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Tecmo Bowl Wii Transformed Into Something Else
Wii trends have turned a planned Tecmo Bowl Wii into a family football game, according to G4. Tecmo recently announced the development of Family Fun Football for the Wii, a title that sounds perfectly in line with the jolly kinds of games many publishers produce for NIntendo’s console. But wasn’t there supposed to be a…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 27, 2009 -
Ubisoft Made Less Money Last Year, Had Some Huge Franchises
Profits were up, income was down and the Imagine games sold tons in the last 12 months, according to year-end financial results released by Ubisoft today. The company took in $890.2 million in the 12 month period ending on March 31, 2009. Up from $852.8 million the year before. But operating income was down from…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 27, 2009 -
Ubisoft CEO Predicts New Apple Gaming Hardware
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot predicted today not just a coming generation of consoles and a gaming revolution in set-top boxes, but a bigger gaming play by Apple than just the iPhone. Yves Guillemot crossed his name off the list of people who have yet to predict that Apple will become a bigger player in gaming…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 27, 2009 -
Ubisoft Narrows Release Dates For Splinter Cell, Red Steel, Rest Of Year’s Line-Up
As part of the company’s announcement of financial results for its just-concluded fiscal year, Ubisoft has announced release windows for its full line-up through the end of March 2010. Highlights on the list include Q3 (November 2009 to December2009) releases for Assassin’s Creed 2, which Ubi prez Yves Guillemot says will cost 20 percent more…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 27, 2009 -
We Get It, Terminator Salvation Movie Is Just Like A Video Game
In trying to describe how much they disliked the new Terminator movie, many movie reviewers decided that comparing it to video games would do the trick. Terminator Salvation, the fourth Terminator movie, opened last weekend to cranky reviews. Unimpressed with actor Christian Bale and director McG’s take on the evil-android series, movie reviewers eviscerated the…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2009 -
Rockstar, Obama Put Latinos Front And Center
While it’s unlikely that the White House coordinated with the makers of Grand Theft Auto, the two parties managed to make May 26, 2009 a significant date for Latinos. Today saw the announcement not just of the first Latino protagonist of a Grand Theft Auto adventure but the nomination by President Barack Obama of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2009 -
Take-Two Q2 News: $10 Million Loss, Beaterator Hype, More
In an earnings call today, Take Two executives worked revenue drops, the word “Beaterator,” a denial of a digital distribution sea-change and praise for Rockstar into one conversation. This is how they did it: Highlights from Take Two’s second quarter earnings call follow, minus the big BioShock and GTA stuff, since we covered that already……
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2009 -
BioShock 2 Dated, Coming First To Europe
November 3 is the date for BioShock 2 in North America, but Europeans will get a head start. During the company’s conference call to discuss second quarter financial results, Take-Two CEO Ben Feder announced that BioShock 2 will hit Europe on October 30 and North America on November 3. The game, which is expected to…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2009 -
GTA IV Episodes Coming To Disc As Standalone Game
Today’s newly announced The Ballad of Gay Tony episode for Grand Theft Auto IV was only half of Rockstar’s GTA news. The other half could usher in a new approach to downloadable content. Rockstar Games announced that the fall-slated The Ballad of Gay Tony and the February-released GTA IV episode The Lost and Damned will…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2009 -
Return Of The Aggressively Competitive Gaming Ad
Do you long for the days when video game ads were designed to attack or undermine competitive products? Don’t despair. We can confirm such days are still here. EA’s got a Wii fitness game. It’s called EA Sports Active. Don’t believe us? Try Googling it. But don’t type in “EA Sports Active.” Type in “EA…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2009 -
E3 ’08: Our Promise-Checking Round-Up
Big companies make big promises at big shows like E3. We recently rounded up the promises made by Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony from last year’s E3. Who can you trust going into E3 2009? Here are last year’s performances… Witness the future-predicting powers of Xbox 360 executives and game developers. Just ignore the 1 vs…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 25, 2009 -
Reviews
inFamous Review: It’s Electric
InFamous is supposed to be super-hero gaming done right. It’s also the PlayStation 3 debut of one of the PlayStation 2’s most ambitious development studios. Nothing could go wrong, right? A PlayStation 3 exclusive from development studio Sucker Punch, InFamous charges that something besides the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound or…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 25, 2009 -
If They Made A Wii R.O.B.
Power Glove —> Wii Remote…. Power Pad —> Balance Board… NES Zapper —> Wii Zapper… R.O.B. —> ??? We are in a robot mood this week at Kotaku, the kind of mood that can make us miss the robots of yesteryear. Robots like R.O.B., the robot so cool that he could play the Nintendo Entertainment System…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 25, 2009 -
Scribblenauts Has A Little Bit Of LBP
They’re not exactly squeezing Little Big Planet into DS game Scribblenauts, but the potential for some interesting building, creating and sharing is there. When I asked earlier this week about any multiplayer options in this fall’s will-render-whatever-you-write game Scribblenauts, I got a surprise response. The game won’t have any standard multiplayer, but it will allow…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2009 -
Boom Blox Downloadable Levels Feature Wii, IGN, White House
EA’s Boom Blox Bash Party is out and people are already making levels for download featuring famous stuff to wreck. Crystalline II – A level made by EA’s Boom Blox team. A gold medal if it can be toppled with three slingshot shots. World Domination – This is a competitive level also made by EA’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2009 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
If you do your Kotaku-commenting from work, and if you’re American, and if you work for a progressive enough company, then you only have a half-day today to comment about gamers here. So start. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2009
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