One parent has put Modern Warfare and Halo to educational use for their four-year-old. Another believes Okami teaches values. These are the things the parents among you told us about what games do — or don’t do — for children. Yesterday, Kotaku ran a post about a mom in Orange County, California who doesn’t want…
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Finally, audio for your crotch. Packing dual high-definition speakers, a fan and a padded base, Logitech’s Speaker Lapdesk N700 promises to deliver theater-quality audio to the one place you probably thought you didn’t need it. “The Logitech Speaker Lapdesk N700 helps transform your laptop into a private theater in the cozy confines of your lap,”…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Goodbye Again Roll up the rug! Micro-Bash has been sick for most of the week. Thanks goodness for plastic buckets. (T_T) That’s a sock at the bottom of the slide. I think. What you missed last night Report: New Zelda Out By End of 2010, First DS Successor Details This…
Game-trading outlet Goozex have released some charts revealing what their most popular titles of 2009 were on the service, and included are comprehensive charts for each major video game platform. And, as you’re about to see, the lists are a little surprising, in that they differ wildly from what you’d see on sales charts. Take…
With Sony’s motion controller due later this year, some of you may be thinking ahead. To the future. A future with killer robots, alien overlords and an Uncharted 3 that maybe uses motion controls. We don’t know about the chances of the first two, sorry, but we do know that Uncharted developers Naughty Dog aren’t…
Just in time for the spring cherry blossoms, Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that Japan will be getting a “Blossom Pink” colored PSP-3000. The Blossom Pink PSP will go on sale in Japan on March 4 for ¥16,800 (US$182). A Blossom Pink PSP-3000 was released in the West last spring, making it reasonable to believe…
Last year, an EVE Online player by the name of Curzon Dax managed to earn 374 billion ISK (the multiplayer game’s own currency) from in-game investors. He then promptly took the money and ran. Claiming that he’d be launching a venture that would earn returns of 200% on any investment, Dax attracted plenty of interested…
Never mind that a mere 300,000 or so Xbox 360s were sold in Japan last year. Those who bought the console (hopefully!) enjoyed the console’s online capabilities. Note: data covers the 2009 calendar year, and overall ranking covers from 2005 to 2009. Launch dates are noted when appropriate. 2009 Xbox LIVE Arcade Top Ten Titles…
Joining Nintendo of America today in their back-slapping and high-fiving are Nintendo of Europe, who have released a number of impressive tallies for sales of both hardware and software. Hardware first! The Wii has now sold 20 million units in Europe, with 9.6 million of those owning one of the two versions of Wii Fit.…
Star Wars made actor Mark Hamill famous. And while he turned in strong performances in films such as Sam Fuller’s war opus The Big Red One, he was never quite able to move out of the shadow of Luke Skywalker. Yet, even after finding a career as a successful voice actor in cartoons and video…
In August 2009, Sega informed the eleven people still playing online mech shooter Chromehounds that one day soon, the game’s servers would be shut down, effectively “killing” the game. That day is today. Yes, sometime today, Sega and Microsoft will pull the plug on one of the early cult favourites of the Xbox 360. It…
Okay, this is it — promise. Well, for now. No more Comiket 77 cosplays! Comic Market, or Comiket, ended in late December, and the Japanese website Moeyo.com has been uploading pictures since then, day by day. The website looks like its about finished with its uploads, a subtle hint to us to get our hat…
Capcom unveiled a brand new character for their Wii 2D fighter Tatsunoko vs Capcom yesterday. Sadly, that character is somebody only 2% of you will have ever heard of. It’s Ai-chan from Yatterman, otherwise known as Yatterman 2, who joins her partner Yatterman in the game to fight some crime and, where no crime is…
In early December Tecmo Koei announced that its Fist of the North Star game, Hokuto Musou, would be released in Japan on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in simply “March 2010”. Today the company announced the exact date. That’s annoying! Post-apocalyptic martial arts manga Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken), which debuted in…
Joe Madureira, creative director on Vigil’s freshly-released Darksiders, has revealed that already talks are underway to shift the franchise into things like movies and comic books. “We’ve gotten some interest from Hollywood, we’ve talked about doing a comic series,” Madureira told VG247. “We” being publishers THQ, of course, not Vigil. “At least a couple of…
Sony and Panasonic have announced plans to increase the capacity of Blu-Ray discs (such as those used by PS3 games) from 25GB to 33.4GB. Hideo Kojima will be so pleased! According to a report from Nikkei, the increase comes courtesy of some new ways to evaluate content on the disc. Or, in more technical terms,…
In an interview with Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shimbun, Nintendo Co., Ltd. president Satoru Iwata discussed some of this year’s goals, which include releasing the newest Legend of Zelda game. High on the Japanese exec’s list was increasing the number of DS WiFi spots across the country. In Japan, the company has a deal with…
As the data indicates, the once robust Japanese game market is getting smaller each year. Surely, the Japanese gaming industry can figure out things that can be done to change this. Until then, Kotaku has taken upon itself (you’re welcome) to come up with a short list of sure-fire ways that the domestic Japanese game…
Do you remember the awe you felt first firing up Half-Life 2 in 2004? Now fire it up in 2010. It’s more like “aawwww”. Flat textures, dull lighting. It’s a shame! What this game needs, then, is a makeover. A makeover like the one provided by Filip Victor. It adds HDR lighting, new models, new…
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