

Dev: DSi Is “A More Powerful Platform” Than DS Lite

One of the top DS development houses in the industry doesn’t see the DSi as just a DS Lite plus gimmicks. “It’s not just a DS with cameras in it as some might think,” video game producer David Nathanielsz told Kotaku in an interview earlier this week. “It’s a more powerful platform.” Nathanielsz is the…

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How Wii Sports Resort Took Over Times Square

Witness a major marketing spend and a video game taking center stage at the Crossroads of the World. At the center of this stunt? 50 tons of New Jersey sand, part of a promotional island for Wii Sports Resort. (Apologies for the low video quality. Last time I take a video with my Blackberry, folks…)

Old News ’87: Zelda Is Going To Be Bigger Than Mario

Once a week, let’s dig up an old bit of news and see what became of it. Today we’ve got Nintendo in 1987 predicting that the Zelda NES “game pak” will be huge. Bold words, Nintendo. It’s May of 1987, the year after Nintendo started selling the Nintendo Entertainment System in America. Super Mario Brothers…

Rare Sighting: Pro-Marijuana Reference In A Video Game

As I played the upcoming Grand Theft Auto-like iPhone game Gangstar: West Coast Hustle earlier this week, I tuned the radio to 42.0 and got a surprise. The 42.0 station, the frequency itself a reference to marijuana, is called “Legalize It. “It’s one of four radio stations of original music in the game, which models…

Getting Barefoot With Nintendo

At a fake beach today, Nintendo’s vp of corporate affairs didn’t want to tell me how many copies Nintendo hopes to sell of Wii Sports Resort. Nor shipped. Give me something for a post, Denise! She suggested this. I had fished for news, but I wasn’t going to get it from Nintendo of America’s Denise…

Band Hero DS Braces For The Skeptics, Offers A Lot

They know some gamers will groan. But they’re confident: you just need to try it. “It” is not Guitar Hero 5 DS, which you might have expected this fall. There’s no such thing. Enter Band Hero DS. This November, Activision’s Vicarious Visions studio will release its fourth music game for the Nintendo DS. Band Hero…

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The Band Hero DS Drum Peripheral Revealed

This fall, Band Hero DS will allow four DS systems to link up for guitar-bass-vocals-drum gameplay. And for optimal drumming, the game comes bundled with a “drum grip” revealed here. The Band Hero DS drum grip is a piece of rubberized silicon that slips over a DS Lite. And is designed to better enable the…

Real Beatles Compared To Beatles Screenshots

What are those people doing in that brick building in Massachusetts? They’re ensuring that the virtual Beatles look like the real Beatles. Bitmob.com has taken a gander at some images from the upcoming Beatles Rock Band game. They’ve taken a look at photos and video stills of the Beatles. And they’ve compared. The results aren’t…

This Week In Video Game Comics

And on the week of Comic-Con 2009 there is just one video game comic released? I guess publishers were too busy announcing them. Oh well. Um… all hail Sonic? Click the thumbnail for more details. >Sonic Universe #6… Written by Ian Flynn; Art by Tracy Yardley Summary via publisher Archie Comics: “Reaping”: An unprecedented new…

Gangstar Preview: Very Much Like GTA On An iPhone

Coming in August is a game that looks and plays an awful lot like Grand Theft Auto. Except it’s on the iPhone. And it’s not GTA. But it does work. Word first leaked about Gangstar: West Coast Hustle earlier this month. It’s another GTA-like game coming to a platform that Rockstar Games hasn’t yet graced…

The Rising Price Of XBLA Games

The average price of Xbox Live Arcade games on the Xbox 360 has risen by a $1.74 since the Xbox 360 launched in November of 2005, according to Kotaku’s study of prices for more than 200 XBLA games. Microsoft’s annual Summer of Arcade promotion begins today, a five-week event designed to draw attention to new…

Ex-Visceral Execs Making Game Based On Existing Activision Franchise, Leading New Studio

Wondering what Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, former top guys at Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno studio Visceral Games are going to be doing at Activision? Something new, based on something old, Kotaku learned today. An Activision spokesperson confirmed to us today that former Visceral general manager Schofield and COO Condrey will be working at…

Dead Space Extraction Preview: What The Wii Can Do

When he wasn’t expressing excitement that one of the people attending his demo writes for legendary horror magazine Fangoria, the executive producer of Dead Space Extraction was letting us experience EA’s bravest Wii game. These devs like the gore. EA has taken a bold step. The company is bringing a prequel to the graphically and…

EA Not Worried Over Loss of Dante and Dead Space Leaders

EA is shrugging off reports yesterday about the departure of two of the top men behind Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno. Gamespot reported yesterday that Visceral Games general manager Glen Schofield and COO Michael Condrey were departing EA for Activision, less than a year after the release of Schofield’s pet project Dead Space and the…

Stan Lee’s Going To Be In A Video Game

The man who gets the most glory for creating and co-creating Marvel Comics super-hero icons will have a cameo in an upcoming Activision game. No word if his voice-over work includes the word “Excelsior.” The 86-year-old “publisher emeritus” of Marvel Comics and co-creator of Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four and X-Men will appear as an as-yet…

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