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SEGA PSP Music Title Is Pantsu Heavy
Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku, is coming to the PSP with Hatsune Miku -Project Diva-. So are her underpants! SEGA has been playing up the “3D modeling” of the Miku character. This is perhaps why? Then again, maybe these are just her bathing suit — totally innocent. Still, a slew of new screenshots makes some wonder…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
What’s Inside Blizzard’s Library?
Blizzard’s main campus is home to what might be the coolest (and nerdiest) library you’ve ever seen. The employee library, from which Blizzard staffers can check out books, software and more, is a great place to lose oneself. The Blizzard employee library is home to the informational—programming language texts, maps, historical reference—but it’s also filled…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Newspaper Wonders About “Game Addicts”
The Mainichi Daily News is running a three part series on online game addiction. Most of it seems like scare mongering — students who start playing Maple Story and suddenly became poor students. There’s even worse with one mother saying this about her game addicted child, “Sometimes, he’ll throw the remote control at the TV,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
StarCraft II Hands-On: Round Three
This past week, Blizzard invited press to visit its Irvine, California campus to go hands-on with the latest and greatest build of StarCraft II‘s multiplayer game. That wasn’t the original plan. When we were first invited to Blizzard’s headquarters, we were going to get our first hands-on experience with StarCraft II‘s single-player game. We were…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Lost Planet 2 Demo Soonish
Capcom’s Lost Planet 2 is slated for this winter. So, we should expect a demo sometime between now and then, no? LP2 producer Jun Takeuchi tells Famitsu, “I think we might be able to offer it [the demo] in a little bit.” The game was in playable form at E3, and Capcom is busy developing…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
SEGA Comments On Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson passed away late last week. He was remembered by the game industry — and SEGA is the latest to comment. We here at SEGA were very sad to hear about the passing of Michael Jackson. He was a true music legend whose songs touched each of us at some point in our lives.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Golden Years
To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Man You guys know that I’ve been in South Carolina for the past four months, looking after my grandfather while he recovered from a rather serious fall and head injury late last year. The good news is that he is well and capable of resuming an independent lifestyle in…
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: There’s Bound to Be Blood
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is the rootinest, tootinest, shootinest title in a busy week, as nearly every publisher is trying to unload some new release by the end of the quarter deadline. [Sorry folks. I forgot to tell teh interwebs to push this out. OSG] Some sites are still showing Marvel vs. Capcom…
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect Insanity Explained, May not be Locked in ME2
One gripe among hardcore Mass Effect players is that its toughest difficulty was an unlockable – after playing through the game twice. A design lead explains why, and “insanity” may not be locked in ME2. On the Mass Effect forums, Christina Norman, lead system designer, said that Insanity difficulty was made unlockable, because it was…
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Arkham Achievements Unveiled
The list of 47 achievements, worth 1,000 Gamerscore, have made it out – for the Games for Windows Live version of Batman: Arkham Asylum. It’s hard to imagine these will change much for 360. Finishing the game on any difficulty (of three settings) returns 50 Gamerscore; 100 percenting it gives you 75, and solving all…
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
K6
TABLE OF CONTENTS July 2009 Here’s a Story: The Great Chain Interview The Great Chain Interview, Part 1: Miyamoto Questions Metroid Director The Great Chain Interview, Part 2: Metroid Guy To Xbox Guy To PS3 Guy The Great Chain Interview, Part 3: Sony Questions Sony, Who Questions Shane Kim The Great Chain Interview, Part 4:…
By Brian Crecente Published June 28, 2009 -
UncategorizedA Team Fortress 2 Tribute to Billy Mays
This has been a week unlike any other for celebrity deaths. Billy Mays, the cheerful, if relentless pitchman who hawked such items as Oxiclean and Orange Glo, was found dead in his home today. Mays, 50, was something of the modern heir to types like Ron Popeil. But his pitch style was never greasy or…
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live Offering “Thriller” for Free
The Michael Jackson Grief-a-Thon rolls into its fourth big moneymaking day. Except that “Thriller” is being offered free for the rest of the weekend on Xbox Live Marketplace. Ordinarily it goes for 160 Microsoft points. “Beat It,” “Smooth Criminal” and “Billie Jean” join Thriller in the top 10 of the Most Popular in XBLM’s Marketplace…
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Alright, What, Exactly, is “Xbox 360 Beta?” [Update]
Natal? ODST? Whatever it is, Major Nelson, Stepto and other Redmond regulars have been playing it lately. I thought it might be 1 vs. 100, but other friends show that as “Xbox 360 Dashboard.” So that’s two Xbox rumors before the morning’s out. I have emailed Larry to see if he wants to say anything…
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ten Minutes of Batman: Arkham Asylum — in Polish
If you don’t know Polish, the narrative gets in the way, but you can watch Bats skulk around Arkham’s grounds and get a feel for the stealth takedowns the game is engineered to deliver. I was particularly impressed by his ziplining up to a guard tower and clonking a sniper, forehead-first, into the railing. Of…
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Space Invaders Have Pride, Too
As seen in Manhattan. Thanks, reader Zuri F.
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Win Prizes in 1 vs. 100 Next Week? [Update]
Last night on 1 vs. 100, it sounds like host Chris Cashman let slip that this coming week the game show’s beta is over, and players can finally take home Microsoft points. The accidental leak came after The One, as many have been wont to do during the beta, either ignored or didn’t remember the…
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
It was 80 degrees, in the shade, at 7 a.m. where I am. That’s too hot to be easy like Sunday morning. Stay inside and enjoy the air conditioned comfort of Kotaku’s official open thread. (P.S. If you don’t get the reference made by the word balloon.) Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
By Owen Good Published June 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
College Freshman Gets Life in Console-Dispute Tragedy
A Fresno man was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for shooting a 19-year-old to death in a dispute over a PlayStation 2, bringing to a close a tragedy first reported on two years ago. Jonquel Brooks (pictured at right), a freshman at Fresno State, shot and killed Brant Daniels, 19, and wounded Daniels’…
By Owen Good Published June 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 not Releasing June 29
Marvel’s financial report back in May said Marvel vs. Capcom 2 would release for download on June 29. The Capcom-Unity Twitter account has officially nixed that date, setting it back about a month. Says Capcom-Unity: MvC2 is not actually coming out on June 29, sorry guys. Not sure where that rumor came from, but it’s…
By Owen Good Published June 27, 2009