While customers wait to hear, well, anything of substance from Sony regarding the continued PlayStation Network downtime, at least somebody is hearing from the company, and that’s developers affected by the prolonged outage. Mad Blocker Alpha is a game that was supposed to have been released on the PSN last week, but because of the…
LA Noire was shown off behind closed doors earlier tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival. It was a strictly no-cameras kind of event, something YouTube user Darkskater7991 seems to have overlooked. See it before it’s gone! And if it’s gone by the time you’re reading this, well…the sun will come up tomorrow. Tomorrow.
Well, besides the fact that Wii sales are on a downward slide, Wii games don’t look good on HD televisions and the console is starting to show its age. Besides all that, there must be a reason. “It’s become hard for software makers to surprise customers with the current Wii,” Nintendo honcho president recently told…
Atlantis aside, Disney’s animation arm would never actually come up with something this cool. Disney Samus by villainzekes
It’s April. Soon it will be May. And to fill out the rest of 2011, Nintendo is going to release games. Most of them have already been revealed, but here’s a handy list of titles Nintendo plans out putting out in 2011. Here’s a rundown, courtesy of Nintendo. Some titles, such as Paper Mario, are…
It’s been a hallmark of PC gaming (and, well, PC using) for years now: when Windows really does something wrong, users have been greeted by the dreaded “blue screen of death”, crashing their system. No more! Instead, it appears as though the next version of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 8, does something similar to the…
In Japan, No More Heroes is going adults-only with No More Heroes: Red Zone, a Move-enabled PS3 port of No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise. This is the game’s debut trailer. The trailer runs through what makes the game different: adult content, online rankings, five popular characters from No More Heroes 2, ten missions that were…
While Sony did introduce its new PlayStation tablet, the company did not address any of the issues plaguing the PlayStation Network, reports The Wall Street Journal
Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto is in Paris at the moment on a 3DS press tour, and in between pressing the flesh and answering questions about his hobbies and pastimes, he’s dropping hints about Mario Kart 3DS Despite the fact we’ve seen little but a glorified tech demo of the latest and inevitable version…
During the days that followed March’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, game companies donated money and musicians donated songs. And illustrators? Why, they drew pictures. Japan’s most famous adult game and character illustrators put original drawings on online auction sites, hoping to attract sizable bids for quake relief donations. Contributions include drawings by visual novel…
Sony’s S1 tablet looks like a beautiful piece of gear. We’re really digging the tapered, magazine-like edge to it. The S2, though? With the dual screens and touch interface? It looks like a fan mock-up of a 3DS Lite, albeit a very pretty one.
Here’s the debut trailer for Sony’s new pair of PlayStation-certified tablet computers, the S1 and S2
Today in Tokyo, Sony revealed that its latest PlayStation hardware, the 9.4 inch Sony S1. It’s the first tablet that is (officially) capable of playing PlayStation games, such as PlayStation 1 games or Sony-approved titles for mobile platforms. It is the first Sony tablet to carry the “PlayStation Certified” logo. The S1 is slated for…
Following hot on the heels of the first PlayStation Phone, Sony has today unveiled its first tablet devices that will be capable of (officially) playing PlayStation games. The S1 tablet, which is a Tegra-powered device and is tapered on one end “like holding a magazine”, will be the first Sony tablet device to carry the…
Arcade games may have been a source of great joy and entertainment for millions across the world in the 1980s, but for the small town of Marshfield, Massachusetts they were nothing but trouble. Fearful of the effects arcade video games would have on Marshfield and its inhabitants, in 1982 the town outlawed the use of…
Welcome back, Kotaku readers. Here we go. Again. Yes, maybe I do have a case of the Mundays, in part because I didn’t get to post about Phantasy Star Online 2 earlier today. Boy do I have fond memories of playing PSO on the Dreamcast, commandeering my roommate’s phone line in order to take my…
Why is the PlayStation Network still offline? Sony Computer Entertainment America will only cop to an unnervingly vague “external intrusion on our system,” leading those affected by and those taking delight in PSN’s problems to generate their own theories about the disruption that’s now six days old. Perhaps the best? That custom firmware for the…
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle’s Sylvia Christel can soon straddle a beam katana on your toy shelf, thanks to the sculpting talents of master toymaker Mitsumasa Yoshizawa who brings the Grasshopper Manufacture creation to life in pricey polyvinyl chloride form. Ready the wallet! The “Sylvia Christel Complete Figure” from Yamato’s Creator’s Labo line is…
A recently released video game for Google’s Android platform has drawn the ire of the Humane Society for its violent content that includes the ability to train, electrocute and fight virtual dogs. Kage Games‘ Dog Wars (not pictured) has even been frowned upon by former dogfighting enthusiast Michael Vick. The ex-con, Philadelphia Eagles QB and…
TRIBECA | NEW YORK, NY: A glimpse of the press swag bag handed out at the Tribeca L.A. Noire “screening” in Manhattan tonight. (Photo by Stephen Totilo) Play A Game For Social Change America may not be headed toward a future of citizens tracked with implanted chips, pacified by drugs and tightly segregated, but creating…
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