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Battlefield 3 Expansions Hit PS3 First
The Xbox 360 might be getting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 expansion packs first, but the PS3 gets Battlefield 3’s expansions first. The publisher said today that beginning with Battlefield 3 expansion Back to Karkand, all “full-blown upcoming expansion packs” for the game will appear one week early exclusively on the PS3, “brought to…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
Japan Has Over 7,000 Pikachu TV Remotes
In Japan, all sorts of Pokémon products exist. There are Pokémon bedsheets, Pokémon toothbrushes, Pokémon noodles—you name it! And there is now a Pikachu TV remote control. There might have already been one (I wouldn’t put it past Pokémon), but I’ve never seen one. This isn’t for sale, though. It’s a part of a promotion…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 22, 2011 -
There Are Far Too Many Pokémon To Care About Anymore
Remember back when there were 151 Pokémon and you knew everything about each one? Commenter Daemon_Gildas does, and he wants that feeling back in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. So, lord knows I love me some Pokémon, but… anybody else feel like they need to hold off on making new Pokémon, and instead on fleshing…
By Mike Fahey Published September 22, 2011 -
If a Train is Traveling 80 MPH, And the Internet is At 1Mbps, When Will Diablo III Crash?
Diablo III is a joy on a desktop. It’s even fun to play on a Macbook Air. But how will Blizzard’s online-only dungeon crawler fare while played on a train traveling 90 miles an hour down New York’s Harlem Valley using a Sprint 3G card? Sure, the specifics may not apply to everyone, but it…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
$30 Forza 4 Season Pass Adds Cars to to Your Xbox 360 through April
Look, you might be considering spending $60 on this fall’s Forza Motorsport 4, if you’re a racing fan and you’ve got an Xbox 360. But would you consider spending $90? You’ll save money if you do that, Microsoft said in a press release today. That added $30 will get you a Forza 4 “season pass”—giving…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 22, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
I’m pretty sure inputing codes into Mortal Kombat‘s loading screens were the bane of my existence when I was eight. I guess I was a pretty bland eight year old…. Well that got nostalgic, now it’s time to talk amongst yourselves. Well enough of all that it’s time to congratulate Brian H. May! Thanks for…
By Chris Carolan Published September 22, 2011 -
The 3DS’ Zen Pinball 3D in Action
Earlier this week we talked you through what Zen Pinball 3D would have to offer on the 3DS when it hits the Nintendo eShop this fall. Here’s our first look at the 3D pinballer in action. Four original tables will be available at launch-Earth Defense and Excalibur, seen in Pinball FX 2 on the 360,…
By Brian Crecente Published September 22, 2011 -
A Reimagined Pong to Drive You Up a Wall
The title of this feature, ‘Gaming App of the Day,” may be a little misleading. It’s intended to be an honor about as much as Time’s “Person of the Year” is, and remember, that thing went to Hitler in 1938. As we can’t tell you if a game’s good until we’ve played it, we’re primarily…
By Owen Good Published September 22, 2011 -
Did You Like the Original Nintendo DS Design?
Phat | TOKYO, JAPAN – A model shows off the Nintendo DS in Oct. 2004. (Photo: Katsumi Kasahara | AP) New Counter-Strike Incorporates Old Mod Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is Valve’s retooling of the classic team-based first-person shooter Counter-Strike. Today, Valve revealed that the game will include “Arsenal Mode”, which is based on the popular Counter-Strike:…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 22, 2011 -
Why Star Fox 64 3D Didn’t Have Online
The Nintendo 3DS does online pretty damn well. All the experiences I’ve enjoyed so far have been the best online Nintendo experiences I’ve ever had. One game I won’t be able to put through the online paces is Star Fox 64 3D, a 3DS Star Fox 64 remake. Nintendo’s Yusuke Amano, who coordinated the project…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 22, 2011 -
This Dragon Quest X Train Sure Looks Familiar
In the latest Dragon Quest X trailer, there’s a train. It has several headlights and a curved shaft, and it looks like a train in another game. You can see it above. A similar train appeared in 2003’s Sakura Taisen ~Atsuki Chishio ni~. It was spotted by Japanese netizens, and it looks, well, like the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 22, 2011 -
Two New Pokémon Flicks Coming to America
This summer, two Pokémon flicks (one for Black and one for White) were released in Japan. Pokémon the Movie: White—Victini and Zekrom will be released this December on 300 theaters. The other one’ll get a limited release. [AnimeNation]
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 22, 2011 -
A Game of Thrones’ New Trailer Makes the Wall Look Rather Small
Here’s a new, long trailer for the upcoming real-time strategy game based on George R R Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series of novels. It’ll be out on PC on September 29. Sadly, being based on the books (and a sort of prequel at that) and not the TV show, there’ll be none of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2011 -
Finally, a Video Game That Also Washes Your Clothes
Lee Wei Chen, a design student at Kingston University, has come up with an arcade cabinet that washes your clothes. Which is also a washing machine that plays games. ‘I realised that the skills I had developed in the virtual world were useless in the real world. I wanted to make them useful,’ Chen says.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2011 -
Over Thirteen Minutes of Gameplay Footage from the PS3’s Best-Looking Game
Level-5’s Ni No Kuni was easily my “game of the show” for 2011’s Tokyo Game Show. It’s the first game I ran to on opening day, and it’s the only game I went and played twice If my impressions and some off-screen footage weren’t enough to convey how good this game looks, here’s 13 minutes…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2011 -
Dark Souls Made Even Harder by Online Freezing
Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to bastard hard Demon’s Souls, was released today in Japan. There are reports of it selling out at select shops. There are also reports of game-killing bugs. For some gamer, during online play the game either won’t progress from the main screen or freezes up. From Software, the game’s developer,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 22, 2011 -
Diablo III On a Control Pad Sounds Great
Given the nature of the game, and the financial realities of 21st-century game development, you should all be expecting Diablo III to appear on a console at some stage. So try not to let the following statement from Blizzard’s Jay Wilson freak you out too much. Because it’s for the best! “One of the reasons…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2011 -
This Persona Fighting Game Trailer Is Giving Me a Headache
Not because it looks bad. It looks great! But all that flashing, and bright lights, and flashing. Argh! I sadly didn’t get a chance to play Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena at last week’s Tokyo Game Show, when it was playable, but the guys from Kotaku Japan did and said it was surprisingly…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2011 -
Using the Nintendo DS to Paint Very Pretty Pictures
Budding game artist Ed Chee (Monkey Island 2 Special Edition) will be displaying some of his works in an exhibition to be held in Toronto early next month. What makes this cool is that all the paintings were done not in paint, but on a Nintendo DS. Using the DS’ Colors! program, Chee has drawn…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2011