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  Meet The Guys Who Make Gaming’s Fancy Editions

  There are regular editions of games, sure, but there are also two kinds of fancy editions: the kind people pay extra money for, and the kind publishers send to the press. (For an example of what I’m talking about with regards to “press editions”, see the video below). James Glover works for Fluid Design, a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
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  Which Of These Girls Do You Want In Yakuza?

  Sega is working on another new Yakuza game. Know what that means? Time to audition more hostesses. As it did with past games in the franchise, Sega holds open auditions for young women hoping to appear in the game. Sega then selects finalists who are voted on. It’s a popularity contest, and the winners appear…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 22, 2010
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  Kevin Butler Responds To New Zealand Copycats

  Hey, New Zealand TV, you can’t go ripping off a PlayStation ad and not expect Sony’s VP of Antipodean Beard Standards Kevin Butler to bring the thunder. The PlayStation mascot – or at least the guys who write the material for the actor who plays a PlayStation mascot – has responded to New Zealand’s TV3…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
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  Worker At Foxconn Affiliate Falls To His Death

  An employee at a Foxconn affiliate has fallen to his death at a company dormitory building, reports the Xinhua news agency. Foxconn manufactures electronics like the Wii, the PS3, the Xbox 360 and the iPhone. Its Shenzhen plant has suffered ten suicides this year, causing the company to ditch its suicide compensation and look into…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 22, 2010
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  Alien Swarm, Now Vastly Improved

  I’ve been playing a little Alien Swarm this week. It’s a pretty good game as is, but that’s not why it was provided free of charge. No, it was provided free of charge so you kids could mess with it. And we’re already seeing the fruits of these labours. Shrimpsess over on the Steam forums…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
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  Kevin Butler? No, You Mean Jerry Lambert

  For its latest ad campaign, Sony created tie-wearing trash-talking exec Kevin Butler. Kevin Butler isn’t real, but fictional. That’s why Sony created him, you know! Jerry Lambert is the VP of bit parts on television. Not a bad thing, not a bad thing at all. The actor behind Kevin Butler is Jerry Lambert, a veteran…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 22, 2010
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  Flawless Victory! Paperality!

  Mortal Kombat’s fatalities are so…gruesome! Blood, bones, not meant for children. This? Mortal Kombat fatalities, for children! It’s from the same guy – Eric Power – who did that great Zelda-on-paper short we showed you the other day, only this time, we’ve got twice the videos! Below is the “main” one, Power’s take on Mortal…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
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  Vanquish Originally An Open World Game

  Upcoming third-person shooter Vanquish is not an open world game. At one time, however, it was. “Vanquish was originally an open battlefield type of game, where the goal was to move around crushing enemy positions,” writes Vanquish game designer Shinji Mikami in a recent blog entry. “However, once we got started with development, we quickly…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 22, 2010
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  Hunt Some Cheeky Prawns With This District 9 Rifle

  It’s Comic-Con, so allow me to indulge in some toy coverage. Well, not that this is a toy. It’s more like a full-size replica of the alien assault rifle from District 9. Sculpted by special effects house WETA, the team behind Lord of the Rings and, uh, District 9, the rifle made its public debut…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
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  New Zelda Is An Ocarina Of Time Prequel (Of Sorts)

  You may think that the concept of a coherent timeline for the Legend of Zelda games is either a sick joke or a…joke, but Nintendo maintains there is one. And that the upcoming Skyward Sword fits neatly into it. In an interview with Official Nintendo Magazine, series overseer Eiji Aonuma says, “Yes there is a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
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  Marvel: Thor And Amaterasu Coming To Marvel vs. Capcom 3

  It’s not only the recently revealed Chun-Li, Doctor Doom, Super-Skrull, and Devil May Cry’s Trish who are joining the Marvel vs. Capcom fighting game fray. According to Marvel.com, there are apparently two more characters. The website for the venerated comic book publisher shows character art and in-game shots of both Thor and Okami’s Amaterasu. Neither…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 22, 2010
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  Kinect Priced For Australia

  Even pricing details are delayed down here, with Kinect’s rrp for the Aussie market only released today. The damage? AUD$199 for Kinect, AUD$449 for the 4GB Arcade/Kinect bundle.

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
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  What Is Daigo’s Day Job?

  Daigo Umehara could very well be the greatest Street Fighter player on this spinning blue orb we call “Earth”. There must be more to the man than that. There is. In an interview with Japan’s Sankei newspaper, Daigo talks about signing autographs and his English-language nickname, “The Beast”. Besides the money he earns from tournaments,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 22, 2010
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  Report: Online-Only Games The Latest Problem For Aussie Censors

  Blacklight: Tango Down, a recently-released online shooter, hasn’t been released in Australia. Why? According to Xbox Australia, it’s because it’s an online shooter. It’s a strange situation for a game to find itself in, but that’s definitely the reason Blacklight isn’t available for Australian consumers; because the country’s Classification Board will not rate a game’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
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  Rumor: Microsoft Killed Plans For “PC vs Xbox 360” Online Play

  The founder of Voodoo PC, Rahul Sood, says that Microsoft once floated the idea of implementing cross-platform play between the PC and Xbox 360 for a range of titles. Thing is, testing didn’t go so well. The proposal, part of Microsoft’s LIVE push, popped up “many many months ago”, and would have allowed people playing…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
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  Listen To The Amazing Kotaku Spider-Podcast

  This week’s episode of the Kotaku Talk Radio podcast has hit the web…of Spider-Man. Download or stream the latest episode to hear Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions game designer Francois Taddei spin us a tale of multiple webslingers. Mr.Taddei gave us the down-low on Spidey’s latest adventure, answering your questions while offering up juicy tidbits surrounding the…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2010
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  Netflix Going Disc-Less on PS3 This Fall

  Netflix will, by the end of October, ditch the disc necessary to stream movies onto the PS3, CEO Reed Hastings said in the company’s latest earnings call. “Before our next call in October, we expect to be launching a major new version of our Sony PS3 user interface which doesn’t require a disc and is…

  By Owen Good Published July 21, 2010
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  Try Not To Care About Echochrome ii After Watching This

  We love games that involve shadows. But no one on team Kotaku was buzzing about Echochrome ii. Then I saw it yesterday running on a PS3, controlled by the wand-like Move controller. And now I can’t shut up about it. Watch the video. You will like it. How the game works: The little Echochrome man…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2010
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  Closed Beta for Company of Heroes Online Begins in North America

  The upcoming freemium real-time simulation Company of Heroes Online kicked off an exclusive closed beta today, promising that 20,000 more access keys will be handed out on July 26 via IGN’s FilePlanet. A news release today said only a few Company of Heroes community members were emailed keys today, granting them access to the testing…

  By Owen Good Published July 21, 2010
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  PlayStation 3’s 3D Games Could Get 3DS-Style Slider

  In an experiment that could spread to other 3D video games on the PlayStation 3, the developers of November’s Sly Cooper compilation are considering including a controller-based slider that will adjust the depth of 3D displayed by the game. The ability to manually adjust the depth of stereoscopic 3D graphics popping out from or receding…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2010