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Bayonetta PS3 Outsells Bayonetta 360 — No Surprise There
Unofficial day-one sales are in for Bayonetta and boy does Japan love its PlayStation 3s. Ninety-three thousand copies sold for Sony’s home console compared to the 45,000 sold on Xbox 360. But that’s nothing new for the market. Compare Bayonetta’s sales to these other games to see just how much day-one sales favor PS3 over…
By AJ Glasser - Uncategorized
Spring Back
To: Bash From: Owen Re: Tristan Vs. Zombies Time was, forgetting to adjust your clock back to standard time was like finding an old $20 bill the first time you put on your winter coat in November. You’d wake up, something wouldn’t feel right, and remember you had an extra hour of the most blissful…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Alan Wake Devs Might Withhold Ending from Preview Copies
Alan Wake‘s developers are concerned enough about spoilers getting out that they’ll talk with Microsoft about keeping the game’s ending out of copies sent to the press in advance of its release. G4TV quotes the Remedy Entertainment managing director Matias Myllrinne as saying the studio is “insanely careful” about how much of the story it’ll…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
And Here are the Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Perks
Well, fresh on the heels of the killstreak list, we’ve got another claim to the multiplayer perk set. You know the drill, rumor, not official, spoiler alert. This comes from the site MW2blog.com, which though it might look official (it even cites “Copyright Modern Warfare 2”), is registered through GoDaddy to someone in the U.K.…
By Owen Good - Reviews
NBA Live Micro-Review: More than Pick-Up Hoops
EA Sports continues its full-court press into the mobile games space with NBA Live. Madden and FIFA delivered enjoyable football and soccer experiences, can the iPhone and iPod Touch hope to contain five-on-five basketball? Loved Under control: Honestly thought I’d hate the controls, considering this is five-on-five basketball with not a joystick in sight. But…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Fake Gabe Newell — Show Yourself!
Some of you might have noticed my “zombiedogs” snafu earlier today. “Gabe Newell” did. Well, the guy masquerading on Twitter as the Valve boss, anyway. That’s when I knew for sure there were no zombiedogs in Left 4 Dead 2. Quick recap: We got sent a screengrab of some files in the Left 4 Dead…
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EA Warns Against Bogus Bad Company 2 Beta Signups
Apparently there are some phishing emails going around – for what other purpose would someone fake an invitation to a sign-up for a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta? EA says no such thing exists. Says the Battlefield producer Gordon Van Dyke on the Battlefield Blog: As of today there is no official Battlefield Bad Company…
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Modern Warfare 2 Killstreak Rewards Revealed?
The early PC Xbox 360 leak of Modern Warfare 2 continues to churn spoilers. Yesterday we saw the video of what you get for an eyepopping kill streak of 25. Someone’s posted a list of rewards for all the others. The site Gamepex has posted, without attribution, the full list. Take it with a heaping…
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Week in Games: Harvest Season
More than 60 qualities drop this week as the release season begins its death march toward Black Friday. Dragon Age: Origins is the marquee release, with two DLC expansions releasing for Xbox 360 on Day One. Lego Rock Band and Band Hero provide the competing casual rhythm game experience. Star Wars: Battlefront hits the handhelds,…
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Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 10 Biggest WTF Games of All Time [Brave New Gamer] Back in the 1980s I remember reading an ad for early arcade ports that…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Amazon Seeks “Call of Duty-est” Town in America
Amazon’s pitting city against town against village in a promotion to see which American municpality orders the most copies of Modern Warfare 2 with release-date delivery. They’ve got a top 40 board up, which Stillwater, Okla. currently leads. The criteria: Amazon’s cutoff are towns and cities with a population over 5,000 (according to the most…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Latest Wiimote Attachment: Baby
Fans of hardcore child-rearing sims will no doubt find the Wii-exclusive “Baby and Me” to be a day-one purchase this year, promising a revolutionary new peripheral in which you stick a Wiimote inside a baby. OK, not a real baby. A baby doll, of course. But it takes doll-playing to the next level by incorporating…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Don Ivan Punchatz, Doom Box Artist, Dies at 73
The artist Don Ivan Punchatz, whose artwork on id Software’s Doom helped establish the game’s hardcore reputation and appeal, has died of a heart attack. He was 73. Punchatz who also illustrated for top-flight publications such as National Geographic, TIME and Playboy, suffered a heart attack on Oct. 11 and never regained consciousness. After two…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Infinity Ward Removes Modern Warfare 2 “F.A.G.S.” Video
Following stern criticism from two games writers yesterday, Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling pulled back a viral video for Modern Warfare 2, couched as a PSA from a group called “Fight Against Grenade Spam” that called the tactic “for pussies.” Destructoid’s Samit Sarkar, following the event unfold over Twitter, reports that Infinity Ward took fire publicly…
By Owen Good - Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Oct. 26 PvPonline published Oct. 29 ActionTrip published Oct. 26 Digital Unrest published Oct. 26 EXTRALIFE published Oct. 30 GU Comics published Oct. 30 Dotgif published Oct. 26 Ctrl-Alt-Delete published Oct. 30 Dueling Analogs published Oct. 15 Nerf NOW published Oct. 30 Rooster Teeth published Oct. 31 Virtual Shackles published week of…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
It must be Oct. 32, because our nightmare friends are still around. The image may be a month old, but your comments are 100 percent fresh. Talk about whatever you like in Kotaku’s Official Open Thread. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
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