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Sony Computer Entertainment Patents Robot Peripheral
Last June, Sony Computer Entertainment filed a patent application for a real robot that interacts with video games. Think of it as Sony’s take on R.O.B. The patent shows a robot outfitted with a camera that enables the bot to decipher the surrounding environment. There’s a microphone that makes it possible for the robot to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Councilman Resigns After Spruiking Racist Flash Game
Georgia City Councilman John Dowdy thought it would be a good idea to send an email round the office recommending a racist flash game. John Dowdy is no longer a Georgia City Councilman. The game in question is “Border Patrol” (sample its tastefulness above), a 2006 release that sees you trying to stop Mexicans from…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) Ships Over Half A Million
PS3 exclusive Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 is a smash hit. The game sold 372,000 copies in its first week and is one of the biggest selling copies on the PLAYSTATION 3. The game has in-game tie-ups with 27 different companies, including a karaoke parlor, a sake distillery and a tanning salon. The voice cast boasts…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Get The Most From Your Kotaku Kommenter Account
So you’re commenting on Kotaku. Congratulations! But did you know that aside from speaking your mind and saying mean things about us (do we not bleed?), there are other things you can do as well? Let’s take a look at them. First, you’re going to want to access your profile. You can do that by…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Discovers That Wii Fit Is As Good As… Walking
In this ad, Nintendo says it had Wii Fit researched by Japan’s National Institute of Health and Nutrition. About time! The game’s only been out for over a year. The researchers found out that doing the Wii Fit hula hoop game was the equivalent of “light walking” or playing golf without using a golf cart.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Shoko Nakagawa Returns, But Minus The Mecha Cosplay
The last time Japanese geek idol Shoko Nakagawa appeared in a Super Robot Taisen ad, it was amazing. She cosplayed as in-game character Valsione. This time, she wears a dress. Ho hum. Super Robot Taisen K is out March 20 in Japan. Click through the pics of the ad below. There’s lots of standing and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Whoops, Dev Releases Alpha Build On Steam By Mistake
Indie first-person shooter Merchants of Brooklyn was released over Steam earlier in the week. Which should have been good news, except, developers Paleo Entertainment released the wrong version of the game. Yup. Instead of releasing the finished, final product, somebody at Paleo clicked on “alpha build” by mistake before hitting “upload”. Naturally, everyone buying the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valkyria Chronicles, The Art Book
In Japan, SEGA’s beautiful PS3 exclusive Valkyria Chronicles has an anime and saucy figurines. Next month, it gets an art book, too. The 300 page book is published by Enterbrain, the same company that publishes Japanese game mag Famitsu. Titled Valkyria Chronicles Development Artworks, it goes on sale at the end of April. Price is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress 2 Patch Goes Out To All The Multi-Core Users Out There
Does your PC have multiple cores? Mine does. And I just love it when a developer is able to release something that specifically takes advantage of them. So thanks, Valve! Team Fortress 2‘s latest patch – of which, you’re no doubt aware by now, there have been many – takes multicore rendering support out of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Raw Deal Capcom Pre-Paid Credit Card Policy Changed
When Capcom announced its pre-paid Visa debit card, folks got excited. Then they saw that the card carried exorbitant fees and got angry. CheapAssGamer’s goomba478 did what most would. He started complaining. Goomba478 detailed all the charges the laundry list of add-on charges to use the card: “Pay to activate the card, pay to call…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Watch Pokemon In HD
The official site for Pokémon Diamond & Pearl announces some changes for next month. This April, the Sunday morning kiddy show Pokémon Sunday anime is going HD. The show is co-hosted by geek idol Shoko Nakagawa. The anime Pokémon Diamond & Pearl is getting a new end theme song sung by Shoko Nakagawa, and the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Psst, Metal Gear Solid Touch Is Out
Forget that announcement saying it would be out on March 19. It’s not. It’s out today, and today is March 18, so if Metal Gear-themed Duck Hunt sounds appealing, get on it. It’s $8, it features characters and settings from Metal Gear Solid 4, and it clocks in at an impressive 90MB, so you’ll probably…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hideo Kojima Has A New Role At Konami
Creator of the Metal Gear Solid series, Hideo Kojima is responsible in large part for Konami’s success. His games do well, Konami does well. What does that mean? Fancy white collar job titles, that’s what. While “Chief Of I Can Do Whatever I Want” would have been an obvious choice, his new title starting April…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cities XL Takes Tycoon Fiends Online
Think of Cities XL as a sort of spiritual successor to Sim City Societies, but with less emphasis on the people-please and more emphasis on playing God. Now that Maxis has been swallowed by Spore and the guys who made Sim City Societies have moved onto bigger, better things Children of the Nile, indie developer…
By AJ Glasser Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Find The Snake On Germany’s Metal Gear Solid 4 Platinum Cover
We thought that our first glimpse of the “Platinum” budget version of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was bad enough. Then we saw Germany’s take on Old Snake. Oh, sure. No one can deny the selling power of an endorsement from 4Players.de, and the Games-Hit thumbs up indicator is sure to move…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Freezing, Cutting Employee Wages
Sony have, for the first time in company history, “mothballed” employee wages and bonuses in an attempt to stem the company’s financial bleeding. This means there’ll be no wage increases over the next 12 months. For anyone, from the tea ladies all the way up to Sir Howard, and everyone (including the PlayStation folks) in…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony And Namco Bandai Team Up To Create… Gundam Video On Demand Channel?
When Sony and Namco Bandai entered into the Cellius joint venture in early 2007, the companies didn’t say they’d just be working on games. No, Cellius would produce “interactive and ‘surprising’ contents.” They weren’t lying. Apparently, one of the first “contents” to come from the collective brain of Cellius is a video on demand-like service,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cities XL Screens, Vids Tease Endless Possibilities
Cities XL is a game that has one purpose in life: to fill the void left by Maxis and Tilted Mill with a city-building sim worthy of its predecessors. To look at these screens and videos, you might almost think that they’ve done it – right down to the shiny top on the Chrysler Building.…
By AJ Glasser Published March 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Unreal Tournament 3 Goes Titanic On PlayStation Store
After suffering a brief delay, Epic Games will bring the Unreal Tournament 3 Titan Pack to content hungry PlayStation 3 owners tomorrow. What does it bring to the table? A great many things. The free download adds two gameplay types (Greed and Betrayal), plus “the Titan mutator, 19 maps, the Link Station and X-Ray Field…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 18, 2009