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Beloved Character’s Voice Actor Returns, But Not For More Arkanoid
Nobuyo Oyama is famous for voicing everyone’s favorite earless robot cat from the future Doraemon and, well, looking like Doraemon. From 1979 to 2005, Oyama voiced Doraemon. The 74-year-old was retired from the show and was replaced by a new Doraemon voice (not quite the same!) and a new Doraemon theme song (not as good…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 23, 2010 -
Charting The Wii’s Decline In The US
2007 was the year of the Wii. So was 2008. But 2010? Not the Wii’s year, especially when you look at the console’s decline in the United States over the course of the year. This chart, provided by Gamasutra and based upon US retail sales figures, shows a console in decline, its sales down by…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
Kotaku’s 2010 PlayStation 3 Gift Guide
The holidays are coming, and that means it’s time for you to start thinking about what sorts of gifts you want to give the PlayStation 3 owner and get as a PlayStation 3 owner this year. The PlayStation 3 had a strong year in 2010—hey, it was no 2009, when Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Demon’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 23, 2010 -
Microsoft Bringing Cross-Platform Apps To The 360?
It’s since been edited to remove all mention of Microsoft’s home console, but earlier today, the Redmond software giant was advertising for people to come help work on Silverlight stuff for the Xbox 360. What does that mean? Silverlight – Microsoft’s in-house rival to Adobe’s Flash – is of course already used on the Xbox,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
After Toy Story, Disney Want To Tell A Video Game Story
A few years back, Disney was working on a movie called “Joe Jump”, the tale of an outdated video game character who’s able to find his way into new titles. It had been presumed scrap, but no, it’s not! A report on the LA Times says that the film now has a new name –…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
An All-New Hate Machine
Kotaku goers, would you please help us get through this short-staffed Monday with a little contribution of your own? Man, we really appreciate you doing us an off-topic solid here. We’re at a loss for words. Let me tell you, it’s not always easy trying to co-author a site when it’s just you and Brian…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
Glitch Is An MMO That Doesn’t Look Like Anything Else
Browser game Glitch is, first of all, maybe the first massively-multiplayer game to place its players inside the minds of supernatural creatures. It’s also the next project from (some of) the people who brought you Flickr. Yes, Glitch is different. The web-based multiplayer game is not about killing or farming, but growing, building and developing.…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
The Future Of The Nintendo DS Looks Like Radiant Historia
The Nintendo DS has one more thing to look forward to in 2011 with the release of Atlus’ Radiant Historia, which brings an all-new 16-bit style, time-traveling “steampunk” adventure to the handheld next February. Radiant Historia offers owners more of what the Nintendo DS excels at, namely old-school style Japanese role-playing games that involve saving…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
Machinima’s Picks For Best Games of 2010 Include Minecraft
As the year wraps up, so does everyone’s take on what they think are the best games of 2010. We’ve seen Spike TV’s Video Game Awards nominees. And you’ll be seeing our short list of Game of the Year nominees in early December, but here’s a run down of the finalists for Machinima.Com’s annual Inside…
By Brian Crecente Published November 22, 2010 -
The Patch That Changes World Of Warcraft Forever
In two weeks, World of Warcraft gains Goblin, Worgen, and a healthy dose of high-end content, but first the world must die. WoW lead systems designer Greg Street talks us through the rebirth of Azeroth coming in tomorrow’s massive patch. Street makes one point perfectly clear: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is not the expansion pack…
By Mike Fahey Published November 22, 2010 -
The Nintendo Download: Shooting Penguins From The Free Throw Line
Give thanks for the opportunity to lob penguins into a basketball hoop this week, courtesy of WiiWare and Snowpack Park, a game you might want to download to your Wii? No? Maybe Tetris then? Nintendo’s Snowpack Park, a penguin hunting and flightless bird mood management sim, leads this week’s list of fresh downloadable options for…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
You’ve got to love this game’s Pursuit Equipment. The game’s demo gives you a broad look at the game. Seacrest County is a big, wide-open world in Hot Pursuit with a fantastically-diverse selection of roads on which to race. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is the most impressive thing that the game brings to the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 22, 2010 -
Barebones
To: Ash From: Crecente Today was fun. Fahey’s out on vacation. Owen’s enjoying his weekend and Totilo was out with a nasty bug. So McMike and I spent the day holding down the fort… or tower, as it were. And there was plenty of stuff going on as well. Can you believe it’s only three…
By Brian Crecente Published November 22, 2010 -
Kinect Can Also Turn You Into A Bloated Mutant
We’ve seen some fun and sometimes funky homebrewed uses of Kinect for the Xbox 360, thanks to the release of open source drivers for Microsoft’s camera sensor, but how many of those apps support house cats? This one does. Robert “Flight404” Hodgin has whipped up a Kinect demo that can bloat or emaciate the body…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
Touch World Of Goo On Your iPad (Soon)
2D Boy, makers of WiiWare/PC hit World of Goo, are bringing their game to Apple’s iPad, bringing with it support for up to 11 fingers at once. When can we expect this all-new, touchscreen-controlled World of Goo? “As soon as we get approved by Apple,” explains 2D Boy. “We hope before the holiday season.” The…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
Dad Builds Bedroom Marble Run for World’s Luckiest Son
He’s a generous Dad, too—for he has put the instructions on Instructables, for building your very own. I don’t think you even need children as an excuse to create this, that’s how awesome it is. [Instructables via DailyWhat]
By Kat Hannaford Published November 22, 2010 -
Nintendo DSi Comes In Festive Orange & Green For The Holidays
Rumor? Ha! Nintendo has made official that Black Friday will get an injection of green and orange with a pair new Nintendo DSi bundles that with either remind you of Halloween, Christmas or Samus Aran. Orange and green Nintendo DSi bundles will hit North American retailers on November 26 for $149.99 USD, with a copy…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 22, 2010 -
Is this a portrait of a human 50 million years from now?
We recently rounded up the most nightmare-inducing creations of speculative zoologist Dougal Dixon. Here’s another one of Dixon’s futuristic Homo sapiens. This being is more or less a psychic raspberry strudel. io9 superstar reader Hypnosifl has blessed us with this pre-Man After Man musing Dixon contributed to the November 1982 issue of Omni magazine (RIP).…
By Cyriaque Lamar Published November 22, 2010
