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Everything’s Ring-a-Ding in Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout 3 introduced us to the Ink Spots and 1941’s “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire.” Fallout: New Vegas opens here with Kay Kyser‘s. “Jingle Jangle Jingle,” the No. 1 hit for eight weeks in 1942. That’s about the only useful thing I can add to this two-minute video, slam full of…

The Moneysaver: A Fish Called Coupons

Wanda, do you have any idea what it’s like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of saying “Do you have children?” and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday. Today’s quote is for all our English friends, whom we’ll meet in two-and-a-half hours in the…

The Week in Review: The 3DS Comes Into Focus

The week before E3 is always a gathering storm of rumor, hype, and anticipation. Friday, however, delivered something unusual even for the usual pre-expo chatter: A potential look at what could be a show-stealer for Nintendo. That above is Kotaku’s mockup of the new Nintendo 3DS, working off a schematic created by a Chinese blogger…

Duke Nukem Lawsuit Settled and Tossed

The breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against the longtime developer of the longtime-developed Duke Nukem Forever has been settled and ended. Both sides agreed to pay their own legal costs, and neither can sue on the same grounds again. Shacknews was first to report that Take-Two Interactive’s suit against 3D Realms/Apogee Ltd was dismissed with a very…

Creative Boss is Said to Walk Out on Assassin’s Creed

Game Informer is reporting that Patrice Désilets, the creative director for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, may have left his job just as the publisher is speeding the sequelization of the very successful franchise. Ubisoft’s official statement to Game Informer was the standard no comment for rumor or speculation, and its public relations office added they were…

NBA Elite Vows It’ll Bring Everything Under Control

NBA Live renamed itself NBA Elite, brought in the producer of the widely acclaimed NHL series, and set about fixing two huge gameplay gripes – unfathomably random shooting, and losing control once you entered a two-player animation. This video explains how they hope to fix that beginning in NBA Elite 11. Shooting becomes skill-based on…

Joey Logano, U R MR NASCAR

Four races into a 21-race sponsorship with GameStop, NASCAR driver Joey Logano averages a fifth-place finish with games sponsorship on his hood. He looks to change that in Kentucky tomorrow with an intimidating Super Mario Galaxy 2 paint job. As part of our neverending mission to document Logano’s performance in the name of video games,…

E3 2010 Preview: These are the Biggest Best of the Rest

Some games don’t fit into neat classifications, or their genres aren’t as broad as ones like shooters, action games or sports. So we’ll create our own group here and tell you who to look for at E3 2010. Everyone into the pool! LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3) – Yeah, how could anyone forget about this? The sequel…

MLB 2K10‘s Strasburg is the Fastest Pitcher in the Game

As promised, MLB 2K10 won the race to be the first to put Washington Nationals’ phenom Stephen Strasburg into the official roster, and their version is nothing short of superhuman. Try a 102-mph fastball. To those who followed the righthander since his career at San Diego State, this will not be much of a surprise.…

Take a Dim View of Vindictus’ E3 Trailer

Man, OK, this is the way wars are fought: Damn near in the dark. Here’s the pre-E3 trailer for Vindictus, the upcoming MMO from Nexon, and it’s a prequel for the game known as Mabinogi Heroes outside of North America.

You Should See the Tournament Edition [NSFW?]

How to make your girlfriend really hate your games habit. As seen on There I Fixed It, via Hawty McBloggy.

NCAA 11‘s Final Demo Pairing Delivers Classic Pac-10 Rivalry

Alabama fans are not amused. NCAA Football 11 promised four times the number of teams it normally puts in its demo, and the reigning national champion is not one of them. But Big XII defectors Texas and Oklahoma are. That’s the speculation of course, with Colorado bolting for the Pac-10 (11?) today to make sure…

NCAA 11 Demo Screens: Texas and Oklahoma

Online Video Game Lands a Rare League License — the NFL’s

Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online football game, will bring NFL teams to its MMO-style team management simulation under one of the very few licenses the league’s given to a video game of any type other than Madden The deal, made public first through Kotaku, will deliver all of the logos, color schemes, uniforms, emblems…

Your Third NCAA 11 Demo Pairing is Kinda Redundant

Tigers vs. Tigers. EA Sports told us the third matchup for the multi-team demo of NCAA 11 wasn’t going to be traditional and they’re right. Clemson and Missouri have played just four times. But hey, I suppose after Friday, once Nebraska pulls out of the tottering Jenga tower that is the Big XII, who knows…

Rookie Sensation Strasburg Debuts in MLB 2K10 with an 87 Rating

Stephen Strasburg could be appearing on your video game console as soon as midnight, and when he does, he’ll be the 15th-best starting pitcher in all of MLB 2K10 – just seven innings into his career. 2K Sports told Kotaku this afternoon that Strasburg, the Washington Nationals phenom who fanned 14 Pittsburgh Pirates in an…

It’s a Prime Time to Talk Transformers

The latest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio is ready for you to download. Matt Tieger, a producer on the forthcoming Transformers: War for Cybertron, talked about that game with Stephen Totilo. Matt mentioned the game’s multiplayer “Prime Mode,” and also detailed what we can expect from the game’s demo, which releases tomorrow. Enjoy a full…

E3 2010 Preview: These Are the Big Sports Games, We Think

Sports gamers are ready for far more than some football coming out of this year’s E3 expo. One of the most reliably predictable genres, as far as big sellers and upcoming releases for the year, sports games still present major reveals at these shows, in their own way. This year will see two brand new…

NBA Elite 11 Subs In ESPN’s Broadcast Team

ESPN’s booth trio of (from left) Mark Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy and Mike Breen will be the new voice talent for NBA Elite 11, according to a by-the-way mention at the bottom of an AP story on the broadcast team today. No other details were given, just that they will appear. That means the five-year…

2K Sports, Hire This Guy

After heralding Michael Jordan’s return to video games, NBA 2K11 2K released a trailer comprised of NBA 2K10 footage, none of it featuring Jordan. MessenjahMatt, a pro at Jordan tributes, also used 2K10, but made something a little more blood-pumping. That’s how you do a teaser trailer. I’m not saying put MessenjahMatt on the development…