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Scott Pilgrim Gets DLC In November

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game will get its first downloadable content extension early next month, delivering two bonus game modes and a new playable character: Knives Chau. The pack will be 160 Microsoft Points, or $1.99 on PlayStation Network, IGN reports. The two bonus game modes are Battle Royal and Dodgeball. Dodgeball involves…

All The Ranks Of Reach

Slowly but surely the Halo: Reach community has been filling in the ranks and credit requirements in the game’s single- and multiplayer progessions. They’ve all been uncovered now. Forum member DtownGamer has been supplying the ranks and screenshot confirmations of them; Halopedia just added the full roster to its page, where you may also see…

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Shows A Mission Of No Mercy

Follow along an entire stealth mission in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood with this developer video Ubisoft just released. It gives a glimpse of some of Ezio’s new means of dispatching foes, and hints at other items you’ll unlock elsewhere in the game. Also, an email Ubisoft sent to fans this morning revealed a new playable character…

LittleBigPlanet 2 To Include 10-Level Move Demo

LittleBigPlanet 2 will have a multilevel PlayStation Move enabled demo, but full support won’t be added until after the game arrives in January, Eurogamer reports. James Spafford, the community manager for the game’s studio, Media Molecule, said an extra game – “possibly on another disc, maybe on the same disc” – will be included with…

Elite’s Meltdown May Get More Into A Jam — But Not On The Wii

Coming back from E3 in June, I decided I’d seen my excuse to go get a Wii. NBA Jam, which we’d given a best-of nomination, and which was absolutely thronged inside Electronic Arts’ booth, open to close. “Why?” Plunkett chided me. “You know they’re going to bring it to the PS3 and 360. It’s inevitable.”…

The Plan Will Still Come Together

Monday Night Combat pays tribute to the creator of many action shows, Stephen J. Cannell, who died Thursday. This wallpaper (full size) mimics this publicity shot of The A-Team. Seen at Uber Entertainment’s official site

Wait A Sec, Is That Jace Hall Kicking Tay Zonday’s Ass?

Jace Hall, who earlier this year brought us “I Play WoW,” returns with this love song to Street Fighter, featuring booty-shaking ring girls and cosplayers dressed like the game’s major characters. This is pretty loud, so earbuds might be advisable.

Box Scores: Clemson, Interrupted

How awesome is it that Clemson’s game against Miami today had to wait 15 minutes on ESPN2 for a buncha dang foreigners to finish runnin’ around in a soccer game that ended with no goals. ESPN2’s new coverage of the English Premier League meant football trumped handegg as Sunderland and Manchester United played to a…

Rock Band 3’s Keyboard Bundle, For PS3, Won’t Be Sold In North America

Folks noticed that Rock Band 3’s PS3 keyboard bundle had disappeared from U.S. retail sites, and asked Harmonix why. It seems contract terms in the region prohibit its sale. And now they must wangle a fix for those who preordered. “Unfortunately, this SKU will not be available in the U.S. (including Canada and Mexico) due…

The Moneysaver: A Few Good Deals

You don’t want the truth because deep down, you want me on those deals, you need me on those deals. We use words like value, coupon code and free shipping. You use them at checkout. Hardware A 10 percent off coupon through Dell yields a number of hardware values. • Xbox 360 Halo: Reach console…

The Week In Review: Opposing Forces

In sports, they say it’s not how you lose but when you lose. In that case, NBA Elite picked a great time, because its indefinite delay was blotted out by two doozies at week’s end. The revamp of EA Sports’ basketball title was postponed on Monday, a week before it was due on shelves. On…

R.I.P. Stephen J. Cannell, 1941-2010

Jan. 30, 1983 is one of the most important dates of my childhood. That day, the only man from my hometown to make the NFL won the Super Bowl with the Washington Redskins. Following the game, The A-Team came on. Though The A-Team actually premiered a week earlier (with a different guy playing Face), few…

Someone Claims To Have A Retail Disc Of NBA Elite 11

NBA Elite 11 was indefinitely postponed on Monday, a week before its commercial release. I didn’t receive any disc pre-release (for review), but conceivably they might exist somewhere in the wild. One allegedly just sold on eBay for $255. eBayer tgarreth is not a fly-by-nighter. He’s a top-rated seller on the online auction service (an…

Get In The (R/C) Warthog!

Reader Dan S. noticed that the MacFarlane Toys’ Halo: Reach Warthog perfectly matched the chassis of one of his R/C vehicles. “The wheels started turning in my head,” Dan says, “pardon the pun.” “So I acquired said Warthog toy and promptly Frankensteined the two items together,” he told Kotaku, “added some hi-intensity LEDs and came…

The Sound Of The Fury Of NBA 2K11

This four-minute compilation of audio highlights withink NBA 2K11 doesn’t skimp on the video, either. You can catch Michael Jordan in action versus Dominique Wilkins – with signature dunk styles for both. Don’t overlook the contextualized commentary either – both for the Association mode and in NBA Today, where Kevin Harlan, Clark Kellogg and Doris…

Red Dead Redemption Multiplayer Brings In The Law

A new class of gunfighter – the Marshals – has been unlocked in Red Dead Redemption’s multiplayer and is now available for everyone to use. To get ’em, go to the Outfitter in Online Multiplayer, browse down to the Marshals class (pictured) and fire away. The new characters were set to go live about four…

In-Game Popup Ads Return To Madden

The latest patch for Madden NFL 11 returns the scorebar pop-up ads last seen Madden NFL 10, but they don’t display at the every-down frequency that annoyed so many when they rolled out midway through last year. Pasta Padre (the source of the screengrab) reports that their frequency seems to be greatly reduced. The last…

The First Batch Of Screens For Activision’s New NASCAR Game

Not sure what the point is of a site countdown when the game is confirmed and, today, 15 screens for NASCAR 2011: The Game were get put up on the new site. But that countdown’s still a-tickin’ anyhow. Okie doke! Well, take a gander at 11 in-game shots that include tracks at Martinsville and Phoenix,…

NASCAR 2011: The Game Screenshots

Roman Politicians Allowed To Game During Meetings

Rome. The Eternal City. Its elected leaders are the inheritors of a millennia-old tradition forming the basis of modern municipal and state government. Yet where senators once debated inside the august walls of the Curia, now city councillors play video games. Laptops are issued to town hall bosses, pre-loaded with video games, says Metro of…