Michael McWhertor

This Could Be The Best Call of Duty: Black Ops Trade Ever

You know who’s a huge and vocal fan of Call of Duty? Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco. In fact, if you can get him a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops early, he’ll give you season tickets. Ochocinco has already begun begging for a pre-release copy of the game, hitting up Black Ops…

Snakes, Slimes & Super Mario Still Japan’s Favorite Things

As it has for the past two weeks, Square Enix’s latest Dragon Quest spin-off has slimed its way to the top of Japan’s video game charts. This week, it becomes the latest Nintendo DS game to sell a million units. Similarly, portable stealth action game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker spends its third week in…

How Lovely Are Your Witches, Knights Contract

What does Namco Bandai’s new action game Knights Contract have that its competitors don’t? Good question. The just-revealed PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game appears to share a common trait with many upcoming games. Sure, it co-stars a pretty witch, Gretchen, which could draw action game comparisons to Sega’s Bayonetta. More noteworthy though is its…

Red Dead Redemption Raises Irish Ire For Its Token Drunk

Rockstar Games’ latest may be getting high marks from the gaming enthusiast press, but Red Dead Redemption doesn’t seem to be as warmly received by Ireland’s Evening Herald newspaper, which labels the game’s Irish sot a “nasty surprise.” “The stereotype of the drunken Paddy will again be taken advantage of, as the game’s town drunk…

What’s New About Nintendo’s New Wii Remote?

Over the past few weeks, a new version of Nintendo’s Wii Remote controller was tested and ruled totally compliant by the FCC. What has changed about the device that gives the Wii its waggle? Well, the model number has changed from RVL-003 to RVL-036, but thanks to the confidentiality letter request from the applicant, Hon…

No More Heroes Creator Wants To Turn This Into A Nintendo 3DS Game

Goichi “Suda 51” Suda, the man behind oddball games like Killer 7, No More Heroes and Contact, has ideas already a-brewin’ for Nintendo’s next platform, the Nintendo 3DS. His idea? Force training. “I hope for the realization of a training remote like Luke Skywalker used for force training in Star Wars Episode IV: A New…

Kotaku Off Topic: Fox News

What seems to be the trouble, ma’am? No, Kotaku Off Topic? Well, we can fix that in a jiffy. Let me just take a look under the hood here… Oh, sorry, was that printed on the site? Anyway, it’s the end of another long day and I’ve got custom pizzas to make, maybe with a…

LEGO Fanatics Plan Massive Modern Warfare, Vic Viper Gatherings

This year’s gathering of some of the world’s biggest LEGO fans—they call themselves Adult Fans of LEGO—at Brickworld 2010 will combine their brick engineering talents for two major video game themed collaborations, one adorably Call of Duty-themed. Brickworld 2010 organizers are planning a total of four sci-fi collaboration displays, but two caught our attention. One…

Rock Band 3, Just How Big Is It?

Music game maestros Harmonix have already promised to “innovate and revolutionize the music genre” with Rock Band 3, but even in the face of that hyperbole, the designers believe “you’ll be surprised at just how big this game really is.” Not only is Rock Band 3 “the next big leap in music gaming,” it’s “the…

Big Beautiful Call Of Duty: Black Ops Screens

So, you enjoyed last night’s boisterous Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer, but you wanted something even bigger, but running at a slower pace? A half dozen super-sized screens from the follow-up to Modern Warfare 2 might scratch that itch. You won’t see much new here. Instead, you’ll revisit many of the Vietnamese and Arctic…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Screens

Where Did Everybody Go?

To: Ash From: McWhertor Re: Phew Phew. You’re tellin’ me, man. It’s been a busy day! Crecente’s been indisposed all week, judging the games of E3, I’ve been speed-playing Red Dead Redemption in-between posts and everyone else is wrapped up in their own world, whether that involves writing, taking angry phone calls or listening in…

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Means No Rest For GameStop Employees

It appears Mario prefers to be an early riser, rather than a night owl. Forgoing a midnight launch for Super Mario Galaxy 2 this weekend, many GameStop locations will instead open early, forcing many employees to miss church. Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii, as Nintendo games often do, launches in North America on…

Report: Heavy Rain To Pour In Movie Theaters

PlayStation 3 serial killer game Heavy Rain may be bringing its tale of suspense, child abduction and wet tank tops to a theater near you. A deal to secure screen rights to the Quantic Dream game is reportedly wrapping up. Deadline New York writes that production company Unique Features is close to sealing said deal,…

New Steam For Mac Games All About Mac Vs. PC Play

Mac gamers, fire up your installation of Steam today for some first-person shooter thrills, courtesy of cooperative survival horror shooter Killing Floor. Tripwire’s 2009 action game leads the latest batch of Steam games available for the Mac. No, there are no heavy hitters from Valve this week—no Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, Counter-strike or Half-Life…

Kotaku Off Topic: —··· · · ·—·

Say, what time is it? Oh, it’s time for Kotaku Off Topic, which usually hits right around now, at exactly beer o’clock. Pop open a drink and join us, while we talk about things video game related and not. I’ll be spending the rest of my evening on a Skype meeting for my other job,…

The New Call of Duty: Black Ops Trailer: ‘Everything You Know Is Wrong’

Activision and Treyarch are done teasing, releasing an extended, gameplay-filled look at their next inevitable blockbuster shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops, one minute and forty-three seconds worth of shoot ’em up spectacle. Now that Treyarch has moved well past World War II and onto Vietnam and war-torn locations far beyond, the developer gets a…

Big Fat Gears Of War 2 Update & Cheap ‘All Fronts Collection’ Incoming

Changes are coming to Epic Games’ Gears of War 2, showing that the title hasn’t been at all forgotten about now that the focus has shifted to Gears of War 3. Better still, there’s a Gears 2 deal inbound. The upcoming title update for Gears of War 2 on the Xbox 360 fixes a long…

Dolphins Answer The Call of Duty In Marine Warfare

Gamers who fight in the virtual wars of Call of Dutys and Battlefields have piloted multi-million dollar aircraft and tanks, but is there a new opportunity to put them in control of real-world warriors like Viper or Iceman, military-trained dolphins? The U.S. Navy has trained and employed dolphins and sea lions for more than 40…

Isaac Look Out! New Dead Space 2 Screens!

We’re still a good six months (or more) from the release of Dead Space 2, so a slow trickle of screens from Visceral Games’ sci-fi horror adventure feels more like teasing than anything else. While Dead Space star Isaac Clarke may look slimmer, sleeker and more bad ass in the sequel, those hideous Necromorphs look…