Okami HD will be out on the North American PlayStation Store on October 30.

Watch Valve Set Up A Real, Working Portal Turret

Well, I mean, I don’t think it will shoot you. But this Portal turret does everything but that—it even has a working motion detector! We’d already seen this little guy in action before, but this official video from Valve is a lot cooler. Okay, time to see how much it’d cost to get one of…

Borderlands 2‘s Killer PC Version Gives Us A Taste Of The Future

Last night, as I sat there playing the excellent PC version of Borderlands 2 on my big ol’ TV, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the next generation of gaming is already upon us. The PC version of Borderlands 2 is fantastic. (The game itself ain’t half bad, either.) I’ve only played the Xbox 360…

World of Warcraft’s Battle Chest has been upgraded to include Wrath of the Lich King. No change in price

The Tokyo Game Show Has Begun

While Sony got things off to an unofficial start last night, today sees the actual opening of the showroom floor for the 2012 Tokyo Game Show. The event runs for four days, and over that time we’ll play a ton of games, see even more and check out all the other stuff TGS is known…

EA Sports Coded College Games With Real Names, Say Lawsuit Emails

EA Sports used the real names of college players when coding its NCAA rosters internally and the NCAA’s licensing authority argued that the publisher should be allowed to include them in the games themselves, according to emails turned up in a lawsuit against both the publisher and the NCAA, ESPN reported yesterday. It’s a small…

Before You Start… Tips For Playing Torchlight II The Best Way

Torchlight II comes out tomorrow on Steam. It’s a whole lot of fun, and it’s different from Diablo III in some very interesting ways If you’re planning on playing the game, I thought I’d look back at my first 30 hours with it and offer some basic pointers. As you head off after the Alchemist,…

Midweek Moneysaver: Before the Fall

This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. Software • Yesterday’s release Borderlands 2 (360, PS3) for $59.99 comes with a $10 Gift Card at NewEgg. The game is also available in-store at Kmart…

The One New iOS 6 Feature That Improves Gaming on the iPhone

The next operating system for the iPhone—iOS 6—comes with a few new nifty features and updates. You’ll see a couple of those new features in Apple’s Game Center, the leaderboard hub where you can track your friends’ progress in various iOS games. But what’s new is that now you can challenge your friends, too. So…

The Most Evil Man Of Them All Is The Rollercoaster Tycoon

Amusement parks: they should be fun, right? Cute, quirky, maybe scary in all the right ways, but ultimately, amusing. Well, what if you build a whole amusement park and your patrons aren’t amused? You could improve the park… or you could remove the patrons. A little taste of power—horrible, terrible power—goes a long way. And…

Pikmin Meets Dragon Quest In This Downloadable RPG For 3DS

Take a dash of Pikmin, throw it into some Dragon Quest, and you get Denpa Ningen 2. Here’s some gameplay footage for the upcoming sequel, which Nintendo announced a few weeks ago for the 3DS eShop And believe it or not, we’re actually getting the first game in this bizarre Japanese series: The Denpa Men:…

F1 2012: The Kotaku Review

This past week, I haven’t felt as helpless or as vexed behind the wheel since I was 15 years old and trying to divine the magical balance between clutch and gas pedal that actually sent my mother’s BMW 325e forward along our farm’s gravel road. Each time the vehicle shuddered and stalled out, I was…

See The Awesome Deck-Building, Role-Playing Game Card Hunter In Action

I’ve become enamored of Card Hunter, which brilliantly combines a strategy tabletop RPG with a deck-building card game and comes up with something that feels both new and familiar. This trailer was showing at PAX, where I got to play a few rounds of the game. It does a good job of demonstrating the game…

The Most Diabolical Aspect of Square’s Demons’ Score is the Hellish Hidden Cost

Released today for the iPhone and iPad, Demons’ Score is a rhythm action game from iNiS, the creators of DS classic Elite Beat agents, so the decision to spend $6.99 for a chance to play it was a no-brainer. I’m just not sure I want to fork over the additional $37 I’d need to purchase…

Say Hello to the Cutest Master Chief

This shot of the world’s cutest Halo cos-player popped up on IGN Deutschland’s Facebook feed last night. It was making the rounds at least a few weeks before that. Origin unknown, but too adorable not to share. UPDATE: Origin discovered! This photo was taken by Will Christiansen of Halo 4 studio 343 Industries. Check out…

Navy SEAL Who Wrote Controversial Bin Laden Raid Book Worked on New Medal of Honor Game Without Permission

One of the Navy SEALS who consulted on EA’s upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter may have done so without getting proper military permission, according to the Los Angeles Times. This same person, identified by the newspaper as Matt Bissonnette, is also the author of No Easy Day, the controversial book that details the raid that…

Something’s Not Right Between Nintendo And Amazon, But Neither Side Is Talking

You can buy a Nintendo 3DS at GameStop. You can buy one at Best Buy. Target. Wal-Mart. You can buy it from pretty much anywhere—except for the world’s biggest online retailer. For at least the past year, retail titan Amazon.com has not sold Nintendo hardware. There are Amazon listings for the DS and Wii and…

Which New Pokemon Game Should I Play?

I have a dilemma. Here in the office I have Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2. One will go to Mike Fahey for review. One will go to my 3DS for playing (and JRPG columning). But I can’t decide which to keep. So I’m letting you guys decide. Vote right here: Should I play…

You Won’t Survive FTL‘s Space Mission, But You’ll Remember It

I could have quit. I could have made my defeat happen quicker, less painfully. But cliche or not, the captain goes down with the ship. The rules don’t change just because we’re in space. So I watched my crew dutifully tend to my systems, keeping the ship running as best they could. We knew we…

They Bleed Pixels is a Pleasurably Painful Way to Break In Steam’s Big Picture Mode

The day Valve announced the availability of the television-friendly Big Picture Mode for Steam I hooked up my laptop to the PC, dug out my Bluetooth game controller, and began downloading Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. I soon realized that download would take forever, and grabbed a 319 megabyte copy of Spooky Squid Games‘ beat-em up/platformer…