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  Mass Effect 2 Won’t Be Late On PC*

  Like previous 360 “exclusives”, the PC port of Mass Effect came late. Real late. For Mass Effect 2, however, things may be different. BioWare’s Jesse Houston has told VG247 that both the 360 and PC versions of the sci-fi RPG will be shipping at the same time. “This time round, doing it at the same…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009
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  You’re Wondering: How Many People Went To Gamescom?

  Gamescom came, it did, it went. Seemed like a success from where we were sitting! But as a public event, the show’s success depended not only on media coverage, but on the number of punters through the door. Last year’s big German games show, the Games Convention in the city of Leipzig, attracted 203,000 people…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009
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  Valkyria Chronicles 2 Gets Very Short TV Commercial

  And this is it. Wowzers! SEGA’s bringing its fictional WWII game Valkyria Chronicles to the PSP. The game is set in 1937, two years after the first game. Cadets from the Gallia Royal Military Academy are sent to suppress an insurrection in the southern part of in-game country Gallia. The game’s central concept is contrasting…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009
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  Commandos Series To Make A Return [Update]

  Pyro Studios‘ classic Commando series is on the way back, with the developers announcing that once work on their current project is done, they’ll be returning to the WW2 strategy franchise. The studio revealed to Gamer.nl that, once they’re done with the Planet 51 movie tie-in they’re currently working on, we’ll be treated to an…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009
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  Get Married With Giant Gundam!

  The most romantic day of your life. A next chapter. A new family. What better way to mark that occasion than with a giant mecha? Japanese wedding planner T&G are, well, planning a wedding ceremony for one lucky couple this Tuesday. The soon-to-be-wed couple were selected from 548 entries last month. A 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) RX-78…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009
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  DJ Hero, Game & Watch Edition

  As seen on on Hobby Blog.

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009
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  Japanese Retailers Making Peanuts Off PS3 Slim

  A Japanese retailer claims to its shop will only be making ¥700 (US$7.40) on each PS3 Slim sold. The reason for this, it seems, is buying the consoles from Sony and then selling the console at sticker price. We don’t have any data other than this and do not know how the PS3 Slim compares…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009
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  PSP Minis Documents Leaked: Sony Learning From Apple’s Mistakes

  Pocket Gamer have got their hands on some developer documents for Sony’s PSP Minis program, which reveal that – in one key area at least – lessons have been learned from the way Apple have done business on the iPhone. While Apple’s App Store has been lauded for its variety and scope, it’s often criticised…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009
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  Asking Dragon Quest Creator A Rude Question For Laughs

  Yuji Horii has a spectacular comb-over. Something not lost on comedy program G-Tech when it had the Dragon Quest creator on to discuss DQIX. You ready for the what the Japanese internet is called an “unbelievable” question? G-Tech asked Horii, “Do you know what the bald-headed dance is?” To which the game designer replied, “I…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009
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  Tatsunoko vs Capcom Gets Four New Characters

  Capcom’s Wii fighter Tatsunoko vs Capcom will, when it reaches Western shores, make the journey with some new content previously unseen in the Japanese edition. Like what? Like, maybe, online multiplayer. Along with four new characters. Yup. Four. Two from Capcom, two from Tatsunoko. There’s no word on who they’ll be, but you’re free to…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009
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  Bullet Hell Developer Is Considering Your Requests

  Cave, known for fantastic, frantic shooters like Muchi Muchi Pork and DoDonPachi, has posted an email account where folks can, among other things, send requests for games they want on home consoles. Keep in mind, that Cave is asking Japanese users to send in Japanese emails for which games they want on Japanese Xbox 360s.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009
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  New Avatar Trailer

  Here’s a new trailer for Avatar, the game based on the movie James Cameron has spent the last, oh, fifteen million years tinkering with.

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009
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  Persona 3 Portable Opening Looks Like This

  This fall, Japanese game maker Atlus is churning out a PSP port of its popular PlayStation 2 role-playing-game Persona 3. The PSP version, dubbed Persona 3 Portable, will feature a female lead character.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009
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  BioShock Movie Gets A New Director

  Last we’d heard, the BioShock movie had been put on hold while studio execs looked for a cheaper place to film, along with a new director. Looks like they’ve found the latter. According to SlashFilm, Spaniard Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will replace Gore Verbinski in the director’s chair (though Verbinski will remain as a “producer”). Never…

  By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009
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  Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.

  Our favorite Kotakuday? Ban Monday. While we don’t have any problem banning on regular days, we turn up the Ban Hammer sensitivity to MAXIMUM on Ban Monday. Here’s how it’s works: Send us the commenter page to tipsATkotakuDOTcom for anyone who should get the axe, err, hammer. You can put in your request at tipsATkotakuDOTcom.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009
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  A Walk Through Gamescom

  There’s something very unique about Gamescom among all of the video game trade shows around the world. It has a lot more heart, a lot more audience participation than anything I’ve ever seen before. I shot this video to show what I mean. In it I walked from the very back of Hall 9, the…

  By Brian Crecente Published August 23, 2009
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  Papers, Please

  To: Luke From: Owen Re: An Excellent Intern This week I went to get my Oregon driver’s license. Unlike other state DMVs, you don’t walk out the door with your card here. While the main office in Salem approves things, you carry around a provisional license on a piece of printed paper, which looks like…

  By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009
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  A Mindblowing Stop-Motion Lego Homage to Games

  “8-Bit Trip,” according to its Swedish creators took 1,500 hours to animate. They pay respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on the NES, with Pong and Pac-Man in between. The music was written by Daniel Larsson and the animation was done by Tomas Redigh, of the Swedish electronica duo…

  By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009
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  Weekend Timewaster: Turn-Based Battle

  This flash-game parody of JRPGs perfectly nails every device, trope, conceit and theme of the genre. Hang in there – even if the odds seem ridiculous, someone shows up to give you 200 gold to buy the JRPG sword. At which point you face even more stupid-ridiculous odds, and the game becomes either a snide…

  By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009
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  Dad’s Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son’s Grave

  Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who’s to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty left on the grave of a fallen soldier. In Wales, the 200th U.K. soldier to die in the Afghanistan conflict was memorialized this weekend.…

  By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009