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  This Bayonetta Commercial Lady Loves Bayonetta

  She’s even copying her look, glasses and all! Not sure what’s up with the tongue action. She should use a moist towelette to wipe her lips, not her tongue. Bayonetta will be released on the Xbox 360 and the PS3 later this month in Japan and early next year in the West.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 20, 2009
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  3D Dot Heroes Has The Bestest Load Screens

  From Software’s love letter to retro gaming, 3D Dot Game Heroes, pay tribute to box art of lore via loading screens. “Now Loading” has never been this much fun. 『3Dドットゲームヒーローズ』ロード画面のパロディネタと元ネタ比較画像 [チラシの裏でゲーム鈍報 via NeoGAF via GameSetWatch]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 20, 2009
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  Nintendo Helping Furries To Communicate

  Somewhere along the line, we lost their tails and evolved into the species we are today. But tails are useful in communicating — especially if you are a Furry. Fret not, inventor person Wei-Chieh Tseng is here to help. He’s devised the “Mood Tail”, which uses a mechanical tail, RFID chipped cards and the Nintendo…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 19, 2009
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  Looking At Wedding Dresses With Your Virtual Girlfriends

  Players of Konami DS title love Love Plus as seen on My Game News Flash. Another pic after the jump.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 19, 2009
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  Sony: Playstation Continues To Redefine Entertainment

  Riding high on tonight’s news that the Playstation 3 was the top selling home console in September according to NPD, the head of Sony Computer Entertainment of America says they’ve only just begun. Nearly half a million people purchased Playstation 3s in September, according to NPD figures. “We are in the midst of one of…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 19, 2009
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  Darksiders Hits Jan 5

  Apocalypse-packing action title Darksiders is hitting the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 January 5, THQ announced today. The game will be hitting Europe on Jan. 7 and Asia Pacific on Jan. 8. THQ also announced that relaunch of their official Darksiders website. Darksiders will have gamers exploring an Earth 100 years after the biblical Apocalypse…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 19, 2009
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  PLAY Conference Booth Crawl

  Here are some booths set up by game companies at the PLAY Conference job fair. Based on their displays, who would you want to work for? Microsoft? LucasArts? Or Lucasfilm as the case may be? Sony? Zynga? Candy? I mean, uh, Frog Design?

  By AJ Glasser Published October 19, 2009
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  Atlus: Yes, We’re Making More Copies Of Demon’s Souls

  Having a hard time finding a copy of Demon’s Souls, now that the game has shipped to retail and positive word of mouth is helping the innovative PS3 game find an audience? Don’t worry, says Atlus. They’re working on it. The Atlus elves are said to be slaving away in the Blu-ray disc workshop, issuing…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 19, 2009
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  Kratos In Jack-o-Lantern Form

  Sent our way by Steve Caterson. Got a game-themed jack-o-lantern of your own? Send it to me and we’ll see if we can’t get a fresh one every day between now and Halloween!

  By AJ Glasser Published October 19, 2009
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  Battle of the Music Games: The Beatles: Rock Band Vs. Guitar Hero 5

  The NPD Group’s September hardware sales report fails to mention two other important platforms viciously battling for gamer’s attention—Rock Band and Guitar Hero, two games that saw big releases last month. So who won? According to a boastful official announcement from Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix, the winner of the monthly music game battle…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 19, 2009
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  NPD Instant Analysis: Things You Should Note

  There’s always a chance you might get pulled off the street and invited to be a guest on the Bonus Round to discuss the gaming sales in the U.S. for September. Don’t be unprepared. Be smart. Study this instant analysis. Before you read this analysis, open up some tabs or windows with McWhertor’s NPD September…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 19, 2009
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  Landed

  To: Bash From: Crecente Re: You Can Call Me “Brown” (Hi Brown!) I just got into New York about an hour ago. A bumpy landing combined with a bumpy cab ride has me feeling a bit off so I’ve decided to chill in the hotel for the evening. Tomorrow, though, is going to be a…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 19, 2009
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  Our Hands All Over The Xbox 360 Dashboard Update

  In case you missed them earlier today, our own Stephen Totilo spent some time with the preview for the next Xbox 360 Dahboard update, putting Facebook, Twitter, Last.FM, and streaming HD video to the test. Xbox 360 Update Hands-On: Facebook And Twitter Microsoft provided Kotaku with an early version of the November Xbox 360 dashboard…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 19, 2009
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  Halo 3: ODST Beats Out Madden, Mario & Marvel To Win September

  The PlayStation 3 may have killed it in the hardware contest last month, but Xbox 360 software reigned supreme this September, thanks to Bungie’s Halo 3: ODST. The game dropped more than 1.5 million copies in its debut month. That makes Halo 3: ODST the bestselling game in the United States by a wide margin,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 19, 2009
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  PS3 Price Drop Makes It September’s Top Console

  The newer, slimmer, cheaper PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 and Wii during the month of September, according to new data from the NPD Group, the first time the console has bested both of its console rivals in the U.S. Sony’s recent price drop was in effect for the full month of September, more than…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 19, 2009
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  The Bonus Round Ventures To Borderlands, Sings Ballad Of Gay Tony

  In part three of our appearance on GameTrailers’ Bonus Round, the panel of video game industry know-it-alls talks more about this season’s biggest games, including Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony and Borderlands. Obviously, this episode was filmed before I marathon played Borderlands for today’s review of the Gearbox Software developed game, and…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 19, 2009
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  Good Advice: Don’t Work Out Like A Programmer

  Wise choices may make EA’s Wii fitness sequel improve upon its predecessor. But the decision not to support MotionPlus makes the game prone to cheating — as, it seems programmers, like many who try to exercise, are wont to do. I recently, briefly, tried the revised boxing game programmed into November’s Wii sequel EA Sports…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 19, 2009
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  Mistwalker Enters “Finishing Stages” On New Project

  Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey developer Mistwalker are hard at work on something new, something unannounced, something that’s apparently entering the “‘finishing’ stage” according to mustachioed founder Hironobu Sakaguchi. Unfortunately, that something is probably not a LEGO surfing RPG. Sakaguchi notes in his latest Mistwalker update that he is “working hard on a new project”…

  By Michael McWhertor Published October 19, 2009
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  Feel The Gravity Of Shattered Horizon’s Zero-G Gameplay

  Futuremark delivers the first in-game footage of its zero-G multiplayer PC shooter, Shattered Horizon. We all float up there. We’ve seen screenshots of shattered moonscapes and still shots of men in colorful space suits firing weapons at each other, but this is the first we’ve seen of actual zero-G fighting in Shattered Horizon. A terrible…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 19, 2009
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  A Second Hands-On Opinion Of The Xbox 360’s Instant-Streaming In 1080p

  I, with my 955kbps downstream Internet connection, reported earlier today that the November-scheduled offering of instant-streaming 1080p wasn’t working on my sluggish connection. But a man with a 25mbps-downstream connection has a different take: “Incredible.” Here’s the 1080p connection from Streaming media blogger Dan Rayburn dropped me a line to let me know that, not…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 19, 2009