So, Which E3 Announcements Generated The Most Buzz? [Update]

E3 is all about the buzz. What was best, what was worst, that kind of thing. But what news generated the most buzz? Market research firm Buzzstudy mechanically scanned millions of blog stories, news site items, twitter feeds and forum posts (hey, not like they’d do it by hand) to find out. Their results? That’s…

Shadow Of The Colossus Cast Upon LittleBigPlanet Next Week

Media Molecule has big things planned for LittleBigPlanet, including a batch of new Shadow of the Colossus themed content coming next week. On June 11th, Team Ico fans will get their first taste of Wander and Colossus Sackboys and Shadow of the Colossus stickers in LittleBigPlanet. Expect something Ico related as well. But if Media…

Rapstar Impressions: “They Sing, We Rap”

While other members of Team Kotaku are busy flying/driving home today, I had one last E3 appointment to attend: spend some time with 4mm Game’s hip-hop karaoke title Rapstar. And while karaoke games are normally seen as a bit naff, something for young girls and drunks, I’d been secretly looking forward to it all week.…

Kingdom Hearts Slips Japanese Sales Chart A Mickey

Japanese gamers snapped up a ton of new titles in Japan this past week as the new Kingdom Hearts game for the Nintendo DS topped charts. The top ten was full of new, including Gyakuten Kenji and… HAWX? While robust sales for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days likely won’t surprise purveyors of Japanese gaming tastes, a…

Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night At E3

Uber gamer/ late night host Jimmy Fallon sent Saturday Night Live’s Jason Sudekis to E3 to check out the latest and greatest in gaming. Sudekis, a big gamer himself, got some face time with Mickey Rourke, Eliza Dushku, and of course Project Natal. It’s a great segment and a must view for anyone who watched…

Just Cause 2 Impressions: In Which Everything Explodes, Awesomely

I saw plenty of games this past week. Some good. Some bad. Some worse. But only one game could be the best-looking thing I saw all week. And that game was Just Cause 2. Just Cause, released a few years back now as a GTA clone set on a sparsely-populated tropical island, was one of…

Bayonetta Foreplay At E3: Megatons & Gigatons

PlatinumGames’ Bayonetta is packed with megatons. The action game from Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya starring titular witch Bayonetta was playable at E3 this week and we got to unleash some of those megatons. We’re not talking about video game industry shaking announcements, message board dwellers. We’re talking about one of the many facets…

Everything You Need to Know About Project Natal

This E3 was packed with explosive news and announcements, from confirmation of the PSP Go and Sony’s motion controls to the whispers of a new Metroid and Zelda. But one of the most startling may have been Microsoft’s Project Natal. On it’s simplest level, Project Natal is a straight forward motion control for the Xbox…

The Sims 3 Review: Delayed Gratification

After a more than three month delay—and more than four years on from the release of The Sims 2—The Sims 3 is finally here. So let’s get down to reviewing it. There are two types of Sims player: the Second-Life types who enjoy crafting and sharing stuff online and the God-types who look for new…

Milo Has The Lifespan Of A Fruit Fly

Lionhead’s Project Natal demo Milo may look to be eight, but he’s never lived longer than 12 days. Speaking with Peter Molyneux this week, the developer said that the child artificial intelligence for Xbox 360 tech demo Milo and Kate is usually “scrubbed” after about 200 hours. The longest Milo has “lived” is 300 hours,…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

After a week’s worth of pastry for breakfast, pizza for lunch and taquitos for dinner, not to mention all that delicious booze, that copy of EA Sports Active is going to get some needed attention. Sure, I may feel a bit whipped from all that intense E3 action, even though I placed second-to-last on the…

Armada of the Damned Is All About Choices

I briefly sat down with Alex Peters, Propaganda’s game director for Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned, who stressed the importance of choice in Disney’s upcoming action role-playing game. The game is an action RPG on an epic scale. How epic? Alex name checks games like Oblivion, Dragon Age, and Fable, saying that…

Jumpgate’s E3 Trailer Is Sci-Fi Epic

This is a time for heroes…for champions…for men with deep voices and British accents to herald the coming of NetDevil’s Jumpgate Evolution. Don’t you wish you could just play a game trailer instead of the actual game? I mean, I enjoyed my hands-on time with Jumpgate multiplayer during the show, but it wasn’t nearly as…

What’s Next For Free Realms?

With insane amounts of people flocking to Free Realms, what does Sony Online Entertainment have planned to keep them all occupied? I probed Senior Producer Andrew Sites and PR specialist Ryan Peters for answers. Soccer Those soccer fields scattered about the map aren’t just there for show. Well, I suppose they are for now, but…

Not Enough People Want A G1 Transformers Game

Checking in on Activision’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I chatted for a bit with a game producer, who explained the sad business truth behind the lack of a Generation One Transformers video game. While the Revenge of the Fallen game contains numerous references to the original Transformers series, with Aerialbots, Protectorbots, episodes of the…

A Fez Shirt To Shift Your Perspective

A fantastic looking game (Fez) needs a fantastic looking shirt (this). Though, we wonder what happens if you rotate it… “By buying our high-quality t-shirts, silk screened on high-quality American Apparel stock, you not only help support the development of Fez, but you also get to clothe your naked body, protecting yourself from the elements,…

E3: The Great Walk- Off Results

Last week we polled you, our readers, to see which of the writers covering E3 you thought would walk the most during the show. The results? I won by a landslide, with McWhertor getting the least votes. We spent this week strapped with digital pedometers from Nintendo’s Personal Trainer walking to see who would actually…

G.I. Joe Preview: The Rise Of Contra

He’ll fight for freedom wherever there’s trouble, and the E3 show floor is no exception. We went hand-to-hand with EA’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra for the Xbox 360. What Is It? G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is EA’s game adaptation of the film adaptation of the cartoon adaptation of the 80’s update…

How To Get Into Ratchet’s Pants

Bam There It Is… Kotaku REMIX

Ever wondered what the bottom of an avatar’s shoe looks like? What about Dude Huge’s shoe? How about Alexey Pajitnov’s shoe or Bayonetta’s? Don’t worry we got you covered. Kudo Tsunoda minted the top LOL-moment of E3 when he answered the question at Microsoft’s Project Natal demo, and jarosh of NeoGAF turned it into meme-worthy…