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Sony: We Were A Little Late With An Online Platform

While the PlayStation Network finally seems to be hitting its straps with games like MAG, it’s been a long time coming for PS3 owners, who have long seen Xbox 360 owners enjoy an online service the PSN couldn’t match. “I think we were late to offer the platform-level support, to make the online functionality work…

Do You Like Hardware Redesigns?

Hey, it’s, um, well, midnight. Let’s talk. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know oodles about us – more than you…

First Okamiden Footage: Small, Cute

Here’s your first look at Capcom’s Okamiden in motion, courtesy of the company’s TGS promo page. [via Tiny Cartridge]

Take A Dip In The Muramasa Hot Springs

When you go to the hot springs in Japan, you’re naked, save for a small towel if you so desire. Well, not like on the train ride there, but you know what I mean. So in Wii title Muramasa: The Demon Blade, the characters is just that — naked in a hot spring, save for…

Digital Games Might Be Selling As Well As Retail Games

The sales figures for digital games are rarely disclosed. So we rarely get an idea of just how many of them are selling. A reveal by Microsoft Australia, however, shows they’re selling a lot. At a recent Xbox press event in Sydney, Microsoft Australia told Kotaku AU that the 360’s downloadable games aren’t just giving…

Hamburgers, Bananas, Transsexual, Wii Game

After being crowned by transsexual fashion model Ayanna Tsubaki, 24-year-old Ken Suyama stuffs his face with Burger King burgers as part of a promotional event for Little King’s Story. The struggling part-time-wannabe-musician was selected out of 2,484 hopeful applicants and got things like one hundred bananas, one hundred passes for a bathhouse and one hundred…

Details On Left 4 Dead 2’s Carnival Campaign

The wraps have been taken off Left 4 Dead 2’s funland setting, with information on new special infected, settings, objectives and…clowns. The campaign – Dark Carnival – takes place across a variety of locations, from a hillside to a hotel to the carnival itself, where Valve promises that some of the attractions will be actually…

The Games Not Invited to Wii Sports Resort

Wii Sports Resort‘s dodecathlon includes events such as skydiving, sword-fighting and ping-pong. But there were a few games that missed the final cut. Such as? Fishing, a “water slide activity,” and a game built on a type of cup-and-ball toy, producer Katsuya Eguchi told Wired.com “We considered fishing and a water slide activity before deciding…

Weekly Japanese Hardware Charts Say Sayonara To Old PS3

See that tiny little sliver of PlayStation 3 sales? Think of this week’s barely perceptible performance from Sony’s current-gen console the end of the chrysalis stage, set to burst forth in a beautiful butterfly of reinvigorated sales. Because with just 1,040 PS3s sold last week, there’s nowhere to go but up. And with solid, but…

Mechwarrior 5 Runs Into Legal Trouble

The future of Mechwarrior 5 is a little up in the air today, with Harmony Gold – the media company that holds the rights to the Robotech universe in the US – commencing legal action against the upcoming mech title. Legal threats are being sent out to gaming websites as you read this, Harmony Gold…

Who Is This PS3 Slim Shopper? Who?

Yesterday was the PS3 Slim launch in Japan. It was a rather low key launch at the Akihabara Yodobashi Camera. It was so low key that it’s possible to spot the same guy over and over again. Time to play where’s flannel shirt man. Here on Famitsu.com. And on Game Watch Impress. And Dengeki Online.…

New Bonk Adventure, Military Madness Coming From Hudson

Hudson Entertainment will be reviving two of its oldest properties, expert headbutting caveman Bonk and turn-based strategy game Military Madness, with two all-new games, the company recently announced. Bonk: Brink of Extinction will be coming to the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and WiiWare in early 2010, as “next generation graphics meets retro gameplay,” according…

Military Madness: Neo Nectaris

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Bonk: Brink of Extinction

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Approval Ratings: Readers Like the RPG, but Hold the MMO

Our third installment of Approval Ratings covered a dozen questions regarding role-playing games, a staple genre of video games going back to their earliest days. And like an RPG, you have to dig a little deeper to get the real story. 1. Do you want to play Fallout 3? (any platform) Yes: 72 percent (12,052…

PlayStation Store Update: It’s Dynamic

This week’s PlayStation Store update for North America is loaded down with content and savings. Fans of the latest PlayStation 3 firmware will also find new dynamic themes to drop dollars on. Serious fans of PixelJunk Monsters, PAIN and High Velocity Bowling can trick out their XMBs with fancy new themes, each $2.99 a pop.…

Ex-Splatterhouse Developer BottleRocket Closes Its Doors

BottleRocket Entertainment, formerly the developers of Splatterhouse for Namco Bandai and responsible for the Mark of Kri series for Sony, is no more. Studio president Jay Beard officially announced BottleRocket’s demise today via e-mail. Beard’s statement on the closure notes that “after fighting to keep the doors open for the past six months we have…

Sore

To: Bash From: Crecente Re: What To Wear To A Fashion Show, What To Wear, What To Wear I spent today playing through a certain game so I can review it later this week. I can’t say which certain game it was only that I played through the entire thing in one sitting and now…

Atari Responds to Turbine Suit

Atari responded to today with a sharp denunciation of the breach-of-contract lawsuit filed last week by Turbine, calling it a frivolous action that does “a great disservice” to MMO gamers. Turbine sued Atari in New York state court on Aug. 24, more or less alleging the Atari invented a ruse to terminate Turbine’s sublicense contract…

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Gets Sixaxis Jiggle Support

The PlayStation 3’s motion sensing Sixaxis controller features don’t get much attention these days, but Tecmo is about to change that, as Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 reportedly uses the technology for boob jiggling. Ever the innovator! According to reports from IGN and The Sixth Axis, Tecmo will give PS3 owners full control over the overflowing…