Thursday, December 17, 2009 - Page 2
In Real Life

Stocking Stuffers: Despairing Video Game Poetry

Regular listeners of British podcast OneLifeLeft will be intimately familiar with the work of Craig “The Rage” McLelland. Since most of you don’t listen, though, I feel compelled to point out his new book of poetry. Video game poetry.


News

Home Produces Sodium

PlayStation Home is moving its social network toward the gaming space by releasing a real, honest-to-god video game through Home. Meet Sodium, “an arcade shooter in an MMO wrapper.”


News

Final Fantasy XIV Is Going To Take On WoW

Over the years, many games have tried to take on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft directly. Try and stand toe-to-toe with the MMO giant. And all of them have failed.


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Microsoft: Hardcore Games “Sell Themselves”

It’s been a constant criticism of both Xbox consoles: that Microsoft can only sell shooters to the hardcore gaming market. So what does it say about Microsoft’s marketing power when the company admits those games “sell themselves”?


News

Korea Also Gets That Custom FFXIII PlayStation 3 Console

The cherry blossom of the hardware world, the “Lightning Edition” of the PlayStation 3, is out today in Japan. Know where else it’s being released? Korea.


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Get The Gran Turismo 5 Demo A Little Early

While, at time of writing, the Gran Turismo 5 demo is unavailable in the US or PAL territories, it is currently available from the Japanese PlayStation Store. And is 100% “import” friendly.


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Square Enix Increase Final Fantasy XIII Shipments

On Tuesday, Square Enix were expecting to ship around one million copies of Final Fantasy XIII to retailers in Japan, ready for the game’s launch. Today, on launch day, they had to up the number.


Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Trailer Blows Up The Panama Canal

Publishers, marketing teams, know this: showing us cinematics where cool stuff happens is all well and good, but a trailer is much more exciting when it shows gameplay footage of cool stuff happening.


Let’s Play Final Fantasy XIII’s Battle Tutorial

Today, you’ll be one of two people. One that is sick to the gills of Final Fantasy XIII, or one that cannot get enough. If you’re the latter, this is for you.


Reader Review: Borderlands

Kotaku AU

Do you have what it takes to get a review published right here on Kotaku? Zack does, as he loots an entire planet’s worth of toilets.