Valve has released a new, still-in-beta version of the wildly popular online shooter Counter-Strike: Source, adding in new achievements, “domination and revenge” systems and other improvements that don’t muck with the game’s core experience. What the new Counter-Strike: Source does appear to bring with it are a handful of features seen in other Valve-developed games.…
Mario receives a brief respite from the copyright infringing small businessman as EA Carpet Cleaning speeds presumably towards John Madden’s house to clean up another massive mustard spill. Thanks, Robby!
Back to the grindstone, back to the pleasure of Monday editions of Kotaku Off Topic. Let’s talk about our weekends, whether they were packed with gaming goodness or pleasures of another sort. I did, as previously posted, see Iron Man 2 this weekend. Yes, it drags and, yes, it packs in way too much into…
We’re still about six months away from the theatrical release of Disney’s Tron Legacy, so some new concept art of the sleeker, sexier video game world seems appropriate. But that doesn’t make the wait any easier. Feast your eyes on lightcycles and Recognizers from the past and present, architecture, and a dozen other things that…
Wide acceptance of 3D in the home, whether for movies, television shows or video games, has a few imposing barriers. Price, support, and—perhaps most limiting—looking like a tool while staring blankly at your television screen, wearing 3D specs. At least Nintendo is cognizant of this, readying a 3D handheld gaming machine that won’t require users…
Fortunately, you can determine that for yourself. Not by judging the cover of the novelization of the PlayStation video game, but by reading the first chapter of the God of War book, now online and freely available to read. Sony’s offering up the first 17 pages of Matthew Stover and Robert E. Vardeman’s text-based take…
Attention Grand Theft Auto IV fans looking to complete the “Impossible Trinity”: Rockstar’s second expansion The Ballad of Gay Tony is the Xbox Live Deal of the Week. Revisit Liberty City slightly cheaper, just 1200 Microsoft Points. [Live Marketplace]
For the Wii owner that demands an authentic Dragon Quest Battle Road Victory arcade experience at home, controller maker Hori offers this elaborate and very expensive… thing. The new controller, seen here in its conceptual form, replicates the controls from the arcade version of Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road II Legend, coming to the Wii…
Publisher EA is extending its “Project Ten Dollar” scheme to make buying used copies of EA Sports games a bad idea. Don’t expect to play your EA Sports games online without the “Online Pass” included in new copies. What is Online Pass? It’s a game-specific, single-use registration code included in new copies—and in new copies…
Painter Frank Frazetta, best known for his striking fantasy work with characters like Conan the Barbarian, Vampirella and the original Death Dealer, died today at the age of 82. While Frazetta’s direct contributions to video games were unfortunately minimal—a video game based on his Death Dealer character was, at one point, in development at the…
Developer Ninja Theory will work its multiplatform ninjitsu with Enslaved, a lovely looking post apocalyptic buddy game bound for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. See Enslaved’s Monkey and Trip in action for the first time, thanks to GameTrailers TV
Blizzard’s Galaxy Editor for StarCraft II does more than custom maps and Mario Kart-style mods, it does screen-filling bullet hell shooters too! Want proof? See how hellishly this Touhou-style shoot ’em up mod performs. [via GameSetWatch]
Oh wow. Is it Friday already? You know what that means? It’s time to party, and whether you’re a boozehound like old Chewie or a teetotaler, get your bad self into this Kotaku Off Topic so we can hang. I’ll be in and around, out and about, heading to my local Mexican themed watering hole…
Judas Priest’s sixth album, 1980’s British Steel, is coming to Rock Band next week in its live incarnation. Yes, that does include “Breaking the Law.” Nine live versions of tracks from British Steel will arrive on the Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3 starting May 11, playable in Rock Band and Rock Band 2. All…
Jaime “Kalapusa” Margary, maker of ultra realistic Piranha Plants, Goombas and other Mushroom Kingdom fungus, gorgeously explores the physiology of the Metroid. Perhaps a little too revealing. As seen (larger) at Kalapusa’s deviantArt page.
Valve’s weekly update to Left 4 Dead 2’s gameplay altering Mutations brings us “Follow the Liter,” a new spin on the gas guzzling Scavenge mode. The better news? The game’s debut Mutation is going to be a permanent fixture. Voting for the regular institution of Realism Versus mode was an resounding “Yes!” according to the…
I’m still coming to grips with my $600 PlayStation 3 purchase, but to rent-to-own one for a sum total of $2400 is mind boggling. Like magnets. How do they work? Lessons are learned in this Judge Judy clip. [via KokuGamer]
What a week for Kotaku reviews! There were nine of them—ten if you count Owen Good’s impromptu review of the KFC Double Down “sandwich.” Read on for our scoreless reviews of Nier, Alan Wake and much, much more. Tecmo Bowl Throwback Micro-Review: Retro-Rockin’ Football In which Owen Good’s NFL team bias is laid out in…
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