More Modern Warfare 2, Heavy Rain Peeks On GTTV Tonight

Eager for any morsel you can get from Modern Warfare 2 and Heavy Rain? Then you’d best tune in to tonight’s episode of GameTrailers TV, as both games will be featured. Expect less Modern Warfare 2 than Heavy Rain though, as the next full video reveal of Infinity Ward’s follow up to Call of Duty…

iPod Touching

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: What Happens If You Don’t Pay Your Speeding Ticket In Japan Tristan has been saving up since before his eighth birthday for an iPod Touch. Today, forced to stay home because he hasn’t been healthy for 48 hours, he went to Target with Trish and bought one for himself. It…

PlayStation Store Update: It’s Electric!

This week’s North American PlayStation Store update packs in demos and downloadables, including what might be your first chance to play inFamous for the PlayStation 3. Plenty of downloadable content for LittleBigPlanet, Rock Band and Guitar Hero join new PS one Classics and loads of video game trailers. Well, you’ll see. There’s a full list…

Your Wii Has A Minor Button-Combo Secret

Go to the Mii Channel. Press A. Press B. Press 1. Press and hold 2. Nintendo sent Kotaku copies of Personal Trainer: Walking yesterday, and while we think we don’t need that much training to walk (left foot and then right foot, yes?), we are in fact learning things. We have learned, for example, that…

Too Much Information About Matthew Perry’s Klonoa Habits

Regular followers of the works of actor Matthew Perry, of Friends fame, know that the man is deadly serious about Fallout 3. He claims to have played it so much, that he required medical attention. But he’s also a dedicated Klonoa fan, apparently, seemingly one of the few Wii owners who has bothered to pick…

First Look At BioShock 2’s New Big Daddy

Not to be outdone by distinguished competitor Game Informer’s cover reveal of BioShock 2‘s Big Sister, GamePro has given us our first third-person look at the star of the sequel, the new Big Daddy. The July issue of the mag touts a deep dive into 2K Games’ sequel to the original BioShock, offering “first *real*…

Making Ghostbusters Game As Funny As The Movie Is “Next To Impossible”

Giant Bomb‘s biggest Ghostbusters fans have played the new Ghostbusters game, only to be reminded that video game humor has its limits. Humor is hard in games. So, as excited as the Giant Bomb podcast hosts sound about the new Ghostbusters game — and they do spent several minutes talking about how much fun they’re…

inFamous Demo Gives PS3 Owners 15 Minutes Of Infamy Today

Power on the PlayStation 3, dear reader, as a new demo for Sucker Punch’s inFamous will be available for you to download as of today. European PS3 owners already have it—we’re getting it soon. North American PlayStation faithful should get their shot at the game today when the PlayStation Store update hits. inFamous is slated…

Most expensive regretable gaming purchase? Complete with reason. darkSector – Beat the best buy employees in Brawl when it first came out, for 10 bucks off any game. Not many choices available. I ended up losing in the long run.

LittleBigPlanet Getting Web-Based Level Sharing Portal

Sharing LittleBigPlanet levels with your friends and strangers will soon be a lot easier, with a web-based portal on the way that will allow players to queue up levels using a handy web link. At the moment, sharing a LittleBigPlanet level involves giving other players your PlayStation Network handle and then having them search in-game…

E3 Details Spill From Epic GameTrailers Taping

Yesterday, Rose McGowan and Tricia Helfer joined Geoff Keighley for a special live taping of GameTrailers TV. The E3 2009-themed special was packed with news, some of which splashed our way from the audience. Playstation 3 exclusive Uncharted 2: Among Thieves got some face time as well, with a spokesman talking up multiplayer and confirming…

Tiger Woods PGA Tour iPhone Micro-Review: Fore!

EA Sports‘ Tiger Woods PGA Tour is nearly unchallenged in its genre on the PC and console. But can a game that plumbs the depth of golf translate well to a mobile platform? At $9.99 USD, Tiger Woods PGA Tour’s outing on the iPhone doesn’t just need to prove itself as a golf game, it…

Damnation Multiplayer – Aim For The Zip Line

Damnation hits store shelves tomorrow everywhere but North America, and to celebrate Codemasters has released a new multiplayer trailer to show us Americans what we’ll be missing. It certainly looks like the vertical nature of the maps should provide some entertaining multiplayer situations, but as a sniper at heart, I’m planning on finding a nice…

Xbox Employee Issues Maddening Mad-Lib Tweet

Hideo Kojima can have his countdown clocks. Other publishers can have their surprise trailers. But the best tease of the day may be the tweet from one Stephen Toulouse. From the Twitter feed of Stephen Toulouse, head of Xbox Live policy and enforcement, aka the Xbox 360‘s top cop… “Wow. I got to play with…

Red Faction: Guerrilla Demo Available Now

THQ’s long anticipated third installment of the Red Faction series will be released on June 2nd, but you can check out the demo for both platforms (Xbox 360 and PS3) starting today! Click here to find out more information and download the demo, then be sure to buy Red Faction: Guerrilla on June 2nd.

“New Metal Gear” Featured In Next Issue Of Famitsu

Metal Gear makers Kojima Productions are just hours away from revealing… something, as the developer’s teaser page countdown clock is set to expire today. Who knows what Kojima and crew are planning? Famitsu might know. According to a solicitation for the next issue of the Japanese gaming mag’s PSP and PlayStation 3 edition, as listed…

DC Universe Online Much Brighter With The Flash

Here’s some new concept art and screens from Sony Online Entertainment, showing how the Wally West version of The Flash appears in DC Universe Online. A profile shot. The Flash uses this for his Facebook listing. That there’s the fastest head on the planet. Surprise! The Flash is running! And running some more. The Flash…

Indie Devs Turn To In-Game Ads After Piracy Strike

Nearly 24 hours after it went out in mid-April, John Warner checked on the numbers for Raycatcher – a game he and a partner designed and distributed over Steam. The first day, it sold 1,000 copies for $5. But pirates had also made 35,000 copies for free. Warner, 25, an environmental artist who had worked…

Bleach Cleans Up In This Week’s Japanese Sales Chart

Japanese gamers don’t seem to have cooled on manga-licensed fighting games, as Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 tops this week’s Japanese sales chart, the sixth entry in the 3D fighter in just over four years. According to Media Create, the PSP game based on the works of Tite Kubo bested all software newcomers, selling 42,000…

The Chronicles Of Spellborn Free Level Cap Increased

Apparently 7 free levels weren’t enough to entice players to pay up, as Acclaim raises the free-to-play level cap for The Chronicles of Spellborn to 9.9. Acclaim refers to The Chronicles of Spellborn as a “Freemium” massively multiplayer online game. This means the game limits free customers to a specific area and enforces a level…