Saturday, January 24, 2009
Rumours
360 To Get Special Resident Evil 5 Console
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Ars Technica have a 360 mole, who’s previously been fairly solid, so we’ll run with this: Capcom and Microsoft have teamed up to offer a special edition Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360. More »
News
PAL PlayStation Store Update: On The Precipice Of Punctuality
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Sorry, PAL land. Still no Street Fighter HD. But on the bright side, you do finally get the first episode of the Penny Arcade game, which surely counts for something! More »
News
Flight Simulator Series May Live On
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Microsoft’s Flight Simulator series has been running since 1982. Hell of a long time. But news yesterday of the sacking of the game’s development team cast the future of the series in serious doubt. More »
Culture
Gears of War Movie Will Be Like Lord Of The Rings But ‘Harder Edged’
1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Live Free Or Die Hard director Len Wiseman is helming the Gears movie and co-writing it with Fast & Furious scribe Chris Morgan. And yes, Wiseman is not a gamer, but a grabber. More »
News
Here, The Full Guitar Hero: Metallica Tracklist
12:30PM Luke Plunkett | We don’t need ESRB leaks. Metallica themselves have gone one better and released the full, complete tracklist for the upcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica on the band’s website. And it’s a good one. More »
Rumours
More Microsoft Layoffs Hit Game Testers, Games For Windows Group
12:00PM Luke Plunkett | Sorry. More Microsoft layoff news. Seems in addition to the Flight Sim and Gamerscore sackings, Microsoft have also laid off a number of testers, as well as members of the Games for Windows team. More »
Media
AJ on X-Play – Yes, I’m a Girl, You Can Stop Speculating
11:20AM AJ Glasser | A couple of weeks back, I climbed on a soapbox about the media frenzy surrounding video games in connection with real life violence or tragedy.
News
U.S. Senator Doesn’t Want Microsoft To Fire People
11:00AM Brian Ashcraft | Yes, Microsoft is slashing 5,000 jobs: 1,400 of them this week and another 3,600 over the next 18 months. U.S. Senator Charles Grassley wants to stop this bloodletting right now. More »
News
Atlus Teases More Devil Summoner For America
10:30AM Michael McWhertor | Good work, Atlus. Your “Atlus Faithful” e-mail newsletter works like a charm, because every Kotaku reader and his mother just tipped us off to the near-existence of another Shin Megami Tensei game coming stateside. More »
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