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My personal vote for best thing to appear on Kotaku? That Bully artwork. Hot. Here's what happened at Kotaku last week.
Master Chief fanatics jumped for joy then scratched their heads with the news that the director for the upcoming Halo movie had been named. Those concerned about the quality of the big screen adaptation let out a collective "Who?" then beat cheeks over to IMDB.
On the Wii front, tons of details, ranging from release dates to console color to hardware specs popped up on a major news site, only to quickly be pulled. Why? Looks like someone might have revealed a source. The unedited copy was captured by some eagle eyed readers.
Another juicy detail to be culled from said article, and a source of major speculation, was that IBM may be producing chips for a portable Gamecube. You remember that thing right? Better known as the pre-Wii?
Rockstar's controversial high school adventure beat 'em up Bully got lots of attention last week. The trailer made an appearance online, its most out of touch, most annoyingly litigious detractor made an appearance on basic cable, and it got tons and tons of press.
Brian Crecente sat down with anti-bullying interest group Bullying Online to talk about their opposition to the release of Rockstar's game. They remain suprisingly sane in both tone and argument. Funny how that works sometimes.
In less serious controversy, gamers every where with standard definition TV's cried foul at problems with Capcom's Dead Rising. I look at it as a strong argument for no more readin' in my controllable TV shows you Einsteins call "video games". Caveat emptor, y'all!
Last week was all about the Xbox 360 and the handheld war. Here's what you might have missed on Kotaku for the last week in July.
Rumor and speculation that Microsoft would be dropping the price of its Xbox 360 were scuttled this week as analysts fed the gaming community a little something they call "logic". Despite many years of schooling and in-depth market research, message board trolls were unconvinced.
But those looking to game on the (slightly more) cheap should be happy to know that Xbox 360 bundles started popping up in retail store databases, giving the "Wii60" one less reason to invest in that PS3.
Current 360 owners had some additional cheap-ass gaming to enjoy as both the Q Entertainment/Phantagram developed Ninety Nine Nights and Rockstar's Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis hit Xbox Live in demo format. I just downloaded in my pants, it's so exciting!
While Nintendo is enjoying huge success with their recently released cooking and English-training non-games, a bevy of future DS release dates of actual honest-to-goodness games was released from the fine PR folks. I'll be ordering my copy of Kirby Squeak Squad over the internet, thank you very much.
Some good news from the other side of the portable war, hit as the first Greatest Hits PSP titles made their way to store shelves. But don't worry, there's still no reason to eject your copy of Lumines. Aw. We kid.
There might be something exciting to play around Q2 of 2007 as it appears that The Elders Scrolls IV, better known as PC and Xbox 360 mega-hit Oblivion, might just be making its way to the PSP. Will Bethesda shut me up about no good RPG's for the PSP? Maybe!
After a weekend of heavy drinking, you might be asking yourself "Hey, what happened last week at Kotaku?" This stuff did!
Valve released the trailer for it's first person puzzle game, Portal, causing millions of Half-Life, Day of Defeat, and Counter-Strike fans to uncontrollably evacuate their bowels with glee. We're not sure how you could have possibly missed this last week, as it was everywhere -- and for good reason. This game looks to blow off serious numbers of socks.
And don't miss this brief teaser for the other bonus available with Half-Life 2: Episode II, the extremely sexy Team Fortress 2 trailer.
Senator Hilary Clinton is looking to make video games a violence scapegoat, pushing the issue as part of her campaign platform, according to our sources. Will the "video game tax" become a reality or just another issue dodging talking point?
Microsoft finally let us know all about their portable entertainment device, the Zune. Err, sort of. It's not going to play games (yet), so don't flush your PSP and DS down the crapper, but will most likely feature that neato Live Anywhere whiz-bang-ery that Bill and crew were touting at E3.
Nintendo released the "Noble Pink" DS Lite in Japan last week, which prompted Brian "I Swear This Pink DS Is For My Wife" Ashcraft to snag one at the nearby Yodobashi Camera. Watch in awe as Brian queues up with other grown men looking to buy the latest girly portable.
Speaking of the DS, there have been some rumblings about minor hardware defects in the form of cracked cases. Our readers polled at about 14% affected, while Nintendo claimed it was less than 1%. Regardless of the ratio, Nintendo says they'll fix 'em for free.
Agenda gaming is hot, hot, hot! We're talking about title such as Christian feel-good RTS Left Behind: Eternal Forces. Brian "Kirk Cameron's #1 Fan" Crecente takes a look at video games that (ewww...) have a message.
Folks looking forward to the sequel to the best PSP launch game (and still best PSP game), Lumines, got a tiny flick in the nuts this week, as Buena Vista announced what musician's videos will appear in the Miz's next puzzler. For every up (Chemical Brothers - "Star Guitar"), there's a down (Hoobastank - "Born to Lead"). Time to reap, time to sow, etc.
Finally, we'll try to end on a humorous note. Tired of watching World Cup bully Zidane headbutt Materazzi? Neither are we! And neither are the folks at Ubisoft. Oh, you kids and your headbutting!
We celebrated our independence from anything remotely interesting to play, but not from controversy and wild console speculation. Here's what's been going on at Kotaku for the past seven days.
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