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  Best Buy Celebrates The Beatles: Rock Band With London Tour

  Best Buy is giving away trips to London to tour Abbey Road Studios as well as t-shirts and copies of The Beatles: Rock Band to celebrate the Sept. 9 launch of the title. On Sept. 9, ten Best Buys will kick off celebrations for the game at 8 a.m. with prize and memorabilia giveaways including…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2009
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  Play Dragonica Online, Win Real Loot

  Players who participate in the open beta test for THQ*ICE’s Dragonica Online could find themselves on the receiving end of fabulous prizes, including a trip to Korea to meet the game’s developers. The Dragonica Online open beta kicks off this week, running from September 3rd to October 27th. During the open beta, monsters will be…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009
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  Splinter Cell: Double Agent And GRAW Now Slightly On Demand

  Two Tom Clancy titles are added to the Xbox 360 Games on Demand service, unless you don’t live in the UK or Europe (excluding Germany), in which case there’s just the one. The first Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter game is now available everywhere but Australia, New Zeeland, and Korea for the low price…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009
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  Now, Where’s Yoshtse

  As seen on Shark Robot.

  By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2009
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  Red VS. Blue VS. Halo 3 ODST

  The Red vs. Blue team from Rooster Teeth‘s machinima series take a look at the "normal soldiers" of Halo 3: ODST. Their reaction was pretty much the same reaction I have to a new Halo game. I think, “Hooray! I shall be at the same skill level as many other people for a short period…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009
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  What Godfather II Did Better Than GTA

  This is the first in a series (maybe) of posts labeled “Hindsight” that discuss games you may have thought we were done writing about. Earlier this year, a couple of game developers let me in on one of their secrets: They intentionally play bad games. They play the stuff you or I would avoid not…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2009
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  Netflix Offers Credit For 360 Service Interrupt

  Netflix is offering credit for people who were unable to stream movies or TV shows to their Xbox 360 on Sunday. In an email sent out to members of its service Monday evening, Netflix said technical issues may have made it hard for members to stream video from the service to the Xbox 360 on…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2009
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  It is September and there are dogs here… playing poker… betting you can write decent comments about video games. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2009
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  Is It Me, Or Is Does It Feel Like Fall Earlier?

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: New PC Apologies to those who live where it will soon be spring or those who don’t like talking about the weather, but yeah, it seems very fall-like here where I live — and it’s usually hot and gross all throughout September. What you missed last night What Square Enix…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2009
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  Gears Of War’s Imulsion Canned, Available On Earth

  Imulsion, the glowy resource at the heart of all things Gears of War, has been canned, laced with sugar and preservatives, and put on sale in the United States for $2.99 a pop. The drinks – of which, sadly, we have no nutritional information – are put out by Boston America, who are also the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2009
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  Meet Your New Galaga World Record-Holder

  Galaga may be nearly two decades old, but its previous world record score could only last two years, with Andrew Laidlaw’s 2007 mark broken over the weekend by Phil Day. Day, from the small Australian town of Braidwood (not too far from my abode in Canberra), had been practising for six months on an original…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2009
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  Wii Internet Channel Is Free, Free, Free [UPDATE]

  Nintendo has announced that starting today the Opera-powered Wii Internet Channel is available free of charge. That’s right, surf the internet, watch online TV, buy stuff all via your Nintendo. All you need is an internet connection. The browser was priced at 500 Wii Points (US$5) but was originally offered to Wii owners free of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2009
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  A Good Look At Monkey Island Creator’s New Game

  Ron Gilbert‘s latest game, Deathspank, isn’t new. We’ve know about it for ages. But all this info and screenshots, well, they’re very new. 1UP have a weeklong feature running on the game, which looks set to satisfy a gaping hole in the market by serving as a smart, funny parody on gaming genres and cliches.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2009
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  Microsoft To Announce Xbox 360 Price Cut For Japan Tomorrow

  While the Xbox 360 has already gotten a price reduction in the States, it hasn’t yet in Japan. That will change tomorrow when the company shaves the console’s price tag for the region. According to Microsoft Hong Kong, the Japanese arm of the company is holding a press conference in Tokyo tomorrow to announce the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2009
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  Wii Games Are Getting Better

  Like last generation’s dominant console, the PS2, the Wii has come in for a bit of criticism over the amount of shovelware available for the system. But are things really as bad as they seem? Research firm EEDAR have compared 2008’s review scores (for the first six months of the year) for all three consoles…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2009
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  How Hard Will It Be To Get A PS3 Slim In Japan At Launch?

  Who knows! That didn’t stop me from calling five Japanese retailers to find out. Game retailers in Japan run the gamut of small, independent Mom ‘n’ Pop style shops to the larger, nationwide chains. Since the chains get larger product shipments, I called five shops in Osaka and Tokyo. I called one in Kyoto, but…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2009
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  Sakura Note’s First Trailer

  Marvelous’ Sakura Note is going about this the right way. It’s nice seeing a trailer that’s able to set a real tone through nothing but music, kids and some gameplay footage.

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2009
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  Blizzard’s Next MMO Will Be “Significantly Different”

  Blizzard can’t work on World of Warcraft forever. Eventually, they’ll release a new MMO. And when they do, apparently it’ll be “significantly different” to their current world-destroying cash machine. “I think the (new MMO) is going to be significantly differentiated enough [from WoW],” Blizzard’s COO Paul Sams told Wired. “Such that, you’re not going to…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2009
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  Gran Turismo 5 (Probably) Getting Simultaneous Worldwide Release

  Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that, if the stars align and the moon is in the seventh house, Gran Turismo 5 will be given a simultaneous worldwide release. This would be a first for the series, whose last outing – GT5 Prologue – was released in the US four months after it was…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2009
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  How Is Beatles Rock Band Gonna Do?

  While, yes, Rock Band is extremely popular, the series isn’t cheap to make. The franchise has been a money loser for parent company Viacom — not because nobody is buying (tons are!), but because of the plastic instruments. It’s costly to make and ship the plastic instruments to retailers around the world from plants in…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2009