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Mac Users Will Get to Experience the Game of the Year — for 2007
Porting shop Feral Interactive has announced that they’re bringing BioShock to the Mac more than two years after its original release. Mac users’ immediate response was “What’s a BioShock?” I say that as a 23-year user and consumer of Mac products, too. It’s no fault of Feral, they can only buy the rights to games…
By Owen Good Published September 24, 2009 -
Sony Nixes Plans For UMD Conversion Program For PSPGo
Playstation Portable owners will not be able to transfer the disc-based UMD games they own to a PSPgo when the sleek new digital-only system launches next week, Sony officials told Kotaku today. “We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this…
By Brian Crecente Published September 24, 2009 -
New Snoopy Screens For Flying Aces
It’s been a while since Snoopy vs. The Red Baron, so I for one am thrilled to see him flying the skies once again in Snoopy Flying Aces. From what I can tell based on a press release and on these screen shots, this Xbox Live Arcade game looks like it’s got online multiplayer. And…
By AJ Glasser Published September 24, 2009 -
NBA 2K10 Features Rasheed Wallace Having a Fred Sanford Heart Attack
Boston’s Kevin Garnett finishes off the alley-oop in this latest gameplay trailer, and newly acquired Rasheed Wallace gets up to inform Elizabeth he’s coming to join her. Another solid minute of dunk animations and gameplay from NBA 2K10.
By Owen Good Published September 24, 2009 -
Pacific City Still Not Pacified in Crackdown 2
Four new Crackdown screens from Microsoft show you what to expect in Pacific City, still in the throes of a crime war. The last depicts a mutated foe, previewing the virus outbreak that will make your adventures more challenging.
By Owen Good Published September 24, 2009 -
A Look At Tekken 6’s Scenario Campaign Mode
When you aren’t kicking the living hell out of total strangers via Tekken 6’s online multiplayer mode, you might fancy a play through the co-op Scenario Campaign mode. Here’s some new screens from it. I’ve never been a huge fan of the additional modes added to the console versions of the Tekken series, as they’ve…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 -
The Voice Of A Master: James Arnold Taylor
I got a lot out of LucasArts’ Clone Wars junket, but the best treat was meeting the man behind the voices of Tidus, Ratchet and of course Obi-Wan Kenobi. Journalists were given about 20 minutes with Mr. Taylor (pictured, left) during the junket for a roundtable Q&A. Naturally, I had to let the TV critics…
By AJ Glasser Published September 24, 2009 -
Week Of Disney: When A Games Journalist Moonlights
GamesRadar is doing Disney theme week to celebrate the upcoming release of Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days and yours truly was lucky enough to participate. So if you ever wonder what I do when I’m not blogging my little heart out for Kotaku, go check out this massive feature I put together on the history of…
By AJ Glasser Published September 24, 2009 -
8 Minutes Of Modern Warfare 2 Story Mode
There’s no telling where this cam-footage of an entire Modern Warfare 2 mission came from, but there’s no mistaking it for any other game. A reader pointed us to the YouTube version of this clip, uploaded by a user named “kajsghkjab” as his sole YouTube contribution, so we’re guessing that he probably doesn’t want fame…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 -
Valve Appeals Australia Ban of Left 4 Dead 2
Couched in an update of Left 4 Dead’s ratings status in 11 locations is news the publisher on Wednesday appealed Australia’s refusal to classify the game, effectively banning it for sale there. No other comment was given in the announcement. I’ve emailed Valve to ask for a little more detail on the case they’ve presented…
By Owen Good Published September 24, 2009 -
Love Is An Open Alpha
A labor of love should be shared by all, so Eskil Steenberg has opened up the first alpha test for his procedurally-generated MMO Love to all comers, though be warned – the test is extremely limited. How limited? Downloading the alpha client takes only a moment, and that’s because there really isn’t all that much…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 -
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Preview: Split Personality Gameplay
Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a massively successful CGI show on Cartoon Network. Can its tie-in game live up to the hype? I’m still confused about how to think of Republic Heroes. On the one hand, it’s a tie-in game for a show that turned out to be way cooler than a I thought…
By AJ Glasser Published September 24, 2009 -
Square Enix Creates Puzzle RPG With A Bejeweled Twist
What do you get when the puzzle game masters at PopCap team up with RPG kings Square Enix for a Puzzle-RPG for Xbox Live Arcade and Steam? Sounds like countless productive hours lost to me. Puzzle Quest showed us that the puzzle game and the RPG could be successfully married into an entertaining and highly-addictive…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 -
Alan Wake Impressions: Bad Time To Lose The Flashlight
What we thought we knew of the ages-in-development Xbox 360 game Alan Wake is that it stars a writer who faces psychological and physical horrors in a town and forest in the Pacific Northwest, with light as his scarce ally. I learned in Tokyo, however, that sometimes Alan won’t have his flashlight or a gun.…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 24, 2009 -
Brutal Legend and Forza Demos Hit Xbox Live
Two highly anticipated demos make their way onto Xbox Live today, with Brutal Legend escaping from preorder exclusive hell and Forza 3 edging closer to the finish line. Free up some hard disk space as two of the most eagerly awaited games get their demo on. The heavy metal action of the Brutal Legend demo…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 -
Introducing Mr. Yusuf Amir of Liberty City
Meet Yusuf Amir, who’s a successful businessman gangster and rival of Gay Tony. Yusuf enjoys dancing in his tightie-whities, but that’s not why this is NSFW. Huge F-bomb about 10 seconds in; it might rupture your chaste workplace speakers. Rockstar’s news release accompanying this video describes Amir as “The affable, cutthroat real estate and construction…
By Owen Good Published September 24, 2009 -
PSPgo Costs as Much as a PS3 in Denmark
Either Sony’s gotta cut its price or the Danish kroner’s gotta get a lot weaker against the dollar for the PSPgo’s sake. It’s listed at 2,000 DKK – or $396 US, one reason retailers there aren’t stocking the thing. Denmark’s Ekstra Bladet reports (translation) that Fona will not sell the PSPGo in any of its…
By Owen Good Published September 24, 2009 -
Exploring The Shard Of Love In EQ2
The Shards of Destiny, The latest content update for EverQuest 2, is now live, opening up Erollisi Marr’s Shard of Love to players and adding achievements to the game. The goddess Erollisi Marr has gone missing, and only your stalwart band of adventurers can infiltrate her home shard of Love and get as much loot…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009