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Namco Bandai Launches Namco Sounds On iTunes
The music of Pac-Man, SoulCalibur, and Xevious are now waiting to be nestled gently within your iPod, courtesy of Namco Bandai‘s newly-launched iTunes music label, Namco Sounds. Namco Bandai will be using the Namco Sounds label to release exclusive re-mastered tracks from its extensive stable of classic games. To inaugurate the launch of the label,…
By Mike Fahey Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Talk Radio is Live, Join in the Conversation
In this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll be talking about the reinvigorated console wars, the downside of pre-order goodies, whether we finally have a great Batman game, Jonathan Coulton’s latest album and of course fielding calls from you. To listen, head over to our BlogTalkRadio page. Unfortunately, you can only listen live on…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
So When Is Take-Two Announcing The Next GTA?
During yesterday’s Take-Two Interactive third quarter 2009 fiscal report conference call, chairman Strauss Zelnick laid out the company’s non-strategy for announcing the next Grand Theft Auto game. Responding to a question about the announcement strategy for the next GTA from Arvind Bhatia of brokerage firm Stern Agee, Zelnick made Take-Twoe’s stance on the subject perfectly…
By Mike Fahey Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Muramasa Moment In Art
Ignotion Entertainment’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade will be in stores soon, so the company has released a "Moment in Art" trailer to make sure everyone who owns a Wii sees how lovely it looks. See? Isn’t that lovely?It could be the prettiest thing you’ll see on your Wii this year. While you desperately struggle not…
By Mike Fahey Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Be Bayonetta, Win HD Gaming Set-Up
Maxim and Sega are teaming up to find a real-world Bayonetta. The ankle-gun packing, library-glasses wearing, hair-manipulating witch is set to hit store shelves in her self-titled game in October in Japan and January her in the U.S. But if you think you’re a dead ringer for the witch, you need to submit your pictures…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tetris Gives You Thicker Brain Meats
A study conducted by neuroscientist Richard Haier has determined that performing a “challenging visuospatial task” like Tetris can actually alter the structure of your brain. Or at least the brains of adolescent girls, who were the subject of the study, funded by Tetris marketer Blue Planet Software. Adolescent girls’ brains are still developing, as any…
By Mike Fahey Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
And Now DC Comics Does Aion
No video game is safe from DC Comics‘ WildStorm imprint, as NCsoft’s Aion becomes the latest title to get the comic book treatment, with a special issue available at PAX or with purchase at GameStop. “Aiva’s Story” tells the story of a young Asmodian warrior named Aiva, which seems completely appropriate given the name of…
By Mike Fahey Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Scenes And Screens From LostWinds: Winter Of The Melodias
Frontier Developments once again puts the power of the wind in your hands in LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, the follow-up to the acclaimed WiiWare launch title. Here’s what it looks like. The art style remains intact, but the play style has changed a little bit. As mentioned in Owen’s article on the game this…
By Mike Fahey Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Scene It? Coming To Wii And PS3
The movie trivia party game that gave four new colored bits of plastic to the 360 is now making its way to the PS3 and Wii with Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! Screenlife’s adaptation of the DVD-based movie trivia game for the Xbox 360 has sold well across two different iterations, so the company…
By Mike Fahey Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Why Buy Scribblenauts
Scribblenauts brings the ability to turn nearly any word you can write into a cute world of scribbles, but no nauts. But maybe that’s not enough to convince to buy the game for your DS. Fortunately, 5th Cell creative director Jeremiah Slackza is here to do the hard sale, explaining how the game came about…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
As you comment about video games below this post, I might be flying over your head — if you live below the flight path between New York and Seattle. I’m PAX-bound. Early. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
By Stephen Totilo Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Place Your Foreign Liquor Recommendations Here Plze
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: PC Headaches Typically liquor stores in Japan have, well, the same liquor. I don’t mean they’ve only got sake and Asahi Dry — far from it. Instead, I mean, they’ve typically got the same foreign liquors. So like Jack, Campari, Pernod, etc — along with wine. Not that there’s anything…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Threatened Over Godfather Machine Guns
EA’s Godfather series features two weapons bearing the name “Dillinger”. They are, of course, a tip of the hat to bank robber John Dillinger. But the supposed Dillinger estate are having none of it. Jeffery Scalf, who says his grandmother was Dillinger’s half sister (I know, I know), has threatened EA with a lawsuit unless…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Asking Publishers About Other PS2-To-Blu-Ray Releases
We touched on this in a dreamy way yesterday, but today, let’s look at it a little more seriously: now that God Of War 1 & 2 are being re-released on Blu-Ray, can we expect other series to follow suit? After all, there are plenty of popular PS2 games/series that – provided they were upgraded…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
More Details About New Okami Game
The full title for upcoming DS Okami game is Okamiden: Chisaki Taiyou, and the title takes place a few months after the PlayStation 2 original and features a new wolf named Chibiterasu. Gameplay is similar to the PS2 version where players will draw out characters with the in-game brush. However, the DS title will obviously…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Life Is Well Wasted Without Attractive Game Posters
Former Brodeo member Robert Ashley has a new(ish) podcast, but of more interest to us today, his podcast has some new, amazing posters to go with it. Ashley has teamed up with Olly Moss – who created those great gaming “book covers” – to release a number of retro-themed promo prints. They’re limited to 200…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Voice Actress Threatened, Man Arrested
Glasses-wearing voice actress Mai Kadowaki is known for her voice work in the Konami anime Tokimeki Memorial Only Love and her work in games like console game Cross Edge and DS title Tales of the Tempest — among other titles. Since last November, threatening letters have been sent to the 28-year-old’s agency. A 26-year-old unemployed…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
God Of War Collection Might Get A Nip Here, A Tuck There
Despite Sony’s own admission that the God of War Collection remakes are just “ports”, that’s not to say both games will be identical to their PS2 forebears when they hit the PS3. That’s because, aside from the stuff we already knew – 720p, 60 frames-per-second, 2x anti-aliasing – the collection’s developers haven’t ruled out making…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Developer “Terrified” While Making Beatles Rock Band
Think making a game with The Beatles would be all gumdrops and lollypops? Wrong. Rock Band developer Harmonix was “terrified”, says the studio’s John Drake. Terrified in the sense that the developer did not want to screw up the game and piss off The Beatles. “I don’t know what Apple was considering before they started…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 2, 2009