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Summermodo Will Keep You Cool and Make You Cool This Summer
What’s summer without a radio-controlled chum boat? Nothing, that’s what. Get the most out of your sun-loving days with Summermodo, a summer-gadgetry wonderland brought to you by Heineken Light. Check out Summermodo.
By Chrissie Lamond Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
GameStop Strikes Back At Best Buy In Used Game Price Wars
Retailer GameStop has responded to Best Buy’s plan to price match new games at used game prices as expected—by slashing prices on used games. But like Best Buy’s pricing scheme test, this is extremely limited. These prices come from a West Jordan, Utah area GameStop, the same location that Best Buy is testing its “buy…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
If Wolfenstein Beats Madden, Wolfenstein Is Free
Raven Software designer Manveer Heir has mounted a one-man Twitter Wolfenstein marketing campaign, offering to pay for your copy of the game if it manages to outsell Madden 10. Yes, he’s completely serious folks. If the latest game in the long-running first-person shooter franchise manages to topple the game that generally dominates the month of…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sega Updates Us On Wii Strategy, Aliens, “Sega-ness”
Kotaku sat with the new chief of Sega’s American and European divisions yesterday to get an update on everything from Aliens to Yakuza. Only on his new job for about two and a half weeks, Mike Hayes is the man who now oversees Sega West, the combined domain of Sega of America and Sega of…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Talk Radio: QuakeCon
During this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio we had on MTV’s Russ Frushstick to talk about QuakeCon, cheating in Madden 10, playing easy and other spicy topics. More importantly we had on you, our readers, phoning in live to ask questions and talk games. If you missed the live, call-in show you can stream the full…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Halo: Evolutions – Essential Tales Of The Halo Universe
Republic Commando author Karen Traviss takes her first stab at the Halo universe in Halo: Evolution, a story anthology coming in November from Tor Books. Halo: Evolutions presents fans of Halo literary fiction a little light reading to help them pass the time before Greg Bear’s Halo trilogy kicks off in 2010. Tor has lined…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
GRIN Is Officially Dead, Spawns Outbreak
It’s official. No more gold teeth will be added to that gruesome smile, as GRIN, the Swedish developer responsible for games like Bionic Commando, Wanted: Weapons of Fate and more is closing its doors due to “an unbearable cashflow situation.” In a letter from GRIN founders Bo and Ulf Andersson, the CEO and director, respectively,…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
MAG Beta Invites Going Out To Way More Than 256 People
Time to check your e-mail, PS3 fans. Those desperately wanting to get into the MAG beta might already have an invite cooling in your inbox, getting you one step closer to shooting the bejeezus out of your PlayStation 3 peers. Zipper Interactive’s Massive Action Game has already been beta testing for a select few, but…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Go Play Lumberjacks So You Don’t Have To
It’s been quite awhile, but now we’re back, playing the Nintendo Wii family party game Go Play Lumberjacks, so you don’t have to. Go Play Lumberjacks is, oddly enough, part of Majesco’s new Go Play line of family-friendly titles. Of course, on the Nintendo Wii, family-friendly generally translates into mini-games, and Lumberjacks is no different.…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pieces of You: Rebuilding Myself On Consoles
It’s been three months since the breakup and I still can’t delete my ex’s Mii. I still have Achievements and Trophies to win back and a stack of used games to re-beat. This is what a console identity crisis looks like. It’s not the same as having to return a sweater or divide up a…
By AJ Glasser Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gimli And Gollum Voice Risen
It’s a Lord of the Rings reunion on the PC and Xbox 360, as Andy Serkis and John Rhys Davies join the voice cast of Piranha Byte’s next big role-playing game, Risen. No stranger to portraying digital creations, Andy “Gollum” Serkis will be portraying someone named The Inquisitor in Risen, which sounds fairly ominous and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tune in To Kotaku Talk Radio Now
In this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll be talking about QuakeCon, playing easy in Red Faction: Guerrilla, buying your way to victory in Madden, the posh office settings and flat panels of gaming’s greatest developers and having a quick listen to an 8-bit Weezer tribute album. Better still, myself and guest co-host Russ…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Command & Conquer 4 Crawler Moves Out
This Command & Conquer 4 Crawler mobile base was made for walking, and that’s just what it’ll do. And one of these days this base is gonna walk all over Nod. The Crawler is the GDI’s main unit in the fourth and final installment in the Tiberium Saga, providing all the amenities of a static…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ultima Online’s 8th Expansion Dated
Ultima Online turns twelve-years-old next month, making it the perfect time for Mythic to release the game’s 8th expansion pack, Ultima Online: The Stygian Abyss. Ultima Online channels the classic first-person dungeon crawler Ultima Underworld on September 8th, with the Stygian Abyss expansion adding in the game’s largest dungeon to date. They’ve filled it with…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tim Schafer and Cliff Blezinski: A Peek Inside Their Offices
Last week we ran a feature showing off the desks and play places of some of gaming’s greatest developers and producers. Today we’re adding two more set ups for your perusal. Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine productions and the man behind Brutal Legend, and Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games designer and the face of Gears…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Aion’s Closed Beta Closes This Weekend
This weekend marks the very last closed beta session for NCsoft’s Aion, so if you were looking to give the game a try before the open beta flood, now would be the time. Players who preorder Aion receive a code good for access to all closed beta events leading up to the open beta and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Spyborgs Gets Pushed Up, Celebratory Webisode Commence
Capcom’s cyborg secret agent game is now hitting stores a week earlier than anticipated, and the company celebrates with the release of the first cheese-flavored animated webisode for Spyborgs. In a season full of delays, Capcom pushes up a game for a change, moving Spyborgs’ release date from September 29th to September 22nd. Capcom punctuates…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hitler’s New Look In Wolfenstein RPG
Wolfenstein RPG hit the iPhone last night with a neat, almost cel-shaded look. I was a bit surprised, though, to see Hitler’s new look in the game. Unwilling, it seems, to keep Hitler in the turn-based title, the developers decided the next best thing would be to create a leader who has lower facial hair…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
High Voltage Traps Ghostbusters Engine
High Voltage, the developers behind the Wii-exclusive first-person shooter The Conduit, have signed up for a lifetime license to the Ghostbusters-powering Infernal Engine, gearing up for some Xbox 360 and PC development. With The Conduit out of the way and a couple more Wii projects being polished off, High Voltage Software is now ready to…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Section 8 Allows PC-Hosted Xbox 360 Severs
The Xbox 360 version of Timegate’s Section 8 is getting a multiplayer boost, allowing players to create their own dedicated Xbox 360 server on their PC. Upon the launch of Section 8 on September 1st, Timegate and publisher Southpeak will have free X Server software available for download, which allows players to create their own…
By Mike Fahey Published August 12, 2009