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A Little inFamous To Tide You Over

If you can’t wait until next week and the demo just isn’t giving you enough inFamous, perhaps the official inFamous Mini-Game can be of service. Developed by Kerb and hosted exclusively at Spil Games‘ network of online casual gaming portals, the inFamous Mini-Game is a 2D platformer starring the full game’s protagonist Cole, who must…

By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2009

Next Week On Live Arcade: Wallace, Gromit, and Yosumin Live

It’s Memorial Day weekend, so Microsoft has gone ahead and revealed next week’s Xbox Live Arcade titles so they can completely devote Monday to memorializing. Sure it’s been out for two months on the PC, but how many of us actually own computers? Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures finally hit Xbox Live Arcade next week,…

By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2009

Making a Mii On Your DS

Personal Trainer: Walking is a DS title that comes packed with two digital pedometers that sync with your DS to track how far you walk each day. It also happens to include the ability to create Mii on your DS. Not only does the function seem to support everything found on the Wii, but it…

By Brian Crecente Published May 22, 2009

Talk Amongst Yourselves

If you do your Kotaku-commenting from work, and if you’re American, and if you work for a progressive enough company, then you only have a half-day today to comment about gamers here. So start. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2009

Counting Down to An Announcement Of An Announcement

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: iPod Touching Venting! And sorry to do so. But, I dunno, it seems like companies recently have gone overboard with the drip fed PR tactics. There are games, games that I am recently excited about, but that are being mishandled by their publishers. These drip fed PR tactics actually hurt…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009

STALKER Dragged Kicking And Screaming Into 2009

While it would take a magician to repair the game’s myriad AI glitches, STALKER’s graphics are more easily improved. And boy, can they be improved. This is the “STALKER Complete 2009” mod (released last month), which does an admirable job of making the game look like it was, well, made in 2009. New textures, new…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009

Hey, It’s Another “Gamer” Trailer

Gamer, the upcoming movie about MMOs with real people as avatar combatants, has a brand new trailer. This is it. The movie stars Gerard Butler, Ludacris and Kyra Sedgwick, and tells of a future in which MMOs have merged with mind control. The story will revolves around one game in particular, Slayers, which is a…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009

What If Street Fighter II Had Come Out In 1981?

Well, according to Dylan Hayes, it would probably look a lot like this. Can’t help but think of those Degenatron commercials from Vice City…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009

Iwata: We Always Work On New Hardware

Nintendo does not rest, Nintendo does not stop. Even with the success of the Wii and the DS, Nintendo keeps going. “We do not think that Nintendo DS and Wii will last forever,” Iwata told investors in a recent financial briefing. “Our internal hardware teams are always researching and working on new hardware so that…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009

Heavy Rain: The Screenshots

You’ve seen the gameplay footage, now see the screenshots of the gameplay footage. And they’re worth a look, giving you a better idea of the “They Live” interface than a grainy web video can manage.

By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009

Chun-Li In A Spectacular Outfit

No, no, not Street Fighter character Chun-Li’s standard blue duds. Classic, but typical! The outfit that Japanese figure maker MERSA dresses her in is anything but That, after the jump. Spotted at big-time figure event Hobboy Complex 07 earlier this month in Tokyo. All kinds of fantastic. ホビーコンプレックス07東京様々なブースの様子 [Moeyo]

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009

Blood of Bahamut Dated For Japan

Square Enix‘s latest effort to expand its role-playing-game horizons Blood of Bahamut has a release date. That is August 6. Blood of Bahamut is an action RPG set in a city constructed on the back of a giant creature called Gigant. Featuring 2D sprites fighting in a 3D environment, the game sees protagonists Ibuki and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009

Chiptune’s 8-Bit Profit

Ah, yes, 8-bit chiptune. It’s music that is performed and composed by using retro game hardware like the Famicom and the Gameboy as instruments. Love it, great stuff. And as far as Japanese indie chiptune record labels go, Vorc Records is right up there. Vorc was chiptune-centeric website originally launched way back in 2001, and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009

Finally, Some Heavy Rain Gameplay Footage

It’s been a bad week for PR stunts, yes. So it’s heartening to see that when Heavy Rain comes out with gameplay footage, it actually comes out with a decent amount of gameplay footage. What you make of it all is another matter. It…looks a lot like Indigo Prophecy to me. Indigo Prophecy meets They…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009

John McEnroe Is “Pretty Good” At Playing Himself

Three things we have never done: Won seven Grand Slam tennis titles, married Tatum O’Neal or played a video game version of ourselves. John McEnroe has done all three. (Though, we have played tennis once, watched Paper Moon and do enjoy video games.) When Electronic Arts interviewed John McEnroe — yeah, we know — about…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009

Capcom Go Crazy For iPhone Games

At the Reuters Global Technology Summit in Tokyo, Capcom’s Chief Financial Officer Kazuhiko Abe has revealed that the company will, in 2009, be getting into iPhone games in a big way. He says there are plans to release “more than 10 titles” for the device over the remainder of this fiscal year (March 31, 2010).…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009

New Modern Warfare 2 Teaser Is A Big Tease

Yup. It’s another drip-fed PR stunt, but hey, it’s a few brief seconds of Modern Warfare 2 footage we’re talking about here. Some people are cool with that. Even if it is cynically bolted onto the existing trailer. NOTE: Embed code doesn’t seem to be working, so in the meantime, you can watch the trailer…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009

Snake Gets A New Job Selling Cell Phones

As seen on 2ch.net.

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009

Iwata: iPhone Can’t Be Appreciated Like Nintendo Products Can

For a long time, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has maintained a stance that the Nintendo DS and Apple’s iPhone aren’t competing. A stance he seems to have let slide for a day. Speaking after Nintendo’s recent fiscal year report briefing, Iwata sounds like the constant comparisons between the two devices have got to him, as…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009

No More Heroes On Other Platforms Would Be “Great”

No More Heroes is a Wii game. Rumors have swirled for some time that the title was originally planned as an Xbox 360 title, but it ended up on the Wii instead. Game site 1UP asked Goichi Suda, the game’s designer, whether No More Heroes could ever appear on another platform in the future. “Actually,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009