Never mind that The9 have lost the contract to run World of Warcraft in China to a rival firm. They’re going to compensate by releasing their own game! Which… looks a lot like World of Warcraft.
The iPhone port of Myst has gone live. The game is priced at US$5.99, and the download size is extra large.
Lots of games get sequels. Some of them Japanese games want, and others Japanese games want really bad. Game magazine Famitsu polled its readers about which franchise sequel they crave the most.
What’s the Monday Musings? It’s a new regular column designed to get you thinking and talking about game design or an industry topic. I’ll be tackling a specific subject each Monday, but today we’re looking at Fallout 3 and the idea of morality in games.
Morning everyone. If you haven’t visited Kotaku since Friday, you’ve missed cakes, crafts and several delicious rumours. Here’s the best of the weekend.
For Some Reason, I Want To Jump On This Cake Now this is a wedding cake.
Left 4 Dead Means Close-Knit Zombies How could you possibly want to shoot these guys?
Microsoft’s Full Body Motion Controller Revealed? A more sophisticated Eyetoy coming for the Xbox 360?
Scribblenauts Has The Write Stuff Drawn To Life devs show off their wildly inventive new DS title.
Is Point Look A New Fallout 3 Expansion? What would you like to see from another Fallout 3 expansion?
Yesterday in Philadelphia, a crowd of 100 marched on a mall demanding the shutdown of the “U.S. Army Experience” – a video-game based recruiting station. Seven were arrested for cosplaying Shyguys wearing masks.
Faithful Kotaku reader Beaver apparently takes marketing surveys over at something called Play Insights, which assures visitors in fine (and grayed) print “Please be assured this is a legitimate research study.”