It’s commonplace for game companies to make gamers’ saved-game files oddly incompatible with things they seemingly should be compatible with. So the news Microsoft had for Kotaku today about saved-game cross-compatibility is a progressive step. On August 11, gamers will be able to download full Xbox 360 games to their console using the new Xbox…
I don’t know David Martinous. And I’m not sure what a “video game technician is.” But the New York Times says that a man with that job was challenged to a fight by one of the planet’s top sporstmen. David Beckham, British soccer superstar and recent player for the the U.S.’ Major League Soccer has…
Grumpy complaints about bad game endings are not news. But a podcast complaint that games don’t have what they called “falling action” and “denouements” in high school? That’s worth being grumpy about. A listener of the Listen Up podcast recently asked the show’s hosts to talk about the poor quality of game endings. The listener…
Never mind, for a moment, how this game plays — though I will tell you. Check out how it looks. IL-2 Sturmovik, the 2001 PC original, was for the hardcore. Not the Mario-loving hardcore. Not the GTA-loving hardcore. Not the people who memorize JRPG scripts. No, the hardcore of World War II combat flight-sim lovers.…
Tucked into a Comic-Con announcement from Microsoft is news that the Xbox 360’s next Xbox Live update is coming in 21 days. The 360 dash will get an update on August 11. In it, Microsoft confirmed today, will be the launch of the new Xbox Live Games On Demand service, which will launch with more…
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An analysis by website Gamasutra of first-half sales figures for the three big gaming consoles shows that the Wii’s hits are older hits. Gamasutra has crunched the NPD video game sales numbers and the results show that the top five best-selling games on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 in the U.S. from January…
It’s not often that the public gets word of what it costs to make a specific game. But a multi-million-dollar range was given for the latest Ghostbusters game in a Texas newspaper. The Fort Worth Star Telegram fingered the cost of development for the game at $15 million to $20 million. The budget figure ran…
Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office assigned the maker of the Xbox 360 and publisher of Gears of War the feature to offer seamless switching from solo to co-op gaming in squad-based shooters. The patent, #7,559,834 was invented by James York of Austin, Texas and filed back in the original Xbox era…
Thank goodness the new Wizard of Oz game for the DS doesn’t closely follow the movie’s plot, because this reporter, who played the game recently, could never get through that movie. What Is It? The Wizard of Oz is a newly announced (today!) game for the DS coming this fall from publisher XSeed. It’s a…
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The Wii Revolution has succeeded. Everyone knows this. What was once doubted and mocked now dominates and broadly entertains. But a major Wii struggle, made relevant again by the pending release of Wii Sports Resort, has hidden in plain sight. This stumble in Nintendo’s stride has gained little attention as its competitors chase its dust.…
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? Another Chatpad Dream Dashed: On Monday I ran my preview of Dragon Age: Origins. I included most of what I learned about the game’s contents in there. I omitted something…
It would take more than a double-jump, grappling hook and a screw attack to reach the lofty goal of being a new generation’s 2D Metroid or Castlevania. But that’s what Shadow Complex could hope to be. I’ve spent two hours and twenty minutes this morning with the game, a game made with great love for…
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EA finally gets the Wii, and not in a way that will excite hardcore gamers. Ghostbusters goes missing. PSP jumps. And more observations you can use at cocktail parties from today’s June NPDs. (Check out our software and hardware reports for June here… then read this analysis and add yours.) EA Nails The Wii, Thanks…
I came. I saw. I fell off the skateboard. Once. Gently. Not being known to be exceptionally skilled at video games, I play them anyway. But having limited athletic skill and no ability to roller-skate, I’ve never tried to skateboard more than a foot. Who better to try out the new Tony Hawk game played…
In a bit of triumphant news for the French, word to Kotaku via Infinity Ward’s chief Twitterer is that the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition will be available in the land of the Eiffel Tower. The tweet came out of the blue today from Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling: fourzerotwo @stephentotilo – good news,…
Infinity Ward brought Modern Warfare 2 to New York City last night and educated us a bit about the game’s lengthy co-op, ever-changing name, suspiciously inexpensive night vision goggles and more. The developers of Activision’s first-person-shooter fall juggernaut showed their game on the 43rd floor of a midtown Manhattan hotel, with drinks offered, a big…
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