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UncategorizedPikmin? Made For Japanese Schoolgirls
GameCube strategy game Pikmin might have been inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto’s gardening, but do you know why he made the game? “Every once in a while, you want to make something that high school girls can get into,” the famed Nintendo creator said at a recent symposium. The concept behind Pikmin, reports Japanese site 4Gamer,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy’s Angry Australian Motorbike
Final Fantasy is a very delicate series. Effeminate, even. So you’d expect any marketing tie-ins with the game to feature delicate things. Books, clothing, artwork, etc. Not in Australia. No, to celebrate the launch of Final Fantasy XIII in Australia, EB Games and Ubisoft (the game’s distributor down under) will be giving away a motorcycle.…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
New BlazBlue Character Coming To Consoles
That’s Kanako Kondou, not the character per se, but the actress is lending her voice to the game. Once again. Kondou already voices fighter Noel Vermillion as well as cyborg ν-13 and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift’s cyborg Λ-11. In the console version, Kondou will be voicing new character μ-12. She has the market cornered on BlazBlue…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Sims 3 Simming To A Console Near You
The Sims 3 is headed to consoles. And handhelds. What’s surprising here isn’t the fact the game is making the move, but why it’s taken so long. The game is listed as part of EA’s financial results report from earlier today, with the placeholder title “The Sims 3 on Console Title”. Catchy. It’s scheduled for…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
Kotaku Off Topic: Straight Into Compton Comment by: legendnthemaking Nominated by: cokefan999 Today me and the wife moved into first house. It was a long wait but its finally ours. Tomorrow, we celebrate 5 years of marriage and we knew each other since we were 10 and been a couple since we was 12. I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Unveils New Ghost Recon Title
Ubisoft Paris announced this morning that it’s working on a new entry in the Ghost Recon series, titled Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. And yes, you’ve heard that name before. It’ll feature both singleplayer and multiplayer modes, while the publisher also promises beta access to anyone buying Splinter Cell Conviction on the Xbox 360 later this…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Is Deus Ex: Human Revolution?
Well, it’s a trademark filing, that’s what. Square Enix Europe, formerly Eidos, has trademarked Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This could either be the official name for Deus Ex 3, the upcoming prequel entry in the cyber-punk series or it could be a spin-off. With Deus Ex 3 on the horizon and taking into account the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Netflix Streaming Goes 1080p, 5.1
AV aficionados looking for a little more shine from their Netflix titles streamed over 360 or PS3 are in luck, as the film rental company announced today plans to beam its movies to your TV in “full” HD. That means a 1080p video signal and 5.1 surround sound, just like the PS3 and Xbox video…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Claims Title Of “Number 1 Packaged Goods Publisher” In Western World
For a while now, Activision Blizzard has held the title of #1 publisher in North America. It’s a title it wrestled from EA. And EA will stop at nothing, fancy nomenclature included, to reclaim the title. During the company’s financial results report from earlier today, EA claim that from April 2009 to December 2009, it…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Diablo III’s Female Monk Has The Cutest Haircut
Game developer Blizzard has already shown the male version of the Diablo III monk. It hasn’t shown the female version. Until now. Diablo III has four character classes announced so: Witch Doctor, Wizard, Barbarian, and Monk. This concept art is for the female version of the existing monk. In previous games, players were locked to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku, Your Complete Reader Guide
Commenting. Regular features. Kotaku culture. If you are new to the site, there’s a lot to absorb. It would be great if somebody condensed everything into one easy to follow guide. Somebody did. Reader deanbmmv did. His guide explains the star system, profile pages, the hashtag system and even how to view a NSFW-free Kotaku.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Finding The State Of The HD Generation
You know, for all the talk of this being the “HD generation”, we’ve got our suspicions that many of you are still toiling away on standard definition TV sets. It’s time to turn those suspicions into science. Below you’ll find some polls. The second allows you to select multiple options, since there may be more…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
There Will Never Be Another Final Fantasy Game Like FFXIII
Final Fantasy XIII has been in development for over five years, has involved hundreds of staff and has cost the publisher a ton of money. So you can see why there’ll never be another Final Fantasy game like it! Speaking with Sony on the official European PlayStation blog, the game’s producer Yoshinori Kitase and director…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report Mentions Nintendo’s New Hardware, Miyamoto’s New Game
From website 4Gamer.net comes the news that Nintendo is developing new hardware, and Shigeru Miyamoto is working on a new Wii Motion Plus game. The news is from a recent symposium in which Miyamoto discussed things like hamsters. 4Gamer does not quote him directly, but does state that Miyamoto revealed he is working on a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Pirate Ordered To Pay Nintendo $1.5 Million
Nintendo sent out a press release today triumphantly boasting of victory in an Australian court over a man accused of pirating New Super Mario Bros. Wii. And how this single man now owes the mega-rich company $1.5 million. Last November, Nintendo says it was able to “employ the use of sophisticated technological forensics” to catch…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Wonder Festival Brings New Toys For Tales, Muramasa, Yakuza & More
Wonder Festival 2010 Winter was held over the weekend in Japan, and featured loads of cosplayers. It also featured loads of new video game toys. While we’ve shown you some of the figures on display ahead of time, many more made public debuts at the show, like these guys: Jack Frost from Persona, Muramasa’s Momohime,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2010 - Uncategorized
Darwinia+, Your Xbox Live Arcade Game Of The Week
Introversion Software’s port of the award-winning Darwinia comes to Xbox Live Marketplace this week for 1200 Microsoft Points. The abstract strategy game may not be the most graphically impressive of XBLA offerings, but its gameplay is rock solid. [Xbox.com]
By Michael McWhertor Published February 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Off Topic: Straight Into Compton
Welcome to Kotaku Off Topic, the nightly open thread in which Kotaku commenters talk about anything and everything. Tonight you can do it with attitude. Speaking of Compton, I drove down there today for something Kotaku related, something that we’ll probably reveal within the next week or two. My only problem with Compton? The potholes…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 8, 2010 - Uncategorized
2K10’s Pitching and Hitting 101
Since we just got off this discussion of how hitting will work – now with check swings! – in MLB 2K10, here’s a video showing how at bats will play out in the game, for both pitchers and hitters. It also offers a good three-minute look at gameplay. While MLB 2K10’s visuals are not as…
By Owen Good Published February 8, 2010