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It’s Official: Valkyria Chronicles II Coming Stateside!
Valkyria Chronicles II for the PSP is confirmed for a US release in Summer 2010, according to Sega’s blog. The new handheld game takes place two years after the events of the first Valkyria Chronicles, when Gallia is plunged into civil war when a group of rebels — called Gallian Revolutionary Army — rise up…
By AJ Glasser Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Star Ocean: The Last Hope PS3 Really Is International
Looks like the PlayStation 3 version of Star Ocean: The Last Hope International got its expanded name for a reason, shipping simultaneously across the globe in February. We knew it was coming to Japan, and now we know it’s coming everywhere else, as Square Enix announces a February 9th North American ship date for Star…
By Mike Fahey Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Games Are Sega Bringing To Tokyo Game Show?
Games, that’s what. But what games? We’re less than a week away from this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Let’s have a look at what games will be on display: Bayonetta (PS3/Xbox 360) Puyo Puyo 7 (DS/Wii/PSP) The House of the Dead: Overkill (Wii) Chin Sports (Wii) Super Monkey Ball Athletic (Wii) J LEAGE Make a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Inconveniently Order Pizza from Your PS3
Much as I wish there were more to this, like in-game XMB pizza ordering with voice, there isn’t. Sony’s put a Papa John’s button on the system browser homepage, but it just opens the Papa John’s site in the browser. Which means the convenience factor is quite low compared to going to PapaJohns.com on a…
By Owen Good Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
City Of Heroes Just Got A Lot More Colorful
Heroes and villains can now take each other out with all the colors of the wind as the latest free update for City of Heroes, Issue Power Spectrum, goes live. Power Spectrum isn’t all about changing the color of your character’s powers. The new update also brings a new scalable difficulty system for missions, a…
By Mike Fahey Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Don’t Worry About Missing Assassin’s Creed II Retailer-Tied Bonus Levels
If pre-ordering Assassin’s Creed II from Gamestop is not an option, there will be other ways to get all of the game’s content. During my recent interview with Assassin’s Creed II creative director Patrice Desilets of Ubisoft Montreal, the man who said he doesn’t relate to the motivations of obsessive collectors said that no gamer…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Talk Radio is Live: PSPorn, Gay Tony and TGS
In this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll be talking about the latest downloadable content for GTA, Playstation Porn, what we expect from Tokyo Game Show, listening to the Protomen’s new album and fielding calls from you. To listen, head over to our BlogTalkRadio page. Unfortunately, you can only listen live on the BlogTalkRadio…
By Brian Crecente Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Preview: Crimes For The Crazy Rich
Niko Bellic never had friends, missions or “toys” like Luis Lopez gets next month. Those who have played Grand Theft Auto over the years know that 2008’s adventure of Niko Bellic was, relatively speaking, one of the calmer GTAs. Ballistic bank heists and motorcycle chases in subway tunnels notwithstanding, Niko didn’t parachute from skyscrapers or…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Brutal Legend: Introducing Kabbage Boy
Surprise! The introduction to Brutal Legend contains a cameo appearance from the band Kabbage Boy! What? You’ve not heard of Kabbage Boy? Come on, you have to have heard of Kabbage Boy…what, you’re serious? Everyone who is anyone has heard of Kabbage Boy! Hell, even Tim Schafer has heard of them, and he’s pretty damn…
By Mike Fahey Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Calling All Readers: Kotaku Party In Tokyo
It’s time for another Tokyo Game Show and that means it’s also time for another Kotaku Party. This year we decided to go with a subtle, casual setting, something that envelopes you in warmth and subtleness: Note the gold in the picture above. How much gold is too much gold? No such thing apparently. Which…
By Brian Crecente Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
PSN Gets Bigger, Badder Lost Planet 2 Co-Op Demo
PlayStation 3 owners finally get a shot at the Lost Planet 2 co-op demo next week, with two exclusive missions helping make up for the wait. Xbox 360 owners have been taking down the giant Akrid boss in the Lost Planet 2 co-op demo since August 26th, but their gloating will soon come to an…
By Mike Fahey Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gaming’s Creepiest Couples
From the Marcus and Dom bromance in Gears of War to Midna riding around on Link in Twilight Princess, Crispy Gamer explores some of the creepiest couplings in video game history. Crispy’s list of the twelve most uncomfortable pairings is video game history is pretty much spot-on, echoing my own sentiments at every turn. If…
By Mike Fahey Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Adventures in Scribblenauts
When I posted my review of Scribblenauts yesterday quite a few people were asking for a place to talk about their own adventures playing the DS title. This is that place. I’ll reiterate one of my in-game adventures to get you started. The rest is up to you… in comments: Take for instance a problem…
By Brian Crecente Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Free Fallout 3 Premium 360 Theme For DLC Fans
Have you purchased all five packs worth of downloadable content for Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360? If so, then this premium theme is yours free come October 1st. Bethesda would like to send their fans a big thank you for sticking with them on the Xbox 360 Fallout 3 downloadable content front. Even after…
By Mike Fahey Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Spore Creature Creator Goes Flat
Have you ever wanted to smash your Spore creations flat? EA’s newly-released Spore Creature Creator 2D saves you the trouble. Spore Hero for the Wii and Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS are still several weeks away, so EA offers up the Spore Creature Creator 2D to help keep fans occupied until October 6th…
By Mike Fahey Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Can’t Get Tetris Off My Mind
A human head made of Tetris blocks as seen on Walyou. [Thanks Eran]
By Brian Crecente Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nailing Down Party Details
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: And Then There Were Three I was going to write the sound hammers make when hitting something, but I couldn’t figure out if it would be “bang bang” or “dong dong” or “boom boom” or what. I think it would be “don don” in Japanese or maybe even “ton ton”.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dutch Retailer Refuses To Sell PSPgo
According to a report on Eurogamer, Dutch chain Nedgame – the country’s largest specialist games retailer – are refusing to stock Sony’s PSPgo. Why? Nedgame (and, apparently, other retailers in Holland and Spain) aren’t happy with the console’s price, believing it to be too expensive to bother stocking. A beef, then, but not their main…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Halo 3: ODST Gets A 360 Bundle
Not a Modern Warfare man? Maybe you’re a Halo man. Or lady! If so, you might be interested in this Halo 3: ODST hardware bundle. It contains a 120GB Xbox 360 Elite, controller (curiously, not an ODST controller), a copy of Halo 3: ODST, a copy of Halo 3 and access to the Halo: Reach…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2009