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No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise Suffers Delay of Game
The Japanese release of No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 port of the Wii original, won’t make its previously announced February 25 release date. Travis and company won’t touch down until sometime in April. So what does that mean for those of us outside of Japan? Well, at least we…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Multiplayer Patched Into Original Aliens vs. Predator Re-Release
Rebellion’s boss promised the Steam re-release of 1999’s original Aliens vs. Predator would support multiplayer. They’ve delivered, patching in the support for that today. Here’s what it will and won’t do: • Integrated with Steam Overlay • Uses Steam name • Host/Join games via bare-bones in-game lobby browser • Can invite and join friends and…
By Owen Good Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
WarioWare D.I.Y. Has Made Me A User Generated Content Convert
Game programming may come to the masses in the most micro of forms with Nintendo’s upcoming do-it-yourself mini-game collection WarioWare D.I.Y., one of a handful of new titles we got to go hands-on with this week. I’ve been a longtime fan of the WarioWare series of seconds-long games since the original WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Games Ban Might Encourage Somali Teens to Shoot Real Guns
Somalia has a ton of problems, but at least it does have cybercafes where kids can enjoy playing games. But a fun-killing Islamist group has ordered them shut down in a ban on games in territories under its control. Hezb al-Islam ordered the cafes closed and declared that “laying video games will be prohibited. Video…
By Owen Good Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Tecmo Thinks It’s Making Games That Appeal To Women Now
You may not think off Tecmo as a company that’s targeting the fairer sex with much of its line-up, but Quantum Theory producer Yasuo Egawa says that is exactly what the publisher has been doing for the past few years. Egawa tells Edge that Tecmo wants to offer the female gamer something that’s not just…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear Solid: Rising’s Raiden Has Changed
Kojima Productions has apparently turned Metal Gear Solid: Rising’s Raiden from brown-eyed to blue, one of many little tweaks to the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty co-star since his E3 2009 debut. The new Raiden is less undead looking, has a little more bounce in his wavy white hair, is slightly more matte…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Will We Ever See Games In The Winter Games?
This happens every two years. Someone looks for an Olympics story, someone thinks up a video game angle, and presto, reconstituted discussion of video games as an Olympic event. This year’s participant: Macleans, the Canadian news magazine. Macleans quotes Ted Owen, who’s certainly beat this drum before. He’s the boss of the Global Gaming League,…
By Owen Good Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dear President Obama
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: TGIF So Tristan just wandered up to my office to let me know he emailed the president of the United States. I asked him why, he said he wanted to let him know that he liked his speech the other day. Apparently while I spend my iPhone time reading Kotaku,…
By Brian Crecente Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Week’s Top Five Hotter-than-Hades Stories
It’s Friday and it’s time for the top 5 hottest Kotaku stories of the week. Warning: reading them may scorch eyebrows, eyelashes, and/or facial hair. Brought to you by Dante’s Inferno. In Stores 02.09.10. Read ’em and burn after the jump. 1. Mass Effect 2’s Sex Scenes Already Revealed – 87,886 views 2. Kotaku ‘Shop…
By Gawkercreative Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Game Developers See Potential, Not Gold Rush in Apple’s iPad
On its surface, Apple’s iPad may seem like a glorified e-book reader, but developers working on games for the system say they see within its extra-large screen and faster processor, great gaming potential. “Our creative teams are really just digging in and brainstorming ideas that the power and specs of the iPad might bring to…
By Brian Crecente Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Says No 3D Games In the Works
EA Sports boss Peter Moore says he’s keeping a close eye on 3D gaming, but while it’s a new priority for Sony it’s not yet one for his division. “Sony has made it a strategic imperative for the company. And when Sony does something of that nature then we as a company need to sit…
By Owen Good Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
PSP, Wii Fight It Out For Japanese Hardware Supremacy
Sony’s PlayStation Portable continues its reign at the top of Japan’s hardware chart this week, in part thanks to Valkyria Chronicles 2 and continued sales of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. But the Wii is catching up on the PSP. With New Super Mario Bros. Wii continuing to sell spectacularly in Japan, Wii console hardware…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sonic Ditches Mario For iPhone Olympics
Sonic gives Mario the slip and sets out on his own (with a few friends) in Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Sonic’s solo winter Olympics outing is now available for purchase, with $4.99 scoring you 10 different characters playing 4 different events. Team up with Sonic,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Review Round-Up: Mass Effect, A Massive Laptop, Machiavelli And More
We got together this week and reviewed a bunch of games for you. And one computer. One large computer. Serious Sam HD Review: This Time It’s Really Serious In which Brian Ashcraft audaciously calls for modernized gameplay. Alienware Area-51 m15x Laptop Review: It Ain’t Heavy, It’s My Laptop In which Brian Crecente determines the specific…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Having completed the original BioShock earlier this week, a bit later than most, I’m moving on to BioShock 2 after a short break to absorb it all. That’s one game I’ll be playing this weekend. The other is the Nintendo DS role-playing game Glory of Heracles, which I’m having a bit of trouble finishing. Not…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Star Trek Online Boldly Goes Live
Star Trek Online is now online, with early start players flooding the game in order to get a leg up on the Starfleet captains waiting until launch day. Ensign Qbert Qix of the U.S.S. Kotaku, reporting for duty. Don’t worry, the name will change as I play, I was just at a loss for what…
By Mike Fahey Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
Hell Hath No Fury Like Video Game’s Take on Dante’s Inferno
Hell is a place of personal sin and redemption, a torturous landscape molded in the immorality of human flesh to create dreadful warnings of what the conclusion of an unrepentant lifestyle has in store. At least that’s what four hours with Electronic Arts’ Dante’s Inferno has taught me. In unraveling what many believe is one…
By Brian Crecente Published January 29, 2010 -
UncategorizedBattlefield Heroes Recruits Vampires & Werewolves After The Twilight
When night falls in the free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes, out come the creatures of the night with the addition of new vampires and werewolves to the web-based multiplayer shooter. Ripped from today’s young adult fiction—or, if you prefer, a handful of Underworld films and decades of fantasy—the Battlefield Heroes war takes a turn for the…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 29, 2010 - Uncategorized
How Did You Spend Your January Gaming Dollars?
I’m looking for breakdowns of how you spent money on video games in January, including digital purchases, trade-ins, eBay sales and so on. If you have all the specifics, e-mail me with the subject line “My January Gaming Dollars.” This is for a future Kotaku project. I will not make the information public without your…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 29, 2010