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Korean PC Game Rips-Off Team Fortress 2

The name of this game is H.A.V.E. Online. It’s a PC title, and an open beta is supposed to go down sometime this year. The game looks strangely familiar. An homage? Even with the otaku toy twist, the game is a little too close to Team Fortress 2 for some on the Korean internet, where…

Infinite Space Charting Course For Spring Of Next Year

PlatinumGames third title—after MadWorld and Bayonetta—is Infinite Space, the sci-fi role-playing game co-developed by Nude Maker. Long story short, the Nintendo DS RPG now has a North American release window. According to a new trailer for the game, which can be seen here, Infinite Space will grace these shores in Spring of 2010. Yes, that…

XIII Century: Blood of Europe — All The Brutality, None Of The Plague

You thought things were hot in England during the 13th century, check out what they were up to in Eastern Europe. Unicorn Games‘ hardcore strategy game, XIII Century, recreates the battles between Teutonian knights and their target, Pskov city (which is part of present-day Russia).This expansion, Blood of Europe, zeroes in on more of the…

PSPgo Was Always Planned, Sony Just Had To Wait Until The Time Was Right

Sony Computer Entertainment’s Naoya Matsui has revealed that the PSPgo had always been on the drawing board at Sony, but is only being released now because the market was ready for it. “We’d planned to release a PSP model without a UMD drive since the very beginning,” he told Japan’s GameBusiness. “But if we’d simply…

GameStop Out Of Its Ducking Mind With New Wii Bundles

Something is clearly amiss, to put it lightly, at GameStop corporate, as evidenced by the game retailers latest Wii promotional bundles. One comes with a squirt gun, the other with a rubber ducky. You know, for… bathing, maybe? Whether GameStop has simply found itself with a few thousand squirt guns and plastic ducks unexpectedly, or…

Public Transit Ads Say Something About The Wii

So I’m on my way home from an evening with Ubisoft and I happen across these new Fly Oakland tourism ads on the Bay Area Rapid Transit. Each ad features an adult doing something silly — like a dude in a kufi Xeroxing his face — with the catch phrase “Fly Oakland… What You Do…

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2’s Momiji In Action

.html The PlayStation 3 version of Ninja Gaiden II, now with extra Sigma, will feature more than just a playable Ryu Hayabusa. You’ll also play as the anatomically impressive Rachel, a trashier looking Ayane, and the expectedly stacked Momiji. This is Momiji in action, looking far more detailed than her appearance in Ninja Gaiden Dragon…

Marvelous May Bring Its Wii Games To PS3, Xbox 360

Japanese publisher Marvelous Entertainment hasn’t seen the success on the Wii that it might have envisioned. Releases like No More Heroes, Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Arc Rise Fantasia haven’t captured the Wii audiences attention just yet. What to do? How about porting some of your Wii misses to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360,…

New Astro Boy Game, New Screens, New Impressions

The Wii version of the next Astro Boy game showed up in New York a couple of weeks ago. As of July, we can cover it. Click the thumbnails. Look at the screens. Read my notes. All at once. (Really, click to expand. I’m trying something new here by doing a preview as a series…

Fez To Get Awesome On XBLA “Early 2010”

Polytron’s Fez is coming (finally!) to Xbox Live Arcade next year, the independent developer announced today. Yes, that will be a long wait on top of what seems like an already long wait for the gorgeous puzzle-platformer. Fez, which follows the platform hopping adventures of Gomez, “a 2D man on a voyage of discovery into…

Valve: Left 4 Dead DLC Announcements Coming Soon

Making good on its intentions to continue supporting the original Left 4 Dead, Valve says that the next batch of downloadable content for the Xbox 360 and PC game will be announced sometime this Summer. Excellent! But when will it ship? Announcements of announcements make gamers grumbly too. Whether that announcement of new… something for…

Wish I Had A Record Player

Unmarked package arrived today, continuing the BioShock 2 marketing campaign. Too bad my brother’s record players are inaccessible to me until the weekend. First they sent children’s drawings close to Father’s Day. Then they sent a record right before Independence Day. I assume 2K’s next BioShock 2 mailing will arrive, unmarked on…. Labor Day?

PlayStation Store Update: Hope You Like The Punisher!

Because the adventures of Frank Castle, better known as The Punisher, is this week’s new playable addition to the PlayStation Store. Not a bad way to start the holiday weekend, but PSP owners get the better end of the deal. That’s because a trio of new downloadable PSP games have been added to the store:…

Insomniac Moons For Your Ratchet & Clank Pre-order

Insomniac is promising players the moon in exchange for their Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time pre-order, one of four different pre-order packages scattered across the universe of video game retail. Lombax fans who put their money down on Ratchet & Clank’s latest PlayStation 3 adventure at GameStop will gain exclusive access to the…

Midway Sale To WB Clears Court, Staff At Two Studios Given Notice

Warner Brothers‘ bid to purchase much of game publisher Midway won court approval yesterday. The company updated Kotaku and clarified the status of some studios and licenses. The sale to Warner Brothers is expected to close in the next 10 days, according to Midway spokesperson Geoffrey Mogilner. That will put the Mortal Kombat license, the…

Namco Bandai Locks Down Dragon Ball License For America

If you live in the lovely continent of North America, expect all Dragon Ball games you buy (or your parents buy you) over the course of the next five years to have a Namco Bandai label on them. The publisher has secured exclusive rights to the franchise, it announced today, granting it the power to…

Frankenreview: The Conduit

High Voltage an Sega seek to take on the mantle of the Nintendo Wii’s signature first-person shooter with The Conduit. Have they succeeded? The Conduit has everything going for it. It’s an exclusive first-person shooter for a console that generally only sees second-rate ports. It features a compelling story of conspiracy, betrayal, and alien invasion…

How Many Hours People Play Each Wii Sonic Game, Music Games Too

Two new lists today: the hours logged by Wii users in each Wii Sonic game. And another showing play times for Rock Bands, Guitar Heroes and the like. (The following stats are pulled from the usage data shared by more than two million Wii users through the system’s Nintendo Channel. For more information about how…

Club Nintendo Elitists Score Prizes Later This Year

If you’ve been diligently registering your Nintendo DS and Wii games with Club Nintendo, enough to receive Gold or Platinum status, you’ll be getting a free gift from the company. When? Some time before January 1, 2010. North American Club Nintendo members of “Elite” standing, like myself, will be notified about the opportunity to claim…

Fallout 3 Falls 50% On Steam

Bethesda encourages gamers to show their patriotism by wandering the Capital Wastes this Independence Day in Fallout 3, now 50% off on Steam all weekend long. Bethesda’s take on the darkly humorous post-apocalyptic U.S. is only $24.99 from now until Sunday on Valve’s service, meaning that if you play your credit cards right you’ll be…