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Thursday, Nov 27

The Great Black Friday 2008 Round-Up

Circuit City Opens 5:00 AM - Store Locator BioShock (Xbox 360) - $19.99 Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway (Xbox 360/PS3) - $19.99 Cooking Mama (DS) - $9.99 Dead Rising (Xbox 360) - $9.99 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP) - $9.99 The Orange Box (Xbox 360) - $19.99

Monday, Nov 24

So, How Much Space Do Your 360 Games Installs Take Up? [New Xbox Experience]

Bully: Scholarship Edition (3.4 GB) Grand Theft Auto IV (6.7 GB) — decreases initial load time from 46.5 to 33 seconds GRID (6.6 GB) GUN (3.6 GB) LIPS (4.7 GB) Pure (4.4 GB) Raiden IV (3.4 GB) Soul Calibur IV (5.9 GB) Xbox Live Arcade Compilation Disc (5.9 GB) Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Vol.1 (3.4 GB)

Friday, Nov 21

Wal-Mart Black Friday Deals [Black Friday]

Disney Video Game Assorted Titles - $10.00 Madden NFL 09 for Xbox 360 - $30.00 * NASCAR 09 for Xbox 360 - $30.00 * NBA Live 09 for Xbox 360 - $30.00 * NCAA Football 09 for Xbox 360 - $30.00 * NFL Head Coach 09 for Xbox 360 - $10.00 * Nintendo Wii Video Game System - $249.24

Tuesday, Nov 18

Xbox 360: The Xbox 360 Gift Guide

No one does sandboxers like Rockstar, and Bully does not disappoint. The main story contains as much cynicism, satire and irony as you'd imagine, and is supported by a nearly endless map of side missions and collectibles. ...

The Xbox 360 Gift Guide [2008 Kotaku Holiday Gift Guide]

Admit it, the guilty pleasure of a gift guide is looking for things that you want to get, rather than get advice on what to give. Still, there are some kind considerate souls out there with Xbox 360 gamers on their holiday shopping list, and to them we say: Welcome to Kotaku's Xbox 360 Gift Guid...

Friday, Oct 24

Sponsor Shout-out [Thanks Sponsors]

Thanks to this week's sponsors: Adam's Balls, Bioshock, Bully, Chrono Trigger, Energizer, Eternal Sonota, Fracture, Harmonix, IGN, The Last Remnant, Left 4 Dead, Midnight Club, NBA 2k9, T-Mobile, Toshiba. To become an advertiser, click here.

Monday, Oct 20

Ten Ways To Screw Up A Game Launch [Business]

Sometimes game hype works. Sometimes it doesn't. And when it doesn't work, it really can jump-start a backlash. Edge Online along with two PR gurus puts out ten ways to overhype a game. Let's dive in: Ten Ways to Overhype a Game [Edge Online]

Sunday, Oct 19

The Week in Games: Fable-ulous

Wii Music (Wii) Bully: Scholarship Edition (PC) Lovely Lisa (DS) Pass the Pigs (DS) Tetris Party (Wii) Tuesday (Oct. 21) Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, 360) Circus Games (Wii) Disney TH!NK Fast (Wii) Petz: Saddle Club (PSP) Tornado (DS) TouchMaster 2 (DS)

Thursday, Sep 4

Grand Theft Auto For Wii? Take-Two Says... [Nintendo]

After all, the Wii is the best selling console in North America right now and Take-Two and Rockstar Games don't shy away from bringing mature content — Manhunt 2 and Bully, for example — to the little white wonder. And Grand Theft Auto ...

Grand Theft Auto For Wii? Take-Two Says... [Nintendo]

While Rockstar has traditionally stuck with PlayStation, Xbox and PC platforms, it has brought Smugglers Run to the Gamecube and Grand Theft Auto to the Game Boy Advance. We'd say think that, given the hooker beating simulating properties of the Wii nunchuk, it's a no-brainer.

Thursday, Jul 31

PSP Sales Drop In Japan, But Xbox 360s Are Up [Simple 2000: The Japanese Hardware Chart]

The upward trend of Xbox 360 sales continues on this week's Media Create hardware chart, with Microsoft's console up a good 15%. It didn't have much of a software showing this week, outside of Bully: Scholarship Edition, so we have to wonder what's going on over there. Is Japan... jumping in?

Wednesday, Jul 9

Bully Ads Are A-OK With ASA

31 complaints against a TV ad for Take-Two's Bully: Scholarship Edition were dismissed by the Advertising Standards Authority. The complainants said that the ads "glorified and trivialized" bullying, but the ASA found that the ads themselves were not in violation of any standards.

Friday, Apr 4

Rockstar Acquires Mad Doc Software, Turns Them Into Rockstar New England [Rockstar Games]

To be a part of Rockstar Games is an amazing opportunity for everyone here," said Dr. Davis, Studio Head of the new Rockstar New England. "We're eager to bring our expertise to bear in the character-driven, open-world stories that make Rockstar Games titles so uniquely compelling."

Wednesday, Mar 19

Bully Patch News Coming Tomorrow Rockstar, ... [Bully]

Bully Patch News Coming Tomorrow Rockstar, who said two weeks ago that they were "working around the clock to rectify" the framerate issues and freezes that plagued older Xbox 360s playing Bully, told us today that they plan to update everyone on the patch tomorrow. Why not today? Not so su...

Friday, Mar 7

Rockstar Readying 360 Bully Patch [Patches]

Rockstar's Bully: Scholarship Edition came out of the oven a little half-baked, with frequent lock-ups, audio glitches, and a generally poor frame rate severely ticking off gamers and downright horrifying the developers. Thankfully Rockstar was able to overcome the horror and get to...

Sunday, Mar 2

Week in Games: Army of Two, Super Smash Bros Brawl & More

Bully: Scholarship Edition (Wii, X360) Rockstar's Bully comes to the Wii and 360 with optimized graphics and all new missions. Major League Baseball 2K8 (PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, X360) MLB '08: The Show (PS2, PS3, PSP) Performance enhancing drugs not included.

Monday, Aug 13

Okami Snags Questionably Coveted Edge Award

At the fifth annual Edinburgh Interactive Festival, which runs today and tomorrow, the winner of the EIF Edge Award was announced, with Clover Studios' PlayStation 2 epic Okami nabbing the prize. I assume that title is something along the lines of "Best Game of 2007" or "Exceptional Achi...

Friday, Jul 27

A Week In Comments (Ban Monday Info)

All of Rockstar's other games are forgettable, have mediocre sales, and usually only stand out if they are like Manhunt and just include senseless violence just to attract controversy. Now I'm not bashing JRPGs... I have yet to see a game that is worth 60 hours.

Monday, May 21

GTA IV Special Expensive Edition Revealed

Rockstar Games announces Grand Theft Auto IV Special Edition The Grand Theft Auto IV Special Edition will be presented in a customized Grand Theft Auto metal safety deposit box. The box will contain: For more information about Grand Theft Auto IV, please visit www.rockstargames.com/IV.

Monday, Feb 26

The Giant Best Buy Sale

1.99 PSP Death Jr 1.99 PSP Gripshift 1.99 PSP Spiderman 2 1.99 PSP SSX 4 1.99 PSP Thug 2 Remix 1.99 PSP Tokobot 1.99 PSP Worms 4.99 PSP Ape Escape 4.99 PSP Fight Night 4.99 PSP Lumines 4.99 PSP MLB 4.99 PSP ridge Racer 9.99 PSP Daxter 9.99 PSP Infected 9.99 PSP King Kong 9.99 PSP Madden 07 9.99 PSP NLB 2k6 Xbox 360 Xbox

Monday, Jan 29

NYC Video Game Ads

Sure New York has the giant Playstation Portable video billboard, and that's cool and all, but it's not routine. These images of video game ads are. It's kinda cool to see the likes of Bully and Lost Planet advertising getting slapped up on buildings like they are ads for movies or perfume. I th...

Thursday, Jan 4

Opinion: Analyst: No Bully 2

I agree with Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter, but for a different reason. Simply put, Bully was built on the Grand Theft Auto engine and, as I said in my otherwise positive review of the game, that engine is starting to chug. Bully 2 ??? Industry Analyst Says No [Game Politics]

Thursday, Nov 9

VGA's Nominees Announced

VGA 2006 [Spike TV] title 2 Okami title 5 Wii Sports title 4 GTR 2 1 Rockstar Presents Table Tennis 3 Okami 6 Bully 5 NHL 07 4 GTA Vice City Stories 2 Bully 4 OKAMI 1 Black 2 Prey 2 Okami 3 GTA Vice City Stories 4 Tetris DS 1 WII 2 PS3 3 DS Lite 2 Godfather the Game 2 Gerry Rosenthal - Bully

Friday, Nov 3

Feature: Nerdcore, Kubrick and Power Gloves

We mused at what a real game girl calendar would look like-perhaps still centerfold influenced, but replacing stats and measurements with favorite games and top scores? On the other hand, I'm unsure that even the hottest girl looks her best truly enjoying the game she's playing. She's li...

Friday, Oct 27

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

I find it decent so far. I'm not quite so enamored of it as Eliza is: to me, it seems relatively clear that it was toned down thanks to the publicity. Yet I also suspect that it's a better game for the outside scrutiny: it certainly does seem to me to be the last gasp of the GTA engine, wrapped up in sl...

Wednesday, Oct 25

Florian Buys Bully

Today, I went down to GAME on Dawson Street to pick up a copy of Bully, which has been released over in Ireland under the far inferior title Canis Canem Edit, because, as you all know, only the ancient tongue of philosophers and kings can accurately capture the spirit of a game about stink bom...

Tuesday, Oct 24

Jack to Crecente: You Are a Hypocrite, Curious

Facing a contempt hearing in a few hours, Jack Thompson sent out a letter to the press explaining how he is the one being bullied over the game Bully. Immediate News Release - October 25, 2006 Is Miami Attorney and Video Game Critic Going to Jail Today for Contempt?

Monday, Oct 23

Bully's Boy/Boy Lovin'

It's interesting that someone at Rockstar decided to build this particular expereince into the game and to do so in a way that isn't in your face. While I've only played about 10 percent of Bully so far, it seems to be very much about experiences. Brian Crecente

Tuesday, Oct 17

First Bully Review Hits...

It is! I pity your losing streak. Even to an egomaniac like you, that's got to be depressing. So now that Bully is out and it turns out that it's remarkably non-violent, I thought I'd help you out by giving you a new tack to take in suing Rockstar. Here's a little snippet I found from Gamebrink's re...

Sunday, Oct 15

Games of the Week: Justice Edition

Bully (PS2) The high school action adventure from Rockstar rots brains and ruins lives starting Tuesday. Destroy All Humans! 2 (PS2, Xbox) More alien probing fun set in the '60s. Family Guy (PS2, PSP, Xbox) How can you go wrong with talking babies and wisecracking dogs? *cough*

Friday, Sep 29

They Were Wrong: Hands-On With Bully

Bapenguin over on the Evil Avatar forums has a detailed rundown of his firsthand observations of Bully, Rockstar's latest attention-getting title. When Bully was announced back at E3 2005 to a small closed door group of press it immediately garnered a ton of attention. Unfortunately it w...

Sunday, Aug 20

The Bully Pulpit

The most idiotic thing about the furor over Rockstar's upcoming school-based game Bully is that it's fueled by one of the scantiest PR campaigns I've ever seen. A single trailer (or two?), some fantastic concept art, and a few sentences make up the entirety of the information released by R...

Monday, Aug 14

High Score: The Best of Kotaku

In less serious controversy, gamers every where with standard definition TV's cried foul at problems with Capcom's Dead Rising. I look at it as a strong argument for no more readin' in my controllable TV shows you Einsteins call "video games". Caveat emptor, y'all!

Friday, Aug 11

Bully: Evolution or Exploitation?

As a troublesome schoolboy, you'll laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy."

Thursday, Aug 10

Bully Attacks Bully on Attack of the Show

Jack Thompson, everyone's video game bully, is going to be on Attack of the Show tonight to froth about how evil a game is he's never seen. Jack will be on in the first 15 minutes so either avoid the beginning or tune in then depending ...

Anti-Bullying Group Calls for Bully Ban

Bullying Online, one of the UK's lead anti-bullying charities, has renewed their opposition to Rockstar's game Bully. We'd hoped that Rockstar had ditched this game following our complaints about it a year ago," said Bullying Online director Liz Carnell. "We don't think this game is lik...

Wednesday, Aug 9

Early Impressions of Bully

I flew out to Rockstar's New York offices last month to be one of the first people to look at the company's game, Bully for a couple of stories I wrote for the Rocky Mountain News. Hop on over to the Rocky's site for my impressions on the game, which is set to hit in October. Friday I'll have a much bi...

Monday, Mar 20