Brian Crecente

Erasure and Robot Unicorns Make Sweet Love on Your iPhone

There’s nothing better than storming the purple shores of some nameless land as a robot, rainbow-shitting unicorn to the beat of Erasure’s Always. NOTHING!!! And soon you can take the addictive fun of Adult Swim’s Robot Unicorn with you on your iPhone. The $3 title hits in June and include the ability to bug friends…

Grease: The Game, No Seriously

What better way to capture the splendor of the leather-clad, hip shaking of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease than with a game for the Wii? By making sure that the game forces you allows you to use two microphones and a Wii Balanace Board while playing it, that’s how! If only they could…

Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light Hits the DS in October

Square Enix’s Japanese-only portable game The Four Warriors of Light: A Final Fantasy Anecdote is coming to the U.S. with a less unwieldy name in October. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light arrives on Oct. 5 for the DS

League of Legends Going Mac

Popular Warcraft III spin-off League of Legends is coming to the Mac this summer. Players will be able to download the game for free once it hits.

Thrustmaster’s Ultimate Cockpit

Not one to be outdone, well by no one at this point, peripheral kings Thrustmaster will start selling a $250 replica of a Ferrarri 430 Scuderia in June for use with PC and PS3 games. The only thing that the fold-up cockpit is missing is the… cockpit. But hey, nice wheel and pedals.

The Memo Lies: What you Won’t be Seeing at E3

The latest in an increasingly hilarious string of faked memos on E3 line-ups currently filling our in box.

Eve Online Now Lets You Plunder Planets

Lucky expansion number 13 for EVE Online brings with it the ability to descend to planets, construct colonies and harvest what they find. EVE Online: Tyrannis also includes a new website and social networking platform for the popular, player-drive, space-based PC game.

iPad Up, PCs Down

The New York Times called it: Microsoft is no longer the most valuable tech company in the world, Apple is. “The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in your hand.” It’s good to see that hyperbole will always have a cozy home at the Gray Lady.

The Princess Is In Another Birdhouse!

Thanks Eugenio

The Cast of Lost as Game Characters

What if the cast of Lost didn’t stop entertaining us when the show wrapped up earlier this week? What if they went on to try their hand at video games? Artist extraordinaire and friend of Kotaku David Stonecipher shows us what could have happened in such a world. How the Cast of Lost Would Fit…

Quick Links

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: This Bukkake Is Totally Delicious, Totally Safe For Work Tiny is sometimes better. We like to keep our readers informed, but not every patch, game unveiling and new product deserves a full story. Our solution? Quicklinks. These are those tiny posts you see scattered around the page with no image…

You Got PAC-MAN in My Bejewled!

Namco created a PAC-MAN themed match three puzzle game for the iPhone and iPad to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their beloved pill-popping, ghost-chasing yellow hero. There’s also a free flash version of the $2 iPhone game.

There’s a New Mario in Town

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is now the highest rated video game in history… at least according to Game Rankings and its penchant for number crunching and outliers-inclusive averaging. It was a good run 1998’s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, don’t let the door hit you in the ass.

Get Your ModNation Racers On Live with Game’s Creators

Our review of the Playstation 3’s ModNation Racers won’t be hitting for another hour or so, so why not take the time to talk to the folks behind the game on Kotaku Talk Radio? United Front’s Dan Sochan will hang out with us for one hour, taking your calls about anything you want to know…

Now it’s Warhammer 40K…

plus one! As seen on deviantART. Thanks miodrag.

Gears of War 2 Gets Social

“Social Matches” are coming to Gears of War 2 in today’s patch for the game. The new feature allows players to jump in or out of multiplayer games without disruptions. The catch? You’ll need to own all four download map packs

Father of the Xbox, Head of Gadgets and Fun Leave Microsoft [Update]

Sources have confirmed to Kotaku that both Robbie Bach, the current head of all things entertainment for Microsoft, and J. Allard, one of the top men behind the Xbox and Xbox 360, are leaving Microsoft. In a memo this morning to Microsoft employees obtained by Kotaku, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the two were…

Ratchet & Clank Maker’s Next Game Coming to the Xbox 360, PS3

The next big gaming franchise from the creators of a decade and a half’s worth of some of the Playstation’s most beloved titles is coming to the Xbox 360. Insomniac Games, the studio behind Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank and Resistance, unveiled a deal this morning with Electronic Arts that will put their still…

All the Blood, All the Metal of Splatterhouse in Motion

Our Latest Addiction Is Dallas’ Too

As seen on the cover of Dallas’ D Magazine.