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  Prince Of Persia Creator’s Other Big Game On The Express Train To Movie-hood?

  RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven is having a go at the video game movie business, working on an “Indiana Jones-ish” but also “Hitchcockian” video game set in the year 1914. Could it be anything other than Jordan Mechner’s The Last Express? The MTV Movies blog first broke the news that the man behind RoboCop, Starship Troopers,…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2010
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  New Dragon Quest X Details Teased By Japanese Man-Egg Show, Suspiciously

  Dragon Quest maker Square Enix has been awfully quiet about the series tenth game, announced in late 2008 for the Wii. Will a Japanese variety show featuring a man-egg finally reveal more about the highly anticipated Dragon Quest X? According to a posting on the blog for Japanese TV program Tama Newtown, spotted and translated…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2010
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  The Yellow Brick Road Will Be Paved With Zombie Blood

  Left 4 Dead meets the Wizard of Oz, as seen at the “Character of the Week” contest at the ConceptArt.org forums via Super Punch

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2010
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  The First NSFW Video Day Note

  To: Ash From: Totilo Re: I Don’t Know Her Name, Will Find Out Tomorrow Video format this time. NSFW painting referenced in clip can be seen here Stories You May Have Missed Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Tutorial Analysis: Stop Yelling At Me Rush’N Attack: Ex-Patriot Preview: The 80s Strikes Back Gears 3 Doubles Up…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2010
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  Modern Warfare Developer Sees More Key Departures Today

  Call of Duty creators and Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward shrinks again today, as more key talent behind the billion first-person shooter franchise jumps ship. Sources close to the studio tell Kotaku of four new departures from the troubled developer. A pair of Modern Warfare 2’s lead designers, Steve Fukuda and Zied Reike, are said…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2010
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  New Forza 3 Rides Suitable For Road And Track

  Forza Motorsport 3’s car lineup continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with ten new rides for the Xbox 360 racer now available for purchase in the Road & Track Car Pack. Jalopnik readers and AutoWeek have taken their turns selecting cars for Forza Motorsport 3, and now it’s car enthusiast magazine Road & Track’s…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2010
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  Final Fantasy Composer’s Chocobo Cosplay Wishes, Avatar Scoring Dreams

  You’ve heard his music countless time in your favorite Final Fantasy games, but there’s more to composer Nobuo Uematsu than “One Winged Angel.” At last weekend’s Anime Boston 2010, Uematsu got candid in an interview where he revealed everything from his thoughts on Avatar to his future cosplay plans. Here’s a list of some of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2010
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  Insomniac Boss Makes Ratchet & Clank ModNation Girlfriends

  When Insomniac founder and CEO Ted Price gets his hands on the creation tools in PlayStation 3 exclusive ModNation Racers, Ratchet and Clank get lucky. Aw yeah. The next big Play-Create-Share game after LittleBigPlanet, ModNation Racers isn’t due out for the PlayStation 3 until May 25, but I suppose it’s okay to give the head…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2010
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  Crysis Creator Wishes Apple Was More Enthusiastic About Computer Gaming

  Cevat Yerli makes big video games for Windows PCs and, now consoles. He owns a Mac, but his studio doesn’t make games for them. Apple, he said, doesn’t try hard to get games. Crysis 2, the next game from his studio Crytek, is coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Not to Mac computers,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2010
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  Appeals Court Deems Nintendo Controllers Patent Infringement-Free

  The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overturned the 2008 verdict of an East Texas jury that would have resulted in a ban on sales of the Nintendo Gamecube controller, Wavebird, and Classic Controller due to patent infringement. In 2006, Anascape Ltd. took Nintendo and Microsoft to court over the technology used to…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2010
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  The Life of Game: Why I Live In Japan

  The most common email response I received to my previous column (“Japan: It’s Not Funny Anymore“) was a perplexed question: “Why do you still live in Japan?” Sometimes, this question was phrased a little more loudly: “You ungrateful son of a bitch, I would kill to live in Japan.” Wait: strike that “sometimes” — most…

  Tim Rogers Published April 13, 2010
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  Nintendo Packs Bowser’s Inside Story Inside New DSi Bundle

  Thinking about buying a new Nintendo DSi today? Think again. Nintendo of America is making the purchase of the dual-screen, dual-camera portable a little sweeter later this month, tossing in a complementary copy of Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story. On April 25, Nintendo begins bundling a copy of the latest and delightful Mario &…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 13, 2010
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  A Link To The PlayStation 3 Zelda Homage

  Using 3D Dot Game Heroes’s built-in character editor, Game Informer’s Tim Turi takes the Zelda “homage” full-circle. As I’ve mentioned previously, Atlus’ PlayStation 3 exclusive 3D Dot Game Heroes is highly reminiscent of the original Zelda games on the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo. So much so, that when Tim Turi creates his own…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2010
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  Reminder: Prepare To Call Major Nelson And Ask Him Stuff

  Kotaku Talk Radio. Recording live from CBS Radio on Wednesday. 11am Kotaku Time. 1pm ET. 10am PT. Host: Me. Guests: Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb and Madden NFL senior product manager Anthony Stevenson. Call-in details will be on Kotaku at showtime.

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2010
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  Here’s The Final Fantasy XIV Alpha Tester Guide

  Upset that you aren’t in the alpha test for the second Final Fantasy MMO? We’ve got what looks to be a chunk of the Final Fantasy XIV alpha tester handbook and some videos to help you pretend you’re in it. A player posting on the FFXIV Journey blog over at Blogspot is documenting his entire…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2010
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  Should She Be Chainsawable?

  It’s not a given that a war video game will have female fighters. If Gears of War 3 does, the game’s designers will have to decide if they will grant their heroines equal opportunities to experience the game’s signature actions… …such as chainsawing people in half and being chainsawed by them. We don’t know if…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2010
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  Splinter Cell: Conviction Freezing On Xbox 360s, Temporary Fix Available [UPDATE: Fixed?]

  Multiple day-one purchasers of Splinter Cell: Conviction are seeing the game freeze on its second level and at other moments. Publisher Ubisoft tells Kotaku the issue is being investigated. Please note: There is a temporary fix. [UPDATE: Ubisoft resolves problem?] The freeze has been reported by Xbox 360 players who have been playing the game…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2010
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  Another Dead Space Prequel, Only This One You Read

  Acclaimed writer B. K. Evenson delves into the history of the Church of Unitology and the origin of the mysterious “Black Marker” in Dead Space: Martyr, a prequel to Visceral Games’ sci-fi horror spectacular. Dead Space and its Nintendo Wii prequel, Dead Space: Extraction, left far too many questions unanswered, and those questions and more…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2010
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  WarioWare D.I.Y. Lucrative Contest Reminder

  Owners of WarioWare: D.I.Y., the DS game that lets us witness a world in which Nintendo fans make Nintendo games (Shigeru who?), are reminded/welcomed/encouraged to enter Kotaku/Nintendo’s D.I.Y. contest. Make a game. Win money and stuff. Details here. Deadline looming.

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 13, 2010
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  How Much Money Can You Make In The Video Game Industry?

  Everybody wants a job in the video game industry, but which job? The 2009 Game Developer Salary Survey can help you decide, breaking down pay by industry discipline, and making McWhertor’s beloved The Tester seem even sillier than it already was. Looking over this year’s report, which we briefly touched on last month, the best…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2010