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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…

Will Team Ninja Take The Slutty Route With Samus?

Was speaking with new Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi today, and got to thinking…Team Ninja are admirers of the female form. Team Ninja are now doing Metroid. So will Team Ninja be admiring Samus’ form? Oh come on. Don’t tell me you weren’t thinking it. The studio’s games, with or without former boss Tomonobu Itagaki,…

Bayonetta Girl Is Not Cosplay, She Is Art

Sega found a winner for that Bayonetta contest, and she’s been breaking men’s hearts all week long over at the company’s booth. But don’t call her “cosplay”. Don’t call her “marketing”. Call her “a work of art”. Just look at this costume. It’s perfect. From the highly-detailed guns to the hair to the medallion to…

Nier Impressions (Or Lack Thereof)

Square Enix‘s Yosuke Saito is overseeing development of new action title Nier. So yesterday, we caught up with him, to have a chat and take a first look at the game. Nier is being developed by Cavia, the Japanese studio behind Drakengard and Umbrella Chronicles, but unlike most of Square Enix’s other titles coming out…

Tim Schafer Responds To Activision’s Brutal Legend Lawsuit

Activision’s none too pleased about Double Fine Productions’ heavy metal epic Brütal Legend having gone to EA. So it’s suing the developer. What say you, Double Fine president Tim Schafer? “Hey, if Activision liked it, then they should have put a ring on it,” Schafer said. “Oh great, now Beyoncé is going to sue me…

Glory Of Heracles Hands-On Handholding

Nintendo’s Glory of Heracles feels like the company’s attempt at RPG Training, a My First Role-Playing Game for the crowd fearful of stats-heavy, turn-based conventions. But then the Nintendo DS game quickly becomes that very thing. That may be due to the game actually being the fifth entry in the Hercules no Eiko series, which…

Microsoft: Rare Working On Numerous Natal Projects

No Banjo Kazooie at E3? No Viva Pinata? Blame Project Natal. We’ve been looking for Rare at E3. Microsoft’s Shane Kim, corporate v. p. at Microsoft for Xbox 360 strategy and business development, didn’t exactly tell us where they are, but he did tell us what they’re up to. “Rare is intimately involved with Project…

Eyes On With Invizimals: When Pokemon Meets Ghostbusters

Novarama’s PSP game Invizimals may smack of an obvious Pokémon clone, but the PSP Camera-enabled pet collection game is still fascinating to look at, with magical appeal that younger games might just eat up. Invizimals adds to the mini-monster collect-and-evolve genre with some technically impressive augmented reality tricks, something along the lines of Sony’s PlayStation…

Telltale Tells Tales Of Monkey Island

With LucasArts busy recreating The Secret of Monkey Island, Telltale is bringing us Tales of Monkey Island, an episodic adventure that picks up where the fifth Monkey Island game left off. Yes yes, I realize there was no fifth Monkey Island game, but don’t tell Tales of Monkey Island that. Telltale walked me through the…

Nintendo Thinks Conan O’Brien Mario Homage Is “Great”

Now that we’ve seen how Super Mario World’s level design has helped shape Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show backdrop, we had to get Nintendo’s reaction. We did. “That’s great,” Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said as he looked at it for the first time during his interview with Kotaku. “We know that he is a…

New Quantum Screens Are No Longer Theoretical

Tecmo’s “TPS” Quantum is reporting for PlayStation 3 exclusive duty in 2010. The third-person shooter looks very Japanese in its visual design, but Western in its cover system-focused gameplay. The twist(!) in Quantum (known elsewhere as Quantum Theory—yes, that game!) is that the things one needs to find cover behind may change, as you’ll battle…

Metal Gear Solid Dated, Priced For PlayStation Store

The original Metal Gear Solid is coming to the PlayStation Store as a “PS one Classic,” playable on the PSP and PlayStation 3. That we knew. But we didn’t know the when and the how much. Konami has officially put a price on the re-release now that all that other Metal Gear Solid related news…

We’ve got our winner!

Luna and Kotaku proudly congratulate Michael James, Our Vintner from Walla Walla, on being our Most Unique Job winner! Michael will receive a brand new Dell XPS M1730 (pictured below), with a retail value of $1400!

Gran Turismo PSP Screens Race Out Of Hiding

After a development time that can only be described as comedic, Gran Turismo will finally be coming to the PSP this October. Here are some surprisingly honest screenshots.

Activision Sues Brütal Legend Devs To Halt Release

Publisher Activision has filed suit against Brütal Legend developer Double Fine Productions to prevent the release of the heavy metal game starring Jack Black, putting the title’s Rocktober release in jeopardy. According to a report from the Associated Press, Activision claims that Double Fine failed to deliver Brütal Legend on time and mostly on its…

Nintendo Has No New Colors To Announce For America

Nintendo’s announcement overnight of a black Wii and a red DSi being scheduled for the Japanese market, got us wondering about those new colors coming to America. Who better to answer this than the president of Nintendo of America? “We don’t have anything to announce for the U.S. on either of those products,” Nintendo of…

MAG Preview: Generic Action Game

At the Sony booth during E3 2009 I got a chance to become a part of something much bigger than myself, stepping into the shoes of a soldier in Zipper Interactive’s MAG – Massive Action Game. What Is It? MAG stands for Massive Action Game, and that’s exactly what it is. Up to 256 players…

Meet Your New Castlevania Developers!

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is the first major Castlevania title in years. But it’s not being developed in Japan. And neither series curator Iga or his whip are anywhere to be seen. Instead, meet MercurySteam, pictured here with Hideo Kojima, who will be “helping out” on the project. MercurySteam are Spanish developers, who are probably…

Stare Into Project Natal’s Small, Child-Like Eyes

If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a close-up shot of Project Natal, Microsoft’s motion-sensing camera for the Xbox 360.