PC

Free-to-Play? Star Wars: Galaxies Cannot Make "a Change Of This Magnitude"

When Sony Online Entertainment said it would shut down Star Wars: Galaxies by the end of the year, many teeth were gnashed and many garments were rent. A lot of people, thinking SOE failed to consider this, postulated about taking the game to a free-to-play model, and voila, the orphanage is saved! If only they wanted to save it, right?


June 24, 2011
PC

Crytek Boss Says Crysis 2 "Backfired A Little Bit"

The first Crysis was tailored directly towards the glorious PC master race. So the fact the sequel pared back the hardware demands in favour of something that would run on a console did not go down well.


June 15, 2011
Nintendo

9 Minutes Of Us *Trying* To Play Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword

On the final day of E3, Kotaku intern Michael Epstein and I were running on fumes. I couldn’t hold a camera still and he couldn’t z-target. Nevertheless, we endeavoured to play all three parts of the E3 2011 demo for this year’s big Wii game, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Please forgive the shakes; I think the game looks quite nice despite them.


June 7, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Apologises For PSN Outage (Again!)

Moments ago, Sony Computer Entertainment’s Jack Tretton took the stage at Sony’s E3 event. The frist thing Sony wanted to say was sorry.


December 20, 2010
In Real Life

Shoot Up Any Web Page, Asteroids Style

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April 28, 2009
News

Xbox Live Arcade Not Sorry! About Bringing Virtual On

The Xbox Live Arcade library expands this week with the highly anticipated arrival of much beloved classics Cyber Troopers Virtual On Oratorio Tangram from Sega and Banjo Tooie from Rare. It also gets… Sorry!