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Good Night, Good Game?
Here’s a gameplay trailer for "Night Game" a WiiWare title that looks to be one of 2009’s it-games in the indie community. The physics look a little LBP-esque to me on some of these levels. The mood and the lighting and the music are very relaxing, too. In fact, I suddenly want to take a…
By Owen Good Published March 1, 2009 -
UncategorizedAnd How Much Does *Your* Dad Love You?
About two years ago, a proud father began work on a custom pink arcade cabinet for his then 2-year-old daughter. Well, now she’s four, and he just moved it into her room. Welcome to “Bella’s Arcade,” built by James, who has built and restored other arcade cabinets. This cabinet is built 80 percent to scale,…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
RB Classic Rock Track Pack Coming to Retail
I love it when the ESRB rates music games, because it means someone, somewhere, is marking down every “damn” “ass” and “bitch” they hear on a clipboard. In this case, we can piece together a few of the songs that might be on the Rock Band Classic Rock Track Pack, which just got rated and…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Landmark Baseball Sim Being Ported to iPhone
Earl Weaver Baseball, the heavyweight of baseball simulations in the late 1980s and one of the titles that helped create EA Sports, is being ported to the iPhone by its original programmer. It won’t be called Earl Weaver Baseball, as he’d need to be paid for his name, and this is probably a $4.99 iPhone…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Michael Gallagher Probably Had a Better Year than You
ESA top dawg Michael Gallagher took home more than $800,000 in cash and prizes in his first year on the job, GamePolitics reports. That compensation package came in an IRS filing covering April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008, so it precedes the 25 percent decline in ESA membership, and the fun-size, booth-babeless E3 of…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
New ‘Late Night’ to Treat Game Debuts Like Movie Premiere
Jimmy Fallon, who takes over “Late Night” from Conan O’Brien beginning on Monday, says the show under him will cater to the interests of a younger audience “into tech stuff, gadgets, video games.” Speaking to Movieweb, Fallon – the former Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live – says appealing to the coveted 18-to-34 year…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
K2
TABLE OF CONTENTS February 2009 Rare Spawn A Brief History of Getting Knocked Up In Video Games by AJ Glasser Fear And Loathing Down Under No, World Of Warcraft Has Not Been Banned In Australia by Luke Plunkett You’re Fired The Face of The New Gaming Economy by Brian Ashcraft Obsessive Game Design From Warcraft…
By Brian Crecente Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
L.A. Times Asks State to Let a Bad Law Die
Calling California’s violent video games law “an embarrassment,” the L.A. Times says the state shouldn’t create another by appealing its overturning to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Times pointed out the law’s obvious flaws – too broadly defined, zero causal link between violent games and the harms claimed, etc., before winding up with the common…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band 2 on PS3 and Wii Dated for UK
Our friends across the pond who don’t game on the 360 will be pleased to learn Rock Band 2‘s finally gotten its Great British release dates. PlayStation 3 and PS2 gamers get the game March 27; Wii gamers will see it April 24. The game had been Xbox 360 exclusive in the UK since its…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekend Coupons: Here to Console You
So Lost Planet is $5 on Steam and Warhawk’s down to $20 on PSN. That we knew. What other values can be had out there? • For those waffling on getting into PS3 gaming, Best Buy is hoping a console bundled with either Guitar Hero III or Guitar Hero; Aerosmith (game and guitar) AND a…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 -
UncategorizedNo, Apple is Not Resurrecting the Dreamcast
But this is a working Dreamcast inside an iMac G3 case. Modder logicdustbin had some spare G3s and a 15-inch LCD monitor laying around, had a moment of inspiration, and soon the iCast was born. “So I started taking shit apart,” he says, and seeing the monitor fit in nicely the Dreamcast was the next…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Honcho: “We Didn’t Make Hits” in ’08
Remember EA boasted that last year it put out 15 games getting 80 or better on Metacritic? Guess that’s no longer an operative statement. A senior exec told investors “We didn’t make hits” last year. John Pleasants, EA’s chief operating officer, told a Goldman Sachs conference last week the company’s plans for success last year…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Originals: Punch Out and PSP
Significant announcements for the PSP and Nintendo led the charge this week. Buzz about a UMD-less PSP almost outshone word of major titles releasing on Sony’s handheld and Ninty’s upcoming catalog. The week in originals: PSP Three Reasons This Could Be the PSP’s Year LittleBigPlanet PSP to Feature Creation, Interoperability With PS3 Perry: PSP 2…
By Owen Good Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
So Which Console Is Buttering Activision’s Bread?
Yup, more fun numbers from Activision’s annual report, released earlier today. In this case, we see which console (or consoles) are buttering Activision’s bread. And the winner? Not a console at all. Like we already covered earlier tonight, Blizzard’s revenue from combined World of Warcraft subscriptions and boxed sales (the “99” figure being almost entirely…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Who’s Gonna See “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li”?
It’s Friday! Time for TELL US DAMMIT. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know fucktons about us – more than you…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Say Grand Theft Auto On DS “Raises Some Eyebrows”
When Nintendo first announced GTA: Chinatown Wars, the first GTA game on a Nintendo system since 2004, eyebrows were raised. Seemed an odd choice. And for Sony, eyebrows are still being raised. Speaking with MTV, Sony’s John Koller – who’s just everywhere these days – says that with the DS fan base being (as he…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
A Look at MadWorld’s Bosses Comment by: ReedF**kingRichards Nominated by: M.u.s.o.u.k.a COPY PASTE CRY REPEAT, MY CONSOLE CAN NOT BE BEAT! RAGE FLAME BITCH CRY, CONSOLE WARS WILL NEVER DIE! And now, time for a new beat… MY CONSOLE IS THE VERY BEST LIKE NO CONSOLE EVER WAS TO DEFEND IT IS MY REAL TEST…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 28, 2009 - Uncategorized
Capcom & Valve Practically Giving Lost Planet Away
Did you hear? Lost Planet 2 is coming! Time for some cut-throat marketing, which this week comes courtesy of Capcom & Valve’s Lost Planet sale on Steam. Yes, for this weekend and this weekend only, PC owners can forget about paying $20 for the game, and instead pay only $5. Look, we know, Lost Planet…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
US Xbox Service Ends A Calendar Day Before Japan’s
On March 3, Microsoft service repairs for the original Xbox ceases. The same happens for American users on March 2. While service repair ends, other technical support such as documents and content will be available to all customers. “If you have an original Xbox console that is in Warranty that requires a repair,” Microsoft stated,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo President: We Aren’t Competing With Cell Phones Or The iPod
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata wants you all to know something: despite throwing music playback and a digital camera into the latest DSi, Nintendo have no intention of “directly competing with existing products”. That’s right, after years and years of shying away from multimedia convergence like it was a steaming hot nothankyou.jpg sandwich, Nintendo have embraced…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2009