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Sat, 01/03/2009 - 00:30
Pandemic have released the PC system requirements for upcoming Middle Earth kill-em-all LotR: Conquest. Going by the install size and specs, looks like a straight console port. Which is OK. Means...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 23:30
Business Research firm Market Share have released statistics outlining global internet browser share. Internet Explorer and Firefox are obviously the two largest, but what about the PlayStation...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 22:30
Been a while since we heard from WET. Probably because it was being published by Sierra, and then left in limbo after the whole Activision-killed-Sierra thing. It's still due for release this year,...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 21:40
The latest special issue of People celebrates the Atari 2600 as the console that “ruled the interactive gaming world” in the 1980s – no mention of the original Nintendo, Sega Master System or even...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 21:20
Does Wii Fit work? It's hard for me to tell, personally, as my Little Debbie Zebra Cake intake ratio is tied proportionally to my progress in the non-game. See, I'm not a scientist.
Thankfully,...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 21:00
In quite possibly the most bizarre clip of 2009, the cast from Metal Gear Solid 4 improvises a scene in which they're "suffering from delusions of being the characters they portray in the game."...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 20:40
A "source" has told VG247 that Traveller's Tales' next LEGO game won't be Star Wars. Won't be Indiana Jones, either. Won't be Robocop, won't be Predator, won't be Halo. It'll be LEGO Rock Band....
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 20:20
Next Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will kick off the Consumer Electronics Show with a keynote that will likely involve chairs being thrown and perspiration-soaked Brooks Brothers shirts. But...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 20:00
Puzzle Quest is no stranger to gameplay bugs in any of its myriad releases, but the iPhone version deleting characters takes the cake for the “kick in the shins” category.
According to forum posts...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 19:40
Congratulations, Take-Two. You win second place on the list of 10 worst media deals of 2008. Spurning Electronic Arts' offer to buy you got the attention of some list-making investors, who hailed...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 19:20
Role-playing game White Knight Chronicles has been the focus of much attention for its perception as a great white hope for the PlayStation 3 in Japan. It is from Level 5, after all.
You know Level...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 19:00
To: Ash
From: Crecente
Re: That New Year Smell
We had to put off publishing our Game of the Year awards until Monday due to a technical glitch. Blame it on pregnant chads or Boca Raton voters....
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 18:30
Looking at the bird chests of the Kotaku editorial staff, you'd think we don't know from push ups. But we're thinking, thanks to PushupFu for the iPhone, we've got more chiseled cleavage in our...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 18:00
Dead Rising Wii was at TGS. Was almost the worst thing there. Truly awful. Yet at the same time, it was almost the best thing there, because this clip was playing at the demo booth.
We'd forgotten...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 17:30
What does 2009 have in store for the PlayStation Network? At the very least, two more PixelJunk games. At most? Maybe three! Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert briefly outlined his company's 2009 plans...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 17:00
Harmonix confirmed today what you may have already had leaked all over you: a Roy Orbison six-pack is hitting the Rock Band series next week. The tracks?
You already know. “Claudette”, “In Dreams,”...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 16:40
The Vibras Five.One from Track Scan delivers big Dolby Digital surround sound in a tiny package. It boasts that it's "the only headset to earn Microsoft’s authorization as 'Licensed for Xbox 360'."...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 16:20
From the makers of Gas Attack, a pinball machine that teaches about flatulence, comes Urine the video game.
Our visit to the touring Grossology show netted me not one, but two video games. Last...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 16:00
The average price for used video game sales on eBay and other resellers dropped nearly 12 percent from last year, according to an analysis by Video Game Price Charts.Com.
Average used game prices...
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 15:40
We wish there were more executives like Peter Moore, the kind who wonder where the f.... hell their game is on the end of year "Best Of" lists. As Moore has done to Eurogamer.
Now, we don't have any...