Michael McWhertor

“New” Duke Nukem Forever Footage Opens Old Wounds

More remains from the exploded corpse of Duke Nukem Forever have been found, uploaded to YouTube and paired with unusually inappropriate music, giving followers of the Duke Nukem soap opera another chance to grieve the loss of 3D Realms’ game. The apparently leaked footage is dark, blurry, occasionally covered in on-screen blood and might be…

Chime Rings In Release, ‘Splosion Man Goes Cheap On XBLA This Week

This week’s Xbox Live Arcade release is Chime, the Zoë Mode developed musical puzzle game that may evoke thoughts of Lumines with its quad-building mechanic, quad-clearing timeline and choice soundtrack selections. The XBLA game features tunes from the likes of Moby, Orbital, Philip Glass and more, giving your Xbox 360 a bit more music cred.…

The Last Guardian Screen Shots

K Monthly – January 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2010 FEATURES How Cover Shaped Gaming’s Last Decade by Brian Ashcraft Are Game Companies Spoiling Their Own Games? by Luke Plunkett Bayonetta Is Not Too Sexy, But Maybe Too Serious by Lisa Foiles Why A Man Plays Mario by Stephen Totilo The 2009 eBay Holiday Video Game Grey Market Report by…

Borderlands DLC Gets Bundled, Burned To Add-On Pack Disc

Gearbox Software and 2K Games will take the currently release downloadable content for their hit Borderlands and slap it on some DVDs next month with the release of the Borderlands Add-On Pack. Retailer GameStop is listing the double DLC disc for a February 23 release date, bundling the add-on we liked a lot (The Zombie…

Kotaku Off Topic: Belly Burger

There really aren’t enough video games built around the concept of the hamburger. Similarly a shame, the amount of burger in my digestive tract at this very moment. I’m about to correct that. While you’re reading, contemplating and commenting in tonight’s Kotaku Off Topic thread, in which anything can be discussed, I’ll be at my…

No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise Suffers Delay of Game

The Japanese release of No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 port of the Wii original, won’t make its previously announced February 25 release date. Travis and company won’t touch down until sometime in April. So what does that mean for those of us outside of Japan? Well, at least we…

WarioWare D.I.Y. Has Made Me A User Generated Content Convert

Game programming may come to the masses in the most micro of forms with Nintendo’s upcoming do-it-yourself mini-game collection WarioWare D.I.Y., one of a handful of new titles we got to go hands-on with this week. I’ve been a longtime fan of the WarioWare series of seconds-long games since the original WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!…

Tecmo Thinks It’s Making Games That Appeal To Women Now

You may not think off Tecmo as a company that’s targeting the fairer sex with much of its line-up, but Quantum Theory producer Yasuo Egawa says that is exactly what the publisher has been doing for the past few years. Egawa tells Edge that Tecmo wants to offer the female gamer something that’s not just…

Metal Gear Solid: Rising’s Raiden Has Changed

Kojima Productions has apparently turned Metal Gear Solid: Rising’s Raiden from brown-eyed to blue, one of many little tweaks to the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty co-star since his E3 2009 debut. The new Raiden is less undead looking, has a little more bounce in his wavy white hair, is slightly more matte…

Is Grand Theft Auto A Bad Influence On Our Kittens?

Grand Theft Auto kitties with vices, part of Tim Barber’s “Kitty City” series, as seen on Cute Overload.

PSP, Wii Fight It Out For Japanese Hardware Supremacy

Sony’s PlayStation Portable continues its reign at the top of Japan’s hardware chart this week, in part thanks to Valkyria Chronicles 2 and continued sales of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. But the Wii is catching up on the PSP. With New Super Mario Bros. Wii continuing to sell spectacularly in Japan, Wii console hardware…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Having completed the original BioShock earlier this week, a bit later than most, I’m moving on to BioShock 2 after a short break to absorb it all. That’s one game I’ll be playing this weekend. The other is the Nintendo DS role-playing game Glory of Heracles, which I’m having a bit of trouble finishing. Not…

Battlefield Heroes Recruits Vampires & Werewolves After The Twilight

When night falls in the free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes, out come the creatures of the night with the addition of new vampires and werewolves to the web-based multiplayer shooter. Ripped from today’s young adult fiction—or, if you prefer, a handful of Underworld films and decades of fantasy—the Battlefield Heroes war takes a turn for the…

This Is What 50 Android Games In A Row Looks Like

The iPhone isn’t the only smartphone that plays relatively good looking games, y’know. The Android platform does, too—at least 50 of them, as proven by this extended montage. And Google’s giving them away at GDC… …to qualifying developers attending the Game Developers Conference, that is. Not a bad thing to opt in for if you’re…

Kotaku Off Topic: Greed Is Good

Platinum members of Kotaku Off Topic, we’ve reserved a special commenting section for you tonight, to discuss whatever it is you’d prefer. Please, follow me into the post. As you can see, we’ve spared no expense in tonight’s textarea boxes. They’ve been imported from Italy, constructed of the finest HTML tags handcrafted by classically trained…

Nintendo Adds Xenoblade, The Last Story, Metroid: Other M Date To Release List

Nintendo of Japan updated its 2010 release list today, adding Xenoblade and The Last Story to its upcoming Wii slate and dating Metroid: Other M for “Summer 2010.” The Nintendo and Team Ninja game was previously “TBA” in Japan. So what the hell are Xenoblade and The Last Story? Well, considering that Nintendo also dropped…

Do You Want Rez HD On The PS3? Tell Q!

Rez and Space Channel 5 creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi has toyed with the idea of bringing more of Q Entertainment‘s games from Xbox Live Arcade to the PlayStation Network. It could finally happen, if you demand it. While it appears that nothing is (still) set in stone, Q’s Twitter account makes it sound like more of…

Borderlands’ “Largest DLC” Yet Is The Secret Armory of General Knoxx

Gearbox Software has officially announced and detailed the third and “largest” helping of downloadable content for its popular shooter RPG Borderlands, the level cap raisin’ “Secret Armory of General Knoxx.” Gearbox and 2K promise “brutal, never-before-seen enemies in a huge new environment complete with tons of brand new missions” as well as “entirely new weapons…

PlayStation Store Update: Thursday Is Hustlin’

After a couple dry weeks in the North American PlayStation Store, things are lookin’ up. New games, new PS one Classics, new PSP minis and one new demo for Kotaku’s Game of the Year. If you’re one of those confused PlayStation 3 owners who hasn’t yet picked up Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, a new single-player…