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Recruit Metal Gear Creator In Next Metal Gear Game
Metal Gear Solid creative mastermind Hideo Kojima is now also a video game character. The PSP’s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker lets us recruit virtual Kojima and put him to work. Hideo Kojima is the God of Peace Walker [Andriasang]
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2010 -
Who Needs Health Packs When We’ve Got Lasers And Nanotech?
While we’re busy fumbling through dark corridors and navigating twisting platforms searching for health packs, food, and other esoteric life-saving items, the Air Force is healing wounds with lasers and nanotechnology. Even the futuristic space adventurers in Star Trek Online are chowing down on food to help regain health, while our military pioneers technology that…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 -
Every Girl’s Crazy ‘Bout a Sharp Dressed Avatar
Clothing puts flesh on the avatar. I’m with Tim Gunn on this one (and really in a sense anthropologists and sociologists before him, like Erving Goffman), fashion is a form of rhetoric. What you put on tends to communicate, be your desire to align yourself with your favorite sports team or with a musical subculture,…
G. Christopher Williams Published May 6, 2010 -
Report: Gears Of War 3 Is Like Waterworld, Minus Kevin Costner [CORRECTION]
According to translations of a big Gears of War 3 piece in a Russian gaming mag, giving us our first real details on the game, Epic’s upcoming shooter will take place on the open sea. The story below was originally published on Kotaku on May 5, based on a translated article. A correction/clarification follows. There…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2010 -
EVE Online Pumps Out Another Amazing Trailer
CCP makes outer space look good, and the trend continues with the trailer for EVE Online: Tyrannis, an expansion pack due out this month for the sci-fi MMO that finally opens up New Eden’s planets to resource-hungry players. For seven years now, EVE Online players have been mining asteroids, ignoring planets filled with delicious, profit-heavy…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 -
The Top 50 Video Game Franchises Of All Time, Voted By Gamers
The 2010 Guinness Book of World Records Gamer’s Edition features a list of the Top 50 video game series as voted by the gaming public. Which series came out on top between The Legend of Zelda, Call of Duty, and Halo? Instead of opting to go with game review scores or a board of experts,…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 -
How To Role-Play Your Way Into Becoming A PlayStation 3 Developer
James Marsden, the managing director of developer FuturLab, explains how a budding Flash developer managed to catch the eye and funding of Sony Computer Entertainment. Apparently the key lies in impressing the hell out of everyone, and LARPing. In 2007 Marsden had just finished building FuturLab’s Flash game engine PRISM, and he and his team…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 -
Monopoly Gets The Grand Theft Auto III Treatment
After years of top-down and isometric views, EA is taking the Monopoly franchise to the streets, transforming it from board game to a “dynamic, living, 3D world.” Will this be Monopoly’s Grand Theft Auto III? While the Grand Theft Auto series is known today for creating living, breathing, immersive 3D worlds, the series started off…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 -
More World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Info Than You Can Handle
Say hello to Deathwing the Destroyer, the dragon whose escape from the plane of earth causes devastating changes to the world of Azeroth. It’s just one of hundreds of screens in MMO Champion’s massive World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha update. MMO Champion has access to the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm alpha client, and they’ve posted…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2010 -
Can Harry Potter Help Redeem Video Gaming’s Soul?
There are two ways that video games might corrupt the people who play them. There are two popular elements that two crowds of people detest, two elements that games usually have more of with each passing year. Violence is the first. Collecting is the second. The former — virtual killing and maiming and blowing things…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2010 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Matchmaking for Talk Amongst Yourselves begins any second now. We’ll be talking about games here in the comments. Anyone want to vote on a map and modes for TAY today? (I’m voting against Oddball.) Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2010 -
Next Silent Hill Movie Begins Filming This Spring
The sequel to 2006’s Silent Hill will begin shooting in Toronto this coming spring, the film’s producer says. Speaking with Fear.Net, Don Carmody, the producer of both Silent Hill films and the upcoming Resident Evil: Afterlife, said that production on Silent Hill 2 is moving forward despite the hate mail he is receiving about it.…
By Brian Crecente Published May 6, 2010 -
Back In The Saddle
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Kata One day off, recharged, now ready to rock ‘n’ roll. Whenever I take a day off, I feel like I need a couple hours just to play catch up. What you missed last night Let’s Compare Gears of War 1, 2 and 3 Wii Sales Down 21% In A…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2010 -
This Is SEGA’s DRM Solution
Nobody like DRM, AKA Digital Rights Management. Game companies, however, seem to think they need it. Japan-based game company SEGA has come up with its own in-house DRM solution and has explained what exactly it is. The DRM solution will be included in SEGA’s espionage-themed action role-playing game, Alpha Protocol. Here is a breakdown on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2010 -
Shinning Wind? More Like Shinning Bikini
Shinning Wind figures seems to all have one thing in common: a dearth of clothing. These latest Shinning Wind figures are no exception. Last month, a US$100 figurine of Forest Goddess Elwyn was released. This latest batch of bikini version Shinning Wind figurines feature characters Clalaclan Philias, Kanon Seena and Touka Kureha. They’re priced at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2010 -
European PlayStation Store Sneezes, Falls Over
European PlayStation 3 owners had a bit of trouble yesterday, with their PlayStation Store wallet and purchasing system falling down, while problems also beset those trying to get their hands on Modern Warfare 2’s downloadable content. Issues reported to Sony by users included freeze-ups while trying to enter money into their PSN wallet, transactions showing…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2010 -
Why Do You Think Wii Sales Have Slowed?
The Nintendo Wii, a hugely successful console, is experiencing a sales slowdown. Wii sales are down 21 percent — the biggest decline since the console launched in 2006. But why? It is important to keep in mind that the Wii has been a juggernaut, running rings around the competition. So even when Wii sales drop…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2010
