Since its announcement at E3 in 2005, Alan Wake has been a gaming Sasquatch. But we had a sighting this week, grabbed a controller and played it. Alan Wake has been touted as a more grown-up suspense game, a subtler and more sophisticated take on a genre more commonly infested with zombie nurses and chainsaw…
Longtime Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto acknowledged that the long-rumored Metroid Dread is real and may some day be released. During a Metroid interview yesterday with series director Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja producer Yousuke Hayashi, we slipped in a question that was not about the newly announced Metroid: Other M. Well, we thought it might…
Microsoft announced at E3 2008 that a South Park game was coming to Xbox Live Arcade. We couldn’t find it at E3 2009, but we did get an update. “South Park actually is coming,” John Schappert, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of interactive entertainment LIVE, software and services said in an interview with Kotaku yesterday. “I…
Ubisoft hadn’t shown Splinter Cell Conviction to the public in two years but brought it back impressively this E3. The game’s creative director said it could be tricky for people to play during an E3 demo. But the game seemed to play quite well from what we witnessed. What has wowed people at E3 who…
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These are the things we thought Sony would or should mention at their E3 2009 press conference, but didn’t: PS3 Slim: If you’re going to show all the other things that leaked in the weeks before the Sony press conference then why not show us the rumored PS3 Slim? Or was that the one leak…
By Josiah Munsey E3 is Vegas on crack, lights pulsing, base thumping, nunchucks swinging, people dancing for joy to DJ Hero’s remix of “Holla Back Girl” (thanks, Activision). With this sensory overload, it becomes easier to see which games stick out, which games are unique. I was hoping to find a game with original content…
The new Firefight mode in Halo 3 ODST may seem like nothing more than Bungie’s version of Gears of War’s Horde mode, but the dots in the top left corner… they are what’s different. In Halo 3 ODST, the new Firefight mode will allow four players to fight against waves of Covenant enemies. Levels are…
Last year, Shigeru Miyamoto let slip that Nintendo was making a new Pikmin game. Today, he told me and Brian Crecente that the project is moving ahead, but not at the pace some fans may have hoped. “I’m sorry,” Miaymoto said when we asked him why the new Pikmin wasn’t at this E3. “Unfortunately we…
The legendary Nintendo designer confirmed that a new Zelda for consoles is still on the way and complimented my ridiculous pitch for a new Zelda game.
Nintendo’s legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto sat down with Kotaku to talk about Nintendo’s biggest projects and shared some details on the newly announced Super Mario Galaxy. “For the most part up until now on a single console we haven’t made two games in a single franchise,” Miyamoto said. “But when we first made Super Mario…
The studio behind Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt is making Agent just for Sony’s console, Sony announced today during the company’s E3 media briefing. A Rockstar press release followed: Rockstar founder Sam Houser described Agent as the “ultimate action game.” According to the game’s press release, “Agent takes players on a paranoid journey into the…
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I talked to Peter Molyneux’s virtual boy on the Xbox 360. He liked the color of my shirt. On Monday night, I got the briefest of demos of what may be the most ambitious piece of software known to be in development for Microsoft’s new motion-control Project Natal: the virtual-person game known as Milo. And,…
At the Microsoft gaming showcase tonight, I finished up a session of Splinter Cell Conviction and ran into my one-time gaming rival Soulja Boy. He was on his way to play Halo 3 ODST. He wants to set up a rematch: Street Fighter IV maybe. He’s done with Geometry Wars.
.html The trailer for Bungie’s 2010 Halo: Reach game promises that, “from the beginning, you know the end.” You do?
NBA Unrivaled will be a new option for players looking for an NBA video game alternative. A bottom-of-the-press-release surprise from Tecmo today was the news that the publisher is backing an NBA game, NBA Unrivaled for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this year. Tecmo joins a field currently occupied by EA and Take…
These are the things we thought Microsoft would mention today at the Xbox 360 press conference today, but didn’t: Assassin’s Creed 2 — One of the biggest games of two years ago has a sequel coming later this year and doesn’t get mentioned? Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony — Microsoft has an…
Free Avatar racing game Joy Ride is coming to XBLA, in the fashion of a Korean MMO. One of the more unusual announcements for the Xbox 360 today was the release of Avatar-supported racing game Joy Ride. It would be easy to dismiss amid the flurry of Natal tech demos and Facebook upgrades to Xbox…
EA announced today that an EA Sports MMA game is in development at Madden and Tiger Woods studio EA Tiburon. “We’re ready for the fight,” EA Sports chief Peter Moore said in a press release. No other details were given regarding fighters, arenas and so forth. Rival publisher THQ publishes games based on the world-famous…
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