http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com http://kotaku.com This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:30:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023167&view=rss&microfeed=true Suda's No More Heroes is violent. It's also really, really stylish. Those are the two things the game's probably most renowned for, so when a Japanese mobile version of the game turns up looking... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:00:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023160&view=rss&microfeed=true For the week ending July 5. Here's the basic gist: Metal Gear Solid 4 continues its free-fall out of the top 10, Super Smash Bros. Brawl maintains its iron grip on top spot and, across the board, Wii... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:30:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023208&view=rss&microfeed=true David Hayter does not have problems with the Metal Gear Solid franchise or Hideo Kojima. Sure, he might've disagreed with the some choices, but hey, that's natural. Hayter's a creative guy, not some... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023207&view=rss&microfeed=true If you haven't had enough PAIN, Sony and developer Idol Minds are bringing more with an amusement park themed add-on. In PAIN: Amusement Park, players can fling their ragdolls around, well, an... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:30:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023191&view=rss&microfeed=true More rumours, Microsoft-style. If you'll remember a few weeks back, we heard that the 20GB 360 might be on the way out, to be replaced with a 60GB unit. Today, Xbox Family have posted what they claim... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:00:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023206&view=rss&microfeed=true Capcom has released a couple new Mega Man 9 (Rockman 9 in Japan) screenies. The game would be out this September and will cost a somewhat charitable 1000 Wii Points (or US$10 in real money). Check... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:30:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023209&view=rss&microfeed=true This is Captain Rainbow, for the Wii. Know that aside from the name and platform that we don't have a clue what's going on. Know also, however, that this looks awesome, and also that this is from... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:00:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023204&view=rss&microfeed=true As announced late last year, Fire Emblem is coming to the DS. The tactical RPG's first entry in the franchise, Fire Emblem: Shadown Dragons and the Blade of Light, is getting a DS remake, complete... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023203&view=rss&microfeed=true If that first Wario Land: Shake It clip didn't convince you that the upcoming Wii side-scroller looks awesome (and why didn't it?), this should hopefully. The clip features a quick rundown on how the... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:30:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023198&view=rss&microfeed=true Yeah, Mega Man 9 looks old, and will sound old, but it's a new game. So Capcom will be charging some kind of new price for it, yes? Somewhere around $20? Not. Even. Close. No, Capcom are feeling... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:00:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=398154&view=rss&microfeed=true Square Enix has announced not one new Chocobo title, but two new DS titles: Chocobo and the Magic Storybook: The Witch and the Girl and the Five Valiant Men and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon: The... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:30:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023157&view=rss&microfeed=true Ten spots on the chart, five spots taken up by Maxis games. Dull, yes, but it can only get worse once Spore and Sims 3 are out. As for the rest, Age of Conan hangs on, as does Call of Duty 4, while... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:00:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023185&view=rss&microfeed=true Some people don't like id Software's Doom III, saying, yeah, that game just isn't very good. Company CEO Todd Hollenshead has a message for those people: I think there are three people on the... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:40:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023151&view=rss&microfeed=true Spike TV sent out a presser today, trying to drum up support/interest in their coverage of E3. Nothing in it you won't be bombarded with via TV commercials over the next few days. Buried amongst the... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:20:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023147&view=rss&microfeed=true Epic's Cliff Bleszinski doesn't want much. All it takes to make him happy is a puppy to eat, a gun with a chainsaw on the end and a control pad with fewer buttons. Least, that's what he told CVG,... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:00:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023182&view=rss&microfeed=true See that picture of a supposed Wii hard drive? It's from a tipster, and a note on the Flickr page where it appears reads: After several days, today I could shoot a prototype hard drive for the Wii.... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:40:57 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023181&view=rss&microfeed=true Those two things would be tight pants and Nazi killing. Looks like Replay Studios, by way of Gamecock, will be serving up both in spades, as crouch-walking and fence-scaling are ideal activities for... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:20:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023177&view=rss&microfeed=true Capcom just whipped out their E3 line-up, waved it in our faces for a bit, and it consists of eleven games. Ten of which you've heard about before. One, however, you haven't. It's called Flock.... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:00:08 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023175&view=rss&microfeed=true Did Ken Lobb, creative director at Microsoft Game Studios, just confirm motion control will be a factor in the newest Banjo Kazooie game? We're saying it's a "definite maybe." Others are saying yes,... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:00:55 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023171&view=rss&microfeed=true Sunday night's pre-E3 Kotaku party is going to be a booze-fueled, feel-good adventure. None of that, however, will dull the pain of Brütal Legend's absence at E3, an absence confirmed by MTV... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:40:04 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023139&view=rss&microfeed=true Google launched Lively today, a 3D virtual world that can best be described as the search and advertising giant's take on Second Life. Currently, the service is for Windows users only and requires... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:20:00 MDT Leigh Alexander http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022959&view=rss&microfeed=true Brazil's Mother Gaia Studios is the winner of Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition that challenged students from around the world to use XNA community tools to build games around the theme of... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:00:43 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023156&view=rss&microfeed=true Retailer Amazon has listed tentative dates and platforms for Star Wars Battlefront III, long rumored to be in development at Free Radical, developers of Haze and Timesplitters. While we've been under... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:40:06 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023068&view=rss&microfeed=true You'd think with the raw sexuality that Solid Snake oozes in every episode of Metal Gear that he'd be swatting away the ladies with baseball bat or, at the very least, tranquilizing them and moving... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:20:00 MDT Leigh Alexander http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022983&view=rss&microfeed=true Swedish developer GRIN, working on Capcom's new Bionic Commando title as well as the PSN/XBLA update of the original one, were entertainingly forthcoming during an industry conference in the... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:04:34 MDT Brian Crecente http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023146&view=rss&microfeed=true To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Yep, Finally Did It, Got The Squirt A Name Wait, what's the name you picked? We went through the same insane process when we were trying to pick Tristan's name. My... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:40:25 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023142&view=rss&microfeed=true As much as you and I might think that Beer Pong - Frat Party Games is a brilliant idea for a WiiWare title, others disagree. One of those wet blankets is Connecticut's attorney general Richard... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:20:00 MDT Leigh Alexander http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023004&view=rss&microfeed=true One of the big issues creating something of a barrier for PC gaming is widespread piracy. As one of the biggest devs to express a commitment to the PC game biz, what does BioWare (getting set to show... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:00 MDT Leigh Alexander http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022975&view=rss&microfeed=true So, summertime kind of makes me want to go to amusement parks, but since all I really do is sit inside my un-airconditioned apartment and play video games, I feel glad that Majesco is looking after... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:40:00 MDT Leigh Alexander http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022903&view=rss&microfeed=true EA seems to want to make it clear that the announcement of Madden 09's official soundtrack is an event, and music boss Steve Schnur told Kotaku about a few more promotions to drive the point home:... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:20:00 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023094&view=rss&microfeed=true If Nintendo reveals the Wii iteration of Animal Crossing, we shan't use a single exclamation point in our liveblog upon the announcement. We already know that Nintendo of Japan has tentatively dated... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:00:00 MDT Leigh Alexander http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022977&view=rss&microfeed=true Comedy Central's "Indecision 2008" blog currently features a guest editorial from WoW Insider's Mike Schramm on nailing the "gamer vote," a bipartisan advisory on how to court our fickle voting bloc.... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:40:41 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023065&view=rss&microfeed=true The voice of Solid Snake says that the film adaptation of Capcom's Lost Planet is this close — you can't see, but my fingers are but a hair's-breadth apart — to being confirmed, pending a... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:20:02 MDT Michael McWhertor http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023061&view=rss&microfeed=true A new splash page at the official Gears of War web site may have just revealed the launch date of Epic Games' next. The Xbox 360 shooter was previously rumored to hit November 16, but it looks like... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:00:00 MDT Brian Ashcraft http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022894&view=rss&microfeed=true In case you missed our initial post, we are giving away a modded Xbox 360 this week. All you have to First question. Here's contest: Everyday at 12 noon Kotaku Time, we will ask one question for a... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:40:00 MDT Leigh Alexander http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023053&view=rss&microfeed=true PlayStation 3 firmware update 2.41, a fix for the problem-plagued 2.40, is officially live now, and SCEE has released an official statement explaining just what happned: "The PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™)... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:20:00 MDT Leigh Alexander http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023049&view=rss&microfeed=true Activision has officially received shareholder approval for its merger with Vivendi. The company said over 92 percent of its shareholders greenlighted the merger, and the transaction is expected to... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:00 MDT Mike Fahey http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022876&view=rss&microfeed=true EA has revealed the soundtrack listing for Madden NFL 09, the most important series in the history of video game soundtracks. Is that right? Did Madden usher in a new age of music in video games?... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:40:00 MDT Brian Crecente http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022924&view=rss&microfeed=true From Crackle: Next Time on The Jace Hall Show! Jace Hall's next show is going to include an interview with Red Sox pitcher and MMO addict Curt Schilling along with an early look at Schilling's... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:20:00 MDT Mike Fahey http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023026&view=rss&microfeed=true Sony Online Entertainment has announced the first ever Gamers In Real Life (G.I.R.L.) design contest scholarship winner. Nearly 100 applicants submitted their video game concept art and essays for... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 MDT Mike Fahey http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022993&view=rss&microfeed=true E3 2008 is less than a week away, and come Monday morning the internets will be buzzing with the latest news from Xbox 360 producer Microsoft. While we know they'll be plugging their biggest titles -...