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Kotaku NYC, For A Day

To: Ash From: Totilo Re: Don’t Let This Flower Die! We looked at the performance of the site yesterday and came to a simple conclusion: time to let Crecente go. Gone. Finished. Done. Well, for the day. The black lion of the Voltron that is Kotaku took the day off today. In that lion’s place…

Cobra Command Conquers EA HQ

As seen from the offices of EA’s campus, which could use a window wash.

Fairytale Fights First Look Needs A Second Glance

Yesterday’s Fairytale Fights trailer was old b-roll footage accidentally uploaded to the press site. Here’s the real show Playlogic wanted you to see. Today I sat down with the developer for a hands-on demo of Fairytale Fights. My actual preview is embargoed until August 19, but I was given permission to share a couple of…

Sega Flings Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll Release Date At Us

Officially reminding us of the game’s existence, as teased in July, Sega announced Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll for the Wii today, issuing a slightly more accurate winter 2010 release date for the sequel. Sega confirms that both Wii Balance Board and Wii Remote and Nunchuk controls can be used for the game, which…

EA Sports Active *So* Successful It’s Delaying Other Games

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of EA Sports‘ Grand Slam Tennis will be coming a little later than originally planned, thanks to the runaway success of EA Sports Active. What does one have to do with the other? EA Sports head honcho Peter Moore says that the sports label is focused on getting…

Hear Activision Unite The Music Of KRS-One and David Bowie

This fall’s DJ Hero is based on the concept of mixing two songs together. From two artists. No matter how different they are. Like David Bowie and KRS-One. Give that and two more mixes a listen. That first one is “Let’s Dance” and “Jack of Spades” as mixed by DJ Shadow. Here’s the Beastie Boys…

EA Plans Pick Up And Play ‘Madden Arcade’

Electronic Arts is planning a smaller, arcade-style version of its long-running Madden NFL football franchise, revealing that the publisher is working on Madden Arcade for a release before the holiday season. EA Sports bossman Peter Moore announced the game today. Moore described Madden Arcade as following in the vein of the publisher’s Xbox Live Arcade…

Impressions Of Torturing a Rabbid In A Wii Remote

I know I’m way late to this, but I was only amused by the weird comedy-torture game in Ubisoft’s upcoming Rabbids Go Home a few days ago. The video above was shot by GameTrailers during Ubisoft’s E3 demonstration of Rabbids Go Home back in June. The main game looks nothing like that. It’s a third-person…

EA Sees Big Sales Of The Sims 3, EA Sports Active, Still Losing Money

Electronic Arts may have big sales of The Sims 3 and EA Sports Active to brag about—as well as impressive performance on Nintendo’s Wii—but it still lost money this past quarter. How much it lost is either a little or a lot, depending on which accounting principals you prefer to hold your publicly traded companies…

Developing A Shadow Complex

Witness Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski, Chair’s Donald Mustard, and sheer awesomeness’ Peter David talking about the final Summer of Arcade game, Shadow Complex. I must have missed McWhertor’s story on Peter David taking up writing duties for Shadow Complex, which is strange, considering David is one of my all-time favorite comic book writers, and not too…

EyePet Vs. Milo: The Unlikely New Console Mascots

Here’s a YouTube comment on PlayStation 3 EyePet that caught my eye last week: “Both are useless this and milo both stupid.” Hints of a 21st century version of Sonic Vs. Mario, starring a Microsoft boy and a Sony pet? I was charmed by my brief interaction last week with Sony’s PS3 camera-enabled EyePet. The…

Braid Creator Names, Details Next Game ‘The Witness’

Independent developer Number None‘s follow up to Braid, the time-shifting puzzle adventure game, will be The Witness, an exploration-puzzle game on an uninhabited island. Hold onto that knowledge, for it will be a long wait before you get The Witness. The developer recently began hiring for The Witness, described in job listings as “philosophical and…

Fileplanet Has Your Huxley Beta Invite

Yes, Webzen’s massively mutliplayer online first-person shooter Huxley: The Dystopia is still a going concern, and all it takes is a Fileplanet login to get in on the closed beta action. It’s player versus player on a massive scale in Huxley, the game we first heard about ages ago when it was initially announced for…

Rare Seeking More Natal Specialists

We knew Microsoft’s Banjo-Kazooie and GoldenEye development studio, Rare, was focusing on making stuff for Project Natal (games maybe?). This ad in gaming magazine Edge backs that up.

Call Of Duty: World At War Gets Its Own iPhone App

Thankfully, Call of Duty fans have been spared the shoehorning of the game’s experience into an iPhone game, but offered something potentially better in the Call Of Duty: World At War Companion, now available to players for free. The app, which can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store as of yesterday, offers Call Of…

X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter Making A Comeback?

With LucasArts in a re-releasing and re-making mood, with classic games on Steam and the Monkey Island remake on Xbox Live, is there anything happening with the classic X-Wing space combat series? Could be… G4’s Patrick Klepek inquired as to the future of the X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter series during an…

Left 4 Dead On A Crash Course To New DLC

Left 4 Dead 2 doesn’t mean the end of downloadable content for the original game, as Valve announces Crash Course, a new single-player, multiplayer, and versus mode campaign for the Xbox 360 and PC. Crash Course ties together the No Mercy and Death Toll campaigns from the original release, adding a little bit of continuity…

What Are Assassin’s Creed II’s Exclusive Maps For? [UPDATE]

Last week, Assassin’s Creed II executive producer described the November game to me as a “single-player” adventure. But the revelation of the contents in the game’s GameStop special edition suggests there’s something curious afoot. The newly announced Master Assassin’s $80 version of the otherwise-$60 game will be exclusive to GameStop and offer Xbox 360 and…

World Of Warcraft Patches To 3.2

Blizzard upgrades World of Warcraft to version 3.2 today, implementing the Crusaders’ Coliseum dungeons, PVP experience, level 20 mounts, Druid form changes, Rogue axe-wielding, and far fewer embarrassing raid looting situations. 3.2 is a huge patch, with changes to nearly every aspect of the game. Raiding guilds have several new places to play, while the…

Turtles In Time Re-Shelled: Oh The Nostalgia

The launch trailer for the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time is jam-packed with sigh-inducing nostalgia. I remember going on a family vacation to Kiawah Island, South Carolina when I was 18 years old. I had been sent out to a nearby shopping complex to pick up pizza and…