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  Hello Kitty Online First Look: So Cute, It Causes Pink

  There are three things going on with Hello Kitty Online that render me completely unable to look away. The first is the whole massively multiplayer online game aspect. That’s the last video game genre next to first-person shooter I would have thought of for a Hello Kitty game. Developers Sanrio Digital and Typhoon Games along…

  By AJ Glasser Published July 24, 2009
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  The Weekend Is Made For Comic-Con

  To: Owen From: Crecente It may be Friday, but that won’t mean a thing for Fahey and McWhertor, who will be spending their weekend eyeball deep in comic, Sci-fi, fantasy and video game fans at the San Diego Comic Con. The duo will be reporting live all weekend, so enjoy the unusual company and look…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 24, 2009
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  CNN Examines the Buzz Building For Batman

  CNN takes a look at Batman: Arkham Asylum and why the game seems to be getting better, different buzz than past Batman titles. To put it simply, it’s because the game promises to take the best bits of what you love about the Caped Crusader and weave them into a single experience. “This is the…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 24, 2009
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  Notebook Dump: Rare Visit, MotionPlus Question, Nutcracker

  There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? This was a tricky week, as two of our finest, McWhertor and Fahey, were off to Comic-Con and working odd hours because of it. So I wrote more posts and…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 24, 2009
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  Best Loosely Video-Game-Related Quote Of The Day

  “It’s not about killing … It’s about eating. We’re respecting the natural balance of nature. We don’t give boys PlayStations here; we give them guns.” That is from Daniel Esparza, the former mayor of a French village called Saint-Laurent de la Cabrerisse, uttered to a reporter filing a story that is partially about about Esparaza’s…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 24, 2009
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  James Cameron’s Avatar Game Scores Some Weaver

  After passing on Ghostbusters: The Video Game and an unspecified Aliens game, Sigourney Weaver will finally get an opportunity to flex her video game voiceover skills in James Cameron‘s Avatar game, Ubisoft announced today. Weaver will be offering her line reading expertise to James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game, which is slated to hit the Xbox…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 24, 2009
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  NCsoft’s Heroic Booth Babes

  At a largely booth babe-less show, one MMO developer has the sheer guts to hire an aspiring actress and a model to represent City of Heroes. There aren’t many booth babes at Comic-Con, mainly because the fans tend to include pretty girls in skimpy outfits, and there’s nothing worse than a professional model feeling she’s…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 24, 2009
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  Microsoft: Most Studios Support Netflix Party Viewing

  The ability to watch movies as a group online using Netflix and avatars is not supported by all of the movies on the service, Microsoft confirmed to Kotaku today. “We are working closely with our partners and studios to deliver Xbox LIVE Parties for as much content as possible,” a Microsoft spokesman said. “We offered…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 24, 2009
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  Halo: Reach Will (Probably) Be Bungie’s Last Halo Game

  Since the company came together in 1991, Bungie have worked on five Halo games: Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach. Will they ever do a sixth? Probably not. In an interview with CVG, Bungie senior designer Lars Bakken has said in response to the “this the last Bungie Halo?”…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 24, 2009
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  Yankees Pitcher Goes For Old-School Video Game Baseball

  With a seven-year, $161 million contact, New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia could afford to play any expensive modern game during a rain delay yesterday. But he didn’t. The New York Times reports that Sabathia spent part of an almost three-hour rain delay at Yankee Stadium yesterday playing RBI Baseball. That would be the classic…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 24, 2009
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  What Are You Playing This Weekend?

  I’ll be bobbing and weaving through the Comic-Con masses this weekend, being elbowed by Imperial Stormtroopers, buying things I really, really shouldn’t and playing a game or two. Or twenty. There’s plenty to play on the convention floor, with Activision, EA, Sega, Sony, Ubisoft, Namco Bandai, SOE and many more bringing their E3 builds for…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 24, 2009
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  Scribblenauts in Action With Giant Crab, Eyeball

  Not a whole lot of new creations seen here, but we do get to see a bit more of the actual game in action. Personally, I don’t care about the game, the mechanic has already sold me. But for you gaming purists out there who want a little substance too, this video is for you.

  By Brian Crecente Published July 24, 2009
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  Tim Schafer, Casualty Of GWAR

  As seen at the Brutal Legend & Vice Metal Meltdown show.

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 24, 2009
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  Castlevania Icon Koji Igarashi Still At Konami, Working On New Project

  At E3, it was legendary Metal Gear developer Hideo Kojima who took the stage to announce his oversight of the next Castlevania game, not the man long associated with the series. Today, series publisher Konami addressed that curiosity with Kotaku. Koji Igarashi, who has overseen three critically-lauded Nintendo DS Castlevanias and has been involved with…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 24, 2009
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  How Much Xbox 360 Avatar Clothes And Toys Cost

  Earlier today we gave you a video tour of the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (aka the love-child of Home and Miis). Now have a look at the prices for all Avatar clothing and toys… One important metric to note before you start clicking on thumbnails and preparing your shopping list: 80 Microsoft points equals…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 24, 2009
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  MMO Makers Market The Genre’s Future

  At the “The State of the MMO” panel at Comic-Con, five massively-multiplayer devs weighed in on the positive changes coming to the genre, lacing as much marketing into their answers as humanly possible. At a development conference their answers might have been different, but this is Comic-Con, and this distinguished panel of guests from BioWare,…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 24, 2009
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  EA Provides “Girls”, Asks Gamers To Sin To Win

  Electronic Arts is asking Comic-Con goers to “sin to win” a dinner and “sinful night with two hot girls, a limo service, paparazzi and a chest full of booty.” To enter the contest, conventioneers need to “commit acts of lust” by taking photos with the models working the Dante’s Inferno booth or any other booth…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 24, 2009
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  White Knight Chronicles Preview: Her Head Is So Huge!

  A little hands-on time with Level-5’s PlayStation 3 RPG White Knight Chronicles last night demonstrates why you should never let a slightly-drunk journalist have a go at your character creator. What Is It? White Knight Chronicles is an action role-playing game developed exclusively for the PlayStation 3 by Sony’s Japan Studio and Level-5 of Dark…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 24, 2009
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  New Brutal Legend Gameplay Delivered By Guitar Playing Cat

  Is it just me or does Jack Black seem to be running out of things to say about Brutal Legend? I mean, a cat playing a guitar? The video does deliver nearly half a minute of new Brutal Legend gameplay and a few seconds of Black headbanging. That’s something.

  By Brian Crecente Published July 24, 2009
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  MySpace Looking to Transform Into Gaming Platform

  MySpace, seemingly in a losing battle with Facebook, is looking towards gaming now as a way to reinvigorate the service, according to parent company News Corp. “MySpace is and will be more in the future a gaming platform, a space for people to meet and play games,” Jonathan Miller told a gathering at the Fortune…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 24, 2009