Friday, March 14, 2008
How’d You Find Kotaku?
11:40PM Brian Ashcraft | ALL YOU BASTARDS EVER DO IS TAKE, TAKE, TAKE. Now, it’s our turn. We’re introducing a new semi-regular feature here on Kotaku called “Tell Us Dammit”. How it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interesting in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know fucktons about us — more than you even want to, we’re sure. But, hey, we’d like to know about you. That way you won’t be some faceless blob — and we might feel a tinge of guilt when we ban your arse. Or not, because really we’re incapable of human emotion. Whichever! Question: How’d you find Kotaku? Me? At one time, I was a Kotaku reader. Found the site through Gizmodo. Like, back in 2004 or early 2005. You know, when the site was pretty much just Crecente. Good times! [Pic] More »
Mr. Driller Online Screens
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Ready at Dawn Boss Hates Gimmicks, Lurves PS3
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Ready at Dawn doesn’t pussyfoot around. So ask Ready at Dawn honcho Didier Malenfant who he thinks will win this generation, and damn skippy, dude will tell you: “PS3 will win this generation when all is said and done…” He added that Microsoft has made a “dent” and Nintendo is targeting a different market and isn’t comparable. (Take that Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360!) So what does Malenfant think about the current state of gaming: Every generation we get to hear the same BS as to how everything is going to be revolutionised and things that we thought never possible will now take place. And of course, there’s a kernel of truth in that and the technology does get better with every new platform, but what I care about is good games, whether they’re ‘next-gen’ or not. So, yeah, some of those things will happen and some of them might be cool or some might suck. But none of them make a game. No stupid gimmicks or marketing buzzwords will save a bad game. Agree? Disagree? Discuss! Ready at Dawn Interview [Next Gen] [Pic] More »
Microtransactions Come To The Wii
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | Don’t kid yourselves with the Wii’s cute, cuddly exterior. Nintendo, and anyone else publishing on the console, are as thirsty for your cash money as any other company on Earth. So when you read this post and learn that Namco Bandai are bringing microtransactions to the WiiWare service (users can buy additional stages for word-puzzler Mojipittan), do us all a favour and don’t act so surprised. You had to know this day was coming. Go online with WiiWare and Mojipittan Wii [Siliconera] More »
Mass Effect 2 Is Coming to PCs (Surprise!)
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | With Xbox 360 title Mass Effect coming to PCs this May, logic tells that Mass Effect 2 is going to eventually hit PCs. That’s common sense! But when? Matt Atwood from developer BioWare says: More »
Valve Price, Show Off Remnants Of The Orange Box
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | What you already know is that Valve is splitting the Orange Box up on April 9. The PC version, anyways. It’s had a good run as a compilation, but there’s money to be made separating the HL2 episodes from the multiplayer shooter from the award-winning mind-fuck, so it’s time for the games to say their goodbyes. What you didn’t know was how much the individual titles would cost, or what they’d look like freed from that awful “greatest hits” boxart. So arm yourself with these facts: Portal will be $US 20, Team Fortress 2 $US 30 and the HL2 “Episode Pack” (which includes Episodes 1 & 2) $US 30. As for the individual covers, well, those are below. More »Unbelievably Fake Australian Game Journalist Fight
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | This “fight” “broke out” at some Australian “press event” for Sierra’s The Bourne Conspiracy. It’s fake. Set-up. Phony. Besides, Australians don’t shove, knee and flail. Oh, no, they slug. Watch Australian Games Journalists Fighting [videogaming247] More »
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Sony Pictures Man Quits To Form Games Studio
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | First things first: Yair Landau is perhaps the best name of all time. Second things second: Yair Landau, formerly of Sony Pictures, has left both Sony and the movie business behind, and will instead be focusing on setting up a studio described as “a new games and animation venture to develop and produce content for use across all media”. I have my suspicions about vaguely-worded things like that, but hey, how can a guy with the name Yair Landau get things wrong? Sony Picture’s Landau Planning Games Startup [Next-Gen] More »
Tekken 6 Not Coming to American Arcades
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Right now, the arcade version of Tekken 6 is in loads of places, like NOT AMERICA and NOT AMERICA. Apparently, it’s going to stay that way! While the game is most certainly coming to American consoles, it seems that it will not be coming to American arcades. Nothing has been officially announced, but Tekken site SD Tekken points out various reasons why the game won’t be coming to American arcades, including the fact that Namco USA no longer has an arcade division and that the US arcade scene is pretty much, well, dead. Still, the cabinets are being imported. So far, Tekken 6 is playable at an arcade in Houston. Americans willing to mingle with Canadians will be happy to find the game in arcades north of the border. Tekken 6 [SD Tekken via Arcade Renaissance] More »
