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Wish You Were Here: Shibuya

The fashion capital of Japan, Shibuya is also home to a slew of night clubs, eateries and fancy hotels. Most notable to gamers, perhaps, Shibuya is the setting for last year’s The World Ends with You. The game is filled with iconic scenery from the area including the train station, person-packed crosswalk, the Shibuya 109…

Left 4 Dead Patch Improves Zombie HUD, Adds Achievements

A patch went out today for Left 4 Dead that adds improvements to the HUD when you play as a zombie in versus mode. Speculation also is that it lays the foundation for the upcoming Crash Course campaign. The most notable content addition is a timer in the Zombie HUD that counts down the special…

Mad Catz Street Fighter IV Controllers Round 2

Round One is over, and judging by the amount of Street Fighter IV sticks and controllers Mad Catz sold, the peripheral company came out on top. Now it’s time for Round Two. Round 2 of Mad Catz officially licensed Street Fighter IV controllers features the same Tournament Edition FightSticks and FightPads as the first batch,…

Hands On With Street Fighter Sound Stick Keychain

I found this while wandering the aisles of 6-story toy story Kiddyland in Harajuku earlier this week. The Street Fighter-themed keychain has a little joystick and a punch and kick button. If you pull off the moves correctly the device will make the sounds for hurricane kick, uppper cut , fireball, all the good stuff.…

Itagaki Talks Missiles, Tecmo And Sixaxis Bounce

The Tokyo Game Show is days away and just before it kicked off, we had a chance to catch up with former Team Ninja lead ninja Tomonobu Itagaki — designer of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive. Itagaki has kept a relatively low profile since leaving Tecmo, working with his new company Tokyo Vikings and…

Aion’s Global Community

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/global-community-aion/56332 The fourth episode of the Aion video podcast takes a look at the global community, while answering important questions about PVPVE, crafting, player housing, and how awesome associate producer Lani Blazier is. Speaking of long queue times, last night was simply amazing. I spent 40 minutes in the queue at first, and then my…

Live From Tokyo, It’s Kotaku Radio

With Brian Ashcraft, Mike McWhertor, Stephen Totilo and myself out in Tokyo for the week to cover the Tokyo Game Show, staffing is a bit light at the Tower. So we’ve decided to try and host our weekly live call-in show from Japan. You’ll still be listening to the show and calling in the same…

New DSi Colours Announced for Europe

Due Oct. 23, Europe will get metallic blue, light blue and red, preloaded with Flipnote Studio and Facebook. Also, buying one and taking it to the Nintendo DSi Shop over the Wi-Fi Connection will get 1,000 free DSi points. The points offer is good from the date of release until March 2010. There was also…

Get Cash Back On Your Xbox 360 Elite

Microsoft sweetens the deal on the newly $299 Xbox 360, offering a $50 rebate on all Elite consoles purchased between now and October 5th. It’s 14 days of savings! Simply purchase an Xbox 360 Elite at the regular price, visit http://www.xbox.com/eliterebate (once it goes live), jump through whatever hoops they require you to jump through…

Justify Your Giant Bakugan Truck

Loaded up with six Wii and high-def televisions and four DS, perhaps the Bakugan Brawlers Roll Across America truck doesn’t need to be justified. We asked anyway.

Cops Play Wii During Undercover Drug Raid

Guns drawn, cops busted down the door of a suspected south Florida drug dealer, then proceeded to kick some ass – on Wii bowling. A security cam captured some playing video games while others searched for drugs and weapons. As you can imagine, Michael Difalco’s lawyer-mans is probably looking for a way to invalidate the…

Hey, It’s Tuesday! I Ate Hamburgers (Hooray!)

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Part-ay This afternoon, if anything to soak up the alcohol, we ate hamburgers at Pakuchi Burger. Pakuchi Burger is a tasty burger, a damn tasty burger. I love hamburgers. There is another event going on tonight with some Tokyo folks I like a great deal, but sadly, I am stuck…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Drinking and gaming go together like playing video games and imbibing alcohol. Would you steal this man’s Corona, or are yours tastes much more sophisticated?

Leaked Documents Discuss PSN Imports, Date PS3 Motion Control

The (allegedly) leaked Sega-Sony documents from earlier this morning contain mention of a release date for the PS3’s motion controller, along with the possibility of a PSN “import store”. Of the PS3’s motion controller, the alleged Sega document says (and remember, this is neither confirmed, nor from Sony): Motion Controller • Spring 2010 launch (March…

Popcap, EA Games Coming To DSiWare

Two of the biggest names in the casual games space, EA and Popcap, have announced that a range of their titles will soon be gracing Nintendo’s downloadable games market on the DSi. Popcap will be offering Bookworm (September) and Bejeweled Twist (October), while EA will be bringing four games: Scrabble, MySims Camera, Littlest Pet Shop,…

Apparent Internal Sega Document Describes Plans For Game Line-Up

A document that appeared on Sega of America’s official press site recounting an Aug. 5 company meeting with Sony representatives covers everything from Aliens and Bayonetta to Sonic and something called Vanquish. The document had been accessible early Tuesday morning. It appears to contain meeting notes, many of which detail Sega’s games. It seems to…

This R2 Unit Has A Bad Motivator (And Eight Consoles)

Guy by the name of Brian De Vitis put this R2-D2 together. It looks great as an astromech droid, yeah, but wait until you see what he crammed in its guts. The shell of the droid is a modified, improved version of one of those R2-D2 coolers. But the inside consists of a projector (with…

PS2, Dreamcast Games May Come to PSN, Says Apparently Leaked Doc

PlayStation 2 backwards compatibility could be returning to the PlayStation 3, according to what appears to be an internal document accidentally leaked by Sega of America, one that hints at downloadable previous gen games available on a case-by-case basis. That document, uncovered by French gaming web site Objectif-Sega, notes that “SCEA wants to sell all…

God Of War Figure Goes Tiny, Lets Itself Go

Toy company NECA have already released some God of War figures, yeah, but those are mean, and they’re pointy. We like this one better, because it’s cute, and cuddly. It’s a custom Mighty Muggs figure by Likhang Pinoy Customs, and goes well beyond what you’d expect from such an endeavour, with an assortment of hand-crafted…

Here’s A TMNT Smash-Up Launch Trailer

If you’re wondering why this looks like Smash Bros. Brawl with Ninja Turtles, it’s because of developer Game Arts. But don’t expect too many Smash Bros. throwbacks out of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up besides the control scheme. There’s plenty of Turtle lore from the comic books, movies and cartoons for Game Arts to work…