Filed under: Contests and Giveaways

Hey kids, just a quick reminder that our monster Holiday Wish List Giveaway is still underway. We’re giving away not just one, but two piles of sweet Xbox 360 swag, including games, action figures, posters, clothes, an art book and even a couple of X3F stickers. The idea is that you’ll [...]

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Filed under: Wii Warm Up
Nintendo announced three Art Style games at once for Europe, treating them as a set. Statements made by developer Skip also indicate that there may not be more Art Style for a while. Nintendo may have already proved us wrong this morning — as of the time of writing, they haven’t [...]

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Filed under: It’s-a Mario World

As both game character and flagship intellectual property, Mario has long been the focal point of Nintendo’s efforts. Thanks in no small part to creative genius Shiggy Miyamoto, Mario’s adventures have ushered in some of the most pivotal games in the history of electronic entertainment. His moves have established and defined [...]

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Filed under: News

Update: VG247 is reporting that Microsoft plans on releasing new fashion items every two weeks for 6 months! That’s a lot of clothes.
If you’ve started the Avatar creation process and found the clothing options in your Avatar Closet to be lacking in terms of variety, know that more apparel is headed your way [...]

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Filed under: Video

Okay, we must admit that we’re kind of surprised at the clip Entertainment Weekly has for the upcoming The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels game. It looks kind of decent, actually, with all of the stuff going on in the background and the lightsaber battle shown being kind of action-packed. Our first glimpse of [...]

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Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action

There’s a saying: don’t judge a book by its cover. But, we’re fairly confident you can do just that to Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers. The upcoming Wii/360 action game knows its audience, and aims to please by combining Japanese school girls, swords, zombies and buckets of blood. The [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure
Presenting Branching Dialogue, a weekly, wordy and often worryingly pedantic discussion of video game genres, trends and err … stuff I didn’t think to put in this introductory line.

With the debut of a brand new IP and the return of an over-the-hill franchise taking place [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action

Saints Row 2 Associate Producer Dan Sutton reveals that Volition is already at work on another sequel in the urban sandbox series. Speaking with Play.tm, Sutton states that the recently released SR2 ties up loose ends from the original game and that SR3 will go in [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Online

Media Molecule switched on the LittleBigPlanet servers today and just like that … went right back to work on the sequel. The team has already begun development of a follow-up title, according to BBC, and is looking into broadening the franchise — we’re talking cartoons, comics, action figures, the works. [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Metareviews

It may have gotten lost in the pre-holiday hubbub for some of you, but, judging by the bulk of reviews that have dropped, Far Cry 2 is an experience you don’t want to miss. We’ve spent some quality time with it, and if [...]

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So. Remember I was haggling with my boss the past two weeks for some awesome consumer electronics? Right, my dayjob company had, sitting in the break room, a big 47-inch panel TV and a PlayStation 3 — the discontinued 20 GB console sitting in a box for going on two years now, as unawarded sweepstakes [...]

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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360

Brandon Crisp, a 15-year-old Barrie, Ontario native and avid gamer, has been missing since October 11. Crisp stormed out of his home shortly after his parents, afraid for the teen’s social well-being due to his proclivity for Call of Duty 4, took away his Xbox 360. Since Crisp’s disappearance, several groups [...]

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Hollywood is bringing manga/anime Dragonball to the silver screen. Early peeks haven’t exactly been promising, leading a general feeling that the rot has already set in. Website Ain’t It Cool News was a sent a review from a reader who claims to have seen 95-100 minutes of the film, minus the credits, missing the score [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Peripherals, Rhythm

Many of us will find it easy to imagine the following scenario, having lived it a little over a year ago with the release of an alarmingly similar title — hordes of rhythm game junkies returned home last night from midnight [...]

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Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta (about Joystiq)

What a week. We started with the long awaited BioWare Star Wars MMO announcement, then had the official word on E3 2009 getting big again and ended the week with friggin’ NAZI ZOMBIES!. You can’t get much better than that.
Exclusive features

Previews: We got an invite to the big Star [...]

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Filed under: PC, Action

While it still won’t operate on our trusty Macintosh Performa 5200, PC gamers with less-than-stellar rigs will be pleased to know that Valve recently lowered the previously announced system requirements for Left 4 Dead. Well, okay — the only thing they lowered was the video card memory requirement from 256 MB to [...]

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Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Action

There are many writers on the Joystiq payroll who are of the firm opinion that the Wii incarnation of Resident Evil 4 was the best version of the multi-platform title. That’s why we were understandably disappointed when it was outed that Resident Evil 5 would not be coming to Nintendo’s console [...]

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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, RPGs

In a recent letter to the editor published in the Washington Post, D.C. resident and frequent Metrorail rider Joseph Anzalone criticizes ads for Bethesda’s upcoming post-apocalyptic blockbuster, Fallout 3, which are plastered all over the city’s various forms of public transportation. The ads in question [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action

Though the initial report from Media Molecule following the delay of the once Qur’an-infused platformer, LittleBigPlanet, was that the title would now be dropping during the week of October 27, dozens of readers have sent in tips reporting that GameStop’s lovable customer service robot, Aeris, recently called to say the [...]

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Filed under: PC, Action, RPGs

What drives the turbines at a nuclear power plant? Steam. Where can you now pre-order and pre-load Fallout 3? Steam. The product page for Bethesda’s post-apocalypse RPG has gone live, offering PC gamers the opportunity to play the game at 12:01 a.m. on its official release date, Oct. 28.
The game is [...]

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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure

Lionhead has gone and fessed up to a particularly irritating glitch many Fable II players have unfortunately stumbled upon. Specifically, when speaking to an abbot at the outset of the “Monk’s Quest,” the game will simply not let you progress any further if you choose to brush the guy [...]

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I had an interesting discussion this week on the topic of microtransaction models, East-West interaction, and the fact that few people pay much attention to such issues (or dismiss them out of hand); Games In Motion has a nice interview up illustrating the ‘fly under the radar’ nature of a lot of those microtransaction [...]

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A gold farming/money laundering ring in South Korea has been accused of moving somewhere in the neighborhood of $38 million USD from Korea to China (with the help of real money transactions). According to PlayNoEvil, they made false purchases to a Hong Kong paper company to move the money, which is what eventually led [...]

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Filed under: News, Call of Duty: World at War

Looks like Treyarch has taken a cue from Valve’s upcoming Left 4 Dead and the world’s love of zombie action. Developer Treyarch has revealed that Call of Duty: World at War will include a Nazi Zombie Mode, in the latest edition of GameTrailers TV. Once the single [...]

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Filed under: PC, Action, RPGs

What drives the turbines at a nuclear power plant? Steam. Where can you now pre-order and pre-load Fallout 3? Steam. The product page for Bethesda’s post-apocalypse RPG has gone live, offering PC gamers the opportunity to play the game at 12:01 a.m. on its official release date, Oct. 28.
The game is [...]

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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure

Lionhead has gone and fessed up to a particularly irritating glitch many Fable II players have unfortunately stumbled upon. Specifically, when speaking to an abbot at the outset of the “Monk’s Quest,” the game will simply not let you progress any further if you choose to brush the guy [...]

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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Casual
As an antithesis to the apathy and snarkasm us bloggers are wont to project, Microsoft has employed Mr. Burt Reynolds to act as a promoter for its upcoming camera-based casuals trap, You’re in the Movies. Reynolds will front a series of TV and magazine spots for the game, using “his [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action

Someone give Rockstar a trophy … for finally bringing PlayStation Trophies to the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV. According to the latest GTA mailing list email, the update will be available for download on Monday, Oct. 27.
Rockstar has promised 51 Trophies in total, including: “One Man Army” (survive [...]

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Midway’s Ed Boon and Paulo Garcia, game designers on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, stopped by the Kotaku “offices” yesterday to give us a near-final look at the upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 fighting game. Having already played the game at E3, Comic-Con and the Leipzig Games Convention, we were pretty familiar with how [...]

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Midway’s Ed Boon and Paulo Garcia, game designers on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, stopped by the Kotaku “offices” yesterday to give us a near-final look at the upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 fighting game. Having already played the game at E3, Comic-Con and the Leipzig Games Convention, we were pretty familiar with how [...]

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