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You Too Can Experience The Dragon Quest IX Launch!

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +1000

by Tim Rogers You’ve no doubt heard some blogger or another refer to a Dragon Quest release date as “national holidays in Japan”. This isn’t really true. Today, for example, was not a holiday. It was, however, the release date of Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS. (more…)

Giant Gundam Statue, Now In PlayStation Home

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:30:00 +1000

You know that amazing giant statue of Gundam now standing guard over Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park? It’ll soon be standing guard over PlayStation Home as well. (more…)

Crummy Wii Accessories Finally Triple-Jump The Shark

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:30:00 +1000

Get a load of this. It’s a Wii accessory kit that contains an incredible 38 pieces. 38! Enough to form a shitty white plastic Voltron, Devastator and Predaking, with enough left over to scrape together a Defensor while you’re at it. (more…)

Take A Look At That New Killzone 2 DLC

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:00:00 +1000

That new Killzone 2 DLC we told you about yesterday has now been officially announced, and will go by the name of “Napalm & Cordite”. (more…)

How About Scribblenauts On Other Platforms, Eh?

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:30:00 +1000

Scribblenauts looks awesome. Awesome, that is, if you’ve got a Nintendo DS. But what if you don’t? (more…)

New Michael Jackson Game In The Works

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +1000

There have been rumours swirling that Michael Jackson was at work on a new video game before he passed away. Those rumours appear confirmed. (more…)

Warner Bros. Now Owns Midway, Mortal Kombat

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:30:23 +1000

Mortal Kombat, This Is Vegas and the Midway trademark, as of today, are owned by Warner Bros., with the media conglomerate having completed the purchase of “substantially all of the assets” of the Chicago headquartered company. (more…)

Look! People Lining Up For DQIX

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:00:00 +1000

With 2 million pre-orders and a rumoured 3 million copies shipping, we honestly didn’t expect folks to line-up for Dragon Quest IX. Sleep in! Square Enix hasn’t created a shortage. (more…)

New Game Informer Unleashes Rage

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:40:14 +1000

id Software hasn’t shown much of its id Tech 5 powered Rage, the post-apocalyptic first-person shooter-slash-racer it announced almost two years ago. That’s about to change, thanks to the newest issue of Game Informer. (more…)

Fighting Fantasy DS Preview: Choose Your Own Adventure Makes A Comeback

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:00:44 +1000

Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain was a 1982 choose-your-own-adventure book written by now-game developers Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Now it’s a 2009 DS action role-playing game. (more…)

Kodu Game Lab Micro-Review: Baby’s First Game Development Kit

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:00:00 +1000

Who says you have to go to college for an expensive game developer’s education? Microsoft Research’s Kodu puts the power of a dev kit right in your hand for a mere $US5. (more…)

Analyst Sees StarCraft II Inevitably Delayed To 2010

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:20:00 +1000

Blizzard set its sights on one “front line release” for 2009, a title that we expected to be StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first of three StarCraft II games. One analyst isn’t so sure Blizzard can make it. (more…)

Notebook Dump: Modern Warfare Wii, Shadow Complex IPhone, And A Sleeping Man

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:00:36 +1000

There comes a time in the week when to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? (more…)

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:00:24 +1000

While winter continues to treat us Sydney-siders with torrential rain and an all-pervasive chill, Wii Sports Resort island is the ideal getaway. (more…)

TMNT: Turtles In Time Re-make Knocked Back By ‘Splosion Man

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:40:47 +1000

Here’s the bad news: the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time has been pushed back, now no longer the first entry in Microsoft’s “Summer of Arcade” promotion. Now the good. (more…)

Five Things You Need To Know About Champions Online

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:20:00 +1000

Last night, Cryptic Studios held an event that was all about the player versus player combat in its upcoming massively multiplayer online superhero game, Champions Online. (more…)

Novel, Write Thyself

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:00:00 +1000

The fiction of a video game’s universe is fertile ground for novels, sprouting dozens of books annually that tap into gaming’s beloved and unknown back stories. (more…)

Valve Brings Left 4 Dead 2 To Comic-Con, Reveals “Swamp Fever”

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:40:00 +1000

Electronic Arts and Valve will be revealing all-new Left 4 Dead 2 content at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, including the new campaign “Swamp Fever,” darkly pictured above. Where and when can you play it? (more…)

The Girl At The Video Game Store

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:20:00 +1000

To celebrate the 1,000th episode of G4’s Attack of the Show, Nerf Herder front man Parry Gripp composed this stirring ode to the brave women of video game retail. (more…)

Half-Minute Hero Preview: Don’t Blink And Miss It

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:00:16 +1000

This was the most pleasant surprise of my week. (more…)

Japanese Hardware Sales News Is Good News For Nintendo

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:40:06 +1000

Thanks to a few chart-topping hits—Wii Sports Resort and Tomodachi Collection—the Wii and Nintendo DS had a good week in Japan, each platform seeing a boost in weekly hardware sales. The same goes for the PSP. (more…)

Monster Hunter DLC For The Cat Lover In You

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:20:00 +1000

A brand new download quest has appeared for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, perfect for both those who love cats to death and those who just beat them to death. (more…)

People Played Real Plane Crash Web Game 4.6 Million Times

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:54:08 +1000

Hero On The Hudson, a gameplay-light web game about Captain “Sully” Sullenberger’s successful landing of an Airbus A320 on the Hudson River, is just one popular game based on that stuff most commercial video games don’t deal with: current events. (more…)

Rock Band Weekly Updates Now In Three Part Harmony

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:40:01 +1000

MTV Games has accomplished what we once thought impossible, releasing a single, catch-all notification about downloadable track updates to Rock Band for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP and Wii. Brace for massive lists! (more…)

Louisiana Now More Game Developer Friendly

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:20:00 +1000

The state that once passed the Thompson Game Law became a great deal more developer friendly today, as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signs extensive tax credits for game development into law. (more…)