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The commemorative Street Fighter 20th Anniversary coin is a thing of joy and wonder, encompassing everything it means to be a coin, while still commemorating an event. It comes in a lovely display card, with Ryu on the inside and interesting Street Fighter facts printed on the back. It's ju...
The Street Fighter IV FightPad for the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 includes an enlarged circular eight-way floating D-Pad and arcade style six-button configuration. An integrated D-Pad switch allows gamers to alternate between D-Pad and Analog Sticks.
Mad Catz is unveiling their new controllers for Street Fighter IV, a HAWX compatible flight stick and their latest PC flight stick at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. The Street Fighter IV Faceplate and Console Skinz for the Xbox 360and Playstation 3 lets gamers customize their co...
The SD cards will sell for $13 a pop and are set to hit the U.S. this spring. With songs taking as much as 50 megs each and the Wii only sporting 512MB of onboard stoarge, extra external memory seems like a must for any hardcore fans of Rock Band. SanDisk Rock Band Wii Cards
REDWOOD CITY, CA — January 7, 2009 —Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced the next two titles to be released within the MySims™ Franchise. MySims™ Party and MySims™ Racing, available for the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™, will release in 2009.
Rumor: NiGHTS Sequel Was Originally An Xbox 360, PS3 Game Want To Buy A Games Mag? Hardcore Gamer Is For Sale (On eBay) High Quality In-Game Final Fantasy XIII Gameplay Images Japan Getting Resident Evil PS3 Bundle, Console Please Be Seated for this King of Fighters XII trailer
Want your own video game magazine and have all the big game companies beg you to cover their latest games before they're released? Want to be wined and dined by Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Rockstar, Capcom, and Konami, to name a few? Want to have your editors flown on all ex...
Sega's NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams for the Wii was once planned for release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but shifted platforms against the wishes of Sonic Team producer Takashi Iizuka. The Blog Sega Doesn’t Want You to Read [TSSZ News]
I had the pleasure of hanging out at a Best Buy for an hour and a half or so today while they car guys installed a hands-free telephone dealio into my uber-wagon. I eventually meandered over to the game section and then over to where they had Rock Band set up.
In response to my failed attempt at knitting during the Kotaku Holiday Podcast, reader Austinpoet offered a link to KNiiTTiiNG, a project that teaches players to knit using the Nintendo Wii. Call it Knitting Hero. While KNiiTTiiNG currently remains an unofficial project, I wouldn't be s...
Tuesday 6th January/... Eidos Interactive, creator of some of the world’s leading video game properties, today announced the launch of a new community-focused destination site for Battlestations: Pacific™. Battlestations: Pacific™ is set for release on Xbox 360® video game and entert...
While Midway both has This is Vegas and Wheelman on their plate as upcoming titles, the massive job cuts and studio closings seems to make it doubtful that Midway will recover from what is increasingly looking like a death spiral. Midway Games, note holders agree to extension
EA continues its onslaught of Hasbro titles this spring as the company reveals plans to flood Xbox Live Arcade with classic board games via the Hasbro Family Game Night channel. EA Delivers Scrabble to Every Major Digital Platform in 2009 and Brings Hasbro Family Favorite Board Game Expe...
In Japan, next February sees three more titles to Microsoft's Xbox 360 budget Platinum Collection line. They are: • Battlefield: Bad Company ¥2,940 2/26/09 • Halo 3 ¥2,940 2/26/09 • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 ¥2,940 2/26/09 Xbox 360 プラチナコレクションに「Halo 3」など4タイトルが登場 [IT Media]
MTV decided to find out. Using the Wii’s Nintendo Channel - which tracks the playing habits of 1.6 million Americans - they've yanked out some data on what games you're playing, and for how long. Shame. Wii Software Stats January Update: ‘Animal Crossing’ Is A Beast, ‘Sonic’ Whimpers [MTV]
Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Computer Entertainment's Worldwide Studios, teases "new titles and innovations that will connect and expand the PlayStation experiences" on the PSP. But that's about all the love the PSP gets from developers and SCEE execs. I mean, David Reeves, presi...
At the very least, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Online Entertainment, Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, Nyko, Capcom and probably many, many more will be at CES 2009. Expect plenty of hands-on impressions on the software and hardware side of things.
The latest issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine touts the "world exclusive review" of Killzone 2 for the PlayStation 3. What did the officially sanctioned mag think of Guerrilla Games' highly anticipated first-person shooter?
Capcom has an excellent line up of games hitting consoles during the first half of 2009, and they've got the Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV-filled press release to prove it. Resident Evil® 5, Street Fighter® IV, Bionic Commando®, Dead RisingTM: Chop Till You Drop, FLOCK! and MotoGP...
Capcom has an excellent line up of games hitting consoles during the first half of 2009, and they've got the Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV-filled press release to prove it. CAPCOM TO DELIVER STELLAR LINE UP IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2009
Five years old and growing! EVE Online celebrated the beginning of the new year by reaching a new record for concurrent users connected to the game, with more than 45,000 players online at once. Great news for CCP! Perhaps not so great for EVE players, forced to deal with an influx of new, stu...
It's foreign game panic day! Like Jun Takeuchi, Hideo Kojima is worried about Western games and Western developers. He tells Japanese magazine Famitsu what he's going to do about it. That's nice and all, but didn't Metal Gear Solid 4 do better abroad than domestically? Quick, somebody inf...
Doom! Gloom!! Bittersweet optimism!!! Square Enix president Yoichi Wada rallies the troops with a New Years message titled "Riding The Current." It's corporate poetry. Well, at least there's no "fire/desire" rhyme. This would probably sound better in Japanese — and if Imperial Hot hims...
Also listed were the twenty most popular Xbox Live Arcade games, Castle crashers taking top honours despite being widely unplayable over Xbox Live Arcade for much of the year. That's one hell of an achievement. The Top 20 LIVE Games of 2008 [Microsoft]
Wii Top Ten 1. Wii Sports Total Sales: 3.2 million 2. Wii Fit Total Sales: 2.8 million 3. Wii Play Total Sales: 2.5 million 4. Mario Kart Wii Total Sales: 1.9 million 6. Mario Party 8 Total Sales: 1.2 million 7. Super Mario Galaxy Total Sales: 932,119 Wii Bottom Ten 2. Hot Shots Golf 5 Total Sales: 408,175
Oh, they hailed it as a massively missed opportunity, considering EA offered to buy your stock at a premium of $25.75 per share, which is now hovering around $8. Not that EA's stock is doing much better, currently rebounding at $17, but you get the idea.
PC 1. Fallout 3 2. Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor 3. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 4. Grand Theft Auto IV 5. World of Goo PS3 1. Grand Theft Auto IV 2. LittleBigPlanet 3. Bioshock 4. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 5. Rock Band 2
Q Entertainment has given its Nintendo DS puzzler Meteos new life on Xbox Live Arcade with Meteos Wars. Why the "Wars" distinction? It's certainly no bloodier than the standard Meteos (or even Meteos Disney Magic.) Meteos Wars was developed and published by Q Entertainment, released on D...
Famed Playstation developer David Jaffe may seem like an odd choice for guest developer for our in-game podcast about the Xbox 360's Gears of War 2. Jaffe solidifies his position as one of Kotaku's favorite developers in this podcast where he discusses what he likes about Gears, how God of...
01. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP) 02. Pokemon Platinum (DS) 03. Wii Fit (Wii) 04. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 05. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) 06. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (DS) 07. Dragon Quest V (DS) 08. Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (DS) 09. Animal Crossing City Folk (Wii) 10. Wii Sports (Wii)
The thing is, their excellent cheer leading skills don't always mean they publish good games. In fact, they haven't really published many good games at all this year. And each time another dud passed across my desk and little part of me died, because I knew they still had Mushroom Men waiting...
Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars is one of the better Wii titles of the year. Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars was developed by Red Fly Studio and published by Gamecock. Released on December 2 for the Wii, retails for $49.99. Played through the entire campaign.
Dissidia: Final Fantasy was developed and published by Square-Enix, released in Japan on Dec. 18, 2008 for the Sony PSP. Retails for 5,980 yen. Played story mode to completion, played local multiplayer with random strangers on a train.
LittleBigPlanet - Solid Snake Costume ($1.99) LittleBigPlanet - Meryl Silverburgh Costume ($1.99) LittleBigPlanet - Raiden Costume ($1.99) LittleBigPlanet - Metal Gear Solid Costume Pack ($5.99) LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid Level Kit ($5.99)
Konami has added another PSone classic to the North American PlayStation Store, following up last week's release of Castlevania Chronicles with the first in its role-playing game series Suikoden. Price to you is just $5.99 for the playable on PSP and PS3 PlayStation game. Much cheaper tha...
The World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse. was co-developed by Steel Series and Blizzard, manufactured by Steel Series. Retails for $99.99. Used mouse as PC mouse for a week, played countless hours of World of Warcraft during testing period, creating multiple profiles.
Now available digitally are Mass Effect, Need For Speed Undercover, Spore (and the Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack), FIFA Manager 09 and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. We'd consider that a big win for Valve, considering EA's kind of the competition with its own EA Store.
Ubisoft has just announced CellFactor: The Psychokenetic Wars, a futuristic first-person shooter coming to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network that pits big guns against mental powers....
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia gives the Nintendo DS its third "let's borrow liberally from Metroid" Castlevania entry, this time putting the lovely empty vessel Shanoa in the Dracula-slaying lead. Is Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia just what the Castlevania fan ordered?
Atari's plucky bald president Phil Harrison would to show the world that Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick made a big mistake in dropping the Ghostbusters game from the company's lineup. Harrison: We'll prove Activision wrong [MCV]
Hideo Kojima said that we'd still have a couple week's worth of speculation on what "A Next Metal Gear Is...", but rumored scans from Famitsu may have spoiled it. It's Metal Gear. For the iPhone. UPDATE - Konami have since confirmed. The title will be called Metal Gear Solid Touch.
Remember when God of War producer David Jaffe gushed orgasmically about the footage he'd seen from the PlayStation 3 entry in the series, writing that it was "like a painting come to life"? SPIKE AWARDS + GAME AWARDS IN GENERAL [DavidJaffe.biz]
01. Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) - 1.56 million 02. Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360) - 1.41 million 03. Wii Play (Wii) - 796,000 04. Wii Fit (Wii) - 697,000 05. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 637,000 07. Guitar Hero World Tour (Wii) - 475,0000 08. Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360) - 410,000 10. Wii Music (Wii) - 297,000
Part of their innovative line of official Rock Band peripherals that includes the dual-strumming Fender Bass and the microphone with 360 controls built-in, the Mad Catz Portable Drum Kit for the Xbox 360 aims to deliver a solid drumming experience in a packages tiny enough to stuff into...
NEW YORK — Dec. 3, 2008 — Massive Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. and a leading network for video game advertising, and Blizzard Entertainment Inc., a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software, announced today a multi-year deal that names Massive as the e...
East meets West as Square Enix releases The Last Remnant, their first attempt at creating a role-playing experience with both Japanese and Western audiences in mind. If you're willing to put up with its failings, The Last Remnant is a refreshing and challenging mix of role-playing and st...
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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm was developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Namco Bandai, released in North America on Nov. 4 for the PlayStation 3. Retails for $59.99. Played through entire mission mode story arc, completing a majority of the non-required side missions. Played every cha...
Tabula Rasa has some unique features that make it fun and very different from every other MMO out there. Unfortunately, the fact is that the game hasn't performed as expected. The development team has worked hard to improve the game ...
Billboard advertising for Grand Theft Auto IV will return to Chicago buses and bus stations for six weeks as part of a settlement with the Chicago Transit Authority. Rockstar Games parent Take-Two Interactive sued Chicago's public transportation body in May after the GTA IV ads were pul...
The per player price for most of these guys was tens of thousands of dollars less than what they were guaranteed by Take Two Interactive so it’s a real coup that we were able to pull this off so cheaply. You have to remember that EA’s total cost is only $200,000 per year. We know that Take Two offer...
The Sims 3 Q&A 9.What kind of player activity have you planned for The Sims 3? 12.Can we expect to see our favourite Sims families return, having grown, as they did between The Sims and The Sims 2? 15.What challenges did you face in the creation of The Sims 3?
Call of Duty: World at War was developed by Treyarch, published by Activision and released on Nov. 11 for the PC, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. Retails for $59.99 USD. It was reviewed on the Xbox 360. Completed the single-player campaign alone, tested campaign coop, Nazi Zombie mode and othe...
Remember when EA said they were looking at ways they could take a chunk out of Nintendo's Wii Fit market? Well, they found a way. Aimed primarily at the ladies, new title EA Sports Active will, like Peter Moore said a few weeks back, be targeted at a more Western style of fitness, as opposed to W...
It's Friday, Gears of War 2 is out, and people are playing it. For those who are not playing it or not sick of the game for that matter, Cliff "DH" Bleszinski is talking Gears 2 in an interview with Irish radio station RedFM. For those who are not sick of him, give it a listen.
While playing Guitar Hero World Tour for my review of the game I started thinking that maybe the plastic and rubber drum kit was a bit louder that Rock Band 2's. So Adam and I made this short little video showing me playing a chunk of the same song. This isn't scientific at all (You'd need a way to m...
However, integrating the Guitar Hero World Tour drum controller into the Rock Band games requires an update to the Rock Band game software. Until that update is made to the Rock Band software, the Guitar Hero World Tour drum controller will not function in the PlayStation 3 version of that...
Now that we've played Wii Music for a serious length of time, has it started to make any sense? Read on to see what we loved and hated about our Wii Music jam sessions. Wii Music was developed and published by Nintendo, released on Oct. 21 for Wii. Retails for $49.99 USD. Unlocked all songs, stages a...
Nintendo has created a piece of software that has brief flashes of fun, but little in the way of long-term enjoyment. In group settings, it will likely entertain for its impossible-to-fail gameplay and the resulting cacophony. Outside of morbid (or genuine) curiosity, it's hard to recom...
During the review process prior to the release of LittleBigPlanet, it has been brought to our attention that one of the background music tracks licensed from a record label for use in the game contains two expressions that can be found in the Qur'an," admitted the company in a statement.
Taito has dragged Bub and Bob out to solve another Puzzle Bobble conundrum, one that can only be unraveled by launching bubbles from a cannon in the hopes of more match three puzzle gameplay. Space Puzzle Bobble doesn't bring too much to the Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-A-Move) series, it just s...
Luke Smith over at Bungie lays out some of the new achievements coming to Halo 3 when the next patch and Assembly map hits. The update may slip as well, Smith points out, to closer to the Halo 3 one year anniversary. Now for those achievements which can be earned via the Legendary Maps and Halo 3 C...
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was developed by Kojima Productions, published by Konami. Retails for $59.99. Available on PlayStation 3. Played single player campaign to completion on "Solid Normal" difficulty. Tested all Metal Gear Online modes and extras.
Stache central! Entries are pouring in for out Metal Gear Solid 'Stache Contest. Pictured is an entry from reader Brian A. (not me!). He also sent along fanfiction. Read an excerpt: "The...
Europe, Australia, let us see what's new in the PlayStation Store for today. Two demos is a nice improvement, even if one of them is Iron Man, while the rest of the update seems content to dump on you a ton of video content from the recent PlayStation Day event held in London. There's also some PS...
Microsoft sales data shows Xbox 360 consoles saw a 54% lift week-over-week as a result of “Grand Theft Auto IV,” and retailers are reporting that roughly four out of every 10 Xbox 360 consoles sold included the sale of a copy of “Grand Theft Auto IV.” (Microsoft internal data)
The Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare "feature patch" that hit Xbox 360 gamers last month square in the hard drive has finally been released for folks currently sporting the PlayStation 3 version, says Infinity Ward. It's for US gamers only right now, but don't worry European Union, you're ge...
First, let's put things into perspective from a game standpoint. What games are we talking here? Well EA would of course get Rockstar, which means Grand Theft Auto would be theirs, along with Midnight Club and Manhunt - though at this point it's probably best to toss that one out the window. T...
Activision honcho Robert Kotick is not a nerd. He has a totally cool nickname, "Bobby." And cool guys have a nickname like that. His company puts out cool games like Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero. Bobby recently told a room full of press:
The original Street Fighter with Jean-Claude Van Damme was all kinds of suck. That hasn't stopped Capcom from green-lighting another SF flick. While the previous venture featured tons of characters from the game, the new flick revolves around one character: Chun-Li. Yup, no Guile, no Ken...
Video game music cover bands are a dime a dozen. Regurgitating NES tunes with the standard guitar-bass-drums set up was cute when the Advantage and the Minibosses did it, but now, now it's just bordering on sad. That's why when someone writes rapid-fire lyrics and actually sings the melody...
There s been quite a strong response to NCsoft s decision to require anti-cheat software Gameguard to run for access to their massively multiplayer online game Lineage II. He went on to say that the GameGuard system put in place in Lineage II does not cause security vulnerabilities.