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Penny Arcade Survey Offers A Terrifying Glimpse Into Gamer Demographics
For those who did not take part, last week Penny Arcade ran a survey on their site. Asking for details on the site’s readers. Since 38,000 people responded, we find the answers very interesting. I mean, 38,000 people? That’s a hell of a lot of people/internet gaming nerds. It’s a veritbale gaming census. So let’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2009 - Uncategorized
What’s Your Comfort Game?
Time for…drum roll please…Tell Us Dammit — no, make that TELL US DAMMIT. Here’s who 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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2009 - Uncategorized
Lost TV Show Goes A Little Bit FPS, A Little Bit Rock N’ Roll
We’ve seen it in a sequence in Doom already, but that was a movie about an FPS, so it doesn’t count. This, though – an FPS sequence in the TV show Lost – counts. Counts for…something. What it is, exactly, we’re not sure. But hey, since there’s a very good chance the writers and creators…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 Has Mandatory Install Comment by: phinehas Well, it was either the mandatory install or they cut off a finger. Midway Finds New Chairman In Booty Comment by: Modus_Operandi Nominated by: Spoony Bard So now Booty is synomous with Midway. People are going to have their hands full with Booty. But dont…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Has Some New Graphs To Help You Understand Its Success
Nintendo is doing well. The “$17 billion in sales last year” type of well, with more than $2 billion in profit. To help illustrate just how smashingly the company is doing, it generated some charts. Sure, the Negative Nellys out there are going to point out falling profits, but just look at those brightly colored…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kyoto Prefecture Still Using DS For English Instruction
Back in 2006, we brought word that middle and high school students in Kyoto Prefecture’s Yawata City were using the DS to study vocab. Now, in 2009, the front page of today’s Yomiuri Shimbun says… Elementary school students in Kyoto Prefecture’s Yawata City are using the Nintendo DS to study English starting this April. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
There Is A Fourth, Mysterious Need For Speed Game In Development
EA have hit the big, red reset button on the Need For Speed franchise. As we heard, three new games are coming. No, wait. Seems there are four new games coming. Blackbox – despite recent layoffs – still have the manpower and the time to work on not just NFS: World Online, but a “future…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
But Can You Spot The X-Blades Boxart Discrepancy?
Apparently the Xbox 360 and PS3 X-Blades box art are different? NSFW, even, someone somewhere said. We can’t tell, there’s got to be something. Please, please help us get to the bottom of this. We’d like to crack this case. Cheeky of us to ask, I know. X-Blades PS3 and X-Blades Xbox 360 [Ubisoft via…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Twenty Minutes With Batman: Arkham Asylum
The first twenty minutes of Batman: Arkham Asylum say a lot about the game: we’ve got the voice cast of the 90s cartoon, action-stealth gameplay and the writer that brought us episodes of Animaniacs and Lost. But if Paul Dini isn’t enough to convince you that this Batman game is on the level, there’s plenty…
By AJ Glasser Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live Catches Super Bowl Fever
Super Bowl’s on this weekend. People are excited. Few as excited as Microsoft seem to be, as they’ve just announced that, all day Sunday, Xbox Live will be going bananas for all things football. For the 24 hours that encompass the day, Microsoft will be setting up a dedicated Xbox Live “channel” called “Football Fanfare”,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Shares Fall As Far As They’re Allowed To Fall
Some people are beginning to seriously question whether the Wii bubble has burst. They may be right, they may be wrong, either way, investors are listening. And investors seem to be taking it all on board. Following comments made by analysts such as Hiroshi Kamide yesterday, Nintendo share prices started falling. And falling. And falling…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Six More Batman: Arkham Asylum Screens
Yesterday we got our hands on a few screens and a trailer for Batman: Arkham Asylum. Today, we got a twenty minute preview and a few more screens. Not much going on here besides some bloom effect from the Unreal Engine. But as a preview to the preview that I’m frantically writing right now: Harley…
By AJ Glasser Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony: Yes, We’ll Still Be The Most Expensive Console
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss David Reeves isn’t going to cave. He simply will not tell you when the PlayStation 3 will get a price drop. For now, it will remain the most expensive option. That’s Reeves’ “armadillo” strategy, also known as the “value added” tactic that the PlayStation brass have been touting for many…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Weekly Hardware Sales: How Low Can They Go?
If you thought hardware sales in Japan couldn’t bottom out any harder than they did last week, we ask you to politely reconsider. Frankly, we’re starting to worry. You okay, Japanese gamers? ‘Cause if you’re a little short on cash, we could let you borrow some. Admittedly, post holiday sales aren’t typically spectacular, nor is…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
CHARITY!
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Tonight, I Went On A Date So I just got a picture in my email from Denver Children’s Hospital showing all of the toys they received thanks to the donations Kotaku readers made to last year’s Child’s Play Funde Razor. Check out those dolls! And a wagon. All for children…
By Brian Crecente Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Next Week’s Rock Band DLC: Still Dangerous
Harmonix and MTV will bring seven new tracks to Rock Band and Rock Band 2 rockers next week, including a triple-shot of classic, leather pants-wearing Irish rock from Thin Lizzy. The Thin Lizzy three pack features a trio of live tracks from the band’s Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theater Philadelphia 1977 album. That’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Meet The Lost And Damned’s Johnny Klebitz
Grand Theft Auto IV‘s first dose of downloadable episodic content will hit the Xbox 360 in less than three weeks. Rockstar’s new trailer for said episode, The Lost and Damned, introduces players to Johnny. He’s the episode’s anti-hero, the “reactionary prick” wrapped up in an ugly “ravaged, drug addled exterior,” if those are Mr. Klebitz’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Great Game Convention Schism
Things in Germany got nasty this week as the annual Games Convention, once the largest video game convention in the world, suffered a life-threatening schism. Despite bringing in more than 200,000 visitors to its Leipzig conference center last summer, game publishers decided to break away from the city to move things to the larger venues…
By Brian Crecente Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valve Offers Embarrassing Early Look At The Scout
The next Team Fortress 2 class to get the upgrade treatment, the smack-talking Scout, should get his gameplay makeover any day now. Valve has taken the opportunity to reminisce on the Scout’s awkward, ugly-duckling past. Robin Walker, [insert title here] at Valve, walks us through a series of initial designs for the Scout, whose early…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
DICE 2009 Puts Gabe Newell Behind A Podium
The 2009 Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain Summit has updated its list of speakers, and right at the top of the precariously teetering pile is Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell. Newell will be on hand at the 2009 D.I.C.E. Summit to deliver a keynote address, which I presume will have something to do with Valve,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 30, 2009