The first batch of downloadable goodies for owners of the PlayStation 3 massively multiplayer shooter MAG will arrive next week, according to Zipper Interactive, bringing fresh outfits, disorienting grenades and all-new guns guns guns! That new stuff is all free. The “Trooper Gear Pack,” coming to players worldwide gratis on March 25, brings with it…
Another week, another 1GB worth of PlayStation 3 hard drive space eaten by The Tester, the PlayStation Network’s first reality show in which 11 hopefuls fight for a spot to play buggy PlayStation games until they’re less buggy. If you didn’t catch our admittedly late recap of last week’s show, in which The Tester contestants…
Remember when Valve opened up the development of new Team Fortress 2 weapons and hats to the Team Fortress 2-loving community? No? Well, that first batch of player-made things is now available as part of the latest TF2 update. Sure, Valve has been releasing community made maps in official releases for ages, but thanks to…
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City for the PlayStation and PC—and their individual downloadable episodes—won’t be making their previously scheduled release dates. Rockstar says the game will be delayed by two weeks to accommodate “minor content changes.” Rockstar says it is “forced” to delay the retail release and the downloadable episodes (Grand Theft Auto:…
While we were at the Game Developers Conference, PlayStation Network reality show The Tester carried on as normal, meaning we didn’t get a chance to liveblog the fourth episode “LARPing in the Park” as normal. So here’s a recap. As you may recall from the previous week, Tester contestant Fame Girl was eliminated for not…
Just like last week, Nintendo’s latest Pokemon spin-off, Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki for the Nintendo DS, tops Japan’s weekly software chart, fending off a long list of newcomers, including Battlefield: Bad Company 2. To Bad Company 2’s credit, the PlayStation 3 version of DICE’s shooter managed a top ten spot, wedged between Japanese fare…
Community driven t-shirt maker Threadless is kicking off its latest and, some say, greatest sale on upper torso wear, slashing prices to just $10 USD in honor of the brand’s tenth anniversary. That means super cheap gaming related t-shirts! For less than the price of a new release video game, you can dress yourself for…
The incredibly talented (and patient) Ben Heckendorn, hacker and modder extraordinaire, has revealed his latest and greatest creation, a built-from-scratch pinball table based on the works and quotes of actor Bill Paxton. Heckendorn crafted almost everything you see here from raw materials combined with blood, sweat and tears, including the LED display, the body, the…
It’s a special St. Patrick’s Day edition of Kotaku Off Topic, a chance for the conversation to be not just about video games, but not just about pounding Guinness and Irish whiskey as well. Well, my conversation starter is going to be about today’s holiday. I’m half-Irish, so I’ll be putting in half the effort,…
Only video games can save the world, says Jane McGonigal, but only if we dedicate more time to playing them, some 21 billion hours of game time per week needed to survive the next century. McGonigal, director of game research and development at Institute for the Future and one of the people behind the do-good…
Cross-game voice chat. How do we know? By looking at the newly launched PlayStation.blog Share, a PlayStation fan’s sounding board that will let the powers that be know just how badly you want auto-syncing trophies and backwards compatibility. In fact, those are the top three demands PlayStation 3 owners are making of Sony right now,…
Sony has already showed its hand in the upcoming motion control battle, debuting playable PlayStation Move games at GDC last week. Looks like we’ll see Microsoft’s response with at least one Sega game in tow at E3. Sega bossman Mike Hayes tells CVG that its Japanese studios have something “brilliant” up and running for Project…
Electronic Arts may be a little late to the mixed martial arts game, but its first effort, EA Sports MMA, may win over fans who don’t find what they’re looking for in THQ’s UFC-licensed competitor. With its “late 2010” ship date, EA Sports MMA might have a difficult time catching up to UFC Undisputed 2010’s…
Square Enix is no stranger to iPhone apps, but the Final Fantasy maker is doing something interesting for the recently released Final Fantasy XIII, turning your iPhone or iPod Touch into a digital artbook. The Final Fantasy XIII Larger-Than-Life Gallery, released today on the iTunes App Store, packs in a library of hi-res artwork from…
The PlayStation Move controller may have only been officially named last week, but PlayStation VP of Realistic Movements Kevin Butler already has his commercial ready. How? This spot is from The Future, when Sony’s already trolling the motion control competition. Clearly, Kevin and Sony’s shotcallers are not at all embarrassed to be in the position…
Summer is due for some Shanghai shoot ’em up grit and grime, thanks to those lovable scamps Kane and Lynch. The anti-heroes will make their return in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days this August. The sequel to 2007’s coolly received and controversial Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Dog Days lands, appropriately, during what may…
Hey, Kotaku readers, how about a little off topic conversation to wrap up the day? Did you see anything cool on the internet or in real life that you’d like to wax off topically about? If you do, would you mind dropping in some of your favorite uncommon vocabulary selections? See, mine has seemed to…
The newest trailer for Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, the charming co-op adventure from the folks who made Genji and Folklore, might be the boost you need to start caring about this game. Sure, it may have a terrible name, whether you want to call it Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, as it’s known in…
Or should that be batwagon? Regardless, Eidos has set dates for the re-release version of Rocksteady Studios’ surprisingly good comic book hit Batman: Arkham Asylum, confirming that we’ll be battling the asylum’s inmates in a new way this spring. Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year edition tosses in a pair of 3D glasses for…
Only answer if you’re also wealthy enough to afford the form-fitting suit that made Samus Aran more of a sex object after Metroid: Zero Missions, because this custom-made Zero Suit probably won’t go cheap. The folks at Wii Folder are auctioning off this one-of-a-kind bounty hunter get up on eBay, which they call “the best…
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