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You Got Plot In My Street Fighter
.html Yes, I know there’s a wonderful tradition of storytelling behind the Street Fighter series. But still, I don’t play this game because I care about the inner turmoil that haunts its fighters. That’s what College Humor is for.
By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Canadian Game Sales Crack $2 Billion
Our neighbors to the north are spending more on video games than ever, according to the NPD Group, over $2 billion in Canadian dollars last year. Even compared to our $21.33 billion it’s still impressive. NPD pegs Canadian console sales at 1.9 million for the year, with 1.2 million portable gaming machines snapped up by…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
WoW Patch 3.0.8 Brings Important Changes To Clams
The first patch since The Wrath of the Lich King has just hit Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, bringing fixes, class changes, and perhaps most importantly – a complete revamp of the clam system. While the ability to create a Death Knight on any server is nice, and the fact that damage over time spells that…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Cuts Likely to Focus More on Buildings Than People
Still no word on when or if those rumored major cuts will be hitting Sony in the next month, but the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that Microsoft’s cuts will be laid out later this week. The cuts will be detailed during the company’s second-quarter earnings report on Thursday, the P-I reports, but no word yet…
By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
New PlayStation 3 Firmware Adds Photo Gallery, Smile Sorting, More DivX Support
Your PlayStation 3 is about to graduate to version 2.60, as new firmware for the console is coming soon (read: actually really soon). What’s it add? New multimedia features and “guest access.” That guest access is limited to the PlayStation Store, designed for those fearful of joining the 17 million-strong PlayStation Network. Yes, you can…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
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