Friday, November 9, 2007
Geoff’s Last Day As Kotaku Guest Czar
11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | To: Geoff From: Ashcraft RE: A Day of Rock Wow. Has it been a week? Already? Shucks. Time does fly. Your last day roaming the halls of Kotaku Tower! Geoff, we really appreciate you’re coming by, breaking news and taking on the Guest Editor role while Crecente wanders the streets Down Under, picking fights with small children and old ladies. Enjoy your last day, don’t steal any office supplies and hope you’ll stop by again! Oh, and Fahey’s really looking forward to hosting your show while your gone. :) What you missed last night Japan not excited for Monster Hunter 3 Wii? World’s most expensive games Contest cheater replies Create custom PS3 themes More »
Smack Naughty Monkeys In PS3’s Pain
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | So you…slingshot yourself, and you have to hit the cheeky monkeys? Flying ragdoll cheeky monkeys? Fantastic. Where do we sign up? More »
This Weekend, Enter Our Contest
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Don’t forget! We are totally giving away a BlackSite: Area 51 gaming PC from Alienware. The winner will also get an Area 51 T-shirt, an “eyeblack” patch, a copy of Midway’s Stranglehold PC and a copy of BlackSite: Area 51. Previously, we were just giving away the Area 51 machine, but now you get the game, too! Consider this deal sweetened. The computer is a $US 3,000 dollar machine, making this one of the most expensive things we’ve given away, so any bitching about the TOTALLY FREE AND AMAZING PRIZE will be met with the blunt end of the Ban Hammer. Wanna win that computer? Read this. Do it. Contest closes to entries November 12th at midnight EST. Specs after the jump: More »
Bye Bye Banpresto
10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Bandai Namco subsidiary Banpresto will be gobbled up. Starting April 1, 2008, Banpresto will be completely merged into the merged BNG megalopolis. Banpresto is best known for publishing Super Robot Wars , the Lupin The Third games and the upcoming Haruhi Suzumiya PS2 title (well, that’s how I know them). Starting next spring, it will focus on making prize games for machines, something the company currently does. Banpresto’s subsidiaries Pleasure Cast and Hanayashiki will become subsidiaries of Namco. There is an explanation for all this: Bandai Namco is merging subsidiary crazy! Seeya Banpresto [IGN] More »
Garry’s Mod Works With TF2, Cake Jokes Ensue
10:20PM Luke Plunkett | Garry’s Mod, which basically allows you to interact with the Source engine to muck around with HL2 (and other game objects), was/is great. From machinima to Concerned and everything in between. Seems it also works with Team Fortress 2, as can be witnessed above, with proof that there was cake in the Orange Box. Somewhere. It just got misplaced. Guess What Works With Garry’s Mod? TEAM FORTRESS 2! [Borys @ NeoGAF] More »
Fox Wants Piece Of Pie, Return To Games Market?
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Warner Brothers have been getting snappy since their return to the gaming market. One of Fox’s biggest IPs, The Simpsons, is selling pretty well right now. So what are Fox studios thinking of doing? Following Warner’s lead and re-entering the games market, that’s what. Or at least, that’s what nearly every industry pundit in the UK reckons, with a government report finding that amongst the top 15 publishers and developers in Britain, most are convinced Fox are about to get straight back into the business, which they’ve been absent from for a few years now. We’re guessing they all know something we don’t. Best of luck to them! Lord knows the world needs more Croc games. Fox to make an explosive return to games industry? [MCV] More »
DS Developing Better Than… Jaguar Developing
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | With Orcs and Elves, Doom creator John Carmack has made a DS game. Good for him. How did he like working on the DS? He loved it so so much. In his own words: It was probably the most fun platform that I have personally worked on. The early consoles that I worked on (SNES, Genesis-32X, and Jaguar) had fun hardware and full documentation, but a lousy development tool chain… While there are a few nooks on the DS that aren’t documented, they weren’t things I cared about, so to me it was almost perfect. It is a shame that homebrew development can’t be officially sanctioned and supported, because it would be a wonderful platform for a modern generation of programmers to be able to get a real feel for low level design work… Yup, the DS is more fun to make games for than the Jaguar. Nice to see Carmack supporting the homebrew developers. Now if only the platform holders would…
SingStar PS3 Gets Release Date, World’s Worst Box Art
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Guess the game’s done, with SCEE announcing through official blog Threespeech that SingStar for the PS3 will be launching in Europe on December 7. Just in time to sell a few hundred thousand PS3s before Christmas! To celebrate the whole money-printing, unit-shifting affair, SCEE have commissioned the worst box art in the history of mankind. What is this, 1997? Are Embrace making a comeback? Jesus. They’ll also be running a “studio” session at the O2 Arena in London, where you can go book a studio, play some SingStar and get dressed up like the pop sensation only you and your bathroom mirror think you are. SingStar UK Release Date Confirmed [Three Speech] More »
No Pricks in The Witcher
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Action RPG The Witcher is saucy. And has the censored dialogue to prove it! The English version is way toned down to the Polish original. Writer Sande Chen conceedes, saying “My writing partner and I worked on the English adaptatioin of the script (based on the translation from the Polish script). It was edited down considerably, not because of censorship, though.” Then why? Oh right, for shits and giggles. TTLG Forums have compared the translated Polish to the watered down English. The differences are striking. That, after the j-u-m-p. More »
