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Live Test Of Facebook On The Xbox 360

9:00AM Brian Crecente | Browsing through Facebook on the Xbox 360 is much like browsing through the community portal on your computer — with one exception. More »
News

Level 5: More People Need To Ask For A Dark Cloud Sequel

7:00AM Stephen Totilo | While talking to Level 5 about the studio’s next big role-playing game for the US, White Knight Chronicles, I inquired about the status of an old favourite, the Dark Cloud RPG series. More »
Features

Should A Game Demo Work In A Pirate-Themed Nightclub?

6:00AM Stephen Totilo | If something goes wrong when you, a video game producer, try to show a trio of Kotaku writers a DS game, should you blamed the pirate-themed nightclub you’re standing in? Or should you blame a questionable staple of game design? More »
Culture

Know The Likes And Dislikes Of Your Tecmo/Koei Producers

5:00AM Stephen Totilo | One guy likes buying toilet paper. Another says he never drives on the same road twice. But were you also wondering which Tecmo producer can walk like a zombie? More »
Features

Ace Attorney Devs Want Mia Fey For The Defence, No Spin-Offs

3:40AM Stephen Totilo | Two of the top men at Capcom responsible for making interactive murder investigations funny know which fake lawyer they’d hire and why their games should only be on handhelds. They also talked about their new game. More »
News

Microsoft: Motion Is The New Multiplayer

3:00AM Brian Crecente | While Project Natal, and it’s ability to allow Xbox 360 gamers to play video games completely free of a controller, will launch as a niche of sorts on the platform, Microsoft believes it will one day become the norm. More »
Rumours

Is Microsoft Working On Universal Vid Cap For Xbox 360 Games?

2:00AM Brian Crecente | In a meeting last week with a game developer at the Tokyo Game Show, I asked them if they were planning on trying to incorporate in-game video capture into their title. The type you see in Halo 3. More »
Hands On

Thexder-Neo PSP Impressions: Classic Robot Action

1:00AM Brian Crecente | The PSPgo and Playstation Portable were everywhere at Sony’s Tokyo Game Show booth. And tucked away in one section of the booth was a blast from the past: A PSP remake of classic ’80s action title Thexder. More »
Hands On

Ninety-Nine Nights II Hands On: Not A Lot New

12:00AM Brian Crecente | Ninety-Nine Nights II, much like the original Xbox 360 game, is light on subtlety. More »
Features

No Graphical Complaints From This Wii Developer

7:00AM Stephen Totilo | Ryozo Tsujimoto told me he had no complaints about the horsepower of the Wii, when I interviewed him last week. He’s the producer on the game Capcom is marketing as “the most beautiful game on the Wii”. More »