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  Man Decides PS3 More Important Than Truck Payments, Now In Jail

  Quick: Your automobile or the PS3? Make a decision and pronto. Nicholas Stanfield. a 24-year^old Sacramento man, chose the PLAYSTATION 3. On December 17, a 911 call was placed about the carjacking of Stanfield’s Dodge Ram truck. Police responded and found Stanfield with a bruised face and torn shirt. According to Stanfield, he was walking…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 26, 2009
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  Microsoft’s Retail Stores Will Sell Games, Hardware

  Microsoft are opening dedicated retail stores. Like Apple Stores, only for…Microsoft. And while early pictures of a “concept” store suggested as such, we’ve today received confirmation that they’ll be selling Microsoft games and hardware. A Microsoft spokesperson has told MCV that the stores – which will be opened “in a few major cities around the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2009
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  Father of PlayStation Soon Lecturing At Japanese University

  What is PlayStation creator and former Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi up to these days? Passing on his wisdom, that’s what. Kyoto’s Ritsumeikan University has invited Kutaragi to guest lecture to MBA students starting this April. His position will last one year and end on March 2010. Kutaragi was CEO and President of Sony’s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 26, 2009
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  de Blob Performs Rare “Sells Well On Nintendo Hardware” Trick

  We know that THQ’s de Blob has been selling well, sometimes even better than Nintendo’s first party Wii titles. But how well can a non-phoned-in, non-mini-game collection title sell on the Wii? Pretty well. THQ CEO Brian Farrell puts de Blob sales at a very respectable 700,000-plus, according to a report from Edge. Not bad…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009
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  Taito Brings Cooking Mama, Space Invaders To iPhone

  You know that Taito would never pass on an opportunity to port the 30-year-old arcade hit Space Invaders to a platform. Seems it’s doing the same for Cooking Mama, shipping iPhone versions this week. Fortunately, both ports look like fully-fledged, non-half-assed versions of each, with Cooking Mama taking advantage of the iPhone (and the iPod…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009
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  Replica BioShock Needle Will Take Your Breath, Not Your ADAM, Away

  Harrison Krix is one talented, talented guy. First, he made that amazing replica Portal gun. Now, he’s made this amazing replica ADAM syringe, “weapon” of choice for the Little Sisters of 2K’s BioShock. There’s a step-by-step breakdown of how he made it at his website, but we’d just like to bring to your attention this…

  By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2009
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  Let’s Tap! Soundtrack To Stay Japanese-y In America

  Typically, when rhythm video games come across the pond, their poppy bubblegum Japanese soundtracks get amputated in favor of something more lowest common denominator. Not Sega’s Let’s Tap!, though. Its soundtrack is staying intact. The Sega America blog writes today that all Japanese music tracks from Let’s Tap! will be included in the North American…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009
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  LittleBigPlanet PSP to Feature Creation, Interoperability With PS3

  The recently announced Playstation Portable version of LittleBigPlanet is being developed by with help by Media Molecule and will likely be able to connect in someway with the Playstation 3 version. The PSP’s LittleBigPlanet will also tap into the three tenets of the original title: Playing, creating and sharing, John Koller, director of hardware marketing…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 26, 2009
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  Wii Sports Resort MIA On Nintendo’s Upcoming Games List

  Nintendo’s upcoming release list for the second quarter of 2009 was packed with games, including the highly anticipated Punch-Out!! and the surprise semi-sequel Excitebots. Missing from the list, however, was Wii Sports Resort. Kind of curious, considering that Wii Sports Resort was listed as shipping “Spring 2009,” according to Nintendo of America’s Product Launch Schedule…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009
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  Watchmen $20 Price Tag – Yep, That’s “Quite a Bit More Than” $10

  Watchmen: The End is Nigh is set to hit Xbox Live, PSN and Steam next week ahead of the film’s premier, but so far only the Steam release has a definite price. A while back, we talked with Warner Bros. about pricing for End is Nigh. At the time, they responded with “It’ll be quite…

  By AJ Glasser Published February 26, 2009
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  PlayStation Store Update: Killzone Demo, Man

  This week’s North American PlayStation Store update has something for everyone, if everyone wants to play Killzone 2. And if you want to pay to learn how to play Killzone 2, you’re very well covered. While I was incredibly disappointed to mistake the Rachel Getting Married trailer for a theme (DAMN IT!!), there’s plenty of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009
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  RIP Rocky

  To: Bash From: Crecente Re: (@_@) Wow, so today Scripps announced that after 150 years of publishing the Rocky Mountain News would be printing their last paper this Friday. I’m not really directly impacted by this closure. I have a fulltime job at Kotaku, thank you very much. But it’s still horrible news. I called…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 26, 2009
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  Scenes From A Metal Gear Online SCENE Expansion

  If you’re still playing Metal Gear Online, you’re likely very excited to get your hands on the upcoming SCENE Expansion for the PlayStation 3 game. Especially if you love alliteration! Not only does the SCENE Expansion add Vamp and Raiden to the list of special characters in MGO, it adds punchily named maps like Ravaged…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009
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  Rock Band Getting A Texas Flood Next Week

  Next week’s downloadable content has been a long time coming, but Stevie Ray Vaughn‘s classic 1983 blues album Texas Flood is finally coming to Rock Band and Rock Band 2. Harmonix revealed the full album’s availability via the Rock Band Music Store to subscribers of the Rock Band Community Zine, with ten tracks from Stevie…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009
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  Apple Struggles With Flood of iPhone Games

  As I see it, the biggest problem Apple’s iPhone faces as a gaming platform is the flood, the sheer wall of games now available on the system. The last I heard, and I’m sure it’s well past this by now, is that there are 15,000 applications on the App Store right now, many of them…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 26, 2009
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  Dead Space Gets Wii MotionPlus Support, Sexy New Genre

  The Wii translation of Dead Space will do one thing right, at the very least—it will support the Wii MotionPlus peripheral for one-to-one motion tracking, making first-person shooting that much easier. That was confirmed by Electronic Arts Chief Operating Officer John Pleasants during his talk at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2009, who…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009
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  Diablo III Bestiary: The Unburied

  Blizzard has updated the Diablo III bestiary with a new entry and new screens featuring The Unburied, undead beasts born from the improperly cared-for dead. As you can see, The Unburied are large, shambling beasts made up of the discarded body parts of people disposed of unceremoniously in mass graves. Better yet, let’s let Diablo…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009
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  A Look at MadWorld’s Bosses

  In this latest episode of MadWorld’s Death Watch we catch a glimpse of some of the over-the-top brutal game’s bosses. First up, we catch a glimpse of Little Eddie, a ball-and-chain-wielding behemoth. The trailer also shows us glimpses of Herr Frederick von Twirlenkiller and the female boss of Asiantown. The video wraps up with quick…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 26, 2009
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  Square Enix Rockets To The Top Of Japan’s Sales Charts With Star Ocean

  Square Enix’s Star Ocean 4 helped propel the Xbox 360 to the front of the console pack in Japan, thanks to an impressive 162,000 copies sold in just one week. That’s damn good. The new role-playing game knocked off last week’s champ, Mario & Luigi RPG3!!!, a Nintendo DS title whose fall was cushioned by…

  By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009
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  Stormrise: Real-Time Strategy From A Different Point Of View

  A new trailer for The Creative Assembly‘s new real-time strategy game Stormrise shows off a dynamic camera system worthy of a blockbuster action title. While I enjoy the odd real-time strategy title, I’m not a huge fan of the overhead perspective so many games in the genre employ. I like to feel a little more…

  By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009