Stephen Totilo

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Sony Explains Unnamed New PS3 Motion Controller A Little More

The head of marketing for the PlayStation brand told us at E3 that Sony’s new PlayStation 3 motion-control tech could be the thing to get hardcore players into “motion gaming.” We covered Microsoft’s new motion-control system, Natal, heavily last week. And that’s without us getting a firm release date for it. But what of Sony’s…

PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe Preview: Marital Bliss

I’m not writing the following preview for Kotaku readers. I’m writing it for my wife, who loves PixelJunk Monsters and has demanded more information. PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe is the first PSP release in the well-reviewed, artsy-retro PixelJunk series that has been a delight for PS3 owners (and for a certain someone I live with). Announced…

EA: Fight Night And MMA Will Alternate Years

At E3, EA Sports chief Peter Moore let us in on his master plan to guarantee an EA Sports fighting game every year. It’s an odd-numbered year this year, and so it is that EA Sports shall give us a boxing game. Fight Night Round 4, to be specific. Later this month. EA Sports’ Peter…

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time Preview: Time For Change

The new Ratchet and Clank might be the most changed edition of the franchise since the multiplayer-centric Deadlocked, but that’s not the comparison the developers probably want us making. The third Ratchet & Clank game on the PS3 in as many years was on display at E3 to a pack of reporters curious if there…

Miyamoto No Longer Sad, But Wants To Refute One Criticism

Shigeru Miyamoto is no longer suffering the GameCube blues, we learned at E3. In fact, he’s been turning heads. But he is still trying to shake the criticism that Nintendo’s Wii games are shallow. This is part of a longer interview conducted by Kotaku with Miyamoto, the lead creative director for Nintendo, at E3 last…

E3 Reality Check: 2009 Vs. 2010

Getting excited about the big games of 2009 is sooo 2009. Did you know that a major portion of the great games hyped at E3 last week aren’t out until 2010? We’ve charted it. Here’s a list of many of the biggest games hyped at E3 2009, divided neatly into what’s slated for this year…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Scientific fact: One year from today, it still won’t be E3 2010 yet! Don’t let that get you down. Please, talk about games right here, right now. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

Microsoft: Project Natal Can Support Multiple Players, See Fingers

Earlier this week Microsoft let me try Project Natal in a hotel suite where test-versions of the new gaming sensor array was set up. Three times, I thought I found a flaw in the systems. I thought the system, as impressive as it was in letting me play kickball with virtual balls on a TV…

BioWare Doesn’t Expect You To Survive Mass Effect 2

If you don’t want to know anything about Mass Effect 2, don’t read more. But if you’re curious about just how dangerous this new game is…. Mass Effect 2 lead designer Casey Hudson walked E3 show attendees through a behind-closed-doors demo of his game today. He started spilling news about BioWare’s 2010 sci-fi sequel. First,…

Microsoft: Rare Working On Numerous Natal Projects

No Banjo Kazooie at E3? No Viva Pinata? Blame Project Natal. We’ve been looking for Rare at E3. Microsoft’s Shane Kim, corporate v. p. at Microsoft for Xbox 360 strategy and business development, didn’t exactly tell us where they are, but he did tell us what they’re up to. “Rare is intimately involved with Project…

Nintendo Thinks Conan O’Brien Mario Homage Is “Great”

Now that we’ve seen how Super Mario World’s level design has helped shape Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show backdrop, we had to get Nintendo’s reaction. We did. “That’s great,” Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said as he looked at it for the first time during his interview with Kotaku. “We know that he is a…

Nintendo Has No New Colors To Announce For America

Nintendo’s announcement overnight of a black Wii and a red DSi being scheduled for the Japanese market, got us wondering about those new colors coming to America. Who better to answer this than the president of Nintendo of America? “We don’t have anything to announce for the U.S. on either of those products,” Nintendo of…

Sony: E3 Not Proper Venue To Announce Any PS3 Price Drop

Despite expectations that Sony would lower the price of the PS3 at E3, the company announced no price drop at the big show. We asked why. “From our perspective, this show is all about content,” Sony’s head of PlayStation marketing in the U.S., Peter Dille, told Kotaku in an interview yesterday. “We believe that our…

Sony: PSP Go Priced Right, Games “Shipping” On Street Dates

While we haven’t gotten Sony to answer our question yet about how UMD games will or won’t be transferable to PSP Go yet, the company has addressed two other big topics: the unit’s price and the timing of game releases. Sony Computer Entertainment America’s head of marketing Peter Dille showed us his fully-functional white PSP…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Muramasa The Demon Blade Preview: So, So Pretty

Who wants a Wii game with great graphics and no motion control? The single-player adventure or action game genres are not as popular on the Wii as mini-game compilations. But an increasing number of publishers and developers seem undeterred, making games designed to please the hardcore, like MadWorld, Dead Space Extraction and The Conduit. If…

And This Is The White PSP Go

Sony marketing man Peter Dille doesn’t carry just any PSP Go around. He carries the white PSP Go, as he showed me today. No details on if/when a white one would be available for the masses.

Sony Expects Metal Gear Solid Rising On PS3 At Launch

Sony’s head of marketing for the PS3 confirmed that the next console Metal Gear Solid is not an Xbox 360 exclusive or even a timed one. Despite being announced by Hideo Kojima at Monday’s Microsoft press conference, Peter Dille, Sony’s head of marketing for PlayStation in the U.S., told Kotaku today that the expected hit…

Watch The PSP Go Sliding In Action

Here are my hands trying out the PSP Go, which was lighter in my hands than any new handheld I’ve played in several years. A hidden surprise: flipping open the screen turns the system on.