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| Bethesda: Whoa, Uh, We Said Nothing About Bill Clinton
May 23, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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|   Word that President Clinton was sort-of asked to be the voice of Fallout 3's President Eden arched eyebrows and dropped jaws. But Bethesda's top spokesman put the kibosh on that ever being a serious idea.
 A damned newsy week deserves a huge roundup: Capcom chickened out over pigs, and Fallout 3's DLC is at last coming to PS3. If nothing else, it neuters some clichéd flamebait from Fallout 3 comments.  If you're looking for a big name to voice the president in Fallout 3, who would better to get than, well, a former U.S. President. Lev Chapelsky of the Hollywood firm Blindsight tried just that.  When trying to cast the President of the United States, who's better suited for the role than the pres himself? That was Hollywood-based talent acquisition agency Blindlight's thinking...
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| Fuel Delayed a Week, Honored by Guinness World Records
May 23, 2009 at 5:10 pm
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|   According to VG247, the console versions of Codemaster's upcoming post-apocalyptic racing game Fuel has been delayed one week, with its release moved from May 26 to June 5.VG247 is, however, a U.K. site, so there's no confirmation yet whether the delay applies to North America as well, although it seems likely (GameStop has the game listed for June 2). We'll update when official confirmation comes in.  FUEL, originally scheduled to drop May 26, has been delayed to June 5, VG247 has reported. They say Codemasters confirmed it to them. Maybe this explains why I haven't gotten my review copy yet.  The 2009 holiday season might be a bit more jam-packed than you may have already expected, according to GameStop CFO David W. Carlson (via Eurogamer). During the brick-and-mortar gaming retailer's Q1 earnings call...  With 5, 560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain, Codemasters' Fuel is the biggest console game of all time, and they've got the Guinness World Records certificate to prove it.
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| Resident Evil: Director's Cut Coming to PSN May 28
May 23, 2009 at 4:30 pm
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| For those who recently blazed through hordes of zombies in Resident Evil 5's Africa, but may have been too young to see how it all began back in 1996, here's your chance. Capcom has announced that Resident Evil: Director's Cut will be released on the PlayStation 3 through the PlayStation Network on Thursday, May 28, for $9... A damned newsy week deserves a huge roundup: Capcom chickened out over pigs, and Fallout 3's DLC is at last coming to PS3. If nothing else, it neuters some clichéd flamebait from Fallout 3 comments.  Or, he does in this new figure from Hong Kong artisans Hot Toys, the third in their Resident Evil 5 series that so far also features our heroes Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar.  It's safe to assume that James Bond isn't a big massively multiplayer online game player. Sure, he has probably dabbled with World of Warcraft on one of those long flights from England to Russia, but we doubt orcs and paladins are really his thing.  This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii.
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| FUEL Release Delayed One Week
May 23, 2009 at 4:00 pm
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| FUEL, originally scheduled to drop May 26, has been delayed to June 5, VG247 has reported. They say Codemasters confirmed it to them. Maybe this explains why I haven't gotten my review copy yet. Of course, Joystiq points out that VG247 is a UK site, so it's not clear if the delay covers Europe only or if North America is included. Gamestop's showing the drop date as June 2. According to VG247, the console versions of Codemaster's upcoming post-apocalyptic racing game Fuel has been delayed one week, with its release moved from May 26 to June 5. The 2009 holiday season might be a bit more jam-packed than you may have already expected, according to GameStop CFO David W. Carlson (via Eurogamer). During the brick-and-mortar gaming retailer's Q1 earnings call...  Japan's fiscal year reporting season draws to a close, and one of the last companies to report their data was Square Enix. Contained within that data was a colourful graph showing their 2008 game sales.  Damnation hits store shelves tomorrow everywhere but North America, and to celebrate Codemasters has released a new multiplayer trailer to show us Americans what we'll be missing.
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| Valve Explains Team Fortress 2's New Item Drop System
May 23, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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|  The new Sniper vs. Spy update for Team Fortress 2 went live yesterday, and in addition to adding new unlockable weapons and items for both classes, it also added a new way for earning them: The old method of methodically earning achievements to unlock the new weapons has been replaced with an item drop system...  Team Fortress 2 update time! The folks at Valve are clearing the air about any confusion about gaining items. That's awfully nice of them. The Spy Vs. Sniper update brought randomization to item unlocks, dropping Achievement based milestones.  After a week's worth of largely entertaining Team Fortress 2 "Spy Vs. Sniper" updates, Valve has officially released new content for two of the game's classes. But things aren't exactly going as planned.  Valve has revealed the final weapon unlock, for the Sniper vs Spy update coming to Team Fortress 2. Using the ancient art of "Jarate," the jar of urine that the Sniper keeps while he stakes out a position can be thrown like a grenade.  Joining his two new cloaking tools, the Spy will also sport a long-range pistol called "The Ambassador" when the next Team Fortress 2 update hits. The info page from Valve...
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| Japanese 7-11 Says Kojima's Next Game is New Metal Gear
May 23, 2009 at 3:16 pm
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|  Konami's cryptic online teaser for Hideo Kojima's next project has fittingly done to countdowns what the Metal Gear Solid series did to videogame storytelling -- made them absurdly convoluted and impenetrable (oh, we kid, we kid).  The stream of vague reveals and teases regarding Hideo Kojima's next game continues to trickle out. Here's the cover of PSW magazine, purportedly showing in silhouette the new game's main character.  What riches await patient Metal Gear Solid fans at the end of Kojima Productions days long countdown, now that the teaser timer has reached the zero hour? Why, more waiting of course! Kojima Productions...  Hideo Kojima is best known for creating Metal Gear Solid. That's not to say he's pigeonholed as "The Metal Gear Guy", but at this point in his career, the stealth series equals Kojima.
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| Is Kojima Working on Lords of Shadow?
May 23, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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| The stream of vague reveals and teases regarding Hideo Kojima's next game continues to trickle out. Here's the cover of PSW magazine, purportedly showing in silhouette the new game's main character. Of course, to get answers, PSW wants you to come back and buy next month's issue." Konami has been busy hinting at what the Metal Gear Solid 4 developer will do next. Well we know," they write. "And all will be revealed next issue!" Mmm-kay. Konami's cryptic online teaser for Hideo Kojima's next project has fittingly done to countdowns what the Metal Gear Solid series did to videogame storytelling -- made them absurdly convoluted and impenetrable (oh, we kid, we kid). What riches await patient Metal Gear Solid fans at the end of Kojima Productions days long countdown, now that the teaser timer has reached the zero hour? Why, more waiting of course! Kojima Productions...  While most people are still waiting for Nintendo to release the Wii in any color but white, the Queen of England apparently rates a new color all by herself -- gold.It was publisher THQ who passed along the gold-plated Wii to the royal family...
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| Weekend Coupons: Honor the Fallen Prices
May 23, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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|  Memorial Day means sales, and more than just tires, bedroom furniture and vinyl siding. Let's check in on the value-added shopping you can do this long weekend.
 Tecmo's Fatal Frame for the Wii may be out of the picture, but horror-loving North American Nintendo fans have another title to look forward to. Xseed Games today announced...  Demigod's network issues are well-known, with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell going so far as to post a complete breakdown of the game's troubles. Now Stardock is doing their best to apologize to their fans. This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii.  Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5.
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| Kotaku Originals: Swine Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
May 23, 2009 at 10:00 am
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| A damned newsy week deserves a huge roundup: Capcom chickened out over pigs, and Fallout 3's DLC is at last coming to PS3. If nothing else, it neuters some clichéd flamebait from Fallout 3 comments. Highlighting the rest of our original coverage, Stephen recapped last year's E3 promises. Too bad Capcom won't be there this year to make any. Bash was all over reports that swine flu hysteria will park the inventor of the T-virus in Osaka, thus spiking any unveiling of Dead Rising 2 in Los Angeles. Oh, grow a set. Circle, circle, dot, dot, Capcom got the cootie shot. Now show us some zombies. If you're looking for a big name to voice the president in Fallout 3, who would better to get than, well, a former U.S. President. Lev Chapelsky of the Hollywood firm Blindsight tried just that. When trying to cast the President of the United States, who's better suited for the role than the pres himself? That was Hollywood-based talent acquisition agency Blindlight's thinking...  Joining the likes of Koei and Capcom, Square Enix is the latest Japanese developer to restrict employee travel to E3 because of Swine Flu. "Due to the recent worldwide spread of H1N1 flu...
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| Albert Wesker Stands 12" Tall
May 23, 2009 at 1:30 am
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| Or, he does in this new figure from Hong Kong artisans Hot Toys, the third in their Resident Evil 5 series that so far also features our heroes Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar. Where Chris and Sheva's figures were typified by the attention to detail on their accessories and weapons, Wesker's figure is more noticeable for the fact that it makes him look even more like a runaway member of Bros.  Designer Thomas "Akutou" Pereira likes him some video game ladies. And some vector art. Combine the two and, yes, you see where this is going. While there's plenty of...  No More Heroes is a Wii game. Rumors have swirled for some time that the title was originally planned as an Xbox 360 title, but it ended up on the Wii instead. Game site 1UP asked Goichi Suda...  Capcom's Chief Financial Officer, Abe Kazuhiko, has offered a glimmer of hope for Wii owners hoping to some day see a downgraded release of PS3 and 360 games on the system.
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| Who's Excited About E3?
May 23, 2009 at 1:00 am
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|  Hi! What's your name? My name is Brian. This is Tell Us Dammit, no, make that TELL US DAMMIT. Here's how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn't some marketing survey or whatever. It's an emotional investment in you. Yes, we're interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person.  You better sit down for this one, folks, because we just made E3 matter (you know, besides all the cool games and announcements): 1UP has joined forces with G4 for a live broadcast of our Listen Up! podcast, happening on June 4, the last day of E3. The 2009 holiday season might be a bit more jam-packed than you may have already expected, according to GameStop CFO David W. Carlson (via Eurogamer). During the brick-and-mortar gaming retailer's Q1 earnings call...  It was a close contest, with the dozen finalists all turning in their copy just in time and with obvious care in crafting, but we had to pick a single winner. After careful deliberation, and a vote, we landed on Josiah Munsey as our lucky winner.
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| iPhone Becomes An 8-Bit Synthesiser
May 23, 2009 at 12:30 am
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|  So iPhone games have, to date, been largely disappointing. Let's forget iPhone games for a minute, then, at look at an iPhone synth that lets you create your own 8-bit soundtracks. This is 8bitone, by Japanese devs Yudo, and it lets you arrange your own chiptune soundtracks on the fly. It's not a professional solution, of course, but hey, it's a program for your phone. And for that, it looks pretty good. Tecmo's Fatal Frame for the Wii may be out of the picture, but horror-loving North American Nintendo fans have another title to look forward to. Xseed Games today announced...  A game built entirely from the ground up, Overlord Dark Legend follows another evildoer from the long bloodline of overlords, but this story is set sometime before the events of the original game.  Surprise! The rumors that all three Metroid Prime games would receive a compilation release in the US with the "Wii-applied" control scheme were true. This might come...  For a long time, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has maintained a stance that the Nintendo DS and Apple's iPhone aren't competing. A stance he seems to have let slide for a day.
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| European Bureaurocrats Prefer DualShocks To Keyboards
May 22, 2009 at 11:30 pm
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|  Patent examiners at the European Patent Office (EPO) have to do a lot of manual work. Searching, flipping, typing, reading. And for their jobs, a mouse and keyboard just don't cut it. So when using their big, expensive EPOQUE database system (a portal for online database searching within the EPO), they don't use them. Instead, we've learned they use what the EPO calls "commercial game controllers", but which you and I would call a "DualShock 2". According to VG247, the console versions of Codemaster's upcoming post-apocalyptic racing game Fuel has been delayed one week, with its release moved from May 26 to June 5. FUEL, originally scheduled to drop May 26, has been delayed to June 5, VG247 has reported. They say Codemasters confirmed it to them. Maybe this explains why I haven't gotten my review copy yet. The new Sniper vs. Spy update for Team Fortress 2 went live yesterday, and in addition to adding new unlockable weapons and items for both classes, it also added a new...
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| 1UP Teams with G4 for Live Listen Up! E3 Podcast
May 22, 2009 at 11:24 pm
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| You better sit down for this one, folks, because we just made E3 matter (you know, besides all the cool games and announcements): 1UP has joined forces with G4 for a live broadcast of our Listen Up! podcast, happening on June 4, the last day of E3. And when it comes to an Earth-shattering, universes-colliding event like this, we figured the only appropriate way to announce it is through the ridiculously unnecessary but still totally awesome method of a joint press release. Read on for the full details below (as composed by someone who should be dearly familiar to our long-time podcast fans): Hi! What's your name? My name is Brian. This is Tell Us Dammit, no, make that TELL US DAMMIT. Here's how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn't some marketing survey or whatever. The 2009 holiday season might be a bit more jam-packed than you may have already expected, according to GameStop CFO David W. Carlson (via Eurogamer). During the brick-and-mortar gaming retailer's Q1 earnings call... It was a close contest, with the dozen finalists all turning in their copy just in time and with obvious care in crafting, but we had to pick a single winner. After careful deliberation, and a vote, we landed on Josiah Munsey as our lucky winner.
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| Bill Clinton Was Asked To Voice Fallout 3
May 22, 2009 at 11:00 pm
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| If you're looking for a big name to voice the president in Fallout 3, who would better to get than, well, a former U.S. President. Lev Chapelsky of the Hollywood firm Blindsight tried just that. "Celebrity acquisition applies not just to celebrity actors but to sports figures, politicians — we've made offers to Bill Clinton for video games and gotten great responses with attorneys who have said, 'The former president will not participate in one of your video game products, thank you very much'," says Chapelsky. A damned newsy week deserves a huge roundup: Capcom chickened out over pigs, and Fallout 3's DLC is at last coming to PS3. If nothing else, it neuters some clichéd flamebait from Fallout 3 comments. When trying to cast the President of the United States, who's better suited for the role than the pres himself? That was Hollywood-based talent acquisition agency Blindlight's thinking...  Regular followers of the works of actor Matthew Perry, of Friends fame, know that the man is deadly serious about Fallout 3. He claims to have played it so much, that he required medical attention.
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| Gaming Ladies Look Better In Vector
May 22, 2009 at 10:30 pm
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| Designer Thomas "Akutou" Pereira likes him some video game ladies. And some vector art. Combine the two and, yes, you see where this is going. While there's plenty of great stuff on Pereira's website - we're suckers for anything and everything Kurt Russell - it's the Jill, Gum and Sheva pics that are easiest on our colour-starved eyes. Or, he does in this new figure from Hong Kong artisans Hot Toys, the third in their Resident Evil 5 series that so far also features our heroes Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar.  One of the best films of theeighties, Ghostbusters still resonates today amongst hardcore fans and is stillone of the most revered and loved films of all time even 25 years after theoriginal film’s release.  Ah, yes, 8-bit chiptune. It's music that is performed and composed by using retro game hardware like the Famicom and the Gameboy as instruments. Love it, great stuff. And as far as Japanese indie chiptune record labels go...
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| Team Fortress 2 Update Answers Item Drop Questions
May 22, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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| Team Fortress 2 update time! The folks at Valve are clearing the air about any confusion about gaining items. That's awfully nice of them. The Spy Vs. Sniper update brought randomization to item unlocks, dropping Achievement based milestones. This was supposed to address the spate of specific classes populating servers every time a new update shipped and to deal with imbalance-the best players were scoring unlockable items much quicker than the new players. The new Sniper vs. Spy update for Team Fortress 2 went live yesterday, and in addition to adding new unlockable weapons and items for both classes, it also added a new... After a week's worth of largely entertaining Team Fortress 2 "Spy Vs. Sniper" updates, Valve has officially released new content for two of the game's classes. But things aren't exactly going as planned. Valve has revealed the final weapon unlock, for the Sniper vs Spy update coming to Team Fortress 2. Using the ancient art of "Jarate," the jar of urine that the Sniper keeps while he stakes out a position can be thrown like a grenade.  Thanks to the doubly good update for the Spy and Sniper classes, Team Fortress 2 will be playable for free this weekend to Steam users who for some bizarre reason wouldn't already have the game.
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| SingStar Turns 5, Sells 16 Million
May 22, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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|  This month, five years ago, the very first edition of SingStar was released upon an unsuspecting world. Now, after five years of (mainly European) success, Sony celebrates. I remember, in my previous life, working at EB Games the day the game first arrived in an unassuming crate from Sony. And thinking, "Man, this is stupid. Karaoke? On the PS2? Whatever". According to VG247, the console versions of Codemaster's upcoming post-apocalyptic racing game Fuel has been delayed one week, with its release moved from May 26 to June 5. FUEL, originally scheduled to drop May 26, has been delayed to June 5, VG247 has reported. They say Codemasters confirmed it to them. Maybe this explains why I haven't gotten my review copy yet. The new Sniper vs. Spy update for Team Fortress 2 went live yesterday, and in addition to adding new unlockable weapons and items for both classes, it also added a new...
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