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To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Talk All the Time We made a deal with Mini-Bash: We will only buy him a Pokémon DS game after and only after he learns to read hiragana. He’s been studying and can read, so it looks like we’ll be getting him either of the Gold/Silver remakes. Japanese characters, gotta…
Looks like we have an execution date for the Xbox 360 Pro model, with this shot from a Meijer catalogue due on August 30 indicating the 360 Elite is in line for a Pro-sized price cut. You’ll remember, of course, that the origins of this rumour – Ars Technica’s ever-reliable Microsoft mole – are that…
While there are millions and millions (and millions!) of gamertags out there now, in the beginning, there was but one. The alpha, the creator, Xbox Live’s Adam, before he lost a rib. So, who was it? As part of a little Q&A about the new Xbox dashboard, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has disclosed that the very…
id weren’t the only ones showing off fancy new graphics engines at the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference in New Orleans. Crytek were there too, with a new CryEngine 3 demo. Granted, it’s not the most exciting clip – there’s no guns, Koreans or explosions – but it is showing that, as texture counts become ever less…
Is this thing on? Sony has something to announce. “We will be making an official announcement regarding our forthcoming Video Store, next week, at Gamescom,” says European PlayStation Store manager Angela Madronero. To be fair to her, Madronero could’ve been asked about the video store. To be fair to us, she could cut the corporate…
Do you dream about things? We don’t. Dreaming is for dreamers. We prefer to spend our spare time thinking merely of things that should be, but are not. Which is where these new kind of Kotaku posts come in. If you see a post tagged “Let’s Fantasy”, that’s exactly what it is: fantasy. An idea,…
Not only does this Assassin’s Creed II clip have new gameplay footage and concept art, but it also has new footage of AC creative director Patrice and his beard. Patrice does the talking. His beard? The listening.
During a podcast chit-chat with PC Gaming Now, Telltale’s Dave Grossman has revealed that, once his team is done with Tales of Monkey Island, another classic Lucasarts game might be ripe for the remake/sequel treatment. “The one I always think about these days is Loom actually”, Grossman says, “and how ahead of its time it…
Add another game to the won’t-be-released-this-holiday pile. The Lord of the Rings: Aragon’s Quest will now be out “Spring 2010” — with a bunch of other games that were originally slated for this holiday season. No reason was given why the Wii, PS2, DS and PSP versions of family-friendly Aragon’s Quest were pushed back to…
PAL customers often have a hard time of it. Delays, higher prices, that sort of thing. So Sony Europe have taken the time to pull up a chair, have a little chat, try and explain some of that stuff. On the topic of delayed games – particularly those on the PSN – Sony’s Angela Madronero…
Camille Young’s handmade, resin statues are exquisite. But she doesn’t just make ’em for Mother 3 handbooks! Oh no. She makes them for previous games in the series as well. Here’s Ness. Since we used “exquisite” already, we’ll have to use something else for this guy. “Delightful”? Yeah, that’ll work. Ness Figure [Tiny Cartridge]
The upcoming issue of Chinese publication Game Wave features an image of a very “slim” looking PS3, along with a blurb that says the console is debuting at the end of next month. What’s more, according to this publication, the new console will be first shown in Germany. (We assume at the upcoming Games Convention…
Lock up your daughters! Over at website Overclock 3D, forum member “mayhem” has discovered “porno” in UK game magazines. “My concerns were risen when my son went out and bought himself a gaming magazine to read the reviews of the latest Xbox 360 games,” mayhem writes. “To my surprise the only thing that did was…
Glynnis Talken Campbell, the original voice of StarCraft’s Sarah Kerrigan, Queen of the Blades, lent her famous pipes for the StarCraft II reveal trailer at BlizzCon 2008, but ultimately the actress will not be voicing the villain for the game. According to Campbell, the voice work done in that trailer was considered an audition for…
The PS3 Slim isn’t scary. Not in of itself. It’s just a (heavily rumoured/expected) machine! But the story of Sony’s reaction to early reports of the supposed machine, man, that’s some terrifying stuff.
I’m going to look past the top PC games of the past week, and focus on a quiet achiever that’s doing well on both the Steam and Direct2Drive listings: Hearts of Iron III. It’s from a long line of dry, dry strategy games, as archaic and “old school” as PC gaming gets, and look at…
Action adventure game Way of the Samurai 3 is getting also an Xbox 360 port as well as apparently an English location. In Japan, the PS3 is getting a revamped version with bonus features this October. Here are screens. Look at them.
Bandspeed, a company specialising in wi-fi networks, has filed a patent infringement suit against Nintendo, Sony and Apple, claiming devices from all three companies cut a little too close to two patents they hold. At the heart of the lawsuit are three devices – the PS3, Wii and iPhone 3G – which Bandspeed allege violate…
…about interior design. Erotic game maker Tech Arts 3D is best know for PC title 3D Custom Girl, which lets users create a customized, well, 3D girl. It’s newest game could not be further from that. Here is a YouTube clip of its custom girl game, and here’s an example of the software in action:…
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