Sony announced yesterday that Gran Turismo 5‘s demo “2010 Time Trial” has been downloaded over one million times since first released last month. For such a high profile title, that number’s a little…low, yes? Not to worry, as it only includes the download figures from the 17 countries participating in the actual “Time Trial”, the…
If someone asks, “Is this news?” The answer is, well, this is Japanese TV news. A morning program on Japan’s Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) did a feature on the world of “netoge haijin” or “online game invalids”. This morning show interviewed online gamers like this man. He’s a slob and his house is a complete…
Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division (which includes the Xbox 360), has told the Financial Post that most of the world’s publishers are at work on games for Project Natal, the 360’s upcoming motion control peripheral. “We have something like 70% or 80% of the publishers in the world already doing Natal-based…
Japan’s favorite gaming crime melodrama with this Yakuza 4 (Ryu Ga Gotoku 4) trailer. Tough guys and cutscenes galore! Series hero Kazuma Kiryu returns once again, and the elaborate cast is fleshed out by a homeless businessman Shun Akiyama, former detective Masayoshi Tanimura and newly released from prison yakuza Taiga Saejima (jailed for killing 18…
Games as book covers, movie posters as game covers…what’s next? How about new movies as the box art to old Atari games? Sure, why not. Aussie artist Robert Penney has re-imagined some recent flicks like Avatar, Cloverfield and Snakes on a Plane as games on a fictional, ancient “CVS” system. Prison Break is featured too,…
With all that female underwear in upcoming Japanese title Ar tonelico III, one might get the idea that the game is unfair. There’s more to life than scantily clad women. There are scantily clad men, for example. The PS3 title features men that, like the women, end up in their skimpies. One male character’s drawers…
The Detroit Auto Show’s going down in…Detroit this week, and to help market some of the new cars on show get people back into Forza 3, Microsoft have released a new DLC pack for the game. The pack contains ten cars, some from last year, some brand new and on show in Detroit this week.…
Square Enix spent years working on Final Fantasy XIII. The game was shown in prototype form at the E3 gaming expo in 2006, but was not finally released in Japan until December 2009. According to the game’s art director, Isamu Kamikokuryou, a substantial amount of these locations that were already running on actual development hardware…
Late-year surge aside, 2009 was a time of slight decline for Nintendo, spurred by a slide in sales for the once-booming Wii. And nobody felt that slide more than the company’s former boss Hiroshi Yamauchi. Yamauchi, who not only ran Nintendo from 1949 to 2002 but is also the company’s single biggest shareholder, was not…
Three days? No, two. Developer From Software‘s online reveal of Armored Core 5 is scheduled for 1.14. It’s leaked reveal from Japanese magazine is scheduled for today. Hello blurry magazine scans! According to the Famitsu article, the game’s concept is “mayhem” mechanical action. The game will feature new weapons, more robust and dramatic mission stories…
Sure, for the most part it’s still way too expensive, but Microsoft keep plugging away with their Games on Demand service for the Xbox 360, adding three more games to the lineup for the month of January. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfare 2 is out today in all regions except Japan, while Kane & Lynch is…
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We hear it a lot these days. It costs a lot to develop a game for the 360 and PlayStation 3. But have you ever wondered how much “a lot” actually is? According to research undertaken by M2 – the same guys responsible for the disturbance in the workforce study – the average cost of…
The years-in-the-making Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed. The game was slated for release this March in Japan, but publisher Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that the game’s release date is now TBA. In an official release, Sony stated the release date will be announced at a later date. The company also apologized for any…
The Tiger Woods scandal has cost the great golfer his once pristine image. He’s still a fantastic athlete; just the populous at large thinks he’s a horn dog. While the affair has meant US$12 billion in lost wealth for sponsors, EA Sports stated it would be sticking with Tiger Woods Online. “Our relationship with Tiger…
Finally, something to put a stop to the incessant rumours! It’s been announced today that Netflix’s streaming video service is officially coming to the Nintendo Wii. It’ll launch sometime in the Spring, and will be available to anyone with a Wii, an internet connection and a minimum $9 a month Netflix subscription. Like the PS3,…
On Monday, we wondered where all the 120GB hard disk drives for the Xbox 360 had got to. This GameStop promotion may help explain what’s going on. It’s offering a $50 GameStop gift voucher with every Xbox 360 Elite console sold. Out of the blue, not long after official price cuts and the holiday season.…
Look, Britain. Pull up a chair. It’s time we had a heart-to-heart. About Just Dance. And how it’s getting dangerously close to being the #1 game in the United Kingdom. I touched on how absurd this is last week, but it obviously didn’t sink in, so I’m going to re-iterate: it would be better to…
Suspension of disbelief is apparently no concern for the typical Tales of Vesperia player, as seeing Klonoa, Mr. Driller or KOS-MOS in the Namco Bandai RPG won’t be a distraction. It certainly won’t get in the way of selling downloadable content. The latest costumes to hit the PlayStation 3 version of Tales of Vesperia in…
Today’s edition of Kotaku Off Topic is kind of a downer—natural disasters and such—making me want to get away from it all. So let’s talk about vacations and travel plans. Most of my traveling is tied to working for Kotaku, flying overseas to Tokyo, Japan and wherever German gaming conventions occur. The free transport is…
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