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Sega Restarts Genesis Poll, Removes Earthworm Jim

Sega’s attempt to have fans choose the next Genesis classic to grace Xbox Live Arcade ran into a snag yesterday, when Gameloft announced vote-leader Earthworm Jim for Xbox Live Arcade. Earthworm Jim was winning the voting for the next Sega Genesis classic by a wide margin yesterday, when Interplay and Gameloft made their big announcement:…

A Look at the PSP’s Digital Reader

Lost, perhaps, in the hoopla and noise surrounding the dual announcements of the Playstation 3 price drop and slim model was this nifty digital reader for the PSP. A Marvel exec took the stage at Sony’s presser to tout this as potentially Marvel’s next big thing. Here’s a very quick look at the reader’s auto…

What Marvel Comics Will Look Like On PSP

At Sony’s press conference today, Sony and Marvel revealed that “hundreds” of comics will be available to read on the PSP. Now we can show you what it will all look like. Our Spider Senses say a gallery follows below.

Best Concept Art Of The Day

Today’s bath of PlayStation announcements included word of a new PlayStation Network game/thingy called Loco Roco Midnight Carnival. We’ll know more about it when our guys in Germany check it out at GamesCom. Pretty concept art above, screens below. Click that image above so it’s nice and big.

Drinking Games? This Thing Does Drinking Games

This is the Arkeg. It’s an arcade cabinet. With a keg inside. The pinnacle of human endeavour, then? I say…yes. It’s not some crazy mod; the Arkeg is a commercial product built to (presumably) a commercial quality, with temperature-control for the keg, external sound controls, a brushed aluminium finish, slide-out keyboard and even a trackball.…

PSP Minis: Bite-Sized Fun At Bite-Sized Prices

Today at Sony’s Gamescom 2009 press conference the company introduced PSP Minis, a range of smaller, cheaper downloadable games for the PSP and PSP Go. Minis, which we touched on briefly last week, will be showing up in their own special section of the PlayStation Store come October 1st, giving PSP owners smaller-sized games at…

PS3 Fat Next To Slim

Before and after.

PSP-3000 Goes Blossom Pink, Turquoise Green

Showing continued support for the older model despite the impending release of the PSP Go, Sony has announced two new colors for the PSP-3000: Blossom Pink and Turquoise Green. Behold their beauty. The two new models of the PSP-3000 are due out in November, a month after the release of the PSP Go. It should…

PS3 Slims Pics And Specs

Sony’s official press release for the PlayStation 3 Slim reveals a few updated features and a whole slew of sexy product shots of the PS3’s skinny little brother. The new model heralds a slew of changes for the PlayStation 3 brand, include a change in the official all-caps PLAYSTATION 3 brand to the PlayStation 3…

First Look At New PlayStation 3 Slim

Want a look at the new September-dated PS3 slim? This was on a banner outside of Sony’s press conference today in Germany. (click to enlarge)

Surprise! PlayStation 3 Price Drops $100

In a move that no one could have possibly anticipated, Sony announces a price drop along with the news of the PlayStation 3 Slim, with the current 80GB system dropping to $299 until replaced. It almost doesn’t seem worth it, really. The PlayStation 3 slim is right around the corner, selling for $299 with a…

Sony Announces Slim PS3 – It Lives This September!

Kaz Hirai, head of all things PlayStation, announced that the long-rumored PlayStation 3 Slim will be in stores the first week of September. [UPDATED with official pic] Hirai noted that it will be have the same features and function of the current PS3, with a 120 gb drive. It will be 33 percent smaller, 36…

“Hundreds” Of Marvel Comics Coming To PSP

Marvel comics will be readable (legally!) on PSPs in the coming months. At their Gamescom press conference today, Sony announced the November launch of a digital reader for the PlayStation Portable. Details are scarce about what content will be on the service, but one bit of content is locked: Marvel Comics. The Spider-Man publisher’s Ira…

PS3 Firmware 3.0 Adds New XMB, Dynamic Themes, Avatars

PlayStation 3 firmware 3.0 is coming soon, bringing with it new XMB functionality, a status indicator, a friends list redesign, dynamic themes, avatars, and much more. Announced during Gamescom and highlighted at the PlayStation blog, firmware 3.0 doesn’t revolutionalize the way we navigate the PlayStation 3, but it does bring some welcome changes. The most…

Sony 2009 Gamescom Presser Liveblog Spectacular

What secrets will Sony reveal at its Gamescom 2009 press release? The PlayStation 3 Slim? A PS3 price cut? Join us on our voyage of discovery! Click to viewSony’s Gamescom 09 Press Event Spectacular

LittleBigPlanet Gets All Wet

You’ll soon be able to fully realize your LittleBigPlanet BioShock level, as Media Molecule announces the addition of water to the game in a future update. How has the LittleBigPlanet community survived this long without real water? Sure, we’ve had cardboard water, but that isn’t quite the same. Now the Super Mario Bros. levels can…

Gabe Newell “Gearbox” Poker Game Was “Tall Tale”

The story Kotaku ran yesterday regarding the origin of a poker game deciding whether Valve’s Gabe Newell or Randy Pitchford could name their company Gearbox was a “tall tale,” Pitchford told Kotaku this morning. I regret presenting it as fact. The story in question originally ran on Joystiq, which presented a lengthy e-mailed anecdote from…

Sony Says “Watch this Space” at Gamescom

Sony’s potentially news-heavy press conference kicks off live here in Cologne at 10:30. a.m. We’ll be there live blogging it from the floor so make sure to check on Kotaku to follow along. In the meantime check out pics of some of the ads plastering the E Werk including one mammoth tease.

Mass Effect 2: Meet Grunt

BioWare has revealed the second party member to join Commander Shepard’s motley crew in Mass Effect 2, Grunt, a violent and unpredictable Krogan fighter. Grunt joins the assassin Thane as part of Shepard’s decidedly darker posse in the second game in BioWare’s epic space adventure. He may be untamed and untrustworthy, but he’s an important…

Dante’s Inferno Dated For February 2010

Electronic Arts announced at its Gamescom press conference the final date for its action adventure Dante’s Inferno, the God of War-like game based ever so loosely on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Dante’s Inferno now has a hard date of February 12, 2010 in Europe, and a date of February 9, 2010 in the United States,…