News

House Of The Dead: Overkill — Extended Cut Refused Classification In Australia

Kotaku AU

Australia is currently in the process of receiving an R18+ rating for video games, but while we wait for the Attorneys-General to agree on the terms, another video game — The House of the Dead: Overkill — Extended Cut — has been refused classification.


July 15, 2011
PlayStation

Spot The Difference In House Of The Dead: Overkill Extended Cut Covers

It’s obviously much colder in North America than it is in Europe. Spotted on the US and Euro PlayStation blogs by reader tomo_cjt.


May 28, 2011
PlayStation

Damn, House Of The Dead: Overkill’s Coming To PlayStation Move

One of the Wii’s better light gun-style games is coming to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Move in all of its gory, foul-mouthed glory. Sega’s The House of the Dead Overkill – Extended Cut arrives this October.


March 29, 2010
In Real Life

Can Video Games Be Campy?

In a culture so infused with irony, the appreciation of campy works – outrageous movies, terrible art, worse music – is absolutely mainstream. Does it apply to games? Can games strive to be campy? Or are they already so?


January 5, 2010
News

Sega Shying Away From Mature Wii Titles

Poor sales of MadWorld and House of the Dead: Overkill shook Sega’s resolve over mature titles for the Nintendo Wii, but it took an EA title to


August 24, 2009
News

Conservative Columnist Calls For R18+ Rating In Australia

Kotaku AU

In a shocking turn of events, Fairfax columnist and conservative ‘maverick’ Miranda Devine penned an opinion piece over the weekend calling for the introduction of an R18+ classification for video games in Australia.


August 13, 2009

Sega Updates Us On Wii Strategy, Aliens, “Sega-ness”

Kotaku sat with the new chief of Sega’s American and European divisions yesterday to get an update on everything from Aliens to Yakuza.


August 3, 2009

The Making Of A Video Game Cover

You may think, by looking at the state of most of them, that making a video game cover is easy. It’s not! It’s hard, hard work, and is a process that results in a lot of unused artwork.


April 17, 2009
News

MadWorld Sells 66K In The U.S., Sega Seems Pleased

NPD sales numbers procured by Gamasutra reveal that Sega’s M-rated tongue-in-cheek blood bath MadWorld sold 66,000 copies in the U.S. following its March launch, and the publisher feels encouraged.


March 17, 2009
News

House of the Dead: Overkill Breaks F-ing Record

Continuing in it’s tradition of listing bizarre video game world record breakers, Guinness today announced the game with the most swearing in it.