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  Playing LittleBigPlanet On The PSP Go

  LittleBigPlanet for the PSP packs all of the character and creation of the original into a more portable format, but the PSP Go’s button layout presented a small stumbling block. During a tour of Sony’s booth at E3 2009 yesterday I got a chance to poke around in LittleBigPlanet on the PSP Go, and while…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2009
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  New Super Mario Bros. Wii Preview: Classic Mario, Endless Play

  New Super Mario Bros. Wii is, despite it’s name, a new experience. The game hopes to blend the fun of classic Super Mario Bros. side-scrollers with a new layer of what Shigeru Miyamoto calls competitive coop gameplay. What Is It? New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a simultaneous multiplayer a for up to four people.…

  By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2009
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  Nintendo’s E3 Booth: Everything That’s Playable

  Nintendo’s showing at the really big show of E3 is really big. An impressive number of first and third party titles that are actually playable by E3 attendees, including New Super Mario Bros. Wii. But wait… there’s more! There are core-focused games like Sin and Punishment 2 and Military Madness: Nectaris for the Wii. There’s…

  By Michael McWhertor Published June 3, 2009
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  Nintendo: New Metroid Is NOT Metroid Dread

  Longtime Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto acknowledged that the long-rumored Metroid Dread is real and may some day be released. During a Metroid interview yesterday with series director Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja producer Yousuke Hayashi, we slipped in a question that was not about the newly announced Metroid: Other M. Well, we thought it might…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009
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  Ratchet & Clank Future E3 Developer Trailer

  Ratchet and Clank return once again, this time with Ratchet searching for his buddy Clank and trying to save the universe. A Crack in Time tries to tie-up loose ends from the previous titles and at the same time offer new game play elements like time manipulation. The game is slated for this fall. And…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009
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  Final Fantasy XIII Eyes-On Impressions: Lesbian Motorcycle Coupling [Update]

  I was lucky enough to get the chance to check out Final Fantasy XIII in action on the PS3 yesterday, as well as speak with director Motomu Toriyama & producer Yoshinori Kitase. Well, I got to check it out eventually. I was kept waiting for over 30 minutes thanks to an insane level of security…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2009
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  South Park Still Coming To XBLA, Now That You Mention It

  Microsoft announced at E3 2008 that a South Park game was coming to Xbox Live Arcade. We couldn’t find it at E3 2009, but we did get an update. “South Park actually is coming,” John Schappert, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of interactive entertainment LIVE, software and services said in an interview with Kotaku yesterday. “I…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009
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  Gran Turismo 5 Trailer Has, Yes, Car Damage

  This one kind of passed us all by first time around, but if you look closely at the Gran Turismo 5 trailer from Sony’s E3 press conference yesterday, you can clearly see some car damage. We’ve provided a screengrab above, but if you want to see it for yourself, head to the Subaru rally sequence…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2009
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  Taking A Dip In Endless Ocean 2 Screenshots

  Endless Ocean 2 is the sequel to Endless Ocean 1. Shocking, we know. Players can dive in the big blue, explore shipwrecks and escape sharks. Loot you find can be sold so you can decorate your reef to attract more fish. That’s much better than what I usually do. Saying “Here fishy fishy” doesn’t really…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009
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  From Stick Figure To Mind-Blowing Controls

  My first real introduction to Microsoft’s motion-controlling Project Natal occurred in a brightly-lit hotel room in LA’s The Standard Hotel. Standing in front of a television with Burnout Paradise on it, I held my hands out as if holding steering wheel and acted as if I was driving a car. It was that simple and…

  By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2009
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  WarioWare Do-It-Yourself Art

  Game art? These aren’t traditional screens, because WarioWare D.I.Y. isn’t your typical game. Released in Japan this April as Made In Ore, the game is outfitted with tools so that players can make their own mini-games and upload them for others to play. Check out Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai trying his expert hand at…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009
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  The Beatles Rock Band: I Wanna Hold Your Hands-On Impressions

  The Beatles: Rock Band has been playable at E3 this week. So, being fans of both The Beatles and Rock Band, we figured we’d go check it out. Thing is, while “we” may be fans of The Beatles, “I” am not. I don’t hate them, just…never got into them. Which puts me in a unique…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2009
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  Splinter Cell Conviction Preview: A Smoother Operator

  Ubisoft hadn’t shown Splinter Cell Conviction to the public in two years but brought it back impressively this E3. The game’s creative director said it could be tricky for people to play during an E3 demo. But the game seemed to play quite well from what we witnessed. What has wowed people at E3 who…

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  The number of games at E3 2009? Absurd multiplied by ridiculous. Talk about them here, please. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009
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  Day Two: What Announcement Did You Like The Best? What Let You Down? (BLUE GRAPES)

  To: You (Yes, you, you insolent strumpet!) From: Bashcraft Oh ho ho ho ho! E3 thunders on and guess who spent the entire day writing a buncha posts and now sees spots? Why, because there was a buncha news, a buncha announcements, and now, right now, I’d like a bunch of grapes. Blue grapes. Do…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009
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  Final Fantasy XIII “Targeting” A 2010 European Release

  Final Fantasy XIII is due in Japan later this year. And in North America during Spring, 2010. But when can Europeans (and by extension, Australians) get their hands on it? Do they dare to hope for a speedier turnaround? After all, the last core Final Fantasy title, FFXII, was released in Europe a whole year…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2009
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  Somehow They’re Squeezing Fat Princess Onto The PSP

  Fitting the other team’s cake-engorged princess into the giant PlayStation 3 was easy; how they’ve managed to cram her into the PSP is something we don’t really want to think about. But cram they have, and Titan Game’s addictive action fantasy blend is indeed coming to the PlayStation Portable in the form of Fat Princess:…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2009
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  Relax With These Wii Sports Resort Screens

  Wii Sports Resort, the sequel to Wii Sports brings more Wii Remote waggling fun — with bonus Wii MotionPlus precision. Out this July, Wii Sports Resort will usher in fresh mini-games, including new additions like ping pong and sword slicing. Yay for swords and little bouncy balls!

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009
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  Natasha Bedingfield Serenades A DSi

  Last night’s Nintendo party starred Grammy-nominated pop singer Natasha Bedingfield. It also starred, for a brief moment, an electric-blue Nintendo DSi. After belting out a number of songs, Bedingfield pulled out a DSi and started, I don’t know, sorta fondling it as she sang. Initially I thought she was going to use it to distort…

  By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2009
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  Super Mario Galaxy 2 Screens And Trailer

  Mario is back and ready to circle around planets in spaaaaaaaaaace. As we posted previously, Miyamoto said that the original plan was to “essentially create new variations of the worlds in Super Mario Galaxy.” But, over time, the developers have had so many ideas that Miyamoto estimates that 90% of the game’s levels are all…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009