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Brad Pitt To Star In Red Dead Redemption Movie?

Hollywood rumor mill ShowbizSpy says sources indicate movie star Brad Pitt is first in line to play John Marston in a big screen adaptation of Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. How could any one movie capture the scope and grandeur of Red Dead Redemption? Getting Brad Pitt to star in it could be a good first…

By Mike Fahey Published August 26, 2010

Nothing Bad To Say About The New Castlevania’s First Chapter

The first chapter of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is broken into five parts, parts that tour through reinventions of some of PlayStation’s best exclusive games, from God of War to Uncharted to Shadow of the Colossus. Gradually, it’s also a fine Castlevania. You’re reading the second set of glowing impressions of the latest three-dimensional Castlevania…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 26, 2010

Talk Amongst Yourselves

On Thursday here at Kotaku, we talk video games. And we talk about them right here. Today’s TAY image was made by MrSnuffles, who is now part of the very problem he criticized. Create your own Catch-22 and submit an image at #TAYpics to be featured in a future Talk Amongst Yourselves.

By Stephen Totilo Published August 26, 2010

Mmmmm Beer

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Case Zero Starting to get busy moving forward for TGS. But…Right now… I would like a beer! I haven’t had a beer in a couple of weeks, oddly. But I would like one. What you missed last night The Idol Game Metroid’s Co-Creator Made With Final Fantasy’s Creator The Bible…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010

Halo: Reach’s Live-Action “Deliver Hope” Brings the Combat To Life

Forget the civilian bickering, the standing around in the dark, Halo: Reach’s game-setting live-action videos have suddenly gotten very real, very explodey. This is the sort of video that delivers chills and the burning desire to play through a game. Starting on Aug. 29, the Deliver Hope campaign kicks off for real, with the live-action…

By Brian Crecente Published August 26, 2010

The Idol Game Metroid’s Co-Creator Made With Final Fantasy’s Creator

Hironobu Sakaguchi created Final Fantasy. Yoshio Sakamoto co-created Metroid. And in 1987, both worked together on a game with this lady, Miho Nakayma. Game company Square was interested in doing an adventure game. But not any old adventure game, but one that used the telephone. Square was gung-ho for Nintendo’s Famicom Disk System console, which…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010

Let’s Put Gran Turismo 5 Into Perspective

1987’s Test Drive had five cars. 2009’s Need for Speed: Shift had more. And at the other end of the spectrum, we have GT5 and its 200 “premium” cars and its 800 standard cars. As seen on Pixel Counterrr

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010

The Rock Band Of The Future

Most signs point towards the future being a place free of clumsy plastic instruments with our video games. On the off chance they are still around, though, we hope Rock Band plays a little like this concept clip by Freddiew. Only a little. Because while the mechanics look workable, if there was going to be…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010

Origin Of The Species

As seen on Ript

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010

Kill It With Fire? It Might Already Be Dead

This ToHeart2 figure looks like the work of the devil. Relax, because the company that released it apparently isn’t around anymore to frighten you. Japanese figure maker Taki Corporation has gone under it seems. While Taki had secured the rights to make figures for big properties like Dr. Slump and Dragonball, quality had been slipping…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010

The Bible Is Now An MMO

I’m willing to give this game a chance, because when you put the whole religious side of things in a box, the Old Testament – with its plagues and pestilence and pillars of salt – is pretty badass. The Bible Online is a new massively-multiplayer online game from German outfit FiAA, and will – over…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010

Britain Gets TV Station About Video Games

Britain is about to get a TV station – Ginx – which is entirely about video games

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010

The PS4 Doesn’t Sound Like It’ll Be Download Only

The PlayStation 3 was released in 2006. Sony has famously said the console will have a ten year console life. By that math, we can expect the PlayStation 4 sometime after 2016. But can we expect a digital-download-only console? Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai discussed digital downloads and their future in Sony consoles. “We…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010

BioShock Loses Court Case Over Its Internet Home

You’d think that the URL www.bioshock.com would take you to the official site for 2K’s BioShock series, but no, it does not. And after the publisher lost a recent court ruling, it probably never will. The domain is currently owned by Name Administration Inc., a company that specialises in…purchasing domain names then sitting on them.…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010

Hey, It’s Milla Jovovich Landing A Plane In Resident Evil

Milla Jovovich returns this fall as Alice in the latest installment in the Resident Evil film series, Resident Evil: Afterlife. She’ll be landing a plane, it seems. Good for her. Afterlife will be shown in 3D. This clip isn’t in 3D, it’s in 2D. So you’ll just have to imagine the 3D bits. Sorry! Here…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010

The Games That Made Me

In this line of work, I’m continually reminded of how big a part games like Castlevania, Mega Man and Contra played in raising a generation of gamers. Which is funny, because I never played any of them. Being raised in Australia, where the NES never really played as dominant a role as it did in…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010

Giant Gundam And No Official Parking

Over 500,000 people have visited the 1-to-1 scale Gundam near Bandai Namco’s Gundam figurine factory in Shizuoka, Japan. And there is no official on site parking. Street parking is out, too. What to do? Japanese website Byoukan Sunday has couple possible workarounds for motorists who want to visit the site — and not take public…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010

First Mega Man Online Trailer Isn’t Screwing Around

And here we were thinking Mega Man Online, the Korean MMO being worked on by Capcom and Neowiz, would be a pedestrian affair. Seems the pair have something a little more epic in mind. At least, they do in this teaser trailer for the game, which owes as as much to something like Akira as…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010

Sega Offers Larger Robot Chest Code

This December, mecha game Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Force is coming to the Xbox 360 in Japan. Sega is keeping the world abreast of its pre-order present. Those who reserve the game will get “Fetish Unlock Code” from Sega that enables players to select the chest size of Virtuaroid robots Fei Yen and her sister Angelan.…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 26, 2010

What Do The Buttons On The PlayStation Controller Mean?

The buttons on PlayStation controllers have always been a bit of a mystery. Why those weird colours? Why those wacky shapes? PlayStation designer Teiyu Goto explains. Goto, who designed not only the PlayStation but the PS2 and PS3 as well, has told Japanese magazine Famitsu that it was all about keeping it simple. “That was…pretty…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010