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  Guess Who Is The World’s Most Successful Game Studio

  Develop magazine has released the 2010 Develop 100, an annual listing of the most successful game developers in the industry. Who took the number one slot this year? I’ll give you a hint: Nintendo. I really suck at this whole hint thing. World of Warcraft developer Blizzard may have kicked the house of Mario from…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010
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  4-Player Co-Op Onslaught Coming To Bad Company 2

  Coming soon to Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Onslaught mode brings Battlefield co-op game play to the console for the first time, allowing teams of up to four players to brush up on their teamwork without other players shooting at them. Onslaught mode takes four of Bad Company 2’s multiplayer maps – Valparaiso, Atacama Desert, Isla…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010
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  Hell is other players

  Part of the reason games make such an interesting topic is because they are so multi-faceted. You can talk about a game as an abstract design, as an individual experience, as a part of a broader culture, as an economic product, as a technical showpiece and many other things besides. Sometimes it’s not about a…

  By Lauren Orsini Published May 12, 2010
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  Tlk Amngst Yrslvs

  Today is a special day here at Kotaku and Talk Amongst Yourselves. It is a day of culling. It is a day of dreaming the impossible dream that each comment below a post will be interesting, enlightening and/or fun. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ. Today would be a good day to re-read…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 12, 2010
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  Red Dead Redemption Creators Take Your Calls Live, Today

  Two of the top men at Rockstar Games join us live in-studio for today’s Kotaku Talk Radio to talk all about the huge new Western, Red Dead Redemption, coming from the makers of Grand Theft Auto next week. Ready? Rockstar’s Jeronimo Barrera and Rob Nelson will hang out with us for one hour, taking your…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 12, 2010
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  Playing Alan Wake in a Haunted Quarantine Station

  Five lucky Australians were allowed to play Alan Wake before it went on sale. The catch? To play they had to be blind-folded, driven to one Australia’s most haunted sites and strapped to heart rate monitors. Sure, it’s all a bit of marketing by Microsoft for the upcoming Xbox 360 thriller, but that doesn’t make…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 12, 2010
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  Today? I Looked at BATS

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Today we disemvowel… BATS TO DISEMVOWEL WITH. Kidding! Sorta! Spent the morning looking at wood baseball bats. Not metal, wood. Yes, wood breaks, but I like the feel of it. Metal bats are too light, the sweetspot is too big. I saw some nice SSK and Mizuno bats, but I’m…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010
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  Please Name All The Ninjas

  Thank you! As seen on That Girls Site

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010
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  The Metal Gear Solid…Walkman

  The portable cassette player may be long gone, but Sony’s Walkman brand lives on, in both phones and MP3 players. Like this one, the “W252”, which should really have been called “The Metal Gear Solid One”. Released in conjunction with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PSP, the W252 is a wrap-around MP3 player…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2010
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  Don’t Steal Credit Cards Then Buy PS3 Games

  A California man has been sentenced to five years prison after robbing a number of women of their credit cards, which he then promptly used to buy PlayStation 3 games. In January 2008 the man, Rodelio Cataroja, Jr., stole four women’s purses over the course of two weeks, and in four separate transactions at a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2010
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  Here Are Some New Pokemon

  Those guesses at what these new Pokémon look like? Wrong! The latest issue of kids’ mag CoroCoro shows what the three new Pokémon for the upcoming Pocket Monsters: Black and White look like. The magazine does note that as with previous generation of Pocket Monsters the “type” is important. According to website PokéBeach, the game’s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010
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  Francis Ford Coppola Doesn’t Really Like Today’s 3D

  Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is not a fan of today’s 3D, stating it is no different from the technology available in the 1950s. While Coppola does concede that digital filmmaking is suited for 3D and that 3D has improved, he points out that the necessity of 3D glasses…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010
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  When Fans Design 3DS Logos!

  The Nintendo 3DS is an enigma. We don’t know if that will be its final name, don’t know what it looks like, don’t know how powerful it is. We hope, though, its logo looks a little something like this. This was whipped up by reader TestZero, in response to our post on Nintendo’s console code…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2010
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  PSP Yakuza Game Is Called…

  Yakuza. Shocking, we know. Actually, it is called “Ryu Ga Gotoku”, but that’s what all the Yakuza games are called in Japan. So, yeah, it’s still “Yakuza” for English speakers. The game has had a working title of “Project K”, but that has since been scrapped in favor of “Ryu Ga Gotoku Shinshou Kurohyou” or…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010
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  Nintendo Can’t Quit You, Instruction Manuals

  It seems we may have been a little premature in declaring the death of the printed manual, with one of the world’s biggest publishers going on record saying that there’s life left in the printed word yet. Nintendo has told Eurogamer that it has “no plans to move away from including [paper] instruction manuals with…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2010
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  An Enormous Bust

  The world has seen enormous life-sized Gundam statues. You know what it is missing? An enormous 1/1 scale Evangelion bust. Evas are the huge biomechanical beings piloted in the hugely successful franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion. On July 23, Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park in Japan will open a new attraction: “Evangelion: World – Life-Size EVA-01 Construction…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010
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  Netflix On Wii Is A Medieval Love Story

  One million Wii owners have tried out Netflix. It’s a healthy number, but given the size of the console’s install base, Netflix probably wants more. Cue the expensive commercials targeted specifically at Wii users! It’s like a well-dressed Lord of the Rings meets…Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood. Actually, considering they then show a Notting Hill box…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2010
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  Mario Creator “Always” Has Regrets

  You’d think that the guy who created Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Wii Music wouldn’t have any regrets. Oh wait. “As soon as we’ve finished a project, I always have regrets about what we could or should’ve done,” said Nintendo’s Shigeru Miaymoto in a recent interview with Edge magazine. “But then there…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010
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  EA: We Have The World’s Biggest-Selling Downloadable Game

  Companies rarely, if ever, release sales figures for digital game sales. Makes compiling charts, and applauding records, difficult! We do know one thing, however: EA’s Battlefield 1943 is apparently the most popular console downloadable title ever made. As part of it’s fiscal year report released earlier today, publisher Electronic Arts says that the downloadable shooter…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2010
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  Waggles At Twenty Paces

  This year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles has two of the biggest game companies go literally head-to-head in…waggle. Nintendo has had Wii Remote motion control since the console went on sale back in fall 2006. Sony, however, is adding a motion controller called to the Move to the PS3 later this year. While Sony…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010