Chatting With Samus and Naomi Hunter — at the Same Time

This week, Maxim named Metal Gear Solid’s Naomi Hunter the top babe in gaming. Sadie Ultraneko talked to her voice actor, Jennifer Hale (right), who also voices Metroid’s babelicious Samus Aran. Hear her hold forth on being considered a gaming babe, the vagaries and challenges of voice acting a good death (“I hate when I…

Monolith Guy: Expansions, Ports Sunk F.E.A.R.

Dave Matthews (not this guy), the primary art lead for F.E.A.R. 2, has an idea what tanked the franchise: expansions and console ports — ones not made by Monolith. Talking to CVG, Matthews said the Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate expansion packs, made by TimeGate Studios, may have brought some new people to the brand…

Retro Edutainment: Talking with Speak & Spell’s Dev

The talkies of video games wouldn’t come until 1980, with Berzerk, Gorf and Intellivoice. But 1978’s Speak & Spell undoubtedly contributed to the DNA of early gaming. Vintage Computing talked to Richard Wiggins, the man who wrote its voice processing algorithms, and reminds us just what a thunderbolt this so-called child’s toy was when it…

Gatling Glitch > Rocket Jump

Here’s a trick for those rompin’ and stompin’ with zombies this Christmas: A physics glitch that enables you to charge up a gatling gun and launch yourself across the map in Left 4 Dead. Basically, wham on the gun like Engineer fast-building a sentry gun in Team Fortress 2, and when you think you’ve hit…

Gore Verbinski Making BioShock Movie

“Of all the games out there, I think Bioshock is the one that’s the most engaging."

Japanese Game Developers In Trouble

As someone who has as-of-yet not visited Japan, I still imagine it is a place where cutting-edge game development technology is lurking around every corner – stuff so far beyond what we have in the U.S. that we look like cavemen in comparison. Apparently my imagination is a little bit off, as according to Konami…

Pocket God/Doodle Jump Gallery

Pocket God/Doodle Jump Gallery

Warmonger Debuts Today

NetDevil’s PhysX-powered, totally destructible (mostly) shooter Warmonger, Operation: Downtown Destruction is now available for free download on the official site. It’s worth noting that not only is the game free, it doesn’t actually require AGEIA’s PhysX card to play. You need the card to get the total experience, but don’t let that stop you from…

Be The NBA Ballers Chosen One

If you thought NBA Ballers was a snicker-worthy title, Midway has a real treat for you next year. They’ve just announced the latest installment of the basketball lifestyle series, entitled NBA Ballers: Chosen One, heading to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this Spring. “NBA Ballers: Chosen One will allow players to live the life…

CGS Announces Pan-Asian Finals

In preparation for the Championship Gaming Series 2007 World Championship being held in Los Angeles (6-14 December), CGS has announced the Asian final. Teams coming from Seoul, Dubai, Sydney, Singapore, Kuala Lampur, and China will meet to determine which four teams will be heading on to LA. So if anyone’s going to be running around…

Feature: The Colossus and the Comedian

Click to view By: Brian Ashcraft Jeremy Roush let the game do the talking. Adam Sandler watched the plasma television as filmmaker Mike Binder looked on. They were demoing a video game for the Hollywood actor in hopes of convincing him to include it the upcoming Reign Over Me, co-starring Don Cheadle. In-game save posts…

Miss May Schools Newsweek in Madden

Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal is having quite the weekend, it sounds. Not only is he hanging with the beautiful people during the lead up to the Super Bowl in Miami, he got a chance to share a Playstation 3 with Deanna Brooks, Playboy’s Miss May 1998, and have his ass handed to him in Madden. “That…

Turn Your DS Into a Guitar

Simon over on Game Set Watch points out that New York-based game importer NCSX is raving about DS guitar “game” Utaeru DS Guitar M-06 With 16 chords to use at any time from a library of 120, users may strum out a song relatively easily if you’re familiar with basic guitar playing. We were able…

Have Sex, Rent PS3 For Free!

Ah, love hotels. Those by-the-hour Japanese establishments built soley for sex. When couples are feeling randy, they head on over to places like Shibuya’s Casa Di Due. It’s one of the most colorful rest stops in the area’s love hotel mecca. Not only can customers rent costumes to entertain themselves, but PLAYSTATION 3s. Apparently all…

You Got PS3 In My 360!

So Microsoft is advertising on the back of PSM magazine, encroaching on enemy territory, as it were. Well that’s nothing compared to what is set to greet fans who purchase EA’s European UEFA Champions League Event football game for the Xbox 360 once it hits stores. Turns out one of the event’s major sponsors has…

Gates: Xbox is a PC

The most surprising part of today’s conversation with Bill Gates was when he not only fessed up to the Xbox being a glorified computer, something Microsoft has been denying since 1.0 launched, but said that Microsoft wouldn’t have gotten into gaming if it was only ever going to be about the gaming. “The reason we…

Wii Pisses People Off

Nintendo’s Wii is leaving a lot of Revolution fans with a burning sensation. The photoshops are flowing like an awkwardly named Japanese game console after a suitcase of beer. From game forums like GAF, Penny Arcade and Quarter to Three to CNN, MTV, ABC and other proper demonstrations of three letters strung together, people don’t…

Brian Ashcraft Bio

Brian Ashcraft is a journalist based in Japan. He is the Senior Contributing Editor for video game site Kotaku. Prior to joining Kotaku in 2005, Ashcraft worked for Quentin Tarantino’s now defunct film distribution company, Rolling Thunder Pictures, where he assisted on The New York Times best-seller What It Is… What It Was!, a look…