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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Oh boy! Firmware updates! Sony have just announced that they’ll soon be releasing firmware v3.95 for the PSP, an update that will undoubtedly take your good PSP and make it better. It’ll be bringing two new features to the portable: custom button configuration for PS1 game playback, and the ability to quit remote play with your PS3 but leave your PS3 running. They may sound insignificant in isolation, but remember, the path to a convenient, labour-free modern lifestyle is littered with baby steps such as these.
Ultima and Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott loves two things: Space and rattails. Man not only has his own sputnik, but his own rattails. This October, Garriott and his flowing locks will be blasting off to the International Space Station. He plans on making a spacewalk, which would make him the first civilian with rattails to do so. Historic! To commemorate the event, Seiko is creating a titanium spring-powered “Spring Drive Spacewalk” watch, which will be limited to 99 pieces only — at a price! But really, can you put a price tag on a Richard Garriott watch? Yes, yes you can. Spring Drive [Seiko via Watch Report via BB Gadgets]
Quit rubbing your eyes, kid, this is real! EA have formally, officially and properly announced that Rock Band will be launching in Europe on May 23. The catch? As was pretty much already surmised, it’s only appearing on 360, with the PS3, Wii and PS2 versions only vaguely scheduled for “Summer”. No official price as of yet (I imagine they’ll want to break that probably-awful news gently) OK, we do have pricing, and it takes the piss. Songs will be 160 MS points each, and all downloadable songs currently available in the US will be available from launch, along with nine bonus Euro-specific tracks. Oh, and starting May 27, all new DLC will be simultaneously available in both the US and European stores. Click through for the list of European-exclusive songs:
Voting time! Man, there were a fuckton of great eggs. So many that we don’t have the usually lucky seven finalists. We’ve got 25. All the entries seem self explanatory, so what we’ve done is create a gallery. Click through to see all the finalists. Here’s where it gets different: To vote, write “I vote for this” under the egg picture you like. That’s the only thing you should write if you want your vote to count. Do not, we repeat, do not vote in the regular comments section — they won’t count! And remember, vote for only one egg. That’s right, ONLY ONE EGG. Voting for two or more means Ban Hammer fun. For us, not you.
To recap: Click through the gallery below. If you find an egg you like, vote for it by writing only “I vote for this” below that egg’s pic. Voting raps up in exactly 24 hours.
Editor’s note: You can view the gallery and vote here.
Giving the decidedly average PlayStation Store a new coat of paint may not be the only changes Sony make to their online services this year. Speaking with GameDaily, Sony’s Scott Steinberg has said:
Ack! CREEPY. Human heads are not that big. Found at the Den-Den Town Kotobukiya shop, these are staff-created customised Haruhi Suzumiya Pullip dolls — poses, uniform and everything. There’s another nightmare inducing pic of these dolls after the jump. *shiver*
The above clip features not only the announcement that Darth Vader will be playable in the opening level of Lucasart’s Force Unleashed, but also word that via the powers of the force you’ll be able to pick a wookie up off the ground and wring his garbling, furry neck. Which should be the clip’s highlight, but no! That honour goes to Force Unleashed’s project lead, Hayden Blackman, who manages to keep the PR team happy by saying that your force powers are “amped up, over the top and in some cases totally out of control” while somehow keeping a straight face. Well done, Hayden.
Just as one contest wraps up (still need to post the finalists — will do shortly!), we’ve got another. This one is a cosplay contest. But not any just cosplay contest. A radical cosplay contest. Here’s the deal: Dress up like an aeroplane. Any type of aeroplane is fine! Pose with a Kotaku sign. Send it to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom. THAT’S IT. Easy, huh? Bandai Namco has agreed to give away a copy of Ace Combat 6 to the winner. We’ll be giving away INTERNET FAME. Contest ends wraps up April 11th at midnight PST. INTERNET FAME lasts forever.
When we heard that Full Auto devs Pseudo Interactive had been shuttered by Eidos and SCi, we were told that their closure would affect a couple of unnamed projects. What we hadn’t been told was that, according to sources who have tipped off Next-Gen, Psuedo had in fact been working on a new Carmageddon game, which Eidos cancelled in February just before the Games Developers Conference. Eidos, what the hell were you thinking? The only thing the world needs more than love, sweet love is a new, current-gen Carmageddon game. Source: New Carmageddon Killed Off [Next-Gen]
