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Burn Zombie Burn!: It Is What It Sounds Like
Typically, Friday the 13th is a day reserved for black cats, bad luck and Jason Voorhees. But this year, in which we get three Friday the 13ths, I’m willing to make an exception for zombies. Actually, there’s been a lot of zombie this month. Between Burn Zombie Burn!, the Resident Evil 5 release and a…
By AJ Glasser Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Rock Deems Doom Movie A Failure
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, like everyone else, says that the 2005 Doom movie adaptation was an example of “trying and failing” at making the jump from video game to movie. Yes, he went there! Strong words coming from the star of Race To Witch Mountain. Johnson tells MTV News’ giggly Josh Horowitz that the “writing…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Batman: Arkham Asylum Collectors Edition Has A Batarang, Bruce Wayne Budget Price
The upcoming release of Eidos and Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum is getting the collector’s edition treatment. The bad news? It’s a cool $100, forty dollars more than the standard edition. The good news? Batarangs!! According to solicitations from retailer GameStop, by way of a Kotaku tipster, the pricey collectors edition comes equipped with a 12″…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Killzone 2 Podcast
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Four Months In, What Micro-Bash Can Do We recorded our next podcast today, this time inside Killzone 2 with some of the folks from Guerrilla Games. Fun times. As usually we were reamed. Of course, they did make the game, so it’s only to be expected that we would lose…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Clash of the Gaming Titans
Nintendo’s popular DS handheld hit a milestone earlier this month, topping 100 million of the portables shipped worldwide. But a much more important milestone looms. While 100 million is an impressive number, the Nintendo DS still has quite a bit of catching up to do if it wants to topple the Playstation 2 as the…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Adventure Island Wii Could Really Use Some Cel-shading
Hudson’s Adventure Island was never my thing. Master Higgins’ penchant for 8-bit shirtlessness was kind of a turn off to me. I like my platforming protagonists to exhibit a modicum of decency. Nintendo’s WiiWare service is giving Hudson another opportunity to turn sidescrolling platforming fans onto this whole Adventure Island thing. That means more Master…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Spoiler Alert! How Big Daddies Appear In BioShock 2
Rumors on 2K Marin’s BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams began swirling about the 2K Games forums today, flooding the board with supposed details on the BioShock sequel. Too bad they were mostly bunk. 2K and Game Informer both responded, saying the rumors that BioShock 2 would be Big Daddy-free were untrue. The rest of the…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Settles Its $90 Million Halo Suit
Someone at sue-happy company PalTalk just got paid. Microsoft has settled with the company that filed suit against the Xbox 360 maker over patent infringement claims related to Halo multiplayer. Make it rain, PalTalk! PalTalk hit Microsoft with a suit over a pair of patents in 2006, claiming that the multiplayer tech that powered some…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Man Solicits 11-Year-Old For Naked Pictures Via PS3
A Kentucky man has been arrested today for allegedly convincing an 11-year-old Houston girl to send him naked photos using his PlayStation 3 console. Anthony Scott Oshea of Somerset, Kentucky, was taken into custody by local authorities, charged with with three felony counts, including promotion of child pornography and online solicitation of a minor, after…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Watchmen: The End is Nigh II Sounds Familiar, Saucier
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has weighed in on the second downloadable Watchmen episode, which is unfortunately not titled Watchmen: The End is Even Nigher. It sounds like more of the same, just slightly sexier. Watchmen: The End is Nigh II has been rated M for Mature by the ESRB, described as featuring “Sexual Content”…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
F.E.A.R. 2 Toy Soldiers DLC Is Gigantic And Free
Monolith and Warner Bros. addressed pricing concerns for their upcoming F.E.A.R. 2 multiplayer Toy Soldiers Map Pack today, revealing that the downloadable content would be released completely free of charge next month. The Toy Soldiers Map Pack, announced on Wednesday, is a multiplayer add-on for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin that adds a number of new.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stormrise: What Does Verticality Mean?
So what do Sega and The Creative Assembly mean when they hype verticality in their upcoming real-time strategy game Stormrise? The latest developer diary explains it all. Basically, verticality means just what it sounds like. Rather than the flat-surface combat of your more traditional real-time strategy game, Stormrise lets you get up above and/or down…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Thanks to Sony, Sega, Microsoft and Rockstar Games, the Kotaku Towers West staff won’t be lacking in games to play this weekend. However, this Saturday will definitely be dedicated to Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Copies of MadWorld, Sonic and the Black Knight, Phantasy Star Portable, Empire: Total War and Ninja Blade all appeared this…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Grand Slam Tennis Trailer
This first glimpse at Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii in action gives us a glimpse at oddly large-headed versions of a bunch of pro Tennis players. The list includes Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg and Pete Sampras, whose head looks just right. Why do the…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Frankenreview: Resident Evil 5
Deadly hordes of bloodthirsty biological weapons rampage across Africa in Resident Evil 5, the latest entry in Capcom’s classic survival horror franchise. Resident Evil makes the jump to current generation consoles in this fifth installment, which features the return Chris Redfield as a Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance agent investigating an incident in the African desert.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Reviews
Peggle XBLA Review: Extreme Fever!!!
PopCap Games‘ Peggle comes to Xbox Live Arcade, bringing the super powered pachinko-esque, point and shoot gameplay to Xbox 360s. It’s incredibly addictive, the aim of PopCap’s casual games. Peggle‘s concept is simple: fire metal balls from a cannon, destroying colored pegs with the help of talking unicorns and skateboarding beavers, ultimately resulting in a…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Tekken 6 Screens Come With Learning
The latest screens for Tekken 6 come complete with a convenient fact sheet detailing what some of your favorite characters have been up to since the last King of Iron Fist Tournament. I find it rather funny that Namco Bandai felt we needed a quick reference to know what characters like Nina Williams, Hwoarang, and…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bioshock 2 Features Co-Op, Doesn’t Feature Big Daddies [Update]
The 2K Games forums are ablaze with Bioshock 2 rumors from the latest issue of Game Informer, with 2 player co-op and a distinct lack of Big Daddies among the game’s new features. According to forum posters, Bioshock 2 takes place seven years after the original game, with protagonist Jack Abbott chasing the Big Sister…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live Deals Discounting Fable And Alien Hominid
While we’re waiting for Lionhead’s next batch of downloadable content for Fable II, Microsoft slashes the price of the original next week, with an Alien Hominid HD discount following soon after. The Xbox Deal of the Week soldiers on next week with “the beloved RPG classic from Peter Molyneux”, Fable. The Xbox Original is being…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Even Runes Of Magic’s Trailers Channel World Of Warcraft
Free-to-play massively multiplayer online game Runes of Magic continues to dress itself up as World of Warcraft’s developmentally disabled younger sibling in the trailer hearkening it’s impending official launch. Runes of Magic’s Taiwanese developer Runewaker Entertainment would of course call it an homage, but the trailer celebrating the March 19th launch of the game in…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009