Just Cause 2 Demo Impressions (via PS3 vault) -- Wow, what a fantastically fun demo. I was expecting Just Cause 2 to be a laugh based on the various trailers/footage I’d seen but the demo is the most mindless fun I’ve had since Red Faction: Guerrilla. You get half an hour to run around causing carnage, with a few optional missions Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Gogo Is A Good Gundam Singer Gundam (via Kotaku) - Last week, Chiaki Kuriyama, best known in the West as Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill, released her first CD single "Ryusei no Namida", the theme for Gundam Unicorn.
Based on a series of popular light novels, original video anime Gundam Unicorn debuted on Sony's PlayStation Network on February 20 with the six-episode series getting a Blu-ray and DVD release later this month. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Get A Good Look At Those Mass Effect 2 Figures Toys (via Kotaku) - While they were first revealed in January, courtesy of a blurry magazine scan, that was no way to get a good look at DC Direct's line of Mass Effect 2 figures. This is.
The first line will feature four characters: Commander Shepard (male), Tali, Thane and Grunt. Shepard is a little. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves Official Kotaku Forum (via Kotaku) - If this image looks familiar, we had some technical difficulties delivering today's version of the Talk Amongst Yourselves art. Which sucks, because I had a hell of a joke worked out.
Anyway, the starter image is like the frame of a painting. You guys are that painting. Enjoy your canvas for talking about anything in games, in Kotaku's official open thread. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Nintendo, Don't Be Ashamed Of A Girl's Behind Nintendo (via Kotaku) - Glory of Heracles is a DS game that, while out in Japan since 2008, was only just released in the US, and won't be out in Europe for weeks. So Nintendo is still advertising. Advertising, and covering up butts.
In an email for the Paon-developed game, changes have been made to the original artwork. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Deus Ex 3, Smoke If You've Got 'Em Eidos (via Kotaku) - To promote the upcoming cyberpunk game Deus Ex, game Eidos Montreal posted an image of a lighter. Wow. That's so exciting!
Eidos Montreal community guy René blogs, "I can't say a darn thing about this other than people who like to go into details will shortly have some new material to dissect. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
British Sales Charts: Torrential Downpour Britain (via Kotaku) - I've got to hand it to Heavy Rain. Or Sony's marketing team. Although I thought the game was pretty good, I also thought it would be a tough sell to Average Joe. Guess not, since it's gone #1 in the UK.
Yes, Quanitc Dream's moody crime thriller ousted Ubisoft's Just Dance, if only for a week, the lure of a strong PS3 exclusive outperforming the lure of yet another cheap wagglethon. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Nintendo Patent Suggests New DS Cartridge Design (via 1up) -
It's time once again to play everyone's favorite news game: Boarderline-Irresponsible Patent Speculation! On this episode, we have Nintendo filing a patent for what appears to be a new cartridge design for the Nintendo DS. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Valve: No Portal 2 for PS3 (via QJ) -- Despite the original Portal appearing on Sony's home video game console, Valve's Doug Lombardi has said that the same won't hold true with the sequel. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Yakuza 3 Demo Impressions (via PS3 vault) -- Having already played a couple of hours of the first Yazuka game back on PS2 I had an inkling of what to expect from this demo. I suspect if you went into it with no knowledge you may find Yakuza 3 to be completely insane. Basically the game puts you in control of Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
God of War III unboxed (via QJ) -- With the release of God of War III just around the corner, Sony has also started sending out retail builds of the game to some lucky media outlet. techdude6693 was lucky enough to snag one and righfully Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Kotaku Off-Topic: Oh, Hell, When is Daylight Saving Time Again? How Is This News? (via Kotaku) - Surprise, it's not today. Made you look! Which I had to do because, once upon a time, we had these things called "newspapers" and on the day of the switch, if all else failed, the front page reminded you.Instead it is next week, March 14. That's when you take that bonus hour of sleep that feels so good and put it in the bank for October. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Secret Sony Game Revealed : SOCOM (via PS3 vault) - Over at the EU PlayStation blog, they’ve announced the new ’secret’ Sony game is in fact a new SOCOM chapter. The release is copied after the break:Hi All,
Just wanted to share some really exciting news with you about Zipper Interactive who recently released the brilliant MAG. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Evan Wells wants you to play God of War III (via QJ) -- Since he's counted among the higher-ups of the industry, Evan Wells gets to do some things that us regular folks can't. Such privileges include making awesome games like Uncharted 2 and playing God of War III before Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Sunday Comics Webcomics (via Kotaku) - Penny Arcade
published March 3
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published March 1
Digital Unrest
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EXTRALIFE
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GU Comics
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Dotgif
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Dueling Analogs
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Rooster Teeth
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Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY edition to include 3D (via PS3 vault) - Warner Bros. and Eidos Inc. have just announced that they will be releasing a Game of the Year Edition of the hit comic book game, Batman: Arkham Asylum.
The Game of the Year Edition will include the downloadable content that was previously released. The new pack will support TriOviz 3D which will allow users to play [. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Blur Devs Promise Massive DLC Strategy, Just Not at Launch Dlc (via Kotaku) - Blur's developers do have plans for DLC but they don't intend to put any out at launch. In fact, no dates have been set, and they've made clear they're not going to tackle DLC until the main game's finished.Bizarre Creations is still putting the final coat of polish on the arcade racer, which entered a closed beta last week and releases May 25. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Chesty Jake Keeps Shirt On For New Prince of Persia Trailer, Part II Clips (via Kotaku) - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? More like the shirtlessness of Jake Gyllenhaal. Though, like the last trailer, it was short on Chesty Jake.
Though, the promotional photos for this movie have been long on the Chesty Jake! Ditto for the behind-in-the-scenes clips.
Based on the Ubisoft games, Prince of Persia is set in sixth century Persia. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
New Tomb Raider Game… Sort of (via PS3 vault) - Crystal Dynamics, makers of the last three Tomb Raider games, in an attempt to revive the classic series, has over the weekend announced a new project in the Lara Croft canon called Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Although the new game is minus the ‘Tomb Raider‘ in the title, it still involves the tried [. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Sony: 13 million PS3s sold by end of March (via QJ) -- Sony is predicting a great March for the PS3. Even with the threat of tight inventory, the company still expects to reach the 13 million units sold worldwide milestone by the end of the month. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
South Korean Couple Lets Baby Die While Nurturing Virtual Child (via 1up) -
Sometimes, stories about video game addiction are alarmist malarkey to bump up ratings. Other times, they're just flat-out tragic: The Next Web reports that a couple in South Korea has been arrested for allegedly allowing their prematurely born baby to starve to death while they were busy tending to a virtual kid at an Internet café. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
PC MMO Tera Looks Amazingly Like Console Game (via 1up) -
At GDC last week, En Masse was showing off its first MMO localization effort, Tera. Those who attended the show floor might have had trouble spotting the booth from amongst the slew of other Asian-market game artwork displayed though; Tera's art style is distinctly Korean -- especially obvious if you're familiar with the likes of Lineage II -- with its long-limbed light and dark elves, and strange rock-like armor covering little-to-no body parts with protruding bits in all the most useless places. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Gravity Hook HD, From The Makers Of Canabalt Digital (via Kotaku) - Before they made the excellent Canabalt, Adam Saltsman and Danny Baranowsky made a game called Gravity Hook. It was like Bionic Commando vs Peggle. Anyway, they're remaking the game in "HD", and you can play it right now.
The original has been overhauled in almost every way, from graphics to sound to controls, making for a game that's not only easier on the eyes, but easier to play as well. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
Posthumous Cult Favorites: Games That Endure (via 1up) -
Posthumous Cult Gaming
How fans keep the memory of cult favorites alive.
By Bob Mackey
The modern mainstream gaming press is a fickle beast. Sure, some titles will often draw months (or years) of attention from hungry and enthusiastic journalists, but the week after release, it's, "So long, and call us when you get a sequel. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
EA Announces Next Sims Expansion Pack (via 1up) -
The Sims are finally going to work for real. Electronic Arts has announced The Sims 3: Ambitions, the second expansion in what will undoubtedly be a long line of them.
Rather than simply having Sims go to the office and disappear for the day, Ambitions fleshes out what happens in the workplace. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | 5 months ago
