Gran Turismo 5’s fastest car outclasses the rest of the PlayStation 3 game’s line-up for a very good reason — it doesn’t really exist. But the Red Bull Racing X1 Prototype was designed to do one thing: be fast. It was created in the PS3 game to be the “fastest racing car on Earth, free…
Kotaku reader Ken was lucky enough to score an early, pre-launch copy of Kinectimals. Unfortunately, he put that copy of the Kinect cat game in his Xbox 360 to unhappy results. Learn from Ken’s harrowing tale. Ken writes: “Just a word of warning that if you receive an Xbox Kinect game early and perform the…
After five weeks at the top of Japan’s sales charts, Pokemon Black and Pokemon White have met their match — Mario. Nintendo’s budget priced Super Mario Collection for the Wii has landed in Japan and has dominated the competition. More than 300,000 copies of the Mario collection, which packs in 16-bit versions of four Super…
To: Ash From: McWhertor Re: Halloween, But With Invitations I’ve intercepted the Day Note from Mr. Crecente, who’s probably trapped beneath a mountain of contest entries for our giveaways of this and that. Poor guy. When you awake, I’ll most likely be at a movie theater watching some small portion of Tron: Legacy. As someone…
Namco’s sequel to the brilliant Pac-Man Championship Edition is coming later this year to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network and my god does it look like the most spectacular thing ever. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, announced this summer, adds all-new modes, ghosts and skins, including something for the person who remembers Pac-Mania fondly. If…
EA’s modern military shooter is getting a double dose of downloadable content next week. Medal of Honor players can pick up “Hot Zone” and “Clean Sweep” on November 2, but only one of them will cost you. Medal of Honor’s “Clean Sweep” mode has already been detailed by the company. That’s the freely downloadable multiplayer…
Remember when Oprah handed out free Kinects to her audience, causing her audience to completely lose its collective shit? Well, Ellen DeGeneres can whip the ladies into a lather too, courtesy of Harmonix’s Dance Central. Ellen’s no stranger to breaking it down on her daytime show, nor is she averse to obvious product placement, as…
You can put a miniature Helghast helmet in your home if you purchase the deluxe edition of Killzone 3 for the PlayStation 3. But tiny space Nazi helmet replicas aren’t the only goodies coming in Killzone 3 Helghast Edition. In addition to that lovely centerpiece, buyers of the Killzone 3 deluxe edition will also get…
As promised, Blizzard has opened up pre-orders for its next World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm, on Battle.net. Buy World of Warcraft: Cataclysm now, download it before launch date, then play one minute after the add-on officially launches. Of course, you won’t get that lovely box art, but you’ll be playing it immediately. Digital upgrades for…
Developer Alchemist’s creepy schoolgirl shoot ’em up Gal Gun is not the type of thing you’d be proud to play. Thankfully, the developer of the Xbox 360 game knows this, letting players keep their fetishistic arcade action a secret. Gal Gun, which puts players in the role of a high school student who must fend…
We’ve got a fully functioning open thread right here and after a day of competing with LA traffic, we’re going to hand you the steering wheel for this one. You may want to talk about Blade Runner. You may want to talk about video games. You may want to talk about any of the following…
Mac owners can start “grabbin’ peels” today with the arrival of the original Left 4 Dead, which Valve has released via Steam. To celebrate the latest Windows-to-Mac port, Left 4 Dead is now 50% off. But wait, there’s more! In addition to Mac support for Left 4 Dead—delivered kind of on time, no less—Valve has…
Ninja Golf. Phalanx. Wall Street Kid. David Jaffe. If any of these names ring a bell with you or your friends, you may have a great Halloween costume idea ripe for the taking right here. As is annual tradition, the retro costumesmiths at Vintage Computing and Gaming have put together a can’t lose list of…
Halloween has come to Team Fortress 2! And so has the game’s first boss monster, the axe-wielding, jack o’ lantern behatted Horseless Headless Horsemann. It’s all part of Valve’s second annual TF2 Halloween special. The latest update for the oft-updated Team Fortress 2 adds an all-new map, the spooky Mann Manor, as well as a…
EA has issued its latest round off layoffs today, describing them as “season roll-offs,” which sounds much more pleasant. According to sources claiming knowledge of the situation, EA Canada, developer of Skate and NBA Elite, bore the brunt of those cuts. Electronic Arts reps confirmed to Kotaku that layoffs were happening at the publisher-developer, but…
Gearbox Software’s promised patch for its smash-hit action RPG Borderlands is coming, raising the level cap for everyone in the pursuit of better loot and harder bosses. When’s it coming? Soon. Soonish. Maybe. An official post on the Gearbox forums says the free title update for Borderlands is finished on the dev side. They just…
Treyarch is declassifying information on Call of Duty: Black Ops‘ many multiplayer features, offering a quick briefing on the online half of the game a few weeks before launch. For example, did you know that Black Ops supports split-screen online multiplayer? Oh, you did? That’s why Treyarch community guy Josh Olin is calling these “little-known…
Notch, developer of the world carving, item alchemy game Minecraft, is bringing players of the PC hit a treat for Halloween: biomes. What are biomes? This video shows you ten of them. These collections of Minecraft flora and fauna range from arctic to desert zones, with each biome capable of spawning its own monsters and…
Microsoft says its next generation video game console is backed by a half-billion dollar ad campaign and packs in technology ripped from the fantasy world of Minority Report. It’s also already sitting in more than 40 million living rooms. It’s not a new version of Microsoft’s Xbox, but the five-year-old Xbox 360 paired with an…
Mode
Follow us
