There are four new expansions coming from Rockstar Games for the hit Western Red Dead Redemption. One of them will bring zombies. Plus… new animals? Red Dead Revolver characters? Anti-griefing somethings-or-other? Rockstar outlined the four new paid expansions to Red Dead Redemption today, promising the next one for August and the following downloadable packs in…
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The first details we saw about Dragon Age 2 were not shocking. New game, new hero. The second batch of details? Consider the eyes of Kotaku raised. Over on the official Dragon Age 2 webpage, we’ve got ourselves some sequel details to ponder: * Embark upon an all-new adventure that takes place across an entire…
Music from A Tribe Called Quest, LL Cool J and Ludacris are among the songs unveiled today that will be appearing on the upcoming hip hop game Def Jam Rapstar. Coming October 5th to the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, Rapstar will include more than 40 songs and a number of producers. Producers will be…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Shipping Out Sorry to hear about the fam. Paul is in my thoughts and prayers. What you missed last night EA Makes Dragon Age 2 Official, BioWare Teases Reveal Tomorrow Dragon Age 2: New Game, New Hero Not All Pirates Were As Nice As Guybrush Threepwood Rockstar Re-Releasing The Greatest…
When the PS3 launched in 2006, the SIXAXIS controller did not have rumble support. It had motion control, but like I just said, no rumble. And I found myself playing more Xbox 360 games. It wasn’t because Xbox 360 games were better. No, it was because Xbox 360 games could be played on a controller…
Good news, long-suffering FIFA fans on the PC! The current engine used on the 360/PS3 games is finally making its way to the PC, just in time for FIFA 11.
The 1/1 scale Gundam has been erected. See it? It is erect. The giant mecha looms over Shizuoka, Japan, home of Bandai Namco’s Gundam plastic model factory This Gundam statue will be up until March 2011. Go on, go see it. You know you want to. I know I do. Giant Gundam Dominates Shizuoka [NSFW…
It may have had its cover blown yesterday, but don’t let that rain on your parade: Dragon Age 2 has made its public debut today. The game, shown off on the cover of the latest issue of Game Informer magazine, is an all-new title (despite coming so soon after the last game), stars a new…
Burger King’s triumphant return to the Xbox 360 doesn’t look to be anywhere near as cool as it was last time around. Last time, you could get a series of cheap, terrible games from the fast food retailer that despite their awfulness, still had a certain charm you can only find in tacky, expensive pieces…
Sadly, it’s not an actual work of pulp fiction, just a piece by Kelvin Chan. As seen on on Rocketraygun, via Gamesetwatch
Game studio Insomniac Games has created a slew of exclusive titles for the PlayStation platform. Franchises like Ratchet & Clank and Resistance are PlayStation hallmarks. The day of Insomniac making only PS games are over. Earlier this year, Insomniac struck a partnership with Electronic Arts to make a new franchise for both the PS3 and…
Ni no Kuni, a joint project being worked on by Level 5 and animation legends Studio Ghibli, will be released in Western markets, Level 5’s CEO has confirmed. Speaking with Nintendo Power, Akihiro Hino says that his company is looking at increasing the number of games released in the US and Europe, with specific examples…
The release this week of Monkey Island 2: Special Edition has many people revisiting the lighter side of piracy in the Caribbean. If only real pirates had been that funny! Like Vikings, Pirates have always held a curiously romantic position in popular consciousness, people idolising the men (and women) involved and their exploits despite a…
This summer, Konami is offering fans of its Nintendo DS love simulator Love Plus the chance to do something very special: Pay lots of money to go on vacation with their virtual girlfriend. For ¥39,800 (US$451), you can go on a two-day, one-night Love Plus bus tour of Atami, a city in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture.…
World of Warcraft developer Blizzard’s decision to force users to use their real names on the game’s forum has some people in an uproar. Maybe those upset by the move should take it up with Korean lawmakers. That’s a theory put forward by Harvard student and former online security consultant Oliver Day, who points out…
Curiously, a new rating turned up yesterday on Australia’s Classification Board website for a game that was first released nearly eight years ago. Wonder why that would be? As you can see below, the rating is fresh as of yesterday, for what’s tagged as a “modified” version of the classic Grand Theft Auto title Vice…
Upcoming Wii game The Last Story is being designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man responsible for Final Fantasy. No, he is not a nihilist, and from the looks of this trailer, neither is The Last Story. The game is set on an island that is a strategic sport for defense and transportation for an an…
Nope, not Halo. Not Gears of War. Third-person action-shooter Vanquish is drawing from something else. In a recent blog post, game designer Shinji Mikami describes how he “spent a year and a half staring out of a window” after he finished 2006 brawler God Hand for the PS2 and no longer had a team to…
This month, Japanese online retailer Rakuten.com decided the language that was used internally by the company would no longer be Japanese. By 2012, the company’s official in-house language will be English. That would mean all meetings would be conducted in English and all internal documents would be in English. English, English, English! Rakuten has been…
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