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Interplay And Masthead Team For Potential Fallout MMO
Interplay is teaming up with Masthead Studios to complete work on Project V13, which sounds suspiciously like a code name a company would use for a massively multiplayer Fallout game. Interplay announced their intentions to create a massively multiplayer online game based on the Fallout property back in December 2006, having retained that particular portion…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Lips Mics Will Work With Metallica, Rock Band 2
Microsoft’s nifty wireless microphones that were packed in with Lips just got a whole lot more useful, supporting Guitar Hero Metallica and soon Rock Band 2. Tethering a music game singing virtuoso to a console is a sad, sad thing, especially since the cords are never long enough to allow for the sort of microphone…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band Gets A Kick In The Shins
Harmonix is padding next week’s Rock Band Toby Keith release with music from The Shins, Black Tide, and Bullet for my Valentine in order to please the few of you who don’t appreciate country music. I know it’s hard to comprehend that any gamer out there wouldn’t be overjoyed with the Toby Keith Six Pack…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Iron Fist Joins Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Cast
Iconic 70s superhero Iron Fist will be among the two dozen playable characters featured in upcoming action title Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. The characters included in the game were selected because they are returning favorites from the first title, they are core to the Civil War story line or just because the developers wanted to…
By Brian Crecente Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Brütal Legend Promises to Deliver a World of Metal Farce and Subtle Humor
Brütal Legend is much more than an action game with sharp writing and a heavy metal soundtrack. Double Fine’s ability to craft a world out of the imagery of heavy metal helps the game transcend it’s genre and potentially deliver an experience that will be as unique as it is memorable. What glimpses I saw…
By Brian Crecente Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Faction: Guerrilla Gives Us The Bird
From April Fool’s prank to reality, Volition announces that the fabled Ostrich Hammer will indeed be available as an unlockable in Red Faction: Guerrilla. In what some are calling the winning video game ‘prank’ of April Fool’s Day 2009, Volition released a hilarious video on Wednesday revealing the Ostrich Hammer, a brilliant response to NeoGAF…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bear McCreary Wants To Make Dark Void Players Uncomfortable
See Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary discussing his unique strategy for creating the musical score for Capcom’s Dark Void. Bear is quite obviously a gamer as well as a composer, so he knows game music and how it generally works. In order to keep his music from fading into the background, he’s splitting his music…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Do You Love Kotaku? Prove It!
You say you love Kotaku, but do you really mean it? I mean, mean it enough to provide video evidence of said love? Down with it and live in New York? Video king Richard Blakeley is putting together a video of unabashed Kotaku lovin.. the platonic kind, so if you’re interested you should email him…
By Brian Crecente Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
When Your Last Name Is First, Where Is Your Middle Name?
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Bipolar Weather Had to file out some housing papers this morning to finalize everything. Ran into a bit of confusion regarding the order of my name. Japanese last names go first, followed by, well, first names. For example, in Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto is actually Miyamoto Shigeru. Hideo Kojima is Kojima…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hudson Button Masher Comes To The iPhone
I don’t use “button masher” as a cheap label for an antiquated genre. I use it in the most literal sense, because this is an iPhone port of Hudson’s famous Shooting Watches. History lesson: Hudson talisman Takahashi Meijin (aka Master Higgins) got kinda famous in the 80’s for being able to press a button 16…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Game & Watch Clones Yanked From iPhone Store
We told you to get those bootleg Game & Watch iPhone games before lawyers took ’em down. Hope you heeded our advice. Because lawyers have taken them down. Yes, “developers” Mobile 1UP have been forced by Nintendo to remove their copyright-infringing Game & Watch clones. All of them. In their place are now two games…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Konami PS3 Baseball Game Goes Offline (The End)
Professional Baseball Spirits 5, Konami’s PS3 baseball title, was released last May in Japan. The game features teams and stars of Japanese pro ball, and let’s players battle it out online. That is, until April 15. A notice from Konami reads: “On April 15, 2009 at 11:59pm, Professional Baseball Spirits 5‘s online play will end.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Biggest Street Fighter Tourney EVER: The Finals
Like we said, the Street Fighter IV National Tournament is the biggest SFIV tournament ever (not hard, seeing as its sponsored by GameStop). And this month, it reaches the business end, with the finals. On April 18 in San Francisco, the 16 best Street Fighters in the United States will converge on the Fort Mason…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
French Quebec Cracks Down On English Games [Update]
Hey French Canadians, want to play English only video games? Forget it! New legislation in Quebec now prohibits the sale of English-only video games if a French version is available. The store cannot carry only the English language version if a French version is available. The catch traditionally has been for Quebec is that game…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Is How You Enhance Cute Shooter Triggerheart Exelica
Last week, Japan got a limited edition Triggerheart Exelica bundle for the PS2 port Triggerheart Exelica -Enhanced-. But what makes it "enhanced"? Well, this animated opening by P.A. Works, for starters. Previously, P.A. Works has helped out on the game animation for the Professor Layton games. The song is “Gravity Error” by pop singer Ayane.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
MMO Games Grew By 22% In 2008
Was at the pub the other night, and got into a fight over subscription-based MMO growth. Some bloke said the market wasn’t growing, I said it was. Researchers Screen Digest have proven me the winner. Having conducted a study on the finances of the (*breath*) subscription-based massively multiplayer online gaming market (which excludes games reliant…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ace Attorney In Weekly Manga Form
Not only is new Ace Attorney title Gyakuten Kenji getting a DSi bundle, the game is also getting a serialized manga. The Gyakuten Kenji comic will be debuting in weekly manga Shuukan Young Magazine, hitting newsstands on April 13. StarringAce Attorney characters Miles Edgeworth and Dick Gumshoe, the first serialized volume is 51 pages long.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo DSi Shows Smack Talks How Ugly You Are
Here’s the North American launch ad for the Nintendo DSi. Yes, we’ll admit it, the trash talk in this commercial made us giggle. Then again, so did your face. OH SNAP! Nintendo DSi – launch commercial [GoNintendo]
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
360 Arcade Stick Cuts The Cord
We know. You’re a fighting game pro. Can’t spare the time to blink while fighting, let alone juggle cords. Which is why you may want to take a look at Dream Arcades’ wireless 360 stick. It’s a chunky, sturdy arcade stick, with the addition of being, well, cordless. The fact it’s wireless is a pro.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Namco Bandai Holding Up The Return Of Hellgate
MMO Hellgate died. Then it was bought out, and is back (in Asia). In the West, however, it remains dead, despite the best efforts of new franchise owners HanbitSoft. See, HanbitSoft want to bring the game back to the West. But while HanbitSoft own the rights to the IP itself, Namco Bandai own the publishing…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 3, 2009