The LocoRoco edition of the PlayStation Portable becomes yet another gaming product to take advantage of the great crossover between fans of video games and fans of string cheese, as seen in a circular from this past weekend.
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You can now pre-order those Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless Headset that Creative Labs showed off during last year’s BlizzCon. The headsets, which come either either a Horde or Alliance theme, will cost you $160 a pop. They include custom World of Warcraft voice mods, WoW-themed software and will work on a PC or…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft As you know, I work in a digital medium, creating content for this wonderful website. Don’t get me wrong, I love the internet dearly, but there is something to be said still about a the physical and tangible nature of an actual book — and even more to be said by…
Sorry we missed you last Friday! We were busy making cups of tea. Tea is fantastic. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You…
If Square Enix shipped, say, a million copies of the DS Dragon Quest VI remake at launch, how many copies would Japan buy? Approximately 910,000 copies. In the first four days that the game was on sale, 909,981 copies of Dragon Quest VI were sold in Japan, making it the highest selling DS Dragon Quest…
Sony’s venture into reality TV, The Tester, will be keeping it real this February on the PlayStation Network. Available for free download starting February 18, the series follows 11 hopefuls as they, the Sony releases tells us, “compete in grueling physical and mental challenges to win a position as a game tester at SCEA and…
Just Dance’s reign of terror has finally come to an end, BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 cruising straight into the top spot on the British charts. Ubisoft’s dancing title sits sandwiched between Mass Effect 2 and another impressive debut, Sony’s MAG, which came in at third. Third! For a multiplayer-only game that’s had a lot less…
It’s been a bad year for video game companies. Big losses, big layoffs. But one company, Capcom, appears to have sailed right on through, announcing today that over the past nine months things are looking just fine. Compared to the same period last year, net sales at the Japanese publisher were up 5.9%, operating income…
Whenever a new video game is released in Japan, gamers band together to check something: Character underpants. The ability to see up female character skirts in-game is certainly fan service, and depending on the developer, there might be some of this fan service (see Super Smash Bros. Brawl) or there might not be much at…
Blizzard released some new screenshots for Diablo III over the weekend. With the game not due until 2011 at the earliest, those with short attention spans have been warned. [via Big Download]
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has confirmed to Kotaku that “a number of projects” at Sony’s Liverpool studio have halted. However, rumors are swirling that the restructuring goes further than that. Originally known as Psygnosis, the studio was founded in 1984 and is best known for the anti-gravity WipEout racing games. During the 1980s, the studio…
Living legend Bruce Shelley, with Civilization and Age of Empires as notches on his belt, has been out of the limelight since his studio, Ensemble, went bust last year. So, Bruce, been keeping busy? You bet he has. Ubisoft has begun marketing Settlers 7 in the West, and to help boost awareness of the series…
Not only was Final Fantasy XIII originally planned for the PlayStation 2, senior producer Yoshinori Kitase says that switching the title to the PS3 cost Square Enix “a year-and-a-half”. Late last week Kotaku posted pictures of the PS2 version of the game. The game, which was released on the PS3 last December in Japan, was…
Tired of waiting for Relic to release another Homeworld game? Try waiting for the release of Flotilla instead. An upcoming strategy title by indie outfit Blendo Games, Flotilla will look familiar to anyone who’s played 1999 game Homeworld, as its action takes place using an interface that’s very similar to that used in Relic’s classic…
A black Xbox 360 controller bundled with Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, Lumines Live!, Bomberman Live and Ms. Pac-Man will go on sale in Japan on March 11. But that’s not all. The controller bundle is priced at ¥5,775 (US$64). It has been out in other regions for some time now. That same day, the…
The same guys behind the brilliant Ocarina of Rhyme, Team Teamwork, have just released another mix of hip-hop and game soundtrack in the form of “Vinyl Fantasy VII”. Just like Ocarina, it takes the original music from the game and overlays it with the tracks from rappers like Murs, Ghostface and MF Doom. Was never…
In summer 2008, Xbox Taiwan announced that Final Fantasy XIII would be getting an Xbox 360 “Asia” version. Microsoft clarified that “announcement”, and then further clarified that clarification. So in 2008, Final Fantasy XIII wasn’t getting an Asia version, and a new report confirms that it won’t be getting one in 2010, too. Localized Asia…
Japanese circuit bender Kaseo loves taking Pikachu toys and doing wonderful things with them. We’ve seen his stuff before, with the legion of singing Pokemon, but his latest work is well worth a look. Witness the Pikatron, a handheld distortion device that’s basically a guitar-looking synthesiser that uses Pikachu as a medium to channel the…
What. A. Week. Well, last week. Mass Effect 2 came out, and some of gaming’s Twitterati became very excited. What about you? Honest from Meteos developer Q Entertainment. Brutal honestly? Duncan Jones, director of sci-fi flick Moon, NEEDS Mass Effect 2. The Sims folks are jazzed about Mass Effect 2, too. Prince of Persia creator…
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