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Your U.S. Xbox 360 Games On Demand Launch Titles
The Xbox Live summer update is right around the corner, and Microsoft has released a list of the Xbox 360 games you’ll be able to download directly to your hard drive at launch. Along with Avatar clothing and accessories, movie sharing, and the ability to update your Netflix queue directly from your television (yes!), one…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Talk Radio: The Pilot Episode
We did it. The show is in the can and you can now listen to it not live and pretend you can call in. Despite one technical snafu (Fahey’s early bit is quite quiet), the show seems to have worked out quite well. UPDATE: And here’s the iTunes link for Kotaku Talk Radio. Please subscribe…
By Brian Crecente Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Military Madness For PlayStation Network Detailed In Detail
When the PlayStation Network version of Military Madness: Nectaris was announced, there wasn’t much meat to that announcement. Today’s update on the turn-based strategy game corrects that, overpowering us with details, including multiplayer info(!). Turns out the PSN version of Military Madness: Nectaris‘s single player game is largely a remake of the TurboGrafx-16 original, now…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
World At War Map Pack 3 Launch Trailer
The third map pack for Call of Duty: World at War comes out tomorrow for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which means it’s time for a launch trailer, complete with monkey. Honestly I haven’t had much time to play World at War outside of the initial launch and our video podcast with the developers,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Trademarks P.S. Thanks, Which Is Interesting
A new trademark filed by Sony Computer Entertainment America may point to a new “incentive rewards program” dubbed “P.S. Thanks,” something that could be a positive benefit for serious PlayStation fans. The trademark specifically protects P.S. Thanks—presumably short for PlayStation Thanks—against “entertainment services” for an “incentive rewards program geared toward quantifying, identifying and motivating top…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Serious Sam Slightly More Serious In HD
Feast your eyes on the latest set of screens for Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, the high-definition makeover of the tongue-in-cheek shooter, coming to Xbox Live Arcade and PC this fall. These screens are from the PC version of the HD update, but considering they aren’t doing a full-on current generation PC update, there…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Talk Radio Live: We Were Taking Your Calls
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Kotaku Talk Radio. In this first show we’ll be talking about the DSi’s new Facebook photo integration, playing outside with video games, racism in gaming, Comic-Con and listening to some music from Supercommuter. We’ll also be taking calls from you. To participate just listen in starting at 11 a.m.…
By Brian Crecente Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Steering Wheel For Your iPhone
From CTA Digital, creators of the Wii Bowling Ball, comes an innovative steering wheel controller and stand for the iPhone. If I were a big face of racing games on the iPhone and had really large pockets, this product might be right up my alley. Your iPod Touch or iPhone fits snugly in the middle…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bakugan Collector’s Editions Have Balls
Fans picking up the first run of Bakugan Battle Brawlers for the Nintendo DS this October can score the Collector’s Edition, which comes packed with a limited edition ball for them to play with. Bakugan is big with the kids, or it was last time I checked, which was a year ago, so the Nintendo…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Work and Play: An Updated Peek Inside the Lives of Gaming’s Greatest
More than a year ago we hosted a slew of photos showing off the work desks and gaming set-ups of the world’s game developers. We’re now in the process of updating Work and Play: A Peek Inside the Lives of Gaming’s Greatest with new desks and new developers. We’ve decided to move the entire project…
By Brian Crecente Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Heed The Call Of The Argent Crusade
The Call of the Crusade trailer for World of Warcraft shows off the snazzy new arena-based raids and the new battleground added in yesterday’s 3.2 patch. These are the kind of raids I could really get into. No mucking about running all over the pace, opening doors and such. No “Dammit, Fahey fell off the…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Postcards From A Fallen Earth
The folks at Fallen Earth have passed along some exclusive postcards, showing off some of the prominent places in the post-apocalyptic Grand Canyon area of their upcoming MMO. Why don’t we take you to…Monkeytown? Yes, scenic Monkeytown, a former animal testing site now inhabited by intelligent talking gorillas who just want to be left alone…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gamescom Set to Explode with Rage, APB, Modern Warfare 2 in Two Weeks
With Gamescom just two weeks away, the recently transplanted show is heating up to outshine its already white hot predecessor in Leipzig. The new European games convention, shifted this year from Leipzig to Cologne, will feature most of the major game developers, plenty of press conferences and an absurd amount of games. The list of…
By Brian Crecente Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Blur’s Store-Exclusive Preorder Benefits
Bizarre Creation’s combat racer Blur is speeding to store shelves this November, and which store you buy it from determines what bonus gear you drive off with. As usual, GameStop winds up with the best incentive to preorder the game, with a “Multiplayer Advantage Booster Kit” that gives players “unparalleled multiplayer benefits.” Those benefits include…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Want Star Trek Online Beta Access? Play Champions
Star Trek fans might want to consider becoming Champions Online fans as well, with Cryptic offering guaranteed Star Trek Online closed beta access to players who purchase long-term subscriptions to the superhero MMO. Fight aliens in Champions Online, and you can be an alien in Star Trek Online, but Cryptic wants a commitment. Gamers who…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Talk Radio: Another Podcast Experiment
We’ve long played with the concept of podcasts for Kotaku, doing late-night chats over drinks and food and trying various video formats, but we’ve never really landed on one I’ve liked. That’s because I’ve never been a fan of podcasts myself. They feel a bit too canned, too introspective for my tastes. This week we’re…
By Brian Crecente Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Two Words: Cancer Sucks.
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Kotaku NYC, For A Day A relative discovered she has cancer — put a real damper on the day, week, month, year, etc. It’s a relative of Mrs. Bashcraft’s. Just found out today, when she dropped by. We hadn’t seen her in a while, and she’d known since last month.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Zangief Statue Won’t Win Any Beauty Pageants
The latest in PopCultureShock’s line of Street Fighter statues is this Zangief piece, which is as angry, crazy and hairy as you’d expect/hope it to be. Oh, and also as expensive. Like other pieces sold by premium collectible firm Sideshow, this isn’t cheap. Unless, that is, you find $375 cheap. Which we don’t. If you…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 Pro Being Phased Out Pretty Soon?
The staple Xbox 360 – the Xbox 360 Pro – looks set to march straight off retail shelves and into the history books, if new console packaging is anything to go by. First hinted at by Ars Technica’s ever-reliable mole in June, then further hinted at by new 360 packshot renders later that month, photos…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2009