Castlevania’s Igarashi Involved In WiiWare Rebirth, Secret Stuff

In the summer we reported that longtime Castlevania developer Koji Igarashi, absent during the franchise’s appearance during E3, was still at Konami, involved in a project that would emerge at Tokyo Game Show. That didn’t come to pass. I checked in with Konami, wondering if the recently-announced 2D downloadable Wii game Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

This weekend, I’ll be spinning my wheels with the review build of Forza Motorsport 3, a game I’ve had for some time, but have only recently found the opportunity to play for an upcoming review. While I’ve not spent enough time to weigh in on it yet — I’m only about a dozen races in…

Axel & Pixel Micro-Review: A Puzzling Combination

2K Play launches its indie game initiative with Axel & Pixel, a point and click adventure game from Czech studio Silver Wish Games starring a man, his dog, and a giant mutant rat. The aforementioned mutant rat has trapped the artist Axel and his canine companion Pixel in a bizarre dream world and run off…

No-Fail DJ Hero Is Easier And Harder Than Expected

Failure is not possible in Activision’s turntable riff on Guitar Hero, but I saw last night how tough — and strategic — playing the game can be. DJ Hero was available to play in a SoHo Manhattan gallery as part of an Activision and Microsoft-backed evening event for this multi-platform game. After I arrived, I…

Aliens VS. Predator: Aliens For The Win

After showcasing the poor Marines in the first faction trailer for Aliens VS. Predator, Sega focuses on the clear winners of the conflict – the Aliens. The Aliens were my faction in the original Aliens VS. Predator game, and they’ll be my faction in the new game as well. You can keep your stealthy cornrowed…

Mass Effect 2 Dated For January, Preorder Bonuses Abound

EA has nailed down a January release date for Mass Effect 2 in North America and Europe, detailing the special armor and weapons available as preorder bonuses in the process. The epic space RPG continues on January 26th in North America, with Europe joining the fray three days later on the 29th. Along with the…

Surprise Activision Dinosaur Game Coming In November

Activision has announced a November release date for Jurassic: The Hunted. If you just asked yourself, “What the hell is Jurassic: The Hunted,” rest assured I’m right there with you. This is the first I’ve heard of Jurassic: The Hunted, Activision’s budget dinosaur hunting game, outside of a brief mention as “Jurassic Hunter” in Nintendo’s…

Postman Swipes 2,200 Gamefly Games

A Philadelphia-area postal worker with sticky fingers has admitted to intercepting $86,000 worth of games originally intended for subscribers of GameFly’s video game rental service. If you live in the Philadelphia area and had trouble receiving your GameFly rentals last year, odds are good that Reginald Johnson was to blame. Johnson worked as a mail-processing…

Preorder The Dragon Age Digital Deluxe Edition On Steam

Dragon Age: Origins is now available for preorder on Steam. Should you purchase the normal version, or spend an extra $5 $15 on the shiny Digital Deluxe Edition? Steam is unlocking Dragon Age: Origins on November 3rd, and it’s got two different flavors of the game to choose form. Both versions come with the preorder exclusive…

A Fully-Functioning MotionPlus Wii Remote

All of the details can be found on Pocket-Lint.com

Could Mass Effect Be Heading To the PS3?

Speaking at a gaming event in Poland this week, Bioware’s Jay Watamaniuk mentioned the Playstation 3 as a probable target audience for Mass Effect 2, Polygamia reports. During the presentation, Watamaniuk mentioned three platforms that Mass Effect 2 is targeted at. They were Xbox 360, PC and “probably PS3”. Polygamia reports that Watamaniuk later seemed…

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s War-Torn Balmorra

BioWare updates the Star Wars: The Old Republic Holonet with an entry on the planet Balmorra, the hotly-contested galaxy leader in weapons and droid manufacture. The fiercely independent planet of Balmorra hasn’t had much time to exercise that fierce independence over the course of Star Wars history. It’s what they get for being the top…

Assassin’s Creed 2 Combat Is Just Plain Brutal

In the latest developer diary video for Assassin’s Creed II, Patrice and friends walk us through the game’s dynamic and painful-looking combat system. The developers here touch on one of my biggest gaming pet peeves in the video – enemies that don’t react to being hit. If I hit someone with an axe, they are…

Zombie Apocalypse Micro-Review: Paint the Town Red

Nonstop carnage is on the menu in Konami’s Zombie Apocalypse, which brings games’ undying affinity for the undead to a top-down, multidirectional shooter. Does it also hold the same appeal when it’s one – or four – against a thousand? Loved Senseless Slaughter: Who wouldn’t want to go up against an undead horde with unlimited…

We are trying to organise a Kotaku Uncharted deathmatch on Sunday Anyone interested ‘speakup’. I’ll knock together a thread on the forum #speakup

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Our TAY trio is ready for the new Kotaku, but they better heed some warnings. The horse will be able to add images to #cheats, but not yet (A known issue… bear with us). The troll needs to be patient waiting for his page to appear (Starred commenters can start a page about anything, but…

Nothing But Good Times At The Library

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Paid for the Party Today I went to the library and check out a bunch of comic books. Libraries are awesome. Comic books are awesome. Libraries and comic books? Awesome. What you missed last night Old News ’96: Nintendo Also Increasing Storage Capacity, Hopefully, Maybe First Borderlands DLC Involves, Yep,…

R4 Sales Get Shadier And Shadier

See those signs? They read, “Majikon” — Japanese for R4. And they are pointing into a random apartment building. Nintendo leading the legal charge against the R4, even asking individuals to anonymously rat out retailers selling the devices. One Akihabara R4 retail shop recently closed due to “adult reasons” — some on the Japanese internet…

Microsoft: We Will Outsell PS3 This Gen

Time for the baseball analogies! Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg compares the console wars to a game of baseball. So, batter up. “What I can tell you is we remain confident that Xbox 360 will not only outsell PS3 for the full calendar year, but for this entire generation,” Greenberg told Game Informer. “It is similar to…

GameStop Gives You Two Extra Levels In COP: The Recruit Pre-order

COP: The Recruit looked like a big game when I saw it last. But if you want to super-size it, GameStop’s giving out two extra levels to pre-order customers. To me, the game is what Grand Theft Auto could’ve been on the DS — only from the perspective of the police. You play as an…