It’s Oh So Quiet

To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Who Is Excited For E3? Today is the quiet before the stories, the lull before the E3. Tomorrow I’m spending the day working on a longer story and then flying with Trish to St. Louis. Saturday we’re back and Sunday I’m off to the big show! See you there! What…

Mario’s Sales Still Super In Japan

Nintendo’s newest Mario adventure floats comfortably atop Japan’s bestsellers list, with Super Mario Galaxy 2 selling another 100,000-plus copies to Wii owners, according to latest figures. For the second week in a row, Mario had little competition for the first place spot. This week, Konami’s Fairy Tail: Portable Guild for the PSP came closest. When…

Bullet Hell Gundemonium Collection Breaking Loose On PSN

Cute anime girls and millions of bullets collide in the Gundemonium Collection, a trio of Japanese-indie bullet hell shooters, coming to the PlayStation Network next week from Sony Online Entertainment. Why are the EverQuest people publishing a collection of doujin games on the PlayStation Network? Does it really matter? They’re filling a spot that needs…

Team Fortress 2 Deployed To Mac, Earbuds For Everyone*!

Mac versus PC. The cross platform war is officially on, Team Fortress 2 style. Slip in your earbuds, Mac owners, because the team-based multiplayer shooter is now available for download. For free. Valve is kicking off Team Fortress 2’s war between the latte sipping Mac snobs who spent way too much on their computers and…

This Could Be The Beginning Of A Beautiful Mass Effect 2 Cosplay

Holly Conrad wants to be part of a Comic Con documentary. To do so, she and her friends are creating the ultimate Mass Effect 2 cosplay, complete with female Shepard, Tali, the Illusive Man, and an animatronic Grunt. It’s almost not fair to cosplayers to call this cosplay. Holly Conrad and friends are several leagues…

E3 2010 Preview: These Are the Big Shooters, We Think

Shooters dominate the modern video game landscape, as evidenced by the sheer number of them being shown off at this year’s E3. Here are console and PC shooters we think are going to be the biggest ones on show. They may be fresh in our minds, they may have been first unveiled at last year’s…

Method Man and Redman Rapping At E3

If you’re attending E3 next week, you can check out a live Method Man and Redman concert at the Konami booth at 4pm on the 16th to hype this fall’s Def Jam Rapstar. If you can’t make it, you can at least watch them taunt you about your rap skills right now.

Bethesda’s E3 Booth Includes a Giant Dinosaur

As seen on Beth Blog

Mass Effect 2 Overlord DLC, Demo Coming June 15

The latest “Coming Soon” post from Xbox Live’s Major Nelson lists a June 15 release date for Mass Effect 2‘s Overlord downloadable content, along with a playable demo of the game for the five people who haven’t bought it yet.

There Isn’t Any Party Quite Like One From Kotaku

Because Kotaku parties tend to go on and on. And you’re invited. As we’ve done in previous years, we’re taking over the Sunday night before E3 to party down with developers, gamers, costumed mascots and, who knows, maybe some French-Canadian circus performers. This year’s party is leaving the welcoming confines of the Golden Gopher for…

Best iPad Games

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MotorStorm Apocalypse Is Urban Survival Racing

Evolution Studios brings MotorStorm to the Bay Area of California in MotorStorm Apocalypse, making urban areas suitable for off-road racing the only way the makes sense — total destruction. It’s not post-apocalyptic, and it’s not pre-apocalyptic either. It’s just plain apocalyptic. Today Sony and developer Evolution reveal MotorStorm Apocalypse, the fourth game in the off-road…

Three Best iPad Games

1. Angry Birds HD: This puzzle game has you shooting a variety of birds across the sky into the many different fortresses of those stinking pigs, with their beady eyes and tiny, little smirky smiles in hunt for your lost eggs. Easy to understand, hard to not get addicted to, Angry Birds combines the fun…

Play Zelda II As A First-Person Shooter

You could keep reading this post. Or you could pop open a new browser window and try playing late-80s Zelda II: The Adventure of Link as a first-person-shooter. This wonderful little late-May creation that I somehow missed puts a player in the head of Zelda hero Link in what may be the worst non-spin-off Zelda…

Buy These Three PS3 Games First

DJ Hero 2 Gets Its Spin On

We know DJ Hero 2 will let you groove through mash-ups with two turntables and a microphone. But it’s so much better to see that, then to read that. Check it out.

A Sampling Of The Best PS3 Games

Atlus’ E3 Lineup Includes Trine 2

Atlus is bringing the sequel to last year’s three-character physics-based platformer Trine to E3 2010. Developer Frozenbyte’s follow-up will be joined by Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City, a port of ds RPG Knights in the Nightmare for the PSP, and Ace Team’s Rock of Ages.

Three Best iPhone Games

1. Angry Birds: This puzzle game has you shooting a variety of birds across the sky into the many different fortresses of those stinking pigs, with their beady eyes and tiny, little smirky smiles in hunt for your lost eggs. Easy to understand, hard to not get addicted to, Angry Birds combines the fun of…

3D Gaming Would have Cost A Fortune 10 Years Ago

Think a PlayStation 3 and a 3D-ready television expensive now? According to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe senior engineer Ian Bickerstaff, the same technology would have cost you near three-quarters of a million dollars. Sony took its first steps into the realm of 3D gaming today on the PlayStation 3, launching updates to four titles so…