Capcom’s wildly popular historical action epic Sengoku Basara 3 has a release date for Japan. Would you like to hear it? Lean closer. July 29 The game will be released on the Nintendo Wii and the PS3. It will allow players to hack-and-slash a bunch of enemies and punch giant holes in the ground. As…
We’ve featured the art of Australian artist Patrick Brown a few times before here on Kotaku. But you know what? When someone has such a dense gallery of amazing video game art, a few times isn’t enough. So here’s a good look at some of Brown’s more recent works. While displaying an unhealthy obsession with…
Ever get the feeling there are more games being released than you can even keep track of, let alone get your hands on? Don’t worry. It’s not your mind playing tricks on you. A story on Bitmob about “The Death of the Video Game Expert” carries with it an interesting chart, showing how many games…
But you can’t play it. Sorry! The pistol-heeled action game was playable in 3D for at least one person – the game’s designer, Hideki Kamiya. Here he is, playing the game at the offices of Platinum Games, the studio behind the title. Bayonetta was released in October 2009 in Japan, and earlier this year in…
Somebody at Microsoft appears to have flicked a switch a little early, with an advertisement appearing on the Xbox 360 dashboard tonight for Gears of War 3. There’s the trademark Gears of War logo, and a tagline that reads “The epic story concludes April 2011”. The ad appears to have jumped the proverbial gun, with…
Whether it be action title Bayonetta, fighting game Guilty Gear or role-playing game Rune Factory, habit-wearing characters have made appearances in video games. Many Japanese games simply use nun accoutrements. But why? Nuns are part of the Japanese landscape. While they are not as readily visible in public as Buddhist priest zipping around on their…
Man, I love me some Plants vs Zombies. Not sure how much I would have loved the game’s original premise, Plants vs Aliens, though. A post over on Ars Technica points out that, when it first began development, the hit tower defence game wasn’t about the eternal struggle between plants and the living dead. It…
Because what says “Love Plus” better than that? Japanese website Megwin.com (think Japan’s answer to Mega64) has created this send-up of Love Plus with a tune about always being with the game. The “girl” at the end does say, “I want to kiss”. The popular DS title is coming to the Apple iPad and iPhone/iPod…
Unless you make your living from science, a table of elements is a pretty boring thing. But not when it includes gaming concoctions like Imulsion (Gears of War), Tiberium (Command & Conquer) and Element Zero (Mass Effect). They and many more can be found on Russell Walker’s Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements, which also includes…
Click to view The debut trailer for the third installment in the F.E.A.R. franchise is largely life-action with a few flashes of footage of the game.
Outdoing early guesstimates on its retail performance, Sony’s PS3 thriller Heavy Rain has managed to sell over a million copies worldwide since launching in February. The game’s creator, David Cage, says pre-release estimates had the game selling only 200-300,000 copies. Which for a major first-party release with a big marketing campaign would have been a…
Man, everything! Game-wise, the film’s protagonist Snake Plissken inspired the character of Snake from Metal Gear Solid, and even, to an extent, the vibe and look of the games. (Realize that MGS was also inspired by a huge number of other movies as well.) Escape from New York’s director John Carpenter is involved in upcoming…
We’ve been mentioning DRM, or Digital Rights Management, a lot lately here on Kotaku. It’s an important topic! Thing is, we’ve been made aware a lot of you don’t entirely know what it is. If that’s you, here’s a guide. What is it? – Digital Rights Management is, as the name suggests, a means for…
From Axe body spray to Doritos chips, upcoming stealth game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is wall-to-wall product placement. Game designer Hideo Kojima explains why. “Concerning the current tie-ins, various things are being said in the news in the business sense, but I have singular reason,” Kojima wrote via Twitter. “It’s because I want to…
One of the advantages of both Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 sharing an engine is that it’s relatively easy to share content between the two. Like, say putting zombies in a Team Fortress 2 map. This crossover takes TF2 classic Badwater Basin and drops it into Left 4 Dead 2, meaning you…
Once upon a time, Microsoft was going to make a big budget Hollywood version of the Halo franchise. Until it spectacularly fell apart. That doesn’t mean it won’t ever happen, says the company. Back in 2005, a film version of Halo was first penned by Alex Garland, writer of The Beach novel and 28 Days…
Bad news, Battlefront fans: sources tell us a new entry in the series, in development at SOCOM: Confrontation developers Slant Six, has been canned, and a number of staff at the studio laid off as a result. Slant Six managing director Brian Thalken told GameSpot “Our current project needs do not align with our current…
Get ready for new Pokémon games, Pokéfans, as the latest entries in the popular monster-collecting series – Pokemon Black & Pokemon White – have just turned up on the internet’s doorstop. We’ve got a logo, two names, and…that’s just about it! We’ll apparently be learning – and hopefully seeing – more come April 15. What…
This week’s new batch of downloadable tracks for Rock Band all have one thing in common. Did you catch it? The post-Easter releases from bands like Anberlin, Hawk Nelson and Skillet all fall under the “Christian rock” label. That’s a fact that wasn’t overtly publicized by MTV Games and Harmonix, who simply referred to the…
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