LittleBigPlanet Faces Global Recall For Qur’an References NSider’s Letter To Sony And Media Molecule Re: Qur’an References Very, VERY big news. Dates have been pushed back by a week in the USA. We’ll hear later this morning from local SCEE reps what the impact will be here.
Blizzard’s Next MMO So Won’t Be World of Warcraft 2 They plan on keeping WoW alive alongside their next MMO. And why wouldn’t you?
First Official SCIV Yoda / Darth Vader Fighting Screens
Is Microsoft Making It Harder For Small Developers?
Cut Warhammer Online Classes Return In December
How’s That Mad Max Game Coming Along, Cory Barlog? Expect a long wait, folks.
Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg: We’ll Outsell PS3 Worldwide This Holiday Them’s fightin’ words! More »
Boy, what a weekend. What with TGS08 going strong in the land of the rising sun and BlizzCon popping up in the land of the shitty economy, not to mention all the usual weekend happenings, the news didn’t stop. So just in case you weren’t permanently fixed to your computer screen, eagerly awaiting every Kotaku update (and, really, who wouldn’t be?), here’s a run down of what you missed from Japan, Anaheim and the rest of the gaming world:
TGS 08
On The Possibility Of 2D, HD, XBLA & PSN Sonic Games
Klonoa Wii-make Hands On: Awesomely Waggle-Free
First Look At Castlevania Now-Gen Is Shorter Than This Headline
Microsoft Coy On Future Spring & Fall Updates
Where The Hell Is White Knight Chronicles?
First Hands-on With Street Fighter IV’s Sakura
First Look At Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li Movie Poster
Halo 3 Expansion Is A Prequel, Hits Fall 2009
Molyneux Walks Us Through Fable II’s Deep, Casual Combat
Konami Whips Up Castlevania For Xbox 360, PS3
Goichi Suda Has Not Given Up On You Nintendo Wii
Bionic Commando Movie Is A Definite Possibility
For a complete TGS08 rundown, click here
BlizzCom 08
Hands On With Diablo III: Everything Old Is New Again
Behold The New Diablo III Logo T-Shirt
StarCraft II Single Player Is A Trilogy!
For a complete rundown, click here
And in other news:
What Could Lara Croft Do? New Behind The Scenes Look At Tomb Raider: Underworld
TimeSplitter 4 Star Wars Parody Disappears
Console Diablo III A Teeny Tiny Bit More Likely
You all know TGS08 kicked off yesterday. So for all the highlights (and there’s alot of them), plus anything you may have missed overnight, check out below.
Old Snake Sephiroth Get Sackboyed For LittleBigPlanet
Vague Date For Final Fantasy XIII, Nothing For Versus XIII
Halo 3 Expansion Is A Prequel, Hits Fall 2009
Talking the New Xbox Live Experience for a Short Ride
Bionic Commando Delayed, Coming ‘Early 2009′
Last Remnant Team So Cannot Wait For Unreal Engine 4
Microsoft: Japanese Sell Out Is ‘Totally Legit’
First Arkanoid Live! Screens Deserve Compulsory Exclamation Point
Tokyo Games Show 08 is due to start 10am local time (12pm EST) today and Kotaku is already there covering all the pre-show hijinxs. For the highlights from TGS08, plus anything else that happened over night, check out below.
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Starting To Sound More Like LEGO Grand Theft Auto Rare definitely have something unique on their hands.
Let’s Patapon 2 Multiplayer It’s not all about combat and competition.
First Look At Final Fantasy CC You can play it on Wii and DS.
Finally, We Can Buy Games From YouTube It’s all part of Google’s plans for world domination. More »
Here’s Microsoft’s TGS Booth Game List What’s Q Bringing To TGS More news from TGS on its way.
Fracture Review: Breaking New Ground Gears Of War 2: The Non-Review But are they better?
Guitar Hero: World Tour Bags Deluxe $US240 Version It’s all about the keychain.
Lets TGS The Tokyo Games Show starts this Thursday and Kotaku is gearing up to bring you all the best bits- except for maybe those free ladies.
Sarah Palin, in Video Games Look, I can see Alaska from my screen!
A Look at the New Xbox Live Marketplace Oooooh, pretty.
Rumour Smash Galore: EA Not Interested In Epic, No Sega Portable Sony and Nintendo breathe sigh of relief.
EGM: LBP Getting “Non-Sony,” Disney DLC? Kingdom Hearts meets LBP. Oh mickey you’re so fine…
Nintendo Conference Round-Up DSi, Wii updates, and the rest. All in one handy post package.
Take-Two Won’t Be Merging With Anyone, Thanks Do what you wanna do, be what you wanna be. Yeah!
No DRM Issues For Fallout 3 Pretty much the same DRM they used for Oblivion. Which wasn’t much.
Resistance 2 Public Beta Sign Ups Live Join the fight! Would you like to know more? More »
Queen Hits PS3 SingStore, Song Selection Is Amazing Who wants to live forever?
Dead Space Gold, Platform Exclusive Suits For Launch Players Outfits matching the console colour schemes? Fanboy heaven, right?
Pirates Of The Burning Sea Offers Free Trials It’s the right price for a test drive.
LittleBigPlanet Devs Talk PSP Plans No concrete plans yet, but I’d love to make/play stuff while on the go.
Blizzard Awarded $6 Million In Glider Bot Battle Just say NO to bots!
It’s Official! MGS4 Producer Now Working on Halo Fanboys, it’s handbags at 10 paces time. More »
EA Axes Tiberium For Not Meeting Standards Thus began the real Tiberium Wars (boom tish?)
Namco Brings Back Pole Position On iPhone Accelerometer steering FTW!
Rock Band’s AC/DC Live Track Pack – The Details Aah aha aaaah aha aaaah aha, THUNDER!!
New Campaign, Characters Coming to The Force Unleashed Play the game as Jedi Skywalker (not wuss bag New Hope Skywalker).
Dario Argento In Dead Space Great reason to play Dead Space in Italian. More »
LEGO Universe Already in Some Gamers’ Hands
Inaugural IndieCade Celebrates Independent Games
LEGO Batman The Video Game Review: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Video Games Aren’t Real Life, Even For NASCAR Drivers
Oh Great, Puzzle Quest Hitting iPhone
Google Looking To Challenge Gaming’s ‘Corporate Mentality’
So What Happened Between Street Fighter II And Street Fighter IV?