If you feel like destroying something ugly, take a shot at The Fight: Lights Out, a dark, dreary brawler for the PlayStation Move that’s an unpleasant blend of Fight Club aesthetics and wild, Bumfights-style fist flailing. The Fight: Lights Out is a third-person fighting game lets players experience the thrill of brawling in underground fight…
Use this nightly thread to talk amongst yourselves, please, where the conversation runs from Spider-Man to alien invasion movies to music to video games. What happens in this thread tends to stray in this thread. The following links are more interesting than I’ll say here, so I’ll shut up now. Oh, and this Unstoppable trailer…
Philadelphia Phillies perfect game-pitcher Roy Halladay will grace next year’s edition of MLB 2K when 2K Sports’ baseball sim comes back to console, portables and PC. The predicted Cy Young award winner is, unsurprisingly, honored to be this year’s coverboy. Last year, 2K Sports offered a million bucks to the first person who pitched a…
The Pokémon of your nightmares, as frighteningly re-imagined by Pixiv artist Yoshio, as seen on Reddit. (Click to evolve into larger picture.)
One addition to this week’s list of new releases is the highly anticipated Pac-Man Championship Edition DX which hits Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday. It’s joined by Alien Breed 3: Descent.
Using YouTube’s in-video linking feature, design studio Analogue has sliced up George Romero’s horror film Night of the Living Dead into a piece of choose your own adventure interactive fiction. Want to toy with the lives of the stars of the 1968 zombie classic? Editing The Dead lets you decide the fate of zombie and…
Epic Games’ beefed up Xbox 360 shooter series may be adding a little motion control to its Locust-chainsawing action, according to one report that says Gears of War is getting Kinect enabled. IGN claims that a “reliable source” has indicated to the publication that some type of Gears of War experience with Kinect support will…
The PlayStation 3 may get its next great top-down shooter later this month when the zombie-infested Dead Nation—you know, from the creators of the most excellent Super Stardust HD—comes to the PlayStation Network. Dead Nation is due for release (at least in North America, anyway) on November 30 via the PlayStation Store. Cost to you…
Microsoft says it has already sold one million Kinect sensors to Xbox 360 owners since the add-on for the console launched in the U.S. earlier this month. Xbox man Don Mattrick calls the 10 days worth of sales “a great start to the holiday season.” The Xbox 360 maker hopes to sell 5 million of…
If you’re still rooting for Sega’s ambitious Shenmue series, you may, someday, have Mafia Wars and Farmville maker Zynga to thank. Yu Suzuki, creative force behind games like Outrun, Space Harrier, Virtua Fighter and Shenmue, tells Famitsu in a new interview that he was in part inspired to create social game Shenmue City after playing…
Could the Diablo series make a return to consoles? A handful of new jobs seeking fresh Blizzard talent with console experience sure makes it look that way. The studio that normally sticks to PC and Mac may be making a console version of Diablo III, according to new job listings spotted by Gamasutra. Blizzard is…
Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage is a beat ’em up action game that’s exploding with as much liquid gore as it is fan service, but its monotonous gameplay doesn’t do fans of the manga many favors. Omega Force, the developers of dozens of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors action games, squeezes the dreary,…
Who could use a better alien invasion right about now? And how about a little off-topic conversation to start the weekend right? That’s why we have these posts, folks. While shit blowin’ up in Battle: Los Angeles certainly looks alright, I’ll have to agree with my colleague Owen Good who believes that “Nothing can prepare…
Publisher Ubisoft is protecting Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood buyers from dangerous staples by whittling down the game’s manual to a single sheet, scored and folded for your convenience. This must be Ubi thinking “green” Early recipients of next week’s multiplayer-focused Assassin’s Creed game have found they’ll make do with the in-game manual, as clearly referenced on…
It’s a banner week for the PlayStation Portable in Japan as the PSP enjoys chart topping sales and its smaller, digital download only cousin, the PSPgo, manages to not be in last place for a second week. While combined Nintendo DS sales still outpace the PSP, the PSPgo managed to outsell three other platforms this…
How pretty can a Pac-Man game be? Let Pac-Man Championship Edition DX show you, a game that’s dripping with sleepy ghosts, new ways to play a very old game and more visual style than you can shake a stick at. Actually, don’t threaten Pac-Man CE DX with that stick. It’s too lovely to threaten with…
To: Ash From: McWhertor Re: Consider This A Bra Clarification Ash! I have something to do this weekend! It is not play video games for Kotaku, but to play video games in a car, a car that was designed to project a video game on a wall. I’m heading to Pixel Pushers at the Scion…
The next great Star Wars LEGO adventure kicks off in February 2011, LucasArts has confirmed, bringing the plastic galactic battle into the Clone Wars era and adding a little real-time strategy to the series. LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars from LucasArts and TT Games will combine the double licensing power of the Clone…
The new Donkey Kong Country also has a new Kong and features the third appearance of Nintendo’s helpful “Super Guide”, the help system introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. This is our first look at Super Kong in Donkey Kong Country Returns. But he looks familiar… Maybe we’ve seen him before under another name?…
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