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BioShock 2 Moves 3 Million, GTA IV Sales Pass 15 Million
2K’s BioShock sequel is off to a good start. Take-Two Interactive announced today that the 2K Marin-developed BioShock 2 has surpassed 3 million in sales since its release on the Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3. Good job, Mr. Bubbles. That’s a positive step in the BioShock 3 direction, with BioShock 2 quickly catching up…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Blur Challenge Messages Can Be Sent Over Xbox Live, Too
The Twitter-integrated challenge system in Blur allows players to send friends times to beat, regardless of what platform they use. Bizarre Creations says they’ll also be sent as Xbox Live dashboard messages, allowing for some multiplayer without a Gold account. The difference, of course, is the challenge doesn’t take place head-to-head. Friends get a message…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Hump Day
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Man, Tim sure hates himself some Japan. Do you hate it there too? Or maybe Tim just needs a vacation? You know, he’s coming to GDC? What you missed: A Bit More On that Halo Reach Multiplayer Vid Test Drive Unlimited Returns EA Shows Off Mirror’s Edge, Skate-It, And World…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Mile Marker 8: Heroes of Newerth
Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Heroes of Newerth. In A Sentence Inspired by the incredibly popular Defense of the Ancients Warcraft III fan mod, Heroes of Newerth is…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Insomniac Working on Two Games Right Now, Won’t Say What
Big speculation is that tomorrow’s “surprise Sony Sequel” is Resistance 3, but if it is – a) Insomniac’s community manager is not saying and b) even if it were, the studio is also working on a second game. “If you’re hoping that I will announce a future title here, you will be disappointed,” writes James…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Speak-Up On Kotaku: Team Ninja, Splitscreen’s Absence, Used Games, And The Birthday Lord
In this week’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea, IncD, ZeroAnd09, and Bwwardiii sound off on splitscreen online play, Team Ninja’s Metroid, mega awesome birthday gifts, and a new way to sell used games. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2010 -
UncategorizedValve Updates Portal Again, Now With New Ending
Let the games begin. Again. Valve has whipped the Portal community into a fresh frenzy with one more update to the PC version of the first-person puzzle game. What does the the developer have in store this time? Officially, it has “Added valuable asset retrieval.” So… there you go? No new achievements, but the Steam…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
NHL 2K Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Resting
Take-Two Interactive CEO Ben Feder sheds some light on NHL 2K’s absence from the company’s PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 line-up, explaining that the series is on hiatus this year in order to come back stronger with NHL 2K12. When NHL 2K11 didn’t show up on a list of Take-Two’s 2010 releases, some took that…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Take-Two: More Borderlands DLC Coming
Touting the popularity of the three pieces of downloadable content released for Borderlands to date, Take-Two CEO Ben Feder said today that more are on the way. “Borderlands continues to build on its success in the market,” Feder said during the company’s quarterly financial earnings call. The Secret Armory of General Knoxx was the “highest…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
L.A. Noire, Mafia II, Max Payne 3 & Civilization V All Due By Oct. 31 (Maybe)
Take-Two Interactive has a very busy fiscal fourth quarter, pegging four big games, L.A. Noire, Mafia II, Max Payne 3 and Sid Meier’s Civilization V, for release between August and October. However, one of those games might not make it. That means another delay for Mafia II, a title that isn’t new to having its…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Red Dead Redemption Delayed To May
Rockstar’s Western follow-up Red Dead Redemption, originally slated for release in late April in North America, has been pushed back to mid-May. The delay, which was revealed today as Take-Two Interactive announced their quarterly financials, has the North American release of Red Dead Redemption set to May 18th. The new date puts the North American…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Valve Teases Upcoming Mac Announcement, Not So Subtly
Is Valve finally ready to make the switch and support Mac OS X? A recent update to Steam hinted at it, now it’s time for the Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress developer to be more blunt about it. The developer has released a series of images “in anticipation of an upcoming announcement from…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Aliens And Predators Invade PlayStation Home
Now here’s a couple of virtual costume items that might be worth dropping a couple of bills on, if only to see an Alien and a Predator doing the running man in the lobbies of PlayStation Home. Sega Europe announces official Aliens Vs. Predator gear, coming tomorrow to the European PlayStation Home Thread Store. Choose…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2010 - Reviews
Mega Man 10 Micro-Review: Capcom Had Mercy
Finally, a Mega Man game I can clear in 90 minutes. Is that what you want too? Two years after Mega Man 9 returned the classic Capcom series to 8-bit, classic Nintendo Entertainment System design, Mega Man 10 is upon us, with an offer that is decidedly not old school: An easy game. But it’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Shows Off Mirror’s Edge, Skate-It, And World Adventures On The iPhone
EA Mobile passes along a set of new screenshots showing off three big titles they’re bringing to the iPhone in the coming months – Skate-It, Mirror’s Edge, and The Sims 3 World Adventures. We’ve seen plenty of MIrror’s Edge for the iPhone over the past few months, and The Sims 3 World Adventures was a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
R.U.S.E. Public Beta Hits Steam Next Week
Ubisoft is letting everyone in on the deception action next week, with a public beta test for Eugen System’s bluff-based real-time strategy game R.U.S.E. dropping on Steam next week. The R.U.S.E. public beta will kick off on March 9th, and everyone is invited to play, or at least everyone with a free Steam account, and…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Just Cause 2 PC Loves On NVIDIA
Square Enix London Studios dropped us this video to show off how pretty Just Cause 2 can be when running on a PC equipped with NVIDIA’s latest graphics hardware. I’m not all that familiar with NVIDIA’s CUDA technology, and Bokeh lens techniques mean absolutely nothing to me, but I do know a very pretty game…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Come Talk Bad Company 2 With the Game’s Producer Live
Join us live today on CBS Radio for our latest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio. We’ll be joined by Gordon Van Dyke, producer of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Call in now to talk to DICE’s Van Dyke about all things BC2. The show kicks off at 11 a.m. MT, 1 p.m. ET. Want to be…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Bad Flash Game Combats The Sexual Exploitation Of Children
It may be the most hideous Choplifter rip-off ever created, but at least “CyberDodo fights against the sexual exploitation of children” has its heart in the right place. Did you know March 4 is the World Day Against Sexual Exploitation? If you’re anything like me, you had no clue. Then again, if you’re anything like…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2010
