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First Look At Blacklight
Zombie Studios, the development team behind the newly-announced Blacklight, have lifted the lid on the game, revealing the first screenshot for the futuristic shooter. And here it is. It’s dark, there’s a man with a gun in it, and from the looks of that streetscape, it’s a real screenshot, not some fanciful “target render”. Your…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
DIY Street Fighter IV Cabinets Make The Best Birthday Presents
What did you get for your birthday? James got a Street Fighter IV cabinet built from scratch by his friends, the lucky bastard. During midterms and work, Steve and his roommate Figge collectively spent 4.5 man-hours over five days to build the arcade. A hundred nails were hammered into the handsawed wood panels. A FightStick…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kama Sutra Comes To The DS
Note: this isn’t a retail product. There’s no Nintendo seal on the box. So no running off and telling Fox News, OK! Instead, this handy guide to all things carnal comes via the homebrew community. SutraDS, as it’s called, was whipped up by Cid2Mizard and submitted as part of a DS flash cart’s annual coding…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Why There’s Not A Pokemon MMO
Why isn’t there? A Pokémon online game sounds like a logical idea. But the Pokémon franchise director Junichi Masuda has an explanation. “At this point, we’re not thinking of going in that direction,” says Masuda. “Trading is a core concept of Pokémon. So when you’re trading, you meet with a friend and decide which one…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
February’s Top-Selling Games, Accessories By Platform
You’ve devoured, then processed the lists detailing the top-selling games and consoles for February. But do you want to know the best-selling games by platform? Or the games that didn’t quite make the top 10? Wired have published a series of charts provided by the NPD Group, which show the games that finished 11-20 on…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2009 -
UncategorizedGet Your Battlestar Galactica Fix With These Games
After a run of over five years, Battlestar Galactica finished over the weekend, and there’s a hole in my heart. Probably one in yours, too. One that needs filling. I mean, you’ve got to fill it with something. It’s not like the show will magically continue next week. It’s over. Well, aside from an epilogue…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Korean Report: Sony Halting PS3 Supply
According to Korean news site Chosun Online, Sony has ceased supplying South Korea with PS3s for the time being in order to prevent Japanese tourists from picking up the console at a cheaper price point. “We are troubled by ‘reverse-importing’, which is when products exported into South Korea are flown back into Japan,” said a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
It’s Monday. Ban Monday.
Our favorite Kotakuday? Ban Monday. While we don’t have any problem banning on regular days, we turn up the Ban Hammer sensitivity to MAXIMUM on Ban Monday. Here’s how it’s works: Send us the commenter page to tipsATkotakuDOTcom for anyone who should get the axe, err, hammer. You can put in your request at tipsATkotakuDOTcom.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Gamers More Satisfied With Xbox 360 Than Wii Or PS3
Game magazine Famitsu has published the results of a reader poll about console satisfaction. Results cover the DS, Wii, PSP, PS3 and the Xbox 360. Readers were also polled about games as well. Keep in mind, this poll questioned Famitsu readers, whose opinions might differ from more mainstream Japanese consumers. That, and not as many…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2009 - Uncategorized
In the Room
To: Luke From: Owen Re: iPhone Kindle Believe it or not, this island has a comedy club. This week I went by and poked around and left a message for the owner about maybe doing some guest sets in the future. He invited me down later to have a look around and get a feel…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Spring has Sprung
We’ve got the most titles in a single week since Black Friday, which makes me wonder: We just had the first day of spring, why is everyone pushing games when we should be outside playing? Today we experienced the mayhem of Pokémon Platinum. Big names rolling out in the coming week include Wheelman, the Vin…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ohio Cops Haul In Recidivist Guitar Villain
Robert Snively of Port Clinton, Ohio, should be having a moment of clarity right now, because the dude is headed for town court over freaking Guitar Hero. Snively, 33, was jamming on the game late at night this weekend, pissing off his neighbors for the last goddamn time. They sicced the fuzz on him, and…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Metallica’s Hetfield: Games are “Gateway Drug” to Music
Metallica frontman James Hetfield continues the payday publicity blitz in an interview with Rolling Stone that comes straight out of the celebrity endorsement playbook for music games. There seems to be a formula to these interviews: 1) Genuflect to rhythm games as a whole, citing at least one quality that inspires music appreciation. 2) Tell…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Team Rocket Sent Blasting Off from Poké-Launch
Some bogus flyers promising “exclusive Mystery Gifts” caused quite a foofaraw at yesterday’s Pokémon Platinum Launch in New York. Team Rocket is being blamed for the disturbance. Yes, really. The slightly ‘shopped flyer mentioning gifts (above) went up outside the Nintendo World Store launch party yesterday. Why, who could be behind such a plot? None…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bad Economy Casts Pall Over GDC
The Associated Press writes up an advance on GDC09, using the sour economy to set up the conference, which opens tomorrow with sessions like “Surviving the Squeeze” and “Stability in the Stormy Weather.” While some 50 studios and publishers will have booths in the conference’s career pavilion, most of the big names at the conference…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sunday Timewaster: Dropping the Ball
Physics games are like National Geographic maps. I could stare at them for hours and feel like I learned something even if I couldn’t articulate what I had been doing all this time. This is Ball Droppings, which, despite its unfortunate name, is a good way to kill time before dinner if you’re bored with…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
German Cops’ Union Boss Issues Tired Plea to Ban Games
Heini Schmitt (pictured), head of the Hessen German Police Union, spouts ignorance about “killerworlds” and “killergames,” two terms I’ve never heard before, but apparently describe a grave public health and safety menace in Germany. Of course, that’s where there was as shooting rampage (amoklauf) nearly a couple weeks back, which because it involved a teenager,…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Does Witcher Screen’s Nipple Slip Get a Rise Out of Your White Wolf?
Here’s three new screenshots of Witcher: Rise of the – WAIT A MINUTE, IS THAT BOOBIE? Before the significant increase in atmospheric oxygen almost all life that existed was anaerobic, that is, the metabolism of life depended on a form of cellular respiration that did not require oxygen. Free oxygen in large amounts is poisonous…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gamers Well Represented at Blood Drive
Who showed up to Capcom’s blood drive for RE5? A guy who wears a PowerGlove as a fashion statement. Someone cosplaying a merchant from Assassin’s Creed Resident Evil 4. And a self-described "shut-in" who drinks forties all day. Yes, people of Los Angeles, if you get in a nasty-ass wreck on the Harbor Freeway, you…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Super Nintoaster — It’s for Breakfast Now!
The Nintendo toaster modder is back at it, deiivering a Super Nintoaster that is part of your nutritious breakfast, assuming you already serve nutritious breakfasts in your home. Modder Vomitsaw (I went back to the original source on this, just so I could share that word with you) on the Ben Heck forums gets the…
By Owen Good Published March 22, 2009