Am I in Tokyo? Or am I in London? Have I traveled to the future? Perhaps playing the time-bending Professor Layton and the Unwound Future while crossing the international date line, messing with my internal clock wasn’t wise. But play my very first Professor Layton game I will this weekend. I’ll play it while on…
The battle at Minerva’s Den may be your last chance to visit Rapture, the undersea utopia gone haywire of BioShock 2. It’s a waterlogged journey both familiar and new, a proud send-off to 2K Marin’s capable follow-up to the original BioShock. As Subject Sigma, you step into the suit of a Big Daddy, drill in…
A little over a year after it hit Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, the perennially “coming soon” Battlefield 1943 has been released on the PC. The Windows version of last year’s online multiplayer hit reported for PC duty today, somewhat unceremoniously, popping into EA’s online store. After moving 1.5 million copies of the thing to…
Terry Cavanagh’s great gravitational platformer VVVVVV has been re-released on Steam and can be yours for a pittance at just $4.49 USD right now. Enjoy dying by spike, Mac and PC gamers!
Your nightly open thread is here, so if you want to talk about The Dark Tower, Captain America or X-Men: First Class, this is the spot, kind Kotaku reader. If you’re out of the loop, you may want to catch up on some of today’s nerd news, including the TV and film adaptation effort of…
Can touchscreen controls ever replace—or even closely match—control input from a gamepad or keyboard and mouse? This demonstration of Valve’s Portal and Microsoft Flight Simulator played on Microsoft’s experimental Surface platform offers hope that it might. Building on Mark Micire‘s DREAM (Dynamically Resizing Ergonomic and Multi-touch) Controller, University of Massachusetts Lowell Robotics Lab student Eric…
The punching, kicking and sweaty grappling action of EA Sports’ take on mixed martial arts will also be available not just for the Xbox 360 and PC, but for on-the-go pocket-sized bouts. This is what EA Sports MMA looks like on an iPhone. The expected one-on-one brawls will be there. But it looks like some…
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty players shouldn’t be wanting for custom-made maps—and wildly different game types—thanks to the game’s Galaxy Editor. But an officially released Blizzard-made map is worth getting a little excited about. Blizzard has released “Burning Tide” for StarCraft II today via Battle.net, featuring the same rising lava tides seen in the single-player…
We’ve seen our share of Team Rocket cosplay from hardcore Pokemon fans, but never anything quite this good, with every hair on Jessie’s head in its right place, every Pokeball expertly polished. We can thank Russian dress-up artists “Malro-Doll” and “Ryoko-Demon” for their perfect Pokemon thief cosplaying contributions. Head to their respective deviantArt accounts to…
Sandlot’s lovable Earth Defense Force series will live to see another massive invasion. Publisher D3 has cryptically and modestly revealed the next entry in the giant bug and ‘bot shooter, Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon. There you go. That’s the extent of everything we currently know about the next EDF, a series known more for…
This fall will be lighter one shooter, thanks to the delay of Square Enix and developer Feelplus’ MindJack, the telepathic shoot ’em up that was originally planned to hit this October. MindJack publisher Square Enix confirmed to Siliconera that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game has been moved to next year. The unusual and,…
One man is taking the impending launch of Halo: Reach very, very seriously, building a high tech, Halo-themed hovel full of cheaply acquired home theater equipment and shelves stuffed with female repellent. This is the “UNSC Man Cave.” In addition to a 150″ projector screen, a 7.1 surround sound system and custom artwork all over…
Next week, the Tokyo Game Show will take over the Makuhari Messe, showcasing the latest and greatest Japanese video games. On the eve of that show, EA will trot out its newest games, including Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s Vietnam add-on. The major expansion pack to this year’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will add four brand…
This week’s North American PlayStation Store update may sensually seduce you to drop some dollars on new Rock Band tracks or invest in something new, like the side-scrolling, puzzle-solving, physics-based game TerRover. There’s plenty of downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins, Mafia II and Transformers: War for Cybertron if you feel like playing something fresh…
After a long weekend, we like to get back into the swing of things with a little off topic conversation, now happening nightly (more or less) at Kotaku. What shall we discuss tonight? Here are few things that maid my weekend go more smoothly than others. One, El Pollo Loco, which served as my dinner…
Square Enix has revealed the follow-up to its portable Final Fantasy fighting game, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, in the latest issue of Japanese magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. That game is the somewhat clumsily titled Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy, a PlayStation Portable release planned for release sometime in 2011, the magazine reveals. (The logo looks like Dissidia…
Gaming’s most testosterone-fueled alpha male, Duke Nukem, is back and ready to kick space alien ass in Duke Nukem Forever, the game we never ever thought they’d finish. In the unlikely event that the return of Duke Nukem Forever somehow didn’t register on your news radar this weekend, then brace yourself. More than a decade…
You can count on Gears of War fans when it comes to buying virtual goods in the name of doing good. Want proof? Epic Games’ charity campaign tied to Gears of War 3 just raised over $150,000 for charity. Microsoft Game Studios and Epic revealed at PAX 2010 that the “Fate of Carmine” campaign, which…
The PlayStation Portable absolutely killed it in Japan last week, sales-wise, gobbling up a huge portion of the hardware sales market and giving Sony the dominant portion of the pie. Who’s responsible? The one-two punch of MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Ailu Mura and Ace Combat: Joint Assault helped propel the PSP to sweet sales last…
Last year, top tier Samus Aran cosplayer Thaís Jussim promised to strip down from Metroid’s famous Varia Suit to the infamous Zero Suit introduced in Metroid: Zero Mission. Looks like the Brazilian Metroid fan’s made good on that cosplay promise. Jussim, responsible for the most faithful, most technically impressive Metroid cosplay we’ve seen to date,…
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