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Kinect-Enabled Shouts and Dragon Mounts: Will Skyrim's 'Game Jam' Experiments Ever See the Light of Day? [Updated with Video]

Owen Good — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:26:55 EST

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At D.I.C.E. 2012, Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard just showed an amazing highlight reel of mods the studio built into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim during a week-long "game jam" after the game's release. Features like mounted combat, a lycanthropy skill tree, and one enormous mudcrab, the width of the horizon, were all shown. And that was the tip of the iceberg. More »

Bastion, Skyrim, Portal 2 Lead Nominations for the 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:30:00 EST

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The nominees for the 2012 Game Developers Choice awards have been announced. The awards, which will be held at March's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, are one (if not the) most prestigious awards ceremonies in gaming. They occur the same night and location as the Independent Games Festival (IGF) awards. More »

Look at Japanese Booth Babes Until You Get Barfy

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EDT

During this year's Tokyo Game Show, Japanese website Inside Games thought it would be a good idea to film this year's booth companions. Maybe it was. More »

European Retailer Stops Selling Busted Old 360 Consoles

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:30:00 EDT

Two of Europe's biggest games retailers, Game and Gamestation (the latter owned by the former), have stopped selling old models of the Xbox 360, according to a report on Eurogamer. More »

Mass Effect's Depth Will Save It From the Fate of Most Video Game Movies

Owen Good — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:20:00 EDT

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Mass Effect won't suffer the same fate as other video game movies, said the screenwriter assigned to the project, because it draws on far more than the "seductive" visuals and active sequences that all video games are known for, whether or not they are accompanied by a story with any depth. More »

Let's Play The Dream Video Game Sequel List Game

Mike Fahey — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:40:00 EDT

It's Monday morning, and Speak-Up on Kotaku is feeling a little playful, so we're going to play commenter Wocalax's little dream video game sequel game. More »

Farm, Chill, Whatever—It's All Cool With Facebook Game Pot Farm

Drew Cohen — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:30:00 EDT

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Virtual agriculture has recently become a bit more spliffy. More »

Atlus' Fake Rock Of Ages Ripoff Gathers No Moss

Mike Fahey — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:20:00 EDT

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If a game company is going to do something silly for April Fools' Day, we might as well all get a free game out of it, right? Today Atlus accuses developer ACE Team stole the idea for action-strategy game Rock of Ages and used it to make a 2D game that you can play right now. More »

Retailer Buys 3DS Units From Competitor, Then Marks Up The Price

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:40:00 EDT

Console launches are normally times for absurdity, but this report coming in from the UK - of GAME staff popping down to their local supermarket to buy 3DS units - is something else. More »

Zac And Snoop Play the Charity Game

Mike Fahey — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:20:00 EST

Snoop Dogg and Zac Efron spent last night at the H.O.M.E. Foundation's STIKS Celebrity Video Game Challenge in Hollywood, where Efron battled fellow actor Michael Strahan in Madden NFL 11 for the I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation. More »

Ubisoft Unleashes Assassin Wars On Facebook

Mike Fahey — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:30:00 EDT

Ubisoft is calling it Project Legacy, but the newly launched Facebook training simulator for Templar front company Abstergo Industries is as Mafia Wars as they come. More »

A Very Strange Place To Find A Trading Card Game

Mike Fahey — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EDT

The last place I expected to discover a fully-realized online trading card game, complete with duelist animations, experience point rankings, and animated dueling effects, was the virtual world of Second Life. More »

You Cannot Club Seals On The iPhone

Mike Fahey — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:20:00 EDT

Developer Matthew Smyth is upset that Apple rejected his seal clubbing game for the iPhone. PETA, on the other hand, is so overjoyed they sent Steve Jobs chocolates. More »

Dodge Viper Or Ford Bronco? That Is The Blur Preorder Question

Mike Fahey — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:20:00 EDT

Bizarre Creations' combat-racer Blur is coming May 25, and your choice of preorder locations determines which ride you'll get early access to in online multiplayer, because everyone loves retailer-exclusive preorder bonuses, right? More »

Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Prince Is Not My Prince

Mike Fahey — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:00:00 EDT

Here's the official trailer for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, which is a lot like the developer diary released early last month, only without developers inconsiderately talking over it so we can get to know this new/old Prince. More »

Windows Phone 7 Playing an Xbox Live-Linked Game

Brian Crecente — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:40:00 EDT

The MIX10 conference kicked off today in Las Vegas. Most of the stuff they'll be talking about puts me to sleep instantly, but Microsoft let us know to expect some Windows Phone 7 news to hit as well. More »

Silly Game Show Gets Silly iPhone Game From Capcom

Mike Fahey — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:20:00 EST

The only thing more ridiculous than a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab is an iPhone game simulating a television quiz show set inside a taxi cab. More »

Gamer, Rapper Game's New Tattoo

Brian Crecente — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:00:00 EST

Rapper Game's future tattoo, The Evolution of Gaming, as seen on Rap-Up.com. Thanks mvab10. More »

Final Fantasy XIV, The TGS Trailer

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:00:00 EDT

It just wouldn't be TGS without a new Final Fantasy trailer now, would it? Here's one for Final Fantasy XIV. More »

Bakugan: Contender to the Pokemon Throne?

Brian Crecente — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EDT

"There it is!" More »

Edna & Harvey Coming To America

Mike Fahey — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:40:00 EDT

Daedelic Entertainment's Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, voted "Best Adventure Game of 2008" at the German Game Developer Awards, is making the trip stateside courtesy of Merscom. More »

Louisiana Cuts Game Developers A Break

Mike Fahey — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:20:00 EDT

The state that once passed the Thompson Game Law became a great deal more developer friendly today, as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signs extensive tax credits for game development into law. More »

British Lifetime Console Sales Figures Get!

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EDT

According to figures released by GfK-ChartTrack, there are now 24 million current-generation consoles in the UK. Let's see how those numbers break down. More »

Hey, It's Another "Gamer" Trailer

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Gamer, the upcoming movie about MMOs with real people as avatar combatants, has a brand new trailer. This is it. More »

New Movie Shows A Grisly Future For MMOs

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:30:00 EDT

Sure, MMOs today are, outside of a few broken marriages, relatively harmless. But in the future depicted in upcoming movie "Game", they're a little more hazardous. More »

Wii Virtual Console Goes To The Arcade

Mike Fahey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:40:00 EDT

Having run out of game consoles, Nintendo today launched Virtual Console Arcade, with a variety of classic arcade titles already available for purchase from the Wii Shop Channel. More »

Velvet Assassin Preview: Metal Gear Lite

Jim Reilly — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:20:00 EST

Southpeak had their very own Violette Summer on hand to pose for pictures with fans. But, I was at their booth to check out their game, not the babe. More »

GAME To Offer Rentals As Well As New Games

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:00:00 EST

GAME, GameStop/EB's biggest competitor in both Europe and Australasia, currently sell new games. And sell used games. But soon, they'll be offering a third way of getting hold of a game. More »

Australian Silent Hill: Homecoming Ban Lifted

Mike Fahey — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:40:00 EST

One of many titles banned in Australia last year due to a rather wonky classification system, Konami's Silent Hill: Homecoming has now been granted a rating of MA15+, clearing it for launch. More »

Warning: Producer of Metal Gear Solid touch is Female

tim rogers — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:00:00 EST

This week's Famitsu has an interview with Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear Solid Touch producer Yasuyo Watanabe. The headline for the story is very careful to accentuate that Watanabe is female. How careful, you ask? More »

Gamestop Planning UK Assault Via Woolworth's Buyout

Stuart Houghton — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:20:00 EST

US megachain Gamestop have never had much of a foothold here in the UK - they have a couple of shops but are tiddlers compared to big fish GAME. This may change. More »

Classic Games Cupcake Tower With Companion Cube Centerpiece

Stuart Houghton — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:20:00 EDT

It's been a while since we last featured a Game Cake on Kotaku. Maybe it was an unconscious editorial response to the obesity epidemic, maybe it was just our collective blood sugar hitting a critical redline. More »

UK Retailers Buying Hardware Stock From Supermarkets

Stuart Houghton — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:20:00 EDT

UK gamers will need to get up early in the morning if they are to take advantage of heavily-discounted consoles at several supermarket chains. So impressive were the price cuts that a number of games retailers have been dispatching staff to their local Sainsbury's to pick up some new stock. More »

Fable II CE Cut Even Further

Mike Fahey — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:20:00 EDT

So the Fable II Collectors Edition box set has been trimmed a little, losing the five printed fate cards, the Hobbe figure, and..oh yes, the box. Still, we still get a bonus DVD with developer diaries and the full game soundtrack, right? Perhaps not. Frequent Kotaku contributor and all-around nice lady Lesley Smith passes on this email from UK retailer Game regarding even further cuts to the decreasingly collectible edition.

We have recently contacted you regarding a marketwide problem with the Fable II Collectors Edition. We have since been informed by Microsoft that there has been a further complication. They have advised us that the developer diary and soundtrack are no longer going to be available on the bonus DVD.

Let's just hope that they don't decide to cut the actual game from the CE before the title ships next month. UPDATE: Looks like Game is delivering a bit of false info. Microsoft contacted us to let us know that the items Game claims were cut were never part of the Collector's Edition at all. Hit the jump for the full email from Game, and Microsoft's response. More »

UK Retailer GAME To... Publish Games?

Leigh Alexander — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:30:00 EDT

UK retailer GAME told MCV that while it might not be planning a huge pipeline of holiday titles, it plans to selectively use its distribution channels to publish undiscovered titles under its own brand name. More »

High Street Retailers Sell Mature Games To Underage Girl

Mike Fahey — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:40:00 EDT

Which should children in the UK resort to buying mature games online when they can simply pop down the shops and pick one up? UK magazine Which? Computing tested the resolve of High Street retail store clerks by having a 15 year-old girl attempt to purchase 18-rated games from various shops, with three of the stores actually going through with the transaction. At Woolworths, Game, and Maplin the young lady purchased GTA Vice City Stories, Condemned 2, and Hitman respectively. The three stores are currently investigating the transactions. More »

GAME's Online Store Force-Bundling GTA IV [Update]

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:30:00 EDT

We haven't (yet) heard of any bricks-n-mortar retailers force bundling GTA IV. Which is a good thing! Online retailers, however, are a different story. Anyone hoping to pick up a copy of the game's standard edition from the website of European mega-retailer GAME will find they can't. Not unless they also want a Sixaxis. Or a wireless 360 pad. Or a copy of...Devil May Cry 4. Because GAME's online store will only sell you the standard edition if you buy it in one of their "fantastic GTA deals!!!", the cheapest of which is £54.98 (USD$108, for GTA IV & Kane & Lynch) and most expensive being £329.99 (USD$650, for an Elite 360, GTA IV, PGR4 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2). You stay classy, GAME! More »

Rawstory.com just posted a small summary...

Yetanotheruninspiredscreename — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:42:58 EDT

Rawstory.com just posted a small summary and video footage of a UK News report on the 3rdSpace gaming vest that lets users feel their characters being shot in games. Activists in the UK are becoming alarmed by the vest thinking it will cause a rise in violence. More »

Brits Now Paid For Pre-Ordering GTAIV

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:30:00 EST

Britons being paid in Microsoft points for pre-ordering Lost Odyssey, that was understandable: while it's a good game, it's hardly a sequel to a AAA franchise, licensed property or sports game, so retailers had a job on their hands trying to sell the thing. But offering 500 MS points to people pre-ordering GTAIV? It's like money for nothing. Yes, I know it's only GAME/GameStation stores offering the deal, and yes, I know they'll say it's to encourage people to order the game from their stores, but where else were you going to pre-order it from? Tescos? More »

Penny Arcade Game Gameplay Videos

fdemarco — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EST

I got a chance to check out an early build of the Penny Arcade Game when I was at PAX last year and really enjoyed it. The character customization was fun and the use of the old school turn based gameplay was a clever throwback to many of the games I loved as a kid. Now we have some new gameplay videos featuring a new comic book style interface at the bottom which replaces the more steampunk style one that I saw. Truth be told, I liked the old version of the interface more, but this one looks seviceable and certainly blends well with the cut scenes of the game which are also done in the same comic book style. I look forward to the game's release especially since it is one of a very few interesting titles that I can play on my Mac without having to switch to my Windows partition. Make the jump for two more clips. More »