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Stephen Totilo On His Move To Kotaku, Leaving MTV
Stephen Totilo is leaving his MTV Multiplayer gig to join the ranks of Kotaku as our new Deputy Managing Editor. Why would Totilo do such a thing? He explains the transition in a new interview. Totilo tells Crispy Gamer all about the move from simple Kotaku tag to his highly anticipated return as a Kotaku…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Store Update: Ultor, Red Faction, Sackboy Exposed
A pair of THQ demos leads this week’s worthwhile downloads on the North American PlayStation Store, with Red Faction: Guerrilla and UFC 2009 Undisputed giving PlayStation 3 fans a bite-sized taste of the games. Other freebies include the LittleBigPlanet Creator Pack, with tutorials for budding level designers, and even more Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm packs.…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
I Cannot Stop Playing Pet Society
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey RE: The Biggest Non-Gaming News In Japan Today Involves A Naked Man While you’ve got your hands full with naked Japanese men over there, I’m busy trying to shake my addiction to Pet Society, a Facebook game from a company called Playfish, in which you create a pet and take care…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
ESRB: Bayonetta Has Jiggling, Gyrating, And Torture Attacks
Entertainment Software Ratings Board description’s are a welcome recent addition, clinically telling us about all the naughty, neat things that transpire in our Mature-rated video games. Take the ESRB’s recent rating of Bayonetta, for example. The Platinum Games developed title gets extra clarification for its “torture attacks,” the enemy-finishing moves that relieve Angels of their…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pokémon Tops Japanese Charts, Software Sales Stuck In Dungeon
With the exception of the newly released Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai, it was a relatively slow week of video game buying in Japan, with low sales of new software. Even though it topped this week’s chart, the latest Pokémon spin-off title didn’t sell on par with its predecessors (two games that eventually…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Epic Boss Responds To Exploitative Working Condition Claims
Epic Games president Michael Capps speaks extensively with Joystiq regarding accusations of employee exploitation that have recently been causing a bit of a stir. The uproar began when industry critic Greg Costikyan called out Capps for comments made during an Independent Game Developers Association panel last year. During the talk he indicated that working 60…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Has $13.65B Quarter, Sells 1.7 Million Xbox 360s
Software giant Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings today, boasting $13.65 billion in revenue, with $1.57 billion of that from the division responsible for the Xbox 360. That means some bad, some good. Revenue was down across the company by six percent on lowered software sales, but Microsoft’s net income for the quarter (roughly, the company’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
PAX 2009 Programming Details Emerge
The 2009 Penny Arcade Expo slowly begins to coalesce into an actual event, as organizers deliver details on some of the exhibitors and musical talent attending this year’s show. While many of us would attend the Penny Arcade Expo 2009 even if it were one guy in an auditorium playing Metroid music on a harmonica,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
PopCap Heard You Liked Peggle, So It Put It In World of Warcraft
You thought the addition of Bejeweled to World of Warcraft was a potentially potent potable? That’s nothing compared to the deadly cocktail that is PopCap’s Peggle, also available to play in Blizzard’s ultra-popular MMO. WoW Insider has first details on the addition of the peg-smashing game, which has already begun raiding its way into World…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wolverine Behind-The-Scenes Teases Secrets
The latest developer diary video for X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a dirty, no-good secret snikt-tease. Developer Raven hasn’t so much created levels for the game as they have crafted environments for players to romp about it. Forest environments; jungle environments; snowy forest environments – they’re all represented here. It’s all very interesting, until they get…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Promises “Electrifying” Announcement On April 27th
The official U.S. PlayStation web site is teasing “an electrifying announcement” will hit next week, one that’s related to both inFamous and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for the PlayStation 3. While we’re privy to details on new developments related to Uncharted 2—which we’ll discuss further on Monday—we did not attend this week’s hands-on opportunity with…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Help Me Spend 1000 Club Nintendo Coins
After a few weeks’ worth of registering Nintendo products at the recently launched U.S. version of Club Nintendo, I’ve amassed a healthy 1000 coins to spend. But what clutter-adding trinkets to spend them on? Long, drawn out decisions have never been my strong point, particularly when it comes to the more trivial. Being a Platinum…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Play As The Joker In Arkham Asylum PS3
A new advertisement appearing earlier than expected in Sony’s PlayStation Home reveals the ability to play as The Joker in PlayStation 3 exclusive challenge levels for Batman: Arkham Asylum. Several readers sent us in blurry photos of the new sign, which has appeared in various spots throughout the Home service today, featuring a grinning Joker…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Star Trek D-A-C Boldly Goes Official
Paramount Digital Entertainment officially announced Star Trek D-A-C for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and PC today, delivering new screenshots of the movie-themed space shooter to the masses. The official announcement for Star Trek D-A-C doesn’t really offer anything new in the way of game information. From McWhertor’s report at GDC we learned that…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fable II Adds 250 Achievement Points In The Future
The upcoming See the Future downloadable content for Fable II could add up to 250 gamerpoints to your Xbox 360 gamerscore, if you get lucky. I say if you get lucky, because one of the thirteen new achievements requires that the player “make love” twenty-five times, which for some of us represents many more times…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Complex Races Onto PlayStation Home
EA has launched the first phase of their EA Sports Complex in PlayStation Home, delivering new things to see and do in Sony’s virtual world. The EA Sports Complex is a massive new area to explore in PlayStation Home, with trailers to watch, teasers to view, and a couple of mini-games to whet your appetite…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Chronicles Of Spellborn Is Now Open For Business
Acclaim Games officially launches their massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Chronicles of Spellborn in North America today, with free two-week subscriptions on offer for all newly registered players. The Chronicles of Spellborn is an online role-playing game that takes place in a unique, otherworldly post-apocalyptic setting. It features a very interesting action-based combat system,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fuel Tells Players Where To Go
Magical floating sky arrows replace the standard GPS system in the post-apocalyptic world of Codemasters’ Fuel. I’m not exactly sure what Codemasters’ marketing folks were thinking when they decided to create a trailer that compared modern-day car navigation systems with red arrows flying through the sky in the direction you are supposed to be heading.…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
TimeGate And Paramount Reach Section 8 Agreement
TimeGate Studios once again successfully defends the name of their game, reaching an agreement with Paramount in the lawsuit over the name Section 8. TimeGate filed the lawsuit earlier this month, after Paramount sent out a press release announcing an interactive web series called Section 8, days after cancelling a meeting with TimeGate regarding their…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Battlefield 1943 Drops In June
DICE advances World War II by a year in June, announcing the release month and pricing details for their downloadable online multiplayer shooter Battlefield 1943. A small slice of World War II is coming to the PlayStation network and Xbox Live Arcade in June in DICE’s Frostbyte-driven update to Battlefield 1942. It’s the US Marines…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2009