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While Leveno moves forward with its version of Kinect, China Telecom showed its version of the Nintendo Wii. And did it with Xbox 360-esque green and white. The China Telecom console is called “Tigan Youxi” (“Somatic Gaming”) and is an add-on service for its Internet Protocol television. It will be available for a monthly subscription…
Already released in Japan, the Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition will be making its way to the States this December, Nintendo of America revealed today. Priced at US$29.99, the Limited Edition comes with Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 as well as a…
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Tango Gameworks, the new studio headed up by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, has just been bought by Zenimax Media, the firm which also owns Oblivion developers Bethesda and Doom creators id. Mikami, whose last project was the just-released Vanquish, will remain in Tokyo with his team, where he will stay on as the head…
Jack-of-all-trades Ice Cube is lending his voice to the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops. Ice Cube first made a name for himself first as a rapper, but has since branched out into a successful acting, writing, directing and producing career. Some of his film roles include Boyz n the Hood, Three Kings and Friday…
Junkboy, the man to thank for 22 of the sweetest “demakes” we’ve seen all year, has a new piece up for lovers of Platinum Games’ latest effort Vanquish. Called “Wank-ish”, it takes the sickeningly-fast 3D shooter and turns it into a 2D game ala Wild Guns I liked Vanquish, but a lot of the time…
Until 2008, the head ninja of Team Ninja (not pictured) was Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki. Then he left and filed a lawsuit over unpaid wages. More Tecmo developers left, too. What’s that like for the other ninjas? “I’ve been with Team Ninja ever since I graduated from college, so everything I know about…
Universal Studios is working on more than just a Michael Jackson game, with word slipping out yesterday that an MMO based on mythical monster hunter Van Helsing is also in development. Handling the game will be a partnership between SEE Virtual Worlds and Entropia Universe creators MindArk. There’s not much else to tell at the…
Microsoft has been successful the world over with its operating systems. Even in Japan, Windows is the most common OS. However, the computer giant hasn’t seen those same results there with gaming. That hasn’t always been the case. In the early 1980s, Microsoft Japan aimed to create a standard for computers akin to the VHS…
Continuing their welcome tradition of showing us games they never actually made, Irrational has this week lifted the veil on Monster Island, a title the BioShock developers never finished (though we wish they had). First conceived at the beginning of the decade, Monster Island is described by Irrational as an “action/strategy console game” that took…
In Japan, Rie Tanaka (Phantasy Star Portable, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3) is such a popular voice actress that last year she got her own trading cards. This year, she’s getting her own hug pillow cover. Progress! Hug pillows are called “dakimakura” with “daki” referring to “hug” and “makura” meaning “pillow”. Dakimakura covers typically show…
In the six months leading up to September 30, 2009, Nintendo sold 11.7 million DS units worldwide. In the six months leading up to September 30, 2010, that figure has dropped by nearly half, to 6.69 million. It’s to be expected, of course. Not only is the DS getting a little long in the tooth…
When Jodie Sweetin was 13, Full House was canceled. The actress, who played Stephanie Tanner, grew up, got married and started doing meth. But her second husband, she says, was a gaming junkie. In her tell-all memoir UnSweetined, the 28-year-old actress talks about overcoming her drug addiction and how difficult it was for her after…
We are all over PC gaming this week, but what do we know about PC gaming? Each day, one Kotaku editor will reveal their PC gaming knowledge and share some memories. Yesterday you read about Ashcraft’s experiences, now it’s my turn. Are you a PC gamer? You bet your ass I am. While I own…
Super Meat Boy is described as “tough as nails” by its developers. And boy, they aren’t kidding. Ready to be put through the grinder? Super Meat Boy is a 2D platformer in the vein of hard retro games like Namco’s Quest of Ki. The plot is simple: Dr. Fetus kidnapped Bandage Girl, and it’s up…
This week is the tenth anniversary of the PlayStation 2’s launch in North America, and as part of the celebrations Sony rounded up a bunch of big-name developers and asked them what their favourite PS2 games were. Don’t worry, it’s not just Sony or Sony BFF developers giving their thoughts; everyone from Ken Levine to…
When they’re not starring in movies or cartoons, Star Wars’ C-3PO and R2-D2 like nothing more than to…break into a large British electronics retailer, turn on all the TVs and play some video games. And that’s probably the least entertaining part of this commercial for Currys & PC World Megastores, in which Threepio plays the…
A 22 year-old woman from Jacksonsville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of…Farmville. Alexandra V. Tobias says her three-month old child, Dylan Lee Edmondson, had been crying while she was trying to play the popular Facebook casual game. This angered Tobias, who told authorities that she shook the baby,…
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