When the Xbox Live Gold Family plan hits Xbox Live this November, you may not have to pay a penny to sign up, depending on how many existing paid accounts you have. The Family plan includes four one-year Xbox Live gold memberships for $100. Currently, one-year gold memberships run about $50 a pop. So how,…
When more than 40 people in their 20s stalk the streets of Brooklyn with concealed water guns, that can only mean one thing; a gang war game of CounterSquirt is going down. Earlier this month, NYC’s Come Out & Play Festival held a tactical water gun battle. Equipped with dollar-store water pistols, three colored wristbands…
We here at Kotaku do love blending booze and gaming and by we, I mean me. That’s why I was delighted to be reintroduced to Drinken Moogle, home to all things alcohol and gaming, including quite a few game-themed drinks, like the StarCraft II Creep! I wonder if The Drunken Moogle has either of the…
The scariest element of the original Dead Rising video game wasn’t the oil slick of zombies flooding the game’s vast shopping mall. It was the game’s save system. Series creator Keiji Inafune has heard the screams. The sequel is different. This summer’s Dead Rising 2, set in a city based on Las Vegas, will let…
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Due out this Sunday, shoot-em-up Sin & Punishment: Star Successor is a bullet-filled video game that paints a tapestry of enemies and damage for you to weave your way through. Looks… easy? No, I don’t think so.
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Last year, it was revealed that Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura originally conceived with chainsaws. “There things I wanted to do [with Kingdom Hearts]”, Nomura recently told Kotaku, “but things that were not allowed.” Maybe like chainsaws? Obviously, you can’t have Mickey Mouse wield a chainsaw. (Well, I guess you could. And I guess it…
In The Land of the Rising Sun, Pro Evolution Soccer is known as Winning Eleven. Ironic, as the Japanese national team traditionally hasn’t been winning. Until recently, that is. One of the key reasons why Winning Eleven has been so popular in Japan is the attention to detail for the Japanese players — players which…
Okami is a PlayStation 2 classic. The game is getting a spin-off called Okamiden for the Nintendo DS. Does it look like it’s a worthy successor to the original? During my hands on with the game at E3, I was impressed with how the game look. The art style is beautiful — but, it wasn’t…
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Zombrex Dead Rising Sun, the movie inspired by Dead Rising and directed by Mega-Man creator Keiji Inafune, will be distributed digitally for free in North America and Europe. Free? That’s the nice price!
The iPhone 4 has been released. Perhaps you bought one. Perhaps not. But if you did, you should play games on it. No, really. You should. As previously mentioned, the beefed up iPhone 4 sports better graphics and supports 3D motion gaming. It also has a second camera Many games have gotten updates to support…
For your viewing pleasure! Or displeasure? Website PC Watch has dissected the new, smaller 250GB Xbox 360. Have a look at the console’s innards. Think of this as a service. They take apart the console so you don’t have too! That’s so nice. 新型Xbox 360米国版ハードウェアレポート 〜小型で省電力、シンプルな基板 [PC Watch]
Slated to helm Spider-Man 4, director Sam Raimi walked away from the project earlier this year. He is currently working on something that could very well be bigger. Much bigger. It was made public last summer that Sam Raimi has signed on to bring Blizzard’s massively multiplayer online game to the silver screen as “Warcraft”.…
Almost two years after Wii Sports launched, Japanese game company Hudson released Deca Sports in 2008. The game was a collection of ten motion-controlled sports games. Now, it’s 2010 and Microsoft is launching its own motion control system, Kinect. And Hudson has a collection of remote-free mini-sports games for Kinect called Deca Sports Freedom. The…
Because, well, um, yeah…. Sad, but true: Anytime I see anyone naked doing anything related to gaming, the first question that pops in my head is whether or not I am watching something viral. [via 9GAG]
According to trade site Develop, “one of the biggest game companies in the world” has “sabotaged” plans to provide tax breaks for UK developers. That’s one juicy scandal. The British government had pledged to provide the breaks, aimed at propping up a decline in the number of UK developers. That was until, Develop says, a…
In Fable II, lazy players like me (hello!) could use a loophole in the game to do something very important: Earn lots of in-game cash quick By setting the Xbox 360’s clock forward and then starting the game, Fable II would be fooled into giving players all the money have were supposed to have earned…
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