Jack White of The White Stripes has advice for aspiring musicians. He does not recommend music games. In the past, White has stated he isn’t too fond of music games. (He is fond of rocking out on his guitar!) The White Stripes have lent music to Guitar Hero 5. His other groups, The Raconteurs and…
Microsoft slipped us word this morning that Alan Wake’s European release date has been changed. Thing is, it’s been changed for the better The game was originally due for release towards the end of the week of May 20, but for some reason, it’s now been pushed up to Friday, May 14. A whole week…
If there’s one thing Japanese PSPs have over Western PSPs (aside from people playing Monster Hunter), it’s Porter’s range of nice, albeit expensive PSP carry cases. Here’s a new one, for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Due out at the end of the month, alongside the game itself, the Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker x…
Square Enix doesn’t only make Final Fantasy games. It also makes Dragon Quest games. But besides that, it also makes figures. Fancy figures. The company’s Play Arts line has made figures for Square Enix games like Final Fantasy XIII. It has been expanding to branch out as not simply Square Enix’s in-house figure maker, but…
While the upcoming Transformers: War for Cybertron lets you play as actual Transformers, its multiplayer mode also lets you create your own Autobot or Decepticon and, as my people would say, get amongst it. Sadly, the customisation options seem to extend to “pick a team” then “pick a hue” (hopefully there’s more to come later),…
Apparently not! Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 sci-fi film about a virtual game world, won’t be out until this December. Instead of waiting to see how it does, Disney has already started work on a Legacy sequel. Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, best known for writing episodes of Lost, have been hired to…
We’re running a religion theme week here on Kotaku. And it would wrong – no, it would be a sin – if we went those seven days without once mentioning Afterlife, a 1996 strategy game by Lucasarts. Never heard of it? That’s OK. You could have gone through 1996 without hearing about it, let alone…
Continuing the series’ move away from Fast & the Furious and towards the kind of corporate street racing seen in games like DiRT, EA today revealed the formation of Team Need For Speed, a real, proper racing team. Made up of drivers like Mad Mike Whiddett, Patrick Söderlund and Matt Powers, they’ll be racing in…
There has been No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2. They are, says series creator Goichi Suda, like emptying one’s bowls. No More Heroes 3? That’s like diarrhea, he says. “With No More Heroes 1, the idea came when I was literally sitting on the toilet. It was the result of trying to empty…
Stealth series Metal Gear Solid has never shied away from corporate sponsorship and obvious in-game product plugs. In past games, there have been tie-ups with CalorieMate and Playboy. But has the franchise now gone too far? Today in Tokyo, Japanese game company Konami held a press conference for upcoming PSP title Metal Gear Solid: Peace…
The Nintendo Wii supports standard widescreen resolutions. 16:9, just like most movies and TV shows. But a Wii emulator on a PC can get really wide. These screenshots, taken using the Dolphin emulator, are 1920 pixels wide and nowhere near that many high, giving us an amazing panoramic view of some Wii games. While the…
We’re not talking popularity here, but size, physical size — er, scope. Distance! Get your mind out of the gutter. Mike Newell directed 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and the upcoming Prince of Persia film. When asked about the difference between the two, he told website Latino Review, “It’s bigger because Harry…
Systems like the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be getting a good-looking Transformers game soon called “War For Cybertron”. That same game is headed for the Wii, but when it hits Nintendo’s console, the name won’t be so combative. No, when the game’s released on Wii, it’ll be called “Transformers: Cybertron Adventures”. It’s the same…
All video game movies suck? Not so fast. The anime based on the Professor Layton puzzle series is quite good. Released last December in Japan, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva was subtitled into English for its Singapore release last month. The film was written by Akihiro Hino, who designs the games, and created by…
There was a big Crysis 2 event in New York’s Times Square earlier today, the pinnacle of which was this debut of a new trailer for the game. Reader Justin took this footage from the public airing of the clip, and while it’s shaky, you can still make out what’s going on. If you’re wondering…
Think FarmVille meets real world activism. Online site Armchair Revolutionary is a social game that hopes to tap into the millions upon millions who are playing games on places like Facebook to create crowd-sourced, viral activism. According to USA Today, Armchair Revolutionary users can participate in activities that include quizzes, voting, volunteering for tasks, uploading…
Halo creators Bungie love guns. Love big, bulky space vehicles,too. Love ’em so much they’ve released a ton of renders showing how both will appear in the upcoming Halo: Reach. Alongside those mechanical moneyshots we’ve also included some older shots of the game’s cast of Spartans, Covenant and cannon fodder Marines. Halo Reach’s beta kicks…
A report on news.com.au says that a former editor for Zoo Weekly, an Australian “lads mag”, has been sacked after making public an email from Rockstar, developers of the Grand Theft Auto series, demanding more “favourable coverage” from the writer. Toby McCasker, who used to be deputy entertainment editor for the magazine, says that Rockstar…
Dead or Alive Paradise brings the lovely ladies of Tecmo’s fighting game series back to the tropical getaway of Zack Island, a chance to collect and model increasingly revealing bikinis in-between playing an equally skimpy selection of mini-games. The PSP game is a pocket-sized port of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball originally released in…
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