MMO Clerks

Very important stuff! This fall, Soulcalibur is coming to the PSP with Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny. How does it stack up to PS3’s Soulcalibur IV — more important how does Ivy stack up? Boobs…

Original post by Brian Ashcraft

(These are Darrin’s impressions. See Henning’s impressions here)
Pros

Pick Up and Play
Lots to Do: There are only a few main storyline missions to choose at any one time, but there are tons of entertaining side missions scattered all over the city that all provide the player with various benefits. Most of the missions have some tangible consequence beyond just unlocking the next mission and next story-bit, which holds the player’s interest.
Great (but few) boss fights
Exploration and Acrobatics: It’s fun to scramble up buildings, grind across power lines, ride trains around the city, and just explore the city. As a player, it’s effortless to execute all the movements and acrobatics which keeps the core movement mechanics breezy and allows the player to focus on other things.
Narrative: The story is light-hearted fun. It’s at the good end of basic comic-book fare, but it’s easy to get into, and it’s very well delivered. Most [...]

Original post by Darrin

When Splinter Cell: Conviction was first announced a few years back, Sam Fisher was different. He had a moppish haircut. People made fun of it. Now? Now the long locks are gone.
The snippet of…

Original post by Luke Plunkett

On one of the same platforms where Nintendo courts grandma gamers comes yet another quietly-released title infused with a hipster passion for old-school video game culture.
Pictobits is the fifth…

Original post by Stephen Totilo

There have been a bizarre number of rumors leading up to this year’s E3 and I guess we will find out what is fake and what is nonsense soon enough.
What E3 rumors have been your favorite this year?
My favorite had to be the new Sega console launching in 2010, the fact that some people assume that Sega will come back to the hardware business because they trademarked a few Dreamcast games is weird. Though I guess I don’t know what I’m talking about, I don’t have “insider information.” I would love to see Sega back in the hardware business, but I don’t see it happening anytime soon.
The other non-Sega related rumor I have been following is the Playstation 3 Slim console. This is a weird rumor, I thought it had to be fake when the pictures came out, but then a company sent out cease and desist letters to websites [...]

Original post by George

As seen on Gizmodo.

Original post by Luke Plunkett

While it might not be the wisest marketing choice, associating your hotel with an asylum for the criminally insane, the Holiday Inn City Center gets a pass for its convenient access to E3 2009.
Our…

Original post by Mike Fahey

E3 is back. Back as a big show. And nothing says big like this Assassin’s Creed 2 poster, which is by far the “biggest in show”.

Original post by Luke Plunkett

The Star Wars Galaxies forum regulars have welcomed a new community relations manager named Draakull to their ranks, who will be taking over for previous CRM Zatozia. Draakull made an introductory post and explained how MMOs have played a big part in his life, primarily because of the communities he’s been involved with. Online friends helped him through some hard times when he didn’t have support in the real world, and now he’s ready to give back to the SWG community by performing in his new role as best he can.
Draakull has only been the CRM for a few days, but he has already organized a couple of small events in his introduction thread and has gained a lot of fans. To see what he’s got in store next, keep checking the thread, or simply stay tuned to the SWG forums — you’re bound to see his posts a lot [...]

Original post by William Dobson

Final warning! Kotaku’s pre-E3 party is happening tonight. So come out, have a drink with us, enjoy the company of your fellow Kotakuites and party semi-responsibly. Don’t make us liveblog with…

Original post by Michael McWhertor