Saturday, August 29, 2009 - Page 2

Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga Preview: Making The Jump To Home Consoles

The Valhalla Knights games (all two of them) have been confined to the PSP since 2006, but now they’re finally making the jump to home consoles.


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Cryptic: Microsoft’s Behavior Means No Champions This Year

Jack Emmert, the Cryptic chief creative officer, says Microsoft has a “baffling” issue with MMOs, and it’s holding up the console release of Champions Online.


Ju-on: The Grudge Preview: Hide All But One Of Your Wiimotes

Technically, Ju-on isn’t an on rails shooter—because you’re excruciating slow instead of on rails and instead of a gun, you get a flashlight.


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The Beatles: Rock Band TV Spot Does Abbey Road Overload

Expect to see this television commercial for The Beatles: Rock Band more frequently than the insides of your eyelids this fall. Thank goodness it’s both interesting and technically impressive.


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Motorstorm PSP Dated

MotorStorm: Arctic Edge will release in UMD format on September 29—delaying the downloadable version of the game until October 1, just in time for the PSPgo’s debut.


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Sony Offers “Behind The Scenes” Look At PS3 Motion Controller

The still un-sexily named PlayStation 3 motion controller may have a feature or two you don’t yet know about. Thankfully, the PlayStation blog and creator of things neat Dr. Richard Marks are here to inform you.


The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces Preview

Everyone loves the Ace Combat games for their action-y flight simulation and normally fabulous graphics—both of which are selling points for The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces.


PS3 Ad Hoc Party Coming As Early As Next Week?

Japanese PlayStation 3 owners have been enjoying Ad Hoc Party for nearly a year now, but when will it arrive in North America? Maybe as early as next week?


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Nintendo’s Mii Collecting Game Still A Big Hit In Japan

When Nintendo describes its software as “evergreen,” it means games like the Nintendo DS title Tomodachi Collection, which was released mid-June and sits atop this week’s Japanese software sales chart.


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Notebook Dump: The Wii’s Missing Arkham, NBA 2K10, More

There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we?