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Godfather III Looking Less Likely

EA’s The Godfather II sold only 241,000 copies in the U.S. — disappointing for a name title. No wonder EA Games label president Frank Gibeau is ready to wash his hands of the franchise. “We’re not going to do another one,” Gibeau, adding that no Godfather games are in the company’s production schedule, which falls…

Gran Turismo Boss: I Want To Release GT5 ASAP

Gran Turismo PSP is coming out. That’s nice. Where the heck is Gran Turismo 5? And no, Grand Turismo 5 Prologue does not count. According to Gran Turismo honcho Kazunori Yamauchi, “I want to release it as fast as I can, but GT5 for us, when you talk about its status, it’s at a point…

E3 Round-Up: Day Four

A light at the end of the tunnel! We’re at day four, let’s round it up: First Look At New Zelda Game’s Concept Art FIFA 10 Screenshots Emerge From The Tunnel FIFA 10 Preview: It’s The Early-Season Favourite Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Preview: There’s A Light Taste Hot Monkey Vengeance! BioWare Doesn’t Expect You To…

Sony Is Working on a UMD Solution for PSP Go

One of the biggest hurdles to getting Playstation Portable owners to upgrade to the recently announced PSP Go is their existing library of UMD games which won’t work on the device. But don’t worry, Sony Computer Entertainment is hard at work on a solution. “We are looking into programs for owners who have previously purchased…

Wii Remote Wizard Working On Project Natal

You remember Johnny Lee, right? Sure you do, he’s the man who can make magic happen with the Wii Remote. And it seems he’s bringing his skills to Microsoft’s Project Natal controller. While Lee is quick to say he doesn’t deserve credit for what we saw at E3, he does add, “The part I am…

Venetica: E3 Pretty I Didn’t See

I was really excited to finally see DTP Entertainment‘s Venetica in action at this E3, but they didn’t show it to me, so here’s some screenshots. It’s probably my biggest disappointment of this E3. I’ve been following Venetica since the game was first announced. It’s an action role-playing game starring the daughter of death, Scarlett,…

The PSP Go Looks Familiar

We knew that we had seen the PSP Go before — back when Sony called it “Mylo”. The Mylo is a wireless device that can be used to browse the internet. Sales have hardly been amazing, so don’t think Sony’s decision to use a tweaked Mylo design for the PSP Go is lazy. Oh no,…

First Look At New Zelda Game’s Concept Art

At a developer’s roundtable the other day, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto showed a select group of people some concept art for a new Zelda game. That select group isn’t so select anymore. I don’t know about you, but that’s no Princess Zelda. Could it be, as so many are speculating, the living incarnation of the Master…

Cops Called Over Resident Evil Cosplay

Sometimes cosplay is a good thing. Sometimes it’s a bad thing — especially when it gets you arrested. That’s “Jay”, and he was cosplaying as special commando HUNK from Capcom’s Resident Evil franchise. Great costume! So great that the local authorities were altered when the gun-brandishing masked-HUNK walked into a store. A dozen police cars…

FIFA 10 Screenshots Emerge From The Tunnel

FIFA 10 is new. You knew it was coming, but still, new is new. And after reading our impressions of the game, why not sink your studs into the soft, fleshy shins of these screens

Smash Bros. Brawl User Online Service Ending

When Nintendo’s Wii fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl launched in 2008, it was touted for its user-generated stage designs and replay data. That service, sadly, will soon cease. From the game’s official website: As of June 30th, 2009, the current service that accepts user-generated snapshots, stage designs, and replay data will no longer be…

FIFA 10 Preview: It’s The Early-Season Favourite

Despite being the world’s most popular sport, and also EA’s biggest-selling annual title, FIFA 10 was relegated to a small backroom presence at E3 while Madden was everywhere. Ah well. We played it anyway. What Is It? It’s FIFA. Previously the world’s second-best football game behind Konami’s Pro Evolution series, but since last year, the…

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Preview: There’s A Light

E3 2009 marks the first time Konami let us get our hands on Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for the Nintendo Wii, and while the hands-on were brief, they were definitely illuminating. What Is It? Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a retelling of the first game in Konami’s Silent Hill series. You’re still Harry Mason; you’re…

Taste Hot Monkey Vengeance!

Prepare to meet your frosty, carbonated maker in this E3 trailer for Telltale’s Tales of Monkey Island. Brings back memories, doesn’t it? That’s Dominic Armato voicing Guybrush there. He’s the original voice actor for the character, and it shows. Who else could pull off a line like, “Here comes Guybrush Threepwood’s glowing sword of hot…

BioWare Doesn’t Expect You To Survive Mass Effect 2

If you don’t want to know anything about Mass Effect 2, don’t read more. But if you’re curious about just how dangerous this new game is…. Mass Effect 2 lead designer Casey Hudson walked E3 show attendees through a behind-closed-doors demo of his game today. He started spilling news about BioWare’s 2010 sci-fi sequel. First,…

New iPhone Will Include 3D Graphics Chip, Hits July

Next week at Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference the company will be unveiling its new iPhone, a device that will sport an improved 3D graphics chip, operate on a new, higher-speed network and hit mid-July, sources tell Kotaku. Our sources told us that the new iPhone will also tout much more robust Bluetooth support,…

Eyes On With Sony’s EyePet

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s EyePet is one of the increasing number of games that’s hard to go hands-on with. The augmented reality pet-simulation is played mostly by interacting with an adorable on-screen creature with little more than your hands. We sat in on a EyePet demo at E3 that showed off some of the game’s…

This Is The Most Technically Impressive Thing I’ve Seen All Week

This being E3, there’s been a lot of impressive stuff on show. But nothing as impressive as seeing somebody play Ubisoft’s RUSE on Microsoft’s $20,000 touch-screen “Surface”.

Jumpgate Multiplayer Preview: Shades Of Descent

We descended into the depths of a hollow space station to try out the player-versus-player combat in NetDevil’s Jumpgate Evolution. What Is It? What do you mean, what is it? It’s Jumpgate Evolution, the massively multiplayer online space shooter that’s so thick and rich you can play it with a joystick. Rather than sticking to…

Tetris Creator Skeptical of Project Natal

Alexey Pajitnov, the father of puzzle video games, like the idea of full motion controls, but thinks any such system faces major hurdles. “I am a little bit skeptical about (Project Natal),” he said. “I know how interfaces work and the reliability of this stuff is the key problem. You have to have 99.9 percent…