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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 - Uncategorized
Coop, Soto, Kofie Art Appear in Midnight Club, On Shirts
Rockstar has teamed with three Los Angeles based artists to produce an artist series build around their upcoming South Central DLC pack for Midnight Club: Los Angeles. The designs by artists Augustine Kofie, Jeff Soto, and Coop can be seen within the game and on some limited edition apparel, prints and other items. Rockstar sent…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band Gets Totally Funked Up
Rock Band celebrates some of the best music to ever grace our undeserving ears next week, with the Get the Funk Out 01 track pack. The Get the Funk Out 01 track pack features three songs that are nearly synonymous with the funk genre. Even if you think you’ve not heard Earth, Wind & Fire’s…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
ESA President Calls For Stronger Texas Game Industry Incentives
Entertainment Software Association president Michael Gallagher has issued a plea to the Texas state government to strengthen tax incentives for software companies residing in the Lone Star state. Gallagher explains that the ever-expanding Texas game development community is every bit as important to defining the state’s rich cultural history as the music that the upcoming…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Freshly Picked Risen Screens
The team behind the Gothic series have picked a winning batch of screenshots to represent their upcoming PC and Xbox 360 role-playing game, Risen. Piranha Byte’s Risen was revealed last August before the Leipzig Games Festival in German, and since then…well, we hadn’t heard much. So far we know that the game takes place on…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Offline Multiplayer Coming to Noby Noby Boy
Namco Bandia is working on an update for Noby Noby Boy, according to the game’s creator, that will add offline multiplayer. “In the hopes that more people can enjoy the game, we are currently working on an update. A featured addition to the update is going to be offline multiplayer. Some may say, “Offline!?” But…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Chronicles Of Spellborn Closed Beta Slowy Opens
Acclaim has begun slowly letting people into the North American closed beta test for The Chronicles of Spellborn, with the beta client now available for those hoping to get in early. Here’s how the closed beta is working. The first round of testers get in today, hand-picked from Acclaim chats, David Perry’s twitter and Historian’s…
By Mike Fahey Published March 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Get Your Kubrick On At Chinatown Launch Event
New York’s Nintendo World Store is hosting a launch event for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on March 16. The party kicks off at 11:59 p.m. that night and runs into the next morning at 2 a.m. with DJ OhNo hosting fans age 17 and up. The first 25 people to buy the game get…
By Brian Crecente Published March 13, 2009