Archive for July, 2008

Call and Reserve Your Vault-Tec Underground Nuclear Fallout Vault Today!

Tweet Don’t wait for the apocalypse. You may remember Vault-Tec as the company that built all of the underground vaults in the Fallout game series, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. The recently released Fallout 3 trailer tells us to reserve our vaults by calling 1-888-4VAULT-TEC, so I did just that.

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Beyond Tetris: The Future of Mobile Games

Tweet Sega isn’t one of the top four mobile developers, but they did have this early iPhone hit. Mobile gaming is a growing industry. Better phones, better developers, and better quality games are contributing to an upward spiral of quality cell phone gaming. And according to media analyst Screen Digest, the top four developers of [...]

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Brian Crecente In “Preview Impossible”

Tweet When high profile corporations merge, the innocent are often caught in the crossfire. Unsuspecting developers and PR ninjas can sometimes feel like they have no place to turn. There is one man however, who specializes in the impossible — that man is none other than Kotaku’s Editor-in-Chief, Brian Crecente. Word hit the street several [...]

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Classic Game Characters Recreated in SCIV

Tweet SoulCalibur IV’s character creation system is, to say the least, pretty potent. It allows for the production of some pretty diverse personalities, though all of the chicks have huge tits and the dudes are all ripped. Regardless, here’s a video of some classic videogame characters and a few comic icons that were recreated using [...]

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Sony’s Afrika Renamed Hakuna Matata

Tweet Apparently it means no worries…for the rest of your days. Well Sony, we are worried!  We still don’t know if Hakuna Matata is coming to the US and Europe!

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Real Wood, Full-Size Guitar Controller for PlayStation Rock Band and Guitar Heroes

Tweet Not content with the plastic miniature guitar you’re forced to use when you pretend rock out? Well, if you’re a PS2 or 3 owner with an extra $180 lying around, you can pick up this new wooden guitar that works with Rock Band and all of the Guitar Hero games.

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Yakov Blizznoff: In WoW Russia, House Auctions You. What A Country!

Tweet If you thought that there was nowhere on Earth the monolithic, life-stealing MMO World of Warcraft hadn’t reached, then you were wrong. “Were” being the key word, as now it seems WoW’s world domination is complete with its newest translation: Russian.

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BioShock 2 Multiplayer Leak? Gamasutra Job Description Gives Hope

Tweet BioShock was a game of the year for a lot of people last year, but a common criticism (and praise, in some circles) was its focus on the single player story, with the game having no multiplayer options. All that could change for BioShock 2. 2K Boston (the makers of BioShock) have started looking [...]

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FIFA 09 to Hit Stores Earlier Than Expected

Tweet EA’s latest addition to its ongoing soccer franchise, FIFA 09, has finally been slapped with a release date, with the game to hit all major console on October 9. With the ongoing battle with Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer to see which is the best soccer game on the market, FIFA 09 is said to [...]

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Madden NFL 09 and Facebreaker Demos Now Available On PSN and XBL

Tweet Playable demos for Madden NFL 09 and Facebreaker have hit Xbox Live and the Playstation Network today. Madden NFL 09 is due to hit stores on August 12 and Facebreaker just a few weeks later on September 5. Check out our hands-on previews of Madden NFL 09 and Facebreaker from E3 to see how [...]

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Nintendo Cracking Down On Piracy Devices

Tweet Nintendo has claimed that they now rule seven seas, working with law enforcement agencies in a number of countries to squash piracy in the form of the R4 memory card. The R4 card allows for unofficial programs to be played on the Nintendo DS, including emulators and pirated games. According to Nintendo, they’ve now [...]

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Dark Knight Trailer Spoof

Tweet Check out this funny Dark Knight trailer spoof created by Evil Iguana Productions. Five minutes of your time well spent. The last 10 seconds may be a slight spoiler for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie yet, although we are pretty sure that everyone on earth has seen it at least twice by now. [...]

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Saints Row 2 Special Producer Tera Patrick Unbuttons Her Top and Blah Blah Blah

Tweet Have you ever seen the commercial where the guy goes for an interview with a stain on his shirt, and no matter what he says to his prospective employer, all you can hear is the voice of the stain on his shirt? Well, this is nothing like that, but there’s something about a porn [...]

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Wii 2: Iwata Confirms Nintendo’s Next Console Already In Development

Tweet From the “perpetual next-gen” department comes this totally expected tidbit. The old news: Nintendo’s working on a follow-up to the Wii. The new news: Confirmation comes directly from President “It print money!” Iwata. Iwata told Forbes magazine, “We are always preparing for the next hardware. We are under development. But the hardware is a [...]

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Google In-Game Ads Present: Gears of Tampax

Tweet What would Google be without its innovative perspective? While everyone else is simply considering in-game advertising, Google is yet again one (or several) steps ahead. Sources close to the project reveal that Google has been working on an in-game advertising platform that will actually allow for the game’s characters to introduce the ads themselves. [...]

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