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Denver Ho!
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Cops Crackdown On Bashcraft, North Korean Missiles Fly Overhead I flew out to Chicago late last week for a long weekend in the city. A cousin was getting married and it was a great chance to show Tristan and Trish the city and introduce her to about a bazillion relatives.…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Konami Heads To Iraq For Six Days in Fallujah
War, for Konami, has changed again. The publisher is heading back to the Middle East with Six Days in Fallujah, a new, documentary-style video game set in the Iraq War. According to the Wall Street Journal’s report on the Atomic Games developed title, Six Days in Fallujah will be a commentary-free “game-amentary” that deals with…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dead Space Movie Now Streaming Instantly Via Netflix
Have a Netflix subscription? Are you able to stream “Watch Instantly” movies over the internet? Did you like Dead Space? Did you really like Dead Space? Then this is the post for you! For the Kotaku readership that finds itself in the tiny wedge of the Venn diagram we’re imagining to represent the above market…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Blanka Frolics With Livestock In Flock
In case wrangling livestock with a UFO wasn’t enough reason to buy Capcom’s Flock, how about a cameo by everyone’s favorite green-skinned electrified Street Fighter? In this cross-over to end all cross-overs, Blanka makes a special appearance in the UFO livestock puzzler Flock, doing what he does best – rolling into a ball and falling…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band 2 Wii Update: Don’t Stop, Believe In Spongebob
Not even the trio of Spongebob Squarepants songs coming to the Rock Band 2 in-game music store for Wii owners can detract from the feel good quality of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing,” arriving on Tuesday. Journey joins a list of new Rock Band 2 tunes that Wii owners can start enjoying on April 7th, a…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, Flock! Probe Live Arcade Wednesday
The release of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix on Xbox Live Arcade has been a longer time coming than expected. But it certainly isn’t a surprise that D3Publisher’s hexagonal space puzzler joins the Arcade lineup this week. The sequel to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords—which doesn’t seem to stack up as well as the original—joins the…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
First BioShock 2 Footage, “Major” Killzone 2 Announcement On Next GameTrailers TV
.html This week’s episode of GameTrailers TV, now airing one day earlier, will be packed with the game footage exclusives you’ve come to expect… no, demand from Geoff Keighley and crew. That includes our first look at BioShock 2 and its Big Sister in action. Exciting! Joining 2K Games blockbuster hit sequel in the making…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Take-Two Settles Shareholder Lawsuit
Closing one of the last doors left over from last year’s EA takeover bid, Take-Two Interactive has entered into an agreement to settle a shareholder lawsuit stemming from their failure to consider EA’s offer. The lawsuit was filed by Prickett, Jones & Elliott on behalf of Take-Two shareholder Patrick Solomon on Friday, March 7th of…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Promises Several DSi Games, Kicks Things Off With Cooking
My Healthy Cooking Coach will let gamers use the DSi’s camera to personalize their user profile and will come with ten more recipes than the DS version, Ubisoft said today. My Healthy Cooking Coach, available for the DS and DSi, includes more than 200 recipes and is due out this June. In the release Ubisoft…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Midnight Club: Los Angeles Is Having A Pizza Party!!
When one thinks of South Central LA and illegal underground street racing, one also thinks “Pizza!” Logically, Rockstar Games and Pizza Hut have partnered to promote Midnight Club: Los Angeles with the power of pie. The Midnight Club: Los Angeles South Central Pizza Hut Showdown will give the budding diabetic an opportunity to enjoy an…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tell The Xbox Live Team What You Think
The Xbox Live Team is assembling today for one of their regular meetings, and you can be there too, through the magic of Twitter. While you won’t be able to actually see and hear the secret things Major Nelson and his crew will be discussing, they’ll have a large screen in front of them with…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Little Floor Play
There’s a pretty cool maze at Chicago’s Navy Pier that, deep within its bowels, includes a video game of sorts. About two-thirds of the way through Amazing Chicago’s Funhouse Maze is an interactive floor. In the room games are projected onto the floor that you can play. The loop of interactive videos includes a giant…
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed 2 Teased, Revealed Next Week
The official Assassin’s Creed web site gives us a brief taste of the second entry in the series and clues us in on when we can expect concrete details on Assassin’s Creed 2—next Thursday. The teaser consists of little more than a short Flash animation, rendered in a hand drawn style noticeably similar to that…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fight Night 4 Is Realistically Slimy
The new physics engine for EA’s Fight Night Round 4 brings you closer than ever to the true experience of having your head sliding against a large sweaty man’s armpit. It’s all well and good when demonstrating boxing with a bald guy. What I was to see is real-time hair deformation as it slides underneath…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Zorro Finally Destined For The Wii
After teasing us mercilessly in 2007 with the ability to slash Zs with our Wii remotes, 505 is finally ready to release The Destiny of Zorro this spring. First announced in February of 2007, a splash of screenshots and a promised 2007 release was all we saw of The Destiny of Zorro. Now, more than…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Greg Bear Penning Halo Forerunner Trilogy
Noted science fiction author Greg Bear takes a stab at the earliest days of the Halo universe with The Forerunner Trilogy, traveling 100,000 years into the series’ past. A mysterious ancient race worshiped by the Covenant as gods, the Forerunners wiped themselves off the face of the universe to help stem the tide of the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Claim to Fame, in the Dodge City of Video Games
These days, a big weekend in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 26,000 or so, is defined by the line out the door at its Applebee’s. On its chamber of commerce’s list of 101 things to do there, you’ll see attractions like genealogy research, pumpkin picking, and a tour of the John Deere factory. The same as most…
By Owen Good Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
These Kids Are Having Too Much Fun Playing Klonoa
Namco Bandai‘s TV spot for the upcoming Wii remake of Klonoa features two children getting much more out of the game than you and I ever could. Now don’t get me wrong…I love me some Klonoa. It’s right up there with Pandemonium on my list of 2.5D rail platformers. I just don’t remember any moments…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Re-Does Wii, PS2, And PSP
While Nintendo Power managed the official announcement of the Wii remake of the original Silent Hill as Shattered Memories, Konami handles announcing it for PlayStation 2 and PSP. As mentioned in McWhertor’s post on the Wii version, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a retelling of the original Silent Hill game, with the objectives shuffled about…
By Mike Fahey Published April 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wolfenstein’s Heavy Trooper
This video gives us a glimpse of the heavy trooper found in upcoming shooter Wolfenstein. The video also gives you a glimpse of the heavy trooper’s disintegration gun, though you don’t get to see all of those hats falling to the ground that so amused me during my demo of the game last month.
By Brian Crecente Published April 6, 2009