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How Much Did Gran Turismo 5 Cost To Make?

Gran Turismo 5 has been years in the making. Last time we checked, years are not cheap. Years are expensive. When asked by AutoWeek about the game’s budget, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi dropped this price tag: $60 million. “There are other games that cost more,” Yamauchi added. “Considering the size and scale of the…

PS3 Netflix Streaming Discs Are In The Mail

Movie-hungry PlayStation 3 owners are flooding our tips email with notifications that Netflix is now shipping out the Instant Streaming discs for the PS3 version of the streaming video service. When close to a dozen emails show up in our inbox all at once, you know a company has sent out a mass mailing! Several…

PS3 Exclusive Bad Company 2 Multiplayer Beta Confirmed

EA confirms that the PlayStation 3 exclusive multiplayer beta for Battlefield: Bad Company is launching this month, with a multiplayer demo hitting all platforms early next year. Earlier this week EA DICE shot down rumors of a November 19th launch date for the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer beta for PS3 owners, but now it…

Modern Warfare 2 Midnight Openings

More than 500 Best Buys and 4,200 GameStops nationwide will be hosting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 midnight launch events next week. The participating Best Buy stores will start selling Modern Warfare 2 at 12:01 a.m. this Tuesday. GameStop tells me that 4,250 of their 4,360 stores will also be selling at midnight and…

A Colorful Cake For A Colorful Racer

Crafted by a Need for Speed: Nitro DS artist’s fiancée to celebrate his first game.

Final Darkside Chronicles Trailer Kicks Dog In The Face

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles hits the Nintendo Wii on November 17th, and here’s the final trailer, filled with hot undead dog-kicking action. Capcom makes on-rails shooters look so very fine. Generally one of my least favorite genres next to that one where you poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick, this trailer…

Carmack on iPhone Fallout, Quake Live and Elves and Orcs

What started as a lark, playing around with an operating system that would allow Doom creator John Carmack to quickly produce portables games, has become a thriving business, the famed developer tells Kotaku. “Wolfenstein Classic was my original experiment on whether a first-person shooter would be any fun on the iPhone,” he said. “It did…

A Visual Tour Of Mytheon’s Hot Spots

Petroglyph and True Games have released a set of screenshots detailing the various environments found in the upcoming online action RPG Mytheon. Let’s take a tour of Colchis, The Dominion of Hades, and The Shattered Isle. Mytheon is an online PC game that combines action RPG gameplay with an element of collectible strategy games. Players…

Epic Sets The Unreal Engine Free

Everyone else is using the Unreal Engine 3 for game development, so why shouldn’t you? Epic Games has just released the Unreal Development Kit, a free edition of the Unreal Engine 3 for everybody. Outside of mod tools included in the PC versions of Gears of War or Unreal games, the only way to get…

A Look At Kmart’s Black Friday Game Sales

Walmart isn’t the only retailer planning to knock down prices this month for video games. We’ve gotten our hands on the flier showing of Kmart’s big Black Friday deals as well. The deals listed, which hit the day after Thanksgiving, include DSi bundles for $170 that come with five free games and a $25 Nintendo…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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College, Why The Hell Are You So Expensive?

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: TK Recently opened college savings accounts for Mini and Micro-Bash. Japanese universities can get expensive, but not crazy expensive like American universities. US schools are over priced — how can tuition keep going up year after year? What you missed last night I Clothe Gamers Valve: British People Are Quiet…

Dragon Quest IX Is The Biggest-Selling Game In The World

Joint figures released by the NPD Group, GfK and Enterbrain have revealed that Square Enix’s Dragon Quest IX – a DS game unavailable outside Japan – was the biggest-selling game in the world between July and September. The handheld RPG sold 3.93 million units, well clear of Wii Sports Resort, the game in second place…

Mass Effect 2 Collector’s Edition Includes DVD, Book, Comic

Electronic Arts plans to ship a “limited quantity” of Mass Effect 2 Collectors’ Editions when the space role-playing game hits the PC and Xbox 360 in late January. The collector’s edition will come in a tin case and include the game, a 48-page hardcover “Art of Mass Effect 2” book, Issue 1 of the Mass…

I Clothe Gamers

It wasn’t my idea to start a clothing line. It took some convincing, gentle arm-twisting from a friend who often knows me better than I know myself. That coercion worked. We started a business. And I had no idea what I was getting myself into at the time. Looking back, the timing of founding Meat…

Time Flies In Liberty City

Say what you will about the merits of Grand Theft Auto IV as a game, there’s no disputing how magnificent a technical achievement it is. After all, few games could make a clip like this so interesting. It’s 15 days in Liberty City, recorded via timelapse. Hypnotising, no? Sadly, it’s not embeddable, so you’ll have…

What Game Made You Cry The Most?

Japan’s Oricon Life polled 500 men between the ages of teen and 40-something about which games have made them cry the most and complied a list of the top five. Weepy drumroll please… 5. Mother 2 4. Clannad 3. Final Fantasy VII 2. Dragon Quest V 1. Final Fantasy X What about you? What game…

REO Speedwagon: The Game: No This Is Not A Joke

An REO Speedwagon game. Mull that sentence over for a while, and your mind darts between reactions. Namely, from amused, to confused, to bewildered, then back to amused, via a short stop-over utter disbelief. Called “Find Your Own Way Home”, it doesn’t sound like much of a game – it’s billed as a “hidden object…

Valve: British People Are Quiet

British people, speak up! According to Valve’s Chet Faliszek, those gamers in the U.K. are quiet. “One thing I wanted to add before I go for you Brits: communicate. Don’t be scared of a microphone,” said Faliszek. “You guys are notorious non-talkers on both 360 and PC. Americans are just chattering away, working together as…

Katamari Creator “Not Suited” To Games Industry

Keita Takahashi is a creative guy. Pads around bare-foot, comes up with stuff like Katamari Damacy. We love him for it, but at the same time, get the impression his heart’s just not in it anymore. It’s not a feeling inspired by playing his games. Katamari was great, Noby Noby Boy, also great. It’s based…