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  Stardock Sending Out Demigod Apology Coupons

  Stardock has begun distributing the promised apology coupons, entitling players who’ve purchased the previously problem-riddled real-time strategy game Demigod to a second copy at 50% off. Now that the vast majority of their networking issues have subsided, Stardock is making good with their promise of discounts on additional copies of Demigod. If you’ve picked up…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2009
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  Ministry Storms Rock Band Next Week

  How has Rock Band survived for a year and a half without the musical stylings of Ministry? Harmonix rectifies that terrible omission next week with a triple dose of industrial metal. Al Jourgensen may have retired Ministry last year, but you can keep the dream alive next week with three songs from the band that…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2009
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  Burnout Paradise Goes Big Surf Hunting

  Burnout Paradise: Big Surf Island DLC is coming to the racer this summer. Here’s a quick peek at what exactly a "Burnout Vacation of a Lifetime" will entail. Rollercoaster? Yes thank you. Bridge jumps through concrete tubes? I’ll take that. Dune Buggies. Don’t mind if I do. And seven other new cars as well as…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 22, 2009
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  A Little inFamous To Tide You Over

  If you can’t wait until next week and the demo just isn’t giving you enough inFamous, perhaps the official inFamous Mini-Game can be of service. Developed by Kerb and hosted exclusively at Spil Games‘ network of online casual gaming portals, the inFamous Mini-Game is a 2D platformer starring the full game’s protagonist Cole, who must…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2009
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  Next Week On Live Arcade: Wallace, Gromit, and Yosumin Live

  It’s Memorial Day weekend, so Microsoft has gone ahead and revealed next week’s Xbox Live Arcade titles so they can completely devote Monday to memorializing. Sure it’s been out for two months on the PC, but how many of us actually own computers? Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures finally hit Xbox Live Arcade next week,…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2009
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  Making a Mii On Your DS

  Personal Trainer: Walking is a DS title that comes packed with two digital pedometers that sync with your DS to track how far you walk each day. It also happens to include the ability to create Mii on your DS. Not only does the function seem to support everything found on the Wii, but it…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 22, 2009
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  If you do your Kotaku-commenting from work, and if you’re American, and if you work for a progressive enough company, then you only have a half-day today to comment about gamers here. So start. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2009
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  Counting Down to An Announcement Of An Announcement

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: iPod Touching Venting! And sorry to do so. But, I dunno, it seems like companies recently have gone overboard with the drip fed PR tactics. There are games, games that I am recently excited about, but that are being mishandled by their publishers. These drip fed PR tactics actually hurt…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009
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  STALKER Dragged Kicking And Screaming Into 2009

  While it would take a magician to repair the game’s myriad AI glitches, STALKER’s graphics are more easily improved. And boy, can they be improved. This is the “STALKER Complete 2009” mod (released last month), which does an admirable job of making the game look like it was, well, made in 2009. New textures, new…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009
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  Hey, It’s Another “Gamer” Trailer

  Gamer, the upcoming movie about MMOs with real people as avatar combatants, has a brand new trailer. This is it. The movie stars Gerard Butler, Ludacris and Kyra Sedgwick, and tells of a future in which MMOs have merged with mind control. The story will revolves around one game in particular, Slayers, which is a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009
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  What If Street Fighter II Had Come Out In 1981?

  Well, according to Dylan Hayes, it would probably look a lot like this. Can’t help but think of those Degenatron commercials from Vice City…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009
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  Iwata: We Always Work On New Hardware

  Nintendo does not rest, Nintendo does not stop. Even with the success of the Wii and the DS, Nintendo keeps going. “We do not think that Nintendo DS and Wii will last forever,” Iwata told investors in a recent financial briefing. “Our internal hardware teams are always researching and working on new hardware so that…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009
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  Heavy Rain: The Screenshots

  You’ve seen the gameplay footage, now see the screenshots of the gameplay footage. And they’re worth a look, giving you a better idea of the “They Live” interface than a grainy web video can manage.

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009
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  Chun-Li In A Spectacular Outfit

  No, no, not Street Fighter character Chun-Li’s standard blue duds. Classic, but typical! The outfit that Japanese figure maker MERSA dresses her in is anything but That, after the jump. Spotted at big-time figure event Hobboy Complex 07 earlier this month in Tokyo. All kinds of fantastic. ホビーコンプレックス07東京 様々なブースの様子 [Moeyo]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009
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  Blood of Bahamut Dated For Japan

  Square Enix‘s latest effort to expand its role-playing-game horizons Blood of Bahamut has a release date. That is August 6. Blood of Bahamut is an action RPG set in a city constructed on the back of a giant creature called Gigant. Featuring 2D sprites fighting in a 3D environment, the game sees protagonists Ibuki and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009
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  Chiptune’s 8-Bit Profit

  Ah, yes, 8-bit chiptune. It’s music that is performed and composed by using retro game hardware like the Famicom and the Gameboy as instruments. Love it, great stuff. And as far as Japanese indie chiptune record labels go, Vorc Records is right up there. Vorc was chiptune-centeric website originally launched way back in 2001, and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009
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  Finally, Some Heavy Rain Gameplay Footage

  It’s been a bad week for PR stunts, yes. So it’s heartening to see that when Heavy Rain comes out with gameplay footage, it actually comes out with a decent amount of gameplay footage. What you make of it all is another matter. It…looks a lot like Indigo Prophecy to me. Indigo Prophecy meets They…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009
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  John McEnroe Is “Pretty Good” At Playing Himself

  Three things we have never done: Won seven Grand Slam tennis titles, married Tatum O’Neal or played a video game version of ourselves. John McEnroe has done all three. (Though, we have played tennis once, watched Paper Moon and do enjoy video games.) When Electronic Arts interviewed John McEnroe — yeah, we know — about…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 22, 2009
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  Capcom Go Crazy For iPhone Games

  At the Reuters Global Technology Summit in Tokyo, Capcom’s Chief Financial Officer Kazuhiko Abe has revealed that the company will, in 2009, be getting into iPhone games in a big way. He says there are plans to release “more than 10 titles” for the device over the remainder of this fiscal year (March 31, 2010).…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009
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  New Modern Warfare 2 Teaser Is A Big Tease

  Yup. It’s another drip-fed PR stunt, but hey, it’s a few brief seconds of Modern Warfare 2 footage we’re talking about here. Some people are cool with that. Even if it is cynically bolted onto the existing trailer. NOTE: Embed code doesn’t seem to be working, so in the meantime, you can watch the trailer…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 22, 2009