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Bullet Hell Developer Is Considering Your Requests
Cave, known for fantastic, frantic shooters like Muchi Muchi Pork and DoDonPachi, has posted an email account where folks can, among other things, send requests for games they want on home consoles. Keep in mind, that Cave is asking Japanese users to send in Japanese emails for which games they want on Japanese Xbox 360s.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Persona 3 Portable Opening Looks Like This
This fall, Japanese game maker Atlus is churning out a PSP port of its popular PlayStation 2 role-playing-game Persona 3. The PSP version, dubbed Persona 3 Portable, will feature a female lead character.
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
BioShock Movie Gets A New Director
Last we’d heard, the BioShock movie had been put on hold while studio execs looked for a cheaper place to film, along with a new director. Looks like they’ve found the latter. According to SlashFilm, Spaniard Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will replace Gore Verbinski in the director’s chair (though Verbinski will remain as a “producer”). Never…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
Our favorite Kotakuday? Ban Monday. While we don’t have any problem banning on regular days, we turn up the Ban Hammer sensitivity to MAXIMUM on Ban Monday. Here’s how it’s works: Send us the commenter page to tipsATkotakuDOTcom for anyone who should get the axe, err, hammer. You can put in your request at tipsATkotakuDOTcom.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Walk Through Gamescom
There’s something very unique about Gamescom among all of the video game trade shows around the world. It has a lot more heart, a lot more audience participation than anything I’ve ever seen before. I shot this video to show what I mean. In it I walked from the very back of Hall 9, the…
By Brian Crecente Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Papers, Please
To: Luke From: Owen Re: An Excellent Intern This week I went to get my Oregon driver’s license. Unlike other state DMVs, you don’t walk out the door with your card here. While the main office in Salem approves things, you carry around a provisional license on a piece of printed paper, which looks like…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 -
UncategorizedA Mindblowing Stop-Motion Lego Homage to Games
“8-Bit Trip,” according to its Swedish creators took 1,500 hours to animate. They pay respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on the NES, with Pong and Pac-Man in between. The music was written by Daniel Larsson and the animation was done by Tomas Redigh, of the Swedish electronica duo…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekend Timewaster: Turn-Based Battle
This flash-game parody of JRPGs perfectly nails every device, trope, conceit and theme of the genre. Hang in there – even if the odds seem ridiculous, someone shows up to give you 200 gold to buy the JRPG sword. At which point you face even more stupid-ridiculous odds, and the game becomes either a snide…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dad’s Tribute: Call of Duty on Soldier Son’s Grave
Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who’s to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty left on the grave of a fallen soldier. In Wales, the 200th U.K. soldier to die in the Afghanistan conflict was memorialized this weekend.…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Inglourious Mad Catz
As seen on Nineballninja’s Twitpic.
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Molyneux: Hate Mail Changed Fable II DLC
I guess this rates a spoiler alert, nearly a year after the fact. But the dilemma presented at the end of Fable II so outraged some players that they took to writing good old-fashioned hate mail to Peter Molyneux. In an interview on the choices the Fable series forces its player to make, Molyneux said…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Video of Kurt Cobain, Matt Bellamy in Guitar Hero 5
Two videos out in the wild show Guitar Hero 5 gameplay and two rockers as whom you may perform – well, in the Quicktime events anyway. Matt Bellamy of Muse, and Kurt Cobain of … does he need further identification? These vids were uploaded to DailyMotion by user SchnackAttack. Here is Cobain, performing, what else,…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Inmates and the Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum, delayed from a summer release and yet still stoked by an excellent demo, is this week’s AAA console drop. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box arrives on DS tomorrow, and NBA 2K10: Draft Combine hits XBLA Wednesday. This week’s count: 10 for the DS, six for the PC, five for the 360…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Cars, Armored Vehicles and Trucks of Gamescom
Gamescom is mostly video game show but there’s also that amazing outside venue packed with motorcycle trick riders, ATVs and sand volleyball courts. Inside the show has a pretty surprising number of cars, trucks, motorcycles and even farm equipment on display… to promote video games of course.
By Brian Crecente Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Policenauts English Localization Completed
The fan-engineered English localization of Hideo Kojima’s PSOne cult classic Policenauts is finally complete. The project’s page today announced that the patch is live. For those not in the loop – that includes me, fair warning – Policenauts was a sci-fi adventure game produced for 3DO, PlayStation, and the Sega Saturn back in 1996. While…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Madden Suit Seeks to Gang-Tackle EA
Did you buy a copy of Madden NFL from its 2006 version forward? You too can be a plaintiff in the lawsuit against Electronic Arts, over its exclusive-rights arrangement with the NFL. Pecover vs. EA, the federal class-action suit alleging EA’s exclusive license with the NFL constitutes an illegal monopoly, is looking for additional plaintiffs…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
What I Bought From BlizzCon
After the San Diego Comic-Con debacle, you didn’t really think I would escape BlizzCon unscathed, did you? Here’s where my money went during Blizzard’s annual fan gathering. It wasn’t too bad this year, truth be told. Initially I came out relatively light, only picking up the Murloc nOObz figure for $30 plus a t-shirt and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
The History of Arkham Asylum
Eidos’ latest, probably last buzzbuilder trailer before Tuesday’s release of Batman: Arkham Asylum, gives a thumbnail history of this notorious “hospital,” and shows why you don’t ever want to plead insanity in Gotham City. It sounds like this audio is taken from the character audio histories, which we saw as unlockables in Arkham’s well-received demo.…
By Owen Good Published August 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ozzy Talks BlizzCon With Kotaku: F***ing Amazing
Before rock legend Ozzy Osbourne took the stage at the closing ceremonies of BlizzCon 2009, he didn’t know “what the fuck to expect” from an audience full of gamers, he told Kotaku in a private interview. Ozzy Osbourne took the stage around 7:45 PM at the Anaheim Convention Center to help bring BlizzCon 2009 crashing…
By Mike Fahey Published August 23, 2009