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Kojima Apologizes; Says ‘No Greater Crime’ than a Delay
Hideo Kojima is taking the delay (in Japan) of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker very seriously, and has posted a personal mea culpa asking for fans’ forgiveness and their continued trust. “I always preach to the staff, ‘You must not have a delay after a release date has been announced. There is no greater crime…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
Week in Games: Imagine: Regret
OMFG, they’ve made a game called Imagine: Reporter. Christ, I bought the $40,000 version of that 10 years ago at Columbia. I really have nothing to say after that. My career is officially a piece of DS shovelware. This week’s count: Seven for PC, two for Wii, one for DS, PS3, PSP and Xbox 360.…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •7 Games of the Past Decade That Have Aged Well [The Kartel] This seriously has me jonesing for some Knights of the Old Republic but…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
Gears of War 2 Sends Us a Bloody Valentine
Epic took more than 20 suggestions for experience bonuses in a Valentine’s event and Cliff Bleszinski and Rod Fergusson chose three. Epic’s Valentine’s Day “date” with Gears of War 2 will run between Feb. 8 and Feb. 14. For at least three days in that span (and maybe the whole week; they haven’t decided yet),…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
The Return of the Return to Ostagar
Is BioWare actually letting Charlie Brown kick the DLC football? Looks like Return to Ostagar, the DLC pack for Dragon Age: Origins, came back sometime yesterday to Xbox Live Marketplace and for PC download. The DLC originally went live on Jan. 14 but had to be removed because a title update created a bug within…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
Tacit Dissent: Why Great Characters Must Speak
The issue of silence in Half-Life or Fallout 3 has a long discussion history, but one critic doesn’t consider it a virtue. Stripping the voice from a main character is “a pathway into madness and schlocky conceits,” he says. Sean Sands, writing for Gamers With Jobs, says the forced silence of a character like Gordon…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: What’s He Really Playing? Edition
Two weeks ago, MTV Multiplayer’s Russ Frushtick invited Project Runway‘s Tim Gunn over to critique Mario’s fashion sense – and blast on some virtual big game. And as a ‘shop goes, this should be like shooting fish in a barrel. So, your mission should be apparent. Bear (har har) in mind that Gunn is an…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
Your Final Shot at 100 Gamerscore Just for Showing Up [Update]
Friendly reminder that beginning in about 30 minutes, Xbox 360 Achievements.org is staging one last run on NBA Live 07’s “Online with 1,000 People” achievement. This is the last chance to do it before EA shuts down the servers on Tuesday. The boosting session starts at 1 p.m. U.S. Eastern/10 a.m. U.S. Pacific. Trueachievements.com said…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
K Monthly – January 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2010 FEATURES How Cover Shaped Gaming’s Last Decade by Brian Ashcraft Are Game Companies Spoiling Their Own Games? by Luke Plunkett Bayonetta Is Not Too Sexy, But Maybe Too Serious by Lisa Foiles Why A Man Plays Mario by Stephen Totilo The 2009 eBay Holiday Video Game Grey Market Report by…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 31, 2010 -
Kotaku Off Topic: Mr. T vs. a Door
How many takes did Mr. T need to deliver his lines after that door-busting shot? The dude is 57 and you clearly see the pain on his face. It’s like he’s in the onset of a myocardial infarction. Another YouTube sensation – Ernie Anastos of WNYW-TV in New York, best known for the “Keep f***ing…
By Owen Good Published January 31, 2010 -
Tune In Monday, Feb 1 to Chat with Jonathan Knight, Executive Producer, Visceral Games
Kotaku is hosting a live chat in the comments on Monday with special guest Jonathan Knight, Executive Producer, Visceral Games. Join us at 9:30 AM PST/12:30 EST to ask him about his work on the EA game Dante’s Inferno. See you then!
By Chrissie Lamond Published January 31, 2010 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: iSlate iPad Edition Winners
Much better! Week two of Kotaku’s ‘Shop Contest went more smoothly than our debut, with several dozen entries conceiving of what games on the iPad would be like before we found out on Wednesday. Our alternate source image, of Pyramid Head and a vacuum cleaner, produced fewer entries. Here’s a gallery of the 20 best,…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 -
Bungie Definitively Shuts Down Halo: Reach/Natal Speculation
Rumors that Halo: Reach might be Natal-enabled were close to flatlining of late, but the subject never got a flat-out “no.” Well, now it has. The studio says emphatically that it is not a Natal title. That’s the newsy news out of a fun-filled “mythbusters” post Bungie put up about Halo: Reach’s development. Natal rumors…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 -
System Shock 2’s Surprise Ending — for Ken Levine, Anyway
Widely acclaimed when it released in 1999, System Shock 2’s cinematic conclusion nonetheless disappointed Irrational Games creative chief Ken Levine. The reason: The video that was shot wasn’t anything like what he had scripted. “Due to miscommunications or differing ideas, a different cinematic video was created from the one that I originally scripted,” Levine says…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 -
Three New Screens for EA Sports MMA … Plus a Broadcast?
Three new screens of EA Sports MMA show Bobby Lashley – fighting tonight at Strikeforce Miami – is another fighter signed to the title. In another development, EA Sports‘ web site will stream one of tonight’s bouts live, for free. The live stream starts at 9 p.m. U.S. Eastern time (6 p.m. Pacific) and will…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 -
GameStop: We Must Educate Customers About DLC
GameStop’s chief operating officer says the company must embrace downloadable content for the games it sells and educate its customers on its benefits, calling such a posture critical to the company’s survival. Speaking at the Game Business Law conference at Southern Methodist University, J. Paul Raines said the DLC market could see considerable growth immediately,…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 -
The Replacements, Still Replaced in Video Games
Fifteen years ago, in the infancy of console sports simulations, 38 baseball players made a choice that would ensure they would never appear in a video game. Only five of them remain in the major leagues. They crossed a picket line, an act of war to organized labor, by signing replacement player contracts with Major…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 -
Win a Football Autographed by an NFL Star
This isn’t Super Bowl weekend, it’s Pro Bowl weekend. And to liven up what is otherwise light-hitting exhibition football action, we’ve got a memorabilia giveaway courtesy of Quick Hit Football. Quick Hit, whom I’ve written about before, is the free online American football strategy simulation. They have five current NFL players appearing in the game,…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010 -
Disgaea Infinite to Hit North American PSPs in May
NIS America‘s latest Prinny Bomb communication announces that Disgaea Infinite is on the way to North America. We’ll see it in May. This will be NIS’s first visual novel, a popular genre in Japan, published in the United States. According to the announcement, players can play with a Prinny as the main character, and they…
By Owen Good Published January 30, 2010