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Guild Wars 2 Coming in 2010-2011
NCsoft saw increased sales but a 40 percent drop in profit this past year. Fallout from that includes the company’s announcement that Guild Wars 2 won’t arrive until 2010-2011. Gamasutra reported that while NCsoft’s sales were up 5 percent year-over-year, including a strong December quarter-over-quarter profit increase of 60 percent. But overall, the delayed launch…
By Owen Good Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Originals: You Take That Back Brian Crecente
The boss-mans learned a important lesson about other people’s feelings when he called Wii Fit a wee fad. Indignant Wii Fitters ultrabombed his inbox to say not everyone who “plays” it looks like this. That’s right, many of them were in much worse shape when they first stepped on the balance board. But now they’re…
By Owen Good Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ric Flair Wishes You A Happy, Strangely Violent Valentines Day
And again, the Red Alert 3 marketing team outdo themselves, somehow taking Ric Flair and his figure-four leglock and turning it into a heart-warming Command & Conquer-related Valentines Day message. It’s just one in a series of videos EA threw together for the day, some featuring British working class vixen Gemma Atkinson, others the slightly…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pads or Sticks?
Friday, Friday, Friday. 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 –…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Halo Wars Figures Receive Reinforcements
Kicking the pre-release marketing for Halo Wars into top gear, a second series of Halo Wars action figures have today been announced by McFarlane and Microsoft. Unlike the first series, these figures look a little more relevant to the units and events of the game, with one series featuring the UNSC FLame-Thrower Marine and another…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
NSFW: The Joydick Lets Players Play With Themselves To Play Comment by: ShaggE Nominated by: MrBionic We would like to wank you for purchasing the Joydick. We don’t mean to cum off as cocky, but we guarantee this product will rub you the right way. If it doesn’t, well, different strokes for different folks. You…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Is Why Midway Is Totally Screwed
Midway filed for bankruptcy yesterday. Grim news, but it’s also a bit…vague. It’s hard to tell from mere words just how badly the house of Mortal Kombat is faring. So let’s use numbers instead. Short on alternate bedtime reading, GamePolitics have combed through the court records surrounding yesterday’s move and found the the list of…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bikini Samurai Minus Bikini
When Playboy reviewed Wii title Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad, it asked publisher D3 for this: Exclusive naked pics. And exclusive naked pics it got. Above and below are images directly from D3 of the game’s heroine Aya wearing her cowboy and boots, but not much else. At least she’s got her swords. Very important! You…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Capcom Want A New Resident Evil On Wii
So far, the Wii is without its own Resident Evil. Umbrella Chronicles is a gun game, so doesn’t count. Resident Evil 0? Remake, doesn’t count either. We’re talking all new here, baby. Speaking with Eurogamer, Resident Evil 5 producer Masachika Kawata has said: Personally I would like to create something on Wii in the Resident…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
You’ve Got 48 Hours, Make A Game
Website Boing Boing checked out the 2009 Global Game Jam, which has participants from all over the world churn out a game in 48 hours. Get a boots-on-the-ground view from LA, Pittsburgh, Australia, Scotland, Israel, Turkey and Venezuela. There are potato chips and pee drinking! Check out the games here. Our Networked Report from the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Can Screenshots Help Explain What Noby Noby Boy Is?
Can a set of new screenshots explain what exactly what is going on with Noby Noby Boy for the PlayStation Network where creator Keita Takahashi of Katamari Damacy fame failed? Nope, they most certainly cannot. Nice use of frogs though. Were I a big fan of frogs, I would be camped outside the PlayStation Store…
By Mike Fahey Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ex-Ensemble Staff Form New Studio
Ensemble Studios, developers of the Age of Empires series and Halo Wars, are dead. But the developers who comprised Ensemble? They’re still alive, and some of them have formed a new studio. It’s called Robot Entertainment, and has been established by Ensemble co-founder Tony Goodman, along with “a number of veterans” from the former Microsoft-owned…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Emulator to Play Any Game Ever Made — For Science!
The European Union put up $5.2 million (€4.02m, £3.6m) to fund a project called Keeping Emulation Environments Portable (KEEP) — which will develop a software program that can archive digital objects to preserve them for posterity. Computer historian David Anderson of Portsmouth University told New Science that that it would be a “cultural catastrophe” to…
By AJ Glasser Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox Originals Gets Grabbed By The Ghoulies Next Week
You know why the call them Xbox Originals? Because you can’t call ’em Xbox Classics. Case in point, Rare’s first Xbox title, Grabbed By The Ghoulies is your next Xbox Original. Oh, I kid, Rare! The UK developer’s debut game under the ownership of Microsoft will drop on the Xbox Live Marketplace next Tuesday, February…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Noby Noby Boy Creator Will Try, Try Again To Explain What Noby Noby Boy Is
Is there still some confusion about what Noby Noby Boy, creator Keita Takahashi‘s follow up to Katamari Damacy, is all about? Apparently. Why else would Takahashi address it again on the official PlayStation blog? Let’s let the man explain: “Basically players can control and stretch Boy, the main character of the game. As players stretch…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Valentine’s Day, Say It With Sims
It wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without half a dozen games celebrating the number two Hallmark holiday of the year. The Sims 3 jumps on the bandwagon with two new screens of sweet, sweet love. After this week’s big ghost baby reveal, I’m really looking forward to The Sims 3. But with these cloyingly sweet images…
By AJ Glasser Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
NPD Bestseller Show Americans Also Love Wii Fit Knock Offs
Sales of Wii Fit continue to astound, with 770,000 copies of the exer-game snapped up by U.S. consumers in January. But what about the knock-offs from publishers smart enough to copy Nintendo’s fitness software? They too, impress. Gamasutra reveals exclusive NPD Group sales data that shows that two of Wii Fit‘s third-party clones, Majesco’s Jillian…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valentine’s Day
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Humming The Star Was Imperial March Makes The Baby Cry Happy VD! Valentine’s Day doesn’t hit here until tomorrow, but I’ve already got my plans underway. Trish and I have decided to spend the evening home tomorrow, cooking a romantic meal together. I can’t remember, do you do anything there…
By Brian Crecente Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Tekken 6 Screens Ride The Panda Express
Namco Bandai has delivered sixteen new screens of Tekken 6 and they’re very educational. What can new media of the upcoming Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 brawler teach us? Well, as one can see from the shot above, brawler Bryan Fury can balance a giant panda on his toes. What strength! But don’t forget there…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 13, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Console Sales Plummet Again, But PS3 Closing Gap With Wii
Japanese gamers just aren’t buying hardware right now. Sales are way, way down from the same point last year, with the PSP selling at half the rate and the Wii at a mere quarter. That severe drop in Wii sales overseas has meant a closer weekly race between the PlayStation 3 and Wii, with just…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 13, 2009