Okamiden, Sengoku Basara and Ghost Trick in Motion

Capcom isn’t just about fighting games, they also make some delightfully quirky Wii and DS titles. Take for instance Wii Samurai hack-and-slash Sengoku Basara and DS games Okamiden and Ghost Trick. I’m not a fan of Sengoku Basara, but I love Okamiden’s portable take on Okami and the clever design and look of Ghost Trick.…

Three for Three

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: When It Gets Hot, All I Wanna Do… Earlier this week I asked for book suggestions from the Internet and got some dandies via Twitter. I ended up buying three books. So to return the favor I also suggested three great Sci-Fi reads to Twitter. Here’s the Sci-Fi books I…

The Ten Games of NBA 2K11‘s “Jordan Challenge”

When it arrives Oct. 5, NBA 2K11 will feature a 10-game “Jordan Challenge” that recreates Michael Jordan’s most famous performances. Here’s a breakdown of each game, its significance, and what you must do – plus one very notable omission. The Arrival When and Where: April 20, 1986. Game 2, 1st round playoffs vs. Celtics, at…

Relive History with “The Jordan Challenge” in NBA 2K11

The Shrug. The Double Nickel. And “God disguised as Michael Jordan.” The signature moments of the NBA’s greatest player ever will be playable in a special challenge coming to NBA 2K11 Teased a month ago when Jordan was revealed as the game’s cover athlete, 2K Sports unveiled “The Jordan Challenge” on Thursday, and the full…

First Reckoning Screens And Trailer Look Very Promising

The teaser trailer and first screenshots from 38 Studios’ newly-named Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning are here, and we definitely like what we’re seeing so far. This is what comes of collaboration between comic book artist Todd McFarlane, fantasy author R.A. Salvatore, and Ken Rolston, the lead designer for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. All we…

First War For Cybertron DLC Dated, Priced, And Set To Music

Activision confirms the downloadable content details leaked earlier this month for Transformers: War for Cybertron, with five “new” characters and four new multiplayer maps coming in the first character and map pack, due out next week. I put the word new in quotes, because of the five “new” characters, three were retailer-exclusive preorder bonuses. Jazz,…

Rock Band Learns Spanish With Juanes

Rock Band introduces the first Spanish-language tunes to its line-up next week, with six hits from Latin music superstar Juanes, with an additional track shipping on disc with Rock Band 3. With more than 12 million albums sold worldwide, a Grammy, and 17 Latin Grammy awards under his belt, you don’t have to understand Spanish…

Zen Bound 2 Brings Its Gyroscope-Enhanced Awesomeness To The iPhone

Zen Bound 2, previously exclusive to the iPad, is now available for the iPhone. It takes advantage of the iPhone 4’s retina display and gyroscope to bring butter-like smoothness to the beautiful game. Zen Bound 2 carries the same premise as the original Zen Bound: wrap up floating, rotating figurines with a rope. With the…

Medal Of Honor Developers Now Known As Danger Close [UPDATE]

We thought the new Medal of Honor from EA was being developed by EA’s L.A. studio and EA’s DICE team in Sweden. Not quite. Medal of Honor is being made by Danger Close Games, according to the new EA site linked here. New name for EA L.A.? UPDATE: We’ve got the confirmation, via an offiicial…

Alan Wake Expands Mysteriously Next Week

The first downloadable expansion for this spring’s celebrated Xbox 360 horror game Alan Wake arrives next week. It’s called The Signal, and it’s a mystery. The official description of The Signal indicates that our writer-hero Alan Wake continues to be “ravaged by dark forces” as he longs for his wife. “In ‘The Signal,’ Alan finds…

Alan Wake – The Signal Screenshots

Halo: Reach Gets Its Own Xbox 360 Controller

A product listing briefly appearing on Xbox.com revealed a sleek and sexy silver Halo: Reach branded Xbox 360 controller, likely release in conjunction with Bungie’s Halo swan song this fall. The Xbox.com product listing for the Halo: Reach Xbox 360 controller came and went quickly, but not before the image of the shiny new controller…

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Hits Xbox 360 Next Month

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, the game that fills in the gaps between the original zombie action game and the sequel, hits the Xbox 360 exclusively on Aug. 31, Capcom confirmed today. The downloadable game will cost 400 Microsoft Points and introduces players to Dead Rising 2’s hero Chuck Greene. And that’s a price that’s…

Dead Rising 2’s Original Setting Was A Zombie Disneyland

Zombies invade a fictional Las Vegas dubbed Fortune City in Dead Rising 2, but the original location was something wildly different. Capcom’s Keiji Inafune told Comic-Con attendees today it was previously set in an undead-filled version of Disneyland. Inafune, executive producer on the game and “Father of Mega Man,” said “We thought it would be…

Four Minutes With the Amazing Castlevania Puzzle Game

I wasn’t expecting much from Castlvania Puzzle: Encore of the Night when I heard it was coming to the iPhone. Do we really need another themed-puzzle game for this device, I thought. But then I played the $5 app and discovered that we apparently do. The game has you moving between the rooms of Dracula’s…

T-Shirt Teases Viewtiful Joe And Dormammu For Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

Jim Rugg, the man behind the comic book series Street Angel and the hilarious graphic novel Afrodisiac, created a special Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 t-shirt for Comic-Con that teases two familiar new fighters coming to Capcom’s cross-world brawler. After yesterday’s Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 trailer clearly showed his silhouette, the addition of Viewtiful Joe to…

Is This The PlayStation 3 Game With The Most Trophies?

Three Platinum PlayStation 3 Trophies on one disc? And that’s not all? This November’s Sly Collection contains three full PlayStation 2 Sly Cooper games on one PlayStation 3 Blu-Ray disc. Plus it will include PlayStation Move mini-games. A Sony producer who showed Kotaku the collection this week said that each of the Sly games will…

Behold The Chipophone, The Amazing Chiptune Organ

When a friend asked Swedish software engineer Linus Åkesson to take an old electric organ off his hands, Linus agreed, as long as he could do anything he wanted to it, and what he did is incredibly impressive. Linus took that electric organ and reverse-engineered it, transforming it into the Chipophone, the ultimate instrument for…

Where Board Games And Video Games Come Together

For as long as we’ve known the pair, video games have been video games, and board games have been board games. But as time and technology march on, could two become, as the Spice Girls say, one? There has long been a fairly simple divide between the two: One medium involves playing games on a…

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Single-Player, Deadlier Than Ever

A good assassin benefits from having minions. That’s what I learned watching some of the single-player portion of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood this week. At a PlayStation press event in New York, I sat beside Ubisoft brand manager Eric Gallant as he played two few-minute bits of Brotherhood and explained how the life and abilities of…