Contest time! We’re giving away a copy of futuristic third-person-shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla, platform of your choice. Here’s how you can win it: Take a picture of red things — the more the better! Be sure to include a “Kotaku sign” in the picture. Send your entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom and have a very nice day.…
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Big, fancy LCD and plasma TVs are just wonderful for 360 & PS3 games. But for older games (and some new ones!)- and by old, we mean old – they’re not so hot. And this is why. This write-up by NFG (of the selectbutton forums) goes into astonishing detail on just why fixed-resolution displays aren’t…
Twenty years ago today, the original Game Boy first went on sale in Japan. What better way to pay tribute than with a series of cheesy retro ads. The Game Boy was created by Nintendo’s Gunpei Yokoi, who also created the company Game & Watch handhelds. Worldwide, the Game Boy and its later iteration Game…
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have today announced a new PSP hardware bundle for the British market, which will include a PSP-3000 console, a memory stick and some free TV service hours. As it stands, anyone signing up for Go!View – Sony’s pay-TV partnership with Sky, which sees content made available for the PSP – gets…
Here’s the first trailer for Softmax’s 360 JRPG Magna Carta 2. It was announced at Microsoft’s press event in Tokyo today that the game will be out in Japan on August 6.
Once again proving itself the shmup console of choice, the Xbox 360 is getting a port of Cave developed arcade shooting game Mushihime-sama Futuari. Yes, that game. Several Cave shoot ’em ups have already been ported over to the Xbox 360 with varying degrees of success. Take the 5pb ported DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou Black…
It’s Tekken 6, it’s from Namco Bandai and it’s here to ask you a very important question: What do you fight for? The new Tekken 6 trailer was shown at the Microsoft press conference in Tokyo earlier today. Tekken 6 was originally released in Japanese arcades in late 2007 and will be hitting both the…
Warning: this comes from Twitter. If you’re sick of hearing about Twitter, well, you have been warned. Anyway. Stephen Fry is spending the day doing voice work for a game. As he “Tweets” (sorry): Morning all. In studio today voicing 2nd edition of a video game. Will check when I’m there if I’m allowed to…
Best known of its King of Fighters fighting games, SNK Playmore is releasing a fighting-meets-shooting game for Xbox LIVE Arcade. It’s currently sporting the temp title of The King of Fighters Sky Stage. The game features characters from the KoF series in a traditional shoot’em up game — each with special shooting skills. There’s a…
The most recent Team Fortress 2 update brings with it updates that may radically change the way we play the game, including the fascinating—but still unannounced—addition of headgear to classes. Oh, it gets much better. While the official Valve change log rather mundanely notes that the Team Fortress 2 team has “reworked the character loadout…
Sony held day one of its pre-E3 PlayStation Preview days today, an event that consumed a day’s worth of posting for this Kotaku editor. Honestly, though, playing new games all day was better than posting. Unfortunately, we can’t really discuss much of what I got to go hands-on with today, as all of the preview…
Today in Tokyo, Microsoft is holding its spring 2009 press conference. Xbox Japan boss Takashi Sensui announces that 31 titles for Japan will be covered. Before we get to them, Sensui confirms that a million Xbox 360s have been sold in Japan. To mark the occasion, a million Microsoft Points will be given out nationwide.…
Xbox 360 title Ninety-Nine Nights is getting a sequel with the clever temp title Ninety-Nine Nights II. As you can tell by these screenshots, the game’s visual hook is equally clever: light and dark. So original! As we previously posted, the game is currently 50 percent finished and slated for release sometime this year. The…
I didn’t want anything to do with the last Transformers game, partly because I’d heard it was awful, but mostly because it featured “movie” Transformers. Which are terrible, spindly things. Call me a purist, call me an asshole, I don’t mind, but when a Transformer looks like a Bionicle with a bone disease, it’s not…
Not that there is anything wrong with computer illiterate old people. Why our mother just asked us yesterday if it was difficult to use a PC mouse. Yes it is, we said. We lied! The above ad is for phone carrier NTT Western Japan and is eye-roll inducing if you understand Japanese. For those who…
What is it with Wii games losing publishers? First Fatal Frame, now Muramasa – which was about the best-looking thing due on the console in 2009 – finds its American release up in the air. Vanillaware’s gorgeous 2D side-scroller was supposed to be released by XSEED in North America later this year (it was released…
Not all televisions are built the same. For kicks, Japanese site Intermezzo compared the Final Fantasy XIII Blu-ray PS3 demo on two televisions (one HD, one analog). Let’s have a look. One of the televisions was a US$200 model 14-inch Sony WEGA from the year 2000. It was connected to the PS3 with composite cables.…
Tonight, it’s still April 20. But when you open up those sleepy eyes and greet April 21? Left 4 Dead’s Survival Pack will be there waiting for you. Valve announced today that the free content – which will introduce new gameplay modes and open up two campaigns for versus play – will be released on…
Hideo Kojima doesn’t only make Metal Gear Solid games. He also makes Zone of the Enders mecha games — though, it’s been six years since the last one. He’s been busy, you know. ZoE spawned two three sequels as well as two anime. The first title was released on the PlayStation 2 in 2001 with…
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