Friday, September 3 2010, 8:00 am by Brian Ashcraft
A Famicom Dissected [Gallery]
Whenever new hardware is released, it is common for folks to rip it apart and then take photos of the innards for the entire internet to ogle. This time is different. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 7:30 am by Brian Ashcraft
Your First Look At PAX [Pax]
Are you ready for PAX? You should be! It starts in a little over 9 hours. Team Kotaku will be on the ground, covering the festivities. The show hasn't started, so have a look behind the show's curtain. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 7:00 am by Brian Ashcraft
One Day There Could Be Eyeball Controllers [Pull Quote]
Vanquish designer Shinji Mikami via CVG. [Pic] More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 6:30 am by Luke Plunkett
Sony America Taking Modchip Seller To Court [Modchips]
Sony Computer Entertainment America has filed suit in California against an online retailer, accusing them of a raft of charges including copyright violation. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 6:00 am by Luke Plunkett
32 Indie Games Fighting To The Death (Well, Hanging Out) [Indie]
This year's IndieCade gathering in California will showcase 32 of the year's finest indie games. Here are those games! More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 5:30 am by Luke Plunkett
Red Dead Has Sold Millions [Retail]
Red Dead Redemption hasn't just been the critical surprise of the year, it's also been the retail surprise of the year, publisher parent company Take-Two revealing today that the game has shipped almost 7 million copies since May. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 5:00 am by Brian Ashcraft
Super Mario Dumpster [Screengrab]
As seen by reader Jonathan. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 4:30 am by Luke Plunkett
New Platformer Is Ikaruga Without The Spaceships [Ubisoft]
Ubisoft, when you show a game that is essentially Ikaruga reimagined as a platformer, congratulations, you have our undivided attention. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 4:06 am by Luke Plunkett
Minecraft Sells 100,000 [PC]
Minecraft, the stuff-building cult hit from Markus Persson, has now sold over 100,000 copies of its paid version. Impressive! [thanks Tristan!] More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 4:00 am by Luke Plunkett
Miniguns In The Desert: How Video Game Guns Are Made [Gun Week]
In many genres, the gun is the point where the gamer meets the game, making it the single most important element in a given title. That makes the guys who make the guns important, too. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 3:30 am by Michael McWhertor
New Kirby's Epic Yarn Trailer Is So ~Cuuute~ :D [Clips]
Because the world was in need of something particularly soft and precious right now, Nintendo of Japan has released a new trailer for its hyper adorable platformer adventure Kirby's Epic Yarn. (It's perfectly acceptable to squeal now.) More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 3:00 am by Michael McWhertor
Simpler Times [How Is This News?]
Ladies and gentlemen, lend us your keystrokes for a few moments this evening while we retire this Thursday to the sound of internet-based conversation. This is an open thread with which you may do as you please. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 2:30 am by Owen Good
NFLer Opens Up About His Games Addiction [Addiction]
Quinn Pitcock, the once promising defensive lineman who washed out of the NFL in 2008, citing games addiction, has opened up about his dark days in front of a screen. His game of choice was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 2:00 am by Michael McWhertor
Team Fortress 2's Heavy Finally Playable In... A Poker Game [What]
Telltale Games' tease that featured a cryptic crossover between Homestar Runner, Penny Arcade, Sam & Max and Team Fortress 2 turns out to be the developer's latest gambling game, Poker Night at The Inventory. Yeah. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 1:30 am by Owen Good
These Portal Bookends Are A Success [Screengrab]
Custom-made Portal shelf art, spied by reader martinf1 via Bob's House of Video Games. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 1:00 am by Michael McWhertor
Don't Buy The New Crackdown 2 Add-on (Yet) [Xbox 360]
Crackdown 2 players who downloaded the newly released Toy Box add-on for the Xbox 360 game are finding their games on lockdown. Reports from readers and the official Xbox support forums indicate today's DLC is a bit broken. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 12:30 am by Owen Good
NBA Elite 11 Gameplay Video Officially Surfaces [Clips]
Gameplay video for NBA Elite has been conspicuously rare up to now. Yesterday, Operation Sports got its hands on directly captured gameplay video from EA Sports, giving five minute looks at the flow of the player-vs.-player and player-vs-CPU action. More »
Friday, September 3 2010, 12:00 am by Michael McWhertor
Nintendo's Verbally Abusive Wave Race Easter Egg Finally Unearthed [Clips]
Nearly nine years after the game's release on Nintendo's GameCube, an Easter Egg that unlocks a verbally abusive asshole mode in Wave Race: Blue Storm has been discovered. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 11:40 pm by Michael McWhertor
The Kinder, Cuter Monster Hunter Is Already A Big Success [Sales Get]
The Monster Hunter brand is big in Japan. Big enough to support an adorable, gameplay changing spin-off in the form of MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Ailu Mura. It's Japan's biggest game right now. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 11:20 pm by Owen Good
Answering Questions About NBA 2K11's Postgame Q&As [Clips]
Many sports gamers imagine backstories and outside-the-lines interactions for their created players. NBA 2K11's servicing that this year with "My Career," a narrative hub for the game's singleplayer career mode that offers a chance to create a public persona. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 11:00 pm by Brian Crecente
Talibanned [Note]
Thursday, September 2 2010, 10:40 pm by Michael McWhertor
Sega's Handling Of Its Next Yakuza Game Is Looking Good [Cover Story]
The last Japanese mobster game that Sega released for the PlayStation 3 came to North America noticeably scathed. Missions were missing, as were hostess clubs and any semblance of box art integrity. Fortunately, things are lookin' up for Yakuza 4. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 10:20 pm by Owen Good
Madden's NFL Predictions — And A Few Of Our Own [Madden]
Madden NFL has an impressive record picking Super Bowl winners; it also takes an annual stab at the much less exact science of predicting the season, which a simulation says ends with Baltimore and Green Bay as conference champions. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 10:00 pm by Michael McWhertor
Clowns Versus Bunnies *Does* Sound Like A Bloody Good Time [Ubisoft]
Rare is the first-person shooter that lets us pit murderous clown versus flamethrower-wielding Vegas showgirl, beach bunny against surfer bro. Ubisoft's new Bloody Good Time does, a multiplayer kill-fest from the developers of The Ship. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 9:40 pm by Michael McWhertor
Disney's Throwing A Tron Theme Park Dance Party [Tron]
Disney will be transforming its California Adventure theme park, located right next to Disneyland, into a Tron-themed festival of lights with ElecTRONica, the digital dance party scheduled to launch this October. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 9:20 pm by Brian Crecente
Our First Look At Mega Man Universe Gameplay [Clips]
Mega Man Universe, which will be making an appearance at this weekend's PAX, looks pretty great. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 9:00 pm by Stephen Totilo
Gunfusion: The Doom Rickroll [Gun Week]
Sometimes, the obsession with guns in video games gets ridiculous. So we're celebrating acts of "gunfusion." Here we have the ultimate, unofficial Doom weapon, which we first highlighted in 2008. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 8:40 pm by Michael McWhertor
See Epic Games' Project Sword For The iPhone In Action [Clips]
If you missed yesterday's Apple event, you may have also missed Gears of War and Unreal Engine developer Epic Games showing off its new first-person slasher for the iPhone and iPod touch, Project Sword. You shouldn't miss it this time. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 8:30 pm by Stephen Totilo
Rockstar's L.A. Noire Now Scheduled For Early 2011 [Delays]
Confirming speculation about the next big game from the makers of Grand Theft Auto, publisher Take Two publicly delayed L.A. Noire to the first half of 2011. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 8:18 pm by Brian Crecente
PX Commanding General Explains Global Ban on Medal of Honor Game [Breaking]
The commanding general of the Army and Air Force Exchange Services told Kotaku today that his decision to have Medal of Honor pulled from U.S. military bases worldwide was spurred by "well-documented reports of depictions of Taliban fighters engaging American troops" in the game. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 7:40 pm by Michael McWhertor
Will Duke Nukem Forever Come Out To Play At PAX? [Rumor]
Last month, Kotaku was told that 3D Realms' ridiculously long-in-the-making shooter Duke Nukem Forever would finally see the light of day, thanks to a saving throw from Borderlands studio Gearbox Software. Duke's reveal was rumored to happen at this weekend's PAX convention. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 7:40 pm by Brian Crecente
RZA Joins The Ranks of DJ Hero 2 Playable Characters [Dj Hero 2]
Wu-Tang Clan founder and world-famous DK RZA will be a playable character in upcoming game DJ Hero 2, Activision said today. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 7:20 pm by Luke Plunkett
Our Video Game Gun Rack [Gun Week]
So many games, so many guns. Most are good, but some have to be the best, and it's only the best that we've decided to hang on our Kotaku Gun Rack. Keep the crows off our porch. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 7:00 pm by Stephen Totilo
On Saturday, We Improve The List Of History's 10 Best Video Games [Pax]
On Saturday, Kotaku co-hosts a PAX panel during which we will inch closer to determining the best games ever made. The panel is Canon Fodder, season 2. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 6:30 pm by Stephen Totilo
The Man Who Invented Home Video Games Knew His Guns [Gun Week]
The man who invented home video games may have known more about real guns than any other game creator in history. But, he tells Kotaku, that's not why the first game console had a gun. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 6:21 pm by Brian Crecente
Video Game Pulled Globally From Military Stores Over Taliban Inclusion [Breaking]
As all stores located on Army and Air Force bases will no longer be allowed to sell Electronic Arts' upcoming military shooter Medal of Honor because an aspect of the game includes playable Taliban characters. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 5:40 pm by Brian Crecente
Checking out Shogun 2: Total War's Flexible AI in Action [Clips]
In this video The Creative Assembly's Land Battle Programmer Ingimar Gudmunsson and Studio Communications Manager Kieran Brigden talk us through a night battle in Shogun 2: Total War. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 5:20 pm by Brian Crecente
Capcom Brings the Dead, The Fight, The Stache to PAX [Pax]
Capcom will be invading the Penny Arcade Expo later this week with a chance for you to go hands-on with eight of their upcoming games. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 5:00 pm by Brian Crecente
Denver Thieves Steal $1,200 Worth Of Video Games [Crime]
Denver police are on the hunt for a duo of thieves who they say stole about $1,200 worth of video games from a local Ultimate Electronics store, according to 9News. More »
Thursday, September 2 2010, 4:40 pm by Brian Crecente
Playstation + Move + Butler = Explosive Viking Opera [Clips]
Welcome back Kevin Butler, VP of wonderful advertising, we've missed you. More »
