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Andy Schatz won the top award at the Independent Games Festival for Monaco, a wonderful four-player heist game . Backstage after the win, Kotaku learned Monaco’s future, why Schatz might kick someone in the nuts, and … I got Pokemon tips. More » Originally posted here:  Monaco...

This past week we took stock of the terrible economy and pondered all the horrible side gigs, endorsements and moonlighting jobs video game characters have been forced to accept just to put bread on the table. More » See the original post here: Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Hard Times Edition...

Here is Bit.Trip Runner, the first sidescrolling game in the Bit.Trip series of downloadable games for the Wii. Two videos of the game played by G4’s Patrick Klepek. Shot by me. Keep the guy running, synced to the music. More » Read more:  Bit.Trip Runner: Like Super Mario Bros,...

Hardware Sales USA+Japan Platform United States Japan Total Year Over Year Change PlayStation 2 101,900 7,711 109,611 -27.67% PlayStation Portable 133,400 158,389 291,789 -12.47% Xbox 360 422,000 12,042 434,042 -2.74% PlayStation 3 360,100 110,154 470,254 29.40% Wii 397,900 141,543 539,443 -34.95% Nintendo...

The eye pet was originally scheduled for a fall release in 2009 in the US and EU, but was only released in EU. The date was pushed back to April here, and then kinda just disappeared. Well, with the announcement of the PlayStation Move, Eye Pet has resurfaced and promises to be better than before. It...

Yoshio Sakamoto, one of the creators behind popular Nintendo platformer Kid Icarus, says Nintendo hasn’t ruled out bringing a new title in the series to the Wii, they just haven’t yet figured out how to. More » More here: Nintendo Would "Happily" Make Kid Icarus Wii...