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On Designing Red Steel 2’s Hero

We’re all taking the news of Red Steel 2‘s delay pretty hard here at Kotaku Towers. Some of us were really looking forward to seeing the Wii MotionPlus put to use outside of sports games and mini-game collections. To make the wait go a little bit quicker—at least two minutes and thirty seconds worth of…

Punch-Out Devs Talk Graphics, Difficulty, Nixed Princess Peach Idea

Few Wii games have been designed to please long-time Nintendo fans as much as the recent Wii Punch-Out!! Developers on the game recently explained to Kotaku just how the game came together, who did what, and what got left out. Punch-Out on the Wii was a collaboration between Nintendo’s Japan home office and Canadian studio…

Coloring In Your City Of Heroes Powers

During Comic-Con 2009 I got to spend some time hanging with NCsoft’s Matt “Positron” Miller, who walked me through how to show your true colors in the upcoming Issue 16: Power Spectrum update. According to Positron, power customization is something they’ve wanted to include in the game from the very beginning, only to have the…

Kevin Conroy Doesn’t Remember Batman: Rise Of Sin Tzu

I’m not sure if the fact that the voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, not remembering doing the voice work for Batman: The Rise of Sin Tzu is a good thing or a bad thing. A roundtable discussion with the legendary voice of Batman kicked off on Saturday at Comic-Con with Conroy addressing the question, “Is…

The Fat Princess Battle Begins This Week

Hats will fly this Thursday afternoon, when Titan Studios’ Fat Princess finally waddles her way onto the PlayStation Network. The eagerly-awaited multiplayer game of fantasy combat and cake eating is coming with this week’s PlayStation Store update on the 30th, priced to move at $15.00. For those of you unfamiliar with the title, it’s a…

Ubisoft Sees Sharp Drop in Sales, Blames Market, DS Piracy

Sales for Ubisoft’s second quarter is expected to show a more than 50 percent drop from the same quarter last year, the publisher and developer announced today. The expected sales drop is also more than 12 percent lower than initially expected. Yves Guillemot, Chief Executive Officer for Ubisoft, places much of the blame for the…

Splinter Cell Conviction And Red Steel 2 Slip To 2010

The fall gaming season grows sparser still today, as Ubisoft announces the delay of Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2, with I am Alive and Ghost Recon slipping into the next fiscal year. Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2, two of the breakout titles from this year’s E3 Expo, won’t be making their…

THQ Smacksdown Jakks Over WWE Suit

THQ is claiming victory over partner Jakks Pacific in the most recent match of the long-running no-holds-barred legal battle royal the two have been in over the licensing rights for World Wrestling Entertainment. In a binding arbitration between the two companies announced today, an arbitrator has ruled that Jakks is only entitled to six percent…

Arkham Asylum’s Scarecrow Design Is BioShock Creepy

This Friday, GameStop revealed their preorder exclusive Scarecrow Challenge Maps for Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the villain’s new look certainly coincides with his fear-inducing powers. Players who preorder Batman: Arkham Asylum from GameStop will gain access to the Dem Bones Scarecrow Challenge Maps for the game, which pit Batman against a horde of skeletal hallucinations…

The Other Real-Life Inspiration For The Saboteur’s Hero

Pandemic’s art director Chris Hunt found the inspiration for The Saboteur‘s main character at a concept artist convention, but not how you’d think. Saboteur protagonist Sean Devlin may have been inspired by real-life Grand Prix motor racing driver and special agent William Grover-Williams, but Grover-Williams’ look didn’t quite fit what Pandemic was looking for in…

Video Games Inescapable At Comic-Con

The San Diego Comic-Con draws more than a hundred thousand people from around the world each year to revel in all things pop-culture. But last weekend’s gathering also highlighted the strengthening connection between comic books and video games. Half a dozen comics and two new cartoons based on video games were announced at the show…

The Nintendo Download: Pirates And Musketeers, Living Together

Pirates and musketeers battle card sharks and…Sudoku this week in the once again Virtual Console-less Nintendo download. This marks the second week in a row that we’ve seen no classic games added to Nintendo’s Virtual Console, but with Guybrush Threepwood making his WiiWare debut in the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island (1,000 WiiWare…

2009 San Diego Comic-Con Round Up

In case you had trouble following our flurry of coverage from the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, we’ve gathered it all together into one giant mass of cosplay, toys, previews, comics, and gaming news. Pre-Show Warm Up Sony Bringing Ratchet, Clank & Drake To Comic-Con Valve Brings Left 4 Dead 2 To Comic-Con, Reveals “Swamp Fever”…

Steampunk Pac-Man

[As seen on Technabob, via Mary Rice Schuyler]

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I’m No Doug Williams

To: Crecente From: Luke The first game of American Football I ever saw was the Redskins v Broncos Super Bowl in 1988. Being Australian, Doug Williams’ “I’m goin to Disneyworld!” line at the time made no sense to me. I thought he was actually speaking from the heart, and that his victory had somehow set…

Ghostbusters Out In Europe In October

Ghostbusters is out in Europe right now. Provided, that is, you want it on PS3 or PS2. If you want it on PC, 360, Wii or DS, though, it’s not out now. You’ll have to wait until October. Atari have today announced that the versions of the game not covered by their controversial partial-publishing deal…

British Sales Charts: Nintendo’s Iron Fist

It’s been a fun few weeks for publishers not called Nintendo in the UK. But now that Fight Night and Harry Potter have come and gone, it’s time for Wii games to return to their usual spot: atop the charts. Last week, Wii Sports Resort surprised absolutely nobody by finishing its first week on sale…

Ayane, Your Face Looks A Little Different

Dead or Alive character Ayane makes an appearance in Ninja Gaiden II Σ just like she did in Ninja Gaiden II. Though, she’s changed slightly. On the left is how Ayane appears in NGII Σ and on the right is how she appears in NGII. As it’s been pointed out back when she was revealed…

These Songs Will Be In Rapstar [Update]

Like all music games, 4mm’s Rapstar will live and die on the strength of its tracklist. Convenient topic, that, since we’ve got hold of the names of seven of the game’s tracks. Before we go on, it’s important to note that this is only seven tracks. And all appear to be for the game’s contemporary…