Uncategorized

Brees — and New Orleans — Grace the Madden NFL 11 Cover

New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees was, as anticipated, named the Madden NFL 11 cover athlete today, appearing over a montage that honors the team and home city as well as the player. The Saints’ triumph in Super Bowl XLIV was, like it or not, a national feel-good story considering the city’s history in the aftermath…

The Best (Kotaku) WarioWare Games You’ll Ever Play

Last week we asked you to impress us and you have succeeded. On April 12 we kicked off our WarioWare D.I.Y contest with a call to wannabe game developers to create the best Kotaku-themed game. The rules were simple, you had to be the right age and live in the right place and you had…

ghostwire screens

Mega Man Creator To Assure Capcom’s Future

The man behind some of Capcom’s biggest video game creations is now in charge of personally assuring that all of the developer’s titles are hits. “It’s a common comment I hear that games created in Europe aren’t really Capcom games,” said Keiji Inafune, the man behind Mega Man, Dead Rising and Onimusha. “That games created…

Seventy-Three Sega Employees Restructured Out Of Their Jobs

Staff cuts have struck Sega London and San Francisco today, as an email from Corporate Operations Officer Masanao Maeda informs employees of the termination of a combined 73 positions between the two locations. In the email, forwarded to Kotaku from several different sources today, Maeda cites a reorganization of Sega’s business in the American and…

Legal Battle Over Fallout MMO Continues

The legal battle between Fallout IP holder Bethesda and original creator Interplay rages on, despite a dropped appeal granting false hopes to fans eager for a massively-multiplayer online Fallout title. Last September, Bethesda, the current owner of the Fallout intellectual property, filed a lawsuit against Interplay, the studio that created Fallout, claiming trademark infringement due…

Jill Valentine

His Traveling Companion is 3-Inches Tall

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono tells Kotaku he takes mini-Blanka with him whenever he travels, snapping pics of the plastic pugilist everywhere he goes.

Dead Rising, Gears of War, Resident Evil Represent in Lost Planet 2

Lost Planet 2 isn’t just a third-person shooter with a robust storyline and oodles of online gameplay options, it’s also a game with a quirky sense of humor. Take for instance the inclusion of these odd choices in character customization. Gears of War’s Marcus Felix, Resident Evil’s Wesker and Dead Rising’s Frank West all make…

PETA Doesn’t Want Animals In The Mafia

Reacting to yesterday’s news that popular Facebook game Mafia Wars is adding animals as weapons, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals requests developer reconsider, using Zynga founder Mark Pincus’ own beloved pet as ammunition. Pit bulls, tigers, and lions are among a few of the animals that Mafia Wars, a social game that’s…

This Week In Comics

As is so often the case, the press I’m reading about comics is about crossovers. Blackest Night. Siege. They are, despite the hate they get — the suspect claims of “event fatigue” — the most popular thing in comics. Technically, we’re at something of a lull in crossover comics. DC just finished their Blackest Night…

A Look At the Real, Not-So-Sexy Samurai of Capcom’s Latest Game

Fact is never as sexy as fiction. That’s painfully obvious when comparing the in-game looks of some of Japan’s most famous samurai to their real world appearance. In Sangoku Basara Samurai Heroes, you take on the role of a historic samurai during Japan’s Warring states period. But somehow these famous generals end up looking like…

Final Fantasy XIII PlayStation Home Items Come To North America

Let your Final Fantasy fanhood ring across the hallowed halls and cubbyholes of PlayStation Home today, as Final Fantasy XIII avatar items, costumes, and spaces make their way to North America. You might recall the gear that made its way to the Japanese version of PlayStation Home last year. The costumes transforming avatars into generic…

The Accidental Love Child of Wii Fit And WarioWare

EA Sports Active 2.0 is probably going to be a healthy product when it is released: software marshaled for good. EA Sports Active 2.0 as demonstrated for me last night was something else, something somewhat intriguing and probably, amusingly dangerous. You see, EA Sports Active 2.0, set for PlayStation 3 and Wii release late this…

Dead Rising Star Passes Through Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing

Players passing through an abandoned pool hall in Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing might catch a glimpse of the last words of a Capcom character who has covered wars, you know. Possible Dead Rising spoilers ahead? Behold the final words of Frank West, another victim of the zombie apocalypse. Left without film, without a…

Marvel Vs. Capcom Comic Books a “Natural Thing” [Update]

A Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 comic book mini-series is under discussion at both companies, the makers of the Street Fighter comic book series tells Kotaku. While Marvel declined to confirm that they were discussing the creation of a limited run comic book based on the upcoming game, Marvel’s Chris Baker told Kotaku that Marvel Vs.…

The Luxuries And Problems With Six-Screen Gaming

Six monitors, bolted together, might make your gaming better. It will certainly make it take up more room and, as Kotaku learned yesterday, it introduces a couple of new complications. Complication 1: It’s expensive. Yesterday, in New York, I got to see graphics-card-maker AMD’s six-monitor gaming set-up in action. They call it the Eyefinity 6,…

MAG Deploys Free Fast Attack Gear Pack

Zipper Interactive unzips its second free downloadable content for massive multiplayer shooter MAG next week, with a trio of special edition sniper rifles ready to make life more difficult for players with a love for wide-open spaces. The second dose of free MAG DLC is known as the Fast Attack Gear Pack, focusing on players…

Who Shouldn’t Be In Marvel Vs. Capcom 3?

Yesterday we asked you to tell us who you wanted to see in Capcom’s upcoming fighter Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. That was the easy question, now the hard one. Who wouldn’t you want to see in the game set for the PS3 and Xbox 360 next year? I bugged both Capcom and Marvel folks about…

Live Action Alan Wake Prequel Channels Twin Peaks

What mysteries lurk within the eerie mountain town of Alan Wake’s Bright Falls? Find out this Sunday, when the first two episodes of a six-part live action prequel series show up on Xbox Live. Acclaimed short film director Philip Van takes us on an eerie, suspense-filled tour of Alan Wake’s setting in “Bright Falls,” a…