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Class Of Heroes In Session This April
Dungeons? Alchemy? Catacombs? PSP? Yes, it’s a new title from the folks at Atlus! They’ve just announced portable dungeon crawler Class of Heroes, coming this April to the PSP. 80 hours of dungeon crawling await you in Class of Heroes, an action RPG from Japan that manages to combine together all of the usual elements…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Welcome to Gaming From Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo
Back in December I contacted Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony to ask if they would be willing to participate in an experiment. I wanted an executive from each company to write an open letter welcoming new gamers to their specific platform. The idea, I thought, was to serve two purposes. First it seemed like it would…
By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Launch your creative career and Get into the Game!
Our unique program is your first step toward becoming an artist and designer in the multi-billion-dollar game design industry. Details after the jump. You’ll learn how to design game play and background, create characters and their environments, and apply your knowledge of video and computer games to evaluate products. You will also learn to plan…
By Chrissie Lamond Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
President Barack Obama’s Video Game Buyer’s Guide
There’s a Nintendo Wii in The White House, and while this indeed is a great day for the gaming industry, without proper guidance, President Barack Obama could easily find himself under a pile of shovelware. We at Kotaku cannot let the leader of the free world be caught on television playing the likes of Ninjabread…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wizard101 Expands Into Dark Territory With Dragonspyre
The family-friendly massively multiplayer online magic dueling game Wizard101 from KingIsle entertainment expands today, with a new PVP arena and Dragonsprye, a new high-level world for players to battle in. Dragonspye is an ancient, haunted world with a magic Academy of its own, rivaling the Ravenwood School of Magical Arts in Wizard City that features…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Aussie Game Business Gives Aussie Movie Business A Good Thumping
The video game industry is exploding in Australia, with new figures released today showing games revenue double that of box office revenue and 40% larger than the DVD market. The figures were released by the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia, so they of course are a bit biased, but the numbers certainly look good. The…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Runes Of Magic Item Shop Is Open For Business
There’s a reason Frogster America’s free-to-play MMORPG Runes of Magic is free, and that reason is the Runes of Magic Item Shop, now accepting cash in exhchange for items that make your grind easier. The Runes of Magic Item Shop is just that – a shop that lets you spend real money in order to…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Does Windows 7 Mean To You?
Will the upcoming new version of Windows be yet another Vista for PC gamers to worry about, or will Windows 7 be a boon for the mouse and keyboard set? TechRadar takes a look. When I first upgraded to Windows Vista, I wasn’t just disappointed. I was depressed. It looked lovely, had all these new…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Minter’s Gridrunner+++ Added To XBLA In April
Jeff Minter’s Llamasoft is so very pleased with PC Gamer UK’s 92% review of the PC version of Space Giraffe that they’ve spilled the beans on the release date for their next title, Gridrunner+++. Gridrunner+++ is actually a reworking of Minter’s PC shooter Gridrunner++ for Xbox Live Arcade. As with Minter’s head, it should be…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
A View of the Inauguration From a Devastated Washington, D.C.
Today Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. It certainly didn’t escape Stephen Totilo’s notice who’s created quite an ode to the event. Using Fallout 3, Totilo wandered around the bomb-blasted, irradiated and devastated Washington D.C. to try and capture, in-game, some of what you’ll be seeing today…
By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Play Street Fighter With Toys Via YouTube
Patrick Boivin is a French Canadian autodidact director who does amazing things with toys, and amazing things with YouTube as well, using their annotations feature to create an interactive YouTube Street Fighter game. Don’t worry if clicking on the video takes you away from the page; it’s supposed to. Using annotations to embed links to…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mark Jacobs Addresses Mythic Layoffs
A rumor posted yesterday on Joystiq regarding layoffs occurring at Mythic Entertainment led to a fan forum frenzy that Mythic head Mark Jacobs couldn’t help but respond to. Mark Jacobs isn’t known for being quiet, so when his forums explode with panicked players worrying about the state of Mythic’s Warhammer Online, he did what he…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Child Busker Plays Violin To Buy A Playstation
Here’s a cute story about a 9-year-old violist who’s been winning hearts at a busker festival in Australia all to earn enough cash to buy herself a Playstation. Carissa Lynch, of Kootingal, hit Tamworth’s buskers alley on Friday, earning $149 by Saturday afternoon. By Monday she had earned about $350. It sounds like she might…
By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
America’s Army Announces America’s Army 3
Six years after the first Army-branded game took the country by storm, the U.S. Army is ready to roll out sequel number two, announcing America’s Army 3, due out later this year. So how does the U.S. Army make a sequel? “In AA3 we’ve taken all of the best features in AA2, incorporated feedback from…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Venetica Enters The Twilight World
We’ve not seen much of the daughter of death since Venetica was announced back in May, so dtp has sent along some new screens depicting the sort of on-the-job hazards she’ll be facing. Scarlett’s journey in her upcoming action RPG for the 360 and PC takes her into the Twilight World, where she can communicate…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Announced EA Layoffs Coming to Blackbox
Today we hear word that more of the 1,000 cuts announced back in December at Electronic Arts are about to hit. The latest rumor is that Blackbox, the folks behind the Need for Speed franchise and others, are next on the chopping block, with the layoff axe cutting into the studio as early as this…
By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
“Happy Inauguration”
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Not A Pretty Dat Note Sorry to hear about the dogs. Hope they’re all doing much better. I hadn’t heard the phrase “Happy Inauguration” before today — someone wrote that to me in an email. Is that a new phrase? Have people used it before? During the weekend I was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Your Mario-Themed Laptop Looks This Good…In Your Dreams
Reader Chris had his laptop laser-etched last night. He figured it’d look good with every level of Super Mario Land on the Game Boy laid out sequentially. He figured correctly. Chris writes: Last night I laser-etched the top of my Eee PC with the complete level maps of Super Mario Land ( on the Game…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2009 -
UncategorizedWatch Every Second Of Killzone 2’s Intro
You don’t have Killzone 2 yet. Be patient. Hungarian mag Gamestar do, though, and to keep you busy have recorded the game’s entire introductory sequence and posted it for viewing. Needless to say, this’ll spoil the experience if you like your games to have that “new game smell” while playing on your mum’s expensive flat-screen…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2009