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It’s Hard to Ignore a Franchise That Sells 25 Million Games, Even If It’s Just Dance
Go ahead, snicker and titter just like you do when you pass a display of Ubisoft’s dancing franchise games at Target or Walmart. With 25 million copies sold across six titles, odds are you secretly own a copy of Just Dance yourself. I’m probably one of the first guys to point and giggle at those…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2012 -
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Coming to PlayStation Network Next Week
Team Ico’s two classics—Ico and Shadow of the Colossus— will be coming to the PS3’s digital storefront on January 17th. For $20 each, you’ll be able to download the games to your hard drive. [PlayStation Blogcast, via Joystiq]
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
Beat Sneak Bandit Will be the Jazziest Game You Play All Year
Indie developers Simogo have loosed another glimpse of their stealth/rhythm/platformer mash-up and the clip makes me need this game in my hands as soon as possible. You can see how the sneaky-toon character movement gets perfectly synced to BSB‘s wonky jazz instrumentals, making you hold both the whole song and patrol patterns in your head…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
This Could Be Your Last Chance to See Retro Game Master
Last year Kotaku readers were enthralled by the daring exploits of Shinya Arino as he desperately attempted to finish a dozen of the most brutal retro games Japan has to offer. Now we’re giving you one last chance to watch before Retro Game Master goes away forever. It was a grand experiment, broadcasting weekly episodes…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2012 -
Get a Glimpse at an Elseworlds Batman in the Cancelled Gotham by Gaslight Game
Even as Rocksteady Studios’s turned out two stellar Batman video games, other visions of the Dark Knight have shown up in Batman: Brave and the Bold and DC Universe. (Gotham City Impostors doesn’t really count since players aren’t controlling Batman, just his bizarre fan club.) A new blog post from visual artist Julie Farrell there…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
Sumioni: Demon Arts, a.k.a. the Vita’s Best-Looking Game, Will be Coming to the West
Sumioni: Demon Arts wowed our own Brian Ashcraft at last year’s Tokyo Game Show, so much so that he declared it the prettiest thing going on Sony’s new handheld. While it seemed likely that the Acquire-developed game would head westward, things were still up in the air even after Sony announced the launch line-up for…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
The Dark Souls PC Petition Has Namco Bandai’s Attention
Internet petitions are normally as effective in bringing about a desired result as closing your eyes and wishing really hard, but with more than 66.000 signatures accrued in just one week the petition for Namco Bandai to release uber-challenging dungeon crawler Dark Souls on PC seems to have gotten the company’s attention. Launched last week…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2012 -
Reminder: You Could Be Reading Kotaku Core
As announced yesterday, we’re giving readers who want news and opinion just about video games themselves—and not coverage of the culture that extends from or intersects with them—a way to read Kotaku filtered for that. Try Kotaku.com/KotakuCore. Enjoy!
By Stephen Totilo Published January 13, 2012 -
You’ll Get Your Chance to Build-&-Battle When Starhawk’s Public Beta Opens on January 18th
There’s a fair amount of buzz surrounding the upcoming sci-fi/western mash-up from LightBox Interactive. You’ll finally get to see what all the hollering’s about when Starhawk‘s public beta goes live on January 18th
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
Silent Hill Will Fog Up All of March With Three New Games
You won’t be able to escape the scariest town in all of video games in a few short weeks. Konami’s outed the release dates for the upcoming portable, remake and console iterations of their horror franchise and they’re all within a few weeks of each other. On March 6th, the games you may’ve already played…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
Chatroulette Kinect! and Four More Games That Will Never Be Made
In today’s truly inspired edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter DunnCarnage shares with us five top secret video game concepts he might have completely made up. Through sources I’m unwilling to reveal (Brian Hetting is refusing to let me acknowledge him, he asked for anonymity in case he loses his job at EA) I…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2012 -
I Should Be Much More Excited By a Live-Action Chun-Li Versus Cammy Battle
Dominique “Chun-Li” Vance and Lane “Cammy” Kwederis do a fine just looking and acting their roles in Eddie Lebron’s live-action ode to Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise. Unfortunately they battle like a couple of actresses brand new to fight choreography. For all I know they are just that, and that’s not their fault whatsoever. Like I…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
On schedule and on point, it’s time for Talk Amongst Yourselves, your official forum to talk about games, games, and also games. Did we mention games? With Minecraft 1.1 out it seemed like the right time to choose Pan1da7‘s blocktastic TAYpic today. Thanks! Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2012 -
The Coy Sex and Extreme Violence of The Darkness II
The Darkness II is a video game about restrained sex and unrestrained violence. It’s the kind of a game that will show you, through a half-cracked door, the back of a fully-dressed woman giving a man oral sex but will let you stretch a man, supine, across the length of your TV screen—suspended by the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 13, 2012 -
The Makers of Scribblenauts Give You More Bounce to the Ounce With Run Roo Run
The App Store’s rotten with platformers. Everywhere you turn, there’s some developer revisiting his or her childhood with their own take on the hoppy/jumpy left-to-right adventure genre. Many of these stink or are otherwise unremarkable. But 5th Cell’s Run Roo Run is different. You might expect to find some complicated evolution of jumping action from…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
The Smithsonian’s Going to Throw a GameFest to Celebrate The Art of Video Games and You Should Totally Go
You did vote to get your favorite games into The Art of Video Games exhibit, didn’t you? If not, don’t crying that Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom didn’t make it into the show. Anyway, we’re only two short months away from the exhibit’s opening of at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian’s announced…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 13, 2012 -
The Illuminati Party Hard and Fight Even Harder in The Secret World
Up until I saw this teaser trailer for the Illuminati in Funcom’s upcoming MMO The Secret World I was pretty sure I wanted to be in the Dragon secret society. Now I’m not so sure. The personality test on the game’s official website pegged me as a Dragon, but now I feel the urge to…
By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2012 -
The Wrath of Japanese Game Promotion
Wrath | TOKYO, JAPAN: Capcom gets excited for Azura’s Wrath. (Photo: GameWatchImpress) The Most Insane Battery Test I’ve Ever Seen I’ve tested battery life. Usually, I play some, write down how long I play, take a break, and comeback. Not this dude. YouTube user Kurekureyon filmed himself playing the PS Vita and the Nintendo 3DS…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2012 -
Persona Like You’ve Never Seen It Before. On an Audi.
When you think of Japanese role-playing game Persona, you probably don’t think of German engineering. Spotted at the Tokyo Auto Salon by sister site Gizmodo Japan, this is a customized Audi S5 itasha. It is covered in Persona 4 decals and has gullwing doors. You will never forget this. Never. Audi S5がペルソナ4の痛車になってた [Gizmodo Japan]
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2012