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Sega President Departs To Helm ngmoco’s iPhone Network
President and COO of Sega of America Simon Jeffery has left the house of Sonic, hitching his executive wagon to iPhone developer and publisher ngmoco—you know, the one former Electronic Arts exec Neil Young co-founded in 2008. Jeffery, whose executive credits include stints at Sega and LucasArts, will assume the role of chief publishing officer…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
The King of Fighters Online Flouts Its Mai
Fan-favorite Mai Shiranui is in fine form in this trailer for King of Fighters Online, the upcoming PC roleplaying game from Dragonfly and Triple Games. We originally thought the game was being developed by Triple A Games, but as Mai’s appearance proves, there is no room in this game for that A. According to the…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
ThatGameCompany And The Beauty Of Taking Risks
“Everything is intense the first time you experience it,” says Jenova Chen, the 27-year-old creative director at Santa Monica-based studio ThatGameCompany. The first few World War II shooters Chen played floored him. We were all floored until the last Great War became such a vanilla setting for shooters. Old hat, and don’t we want something…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Is Super Monkey Ball Rolling Onto Wii Balance Boards?
Is Sega planning on doing additional banana grabbing on the Wii? A recently filed trademark for Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll would lead us to believe it might be, adding Wii Balance Board support to the formula. After all, the Nintendo DS take on the Super Monkey Ball series, closely tied with Nintendo’s varied…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
DJ Hero Features Completely Original Soundtrack
DJ Hero, the turn-table sporting rhythm game, will come with an entirely fresh playlist of mash-ups created by DJs specifically for the game, developers told us. While the more than 80 mixes, which include songs by everyone from the Gorillaz and David Bowie to Nirvana and Rick James, will all be debuting in the game,…
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2009 - Reviews
Red Faction: Guerrilla Review: Bustin Makes Me Feel Good
Red Faction has been delivering first-person-shooter flavored environmental destruction since 2001, tasking players with revolution both on Mars and on Earth. With Red Faction: Guerrilla, players return to Mars to once more stir up trouble in an open-world game promising unheralded destruction from a third-person perspective. Can a third take on the same general concepts…
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Create Your Own Hybrid
Ever dream of having your own personal Deadaku? Kotak09? Gizaku? Well now you can! No more shifting between Gawker Media titles – users can now elect to read their favorite content from any combination of Gawker titles, all on one page. Create Your Hybrid »
By Chrissie Lamond Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Konami Announces It Will Make Metal Gear Announcements
As of June 12th, this past Friday, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a year old. We say “Happy birthday, Old Snake.” Konami says, “We’re gonna make some Metal Gear announcements!” Yes, the Metal Gear publisher is once again prefacing actual video game announcements with a warning that it plans to make…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bionic Commando Fails To Grab Retail Success
Despite swinging into retail stores amidst a flurry of hype, nostalgia, and relatively kind reviews, Capcom’s Bionic Commando failed to capture big numbers at retail, pushing only 27,000 units in its opening month. Gamasutra got their hands on the NPD numbers for the title, which represent U.S. retail sales between May 19th and May 30th.…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Great Chain Interview, Part 1: Miyamoto Questions Metroid Director
Over the course of three days in Los Angeles earlier this month, one Kotaku reporter spoke to nine top industry figures and had each of them ask one question for the next guy. Shigeru Miyamoto started. I had tried a chain interview once before. It was March. I still worked for MTV. I traipsed through…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tiny Legendary Cars Hidden In Burnout’s Big Surf
Fans of Burnout Paradise‘s Legendary cars might want to give the recently released Big Surf Island a closer look, as toy versions of all four movie-inspired vehicles are unlockable in the new DLC. Tiny versions of the cars based on Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Knight Rider are unlocked by…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Brutal Legend Fans Set Air Guitar World Record
Fans of Brutal Legend gathered in England over the weekend to rock out with EA, shattering the world record for the most people simultaneously performing air guitar. Such is the power of the gamer. The record-breaking feat took place during the UK Download Festival in North West Leicestershire’s Donington Park over the weekend. Kerrang FM’s…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Week In Arcade: Sam And Magic: The Gathering
Sam & Max Save the World this week on Xbox Live Arcade, just in time for Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers to come along and ruin it. Sam & Max Save the World is a compilation of the first season of Telltale Games’ Sam & Max episodic PC adventure game series, lovingly…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band Country Track Listing Stumbles In Late Reeking Of Beer
Country music loving Rock Band owners who’ve exhausted all their favorite genre has to offer will soon be on the road again, as Harmonix reveals the track list for the Rock Band Country Track Pack. While eight of the twenty-one songs in the Rock Band Country Track Pack have already been released, thirteen of the…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Aliens: Colonial Marines Still Coming, To DS Too, But Not This Year
Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gearbox’s Aliens shooter, is still very much on, but won’t be arriving this year. When it does hit, there will be a DS version as well though, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford tells Kotaku. Colonial Marines was first announced in 2006, then slated for a 2008 ship date. Later that was pushed back…
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Three New Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Screens
While other developers tend to keep their PlayStation Portable game screenshots small, Konami has no such qualms, delivering three hi-res screens of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The new screens don’t really show us much outside of what we’ve already seen in the announcement trailer from E3. We’ve got multiple Snakes in various outfits, leading…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: Toast, Rainbows, And Plumber Utilities
This week in the Nintendo Download we have three catchy new WiiWare titles, one welcome to the Fantasy Zone, and another clock/calculator combo for the DSi. It’s a triple dose of WiiWare this week, and at least two of them seem pretty interesting. You can’t help but be curious about a game called Eduardo the…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ten Big Stories You May Have Missed During E3
E3 brought with it an avalanche of news, previews and interviews. So much hit the site over two weeks that plenty of great stories may have missed your radar. Here’s a quick list of ten big stories you may have missed had you not been paying attention. Shigeru Miyamoto accidentally confirms “Kind Code” to Kotaku…
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Console Owners Love Their Streaming Video
A study conducted by market research firm In-Stat indicates that video game consoles are the preeminent device for delivering web video to televisions in the U.S., generating $2.9 billion in revenue by 2013. A few years ago, analysts predicted that media-center PCs would be showing up in huge numbers across the country as more people…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Gets It’s Own Advance Wars…Sort Of
Luc Bernard bounces back from the release of Eternity’s Child with Mecho Wars, an Advance Wars-esque strategy game now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Remember back when we reported that Mecho Wars was due out in March? We were a little off. It’s available on the iTunes App Store now for $4.99 though,…
By Mike Fahey Published June 15, 2009