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What’s In The Aion Collector’s Edition Box?
Let’s take a look at the lovely swag NCsoft is including in the $69.99 Limited Collector’s Edition of their upcoming massively multiplayer online game Aion. The Box itself, along with a limited edition the female winged Asmodian Daeva Aiva. Along with what is pictured here, the box also includes two exclusive emotes, and exclusive title,…
By Mike Fahey Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dante’s Inferno: Lust and Heresy
.html Dante’s Inferno is an interesting beast: A video game based on an epic poem written to attack the political foes of the author in the 14th Century. While the poem tells the story of Dante journey through hell, purgatory and heaven as an observer, the game has him get hands on with things, very…
By Brian Crecente Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Kotaku readers answered their own call of duty yesterday to use the word literally while discussing games. Good stuff, folks, even you who used “literarily” instead. New challenges will be issued post-E3. Today, open topic. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.
By Stephen Totilo Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Three Big Chopstick No-Nos
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: T-Minus Three Days Tomorrow I’m going to a funeral — my second in Japan. One of my wife’s distant relatives. He was old, death is natural, still sad, always sad. The first one I went to was rather intense. I expect tomorrow’s to end up emotional as well. Often I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony To Bring PlayStation Business To Break-Even Level “Quickly”
Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai is on a mission. A mission to make money for Sony’s PlayStation division. “We need to quickly bring our PlayStation business on a break-even level and later to profitability,” Hirai said Thursday. Sony plans to do this through cost-cutting efforts and network service expansion. According to Hirai, Sony is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Anyone For Designer BlazBlue Shirts?
Japanese 2D fighter BlazBlue – the spiritual successor to Guilty Gear – isn’t the most likely subject for an American fashion brand collabo, sure, but a fashion brand collabo is what the game is getting. These shirts are by Triumvir, who are continuing their run of game-related lines following last year’s Street Fighter II run.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tiger Woods PC and Mac Will No Longer Come On A Disc
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online will bring golf to PC and Mac web browsers when it launches this fall, but it will also replace the disc-based versions of the game. The game will be entirely streamed to computers and require an internet connection to play. A price has not yet been announced, but Electronic Arts…
By Brian Crecente Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
PAL PlayStation Store Update: Sack Is The Law
Not a lot of great stuff on offer this week on the PAL PlayStation Store, though the addition of those 2000AD LittleBigPlanet characters should bring some smiles over the weekend. Aside from those, though, it’s slim pickings. There’s a couple of new games (Cellfactor: Psychokinetic Wars & Inferno Pool), the new Saints Row 2 DLC…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Just Cause 2 Goes Gaga For Grappling
Just Cause 2 looks like it’s more than merely Bionic Commando set in some banana republic. There’s jet plane surfing! The game is slated to skydive in next year. Hopefully it won’t feel as rushed as the previous title.
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Prison Break Star Wants To Be In BioShock Movie Real Bad
Universal have put the planned BioShock movie on hold, citing difficulties with the film’s ever-expanding budget. But don’t you dare tell dreamboat actor Wentworth Miller that! He seems to think the movie is still all stations go, posting on his Twitter account “Prison Break may be ending, but I’ve got things in the works. Hint…one…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 -
UncategorizedThe DS Can Do Naked Ladies Slipping On Banana Peels Rather Well
You now know that, in the right hands, the DS can draw some amazing pictures of fast cars. But did you also know that, in the right hands, it can do naked ladies as well? This clip highlights the other half of February’s Kiwi exhibition 99DS (which featured the fast cars), with this component, done…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Infogrames Is Now Atari
Atari? Strong brand name. Infogrames? Um, yeah. No wonder Infogrames want to switch its corporate identity to the company Nolan Bushnell founded and made famous. “The Board agreed to change Infogrames Entertainment’s name to Atari,” the company announced today. “This decision will enable us to make the best use of the Atari brand, capitalizing on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Atlus Announces Trauma Team For Wii
There are many specialties in medicine. Atlus knows this. Enter the latest entry in the Trauma Center series, Trauma Team. Players can play as a general surgeon, diagnostician, E.M.T., orthopedic surgeon, endoscope technician and medical examiner. The game is slated for Spring 2010, trailer at E3. Thanks, notMordecai!
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Did Infogrames Atari Do Last Year?
According to the company’s fiscal results for the financial year ending March 31, Infogrames posted net losses to the tune of €226.1 million. During the previous fiscal year, the company only posted losses €51.1. However, the good news is that consolidated revenues were up 51 percent to €136.4 million in a sluggish global economy. US…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cryptic Studios To Rehash Old Atari IP In “A Series Of New Games”
When City of Heroes developers Cryptic were bought by Atari last year, it was said they’d be working on a single, secret game due in 2011. Now it turns out they’re working on several games. Atari’s yearly fiscal report has revealed that Cryptic “is working on the development of a series of new games based…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Phil Harrison No Longer President Of Atari
Last year, in a major coup for the fledgling company, Atari managed to hire former Sony Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison to serve as President. Now? Now he’s no longer President. According to a statement made by Atari as part of the company’s fiscal year report: Because of a shift of business operations to the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
And Now Rape Games Are Not Banned in Japan
Don’t believe everything you see on television — even when it’s reported by a major Japanese television network — and especially when reported by TBS, it seems. Earlier, it was reported by TBS News that the Ethics Organization of Computer Software had voluntarily agreed to halt the sale and manufacture of “rape-type” games. Too bad…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Doom Is Coming For The iPhone
Having first teased the game a few months ago, id’s John Carmack has provided a slew of details on the company’s upcoming iPhone port of their classic PC shooter Doom. Carmack goes into exhaustive detaill on how the game has been nipped and tucked to both work and look good on the handheld, but the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2009 - Uncategorized
Robots We Love: KOS-MOS
If her looks don’t kill, then her superhuman strength or her melee morphing arms will. She’s KOS-MOS from Xenosaga, and we love her. But do you love her? Rally the troops, tally the troops! KOS-MOS has made it to the final round. She’s up against robot assassin HK-47. Stiff competition. He’s a drone, she’s got…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 29, 2009