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Will There be a Limit to Vita Downloads Over 3G?
The PS Vita is getting an array of memory card sizes. They range from a 4GB Memory Card (¥2,200 or US$29) to 32GB Memory Card (¥9,500 or $124). With that in mind, will Sony be restricting download size? Initially, yes. According to Sony, 3G downloads will be restricted to 20MB a pop, but that could…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 30, 2011 -
The Lap Dance Is Always Better When the Stripper Is Decaying
The strippers in Bayou City’s famous Pink Pussycat club are so good at their jobs that they don’t stop at taking off their clothes. And House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut successfully obliterates any desire I might have had to visit a strip club ever again. Thanks, Sega! You can contact Michael Fahey, the…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 -
SSX‘s Finest Trade Their Boards For Balls in NBA Jam: On Fire
If you thought Elise, Mac, and Kaori were hot stuff on the slopes, wait’ll you get a load of their moves on the court in the NBA Jam: On Fire Edition The trio of SSX snowboarders will be unlockable in the upgraded version of everyone’s favorite two-on-two arcade basketball game, hitting the PlayStation Network and…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 -
I Am Alive Lives Up To Its Name Once Again, Winter Release Imminent
Having survived numerous delays and a total re-engineering, Ubisoft’s post-apocalyptic survival adventure I Am Alive is heading to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network this winter, unless it doesn’t. Considering the game’s history, I can’t help but be skeptical when Ubisoft announces a release window. Hopefully this time around they’re really, really serious, and…
By Mike Fahey Published September 29, 2011 -
A Riotous Beginning for the New Mutants of X-Men: Destiny
How does one go from being a displaced teenager with a dickhead father one moment to being an unofficial member of the world’s greatest mutant fighting force the next? Let’s ask X-Men: Destiny Whatever may happen later in the game, at least X-Men: Destiny starts strong. Professor Xavier is dead, humans and mutants are on…
By Mike Fahey Published September 28, 2011 -
How To Spell Mario’s Jump (And Other Famous Video Game Sound Effects)
Video games have so many iconic sound effects—hearing the simple “ga-ling!” of the Nintendo coin can invoke a nostalgia as powerful as any memory of actually playing a game. From the Mario’s three-note warp-pipe descent to Simon Belmont’s famous whip, all games feature sounds that players will hear over and over and over again until…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 27, 2011 -
Even House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut‘s 3D is Adorably Retro
Dig those red-and-blue 3D glasses out of your junk drawer and feast your eyes on these sexy anaglyphic 3D screenshots of House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut for the PlayStation 3. The PlayStation 3 HD remake of House of the Dead: Overkill builds on the game’s 70’s exploitation film vibe with the addition of…
By Mike Fahey Published September 27, 2011 -
Can a Pair of Swimsuit Models Get You Excited About Need For Speed: The Run?
With so many highly anticipated titles coming out in November, the next entry in the Need for Speed franchise isn’t getting nearly as much attention as it should, so EA plays its T&A card. Ah, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the last barrier between the good people of America and a looming wave of internet…
By Mike Fahey Published September 27, 2011 -
These Are the Distinguished Voices of Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the sort of game that requires top-tier voice talent to work, so Bethesda Softworks has pulled out all the stops, recruiting a cast comprised of three Academy Award nominees, several highly recognizable science fiction actors, and the wife of ZeniMax Media CEO Robert A. Altman. Bethesda sure knows how…
By Mike Fahey Published September 27, 2011 -
That Other Most Beautiful PS3 Game Will be Out This Spring
We’ve drooled over the beta version of Journey, a dream-like adventure game coming to the PlayStation 3. The game is quiet, mysterious, lovely, sometimes co-operative with a second player and, as of today, scheduled for a spring 2012 downloadable release
By Stephen Totilo Published September 27, 2011 -
Get Ready for Skyrim With the Game’s Perks, Racial Traits
While the next game in the Elder Scrolls series won’t be out until November, you can start preparing for your adventures now with this list of the game’s perk trees and specific racial abilities. Collated by fan site theelderscrollsskyrim, it’s not complete, but it’s close enough to get you started. Looks like i’ll be playing…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2011 -
Battlefield 3’s PC and, Ahem, PS3 Versions Compared
It’s OK to laugh, you know. Battlefield 3: Caspian Border Playstation 3 Trailer [AnonymousHikki] Battlefield 3 PC vs. PS3 Comparison of the Day [TDW] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2011 -
This Trailer Is Black, Bloody, and Hopeless, and That’s Just the Way The Darkness Likes It
The Darkness comic book has been around since 1996, but you don’t need to worry about fifteen years of continuity in order to understand 2K Games’ The Darkness II. You just need three minutes with Johnny Powell. Powell here gives us the low-down on The Darkness, from the beginning of time up to the death…
By Mike Fahey Published September 26, 2011 -
No One Told El Universal Gears 3 Was an Xbox 360 Exclusive
One of Mexico’s largest newspapers apparently turns to Google image search for its graphics as much as the next guy, as evidenced by this lovely picture of Gears of War 3 for the PlayStation 3 found inside today’s issue. I suppose some editor somewhere wanted to keep things PlayStation 3 centric at the top of…
By Mike Fahey Published September 26, 2011 -
The Contents of Resident Evil‘s 15th Anniversary Deluxe, Japan-Only Box Set Exposed
Japanese Resident Evil fans received a very posh box set for the PlayStation 3 earlier this month, stuffing 15 years’ worth of zombie horror history—across five core Resident Evil games—in very slick packaging. See its horrors unboxed in the video above, for getting your hands on it might be a challenge. The Biohazard 15th Anniversary…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 19, 2011 -
Sony’s Tokyo Game Show Press Conference LIVE Coverage
Tokyo Game Show 2011 is… GO!!! Sony Computer Entertainment Japan is kicking it off with its pre-TGS keynote, talking about all things PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Network. Kotaku is in the house, keeping an eye on what Sony execs have to say about the future of PlayStation. Join us, won’t you? Sony will…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 13, 2011 -
LittleBigPlanet 2 Gets Move Support and a Cakeling Rises
Today is the day, LittleBigPlaneteers! The day Media Molecule’s second helping of sackboy madness is controllable via Sony’s glowing future lollipop. Is $9.99 too much to ask? How’s about they throw in a little Cakeling? LittleBigPlanet 2: Rise of the Cakeling Move Pack finally gives PlayStation Move owners something to do aside from playing high…
By Mike Fahey Published September 13, 2011 -
The Original PlayStation Controllers Looked Stupid (Thank God for Evolution!)
There’s a reason why the world has the PlayStation 1 controller it does. The reason is that the other PS1 controller prototypes were dumb-looking. Previously, Kotaku‘s Total Recall featured the PlayStation 1 controller you never got to use Before Sony settled on the new iconic PlayStation controller, it tried and tried again to create something…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 12, 2011 -
Manhandling the Sony Tablet and Explaining Its Fake Buttons
Sony’s first new PlayStation tablet is going on sale later this month. To hold you over until then, how about some photos of the tablet and its clamshell cousin, in the flesh? Website Game Watch Impress got up and close with both tablets: the tablet-looking Tablet S and the DS-looking Tablet P. Both are PlayStation…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2011