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Check out Dyad, a Majorly Musical Upcoming PS3 Game

News of Dyad has been out there in the ether for a little while (we’ve even written about it). The in-development PS3 game combines racing and music, imagining players as a single particle flying along at warp speed. Lancing and combining with other particles causes changes in the music, triggering tones and textures. The second,…

By Kirk Hamilton Published March 1, 2012

Hacker Claims He Tricked Taco Bell Into Sending Him a PlayStation Vita

A hacker says he used a bot to scam Taco Bell into sending him a PlayStation Vita during the “Unlock the Box” contest. Using an automated program to generate codes for Taco Bell’s Vita contest-turned-debacle, a message board user named “Sinister” says he managed to win one of Sony’s new handheld systems. Writing in a…

By Jason Schreier Published February 29, 2012

Sony Sells 1.2 Million PlayStation Vitas Worldwide

Four days after its release on U.S. shores, the PlayStation Vita passed the one million sales mark worldwide. Sony has sold a total of 1.2 milion Vita units in Japan, the U.S., and all of its other territories as of February 26, it said in a press release today. The powerful portable system first launched…

By Jason Schreier Published February 28, 2012

Reviews

FIFA Football Vita: The Kotaku Review

I’m still a little shocked. I mean, I love my football and I generally love my FIFA, but if you’d told me two months ago that the single best game available at the Vita’s launch would be this, a handheld port of a game that’s just in time for the end of the European season,…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2012

Heavy Rain’s Most Screwed up Scene, Recreated in Living Color

If you haven’t yet played PS3 adventure Heavy Rain, and want to, don’t watch this. It contains a pretty big spoiler. If you have, though, or haven’t and don’t care, or haven’t and want to see drama, take a look at what reader David came up with for his media arts interview at Sheridan College.…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 24, 2012

Sure Looks Like Jet Set Radio‘s Headed to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network

The House of Sonic’s dropped a vague but drip-filled teaser that strongly suggests that the beloved inline-skating, graffiti-tagging Jet Set Radio game will be hitting modern consoles soon. The killer soundtrack and high-contrast, brightly colored cartoon art style made developer Smilebit’s Dreamcast game a hit, but Sega never reissued the game—even as they’ve rolled out…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 23, 2012

PlayStation 4 to Feature AMD Graphics?

For the PlayStation 3, when it came to the console’s graphics, Sony partnered with Nvidia to produce the RSX ‘Reality Synthesizer’ GPU. According to a report on Forbes, though, for the PlayStation 4, Sony is partnering with Nvidia’s arch-rival AMD instead. Citing “former AMD employees”, the Forbes report says “the processor designer may play a…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 23, 2012

Taco Bell Blames Vita Contest Debacle on ‘Technical Issues,’ Enrages Misled Winners

More than a week after informing PlayStation Vita contest winners that their entries were invalid, fast food corporation Taco Bell has told them that it messed up, blaming “technical issues” for the confusion. The misled contestants, who were told they won PlayStation Vitas on or around January 30, will all enter a “separate drawing” to…

By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2012

Western Studios are Helping Finish The Last Guardian

Team Ico’s The Last Guardian, the studio’s first game since Shadow of the Colossus, has hit a bit of a rough patch. It’s been delayed a few times, key people have left the company, it’s a mess To help get it done and out the door, Sony has drafted in outside help from some of…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 21, 2012

Reviews

The PlayStation Vita: The Kotaku Review

If you’re in a hurry, you simply need to know that the PlayStation Vita is a very good portable video game machine that excels in ways that Sony hasn’t bothered to hype. If you’ve got time, well… let’s start with a true story: I recently had the opportunity to look over the shoulder of a…

By Stephen Totilo Published February 21, 2012

Kotaku East

Playing the 3DS with…a PlayStation Controller?

For Monster Hunter, the Nintendo 3DS has a mostly great extra slide pad. Screw that! One Japanese gamer figured out how to use a PlayStation Controller instead. The mod shows just how easy playing Monster Hunter with a dual thumbstick controller is. A snap! 3DS モンスターハンター専用　改造スライドパッド [YouTube via HighGamers]

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 21, 2012

Vita Firmware Upgraded to v1.61

Most people still don’t have a Vita yet, but when you do, in true PlayStation fashion there’ll be a new firmware update just waiting for you to download and install. [PlayStation]

By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2012

Sony Working on its own Kinect

A patent filed in late 2011, but which has only been published this month, reveals that Sony is working on its own version of Kinect, Microsoft’s popular motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360 (and now PC). Of course, the argument could be made that Kinect was Microsoft’s own version of Sony’s EyeToy (indeed, this new…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2012

Yankees Pitcher has one Hell of a Custom PlayStation 3

Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia – who we already know takes his video games seriously – has a very special, one-of-a-kind PlayStation 3. And it’s one that speaks directly to my tastes It’s wood-panelled! Pimped out like an old Telstar Classic. Sony made the console for Sabathia and emblazoned it with his number, a crown and…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2012

Want Your PS3 Games to Run Faster? Buy an SSD

The Xbox 360 and Wii are, if you want to stay under warranty, locked entities. You can’t upgrade them at all. The PS3, though, lets you swap out a hard drive, and with the coming of the age of solid state drives (SSD), this can result in big performance gains. Running a series of tests…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2012

First PlayStation Vita Ad Gives Bad Advice

Here’s Sony’s first video advertisement for the powerful PlayStation Vita, an ad that the publisher says will be plastered on Fox, Comedy Central, and ESPN (among other networks) in the near future. The tagline? “Never Stop Playing.” You probably should stop playing at some point, though. To eat. And sleep. And read Kotaku

By Jason Schreier Published February 14, 2012

PlayStation Vita Winners Continue to Rage over Fishy Taco Bell Contest

We continue to hear from people who have taken issue with the strange Taco Bell contest that claims to be giving a PlayStation Vita to customers every 15 minutes. More than 15 contestants have told Kotaku that after seeing on the Taco Bell website that they had won Vitas, they were later informed that their…

By Jason Schreier Published February 13, 2012

Take the Official Tour of the PlayStation Vita

After posting its official unboxing teaser video on Thursday, Sony yesterday published this 12-minute guided tour of the system, explaining all of the features and benefits of the PlayStation Vita, with Guy Longworth, PlayStation’s chief marketer, and John Koller, who is the boss of PlayStation’s handheld division. The PlayStation Vita launches in North America on…

By Owen Good Published February 11, 2012

This Taco Bell PlayStation Vita Contest Seems A Little Weird [UPDATE]

Taco Bell is giving PlayStation Vitas to customers every 15 minutes — except when it isn’t. Over the past few weeks, the fast food chain has been running a promotional contest for Sony’s upcoming handheld system. Customers can take codes found on the “Taco Bell $5 Buck Box” and enter them in a submission form…

By Jason Schreier Published February 10, 2012

The Good Guys Have Already Lost on the Cover of Aliens: Colonial Marines

Hey there, alien, why so blue? Is it because you’ve already ingested that squad of marines and have nothing else to play with? You know what’ll cheer you up? A little Eiffel 65 Here’s the official box art for Aliens: Colonial Marines, a rather fetching image that’s sure to draw the eye, and once the…

By Mike Fahey Published February 9, 2012