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The ever increasing cavalcade of secondary characters in Sonic the Hedgehog is an often reviled issue. So, how do you keep Sonic interesting without adding another Big the Cat? Easy, in Sonic Colors, the blue blur actually transforms into other characters using Wisps. Pretty sneaky, Sega.

#irrationalgames Irrational Games, the people behind the BioShock in the sky coming in 2012, have released four new screens of the upcoming BioShock Infinite that might feel a tad familiar. You've seen these people, place and things before, but not from these angles. More »

This week is all about Kratos, Vanquish, and Fallout.

#jonathanblow Some gamers who loved Jonathan Blow's Braid were perplexed when early footage of his team's next game, The Witness, debuted on Kotaku last month. To those alarmed or confused, Blow offers some encouraging words. More »

If you were surprised by the announcement of a Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright crossover game (WHAT), you're not the only one. Even Capcom's global head of production, Keiji Inafune, exhibited some disbelief over the adventurous collaboration in a recent interview with Japanese mag Famitsu (translated by Eurogamer).

"I thought it would be impossible," he said, citing the careful handling of the Phoenix Wright character within Capcom, as well as creator Shu Takumi's insistence on trying new things (see: the upcoming Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective). "Nobody but Hino could have thought of it." Akihiro Hino, CEO of Level-5, was apparently instrumental in conceptualizing and then realizing this 3D battle of the brains. And there will be a bumping of heads between the two logic-minded protagonists, Inafune said, "before they join hands and take on a really big challenge."

Whether you're rooting for the spiky hair or the fabulous top hat, you'll be happy to know that neither Capcom nor Level-5 seem satisfied with a meet-and-greet cash-in between their cherished properties. "It wasn't a case of licensing out the Phoenix Wright characters and demanding our licence money. That isn't a collaboration, and users would see that," Inafune said. "For this standalone game, we wanted to create a great history, which would have been impossible if both parties were not fully involved."

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Like a drip off the great sky-city of Columbia, making its long journey down to us ground walkers, Irrational has deemed these four pictures worthy of eyeball consumption on this day.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask Talk about a mind-bending Zelda game. Every entry in the Zelda series makes you stop and ponder, but Majora’s Mask took your mind to completely new areas. Not only was there a lot of time-traveling thought going on, but storyline and mechanics deciphering as well. One of [...]

#corporategloating Sony's motion controller add-on for the PlayStation 3 has been out for a little more than a month in North America. How's the PlayStation Move doing, according to Sony? Oh, spectacularly, of course! More »

#exclusive Luc Bernard's Reaper was going to be an episodic downloadable PSP title. Now it's a full downloadable title coming to the PSP, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and possibly even the PlayStation Network. Let's celebrate with three new exclusive screens! More »

Murdering bacteria and evil microscopic robots is all in a day's work.

Sony may not have expected a huge Day One for PlayStation Move, but it seems to have done OK for itself during Month One: The company just announced that the motion controller has shipped 1 million units in the Americas since it launched on Sept. 17. SCEA boss Jack Tretton told MSNBC he expects demand to exceed supply until next February, saying "We had to go back and increase production twice, we're absolutely maxed out right now."

While the number's certainly impressive, it's perhaps tempered a bit when you consider that (1) the Move sold 500,000 more units in Europe (where the PlayStation brand is admittedly stronger) in roughly the same amount of time and (2) today's announcement doesn't equate to a million Move-equipped households in the Americas. Many have likely picked up two or more Moves, making it difficult to say just how large the install base is for future Move games at the moment.

You'll find Sony's full release just after the break.

Square Enix planning to remind everyone about 32-bit Aya Brea before she hits PSP.

Company on target to meet goals, says CEO Jack Tretton.

#clips In this video, you can see more than 700 Nintendo Entertainment System games, supposedly every unique North American NES game ever released, 1.1 seconds allotted to each. How many can you name? They're in alphabetical order, if that helps. More »

A less cumbersome hardware solution and more exercises make this an attractive package.

Real time and command based come together in Sakaguchi's return to directing.

Electronic Arts' purchase of publisher Chillingo doesn't include the IP rights to Angry Birds. Speaking with TechCrunch, developer Rovio Mobile's Peter Vesterbacka said that its relationship with Chillingo never went past the iOS versions of the game. Vesterbacka explained, "We will not use Chillingo again."

It would seem the company's need for a publisher has diminished since striking gold with Angry Birds, which has sold 6.5 million copies on the App Store. Rovio has self-published Android and Nokia versions of Angry Birds, as well as its latest iOS title: Angry Birds Halloween. Chillingo's rights to each of its published games would be on a per contract basis, but what EA definitely got for its ducats was the company's Crystal gaming network platform and all its data gathering potential.

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#bugs As promised, Fallout New Vegas publisher Bethesda says they've patched the PC version of the new role-playing game and are working on updates for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions soon. More »

#review Forget Cloud, Squall, Tidus, and Lightning; in Square Enix's second massively multiplayer Final Fantasy game, you are the hero. And so is everybody else. More »

Looking back at Kirby’s first game, we can see that a lot has changed for the guy. He changed colors, gained abilities, took on new enemies and event lost powers that have become franchise staples. Nintendo seems really comfortable with trying new things when it comes to Kirby, and I think that’s why [...]

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