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  Nintendo DSi Returns To Sales Dominance In Japan

  After a few weeks of the Nintendo DSi being outsold by the PSP, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the Nintendo handheld returns to the top of the charts in Japan, thanks to mech fans. With Super Robot Taisen K out and topping sales charts, Japanese gamers are storming electronics stores, snatching up DSis at a…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2009
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  Infinity Ward Dropping “Call Of Duty”?

  Judging from both the game’s website and, more importantly, its official press release, it appears that Infinity Ward have dropped the name “Call of Duty” from upcoming title Modern Warfare 2. Go on, look at the website. Tell me how many times you see the words “Call of Duty”. Then read the game’s press release,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2009
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  Why Molyneux Will Likely Never See Marley & Me

  As my interview with Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux wrapped up today and I was about to walk out of the hotel door, I remembered an important question. “Have you seen Marley and Me yet,” I ask. Molyneux seems confused for a second than remembers it’s that movie based on the true story of a man and…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 26, 2009
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  Gamify Your Google With iGoogle Game Themes

  Google makes web searching so much more exciting with the introduction of iGoogle video game themes, featuring art from Mega Man, Animal Crossing, Tomb Raider, Street Fighter, and more. The new themes were revealed last niught during a Game Developers Conference meeting that hardly anyone attended, possibly due to the invitation’s last-minute arrival and the…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2009
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  Aion: Pretty People Doing Pretty Things In Pretty Places

  Instead of video clips, today NCsoft teases anxious Aion fans with a batch of sexy screens and a three part history of the world of Atreia. There’s something for everyone in today’s batch of goodies for the upcoming massively multiplayer online game Aion: The Tower of Eternity, except of course people who wish to actually…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2009
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  Where Hellgate: London And Flagship Studios Went Horribly Wrong

  Hellgate: London‘s development, like its eventual implosion, was epic. At GDC, Stephen Goldstein, Flagship Studio’s ex-director of business development, explained just how what seemed like a guaranteed hit went horribly, regrettably wrong. Goldstein reminded us first of the happier, more hyped times at Flagship. In October 2007, when the founders of Blizzard North were on…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2009
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  The Real Reason Noby Noby Boy Is On The PS3

  Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi gave Game Developers Conference attendees a chance to learn “All About Noby Noby Boy” today, including that the game was originally developed on the Xbox 360. Takahashi showed off an early prototype of the title, way before it was bound for release via the PlayStation Network.…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2009
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  A Clue: Level 5 Lets Layton Sequel Hints Drop

  So caught up in Ninokuni was I that I missed out on some important Layton news that came out in the Level 5 panel Q&A: Akihiro Hino says Diabolical Box is on its way to the US. This is the logical conclusion for the second game in the Professor Layton series — it sold like…

  By AJ Glasser Published March 26, 2009
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  Thank Goodness For Honest Neighbors

  To: Bashcraft From: Fahey Re: Whaddaya Make Of Nintendo’s Announcements? The Day Note is a few minutes late this evening, thanks to a lovely little mix up with Fedex and my until recently broken laptop. Seems my address was too long for one line, so the helpful delivery man didn’t read my apartment as 15-11,…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2009
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  Nintendo Shows Unreleased Dual-Card DSi, GBA Touch

  Masato Kuwahara, project leader of the Nintendo DSi Hardware group, has a storied history of crafting new hardware prototypes, including a good amount of portable Nintendo game machines that never saw the light of day. Included in those is the unreleased, dual-card capable Nintendo DSi, a hardware design that was rejected at the near-final stages…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2009
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  Check Out This Bloodspattered iPhone Case

  I’ve never seen Dexter and I don’t own an iPhone — but these iPhone cases almost make me want to play the new game Marc Ecko is putting out on Apple’s de facto console. Dexter for the iPhone features Showtime’s psychopathic killer character of the same name. Your job as the gamer is to help…

  By AJ Glasser Published March 26, 2009
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  R.U.S.E. Cam-Vid Gameplay Spectacular

  If the initial announcement and trailer for Ubisoft’s real-time strategy game R.U.S.E. left you confused, four videos worth of gameplay should clear things up quite nicely. Gametrailers caught this footage of R.U.S.E. being demonstrated at the Game Developers Conference earlier this week. They give you a nice little taste of how the game plays, while…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2009
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  Noby Noby Boy Is Coming To The iPhone

  Like his previous creation, Katamari Damacy, Keita Takahashi‘s Noby Noby Boy is bound for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The developer showed a working demo of the game today. The version we saw appeared to be touchscreen controlled, apparently from a top-down perspective and, frankly, not very clear, as the speaker showed the iPhone game…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2009
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  Original Call Of Duty Coming To Xbox Live, PlayStation Network

  The original PC title that launched the Call of Duty franchise is finally getting the console treatment, as an ESRB rating reveals an impending release on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Not only does the ESRB rating for Activision’s Call of Duty suddenly include the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the European review…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2009
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  Molyneux’s Next Big Thing Could Show At E3, Perhaps Ooze With Awesome

  While Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux seems to be working on Fable III, he also mentioned that his studio is working on a non-Fable game which he hopes to show at E3. “Lionhead shouldn’t be thought of as just doing Fable,” he said. “Definitely not. In fact we’ve been working on, working incredibly hard, on something else.…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 26, 2009
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  Resistance 2 Downloadable Content Brings New Skins, Maps

  Insomniac will, later today, be releasing two new pieces of content for their shooter Resistance 2. One is a map pack. The other? Some new multiplayer character skins. The map pack is called “Aftermath”, and offers three new maps: Aftermath, Pit Stop and Outpost. All three support 20-player Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, while Outpost goes…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2009
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  Molyneux: New DLC Coming to Fable II Very Soon, Fable III Hints

  See the Future, the next downloadable content from Lionhead Studios for Fable II, will be hitting in weeks, Peter Molyneux told Kotaku today. “The next DLC comes out in the spring,” he said. “We’re in the spring now so don’t think months, think more like weeks. It’s called See the Future.” Molyneux says that the…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 26, 2009
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  Mega 64 Becomes Kotaku

  Adam’s interview with the boys from Mega 64 takes a turn for the worse, as the video game comedy sketch team transforms into Team Kotaku. It really is uncanny, how accurately Mega 64 portrays Crecente, Luke, Stephen Totilo, and N-Gage Croal, capturing the true spirit of Kotaku despite the fact that one of those four…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2009
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  Little Giant Robots End Japan’s PS3 Software Streak

  For the past three weeks, PlayStation 3 software has topped the charts. But this week, the Nintendo DS strikes back, kicking previous bestseller Musou Orochi Z out of the top spot. This week’s winner? It’s Super Robot Taisen K, Banpresto’s robot battle-gasm for the DS, moving 117,000 copies last week. The Shoko Nakagawa television commercial…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 26, 2009
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  The Dead Space Team Talks Award-Winning Audio

  Our own Adam Barenblat interviews the team from Dead Space after accepting their award for Best Sound at the 9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Dead Space was one of four games that received an award last night that wasn’t Fallout 3 or LittleBigPlanet, and rightly so. The sound in EA’s space survival horror shooter…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 26, 2009