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We’re Due For A *Lot* Of Sonic Adventure
Surprise! Looks like Sega is planning to reissue Dreamcast and GameCube Sonic the Hedgehog games Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure DX to the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Hey… you don’t look very surprised. Why not? Oh! Because the ports of both versions of Sonic Adventure have been slowly leaking from Sega via Xbox Live…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Transportation Strike Delays Battlefield Bad Company 2 Patch
A transportation strike in Romania, of all things, is being blamed for a delay in the next Battlefield: Bad Company 2 patch on the PC. In a thread on the EA UK forums, DICE producer Barrie Tingle confirmed the patch has been sent to EA Europe’s QA department in Romania, but it isn’t being worked…
By Owen Good Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Take Your Shot With These Xbox Live Arcade Deals
Xbox 360 owners and fans of shooting things at other things, best to take advantage of these fine Xbox Live Arcade deals before E3 rolls around next week, tempting you will all-new shiny video games to covet. The deals are none too shabby on must-have titles like Peggle and Battlefield 1943, as well as other…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 7, 2010 -
UncategorizedModern Warfare: Frozen Crossing Outdoes The Previous Best Call of Duty Fan Film
How can this short action flick manage to knock out the previous title holder for best fan made Call of Duty movie? It’s bigger, bloodier and has a more substantial budget. And it’s from the same creative team. The second chapter of Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski’s Modern Warfare: Frozen Crossing makes use of its…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ozzy Makes Rock Band DLC Debut Next Week
Ozzy Osbourne makes his Rock Band debut next week, a before his next album releases. Three tracks from Osbourne’s Scream join three classics for a total of 6, because that’s 1/111th of the Number of the Beast. The songs from Scream will be exclusive to the Rock Band Store from June 15 through June 22.…
By Owen Good Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Shit, the Day’s Over Already???
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Man, It’s Monday I demand to know where my Monday went? Plan on hearing me ask you about my Tuesday through Friday too! What you missed: Kotaku’s Buyer’s Guide: An Introduction Should You Buy A Nintendo DS? The iPhone 4 Supports 3D Motion Gaming The Family That Plays Pokémon Together…
By Brian Crecente Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ohio State faces Miami in NCAA 11 Demo [Updated]
Normally the demo for NCAA Football pairs participants from the national championship game, and the latest one, releasing next week, still does. It just features the combatants from the 2003 BCS championship game. Update: Plus six more teams. Pasta Padre is now reporting that there will be eight teams total, citing additional information from an…
By Owen Good Published June 7, 2010 -
UncategorizedDriver Is Back With An All-New… Teaser
Ubisoft is counting down to next Monday, when it will presumably unveil the new Driver video game it’s teasing in this brand new video that’s certainly heavy on driving but gameplay-barren. According to the site, “DRIVER is back!” This teaser for the still unannounced Driver sequel is a “live action remake of the tutorial mission…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Quantum Communication Isn’t Just For Illusive Men Anymore
In Mass Effect 2, the mysterious Illusive Man was able to stay in touch with the Normandy at any point in the universe using quantum entanglement. Chinese scientists have used similar technology to “teleport” data nearly 10 miles. Calling the process teleportation is a bit of a stretch, but quantum entanglement is just as fantastic…
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Prepare Your Questions About Autobots and Decepticons
Start rehearsing your nerdiest Transformer questions, because we’ve got a bona fide Transformers game developer sitting in the guest chair live on Wednesday’s Kotaku Talk Radio. Call in and ask them. I’ll have mine ready, for sure. Matt Tieger, High Moon Studio’s game director on this month’s Transformers: War For Cybertron game, just might be…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age: Origins Gets The Anime Treatment
EA, BioWare, and Japanese animation distributor FUNimation have teamed up to create an animated movie based on the award-winning role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins. Production began last month, with a direct-to-video release slated for 2011.
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
iPhone 4’s New Motion Controls: Will It Mean Better Games?
The new iPhone 4 is also a new type of game controller, with a built-in gyroscope giving the phone (and sometimes games device) better sensitivity for more motion gestures. Apple says the addition will offer “an even better gaming experience.” That’s debatable, but it will, also according to Apple, detect user acceleration, angular velocity, and…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
E3 2010 Preview: These Are the Big Music Games, We Think
You might not be ready to rock, but the E3 gaming expo is ready to rock you. Last year, music games headlined E3 in a major way with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison taking the stage at Microsoft’s press conference. It’s hard to top the Beatles. This isn’t about topping the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Family That Plays Pokémon Together
Nine-year-old Grace Arnold took home the first place trophy for the Junior Division at the 2010 Southeast Regional Pokémon Video Game Championships. Her 13-year-old brother David won the Senior Division. Their father came in second. If just one of the Arnolds place in the Nationals, it would mean the family’s third trip to the World…
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
The iPhone 4 Supports 3D Motion Gaming
The newly-announced iPhone 4 adds a 3-axis gyroscope to the motion-sensing mix, tied together with the accelerometer and built-in GPS to provide 6-axis motion sensing gaming. In these pictures from gdgt, Steve Jobs introduces an all-new method of motion controlling iPhone games live on stage at Apple’s WDCC 2010 event. Previous iterations of the iPhone…
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apple Introduces The iPhone 4
Steve Jobs has confirmed at WWDC 2010 that what Gizmodo got their hands on in April was the next iPhone – the iPhone 4. At 9.3mm wide it’s the world’s thinnest smartphone, with a front-facing camera and a 326 pixel per inch “retina display,” a resolution never-before-seen on a phone, delivering 940×640 pixels and a…
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2010