If you thought Konami and Kojima Productions’ collaboration with Capcom’s Monster Hunter series was a bizarre fit, you’ll likely find the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker tie-in with Square Enix just slightly less weird. Kojima Productions announced in Tokyo earlier today that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker feature some level of interactivity with Square Enix’s…
You can download our newest podcast today and hear a few firsts: 1) Me trying a game live on the show 2) A caller asking a developer how it feels to have about four million people hate his game 3) A man from Zynga, makers of Farmville, admit that a Farmville movie would be terrible.…
A couple of big-brand video game comics series end this week, but I can’t stop shaking my head at the Superman series that feels like it should never have started. You all know the origin of Superman, right? Krypton. Rocket. Smallville. Superpowers. Metropolis. Every too often, the powers at be at DC Comics decide that…
Want to see what all that Modern Warfare 2 fuss is about, PC gamers? Then play the game’s multiplayer mode for free this weekend, courtesy of Activision and Valve’s Steam service. That “weekend” starts a little early, as the free Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer action starts Thursday, April 8. You can pre-load…
Chet over at Valve just sent us this sweet personalized Zune with fancy Left 4 Dead 2 engraving to give away on the site. But how?
Scrotality: name of the Achievement awarded to players of this month’s upcoming Dead To Rights: Retribution should they make the game’s playable dog chomp a bad guy’s groin. I committed this maneuver — in the game! — this morning. It’s some frightful business. As is Shadow’s ability to rip a guy’s throat out when he…
Blizzard isn’t putting a hard date on the third major expansion to its popular online role-playing game, but the Cataclysm add-on for World of Warcraft is on the verge of going beta. Blizzard is now sending out beta opt-in invites to press. The WoW developer is “starting to gear up for the World of Warcraft:…
Gamers get tons of swag, and we post just about all of it here on Kotaku. But there’s one thing we’ve never shown off. USB Drives!!! I hardly want them, but with more and more laptops leaving out the DVD drive and FTP sites not able to handle a sudden deluge of downloads, USB drives…
Sign #6583 that the Wii has made it big: There is an EA Sports Active ad on my orange juice carton.
Kotaku Talk Radio is coming to you live RIGHT NOW, well maybe ten minutes, with special guest Marcus Segal, the chief operating officer for Zynga. Zynga Games Network is the company behind Mafia Wars, PetVille, Vampires, Dragon Wars and FarmVille. Segal is on Kotaku Talk Radio giving you a chance to quiz him on everything…
Do not mess with the rules of Scrabble. That was the lesson of yesterday, the day many people thought the rules would soon be changing. Blasphemy by the Scrabble-makers? Snobbery by the fans? The heated reactions seemed familiar. There are, after all, people who don’t want the rules of Scrabble to be changed. There are…
I’m a great game god. Let me tell you a story. At current, my Sims in The Sims 3 live in a world of my design. [fuzzylogicdishwasher.blogspot.com] They live in a house of my design, they are made by me, I have literally crafted everything about their lives. But an interesting situation arose recently: I…
Capcom’s jet-pack shooter Dark Void didn’t do so hot when it hit consoles earlier this year, but the mini 8-bit game released on the DS was another story entirely. Dark Void Zero, seemingly the product of marketing, was a fantastic little retro homage with 8-bit graphics and sound and gameplay reminiscent of early Metroid titles.…
Good news, Crackdown fans: The signature voice of the 2007 Xbox 360 game is back for this summer’s sequel. Better news: He’s not sick this time. Michael McConnohie was the no-nonsense voice of The Agency, the seemingly benevolent (or were they?) police force of which the playable hero of Crackdown was an officer. McConnohie’s voice,…
Not only did my face manage to make it’s way onto the The Colbert Report last night, as I slept, but it did so as the voice of the Twittersphere Next time you want steamy quotes about Scrabble, Colbert, have the decency to wake me. Click to view
To help stoke interest in upcoming Playstation Portable exclusive Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, game creator Hideo Kojima will be traveling the world over the next three months to promote the game. The Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker World Tour 2010 kicks off in Tokyo on April 29 and wraps up nearly three months later…
Pity the non-name-branded. What hope do they have for appearing in a Metal Gear game? But, we can at least let them be part of TAY as we all talk here about video games… and non-branded foodstuffs. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
As we reported last night, Snake and friends will be able to go Monster Hunting in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker when the PSP game hits. Kotaku Japan was on hand at last night’s official press conference for the game and shot this video showing a team of snakes taking on all sorts of Capcom…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Training For Mini-Bash’s first grade entrance ceremony today, he wore a suit with suspenders. So did Micro-Bash. Adorable stuff. But it really reminded me of how great suspenders are. They really are! What you missed last night Metal Gear Solid? More Like Metal Gear Solid Advertising, Your Billboard Here Rumor:…
Asuka Sawamoto is famous for one thing: flashing her tush in the streets of Tokyo’s anime, manga and video game mecca, Akihabara. The 32-year-old is doing a lot more than that in her first adult movie. The self-described “multi-sexy idol” first aroused attention in spring 2008. Her “performances”, which consisted of her raised her legs…
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