For relaxing times, make it Kotaku Off Topic time, where we talk about all things, not just video games. But we do talk about video games. I wish I had some booze right now, but a gut full of chili verde burritos and a copy of Adobe Illustrator will have to do. This artwork isn’t…
Sega is letting the Virtua Fighter faithful update their friends and foes on their fighting game accomplishments, 140 characters or less at a time, with something new for arcades—Twitter support in Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown. The official Japanese Virtua Fighter web site broke the news today, via Versus City, that players will be able…
World Cup, fancy hands-free motion-sensing controllers,the Big Three battling for console dominance—as it was at E3 2010, so it was at the annual gaming expo’s predecessor, the Consumer Electronics Show 20 years ago. While the graphics may have improved and the business boomed, 1UP‘s great retroactive look at 1990’s equivalent of E3, the summer CES…
Musical artist, apparent Sonic the Hedgehog aficionado and one of Time magazine‘s “World’s Most Influential People” M.I.A. answers a long burning question—what does the woman known as M.I.A. think of video game violence? According to an interview in Complex magazine, as relayed by CVG, M.I.A. seems conflicted on the matter, concerned more about her own…
Reports of Hulu’s expansion to consoles appear not to have been greatly exaggerated. The TV and movie service, already pegged to come to the Xbox 360 and iPad, may also be on its way to the PlayStation 3. According to a report from Bloomberg, Hulu, which carries programming from NBC Universal, Fox and ABC, is…
For the Team Fortress 2 player obsessed with joylessly grinding for Steam achievements, the community creates special maps. One of those achievement whoring maps has a special, apocalyptic surprise. A furious feline filled with lasers and bees. Bees? Bees!! Want to experience this furry armageddon yourself? Look for a server running “achievement_all_v4,” part of a…
Because, believe it or not, the people who designed some of the world’s best scrolling shoot ’em ups, including Ikaruga, Gradius V and Radiant Silvergun, claim to have never seen the abbreviated term “shmup” used to describe their games before. So says Masato Maegawa, president of Treasure and producer on the company’s latest bullet-filled video…
Maybe I should have dedicated more of my time at E3 to check out Time Crisis: Razing Storm for the PlayStation 3, the new Move-enabled “light gun” shooter, because it’s more than just one Time Crisis. Also thrown into the PS3 package is the already released Time Crisis 4, included in full on the upcoming…
After taking a week off to give Wii role-playing game Xenoblade a moment in the sun, Super Mario Galaxy 2 returns to its first place spot in Japan. Two new Nintendo DS games came closest to threatening Mario’s chances. Those two games were Capcom’s Ghost Trick, a clever-looking adventure game from the creator of the…
The UFC’s Pat Barry, Cain Velasquez, Joe Stevenson, Gray Maynard, and Dan Hardy at E3 showing their less scary side at the UFC Undisputed 2010 booth.
Man, what a Tuesday, am I right? Let’s let this day, my first Friday of the week, pass us by with a little off-topic conversation, shall we? I’ll be spending the rest of my night engaged in some important dialogue while listening to some new music purchases (pictured) and maybe playing a thing or two,…
Fable III is more than just bigger swords, bigger farts and more blood, says Lionhead Studios lead Peter Molyneux. It’s about touching people, kingly responsibility and… OK, it also has bigger weapons and more vicious wind-breaking action. Molyneux says that the third entry in the Xbox (and PC) role-playing game series is going to address,…
The story behind Halo’s most famous Spartan, Master Chief, is ready to be (re)told in comic book form this September. Marvel Comics will adapt Eric Nylund’s bestselling novel prequel to Halo: Reach as part of a “graphic fiction event.” Halo: Fall of Reach “Boot Camp #1” is no mere comic book. It’s graphic fiction and…
Are you perfectly fine with rainbows in your Diablo III? Then you might like the gameplay and lighthearted approach of Hothead Games’ action-RPG DeathSpank, which marries deep role-playing with broad humor in just a couple of weeks. EA put a firm date and price on the downloadable action role-playing game today, inking it in the…
Whether you want to add some Miley Cyrus songs to your Rock Band library or you’re looking for something new to do with your copy of MAG for the PlayStation 3, this week’s PlayStation Store update has something for you. What about the rest of us, who may not want to sing the song’s of…
What resources does the shy E3 attendee have when a pretty girl shows an interest in them at the The Old Republic booth or a talk, dark, glowing-eyed Helghan soldier makes them swoon, but they don’t get a number? Craigslist! Craigslist’s “Missed Connections,” the home to those one-in-a-million shots at finding love after the fact,…
Want more Bad Company 2? Today’s your day to get more Battlefield-style action with the four-player “Onslaught” cooperative mode, which is shipping on time for at least one of the console’s it was promised for today. EA and DICE have deployed the new update to PlayStation 3 owners in North America, with owners of that…
Not since Electronic Arts’ Crüe Ball hit the Genesis in 1992 have we been this excited to experience the unholy marriage of pinball and heavy metal. Thanks to thrash metal outfit Slayer’s new iPhone game, heavy pinball is back! Slayer Pinball Rocks HD combines the loud, fast and evil sounds of Slayer with traditional pinball…
What do you want to know about Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds’ new online cops and crooks game APB? Ask the game’s lead designer, who will be joining us on this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio, anything and everything. In addition to fielding your calls about all things E3—PlayStation Move, Nintendo 3DS, Kinect for Xbox…
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