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  Hey Capcom, Why $40 For Super Street Fighter IV?

  Super Street Fighter IV is $40. Seems steep for an update to a game that came out only twelve months ago. Let’s give Capcom a chance to try and explain. Speaking with Gamasutra, Capcom’s Christian Svensson has said that while it wasn’t easy settling on a price point (or even a means of delivering the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2010
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  Halo: Reach Beta Footage Looks Like A Blast [Update]

  Earlier this week, Bungie said it would be “dropping a multiplayer bomb”. It appears a Taiwanese site has dropped that bomb a little early, with the leak of what looks a lot like a new trailer for the game. Now, this may be an elaborate hoax, but if it is, it’s a cruel one. Because…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2010
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  Former Dead Or Alive Designer Talks Fighting Games

  Before the brouhaha at Tecmo, game designer Tomonobu Itagaki made a name for himself making fighting games. He’s currently working on another title, which he hinted at last year. Does that mean we’ll see another fighting game from him? “Because I made the best fighting game in the world, Dead or Alive, at my former…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 3, 2010
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  American McGee Returns To Fairy Tale Land

  American McGee is a developer with an enormous imagination and…inconsistent execution. Yes, he’s the man behind Alice, but he’s also the man behind a string of disappointing titles ever since. So it’s with uncertainty we look upon his next game. Called “Red”, and following very closely in the spirit of his last work, Grimm, it’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2010
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  Capcom Can’t Kick Its Pachi-Slot Habit

  The streets of Tokyo’s Shibuya are a battleground. For your money. Capcom’s hack-and-slash action game Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams might have been released in 2006, but that hasn’t stopped the Osaka-based game company from licensing out the game for a pachi-slot game, Shin Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams. Heck, that hasn’t stopped Capcom from licensing out…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 3, 2010
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  Fallout, Street Fighter Join Games On Demand

  Microsoft added two more titles to its range of Games on Demand titles today, with the release of Fallout 3 and Street Fighter IV onto the Xbox 360’s digital shopfront. Both games will be priced at $30, which yet again does little to engender people to forsake a tangible game box in exchange for a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2010
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  Five Yakuza Movies You Must See…

  …before you cut your pinkie off! With Yakuza 3 coming out in North America and Yakuza 4 coming out in Japan, is there a better time to talk about Japanese gangsters? No, no there isn’t. These films are grounded in yakuza mythos, fantasy and, yes, fact. And like Hollywood mobster films, these motion pictures have…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 3, 2010
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  There’ll Be No Mario Or Zelda For Facebook

  On a day Microsoft made its first tentative steps onto Facebook, Nintendo has shot down the idea of any of its characters making a similar jump in a grab for the casual market. “I think we will continue to save Mario for our own platforms”, Nintendo of America’s Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president of sales…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2010
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  With The Help of Friends, Blind Man Beats Legend of Zelda

  If you thought finishing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was difficult, imagine doing it blind. Ontario, Canada’s Jordan Verner put out a message online that he was looking for assistance so he could complete The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. “It was basically a call for help to people online,” says South…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 3, 2010
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  Steam Mac Ads

  Return to Valve Teases Upcoming Mac Announcement, Not So Subtly Return to Valve Teases Upcoming Mac Announcement, Not So Subtly Return to Valve Teases Upcoming Mac Announcement, Not So Subtly Return to Valve Teases Upcoming Mac Announcement, Not So Subtly Return to Valve Teases Upcoming Mac Announcement, Not So Subtly Return to Valve Teases Upcoming…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 3, 2010
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  LEGO Star Wars: Force Unleashed

  Sadly, this is not a real game. Lucasarts and Traveller’s Tales aren’t that out of ideas. What it is, however, is the most amazing stop-motion Lego lightsaber battle you’ve ever seen. If only the real game had moved this smoothly! User fancypants put the clip together for an animation challenge on Lego fan site brickmotion.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2010
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  His Online Gaming Devil

  At 12 years-old Motoki Nishimura became a gaming recluse. At 17, he became an author, writing a book about his experience. Earlier this year, Nishimura published My Online Gaming Devil, which details his descent into online gaming when his parents divorced. “I didn’t care what happened in real life,” he told The Mainichi Daily News.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 3, 2010
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  Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game “Finished”, Ready For Release

  Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too “hot” to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be released. “I can promise you that game is still coming out and it is finished”, a source told the video games website, reminding us all…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2010
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  Infinity Ward Still “Central To Call Of Duty’s Future”

  While something rotten has definitely gone down between publishers Activision and the bossmen of Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward, it seems the studio itself is still a key part of the franchise moving forward. An internal memo distributed to members of Infinity Ward earlier today says that while the “brains” of the operation, Vince…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2010
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  An Update On The Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update

  Valve is currently “plugging away” at the ninth and final (maybe) class update for Team Fortress 2, giving every defensive player’s favorite class, the Engineer, a batch of unlockable weapons and buildings. How’s it goin’? Brandon Reinhart from Valve writes in great detail about one of the developer’s failures thus far, the now aborted Repair…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2010
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  Kotaku Off Topic: Taste The Happy

  After a bummer of a day, maybe one not quite as roller coaster-y as yesterday, let’s all shed tears of joy with some off-topic laid back conversation. This weekend, I watched way too much Arrested Development on Hulu, a show that I’ve spent far too many hours of my life viewing again and again and…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2010
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  A Side-Scrolling Team Fortress 2? Why, Yes, Please.

  The creator of this side-scrolling interpretation of Team Fortress 2 entered it in a map-modding contest last year and, for obvious reasons, won the sucker outright. [Correction] Dylan Loney entered this and won his modding contest. (Here’s another top-flight entry.) An earlier version of this story said his entry had missed the deadline. Steaky says…

  By Owen Good Published March 2, 2010
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  Valve’s Portal Puzzle So Far: The Files Recovered From Aperture Science

  Yesterday, Valve issued an update to its 2007 first-person puzzle game Portal, adding exactly one new Steam achievement and 26 audio transmissions that players could listen to via in-game radios. So started an impressive puzzle. Instead of listening to those transmissions in-game, members of various web forums, including the Steam, Facepunch and Something Awful forums—who…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2010
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  L.A. Noire‘s Lead Actor Says He Skips the Cutscenes

  The voice actor for the lead character in L.A. Noire is “Mad Men’s” Aaron Staton, while Staton says he enjoys games, particularly Grand Theft Auto IV, he usually skips over the cutscenes. Staton, who portrays Ken Cosgrove on the AMC series, tells Game Informer in its latest edition that he’s played all of the Grand…

  By Owen Good Published March 2, 2010
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  Majin & The Forsaken Kingdom Journeys West This Summer

  Namco Bandai announced today that it will release Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom in North America this summer, allaying fears that you’d never see the game formerly known as Majin: The Fallen Realm on these shores. Whew! Announced last summer at Germany’s Gamescom expo, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom puts players in the shoes of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 2, 2010