Major changes are going down at Sony. President Ryoji Chubachi is stepping down, and Sony CEO Howard Stringer will take over Chubachi’s role as president. The company’s PlayStation boss has a new role, too. Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai will head a new business group that brings together Sony’s mobile electronics and personal computers.…
No Killzone 2 demo for PAL users this week because, well, we got that weeks go. In its stead, then, we get the HAWX demo and some Street Fighter DLC (no, not that DLC) Also up for grabs is the usual smattering of Rock Band & Guitar Hero DLC and, tucked away down the bottom,…
Rule of thumb: Video game movies are not very good. I know it, you know it. Yet, game movies typically do pretty well at the box office. Why? “Honestly, I really think it’s a marketing thing,” says Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li actress Kristen Kreuk. “There’s a built-in audience. But realistically, if you are…
Well, would you? Best come up with an answer, because EA are looking at releasing such a game, announcing it during an address at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco. Speaking before an audience of very serious businessmen and women (the kind who’d no doubt be this game’s intended audience), EA’s…
Since 2006, Nintendo has been offering a 512MB SD Memory Card for the Nintendo Wii. That was years ago. It’s time for a bigger DS Memory Card from Nintendo. The 2GB Memory Card will be out the middle of this March in Japan. Pricing is listed as “open.” So if you are one of those…
Being both popular and, for a piece of downloadable content, expensive, would it surprise you to learn that Grand Theft Auto IV expansion Lost & damned has set a new Xbox Live revenue record? It shouldn’t. Because it has. According to Microsoft, the expansion has “eclipsed first-day revenue for all previous downloadable content on Xbox…
Well, actress Kristen Kreuk wasn’t hired to do Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li for her gaming skills, but for her acting. Shocking, we know. “I’ve only played Street Fighter once,” she told The Japan Times. “Growing up, I did watch my friends play it.” Instead, she based her interpretation of the character on what…
As we’ve seen, cheaters don’t make Team Fortress 2 angry. Just a little…disappointed. But today, it seems the game has moved on from being disappointed in you, and is now more than a little upset. After catching a bunch of people using an external application to unlock achievements, and thus get new in-game items, Valve’s…
The announcement for Lost Planet 2 has been baffling! Here’s why: Rewind to last September when Capcom swore off console exclusives in its fiscal 2008 shareholder’s report: “All major titles launched during the next fiscal year or thereafter will be developed as multi-platform games.” Then in January, Mega-Man creator Keiji Inafune mentioned new Dead Rising…
Last year, Nintendo (and 53 other companies) took action against the makers of the R4 cart, a device which allows, amongst other things, the pirating of games on a DS. Today, they won big. The Tokyo District Court has found against the Chinese makers of the R4 – officially known as the “R4 Revolution for…
Not only are our readers talented, but they’re creepy. Time to vote on the best masks in Kotakuland! The winner gets a copy of F.E.A.R. 2, platform of his or her choice! We’ll also be giving away a big stash of F.E.A.R. 2 and Monolith loot to the first place winner and the four runners…
Currently, EA help with distribution for MTV’s Rock Band. But could they be planning their own entry in the overcrowded music game genre? Comments made by the company today certainly seem to suggest it. During his presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference earlier today, EA’s Chief Operating Officer John Pleasants said: When…
Action role-playing-game Monster Hunter sell extremely well in Japan. Dead Rising designer Keiji Inafune mentions new PSP MH in the upcoming issue of Famitsu. Inafune stated Capcom was working on a new Monster Hunter. While Monster Hunter 3 (tri-) is coming to the Wii this summer in Japan, this upcoming PSP game could very well…
We’ve been a little down on Home from time to time. Frankly, because most of the time, it deserves it. But today, as mentioned, sees the release of something that gives the service a purpose. It’s the Warhawk Command Centre, a feature I long dreamed about for in Wing Commander and X-Wing but which is…
The latest video from Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp features a very familiar motif: Space Invaders Though, the invaders look different enough to hopefully stir clear of the ire of the game developer Taito’s attorneys. Invaderesque characters are prevalent and nothing new, still this is a neat take on them. Neat song, too. More tunes…
Even as someone who hasn’t taken to the post-Harmonix Guitar Hero games, Guitar Hero: Metallica looks like a bucket of fun. This four-minute trailer, of which 94% is gameplay footage, only seals the deal.
Quick: Your automobile or the PS3? Make a decision and pronto. Nicholas Stanfield. a 24-year^old Sacramento man, chose the PLAYSTATION 3. On December 17, a 911 call was placed about the carjacking of Stanfield’s Dodge Ram truck. Police responded and found Stanfield with a bruised face and torn shirt. According to Stanfield, he was walking…
Microsoft are opening dedicated retail stores. Like Apple Stores, only for…Microsoft. And while early pictures of a “concept” store suggested as such, we’ve today received confirmation that they’ll be selling Microsoft games and hardware. A Microsoft spokesperson has told MCV that the stores – which will be opened “in a few major cities around the…
What is PlayStation creator and former Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi up to these days? Passing on his wisdom, that’s what. Kyoto’s Ritsumeikan University has invited Kutaragi to guest lecture to MBA students starting this April. His position will last one year and end on March 2010. Kutaragi was CEO and President of Sony’s…
We know that THQ’s de Blob has been selling well, sometimes even better than Nintendo’s first party Wii titles. But how well can a non-phoned-in, non-mini-game collection title sell on the Wii? Pretty well. THQ CEO Brian Farrell puts de Blob sales at a very respectable 700,000-plus, according to a report from Edge. Not bad…
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