To: Ash From: Crecente Re: What You Call C3PO And R2-D2 When You Don’t Know Star Wars But I’m pretty sure I’ll be letting you down. I do that. It’s my thing. So I spent 16 minutes last week trying to carefully dismantle a old wooden crate that was singly Rick Astley in the face……
Valve is earmarking an impressive $25 million in marketing to make sure that everyone with functioning eyes knows that Left 4 Dead 2 is coming this November. That includes at least two putrid trucks, dedicated to promoting the game. One of those trucks was spotted by Kotaku reader Britt, who not only supplied us with…
Normally, throwing one’s controller into one’s pool is not recommended. But, if that action can be linked to success in non-gaming endeavors, maybe you should do it. It works for one successful person interviewed recently by The Oklahoman. The newspaper was profiling Kevin Durant, guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder has chucked his controller many…
The bad news for SNK Playmore is that retailer response to The King of Fighters XII, at least at one major Japanese retailer, is that they’d like to be rid of it altogether, marking the fighting game down to $11. The good news is that Bic Camera, the outlet responsible for dropping KOF XII to…
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says that Nintendo is planning to test downloadable demos of some WiiWare games, a program that should kick off—in Japan at least—later this month. That’s according to IGN‘s translation of the oft-cited investor Q&A that Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto dropped minor details at last week—nuggets of news that range from Miyamoto’s…
One would think that the North Korean military is primarily involved with matters of combat. But, as recounted in one amazing Washington Post paragraph, they do other things: North Korea is perhaps the world’s most secretive and repressive state, but it makes no attempt to hide the ubiquitous role the military plays in the daily…
Banjo Kazooie and Viva Pinata developer Rare has made some important contributions to the first person shooter genre, a space it hasn’t visited since Perfect Dark Zero hit the Xbox 360 in 2005. That may change, thanks to Project Natal. Rare’s Mark Betteridge tells MCV, as part of a feature on the first-person shooter, that…
The Wii has more special features than motion-sensitive controllers, a stand that tilts the system back and a power cord. The developers of Ubisoft’s latest Wii game seem to have remembered and decided to support some more neglected Wii features. The Controller Speaker: Did you remember that your Wii Remote has a speaker and that…
As seen on the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 blog, where, I’ll guess, the redacted words include “Infinity” and “Ward.”
Dragon Age: Origins is here. Ready for all that epic RPG combat? Dust off your mage outfit and plug in for the ride. Oh, and for the sexytimes. And for Tim Curry! Dragon Age: Origins, the new dark fantasy epic from BioWare is in stores now. NOW. Go get. 9 out of 10 stars. Dragon…
Ubisoft is unfortunately foregoing offering replica Sam Fisher night-vision goggles for the collector’s edition of Xbox 360 exclusive Splinter Cell Conviction attempts to make up for it elsewhere. Does it succeed? For $79.99 the “limited run” version of Ubisoft Montreal’s stealth action game—still due February 23 in North America—packs in the requisite art book, “collectible”…
Here at Kotaku today, there’s a sense of emptiness due to Mike Fahey’s day off. If only there was a way to invade his privacy and, say, snoop through his Dragon Age playing history. Ah, but there is! If you have a free account to BioWare’s “social” site, you can check out Fahey’s accomplishments in…
Why do some games have multiplayer? Because the executives demand it, even if the developers don’t want it. As explained in a recent account of goings on at Midway. In the middle of last month, ex-Midway producer John Vignocchi was a guest on the Giant Bomb podcast, managing to share some wild tales about his…
Konami may be reaching ever deeper into the intellectual property well, revitalizing one of its more obscure franchises, Jackal, as a Wii game. Do images of a “working prototype” of what appears to Jackal mean a remake is incoming? Not necessarily, but given Konami’s flood of WiiWare versions of Contra, Gradius and Castlevania, released under…
Studies about video games say the darnedest things. Either it is plainly obvious that being a gamer hurts your income — because you have to spend money on these games! — or there is a mathematical revelation here. The New-Brunswick Telegraph Journal reports the findings of Economics student Ryan MacLeod, who has crunched some demographics…
The folks at Electronic Arts are putting a lot of time into developing fun, sin-themed marketing for their upcoming release of Dante’s Inferno. Watch the extended cut of me playing around with the box sent me by said marketeers as I try to avoid using the hammer they sent me as part of their wrath-themed…
Xbox Live subscribers of Gold distinction can enjoy the Xbox 360 Left 4 Dead 2 demo as of right now. The 1.69 GB demo is yours for the downloading from Xbox Live Marketplace. Second-class Xbox Live Silver members will have to wait another week to get their hands on the Left 4 Dead sequel. But…
We cannot stop new games from coming out, but we can at least review them. Here’s what we reviewed last week, for those who may have missed them. Click each thumbnail for a link to each review. Read! Dungeon Hunter Review: Pocketful of Diablo In which Brian Crecente attempts to justify writing the first full-sized…
Lots to discuss about these stats this month, as Call of Duty rises to fourth and Guitar Hero III begins to dip. Remember, the numbers show hours:minutes, lifetime, for these games. (Click the chart to enlarge) The Nintendo Channel is properly calculating and reporting player data again and so I can provide this month’s look…
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