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EA: We Will Not Charge For “Traditionally Free Game Demos”

Electronic Arts tells Kotaku that while they’re exploring different downloadable game strategies, they do not plan to charge gamers for “traditionally free game demos.” The clarification comes after word hit via analyst Michael Pachter’s visit to Electronic Arts, that the company planned to grow their digital game business in part by release what EA called…

Smash Bros., Metroid, Scribblenauts Creators Making Free WarioWare Microgames

Nintendo’s upcoming WarioWare: D.I.Y., the game that lets players create their own playable microgames, is tapping a handful of all-star developers to create free downloadable content, including the makers of games like Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Metroid and Scribblenauts. Followers of WarioWare: D.I.Y. may already be aware of Nintendo’s celebrity-made microgame giveaways. The Japanese version…

Know Your Red Steel 2 Weapons

Ubisoft’s Red Steel 2 hits stores this week, so you’d best get familiar with the weapons you’ll be using to get the job done. While I’ve yet to play the game (or have any reason to attach my Wii Motion Plus at all for that matter), the style certainly has captured my attention. Then again,…

Six Days In Fallujah Dev Gives Birth To Breach

Developer Atomic Games, perhaps best known for its missing in action shooter Six Days In Fallujah but also responsible for the V for Victory series, has a new “multiplayer title for consoles and personal computers” that will “blow your mind.” Or so says official word from Atomic Games, revealing the title of its newest game…

Red Dead Redemption Box Art Is Redder Than Ever

This is the third time we’ve posted a completely different version of the official box art for Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. Hopefully it’ll also be the last, but we’re not promising anything. First there was the stylistic cowboy. Then came a slightly more realistically-colored version of that same box art. Now we’ve lost the cowboy…

Ultima Creator May Already Own Some Of The Moon

Richard Garriott, space tourist, rat tail enthusiast, and creator of Ultima and Tabula Rasa (RIP), may also be the first private citizen to have a legitimate claim to ownership of a good portion of the moon. How, exactly, did Garriott become a possible lunar land owner? Well, way back in 1993, the man known in…

PSN This Week: Hamsters Triumphantly Reclaim Monkey Balls

Marble Madness meets Super Monkey Ball this week on the PlayStation Network, as TikGames reveals Hamsterball, the game that reclaims running balls for adorable rodents everywhere. TikGames’ Howard Lehr is the one that calls Hamsterball Marble Madness meets Super Monkey Ball in the PlayStation Blog post revealing the new title, downloadable this Thursday for $9.99.…

The First Console Game With Facebook Publishing

Closet Buzz!: Quiz World fans will be outing themselves all over Facebook this week, as a patch makes the PlayStation 3 trivia game the first console title with true in-game Facebook publishing. While we’ve seen several console games utilizing Twitter to keep friends up-to-date with player progress, none have allowed players to publish updates directly…

Nintendo DSi XL Delivery Comes With a Five-Foot Surprise

A delivery man just brought this to my door. Inside, a DSi XL for reviewing. But what he left in his truck was more interesting. “I’ve got a five-foot sub for ya,” he said smiling. For me??? You know how I love my sandwiches, especially when they are subs delivered to my home. Was this…

Super Guide, Vitality Sensor and Netflix DS: A Conversation With Nintendo

While both Sony and Microsoft are focusing on their own forms of motion gaming this year, Nintendo plans to continue their efforts to change the way we play games. Speaking with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime recently, the charismatic executive walked me through some of Nintendo’s 2010 game plans including the publisher’s push to…

The Nintendo Download: This Is The Story Of A Cave

It’s Cave Story week on the Nintendo Download, and Nintendo has gotten every other WiiWare game out of the way in order to make sure Studio Pixel’s eagerly anticipated action adventure has center stage. IT feels like we’ve been waiting forever, but we don’t have to wait no more. Cave Story for WiiWare is here,…

iPhone Chart Toppers: Waiting For a New Challenger!

Street Fighter IV, despite my love/hate relationship with the game, remains in the top spot of the charts this week. Have you picked it up yet? Here’s the full list of games: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews Position Title Price Weeks Last Week…

Side-Scrolling Team Fortress 2 Mod Ready For Download

If you were as impressed as we were by Dylan ‘Steaky’ Loney’s Team Fortress 2 mod The Great Class Dash, which turned Valve’s first-person shooter into a side-scrolling platformer, then you’ll be glad to hear it’s now available for download. We fell in love with The Great Class Dash from the moment we saw the…

Amazon Rolls Out The PlayStation 3 Deals All Day Long

Dante’s Inferno at $38.99 might not be that great of a PlayStation 3 game deal, but if you hurry you can score Tekken 6 for $17.99 as part of a day filled with PS3 deals on Amazon.com. It’s PlayStation 3 Gold Box deal day at Amazon.com, and the deals are going fast. We’ve already missed…

Accused Game Cheater Gets Knife Through Head and Survives

An argument between Counter-Strike players at a Chinese net café over suspected use of a ‘wallhack’ cheat led to a 17-year-old boy being stabbed through the head with a foot-long knife – and living to tell the tale. (Graphic Photo) Counter-Strike players in the Jilin province of China take cheating extremely seriously, as evidenced by…

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Kotaku’s PAX Reader Meet-Up: This Friday, March 26

Meet the Kotaku editors in town for PAX East, then hang at the Alienware afterparty where you (and they) can experience the new Alienware systems! Reader meet-up will be held at the 33 Lounge, 33 Stanhope Street, Boston, MA, from 8-10:30pm.

A Bit More Info On The Makers of Dead Space’s Next, Mysterious Game

Late last year two unearthed trademark applications seemed to lend credence to rumors that Electronic Arts was working on a game based on Jack the Ripper, but we haven’t heard anything new about the game since… until now. Buried in analyst Michael Pachter’s report on his recent visit to Electronic Arts is a single mention…

A Kick-Ass Trailer For The Kick-Ass Movie Game?

The characters from the movie based off of Mark Millar’s comic book Kick-Ass completely kick ass in this trailer for WHA Entertainment’s video game adaptation for the iPhone and PlayStation Network, and somehow that doesn’t seem right. Then again I’ve read the comic book series several times over, and I haven’t seen the film yet,…

Electronic Arts Plans to Make You Pay for Glorified Game Demos?

Electronic Arts plans to grow its digital game business to become one-third of their total revenue over the next few years and that includes starting to charge for what one analyst described as very long game demos. The comments came during an analyst visit to Electronic Arts’ Redwood City headquarters and meetings with the company’s…