Yesterday’s TAY was a commenting success, thanks to that old chestnut: gaming list of shame. And here I expected debate about Wiis draining AA batteries. I had more dead ones today. Anyway, discuss gaming below. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
Fight Night Round 4 brings boxing back to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with the promise from EA Sports of more realistic pugilism. What Is It? Fight Night is the leading boxing series on consoles. It has been since Fight Night replaced EA’s own Knockout Kings series. It comes out on June 30, about…
We’ve got more evidence that non-gaming celebrities hawking games on TV is the future. We reported yesterday that gaming research analyst Jesse Divnich of the EEDAR group sees impressive results in Activision and Nintendo’s recent use of non-game celebrities to hype games. Celebrities and games. They’ve crossed paths plenty of times before, but we reached…
French development studio Cyanide intends to make the first video games based on one of the most beloved and bloody series of fantasy novels in recent memory. George R. R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire novel are full of swords, sex, cracked family trees and dragons. Like many a video game, they’re also…
The new, bigger E3 is a little smaller today, as Atari has confirmed that it is no longer exhibiting at the show. Ghostbusters publisher Atari was scheduled to show games to attendees of this year’s E3 at the LA Convention Center’s Booth 501 and Meeting Room 304ABC, from June 2 to June 4. Whoever will…
As promising as Capcom’s upcoming Wii game Spyborgs is, it runs the risk of suffering the fate of the company’s last Wii original. But Capcom thinks it figured out what went wrong last time. Spyborgs, the impressively-rendered co-op brawler created by Bionic Games for the Wii, gives a good first impression. It looks better than…
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The games you’re going to be able to play from super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer will be original and tell great stories, according to the new men running Jerry Bruckheimer Games. The grand collaboration between Pirates of the Caribbean and CSI producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Rock Band creator MTV Games announced in December 2007 took another step…
It’s not easy to get to the very final mission of Rockstar’s DS Grand Theft Auto. But the number of people who have done so has doubled in the past month. When last I checked to see how many people had jumped through the hoops to access the final two missions of Chinatown Wars, it…
The former general manager of Xbox Live Arcade and v.p. at Peggle studio PopCap is going to Blizzard. Let the development speculation begin. Kotaku has learned that Greg Canessa, the man who ran Xbox Live Arcade at the Xbox 360’s launch for Microsoft and has since served as vice president of game platforms at PopCap…
While making the world’s latest video game about the Tom Cruise classic, the Top Gun iPhone development team took a few liberties — in the name of both fun and air supremacy. There’s a man called Maverick and a guy nicknamed Iceman giving you orders as you fly missions under their tutelage. There are fighter…
Publishers should recognize that the televised appearance of celebrities in their underwear hyping Guitar Hero is helping that series beat its better-reviewed competition, according to a gaming analyst. There are many ways that star game reviewer and Giant Bomb honcho Jeff Gerstmann and star model Heidi Klum are unalike. One of those, may be their…
Who cares if M-rated Wii games do or don’t sell? We’ve crunched numbers in our latest Wii Stats Report to learn how much the people who get these games actually play them. MadWorld included. Last week, we showed you the 10 most-played gamers, per gamer, on the Wii. Few people could have been surprised that…
Broken Steel is the last of three announced Xbox 360 and PC-exclusive expansions to Fallout 3, and the one that was most clearly built to be a crowd-pleaser. Broken Steel adds about five hours of new quests to what used to be the end of Fallout 3. It raises Fallout 3’s level cap from 20…
The $9 price for one-hour episodes of some Xbox 360 Video Marketplace content was correct, the company said, following our post from yesterday. Yesterday we reported that some content on the Xbox 360 Video Marketplace was priced in a way that seemed like it could have been a typo. High-def videos for some HD Net…
Some elements hidden near the end of the Wii’s Mushroom Men game might make you think the developers are trying to say something about marriage. Kris Taylor, co-founder of Texas game development studio Red Fly, admits that there are little innuendos in his team’s 2008 Wii game about mushroom-sized, mushroom-shaped warriors. That could include the…
He or she who wields the MotionPlus in EA’s upcoming Wii sports games will be able to play differently, but not always better. At a recent showcase for EA’s upcoming sports games in New York City, I got a chance to play EA’s Tiger Woods PGA 10 for the Wii with Nintendo’s MotionPlus add-on and…
Better reviews don’t seem to be helping 50 Cent’s newest video game. Despite earning higher review scores than 2005’s 50 Cent Bulletproof, February’s Blood on the Sand has sold an estimated 56,000 copies in the U.S. between its February launch and early April. Its predecessor did far better. In its first two months of release…
There’s much that Star Trek tells us about the future of collared shirts, the U.N. and torpedoes, but we’ve been trying to figure out what it says about the future of games. Sadly, the folks at Bad Robot, production company behind this weekend’s Star Trek movie, were not able to tell us this week whether…
You’ll never forget how much some 720p videos cost on the Xbox 360 Marketplace. Fans of the fighting arts may be wondering, like me, why some videos on the Xbox 360 Marketplace are so expensive. They have easy-to-remember price points, but those price points are high. Want to watch an hour of Ring of Honor…
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