Bethesda Softworks Getting WET?

According to the latest issue of Famitsu, third-person “acrobatic” shooter WET has found a new publisher in Bethesda Softworks. Orphaned by Activision-Blizzard last Summer, the A2M-developed game has been without a publisher following Sierra’s extinction. Retail listings for WET also back up Famitsu’s mention (by way of Siliconera) the game’s new home, with GameFly listing…

Steam’s Weekend Orange Box Deal Is Insane

Steam’s weekend deal should take care of any leftover PC gamers who’ve yet to experience the glory of The Orange Box, with the whole shebang available now for 66% off. Unless you don’t have $10 to spare, there is officially no reason why you shouldn’t at least own The Orange Box by the end of…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

I’ll be Super Leg Smashing and Super Sandwich collecting this weekend, as I drive to perfect my Excitebots: Trick Racing scores, collecting all the useless digital trinkets that haunt my obsessive-compulsive video game collector streak. Damn you, Super Mario 64, for making the pursuit of collection and 100% completion so ingrained in every modern day…

City Of Heroes Celebrates Five Years Of Heroism

NCsoft’s superhero simulation City of Heroes celebrates its five-year anniversary next week, with contests and events planned to keep the game’s super-powered denizens partying Paragon City into the ground. The festivities start on Wednesday, April 28th, continuing through to Sunday, May 3rd. Kicking things off will be an in-game event running from 11am Eastern to…

It’s Good To Be The Saboteur

The latest batch of art and screens for Pandemic’s The Saboteur display some of the more tangible benefits of being an Irish racing mechanic liberating France from Nazi oppression. It’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen anything new from Pandemic’s free-roaming World War II adventure game, which is quite obviously looking rather lovely, and I’m…

Burnout Paradise Cops & Robbers Go For The Gold

After teasing us for weeks with videos and pictures of Burnout Paradise’s Cops & Robbers update, Criterion finally delivers the first actual gameplay footage, along with some rather disturbing cosplay. While I probably could have done without the random dressing up, the team at Criterion look like they’re having a great deal of fun playing…

UK Change4Life Campaign Changes Its Tune

Criticized in March for ads that equated playing video games with an early death, a new commercial for the UK government’s Change4Life campaign promotes healthy gaming. The colorful new ad is a big change from the campaign’s previous efforts, which depicted a sickly-looking young boy sitting on a couch holding a game controller underneath a…

Ghostbusters: The Opening Cinematic

.html The opening cinematic for Atari’s Ghostbusters game isn’t all that much different from any other video game opening – until the music kicks in. If there was ever any doubt that Ray Parker Jr. is every bit a part of the Ghostbusters cast as the franchise’s four main characters, this trailer completely reinforces that…

Nothing’s Shocking In Next Week’s Rock Band Update

The Harmonix crowd gets another full album release next week, as Jane Addiction’s best album, Nothing’s Shocking, hits the Rock Band Music Store. With the album’s :Mountain Song” already appearing in Rock Band 2, next week’s release of Nothing’s Shocking contains the remaining ten songs from the band’s controversial but critically acclaimed 1998 album. The ten…

Champions Online Heroically Dated

Strategy Informer reports on an event taking place over in the UK today, where Cryptic Executive Producer Bill Roper delivered a July released date for Champions Online in the U.S. and Europe. In what feels like the fastest massively-multiplayer online role-playing game development turnaround in the history of the genre, Roper told Strategy Informer that…

Star Trek Online Screens Explore Strange New Worlds

Following the official announcement of Paramount’s Star Trek D-A-C yesterday, Cryptic sent us a trio of exclusive Star Trek Online screens to remind fans that there’s much more than a top-down shooter in the works. Out of the three images that Cryptic passed along, the top one here is the one that truly spoke to…

Madden 10 Cover Athletes Revealed

The battle of the long-haired football players commences, as Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Polamalu score joint custody of the cover for EA’s Madden NFL 10, a first in the franchise’s 21-year history. EA can’t seem to commit to one cover athlete this year, with multiple sports stars sharing the covers for Fight Night: Round 4,…

Who Said Packing Was Fun? You? How Dare You

To: Fahey From: Bashcraft RE: I Cannot Stop Playing Pet Society I’m bad at packing. Really bad. Packing for moving to our new place (on Monday!) has been taxing — taxing, and I haven’t even finished it yet. This is going to be a long weekend. What you missed last night PlayStation 3 Sales Get…

Hong Kong’s Insanely-Detailed Resident Evil 5 Figures

In the West, we got little plastic Resident Evil 5 figures. But in the mysterious Orient? Well, they’re getting something a lot better. Hong Kong company Hot Toys – who specialise in incredibly detailed 1/6 scale figures – have taken the wraps off their Resident Evil 5 line, which at the moment features two characters,…

Let’s Tap Trailer

I can’t work out whether this clip sums up everything that’s wrong with the Wii, or everything that’s wrong with Sega. Probably both.

Metal Gear Solid 4 Goes Budget In Japan

This past March, Metal Gear Solid 4 went to Sony’s Platinum budget line in Europe. Now, it’s following suit for Japan. Hideo Kojima’s swan song for Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, will be released on Sony Computer Entertainment’s “PLAYSTATION 3 the Best” line on June 18 for ¥3,990 (US$41). MGS4…

Kids Make Old Games Look Good On New TVs

Earlier this week, we saw the ugly side of modern emulation. So, in the interests of fairness, today let’s look at some people hoping to set things right. Full-time thinking man and part-time Kotaku Guest Editor Ian Bogost has asked some kids at Georgia Tech to come up with an emulator that can not only…

This Japanese Supermarket Prize Game Is Ironic

Codemasters To Release Two Formula 1 Games

While we’ve long known Codemasters have been working on a new Formula 1 game – and also that it would be serious – the company have today come out and made some official announcements. Seems there is not one, but two F1 games currently in development. The first will be out this year, and will…

Onechanbara THE MOVIE vorteX THE TRAILER

We’ve already met the real stars of the new Onechanbara vorteX movie. Heck, we’ve already seen the short online announcement trailer. Now? Now we’ve got the full length coming attraction. There’s blood, zombie movie and girls swinging swords around — the game in a nutshell. Thanks Michael for the tip!