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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 -
Sony’s First PlayStation Tablet Out This Month, Costs $500
To go with its PlayStation Phone, Sony will soon be releasing a pair of wild and wacky PlayStation-certified tablet computers as well. Which, as of today, have most of their release info locked down. The S1, which is the more traditional tablet of the two, will go on sale later this month for $500. It’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2011 -
Long Live Play, Long Live Flaming Crossbows, Long Live Kevin Butler
Like a flaming crossbow bolt casually launched at gigantic rooftop slogan, Sony celebrity spokesmodel Kevin Butler returns to launch the “Long Live Play” marketing campaign. Last week PlayStation 3 advertising fans were concerned by Twitter reports that celebrity spokesmodel Kevin Butler had left Sony for Economy Flooring, his uncle’s flooring startup. Luckily for Sony ad-fans,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 30, 2011 -
Sony Only Gives You a Taste of Twisted Metal to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Amidst the waterfall of new game footage and price drops at today’s Sony press conference, a few Twisted Metal screenshots snuck through the cracks, as well. It’s not much, but we’ll take anything to tide us over until 2012.
By Max Abrams Published August 16, 2011 -
Sony Launching a New Wi-Fi-less PSP for €99 [Update: Europe Only!]
Apparently unwilling to give up the older PSP platform despite launching the PS Vita successor next year, Sony has just announced a new regular PSP that doesn’t use discs, but only supports downloads. [Update: I misheard the announcement. I’m hearing now the new model doesn’t have Wi-Fi, which would certainly imply it doesn’t have downloads.…
By Joel Johnson Published August 16, 2011 -
Ninja Gaiden 3 Could Be the Hardest PlayStation Move Game Ever
Today at Gamescom in Germany, Tecmo’s Team Ninja revealed that Ninja Gaiden 3 was getting physical with the PlayStation Move, finally allowing the player and Ryu to commiserate over how difficult it is to slash at enemies for hours on end. Sword combat isn’t easy, and historically neither is Ninja Gaiden. Combine the two and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 16, 2011 -
Watch Playstation’s Gamescom Press Conference Live
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe says they’ll be providing a live video stream of their press conference at Gamescom next week. Of course we’ll be on hand too covering it from the floor. You can catch the stream ( Tuesday 16 August 2011 at 19:00 CET / 18:00 BST / 03:00 Sydney (Wed) ) on the…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2011 -
I Think the PlayStation People are Trying to Hypnotize Us
There’s some sort of writing on the European PlayStation blog about the Dazzle Eye dynamic theme for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. Artists’ project, platform for creativity, etc., etc…. something about the pattern for Dazzle Eye originating in a World War I design that was intended “to bewilder the enemy.” Press play on the video…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2011 -
Sony’s Vita Can Do Some of What Nintendo’s Wii U Does
We learned back in June that the PS Vita could play nice with the PS3, but how much can the two systems do together? Apparently about as much as the Wii U. Sony Europe R&D manager Phil Rogers said at the Develop Conference 2011 that the “PS3 can send data down to Vita and Vita…
By Sam Winstrom Published August 2, 2011 -
Are Gaming’s Biggest Portables Becoming Its Smallest Niche?
Last week’s drastic, surprising price drop for Nintendo’s 3DS gaming portable brought turmoil not just to the last major dedicated gaming hardware company in the world, but also the notion of portable gaming. While fans of Nintendo worry what impact the nearly one-third price drop on such a new piece of hardware will have on…
By Brian Crecente Published August 1, 2011 -
How Unusual Was The 3DS Price Cut?
Many people in the gaming community were taken aback by Nintendo’s announcement last night that the 3DS would be dropping price from $250 to $170 only five months after its initial launch in America and after fewer than 900,000 units have sold in the U.S. But that cut wasn’t completely without precedent. Nintendo’s cut seemed…
By Max Abrams Published July 28, 2011 -
Assassin’s Creed Gets an 8-bit Makeover
Assassin’s Creed makes a surprisingly good looking retro game. Majami Hiroz reinvisioned the modern classic Assassin’s Creed in 8-bit style graphics. It looks more like a 3DS 3D classic than an actual retro game, but that makes it all the more beautiful. 8-bit Assassin’s Creed [Welcome to the 80’s via Youtube]
By Sam Winstrom Published July 27, 2011 -
If You Want Driver: San Francisco on PC, You’d Better Have a Stellar Internet Connection
Like that comeback no one wants to see happen, Ubisoft’s always-on DRM is making an encore appearance for the PC version of Driver: San Francisco. Ergo, if you don’t have an internet connection, or if Ubisoft’s servers go down due to maintenance or hackers or Act of God(s), you can’t play the game. Not even…
By Joshua Rivera Published July 27, 2011