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Can You Beat These Wii Sports Resort Scores?
Video game record keeper Twin Galaxies has posted the first official record scores for Wii Sports Resort. Have you got what it takes to oust the champions? Can you top 105 in Archery on expert difficulty? How about 999 on the Table Tennis return challenge? Probably not, but if you’ve got a bit of free…
By Mike Fahey Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Limited Edition Gran Turismo PSP Comes With Music Voucher
The Limited Edition Gran Turismo Entertainment Pack, announced for Japan last month, is coming to the U.S. on Oct. 20 and brings with it an interesting freebie. The $200 pack will include a “mystic silver” PSP-3000 (that’s not the PSPGo), a copy of Gran Turismo PSP, an exclusive car download, a Playstation Network movie voucher,…
By Brian Crecente Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Ninety-Nine Nights II Screens
The follow-up to Q Entertainment and Phantagram’s Ninety-Nine Nights is coming to the Xbox 360 courtesy of publisher Konami, not Microsoft, oddly enough. At least Konami was generous enough to dole out five new screens of the hack-and-slash sequel. They’re definitely darker and grislier in tone than the original Ninety-Nine Nights, which sure seemed like…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Square Issues Order Of War This Month
Square Enix releases their first Western-developed game outside of Japan this month, bringing Wargaming.net’s World War II strategy title Order of War to North American PCs on September 22nd. Order of War is only the first of three Western-developed titles coming to North America via Square Enix and its new global agenda, along with Gas…
By Mike Fahey Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Ten Most Avidly-Played Wii Games In America (As Of September 1)
A new month brings a notable re-shuffling of the 10 games most avidly played on the Nintendo Wii. Animal Crossing and Call of Duty climb — and did you notice that only four of these games are made by Nintendo? (click the chart to enlarge it) An explanation of how Kotaku arrives at these figures…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time Clocks In Oct. 27 [Updated]
Insomniac Games’ latest PlayStation 3 adventure Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time has an official release date —Tuesday, October 27, at least in these United States. More importantly, there’s new box art, complete with snazzy PS3 re-branding. And not a bad piece of art, eh? At least made easier to appreciate with the…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
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