Rock Band Learns Spanish With Juanes

Rock Band introduces the first Spanish-language tunes to its line-up next week, with six hits from Latin music superstar Juanes, with an additional track shipping on disc with Rock Band 3. With more than 12 million albums sold worldwide, a Grammy, and 17 Latin Grammy awards under his belt, you don’t have to understand Spanish…

Zen Bound 2 Brings Its Gyroscope-Enhanced Awesomeness To The iPhone

Zen Bound 2, previously exclusive to the iPad, is now available for the iPhone. It takes advantage of the iPhone 4’s retina display and gyroscope to bring butter-like smoothness to the beautiful game. Zen Bound 2 carries the same premise as the original Zen Bound: wrap up floating, rotating figurines with a rope. With the…

Medal Of Honor Developers Now Known As Danger Close [UPDATE]

We thought the new Medal of Honor from EA was being developed by EA’s L.A. studio and EA’s DICE team in Sweden. Not quite. Medal of Honor is being made by Danger Close Games, according to the new EA site linked here. New name for EA L.A.? UPDATE: We’ve got the confirmation, via an offiicial…

Alan Wake Expands Mysteriously Next Week

The first downloadable expansion for this spring’s celebrated Xbox 360 horror game Alan Wake arrives next week. It’s called The Signal, and it’s a mystery. The official description of The Signal indicates that our writer-hero Alan Wake continues to be “ravaged by dark forces” as he longs for his wife. “In ‘The Signal,’ Alan finds…

Alan Wake – The Signal Screenshots

Halo: Reach Gets Its Own Xbox 360 Controller

A product listing briefly appearing on Xbox.com revealed a sleek and sexy silver Halo: Reach branded Xbox 360 controller, likely release in conjunction with Bungie’s Halo swan song this fall. The Xbox.com product listing for the Halo: Reach Xbox 360 controller came and went quickly, but not before the image of the shiny new controller…

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Hits Xbox 360 Next Month

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, the game that fills in the gaps between the original zombie action game and the sequel, hits the Xbox 360 exclusively on Aug. 31, Capcom confirmed today. The downloadable game will cost 400 Microsoft Points and introduces players to Dead Rising 2’s hero Chuck Greene. And that’s a price that’s…

Dead Rising 2’s Original Setting Was A Zombie Disneyland

Zombies invade a fictional Las Vegas dubbed Fortune City in Dead Rising 2, but the original location was something wildly different. Capcom’s Keiji Inafune told Comic-Con attendees today it was previously set in an undead-filled version of Disneyland. Inafune, executive producer on the game and “Father of Mega Man,” said “We thought it would be…

Four Minutes With the Amazing Castlevania Puzzle Game

I wasn’t expecting much from Castlvania Puzzle: Encore of the Night when I heard it was coming to the iPhone. Do we really need another themed-puzzle game for this device, I thought. But then I played the $5 app and discovered that we apparently do. The game has you moving between the rooms of Dracula’s…

T-Shirt Teases Viewtiful Joe And Dormammu For Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

Jim Rugg, the man behind the comic book series Street Angel and the hilarious graphic novel Afrodisiac, created a special Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 t-shirt for Comic-Con that teases two familiar new fighters coming to Capcom’s cross-world brawler. After yesterday’s Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 trailer clearly showed his silhouette, the addition of Viewtiful Joe to…

Is This The PlayStation 3 Game With The Most Trophies?

Three Platinum PlayStation 3 Trophies on one disc? And that’s not all? This November’s Sly Collection contains three full PlayStation 2 Sly Cooper games on one PlayStation 3 Blu-Ray disc. Plus it will include PlayStation Move mini-games. A Sony producer who showed Kotaku the collection this week said that each of the Sly games will…

Behold The Chipophone, The Amazing Chiptune Organ

When a friend asked Swedish software engineer Linus Åkesson to take an old electric organ off his hands, Linus agreed, as long as he could do anything he wanted to it, and what he did is incredibly impressive. Linus took that electric organ and reverse-engineered it, transforming it into the Chipophone, the ultimate instrument for…

Where Board Games And Video Games Come Together

For as long as we’ve known the pair, video games have been video games, and board games have been board games. But as time and technology march on, could two become, as the Spice Girls say, one? There has long been a fairly simple divide between the two: One medium involves playing games on a…

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Single-Player, Deadlier Than Ever

A good assassin benefits from having minions. That’s what I learned watching some of the single-player portion of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood this week. At a PlayStation press event in New York, I sat beside Ubisoft brand manager Eric Gallant as he played two few-minute bits of Brotherhood and explained how the life and abilities of…

Bond. James Bond. James Bond 007: Blood Stone Impressions

The more violent but still suave Daniel Craig version of James Bond gets an original, cinematic adventure in James Bond 007: Blood Stone, Bizarre Creations’ new action game that mixes shooting, boat racing and neck-snapping melee. The makers of The Club and Blur combine their multi-genre talents in this third-person, globe-trotting video game version of…

The Ultimate Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Hands-On Preview

Spider-Man’s latest video game adventure has four times the Spidey, a quartet of multi-dimensional webheads working toward a common goal. Last night, I played in two of those dimensions, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions’ versions of Metal Gear and God of War. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions takes four iterations of the classic character and gives each a unique…

Mass Effect 2 Enters The Lair Of The Shadow Broker

After Shepard died in the beginning of Mass Effect 2, his blue-skinned friend Liara T’Soni fought a desperate battle to recover his body from the mysterious Shadow Broker. Now it’s time to settle the score. Detailed in the Mass Effect 2 comic book series from Dark Horse, Liara went through hell to recover Commander Shepard’s…

DC Universe Online Teases Something Legendary

Something legendary is coming to DC Universe Online, and this brief yet stunning cinematic trailer raises more questions than it answers. Click to view First off, that’s not a Batman costume I am familiar with. It reminds me of the bulkiness of Frank Miller’s Dark Night, while Totilo suggested it looked a bit like Knight…

DC’s Mass Effect, Killzone, God Of War Toys Up Close & Totally Awesome

Toy and collectible maker DC Direct has some lovely looking action figure offerings coming this year and into 2011, all of which were on display at Comic-Con 2010. From Mass Effect to Twisted Metal, let’s take a look! Which is best? DC’s highly detailed but small-feeling God of War toys or its sharp and sleek…

It’s Like Pursuit Force, Only Fun

Remember Playstation Portable game Pursuit Force, the one where the ability to jump between speeding cars was buried by a bunch of other things you had to do? Freeway Fury takes that concept and strips away the crap. The flash game creation has you burning down a highway and leaping from car to car for…