- Monday - April 27, 2009
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Today has been... weird. News of Mr. T and Will Wright fighting Nazis, the addition of farting attributes to Nobi Nobi Boy, and unicorns on ESPN.com make me seriously worry that I'm not yet awake. More »
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Namco Bandai
Fart Boy Rips Into Noby Noby Boy Tomorrow
Noby Noby Boy players will issue a welcoming cheer for the newest Boy to join the Keita Takahashi-designed PlayStation 3 game this week, the adorable Onara Boy. That's "Fart Boy" to you. More » -
Xbox 360
Microsoft Surveys NXE Avatar Changes, Including Wearable Achievements
The addition of the Rare-designed Avatars in the New Xbox Experience hasn't amounted to much beyond an increasingly expanding virtual wardrobe. But Microsoft may have grander plans for the little guys. More » -
Sports fans with a taste for glittery unicorns should run, not walk, to ESPN.com and remember their Konami Code, because it appears that some soon to be possibly unemployed web designer is having a laugh. More »
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Downloadables
Burnout Cops & Robbers Pack Priced
A brand new way to play Burnout Paradise online is coming this Thursday, and Criterion Games has revealed the price you have to pay for getting mixed up with the Cops & Robbers scene. More » -
Review
Excitebots: Trick Racing Review: ***********
Excitebots: Trick Racing, Nintendo's sequel to Wii launch racer Excite Truck, makes the tenuous connection to the original Excitebike feel increasingly strained. How we arrived at transforming car-beasts doing mid-air stunts may be beyond explanation. More » -
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Screens
New Boxers Enter The Fight Night Round 4 Ring
Manchester England's own Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton headlines the latest batch of screenshots featuring sweaty men hitting each other in EA's Fight Night Round 4. More » -
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! More »
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Downloadables
Megadeth, Jane's Addiction Double Team Wii Rock Band 2
Wii owners get double the album's worth of new downloadables this week, as Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shocking and Megadeth's Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? come to the Rock Band 2 in-game music store. More » -
Bethesda london
Bethesda's London Event
Last week, Bethesda Softworks gathered game writers in London to check out their upcoming titles during a two-day long gamers' day. More » -
Naughty Dog is adding multiplayer to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. You might've heard. If you had any doubt about the explosive nature of that multiplayer, maybe this trailer will assuage your fears. More » -
Controversy
The Fate Of Six Days In Fallujah
Six Days in Fallujah might be down, but it's not yet out, with developer Atomic Games telling Kotaku to expect to a statement soon regarding the fate of the controversial shooter. More » -
After only a few weeks of closed beta testing, Sony Online Entertainment has taken down the servers for Free Realms in preparation for tomorrow's official launch. More »
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Downloadables
The Nintendo Download: That Nobunaga's Really Going Places
It's an ambitious week for The Nintendo Download, with the feudal warlords of Nobunaga's Ambition marching into battle against paper planes, card games, and a platforming devil. More » -
Last week, the addition of multiplayer to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was still a surprise to much of the video game press attending Sony's PlayStation Gamers' Day. Naughty Dog's reveal was almost perfect. More »
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Square Eidos
Square Enix Lets Eidos Be Eidos
Following the successful completion of its £84 million acquisition last week, Square Enix has announced that UK publisher Eidos shall remain UK publisher Eidos. More » -
The most impressive thing about the latest iteration of first-person shooter Rogue Warrior is what it used to be, not what it has become. More »
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Impressions
WET: Guns, Leather, Swords and Acrobatics
WET hopes to be the best of Tarantino, of John Woo: All Crazy 88s, bullet ballets, death in a tight leather suit that flips and spins as she tears through screen after screen of enemies. More » -
Well Played
What Ails The World's Biggest Gaming Platform?
It is the most powerful gaming platform in the world, and with more than 300 million users, the most widely owned as well, so why does computer gaming seem to be suffering from an inferiority complex? More » -
Sega
More Details On New Aliens vs Predator
We got our first look at the game last week, but today, we've got a lot more information on Rebellion's upcoming reboot of their classic Aliens vs Predator shooter. More » -
Business
Square Enix Admit They Take Too Damn Long To Make Games
In an admission that will no doubt mean...something to frustrated Final Fantasy fans the world over, Square Enix boss Yoichi "Imperial Hot" Wada has confessed that the company takes too long to make a game. More » -
PSP
Some Dante's Inferno PSP Screenshots
So, yeah, there will be a version of Dante's Inferno on the PlayStation Portable. This is what it will look like. More » -
Fallout
Fallout 3 DLC To Be Bundled, Sold At Retail
According to product listings on Amazon's UK site, Fallout 3's "The Pitt" and "Operation Anchorage" will soon be packaged together and sold at retail. More » -
king of kong
Steve Wiebe Gets A Donkey Kong World Record
Steve Wiebe will be taking a crack at Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong world record during this year's E3. To help him warm up, then, he just set a new world mark in Donkey Kong Jnr. More » -
Wii
If Only More Games Had Box Art Like This
While "classy" game covers have so far been 2009's game cakes, some real games can have classy covers too. Like Another Code: R on the Wii. More » -
Konami
Konami Pulls Controversial Iraqi War Game
Well, that didn't take long. Following some heavy, initial criticism of their title "Six Days in Fallujah", Japanese publishers Konami have decided not to release it. More » -
It's been two weeks since we had anything to say about Dead Space: Extraction, so EA has seen fit to send out new screens to keep the Wii exclusive on the radar. More »