Team Fortress 2 Characters Actually Respond To Customer Correspondence

When TF2’s Scout received his update, the ad on the game’s blog was done in the style of an old-school mail-away. And you know, some people actually responded. What’s more, Valve responded back. Yes, people stupid/smart enough to print out the coupon and send it in have been getting real letters in the mail. Real…

Square Enix on Final Fantasy XIII Release: “Lord knows… That’s Not True.”

Square Enix has still only provided a rough release date for Final Fantasy XIII: Winter 2009. At the company’s financial briefing, it was asked about the Final Fantasy XIII release. Company honcho Yoichi Wada did stress that FFXIII sales were implied in the Square Enix financial forecasts. According to Japanese site Inside Games, when Wada…

PC Sales Charts: Killing Floor Wipes The Killing Floor

Funny what happens when you’re the developers behind Red Orchestra and you go and release a new game about zombies. Your game goes to #1! Yes, Tripwire’s Killing Floor has maintained its run at the top of the Steam charts, strong pre-sales from preceding weeks continuing into strong sales now that the game is actually…

No Shredded Clothes, No Game

Battle damage brawler Ikki Tousen: Shining Dragon is known just for that: battle damage. And since it’s girls in sailor suits and maid outfits, damage comes in the form of shredded clothing. Known as Battle Vixens in the West, Ikki Tousen is also a manga and animated series. The above image is taken from the…

Is it ever ok to pirate a game?

Ratchet & Clank Coming To LittleBigPlanet?

If Insomniac’s official Twitter account is anything to go by, then yes, we should soon be expecting Ratchet & Clank to be popping into the world of LittleBigPlanet for tea and biscuits. While we’re normally slightly sceptical of any and all messages blurted out across this season’s social networking weapon of choice, this message couldn’t…

A Really Big Show: The Beatles Rock Band Teases Ed Sullivan Set

As seen on The Beatles Rock Band web site

Is Q Entertainment Still Making “QJ” For Atari?

Last year, Atari announced it had buddied up with Rez HD and Lumines creators Q Entertainment for a pair of projects: the Live Arcade cash-in comp Qubed and the enigmatic “QJ.” Where are they now? Well, Qubed is still listed as a to be released title at retailers like GameFly. But QJ hasn’t made a…

DJ Hero Controller, Gameplay Fully Revealed

Just as we speculated, those early shots of the DJ Hero controller weren’t showing the whole thing. That was being saved for, what else, an article in Game Informer magazine. In addition to the turntable, there will be a second, clip-on component, which includes a cross-fader, effects dial, “Euphoria” button (ie star power) and the…

Rumor: First Footage Of Team ICO’s “Project TRICO”

First details on the ICO and Shadow of the Colossus developers PlayStation 3 project may have just leaked online, just a few weeks before the game was expected to make an appearance at E3. The alleged trailer for “Project TRICO,” by way of PlayStation Lifestyle, begins with a scene that might be familiar to followers…

How’s Killzone 2 Selling These Days?

April wasn’t the best month for the U.S. video game industry, reflecting a drop in spending on things that weren’t a Nintendo DSi or price reduced PlayStation 2. But how’s Killzone 2 selling these days? According to Gamasutra’s monthly deeper dive into NPD Group sales figures, the answer is 58,000 copies last month. Good? Bad?…

Busted

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: What Have You Done In The Last Six Months With Your Life? I had a pretty funny Tristan anecdote to write up for you today, but Tristan caught me in the act, so no, I won’t be writing it. He’s standing right next to me as I write this… making…

Punch-Out!! Gets One-Of-A-Kind Slam Man Control

The Wii version of Punch-Out!! does a decent enough implementation of shadow boxing controls, thanks to the Wii Remote and Nunchuk option. But what about when you really, really want to punch something? Enter the Punch-Out!! compatible Slam Man, the boxing dummy designed for a workout that’s been modified in the DIY way to work…

Darksiders Preview: The War of God

I first saw Darksiders a year ago in the events leading up to E3 2008. At the time the game didn’t impress me. Darksiders: Wrath of War seemed an amalgam of action titles painted with such broad strokes that it rendered the game undeniably generic. But what I saw this year of the game, renamed…

How Badly Do You Want The King of Fighters XII Japanese Box Art?

The King of Fighters XII fans, your demands for the Japanese version of the game’s box art have not fallen on deaf ears at U.S. publisher Ignition Entertainment. You could still get it. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions are due to ship stateside in less than two months, but Ignition hasn’t firmly decided…

Zeno Clash 2 To Be Even Zeno Clashier Than The Original

ACE Team‘s original beautiful and bizarre first-person brawler Zeno Clash has been out for just shy of a month, but the Chilean developer is already hard at work on a sequel. According to the official ACE Team blog, consider Zeno Clash 2 officially official, with the second entry currently in the planning stages. ACE Team…

Nintendo’s E3 Promises, One Year Later

Nintendo promised to keep the world smiling at last year’s E3. The company made a few other predictions too, emphasis on “a few”… What good is E3 hype if none of it comes true? To get you ready for this E3, we’ve subjected ourselves to re-living the major press conferences of last year’s big show.…

Meet The Spy’s New Hand Cannon

Say hello to the Ambassador, the newest addition to the Team Fortress 2 Spy class’ arsenal. What’s unique about this new, unlockable pistol? It’s big. The Spy’s third and final addition to his back of tricks “has the ammo count of a revolver and the pinpoint accuracy of a sniper rifle, even at long range”…

Hi-Rez Studios Bringing Global Agenda To E3

Hi-Rez Studios is heading to E3 2009, yanking their action-oriented massively multiplayer game Global Agenda away from alpha testers long enough to give the convention going public a little taste. E3 2009 will mark the first major public showing of the game, which has until now been shown off at the odd public charity event…

Scribblenauts Stumpability Update

The claim behind fall DS puzzle-action title Scribblenauts is that the game will render any kid-safe concrete noun that a player types into it. Today, we got our second crack at stumping it. When last Kotaku tried Scribblenauts, it was editor-in-chief Brian Crecente trying to stump the game. But with each word he typed into…