News

The PSP Is Going Out With A Bam (and A Vroom)

With the PSP’s days numbered in North America, there won’t be too many more offers like this before the handheld is taken out back and shot.


November 17, 2010

While You Were Sleeping

Kotaku AU

While You Were Sleeping was a well-received romantic comedy starring the luminous Sandra Bullock and the irrepressible Bill Pullman.

It’s also the name of a regular section here at Kotaku, where we round up all the best news coming in overnight, to save you trawling down the page for an excuse to not start work. Don’t say we’re not good to you!


April 4, 2010

The Ultimate IPad Launch Game Round-Up

Join Kotaku as we showcase some of the best and not-so-best games available for the shiny new iPad. Check out hands-on impressions for Mirror’s Edge, Need for Speed: Shift, Geometry Wars, and more!


February 9, 2010
News

Need For Speed Shift Welcomes Back Ferrari Next Week

Owners of the Xbox 360 version of EA’s Need For Speed Shift will get a chance to get behind the wheel of 10 new Ferraris next week thanks to the Ferrari Racing Pack.


December 18, 2009

Need For Speed Shift iPhone Preview: Need For Cornering

I’m not bad at racing games – I can speed, swerve for pickups and wreck the car, no problem. I’m just bad at driving, so if there are no pickups and you’re not supposed to crash, well…


November 21, 2009
News

Need For Speed Shift Goes Team-Based

Come December, it isn’t all about you anymore. EA is releasing a Team Racing pack for Need for Speed Shift, a free update that brings team tactics and five legendary vehicles to the game.


October 5, 2009

New 250GB Bundles Box Art Looks Like This, Apparently!

Europe is getting a bunch of 250GB PlayStation 3 bundles. Besides coming packaged with a game and sporting a bigger hard drive, the bundles also have something else going for them:


September 29, 2009
In Real Life

Watch Aussie Celebs Try To Play Need For Speed: Shift

Kotaku AU

EA rounded up a bunch of Aussie sports and TV personalities to promote the recently released Need For Speed: Shift. The celebs had to race in the game and on a real race track.


September 28, 2009
News

NFS: Shift Crashes At PlayStation Store Screen — On A 360

Calling it “the most bug-ridden piece of code I have witnessed in recent times,” one blogger writes of his frustration when the game crashes on a PlayStation Store loading screen. Well, here’s your problem: He has the Xbox 360 version.


September 26, 2009

Need For Speed Shift Review: Switching Gears

Need for Speed Shift is about an apt a title as you’ll find, referring not only to, obviously, its auto-racing genre, but also to EA’s efforts to take the series in a new direction — namely, toward more serious simulation-style fare and away from the cops-and-robbers, anything-goes attitude of the game’s predecessors.