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Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Sequel In The Works
With last week’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow pulling in pretty solid reviews, the composer of the game’s score outs a sequel already under construction at developer MercurySteam. Oscar Arujo composed the aggressive soundtrack for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Spanish developer MercurySteam’s 3D take on the long-running Konami franchise. Speaking to Spanish radio, the composer teased…
By Mike Fahey Published October 11, 2010 -
LEGO Universe Delivers a Compelling Online Experience
Working on a massively multiplayer online computer game seems akin to mining for gold. Most studios working on these virtual living words of fun and story never strike it rich, some investing so much time and money that when their game fails, so does their studio, tragically, spectacularly. But there’s always World of Warcraft’s successes…
By Brian Crecente Published October 11, 2010 -
Watch U-verse TV On Your Xbox 360 This Friday
Xbox 360 owners that subscribe to AT&T’s U-verse television service can return one of their set-top boxes this Friday, when the service goes live on Microsoft’s console. Would you pay $99 to turn your 360 into a cable receiver? Last Friday we posted information indicating that the U-verse experience would launch sometime next month. How…
By Mike Fahey Published October 11, 2010 -
EA Readies The Sims 3 And More For Windows Phone 7
Continuing its tradition of making a splash whenever a new gaming platform launches, EA is gearing up for the Windows Phone 7 launch with a suite of titles, including The Sims 3. Revealed during the Windows Phone 7 launch event in New York today, the Windows Phone 7 version of The Sims 3 doesn’t look…
By Mike Fahey Published October 11, 2010 -
Xbox Avatar Editing and Gaming on Windows Phone 7 in Action
Microsoft spent Monday morning walking gathered press through the release dates and details for their Windows Phone 7 phones, due to start hitting in early November. Here’s a look at the gaming they walked us through on the phone.
By Brian Crecente Published October 11, 2010 -
First Windows Phone 7 Devices Drop In November
The first wave of Windows Phone 7 devices kicks off with the November 8 release of the Samsung Focus in North America, with eight more Xbox Live-ready devices making it to market worldwide in time for the holidays. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 initiative launches on November 8 in North America with the release of the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 11, 2010 -
Windows Phone 7 Liveblog… What About The Video Games?
Here in Manhattan Microsoft is celebrating Windows Phone 7 as it heads to launch. They invited us because this phone has an Xbox Live connection. Let’s liveblog this, shall we? Also, please check out the exhaustive Windows Phone 7 coverage by our pals at Gizmodo. They have piles of previews of the final hardware.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 11, 2010 -
It Was A Trap, By The Cops!
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft So, I went into Osaka City yesterday (fashionable Minami-Horie to be precise!) to pick up a baby present for a friend. I drove, thinking I could pick up the present and hop back into my car. Easy. I pulled into a side-street and turned into another street that sat catty-corner to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 11, 2010 -
A Closer Look at the Gritty Batman: Arkham City
Developed by Rocksteady Studios, Batman: Arkham City takes players into the new maximum security prison for Gotham City’s worst criminals. The sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum is set to hit the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 next fall.
By Brian Crecente Published October 11, 2010 -
This Poor, Poor Lancia Stratos
The Lancia Stratos was arguably the most beautiful rally car ever. In its rally heyday, it was covered with Alitalia and Castrol stickers. Its heyday is over. Perfect for some otaku to cover it with stickers of visual novel developer Nitroplus. There were only a couple hundred Lancia Stratos cars ever produced. And when this…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 11, 2010 -
New Shenmue Is Not A Sega Game [Update]
A new Shenmue has been revealed. The game is headed to a Yahoo! Japan gaming site. Sega is not involved. But Shenmue’s creator is. This winter, Shenmue Town will be released in Japan for a popular social networking site. According to Shenmue composer Osamu Murata, the game is “not” a Sega title. Instead, Shenmue designer…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 11, 2010 -
A Baby Deer Does Not Have 9999 Health
Finally. A Japanese role-playing game where you slaughter defenceless little animals. This is Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch, a parody RPG for the PC that, while in most parts a little too crass for our tastes, brought chuckles with this highlight reel called simply “Animals Getting PUNISHED”. Take that, stupid monkey.
By Luke Plunkett Published October 11, 2010 -
The Kinect You Never Knew
In late 2006/early 2007, then-Xbox boss Peter Moore wanted a “Wii Killer” to be the centrepiece of Microsoft’s next E3 press conference. So he had two teams compete to try and make him one. Having seen the immediate success of the Nintendo Wii following it’s launch in late 2006, Kotaku has been told that Moore…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 11, 2010 -
Duke Nukem Devs Were More Worried About Borderlands
Borderlands is a fresh take on the first-person shooter. Even then, there was concern at developer Gearbox Software about the game standing out in the crowded FPS genre. There seems to be less of that concern for upcoming (and forever-in-development) Duke Nukem Forever. “You know I think it was more of a concern for Borderlands…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 11, 2010 -
Let’s Sell Kirby’s Epic Yarn With A Cross-Dressing Comedian
Japanese comedy duo “Hannya” are appearing in a series of TV ads for Kirby’s Epic Yarn. That’s comedian Satoshi Kanada dressed as the “girlfriend”. In the ad, Kanda gets mad because her boyfriend says things like that the in-game flowers are pretty. And in the second ad, Kanada is a Japanese salaryman, while his comedic…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 11, 2010 -
Who Needs Flower When You’ve Got LittleBigPlanet 2
The first LittleBigPlanet was home to crude recreations of various old-school games. LittleBigPlanet 2 can do a whole lot more. Like recreate Flower, a PlayStation Network game that was released not in 1989, but in 2009, and which was not a simple side-scrolling title but a 3D game that didn’t even feature a main character.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 11, 2010 -
Gears Of War Composer On Life Support
On October 6, Gears of War composer Kevin Riepl tweeted that he thought someone “roofied” him while out drinking. He’d blacked out. “Somethings effed up,” he added. “Like literally. Something knocked me out.” Within days, Riepl was on life support. By the following day, Riepl was in the hospital from where he uploaded this photo.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 11, 2010