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  2010 Is Not The Year Of The Wii

  The Wii sure ain’t what it used to be, this handy chart highlighting that for Nintendo’s home console, 2010 hasn’t been as happy as the glory days of 2006, 2007, 2008 or 2009. The image below shows the twelve worst months for Wii hardware sales since the console launched in late 2006. Four of those…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2010
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  A Live-Action Pokemon Movie Would Never Be This Great

  Someone has gone to the trouble of concocting a fake trailer for a live-action Pokemon movie, complete with in-progress watermarks and surprisingly decent special effects. We love it. The moody music, the dramatic over-acting, the impressive evolving effects; as an exercise in fan fantasy, it’s a blast. A real movie like this, today, would of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2010
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  Nintendo Of America’s Birthplace, Now In Ruins

  As Nintendo of America begins to stretch its legs in its swank new offices in Redmond, Washington, the company’s old offices – and a piece of gaming history – are now nothing but a pile of rubble. The building where the company began its assault on the American market with the Nintendo Entertainment System –…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2010
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  Gal☆Gun Is The Xbox 360’s Cutest or Creepiest Japanese ‘Shooter’

  You’re the most popular kid in school (for just one day). Every girl in your class has fallen for you… but they stand between you and your true love. Take ’em down with your Pheromone Shot. This is Gal☆Gun. Or, if you prefer, simply Gal Gun. Alchemist’s new on-rails first person shooter for the Xbox…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 15, 2010
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  Team Ico Collection’s Box Art Looks A Damn Shame [Update]

  Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are two of the most important video games ever made. Bundling the two together and remastering them should be cause for class and dignity, right? A Swedish retailer has posted up what appears to be the box art for the now-confirmed collection (hardly the first time Webhallen has jumped…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2010
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  Is This How We’ll Play PS2 Games On A PS3?

  Sony has patented a means whereby you can play PS2 games on a PS3. And they’re some kooky means. Rather than releasing (or, well, re-releasing) a new model of the PS3 that’s PS2-compatible, or a firmware update allowing PS2 games to run on all PS3s, or porting PS2 games to the PlayStation Network so they…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2010
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  Resident Evil Creator’s New Horror Game Is Called…

  First made public in early 2008, Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami and No More Heroes designer Goichi Suda have teamed up with EA on a new game. According to Japanese game mag Famitsu, that game has a title. The Mikami/Suda project will be titled “Shadows of the Damned”, or rather “Shadows of the DAMNED” (their…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2010
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  The Tokyo Game Show Website Tour

  The Tokyo Game Show does not kick off officially until Thursday, so let’s take a journey through the event — virtually! Sony will be hitting the show in full force, showing off titles for the PSP, PS3 and the PlayStation Move. The Sony site is light on features and extras, but does provide a look…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2010
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  Pro Evo Soccer’s Demo Hits Consoles Tomorrow

  The PC demo for Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 is live right now from the PES web site, and it’ll be available tomorrow for Xbox 360 and PS3. Jon Murphy, the project leader for PES 2011, tweeted earlier today that the Xbox Live demo was confirmed for tomorrow. He later said the PS3 version should…

  By Owen Good Published September 14, 2010
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  Mega Mosaic

  Roughly 8,000 screen captures form this mosaic of the Mega Man 2 cover. Seen via Pikimal, which also has step-by-step instructions for creating your own.

  By Owen Good Published September 14, 2010
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  Valkyria Chronicles 3 Is Coming To The PSP

  Sega will officially lift the lid off of its third Valkyria Chronicles game later this week. Anyone out there hoping for the series to return to the PlayStation 3, you better start hoping for a Valkyria Chronicles 4. The latest issue of Famitsu confirms that Valkyria Chronicles 3 is, like it or not, coming to…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 14, 2010
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  New Yakuza Game Features Zombies

  Yakuza is Sega’s crime saga. The upcoming entry will have zombies in it. Yeah. The first image Sega showed of upcoming Yakuza game, Yakuza: Of The End, depicted the in-game Kamurocho, the in-game version of Shinjuku’s Kabukicho, in ruins. The game’s designer said that the theme for Of The End was “destruction”. A more apt…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 14, 2010
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  Ico, Shadow of the Colossus Confirmed For PS3 Re-release

  The latest issue of Japanese games mag Famitsu confirms what we’ve been expecting for a long, long time: Team ICO’s classic PlayStation 2 adventures Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are getting an HD makeover for the PlayStation 3. Hardly a surprise. Team ICO and Sony have been talking about the possibility of a Team…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 14, 2010
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  Let’s Play Halo: Reach

  It’s time. Let’s play some Halo: Reach together. We’re going to keep things pretty simple. Dump your gamertags in here for others to find and also try to join games with one of our gamertags. Crecente: Crecente Fahey: Bspatial I’m hoping to cycle through Firefight, standard multiplayer matches and invasion. Just want to watch? Tune…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 14, 2010
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  Your NBA Jam Rosters Are Set

  ESPN.com completed its two-part slow-reveal of the full roster for NBA Jam, wrapping up today with the players, legends and playable mascots of the Western Conference. Hit the link for the full roundup. As reported by ESPN senior NBA writer Mark Stein (unusual that he’s on this case), most teams will ahve three current players…

  By Owen Good Published September 14, 2010
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  PlayStation Store Update: Cheap & Wide

  What’s not to like in this week’s North American PlayStation Store update? Maybe that there are too many things to download? Or that you don’t have a PlayStation Move to enjoy a handful of new Move-only demos? There’s a long, long list of new things to buy and try this week, including the PSN version…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 14, 2010
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  See Japan Crumble (In 3D!!!) In Disaster Report 4

  Added to the list of games playable on the Tokyo Game Show floor this week is Irem’s Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories, the latest and greatest catastrophic adventure, now on the PlayStation 3. You may know the series as Zettai Zetsumei Toshi, Disaster Report, SOS: The Final Escape or Raw Danger, but in Japan, they’re…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 14, 2010
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  It’s Lakers Vs. Celtics In The NBA 2K11 Demo

  Xbox 360 and PS3 owners can now go download the demo for NBA 2K11, arriving three weeks ahead of the full game’s release. The game gives you one five minute quarter of Lakers-Celtics on the pro difficulty but you may only play as the Lakers. The audio commentary is also removed, but the pre-game animations…

  By Owen Good Published September 14, 2010
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  Play Date

  To: Ash From: Crecente Re: So, We Are In Chiba, And… We’re having a play date tonight! Not for Tristan, but for everyone. Well, everyone who likes to play Halo: Reach. At 7 p.m. Kotaku time we’re going to be trying to get all interested Kotakuites to swarm Halo: Reach and play with each other….…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 14, 2010
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  Left 4 Dead’s ‘The Sacrifice’ Comic Series Goes Live

  Valve’s sequel-spanning digital comic that explains just what happened to Left 4 Dead’s original Survivors, dubbed “The Sacrifice,” is yours for the reading. How do things go so horribly wrong between the original game and “The Passing”? Well, Tanks. Part one of “The Sacrifice,” part of Valve’s new cross-game story arc plans, offers us plenty…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 14, 2010