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  Warmonger Debuts Today

  NetDevil’s PhysX-powered, totally destructible (mostly) shooter Warmonger, Operation: Downtown Destruction is now available for free download on the official site. It’s worth noting that not only is the game free, it doesn’t actually require AGEIA’s PhysX card to play. You need the card to get the total experience, but don’t let that stop you from…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 28, 2007
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  Be The NBA Ballers Chosen One

  If you thought NBA Ballers was a snicker-worthy title, Midway has a real treat for you next year. They’ve just announced the latest installment of the basketball lifestyle series, entitled NBA Ballers: Chosen One, heading to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this Spring. “NBA Ballers: Chosen One will allow players to live the life…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 27, 2007
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  CGS Announces Pan-Asian Finals

  In preparation for the Championship Gaming Series 2007 World Championship being held in Los Angeles (6-14 December), CGS has announced the Asian final. Teams coming from Seoul, Dubai, Sydney, Singapore, Kuala Lampur, and China will meet to determine which four teams will be heading on to LA. So if anyone’s going to be running around…

  By Maggie Greene Published September 29, 2007
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  Feature: The Colossus and the Comedian

  Click to view By: Brian Ashcraft Jeremy Roush let the game do the talking. Adam Sandler watched the plasma television as filmmaker Mike Binder looked on. They were demoing a video game for the Hollywood actor in hopes of convincing him to include it the upcoming Reign Over Me, co-starring Don Cheadle. In-game save posts…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2007
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  Miss May Schools Newsweek in Madden

  Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal is having quite the weekend, it sounds. Not only is he hanging with the beautiful people during the lead up to the Super Bowl in Miami, he got a chance to share a Playstation 3 with Deanna Brooks, Playboy’s Miss May 1998, and have his ass handed to him in Madden. “That…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2007
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  Turn Your DS Into a Guitar

  Simon over on Game Set Watch points out that New York-based game importer NCSX is raving about DS guitar “game” Utaeru DS Guitar M-06 With 16 chords to use at any time from a library of 120, users may strum out a song relatively easily if you’re familiar with basic guitar playing. We were able…

  By Brian Crecente Published February 2, 2007
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  Have Sex, Rent PS3 For Free!

  Ah, love hotels. Those by-the-hour Japanese establishments built soley for sex. When couples are feeling randy, they head on over to places like Shibuya’s Casa Di Due. It’s one of the most colorful rest stops in the area’s love hotel mecca. Not only can customers rent costumes to entertain themselves, but PLAYSTATION 3s. Apparently all…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2007
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  You Got PS3 In My 360!

  So Microsoft is advertising on the back of PSM magazine, encroaching on enemy territory, as it were. Well that’s nothing compared to what is set to greet fans who purchase EA’s European UEFA Champions League Event football game for the Xbox 360 once it hits stores. Turns out one of the event’s major sponsors has…

  Michael Fahey Published January 31, 2007
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  Gates: Xbox is a PC

  The most surprising part of today’s conversation with Bill Gates was when he not only fessed up to the Xbox being a glorified computer, something Microsoft has been denying since 1.0 launched, but said that Microsoft wouldn’t have gotten into gaming if it was only ever going to be about the gaming. “The reason we…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 7, 2007
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  Wii Pisses People Off

  Nintendo’s Wii is leaving a lot of Revolution fans with a burning sensation. The photoshops are flowing like an awkwardly named Japanese game console after a suitcase of beer. From game forums like GAF, Penny Arcade and Quarter to Three to CNN, MTV, ABC and other proper demonstrations of three letters strung together, people don’t…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 27, 2006
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  Brian Ashcraft Bio

  Brian Ashcraft is a journalist based in Japan. He is the Senior Contributing Editor for video game site Kotaku. Prior to joining Kotaku in 2005, Ashcraft worked for Quentin Tarantino’s now defunct film distribution company, Rolling Thunder Pictures, where he assisted on The New York Times best-seller What It Is… What It Was!, a look…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published August 15, 2005