Starting in February Fahey you will be able to run into any 7-Eleven store to pick up a heaping, icy cup of Kratos Fury. Just make sure you don’t suck it down too quickly or you’re sure to feel the icy sting of his twin blades in your brain. Evan Brody, who has the most…
The season opener for GametrailerTV aired last night with your’s truly and a clutch of other "industry experts" talking about their most anticipated games for this year. On my list: Red Dead Redemption, because I’m a huge western shooter fan and this game looks like it might push a much-deserved genre into the mainstream spotlight.…
Kotaku is hosting a live chat in the comments on Monday with special guest Jonathan Knight, Executive Producer, Visceral Games. Join us at 9:30 am PST/12:30 EST to ask him about his work on the EA game Dante’s Inferno. See you then!
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Gadgets Guess there are loads of gadgets in Japan, but haven’t really had the time to think about them. Exhausted and drained. Emotional week, looking forward to the weekend. What you missed last night Introducing “Vanquish”, A New Game From The Creator Of Resident Evil “Entirely New” Pokemon Series Coming…
When will Japan stop buying Dragon Quest DS games? When? On January 28, the Nintendo DS remake of Dragon Quest VI went on sale in Japan. Square Enix shipped over a million copies of the game to retailers across the country. The game was originally released on the Super Nintendo (aka Super Famicom) in Japan…
FIFA Online, EA’s free-to-play PC version of its blockbuster sports series, has been out in Asia for years. Keen to add some dollars and Euros to its coffers, though, EA will now be bringing the game to the West. Featuring three game modes (World Cup, League and Versus), FIFA Online’s attempt at lowering the bar…
Mistwalker boss Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series, told us last year that his company was working on two projects: an iPhone game and a proper game. Could that second title be a Wii game? Sure is. Nintendo sent out a press release overnight advertising the launch of a website for “The Last…
Earlier this month, SEGA’s Sonic Team, the arm of the studio responsible for Sonic the Hedgehog games, received an unexpected call. It was from Hollywood actor Andy Garcia. Garcia is best known for his roles in The Untouchables and Ocean’s 11. He also appeared in the Ridley Scott film Black Rain, which is set in…
I bet when you woke up this morning, you didn’t think you’d be starting out the day with five minutes worth of Professor Layton spinning around an ice rink. The puzzle here is to work out how a man with such an enormous head has the balance of a ballerina! Professor Layton Figure Skating Clip…
Nintendo games are popular. People buy them up as if they were hotcakes. Nintendo games are not hotcakes. You cannot eat them. You play them. Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s news, the Kyoto-based game company has released global life-to-date numbers for some of its biggest titles. Let’s have a look: Nintendo DS Pokémon…
The PAL PlayStation Store finally gets humming for 2010 this week, with new content available for Assassin’s Creed II and Uncharted 2. Assassin’s Creed II’s “Battle of Forli” is one of those missing chapters hinted at during the main game. If Ubisoft intended to piss people off by making them think content was being withheld…
One of the biggest surprises of last year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles was the announcement that home console series Metal Gear Solid would be coming to Japanese arcades. Dubbed Metal Gear Arcade, the “tactical online action” game is a networked Metal Gear multi-player title akin to Metal Gear Online, but players use 3D…
Research data published this week has revealed the games, consoles, publishers and genres with the best resale values for 2009. Comparing the recommended retail price of the games or systems when they were new with the average price they were sold for second-hand, we see that while every console can be had for serious discounts…
This fall, Sony will be releasing its new wand controller, which is currently known under the temporary “Motion Controller” title. According to Japan’s Nikkei Newspaper, the game will have approximately ten titles supporting it this year According to the Nikkei, those titles will go sale sometime this year and range from the sports genre to…
The unveiling of the new Apple iPad earlier this week has a lot of people excited. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata is not one of them. “It was a bigger iPod Touch”, Iwata told Associated Press, adding that the new device offered “no surprises”. The Nintendo president was equally down on the recent enthusiasm over 3D…
Konami’s upcoming PSP title Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker has been delayed over a month. The game was originally penciled in for March 18 in Japan, but will not be released on April 29. The Western release dates will not be affected: the game will still be released on May 27 in Europe (May 28…
Last night, I asked you to show me your Shepard. Your Commander Shepard, from Mass Effect. The response was overwhelming, so I figured I’d share with you all the best of the bunch. Starting with that one up top, from Psudonym. Everyone else took photos or screengrabs, but you, Psudonym, you outdid yourself. Nice work.…
Earlier today, you saw the final box art for the regular edition of Sony’s God of War III, featuring Kratos giving you the big, angry Greek eye. Here’s what the collector’s edition looks like. Because it comes in a chest, and includes a ton of stuff like art books and soundtracks, we’d figured the box…
This is Vanquish, a new game by Shinji Mikami, the creator of the Resident Evil series. What you see in this clip is just about all we know about the game. There’s an attack on the United States (aliens?), there’s real actors in it, and you’ll be playing some guy that looks like an albino…
There hasn’t been an entirely new Pokémon series released since Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. Know what that means? Time for a new Pokémon series. An “entirely new” Pocket Monster series, complete with “new Pokémon” is in development. The new Pocket Monster series will be heading to the Nintendo DS and feature many new features and…
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