Brian Crecente

The Year’s Most Popular Gaming YouTube Videos

Starcraft II, Flower Warfare, Gears of War 3, Call of Duty, it was a spectacularly diverse, spectacularly video-centric year for video games. Presented here for your enjoyment is YouTube’s own breakdown of the year’s most viewed videos from the gaming category on YouTube for 2010. In handing over these ten videos, YouTube tells Kotaku that…

YouTube’s Top Ten Video Gaming Clips of 2010

10: Gears of War 3 Trailer 9: World’s Fastest Nuke? – Legit or Not? (MW2 Gameplay/Commentary) 8: Modern Warfare 2 Mythbusters: Episode 3 7: Flower Warfare – Psychedelic Action Scene 6: This Is The Only Level Too 2 Walkthrough/Speedrun – 3:02 – 1 Death + Easter Egg Location 5: StarCraft II – Ghosts of the…

Sony Brings Us Snowflakes On the Move

Happy Holidays from Sony Computer Entertainment of America and everything Playstation.

The True Meaning of Christmas: Killtacular, Headshot, Pedobear

Brought to you by the folks behind the endearing kids classic Happy Tree Friends, Dick Figures is pretty much that. Stick figures who you are sorta dicks. In this latest episode they invade a store on the hunt for big game… 😉 Thanks Aaron!

Dungeon Defenders Heading to Android

Those of you asking about the iPhone, iPad Dungeon Defenders coming to the Android. Here are your details. It hits Dec. 23 as part of the Unreal Engine adding Android device support. The game will cost $2.99.

Crackdown 2 Finally Arrives on Windows Phone 7

Not the full game of course, but the tower defense mobile version of the Xbox 360 game. Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst integrates with Bing Maps to use real world locations for the tower defense rounds you play in the game. The mobile game also ties in with the Xbox 360 version of Crackdown 2, allowing…

Happy Holidays from Megaman and Capcom

Kind words and one wicked-cool paper snowflake bring happy holiday wishes from Capcom. Capcom’s E-Card

Today Dr. Dre and His Latest Music Invades Mafia Wars

When you log into Mafia Wars today you’re going to be able to check out the first new single released from Dr. Dre in more than ten years. You’ll also get a chance to hustle virtually with the music icon. While the big draw for some might be to check out the video for Kush,…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Inadvertently creepy TAY is creepy. Thanks to espeed623 for his pic. Submit your own wonderful images to #TAYpics

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Santa, The TSA and A Happy Holidays From Fun Bits

A very revealing holidays from Fun Bits Interactive.

Buy Bulletstorm Epic Edition, Get Into Gears of War 3 Beta Early

The Xbox 360 Epic Edition of Bulletstorm will includes early access to the Gears of War 3 beta, Electronic Arts said today. The Epic Edition will hit stores on Feb. 22 for $59.99 and also includes bonus in-game content like 25,000 experience points, visual upgrades for the game’s leash and special weapons and armor. “Epic…

Screwing Enemies in Bulletstorm and David Haye’s Wicked Haymaker

Electronic Art’s digital mag, PWNED is back, this time taking a look at the Swedish studio behind Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam, a new weapon in Bulletstorm and more. By more I mean chatting with World Heavyweight Champion David Haye about boxing and talking Middle Ages with Sims Medieval producer, Aaron Cohen. What do you…

Edible Wreaths

Re: Bob Feller Rest in Peace The sad thing? I got exactly zero of them! What you missed Magic The Gathering Tactics Adds Depth To Classic Strategy Game Kotaku’s Guide to Kotaku’s Gift Guides Memories of a Forgotten Street Fighter Tournament Killzone 3 And One Very Large Flea The Fastest Way To Make Six Mass…

The Bulletstorm Nutcracker (is) Suite

As seen on my doorstep this afternoon. More lame jokes need not apply.

A Look at Darkspore’s Competitive Arena Matches

Kotaku got an early look at upcoming PC action role-playing game Darkspore’s cooperative multiplayer a couple of weeks back, but this latest video we get a look at the player-versus-player action. In this producer diary, Maxis Gameplay Engineer Michael Arsers walks us through what it takes for a team to win in the game’s player-versus-player…

We’re Giving Away Codes For the iPhone and iPad’s Dungeon Defenders

I kinda love Dungeon Defenders and it’s blending of role-playing game with tower defense. The developers just shot over five codes for the game, so now some of you can check it out for free too. These codes will work on the iPhone or the iPad. You can either enter them directly into your device…

Exploding Monkeys Make Me Smile

Lesson learned: Never order hand grenades from a company that uses red-eyed monkeys to handle shipping.

The Sincerest Form of Flattery

You can’t imagine how flattered we were today to discover that the Daily Mail doesn’t just read our little gaming site, they even like to sometimes “repurpose” our news. Take for instance their story this evening headlined: Jewish groups slam violent ‘blast-the-Nazis’ Auschwitz uprising video game Under the tantalizing headline we found a surprisingly familiar…

Watch the Eyes, See Them Lie in L.A. Noire

The art of lying is the most fascinating thing. Some people do it well, others are just plain bad. But it’s rare that someone trained to detect an untruth can be completely fooled. That’s because no matter how good a liar a person is, they almost always have a tell of some sort. That’s what…