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Ken Levine and Todd Howard on Teddy Ruxpin

Want to know what happened at that panel where their Stephen Totilo and Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal talked shop with Ken Levine and Todd Howard? They talked about Teddy Ruxpin. The actual topic of discussion was whether hardcore gamers should fear the Wii. The answer? Good luck getting a definitive one from this vid. You could…

Square Enix: “Dragon Quest IX Delay May Affect Final Fantasy XIII”

Dragon Quest IX is going to be delayed — blame fatal bugs for that! Is DQIX‘s postponement is going to affect another big Square Enix game Final Fantasy XIII? Square Enix president Yoichi Wada explained, “The next term’s schedule has been fixed yet. Presently, I cannot say what kind of effect we will experience from…

Yup, Microsoft Are Opening Microsoft Retail Stores

Last month, we took a tour of Microsoft’s “fake” retail store. Meant to show what it would look like “if” Microsoft ever decided to open a dedicated store. Like the ones they’re now actually opening. The company have announced that, yes, they’re going to follow Apple into the dedicated retail space, and will be opening…

What Is Sega’s Project RINGO?

Man, I don’t know. Why don’t you ask Sega? All we’ve seen so far is a simple teaser page, with an adorable animated silhouette of a clown-shoe wearing girl juggling an apple. That’s all Sega seems willing to divulge about “Project RINGO” on the recently opened teaser page at its Japanese web site. We can…

What Was ONM’s Delay Worthy “Exclusive Game Content”?

Why were poor Official Nintendo Magazine subscribers made to suffer a delay in getting their latest issue? Blame Mario, Sonic and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The UK publication put a hold on its latest issue to give everyone else plenty of breathing room to announce Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games three…

Ditched Splatterhouse Developers Wish Namco “The Best”

Earlier this week, Namco confirmed to Kotaku that California-based developer BottleRocket Entertainment is no longer working on the upcoming multi-platform Splatterhouse reboot. Namco showed up at the developer’s offices and took back the dev kits and Splatterhouse assets with the intention of having the Afro Samurai team finish the game. Regarding Namco’s decision to take…

Harmonix Sues Konami Over Rock Revolution

Rock Band developer Harmonix is turning the legal tables on Konami, slapping the publisher-developer with a lawsuit of its own. No, not for pain and suffering caused by Rock Revolution, but for patent infringement. Why does this sound eerily familiar? You may recall that Konami, who also developed the rhythm game Guitar Freaks for Japan,…

Americans Still Buying Wii Fit At Alarming Rates

As Nintendo president Satoru Iwata already revealed last week, Wii owners in the United States are still buying Wii Fit as fast as their chubby little frames will allow, moving at near holiday sales rates. The fitness software racked up 777,000 sales in January, a 22% drop from its December rate. Wii Fit‘s impressive sales…

Storytelling

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Eatin’ With The In-Laws (No, They’re Not Trying To Kill Me) Last week, while driving Tristan to his Math Club (he’s learning Vedic Math) he asked me to tell him a story. So I told him about Odysseus and the cyclops Polyphemus. I’m not really sure why that popped into…

Nintendo Dominates US Hardware Sales Again With Big, Big January

No one was expecting Nintendo to sell Wii and Nintendo DS hardware at the record-breaking rate it had in December, but January’s take was no drop in the pond, with the Wii dominating sales charts. Nintendo still managed to move over a million pieces of hardware to U.S. consumers in January, with 679,200 Wiis and…

PlayStation Store Update: Bloomin’

Sony kicks off its “Spring Fever” promotion with the arrival of thatgamecompany’s Flower, this week’s most outstanding PlayStation Store addition. But if you don’t feel like opening up the wallet, there are plenty of freebies. Not much that’s playable, mind you, but plenty to download, including a slew of themes for your PlayStation 3 and…

Snazziest Art To Grace a Game Disc

Crispy Gamer compiled a short list of what they think is the best art displayed on a gaming disc. The gallery of 20 discs starts with Grand Theft Auto III’s disc and wraps up by naming PaRappa the Rapper’s disc as the best bit of on-disc gaming art. The list certainly missed quite a few…

Guitar Hero Metallica Comes With Slice Of Lemmy

Metallica announced today that Guitar Hero Metallica will feature Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister as a playable character, presumably when one plays the band’s hit “Ace of Spades,” one of many guest tracks in the game. It should be a very profitable year for the English bassist, as he’ll also be appearing in the similarly umlauted Brütal…

World Of Warcraft Lead Moves To Blizzard’s Next Online Game

World of Warcraft lead designer Jeffrey Kaplan has announced that he is leaving the team behind the popular massively-multiplayer online game in order to work on Blizzard’s next massively-multiplayer project. In a post on the official World of Warcraft forums, Kaplan, who goes by the forum handle Tigole, thanked the fans and the development team…

Happy Darwin Day From Spore

Happy Darwin Day! Two hundred years ago evolutionary biologist Charles Dawrin was born. Today Maxis points out that his theories are being put to good use in Spore. More than 35 million creatures are online on Spore’s Sporepedia, which is more than 22 times the current known number of species that existence on the real…

Tales Still Has The Sales To Rank #1 In Japan

A batch of new software debuts couldn’t unseat Namco Bandai’s Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 as Japan’s bestselling game, including a better than expected showing of the PlayStation 3 exclusive Demon’s Souls. The continued impressive sales of the latest Tales role-playing game and Konami’s World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 gave the PlayStation family…

How 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand Works

In the latest developer diary for 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, members of the development team explain how the hardcore rapper and his crew take on a fictional Middle Eastern country. The video takes us through most if not all of the gameplay mechanics for the new 50 Cent game, covering weapons, vehicle combat,…

Majesco Urges Families To Go Play Lumberjax

It’s okay to work all night and sleep all day with Go Play Lumberjax, the first game in Majesco’s new line of family friendly games for the Nintendo Wii. Go Play Lumberjax is the first in the new Go Play line of games from New Jersey-based developer and publisher Majesco. According to Majesco VP of…

Namco Bandai Plans Buyout Of D3

First Square Enix announces its bid for Eidos, and now Namco Bandai reveals its intentions to purchase Japanese publisher D3, the parent company of Puzzle Quest’s D3 Publisher. According to a press release issued today by Namco Bandai, the company seeks to turn D3 into a full subsidiary, with agreements already having been reached with…

Rumor: Midway’s Wheelman Is Now Ubisoft’s Wheelman [Update]

Wheelman, the open world Vin Diesel racer, may be the first title to be properly reorganized under Midway’s chapter 11 bankruptcy, as Kotaku has heard that the game has found a new home at Ubisoft. We’d learned from a source last week that the game was planned to change publishers, with an announcement from Ubisoft…