Kameo, the tribal tattooed star of Xbox 360 launch title Kameo: Elements of Power, is a fairy, developer Rare says in a new interview with Edge magazine, a cover up designed to appeal to the Xbox’s violence-loving fan base. So says Rare creative director George Andreas to Edge, via CVG, admitting that the Kameo we…
Apple’s Game Center app, the social gaming software that adds friends lists, matchmaking, and unified multiplayer gaming, arrives this week with the release of iOS 4.1. Now the bad news: not every iPhone and iPod touch will support it. Apple notes, on its newly launched Game Center page, that owners of the original iPhone, iPod…
Developer BioWare has revealed some fascinating statistics mined from players of Mass Effect 2. Unsurprising may be the fact that 80% of players chose a male Commander Shepard for their avatar. Perhaps unbelievable is how long some played the thing. According to a report from IGN citing data from BioWare, some Mass Effect 2 players…
Welcome to the August 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of the best original coverage, including reviews, previews, features, weekly columns and more, from Kotaku. With summer winding down, we looked to the games of the future at the annual Gamescom convention, playing some of 2011’s biggest games, including Brink, Dragon…
First-person shooter fans have one more reason to fall in love next February: Killzone 3. Sony has announced the date for Guerrilla Games’ next big PlayStation 3 shooter today, hitting amid a full clip’s worth of big name gun games. February 22, 2011 will bring Killzone 3 to the PS3. That’s just a few weeks…
I know what you’re thinking. It’s Friday. Gun Week must be over, right? Or do we have one more post in the barrel, another celebration of video gaming’s obsession with firearms? Well, all I can say is, Gun Week ain’t over yet. Until our bullet ridden series empties the story chamber later tonight, catch up…
Valve is at PAX this weekend, showing Portal 2‘s new multiplayer cooperative mode to the press and public. That means all-new Portal 2 media, fresh from the Penny Arcade Expo. Kotaku is at PAX 2010 right now and we’ve seen Portal 2 in coop multiplayer action. Impressions and video are on the way. For now,…
It’s Labor Day weekend here in the United States and we at Kotaku will celebrate the three day weekend in the traditional way, with portable logic puzzles. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, here I come. In-between the time-twisting, brain-tickling fun, I may find some time to play Metroid: Other M, a Wii game that…
Red 5 Studios, the developer founded by former World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern, finally unveiled its long-in-the-making online shooter, Firefall today. The free-to-play futuristic action game also has a futuristic release date. Firefall, due “near the end of 2011,” takes place on a futuristic earth from the 23rd century, a “lush, dynamic open…
2K Games has made it official: Duke Nukem Forever is alive and, well, in the hands of developer Gearbox Software, confirming our earlier reports that the Borderlands studio was helping to complete the game’s absurdly long development cycle. The publisher announced this morning in advance of PAX 2010 that Gearbox Software was on the job,…
As this year’s PAX convention is just about to start, photos from the Penny Arcade Expo show floor confirm that Duke Nukem Forever—now with more Gearbox Software—will have a strong presence at the show. Publisher 2K Games is promising “something big” at this year’s PAX get-together, which we can only assume is 3D Realms’ long-promised…
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.) Diabetics may want to look away, for the latest preview of Kirby’s next game for the Wii is…
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. Say, is anyone out there already enjoying Gmail’s “Priority Inbox” option? If so, let us know how it’s…
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. The Heavy, Strong Bad, Tycho and Max the “hyperkinetic rabbity thing” will play what Telltale calls “a new style of…
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. Crackdown 2 players are reporting that the Xbox 360 game will freeze up when attempting to load.…
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. The code, publicized by NeoGAF forum-goer RaoulDuke, changes the normally enthusiastic and informative pit crew voices heard in the jet skiing game into that of a total…
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. The PlayStation Portable game moved more than a quarter million copies in its debut week in Japan, according to sales tracker Media…
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. Sega released new screen shots, new video and new, infinitely sexier box art for the…
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