South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! Review: Throwing Snowballs

It’s up to the South Park kids to stop a steady stream of enemies from terrorizing their town in tower defense game South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! The game has players use coins to build a variety of towers that do things like shoot snowballs, cherry balls, ice and pee-snowballs at incoming enemies…

NCAA Basketball 10 Finds Two Booth Teams Way Better than One

OK, I totally missed this yesterday. Remember the CBS Sports presentation package for NCAA Basketball 10? Looks like that’s for the postseason and your big Saturday afternoon national game. ESPN’s crew has you covered for Big Monday and Rivalry Week. This I honestly did not know. EA Sports is bringing in two different major networks’…

Yes, There Will Be A Bayonetta Figure

HOLY CRAP! We are so surprised! You may want to hold own to your socks for this bombshell. We’ll wait. Ready? Okay, Japanese figure maker Kotobukiya is going to make, oh the suspense, a Bayonetta figure. I know! The details: It’s a 1/6 PVC figurine that will be sculpted in the pose below. According to…

Bookie Lists Modern Warfare 2 as Favorite to Sell Most

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is offering a proposition bet on what will be the United Kingdom‘s top-selling game, giving Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 most-favored billing at 11/8 odds. Other contenders include Assassin’s Creed at 7/2 and FIFA 10 at 4/1. Core-gamer darlings such as Tekken 6, Brütal Legend and Left 4 Dead 2…

So Now I Have A PSPgo

This morning, I got a PSPgo from Sony for reviews and whatnot. I had a chance to check out Crecente’s PSPgo at TGS. Those who already have the PSPgo, any words of advice? Things you like? Things you don’t? Hit us up in the comments section.

Marc Ecko Vows to Re-Make Hipster Graffito Game “Even If It Kills Me”

Hey, remember “Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure?” the brand-extension venture of apparel designer Mark Ecko? Remember its thudding reception, which he blamed on hillbilly gamers skeered of the big bad city? Yeah, he wants to do it again. Destructoid talked to Ecko and found he’s ready to reboot the story of how, with love and…

Why It’s Taking Time To Get Beatles Rock Band DLC

Just because The Beatles are in Rock Band, that doesn’t mean every single Beatles album will be in Rock Band as downloadable content. Why, you ask, well here is why. Harmonix’s John Drake tells game site BBPS: “Every time we do one song, it’s not like Rock Band where we wait for the masters to…

PSPgo In Chinese Knock Off Form

Sony’s just released the new PSP, the PSPgo. Know what that means, time for a lower-priced Chinese copy. Thanks, China! Dubbed the PXP-2000, it sports a load of features: built-in camera, FM radio, drag and drop MP3/MP4, speakers, MP5 player, SD card slot, and 4GB of built-in memory. The portable also boasts a built-in emulator…

Chinatown Wars Gives it a Go in this Vid

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars arrives in less than two weeks for the PSP. The PSPgo guest stars in Rockstar’s debut trailer for the game. Try to refrain from touch the screen. Not that it’d do any good. Here’s the video. You can check out Totilo’s impressions of the game while you wait for it…

Jam Sessions 2 Preview: I Fought The Law And Nobody Won

I missed out on the first Jam Sessions game for the DS – but given the near over-saturation of the music sim market, can you blame me? Answer: Yes, go right ahead. You see, Jam Sessions wasn’t like other music games in that it wasn’t really a “game.” It was a tool to let people…

2K Sports Indicates NBA 2K10 Patch Coming in Two Weeks

Framerate and connectivity issues have plagued NBA 2K10 since its release date Tuesday, and 2K Sports have put out word that they are working to put out an update fast and correct multiplayer issues even faster. Many have complained of bad framerate issues that some say render the game almost unplayable, although I myself have…

Did That “Kill 1000 Kids” Achievement Make The Cut?

Playlogic has released an Achievement/Trophy list for the upcoming Fairytale Fights and that “Kill 1000 Kids” one we were told about doesn’t seem to be on it. However, there are six “secret” Achievements/Trophies and a whole slew of “kill xx enemies this way” awards that suggest the game hasn’t been watered down at all. My…

Wii, PSP Price Drops Invigorate Console Sales In Japan

Nintendo and Sony both issued hardware price drops in Japan, effective October 1, on the Wii and PSP-3000, respectively. The clear winner from those cuts? The PSP. The PSP’s new 16,800 yen price almost helped dethrone the nearly unstoppable Nintendo DSi. The cut tripled week-over-week PSP sales, but fell short of surpassing the DSi by…

iPhone Rock Band Delivers 20 Songs and Multiplayer

EA Mobile’s Twitter feed spilled the beans ast night, and the company made it official today by announcing Rock Band for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’ll feature multiplayer, vocals, and 20 songs, listed on the jump. A news release from EA mobile promises “live Bluetooth multiplayer” – OK, that part was all-capped, but we…

Rock Band iPhone Gallery

No Plans for Layton on Wii

In an interview with Official Nintendo Magazine, the Level 5 CEO Akihiro Hino has said the studio has no plans to bring Professor Layton to the Wii, despite the series’ strong popularity on the DS. Hino said the current trilogy will close out with “Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel,” and a new one…

Turbo: The Movie Is Better Than Most Street Fighter Films

Jarrett Lee Conaway’s slick looking short film about fighting games in the future and the attractive teenagers who play them, Turbo, previously featured on Kotaku, is now live. Yours for the watching and, of course, buying! The film’s self described plot crafted “in the tradition of The Karate Kid and Tron” couldn’t be more accurate.…

Someone Just Paid $20,000 For This NES Game

Spending $15,000 or even $17,500 on a collectible Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge, that we can understand. They’re covered in gold! But $20,100? That’s simply too much, even factoring in Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991’s rarity. But spend $20,100 on said ultra-rare NES game someone did, snapping up the “one of a kind” item on eBay. That…

Snow!

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: No School Because of Typhoon (Typhoon Day?) You’re getting typhoons and we’re getting snow. That’s right it snowed today, which is a tad early for Denver in my experience. Usually we get our first snowfall the week of Halloween. They’re expecting a day of snow come this weekend, which suits…

PlayStation Store Update: Crunch Time

Let’s call this week’s North American PlayStation Store update… efficient. There are just a handful of playable games new to download, but thankfully one of those games is the adorable Critter Crunch. The rest? Well, there’s “Gay Bar.” It’s now available to owners of the PlayStation 3 version of Rock Band. That’s pretty exciting. The…