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Monster Hunter Hungers For New Currency, Sets Sights On Europe
For those not aware, Monster Hunter is big. Well, big in Japan. Outside of the Japan, it’s not so big. Which is something Capcom are looking at addressing. After all, if the series prints money in Japan, which is a relatively small market compared to the US and European ones, imagine how much money Capcom…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
If Only There Were More Of These Commodore 64 Laptops
Heeeeyyyy. It’s Ben Heckendorn, console modder extraordinaire. What ya got for us this week, Ben? A Commodore 64 laptop? Oh yes. Not only is this amazing because it’s a Commodore 64 laptop, it’s amazing because it’s just the perfect mix between keeping it retro and keeping it classy. Example: It’s got a C64 keyboard and…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tales Of Characters… All Together!!
Today, at a press conference in Tokyo, Namco Bandai announced a action title that brings together 35 characters from the 13 Tales of games. Characters from each title exist in the same game universe. This new title, which is for the PSP, is Tales of VS. It will be out this summer in Japan. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Tales Of Title For The Nintendo Wii
Namco Bandai announced the latest home console entry in its Tales of series. Dubbed Tales of Graces, the game is coming to the Wii this winter. Mutsumi Inomata is doing the character design. She’s known for anime work on My-HIME and Future GPX Cyber Formula as well as working seven titles in the Tales of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tales Of Vesperia Anime Announced
Not only is Tales of Vesperia getting a PS3 version, the role-playing-game is also getting a big screen version. Namco Bandai announced today that Tales of Vesperia will also be getting an anime called Tales of Vesperia 〜The First Strike 〜. It will hit Japanese theaters sometime later this year. This isn’t a first for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
British Sales Charts: The Early Bird Gets The Early British Sales Charts
My, Britain! How punctual you’ve become! Forget seeing British sales charts on the usual Wednesday or Thursday, as they’ll now be clocking in first thing Monday morning. In this first early edition (today is April 6, and these charts are for the week ending April 4), Wii Fit maintains its stranglehold upon the nation’s charts…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Let’s Check Out Gothic Lolita Shooter For Xbox 360
DeathSmiles, the Gothic Lolita shooting game from Cave, is getting an Xbox 360 port. Check out this weekend event in Akihabara to promote the game. The game will be out April 23 in The Land of the Rising Sun. As we previously posted, there’s also a limited edition of the game (priced at ¥9,240 –…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
A DS Case Fit For Dr. Henry Jones
Indy’s getting old. Not as sharp as he used to be. He’s making stupid decisions, like being in movies with Shia LaBeouf. Maybe all he needs, though, is a little Brain Training. It should keep the old grey matter from getting all foggy. But that, then, creates another problem: how to go adventuring through rainforests…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Does A Slew Of Dream C Club Screenshots Give The World?
An animated GIF, that’s what. Japan’s D3 Publisher released over seventy screens of character Riho upcoming drink-with-hostess-Xbox-360-game Dream C Club — from the exact same scene. And we’re not quite sure why. Yes, SEVENTY PLUS SCREENS. No, we take that back. We are very sure why. It’s didn’t take long before the screens were pieced…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Noby Noby Boy Multiplayer Footage Looks Slightly Disturbing
The Noby Noby MP teaser looked…different. These gameplay vids look, well…what the hell is going on here? Is that how these things couple? And what in God’s name are they doing to that poor pig?
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live: 2,500,000,000 Achievements Unlocked
Xbox 360, PC, Wii, doesn’t matter, everybody loves online user statistics. Especially when, they get into the billions, as was revealed by Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg last week. Contributing to a Gamasutra piece on achievements, Greenberg revealed that, as of this month, there have been 2.5 billion achievements unlocked by the Xbox Live user base. They…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Guide To GameStop’s Game Days Blowout
GameStop have a big, big sale going on right now. Lots of good stuff on sale, real cheap. But there’s just so much of it! Where to start, where to start? Thankfully, some kids over on Cheap Ass Gamer have done the legwork, and come up with not only the complete list of games on…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Is Kotakuland’s Favorite Board Game Trash Talk
You finally picked a winner! Good for you. The grand prize winner will get a sofa (yes, A SOFA) and an Xbox 360. That winner is… Patrick Shearer: “See, this is why I like board games. When I am kicking your ass in one of these, you don’t mysteriously disconnect with ‘internet problems’.” Congrats to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bandai Namco PSP Game Makes Suggestive Use Of Milk
Simulation RPG Queen’s Blade Spiral Chaos is going on sale this winter in Japan. And it’s bringing its suggestive imagery with it! Queen’s Blade is originally a Lost Worlds style “combat picture book game” and has been published in Japan for the last couple of years. Queen’s Blade features only female characters, and its spin-off…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fifty-two Weekends
To: Luke From Owen Re: Chi Town This weekend was my 52nd on shift, which means I’ve done my first year with Kotaku. Coincidentally, Adam Barenblat has too. His friends in Boulder threw him a Happy Kaketaku Anniversary party yesterday. Now watch us find out there’s some sort of elaborate hazing ritual for your first…
By Owen Good Published April 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Harmonix Designer Unwittingly Confirms LEGO Rock Band
While Harmonix senior designer Dan Teasdale had intentions of talking about LEGO Rock Band during his GDC talk, “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Design Lessons Learned From Rock Band,” that obviously didn’t happen. However, according to a PDF of an earlier version of the designer’s session, the version “sent for speech approval rather than the…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Game Music as Porno Soundtracks
Bow-chika-bow-bow in chiptones would be bleep-dinka-bink-bink or something, right? Or it’d sound like this boot-knockin’ mixtape an obviously bored (and, today, who isn’t?) The -Minus World put together. Here are the five soundtrack candidates for the hot monkey sex you’ve always seen other people having but were too afraid to pay for yourself. • Killer…
By Owen Good Published April 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Your DSiWare Block Sizes
For those who are holding in their hands Nintendo’s newest handheld, you might be wondering just how much DSiWare you can stick on it. Nintendo Everything has an early list of DSiWare file sizes. Remember that on the DSi, the 256MB of memory translates to 1024 blocks. And of that, 96 are taken up by…
By Owen Good Published April 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Power Glove Adds Functionality; Still Not Necessarily Useful
In this, the 20th anniversary year of the Nintendo Power Glove, modder Matt Mechtley tricks it out with an accelerometer and bluetooth. But he still has to code some games to take advantage of it. Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition — Build Video from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo. Writes Matt: It’s been 20 years now…
By Owen Good Published April 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: What has 64 Feet and No Pubic Hair
Why, the front row of a Hannah Montana concert! This week Hannah Montana: The Movie drops on not one but both (!!!) consoles I own, and McWhertor, surprisingly, hasn’t asked me to review it. Oh yes, that’s right, the core-gaming tween audience has finally found its crossover hit in Hannah, who comes to the 360…
By Owen Good Published April 5, 2009