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Muramasa: The Demon Blade Lands New Publisher, Launch Date
Vanillaware’s lovely looking Wii game Muramasa: The Demon Blade (née Oboro Muramasa) is no longer coming to North America by way of publisher XSEED. Instead, publisher Ignition Entertainment will bring it to these shores. The publisher announced today that it had acquired the North American publishing rights to the title, planning for a September 2009…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Killzone 2’s Steel & Titanium Pack Priced
Sony has delivered pricing details on Killzone 2‘s first downloadable map pack, Steel & Titanium, along with a trailer featuring the two new maps in varying degrees of motion. While we knew it was coming out on April 30th, up until now we had no price tag for the two maps included in the first…
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stephen Confirms Return For LittleBigPlanet PSP
British actor, comedian, and Dr. House’s better half Stephen Fry has confirmed that he is indeed providing voiceovers for the PlayStation Portable version of LittleBigPlanet. Fry teased earlier today via Twitter that he was doing voiceovers today for the “2nd version of a video game”. After checking with his handlers, Fry returned to Twitter to…
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Purchase Videos From PSN On Earth Day, Save The Planet
Tomorrow is Earth Day, and what better way to show your appreciation for our planet’s environment than staying in and buying a bunch of movies from the PlayStation Store? The first 10,000 movie and television show purchases made from the PlayStation Store tomorrow will generate $1 a pop for Conservation International, a non-profit organization dedicated…
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2009 -
UncategorizedMega64 Beats Sony To A Shadow Of The Colossus Movie
Sony Pictures might as well pull the plug on their big screen adaptation of Shadow of the Colossus. Mega64’s got it covered. A true video game movie needs to distill the essence of the game into a live action setting, and well – it doesn’t get much more distilled than this. You’ve got your hero,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
GameFly Tests Your Game Knowledge With GameAnswers.com
GameFly has just launched GameAnswers.com, a website that allows gamers to share their knowledge of the industry and judge by their peers. GameAnswers is essentially the video game version of Yahoo! Answers. After a quick and painless sign up process, users can ask questions or answer questions to their hearts’ content, climbing the ranks as…
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Games Bundled With Wii MotionPlus
EA addresses the issue of Nintendo not having a first-party game ready for their Wii MotionPlus controller add-on by bundling their own games with the device. EA has announced that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 and EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii would be bundled with Nintendo’s Wii remote fixing device upon launch…
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Halo Wars DLC Presents Strategic Options
Three new multiplayer modes are making their way to Halo Wars courtesy of the Strategic Options Game Add-On Pack. Available “in the coming weeks”, the Strategic Options pack adds several new ways to experience Halo from a top down perspective online against your friends. In Keepaway Mode, players struggle to capture a free-roaming Forerunner Sentinel…
By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fallout 3 Delivers Puppies! on May 5
Broken Steel, the third downloadable episode for the PC and Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3, will raise the game’s level cap to 30 and remove the games ending on May 5, Bethesda announced this week. Broken Steel will sell for 800 points and will include an entire new area outside of Fallout 3’s wasteland…
By Brian Crecente Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Harmonix Announces LEGO Rock Band
It’s real! Earlier this month at GDC, Harmonix developer senior designer Dan Teasdale unwittingly confirmed LEGO Rock Band. Today, a press release confirms the game. LEGO Rock Band is being developed by TT Games in a partnership with Harmonix and published by Warner Bros. Entertainment. The game is built (geddit?) around the theme: “Build a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stay Away From The Bugs
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Heathrow Ah, yes. London. Fine place. I’ve only been there twice — would love to go back! Still busy packing for our big move. One concern about the new place: Bugs. We’re moving to the mountains, and as you are certainly aware, once you move out of the city, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
So, How Much Do Video Game Composers Make?
Video game soundtracks can often be the most iconic element of a game. Take Halo, for example. Or Zelda. So it begs the question: how much do game composers get paid? Variety sat down with four of the “top names in the brave new world of game scores”, and found that the composers are paid…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
The WoW Pod Is A Suicide Booth For Warcraft Fans
This is the “WoW Pod”. It does everything. It’s a crapper, it’s a computer, it’s a kitchen and, most important of all, it’s a shield against the outside world. The brainchild of artists Cati Vaucelle & Shada/Jahn, the pod – based off real World of Warcraft “architecture” – is “real” (in the sense that it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2009 -
UncategorizedSee, Square Enix Makes Things Besides RPGs
With successful role-playing-game franchises like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, it’s easy to forget that Square Enix actually makes games in other genres. Take these upcoming games, for example. There’s 0 Day Attack on Earth and Project CUBE. Both are shooters, both are from Square Enix and both are for Xbox LIVE Arcade.
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Brütal Legend Throws Up The Horns This October
Brütal Legend – produced by Tim Schafer, starring Jack Black, published by EA – will be out this October, Electronic Arts have announced this morning. In North America, the game will be released on October 13. Europeans can get their hands on the game three days later, on October 16. Tim Schafer is understandably chuffed:…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
You Can Win Red Faction: Guerrilla
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.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
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By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Modern TVs Ruin Old Games
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2009 - Uncategorized
Happy Birthday Game Boy!
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 21, 2009