Late 2010 will improve our ability to play video games without a controller in our hands. But even if you skip getting a Project Natal, there will be ways for you to motion-control your TV with a hand wave. The New York Times reports that the Xbox 360’s Project Natal is just one of many…
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Hot off the success of their licensed Street Fighter tournament edition fight sticks in the U.S., Mad Catz is hoping to expand their reach into the land of Street Fighter: Japan. Currently popular fight-stick manufacturer Hori has the licensing rights to Street Fighter in Japan, said Alex Verrey, the Mad Catz’ spokesman. But they’d like…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Kotaku’s Newest Day Note Slated For Release January 11 Welcome back from CES. Wanted to ask you our thoughts on 3D? The jury is still out for me — I actually like the flatness of, you know, regular HD TV. Remember when that was a big deal? What you missed…
Pop diva Beyoncé has renewed her partnership with Nintendo of America, but this time she’s back to shill more than Nintendo products: She’ll be shilling her own, too. Through Nintendo, she’s promoting her own fashion line, Deréon, which was co-created by Beyoncé and her mother, designer Tina Knowles. Last year, the singer appeared in ads…
What is it with American publishers – Sony Computer Entertainment in particular – and ruining nice pieces of foreign box art that should otherwise have been left untouched? Take Heavy Rain, for example. Above is the PAL cover to the game, revealed a month or so ago. It’s dark, it’s mysterious, it’s slightly menacing. Exactly…
Action title No More Heroes, a game supposedly intended for the Xbox 360 originally and then moved to the Nintendo Wii, is finally coming to the Xbox 360. And the PS3. With No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, the series is making the leap to hi-def. According to a Famitsu article from last fall, the game…
Still want some Fable III screens? Once again, there are no Fable III screens. Sorry. There are images of , a queen, a king and his family and chimney sweeps. The action role playing game, which allows players to choose between good and evil, moving on from a stylised renaissance and is, Dickens novels in…
Well, this is different. Thanks to a massive injection of capital from General Electric, the SyFy network and a games developer are building a project in which an MMO and a TV show interact and “co-evolve”. The project has the name “One Earth“, and the game is being worked on by Trion World Network, who…
Horror scream queen Michele Morrow has professed her desire to be in the upcoming Sam Raimi Warcraft film. Get in line, sister! As with Sean Young and the role of Catwoman or Freddie Prinz, Jr. and the role of Spider-Man, Morrow has announced that she would like to be in a big budget property. Morrow,…
There have been many jokes made in the entertainment media about Tiger Woods‘ love life, but not so many about Tiger Woods’ video game franchises. So thank you, The Soup’s Joel McHale, for rectifying the situation.
In the two years since we last saw a figure from PlayStation 2 RPG Shining Wind, things have taken a turn for the worse for lovers of fully-clothed video game heroines. This figure, again from the Japanese master craftsmen at Kotobukiya, is of the Forest Goddess Elwyn. It’ll be out in April, and will cost…
Released in Japan on July 11, 2009, DS role playing game Dragon Quest IX went on to sell 4 million copies in its native Japan. The game is out this year in the West, but before that… Square Enix will be releasing the game this March in Japan at a budget price. On March 4,…
So 2K Boston have reverted to their original name, Irrational Games. Good news for nostalgic PC fans. But what of the fate of the “other half” of Irrational, 2K Australia? After all, the Canberra-based developers were once Irrational’s second studio, shared the same name (before being renamed “2K Australia”), and worked alongside Ken Levine’s Boston…
The Xbox 360 launched in November 2005. The original Xbox launched in November 2001. It is now 2010. About time for a new Xbox, right? Not necessarily, Microsoft says. “I think it’s important to say that the Xbox 360 is the console of the long future for us,” David Hufford, senior director of Xbox product…
We like this, Ubisoft. Instead of putting together a boring press release, or another unbearable developer diary, the latest Splinter Cell: Conviction reveal came in the form of a screenshot and…an excited little note? coop mode split screen confirmed! Is what the note said, with the screenshot showing, well, the fact the game has split-screen…
Spider-Man 4 has fallen apart. Sam Raimi has walked from the film. But what does this mean for Warcraft? Director Raimi felt as though he could not realistically deliver the film he wanted to make by the studio’s due date, causing the director to pull out of the comic book franchise, scrapping the film. According…
In terms of the number of people fired from their jobs, 2009 was one of the worst years in the history of the video game business. But just how many people were given the boot? A study by research firm M2 Research has estimated that 11,488 video game industry professionals were laid off from late…
Sci-fi opus Avatar, from director James Cameron, is the second highest-grossing movie of all time; and it’s still playing in theaters. Earning over $1.8 billion, his historical epic Titanic is the biggest grossing film worldwide. You’t think a guy like that would take time off, relax. Things could be so cruisey. Oh no, not Cameron.…
Literally. If you live in the San Francisco area, get on the giant Final Fantasy XIII bus that will be touring later this week, and you’ll be able to get your hands on Square Enix‘s upcoming role-playing game. From January 13-16, the bus will be driving around the bay area, giving players a chance to…
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