| Week in Games: Anything Else Going on This Week?
May 31, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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|   Releasing during E3 always strikes me as risky. Gamer interest might be high, but everyone's talking about what's coming out in the next year, not what's coming out now. That said, this coming week you can pick up Red Faction: Guerrilla or Fuel on consoles; The Sims and Terminator: Salvation on PC, and some catz and dogz on the DS The count: Four for PC and DS, three for 360 and PS3, one for Wii and zero for Neo-Geo.  In just a couple of days, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For action-adventure (and RPG) fans, these are the big...  Nintendo will release Wii Fit Plus, recently trademarked in Japan, and a new Mario game later this year, both for the Wii, according to a report from Japan's regularly reliable Nikkei newspaper.  IndieCade, this year, is Oct. 1 to Oct. 4, but 25 games out of the hundreds submitted so far will be previewed at the festival's E3 booth. This will be the first U.S. preview of games for IndieCade, whose inaugural festival was last year.  E3 2009: Aided by The Soup host Joel McHale, the French publisher rolls out its most au courant games in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES--So what's likely to happen at Ubisoft's...  If someone can pull off the needle-in-a-haystack search for a kid who managed a game parlor in the Indian Himalayas 10 years ago, a "mysterious benefactor" will send the arcade a Dreamcast.
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| Mass Effect iPhone becomes Mass Effect 'Galaxy,' ties in to Mass Effect 2
May 31, 2009 at 5:43 pm
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|   Revealed via leaked survey just over a month ago, Mass Effect for the iPhone seeks to fill in the story of a couple characters appearing in upcoming sequel, Mass Effect 2. So far, the little we know from the BioWare Blog paints the picture of a game that fills in the gaps between Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, following the story of Jacob Taylor.  The New Musical Express, which is sort of the UK analog to the US' Rolling Stone, says it got its hands on the list of 84(!) bands in Guitar Hero 5. All they say is who is playing, not what songs will be played.  The July issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine (PTOM) features God of War 3 on its cover, and inside includes the first new info. on the game since Sony unveiled it back in February.  We certainly hope Electronic Arts built up some tough skin during the whole Spore piracy pandemic, as it looks like they'll be facing similar buccaneering with their upcoming plumbob-equipped title, Sims 3.  The new PSP Go, leaked just before E3 thanks to the June issue of Sony's own Qore, is tiny little thing. Bigger than an iPhone—but not by much—and slimmer than the original PSP.
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| E3 Activity Book: Fun With No Purpose
May 31, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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|  For those too young to attend E3 - which is to say, damn near all of us - B-Miggs and Agent B have cooked up their latest laugher: The E3 Activity Book for Kids, with its deadly accurate Nintendo presser mad libs. There's tons of fun in this 4-page pdf, which you can print out to leave a copy at the dentist's office and confuse the hell out of everyone. Word searches ("BODY ODOR," "NO SHOW" and "DENIS DYACK.") booth babes and jokes, too. ("Why did the AAA exclusive game flop after years in development?" "It was released for PC?" Owwwwww ...) Releasing during E3 always strikes me as risky. Gamer interest might be high, but everyone's talking about what's coming out in the next year, not what's coming out now.  I'm not sure if we're exactly supposed to be here, but we are, and we're armed with cameras. So here are you first shots of E3 as it pokes its way through the cocoon of the last two years and tries to reinvent itself.  Mark the occasion: 11:10am E3 Time (that's 2:10pm Joystiq Time). The first Joystiq footsoldiers have touched down in LA, taken up defenses in a local Starbucks, and begun planning for coordinated pickups from the nearby LAX transportation facility.  What's that? You weren't satisfied with our three E3 Prediction Bingo cards? You want to know what PC revelations the Joystiq family is expecting to see over the next week? Well...
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| Full Guitar Hero 5 Artists List Revealed
May 31, 2009 at 4:46 pm
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We know Guitar Hero 5 is coming this year, and now Activision has revealed the full list of artists that'll be included in the latest installment of the music game franchise. The enormous list comes by way of their official Guitar Hero 5 website (via VG247), and although it doesn't offer any specific songs from each artist, it does offer an idea of the amount of variety to expect. The New Musical Express, which is sort of the UK analog to the US' Rolling Stone, says it got its hands on the list of 84(!) bands in Guitar Hero 5. All they say is who is playing, not what songs will be played.  When Activision announced Guitar Hero 5, we knew little more than the game would include some notes, and possibly a popular diddy or two. Now, we know all sorts of stuff, like the proposed "Band Moments" and the game's release date (9/1/09).  Manos arriba, who loves robots? We sure did this week. Other highlights included the return (of sorts) of Atari, and Hideo Kojima giving us all lessons in redacting sensitive documents.  When Rockstar founders Jamie King and Gary Foreman announced plans to start up a new company earlier this month, even the clairvoyant among us were taken aback by the...
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| Sony Bundling FFVII:AC with PS3s for Limited Time
May 31, 2009 at 4:15 pm
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|  Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete hits stores this Tuesday, and if you also happen to be interested in purchasing an 80GB PlayStation 3, it looks like you'll be able to get the movie thrown in for free. Kotaku reports that GameStop stores have been receiving copies of the movie to pack into PS3 boxes, with orders to begin selling them on Tuesday, June 2.Evidently the offer will only apply to 80GB PS3s, and not the 160GB model.  The sheriff of Broward County, Fla. (Fort Lauderdale) says Florida law requires him to treat used games the same as merchandise sold at pawn shops. That means sellers can't go home with their cash (or store credit) without leaving a greasy smudge.  E3 2009: Nikkei.net's English service says new version of fitness-game phenomenon will ship in fall across Pacific; Japanese version hints at new Mario game during second half of '09.  This one is, in a sense, kind of a rumor of a rumor, but it's intriguing never the less. PlayStation Lifestyle (via Joystiq) has pointed out that a comparison of what...
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| Sell a Used Game in Florida, Leave Your Thumbprint
May 31, 2009 at 4:00 pm
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| The sheriff of Broward County, Fla. (Fort Lauderdale) says Florida law requires him to treat used games the same as merchandise sold at pawn shops. That means sellers can't go home with their cash (or store credit) without leaving a greasy smudge. According to the New Times of Broward-Palm Beach, the sheriff sent deputies to every game store in the county in October, telling them to get thumbprints from all used-game sellers... Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete hits stores this Tuesday, and if you also happen to be interested in purchasing an 80GB PlayStation 3, it looks like you'll be able to get the movie thrown in for free.  Most of us are probably used to giving away a large amount of personal information to trade in video games. Many stores ask for all kinds of info. Phone numbers, zip codes...  Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, the long awaited Blu-ray extended cut of the 2006 movie, releases next week. You should definitely check out our review if you haven't decided to pick it up yet.  Tony Hawk: Ride is coming with an enormous plastic skateboard peripheral. If you were worried that would make it cost a bit more, you should know that it might make it cost a lot more.
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| E3 2009: Entering our bedcaves with Arkham Asylum room keys
May 31, 2009 at 3:53 pm
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|  Riddle us this: What insane card will let many E3 attendees find their way to a bed each night? Answer: The Batman: Arkham Asylum room keys that apparently all associated hotels of the show will receive. Yeah, we're definitely taking this as a souvenir. Sorry, Hyatt.  Eidos and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment led off May with news that Batman: Arkham Asylum needed a bit more time in the development ward. Instead of its anticipated June release...  Not pictured: Paul Crocker Paul Crocker is the lead narrative designer at Rocksteady Studios where he's been hard at work on Batman: Arkham Asylum for the past two years.  Unlike the character it's based on, Batman: Arkham Asylum has been prancing about in broad daylight quite a bit as of late. We've seen walkthrough videos, tons of screenshots, and we've gotten our hands on it.  The Dark Knight is finally ready examine the bats in Arkham Asylum's belfry on August 25 in North America and August 28 in Europa. The game had previously been delayed to "late summer" from its June 23 release date...
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| ESRB Rates Original Final Fantasy VII for PSN
May 31, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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While diehard fans around the world still dream about a fabled Final Fantasy VII remake, it looks like they'll at least get to play the original on their PlayStation 3 and PSP soon. One Last Continue reports (via Kotaku) that the Electronic Software Ratings Board has posted a listing for Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation 3 and PSP, suggesting a PSN re-release is incoming. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete hits stores this Tuesday, and if you also happen to be interested in purchasing an 80GB PlayStation 3, it looks like you'll be able to get the movie thrown in for free.  Yesterday, you asked for TAY; today, I oblige. Sounds like everyone has plenty to get off their chest pre-E3. Have we vented on PSP Go's lack of a second analog? Otherwise, enjoy an open thread. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.  Days before E3 2009, images and a video of Sony's updated version of the PSP, the PSP "Go", has been leaked thanks to the latest June edition of Qore. Once again, the internet proves to be a harsh mistress in keeping development secrets under wraps.
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| New Mario Game, Wii Fit Plus Hitting Japan in 09?
May 31, 2009 at 3:03 pm
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Nintendo's E3 press conference is scheduled for Tuesday morning, but according to Japanese subscription news service Nikkei (via GameSpot), two of their big game announcements may have been revealed early. Nikkei reports that Nintendo plans to release a new Mario game and Wii Fit Plus in Japan by the end of this year.Wii Fit Plus isn't exactly what a forum dweller might call a megaton, E3 2009: Nikkei.net's English service says new version of fitness-game phenomenon will ship in fall across Pacific; Japanese version hints at new Mario game during second half of '09.  Over 100 contestants competed in a seven hour (!) King of Fighters XII tournament in Hollywood yesterday, and when the smoke cleared, one winner was awarded a stately paper crown. Nintendo will release Wii Fit Plus, recently trademarked in Japan, and a new Mario game later this year, both for the Wii, according to a report from Japan's regularly reliable Nikkei newspaper.  In a leaked interview in the June issue of Qore, Sony's John Koller revealed new game announcements Sony is set to make at its E3 2009 press briefing. Among the titles...
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| E3 The Making Of: A View From Inside
May 31, 2009 at 2:42 pm
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| I'm not sure if we're exactly supposed to be here, but we are, and we're armed with cameras. So here are you first shots of E3 as it pokes its way through the cocoon of the last two years and tries to reinvent itself. Releasing during E3 always strikes me as risky. Gamer interest might be high, but everyone's talking about what's coming out in the next year, not what's coming out now. For those too young to attend E3 - which is to say, damn near all of us - B-Miggs and Agent B have cooked up their latest laugher: The E3 Activity Book for Kids, with its deadly accurate Nintendo presser mad libs. Mark the occasion: 11:10am E3 Time (that's 2:10pm Joystiq Time). The first Joystiq footsoldiers have touched down in LA, taken up defenses in a local Starbucks, and begun planning for coordinated pickups from the nearby LAX transportation facility. In just a couple of days, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For action-adventure (and RPG) fans, these are the big...
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| These are the artists rocking out in Guitar Hero 5
May 31, 2009 at 2:35 pm
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| When Activision announced Guitar Hero 5, we knew little more than the game would include some notes, and possibly a popular diddy or two. Now, we know all sorts of stuff, like the proposed "Band Moments" and the game's release date (9/1/09). But, we still haven't seen anything on what we've all wanted to know: The included artists. Now, we're happy to report that would-be rockers and rockettes now have a definitive list of talent featured in Activision's latest cash generator music rhythm game. The New Musical Express, which is sort of the UK analog to the US' Rolling Stone, says it got its hands on the list of 84(!) bands in Guitar Hero 5. All they say is who is playing, not what songs will be played. Manos arriba, who loves robots? We sure did this week. Other highlights included the return (of sorts) of Atari, and Hideo Kojima giving us all lessons in redacting sensitive documents.  Earlier this month, Activision officially confirmed DJ Hero, the latest spin-off of its rhythm-game franchise which ditches the guitar and melodic rock in favor of a turntable and scratch-heavy beats.
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| E3 2009: We're here!
May 31, 2009 at 2:34 pm
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| Mark the occasion: 11:10am E3 Time (that's 2:10pm Joystiq Time). The first Joystiq footsoldiers have touched down in LA, taken up defenses in a local Starbucks, and begun planning for coordinated pickups from the nearby LAX transportation facility. For the next five days, our highly trained video game Blog Force will infiltrate the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and surgically extract all the "scoops" and "hot stories" our rusty old internet trucks can possibly deliver back to you, Reader. What's that? You weren't satisfied with our three E3 Prediction Bingo cards? You want to know what PC revelations the Joystiq family is expecting to see over the next week? Well...  After a rough year, the former top third-party publisher is coming out swinging with a passel of announcements and demonstrations of its latest and greatest. LOS ANGELES--By...  E3 2009: The Big N returns to the LACC with what hardcore fans hope is a bevy of new game announcements. LOS ANGELES--The weeks leading up to the 2009 Electronic Entertainment...  E3 2009: Following rumors of a new PSP and Slimline PS3, the House of PlayStation takes the stage with its newest games and technology. LOS ANGELES--Of the Big Three press conferences at the Electronic Entertainment Expo...
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| Rumor: Brit Music Mag Names Guitar Hero 5 Band List
May 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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| The New Musical Express, which is sort of the UK analog to the US' Rolling Stone, says it got its hands on the list of 84(!) bands in Guitar Hero 5. All they say is who is playing, not what songs will be played. We had a partial list of confirmed bands when the game's release date was announced Tuesday. NME's web presence posted the list earlier today; they didn't say how they'd gotten it. But if it's accurate, then it's quite a range (Iron Maiden to Elton John) and a hell of a long list. When Activision announced Guitar Hero 5, we knew little more than the game would include some notes, and possibly a popular diddy or two. Now, we know all sorts of stuff, like the proposed "Band Moments" and the game's release date (9/1/09).  According to a USA Today article, Activision has turned to Jay-Z and Eminem to provide some added value to a special-edition release of DJ Hero. In addition to the game...  Need pictures to go with the words explaining how DJ Hero will actually work? These screenshots should do, showing it works...well, a lot like Guitar Hero, really. Which is what you'd expect.  Ostensibly, we're writing this to inform you that Stan Bush's "Transformers" ballad "You Got the Touch" is now available in Guitar Hero World Tour for free. So ... now you know.
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| I Breathe Fire and I VOTE
May 31, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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|  Bowser recently went into town to speak his mind about the dangers of unchecked power in the executive branch. Funny that a monarch would feel that way, but it's a free country, brah. More pics on the jump. We got the link to this Flickr set, uploaded yesterday, but no explanation other than the location of the protest: Northampton, Mass., or so it said anyway.  Just over a month ago, Joystiq talked to Epic Games' Mike Capps about crunch times in game development cycles and how many hours his employees are expected to work throughout the development of a game.  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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| Wii | Wii Fit Plus, new Mario by year's end in Japan - Report
May 31, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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|  E3 2009: Nikkei.net's English service says new version of fitness-game phenomenon will ship in fall across Pacific; Japanese version hints at new Mario game during second half of '09. No word on whether Wii Fit Plus will have a new balance board. Nintendo's E3 Press Conference isn't until 9 a.m. on Tuesday, June 2. However, like its rival Sony, the game giant appears to have had some of its surprises spoiled by the many-tentacled beast of the 24-hour Internet news cycle. Releasing during E3 always strikes me as risky. Gamer interest might be high, but everyone's talking about what's coming out in the next year, not what's coming out now. For those too young to attend E3 - which is to say, damn near all of us - B-Miggs and Agent B have cooked up their latest laugher: The E3 Activity Book for Kids, with its deadly accurate Nintendo presser mad libs. I'm not sure if we're exactly supposed to be here, but we are, and we're armed with cameras. So here are you first shots of E3 as it pokes its way through the cocoon of the last two years and tries to reinvent itself. In just a couple of days, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For action-adventure (and RPG) fans, these are the big...
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| ESRB Confirms Final Fantasy VII for PS3, PSP
May 31, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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|  Released last month on PlayStation Network in Japan, Final Fantasy Vee-Eye-Eye is on the way to North America's PSN soon, as this ESRB rating now confirms. You can play it on PS3 or PSP.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete hits stores this Tuesday, and if you also happen to be interested in purchasing an 80GB PlayStation 3, it looks like you'll be able to get the movie thrown in for free. Yesterday, you asked for TAY; today, I oblige. Sounds like everyone has plenty to get off their chest pre-E3. Have we vented on PSP Go's lack of a second analog? Otherwise, enjoy an open thread. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ. The new PSP Go, leaked just before E3 thanks to the June issue of Sony's own Qore, is tiny little thing. Bigger than an iPhone—but not by much—and slimmer than the original PSP.
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| Interview Confirms Smuggler Class for SW:TOR
May 31, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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|  The latest issue of Edge Magazine (don't sue! don't sue!) features an interview with James Ohlem, Bioware's director for The Old Republic. In it he reveals another class: Smuggler (pictured), which will likely be announced next week. Says Ohlem: "Ord Mantell is a war-torn world and it's where the Smuggler starts off, when his ship gets stolen. He's pretty angry; imagine what Han Solo would've been like if the Millennium Falcon got taken." Releasing during E3 always strikes me as risky. Gamer interest might be high, but everyone's talking about what's coming out in the next year, not what's coming out now. For those too young to attend E3 - which is to say, damn near all of us - B-Miggs and Agent B have cooked up their latest laugher: The E3 Activity Book for Kids, with its deadly accurate Nintendo presser mad libs. Revealed via leaked survey just over a month ago, Mass Effect for the iPhone seeks to fill in the story of a couple characters appearing in upcoming sequel, Mass Effect 2.  Last night on GameTrailers TV, the release date for BioWare's upcoming Dragon Age: Origins was revealed. Players will be able to start ruthlessly swording downed monsters on October 20.
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| King of Fighters wins giant arcade unit, paper crown
May 31, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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| Over 100 contestants competed in a seven hour (!) King of Fighters XII tournament in Hollywood yesterday, and when the smoke cleared, one winner was awarded a stately paper crown. Oh, and a full-sized King of Fighters arcade machine, straight from Japan. Reynold Tacsuan defeated Alex Phan in the best-of-three finals when his soldier Ralf Jones dealt a deathblow to Judo master Goro Daimon. Nintendo will release Wii Fit Plus, recently trademarked in Japan, and a new Mario game later this year, both for the Wii, according to a report from Japan's regularly reliable Nikkei newspaper. In a leaked interview in the June issue of Qore, Sony's John Koller revealed new game announcements Sony is set to make at its E3 2009 press briefing. Among the titles...  Update: A video from the June issue of Qore is now available on YouTube (and after the jump). In the video, Qore host Veronica Belmont discusses the new PSP Go handheld... E3 2009: The Big N returns to the LACC with what hardcore fans hope is a bevy of new game announcements. LOS ANGELES--The weeks leading up to the 2009 Electronic Entertainment...
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| Red Steel 2 Box a Work (of Art) in Progress
May 31, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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|  The pre-order pages for Red Steel 2 have either no art or unofficial art. Well we've got the "work-in-progress" art, from Ubisoft itself. They also send word that a preorder bonus will be announced "soon." E3 2009: Aided by The Soup host Joel McHale, the French publisher rolls out its most au courant games in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES--So what's likely to happen at Ubisoft's...  EA's downloadable Battlefield 1943 will take a Noby Noby Boy-esque -- albeit more violent -- cooperative approach to the release of its "Coral Sea" map. The bonus battlefield will unlock when the player communities on both Xbox and PS3 reach 43...  Splinter Cell fans won't have to wait much longer for the latest entry in the franchise. In today's full-year investor call (via Videogaming247), Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot took the time to narrow down the release date for Conviction...  As part of the company's announcement of financial results for its just-concluded fiscal year, Ubisoft has announced release windows for its full line-up through the end of March 2010.
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| New God of War 3 Combat and Boss Details
May 31, 2009 at 11:37 am
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| The July issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine (PTOM) features God of War 3 on its cover, and inside includes the first new info. on the game since Sony unveiled it back in February.Kicking things off, lead combat designer Adam Puhl goes into detail on the game's Spider-Man-style grappling ability, which essentially takes the grapple points from God of War 2 and places them on the game's enemies. Days before E3 2009, images and a video of Sony's updated version of the PSP, the PSP "Go", has been leaked thanks to the latest June edition of Qore. Once again, the internet proves to be a harsh mistress in keeping development secrets under wraps.  Just days before E3, images and a video of Sony's updated version of the PSP, the PSP "Go", has been leaked thanks to the latest June edition of Qore. Once again, the internet proves to be a harsh mistress in keeping development secrets under wraps... This one is, in a sense, kind of a rumor of a rumor, but it's intriguing never the less. PlayStation Lifestyle (via Joystiq) has pointed out that a comparison of what...  [UPDATE] PrE3 2009: Leaked video from next month's Qore reveals SCEA's John Koller touting Mylo-style sliding screen handheld with no second thumbstick, built-in flash...  Side-by-side comparison shots of rumored box art for the (just leaked) PSP Go and a rumored slimline PS3 are turning online heads today, as both feature a nearly identical design.  The rumored pictures of the PS3 slim immediately brought, like a chorus of boos at Question Time, denunciations of fakery. They sure got us in trouble with a lawyer-mans.
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| Rumor: Next Halo Game is "Halo: Reach"?
May 31, 2009 at 11:00 am
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|  Yesterday we got dropped that image of a Bungie forums search menu, which tipped something called "Halo: Reach." Such things are easily faked, and I couldn't run it down. Well, now someone's found a cache of since-deleted Bungie forum posts on this subject. As you can see, for a brief time there was a forum for something called "Halo: Reach." A 2001 novel called "Halo: The Fall of Reach" is official, canonical, and functions as the prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved.  The Kojima "NEXT" countdown page continues to toy with fans like puppets. When the clock revealed Big Boss it seemed the mystery was mostly solved: it would be a Metal Gear game, likely a prequel.  Never mind that BioShock was a game that told its story through broken furniture and level design. Book publishers Tor think you can wring a good novel out of it. Having already made good game-related money with their Halo series...  We're still not sure why anyone would want to retrofit video games with last-gen tech and turn them into books, but sci-fi/fantasy publisher Tor has apparently had a lot of success with the practice lately, with franchises like Halo and Dragon Age.
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| Sims 3 pirated 180,000 times in four days
May 31, 2009 at 10:32 am
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| We certainly hope Electronic Arts built up some tough skin during the whole Spore piracy pandemic, as it looks like they'll be facing similar buccaneering with their upcoming plumbob-equipped title, Sims 3. According to media measurement group BigChampagne, the game was illegally download over 180,000 times between May 18 (the day the game hit the Torrentscape) and May 21. After a rough year, the former top third-party publisher is coming out swinging with a passel of announcements and demonstrations of its latest and greatest. LOS ANGELES--By...  Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online will bring golf to PC and Mac web browsers when it launches this fall, but it will also replace the disc-based versions of the game. The game...  In a bit of a pre-Electronic Entertainment Expo blunder, the Entertainment Software Association floated mention of Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest, a family-friendly installment in J.
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| Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
May 31, 2009 at 10:00 am
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| Yesterday, you asked for TAY; today, I oblige. Sounds like everyone has plenty to get off their chest pre-E3. Have we vented on PSP Go's lack of a second analog? Otherwise, enjoy an open thread. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ. The new PSP Go, leaked just before E3 thanks to the June issue of Sony's own Qore, is tiny little thing. Bigger than an iPhone—but not by much—and slimmer than the original PSP. This one is, in a sense, kind of a rumor of a rumor, but it's intriguing never the less. PlayStation Lifestyle (via Joystiq) has pointed out that a comparison of what... [UPDATE] PrE3 2009: Leaked video from next month's Qore reveals SCEA's John Koller touting Mylo-style sliding screen handheld with no second thumbstick, built-in flash... Side-by-side comparison shots of rumored box art for the (just leaked) PSP Go and a rumored slimline PS3 are turning online heads today, as both feature a nearly identical design.  You heard about it here first, and now new corroborating information has hit the web in advance of Sony's E3 press conference: A leaked episode of Qore, Sony's downloadable PS3 program...
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| E3 2009 Preview: These Are The Big Action-Adventures, We Believe
May 31, 2009 at 9:07 am
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| In just a couple of days, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For action-adventure (and RPG) fans, these are the big ones expected at the big show: A note about genres: The list below may encompass a broader range than some gamers might expect. I'm using the action-adventure term liberally, including both those games that I believe will be driven by a story and those that will be driven by non-shooting action. IndieCade, this year, is Oct. 1 to Oct. 4, but 25 games out of the hundreds submitted so far will be previewed at the festival's E3 booth. This will be the first U.S. preview of games for IndieCade, whose inaugural festival was last year.  Did your late night Canasta tournament keep you away from your television last night, preventing you from catching all of GameTrailers' exclusive ... trailers for a number... Eidos and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment led off May with news that Batman: Arkham Asylum needed a bit more time in the development ward. Instead of its anticipated June release...  E3 2009 is getting a massive dose of Square Enix next week. The company is bringing along a few games you might expect—Final Fantasy XIII, Dissidia Final Fantasy—and some brand new games.  Our very own Stephen Totilo will be spending an hour today in Fox News' Strategy room talking about the gadgets, games and gizmos of E3. Hop on over to the site to lend your support and pepper him with show questions.
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| Weekly Webcomic Wrapup packs it up, packs it in
May 30, 2009 at 10:38 pm
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|  No time for pithy pop cultural observations today, dear readers. Los Angeles is calling, as are our still-empty Samsonites. You'll have to go this week without a Wrapup of acceptable length, but rest assured, our garments will reach the West Coast in tact, and in suitcase. Below are our seven favorite webcomics from this past week. You can vote for your favorite after the break, or tell us what we left out in the comments section. Or, if you -- Underpants! Oh man, can't forget about those. Jeez, close call. Yesterday we got dropped that image of a Bungie forums search menu, which tipped something called "Halo: Reach." Such things are easily faked, and I couldn't run it down. We certainly hope Electronic Arts built up some tough skin during the whole Spore piracy pandemic, as it looks like they'll be facing similar buccaneering with their upcoming plumbob-equipped title, Sims 3. Yesterday, you asked for TAY; today, I oblige. Sounds like everyone has plenty to get off their chest pre-E3. Have we vented on PSP Go's lack of a second analog? Otherwise, enjoy an open thread. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ. In just a couple of days, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For action-adventure (and RPG) fans, these are the big...
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