So, Super Street Fighter IV is real, and it’s not quite what we were expecting. Neither is this trailer, which features zero new characters and zero gameplay footage.
Because if you do, you’ll be paying too much. Instead of the promised 560MSP price point, the Left 4 Dead expansion has hit the Xbox Live Marketplace at 800MSP. You might want to wait until it’s fixed. And fixed it will be, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb confirming that the price is indeed a mistake, and not…
Remember L.A. Noire? It’s the 1940s-era detective game developer Rockstar first announced back in 2006. We’re not still hearing much, just rumblings of things to come. On the official Rockstar site, there is this blurb: “While we have yet to announce a definitive release date, L.A. Noire is coming along quite splendidly, and we’re going…
Oh dear. I really feel sorry for the person at EA marketing who thought highlighting this woman was a good idea.
The Japanese box art for upcoming PS3 exclusive Uncharted 2 has been revealed. But how does it stack up with the European and North American box art? The Limited Edition Uncharted 2 box art on the left will be released in Europe (and North America, for that matter!), while the box art in the middle…
Dawn of War II is getting an expansion – Chaos Rising – and with it, finally, some new terrain. Oh, and some Chaos Marines, the Saints Row 2 fans of the desolate, distant future.
Natal is Microsoft’s new controller-free motion sensing tech. It does not have a logo or icons yet — apparently, Microsoft is still in the planning stages for that. At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Xbox Japan whipped up these icons for the booth to help convey what exactly the heck Natal is and does. Thoughts,…
Ni no Kuni, an RPG collaboration between Level 5 and animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli, looks great on paper. But how does it look in motion, while you take turns whacking monsters? Ni no Kuni: The Another World [GameVideos]
The last big game Square Enix released is Dragon Quest IX, which sold over 3.7 million copies in Japan alone. The next big game? Final Fantasy XIII. Square Enix hopes to sell more of that game, way more. The previous title shipped over six million copies worldwide, reports Reuters. The target Square Enix is setting…
Time for some cross-platform bundle parity this week, as Konami, Sony and Microsoft announce Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 hardware bundles for the PS3 and Xbox 360. As it stands, these are for the Japanese market, but if they turn up in Europe as well, don’t act all “oh my GOD” and pretend you never saw…
Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza, is the head of R&D at SEGA. He’s got a real nose for game development. No wonder he’s hard at work on new titles. At a Tokyo Game Show panel, the respected game designer talked about working on new titles and new genres. When pressed about…
You know that Dig Dug "movie trailer" we ran the other day? It was for a competition, and after seeing it, one of the other entrants – Johann Wagoner – sent us his trailer. For Paper Boy, "the movie".
It’s your money — spent it the way you like. Newly opened Akihabara business “Cute Room” is offering otaku a bevy of girlfriend-like services that include playing video games, watching DVDs and playing board games with young female (paid) friends. The girls available are pictured above. Cute Room does not appear to be offering sexual…
These days, Tim Schafer is known as the man behind Grim Fandango, Psychonauts and Brutal Legend. But everybody has to start somewhere, and Schafer got his start at Lucasfilm Games, a job he won after sending in this crazy-ass application. I read about this a few months back in Rogue Leaders, the book on the…
One of the problems with Tokyo Game Show 2009 is that the mid-September dates are just too close to the August Gamescom. If the TGS organizers, the CESA, were smart, they’d move the Japanese event to October like in 2008. That’s if they were smart. The dates that are currently being tossed around for the…
Hardware destruction specialists iFixit are at it again. Fresh off tearing the PS3 Slim to pieces, they’ve now taken a screwdriver and a thirst for blood to the PSPgo, with surprisingly interesting results. Because unlike your average teardown, which just looks pretty, the PSPgo teardown has revealed a strange design decision on the part of…
This August, Gran Turismo designer Kazunori Yamauchi did more than drive on Germany’s famed Nurburgring, he finished won the VLN race— his third race and first in an actual racing car. But what does this mean for Gran Turismo? “The last thirty minutes of the race,” Yamauchi told Kotaku at a recent visit to his…
Minh Le is the co-creator of Counter-Strike, a game that even ten years on is still played by millions around the world. So when Le starts work on a new shooter, it’s probably worth a look. Having left Valve after saying nothankyou.jpg to the pressures of creating a Counter-Strike sequel, Le now has an office…
Nanako Matsushima is not only a big time Japanese actress, appearing in films like The Ring. She also is a product pitchwoman. She does TV ads for things like green tea and Nintendo. The last time we saw her in a Nintendo ad — no, the last time we remember seeing her in a Nintendo…
The original Modern Warfare had a hugely popular beta/demo. No doubt helped sell a few million copies of the game. So will Modern Warfare 2 do the same thing? Not. A. Chance. Developers Infinity Ward have said there are “no [plans] for a Demo before launch”, because “the entire team is focused on polish all…
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