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This Is The Monster Hunter Effect On The PSP In Japan
The power of red plastic on Wii sales in Japan is nothing compared to the promotional power of the Monster Hunter series. How else can we explain the PlayStation Portable more than doubling its sales this week overseas? The PSP sold another 96,000-plus units in Japan this week, the week before Monster Hunter Portable 3rd…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Cops Zap PCP-Using Rock Band Enthusiast (With Video)
From the University of Maryland comes this tale of holiday cheer – starring GameStop, Rock Band 3, a guy on PCP, cops, and the requisite taser. A Maryland senior headed to a shopping center on Monday intending to get a new ATM card. Instead, he saw a guy alone inside a GameStop, game cases strewn…
By Owen Good Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Mountain
To: Owen From: Crecente The wood has been delivered, the main floor emptied, so we’re heading to the mountains for most of a week. T&T and I our going to go find solace at my parents’ mountain cabin while a team of people tear apart the flooring on our main floor and put in all…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
One might think that with an extended weekend and cheap video games abound that some of us at Kotaku Towers would be swimming in things to play. But this weekend, I’ve got but two things on the agenda. One is to help pack Meat Bun orders from our Black Friday sale—why do we always do…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Move Cosplay Pushes Korea’s Buttons
Or should we say, Korea pushes the PlayStation Move’s buttons? Because that’s what’s happening here, and the controllers, bless them, don’t seem quite sure what to do about it. Snuggling babies, playing with kids, taking punches in the face, there’s nothing these valiant console mascots won’t do in the name of platform promotion. As seen…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedMassively Multiplayer Gotham City
Back in grade school my friends tried to convince me that Batman was cooler than Superman. While they were probably right, Gotham City is no Metropolis. Here’s a flythrough trailer for Batman’s Gotham City as it is featured in the early 2011 massively multiplayer PC and PlayStation 3 game DC Universe Online. Arkham Asylum is…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Saturn’s moon Rhea may have a breathable atmosphere
Saturn’s icy moon Rhea has an oxygen and carbon dioxide atmosphere that is very similar to Earth’s. Even better, the carbon dioxide suggests there’s life – and that possibly humans could breathe the air. It seems oxygen is far more abundant than we ever suspected, particularly on moons that seem to be completely frozen solid.…
By Alasdair Wilkins Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Capcom Slashes Prices on Games, Clothes, Flummery
Capcom Store’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales includes 20 to 50 percent off a wide selection of dealios, thingamajigs and video games. Among the list: Dead Rising 2 Bobble Budd Sett for $15.96 Okami for the Wii for $13.99 Resident Evil 5 for the Xbox 360 for $10 Monster Hunter Freedom for the PSP…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedMonster Hunter Portable 3rd’s Astounding Opening Movie
This won’t be what you see while playing the soon-to-hit-Japanese-PSP Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, but it sure sets the mood. Capcom told folks earlier this year that Monster Hunter 3rd would be arriving on the PSP this month.
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Large Hadron Collider proves the universe was once a liquid
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator smashed together lead nuclei at the highest energies possible, creating dense sub-atomic particles that reach temperatures of over ten trillion degrees. Beyond being awesome, this achievement shows the early universe was actually a liquid. Normal matter can’t exist in any form at these sort of absurdly hot temperatures. Instead,…
By Alasdair Wilkins Published November 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedGran Turismo’s Pursuit Of Visual Perfection, One Game At A Time
Gran Turismo is video game’s premiere iconic racing game series. Like Lara Croft, it has improved graphically. Take a look, at how good-looking it’s become, game by game, for over a decade. Gran Turismo (1998, PlayStation) The game doesn’t look bad until the 1:50 mark or so, when the cars start bouncing off each other…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
How to Buy an HDTV
If there’s one thing that actually sorta makes sense to buy on Black Friday, it’s an HDTV—many are crazy discounted. But picking out an HDTV can be a big ball of suck. That’s where this guide comes in. The 3DTV cheat Want to buy a set knowing that it’ll have excellent performance without having to…
By Matt buchanan Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Black Friday Deals Come To PlayStation Network & Xbox Live
If you’d (wisely) prefer to avoid the stampeding, budget-obsessed crowds sure to storm the Walmarts and Best Buys this Friday, why not stay home and get your video game savings digitally through Xbox Live and PlayStation Network? [More deals added] Sony and Microsoft are holding digital sales this week on a ton of games for…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedDirty Dancing Meets Minecraft Via The Black Eyed Peas
What If The Black Eyed Peas made a music video in Minecraft or with 3D Dot Game Heroes? It wouldn’t look exactly like this, but I bet someone out there could make these pixelated people in either of those games. Beyond the video game aesthetic of the music video for The Time (Dirty Bit), which…
By Brian Crecente Published November 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed 2011 Will Be A ‘Big’ Game
November 15’s ‘Something Around Assassin’s Coming In 2011’ appears to = today’s “next year we will have another big Assassin’s Creed game” from British gaming news outlet MCV. Both quotes come from top people at Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft.
By Stephen Totilo Published November 26, 2010