Street Fighter x Tekken Vita Version Features New Characters, Cross-Console Play with PS3

We’ve got new trailers for the PS Vita edition of Street Fighter x Tekken. Capcom promises 55 characters in the Vita version: the 43 available in the console game as well as six more from each side. Blanka, Cody, Dudly, Elena, Guy, and Sakura round out the Street Fighter crew, and Alisa, Bryan, Christie, Jack,…

In Resident Evil 6, Even The Zombies Have Guns

While Resident Evil 4 is generally regarded as the highpoint of Capcom’s survival horror series, it also represents the point at which the franchise began abandoning its nerve-fraying focus in favor of a more action-oriented experience. Of course, if RE4 is the title that started alienating fans who prefer raised goosebumps to ratcheting body counts,…

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You’ll Get An Achievement For Killing Your Friends In Max Payne 3

Rockstar today released the full list of achievements for upcoming third-person shooter Max Payne 3, which will be out May 15. You’ll get trophies for pulling off headshots, ingesting painkillers, collecting Golden Guns, dangling from chains, and killing your friends, among other gory acts. Check out the full list on Rockstar’s website The Achievements and…

Cliff Bleszinski Was At Work Before 9am Today

Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski was at work prior to 9am this morning. Stay tuned to Twitter for further developments on this breaking story. [Twitter]

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! Indigo Prophecy‘s the game getting a macabre tribute…

New Resident Evil 6 Trailer Leads Today’s Avalanche of Capcom Gaming News

Want a new Resident Evil 6 trailer? You got it. Want a new, earlier RE6 release date? You got that too. (October 2!) Want a new Lost Planet? Well, you’re getting it anyway. Today’s the day an avalanche of news, trailers and screenshots hit the web, including here at Kotaku. And this avalanche started rumbling…

New Devil May Cry Trailer Shows the Revamped Dante in Action, Calls Him a Terrorist

A trailer for Capcom’s latest installment of the Devil May Cry series has leaked online. It shows off Dante’s controversial new look, as well as an old man in a suit ranting about terrorists. Despite the new look, the game doesn’t seem to be a departure from anything that made the older Devil May Cry…

Persona 4‘s English Voices Baffled By Anime Casting

Sentai Filmworks surprised fans at Anime Boston this weekend by announcing that the original English voice cast for Persona 4 would be reprising their roles for the North American release of the anime based on the PlayStation 2 role-playing game. Even more surprised were the voice actors themselves. Perhaps Sentai officials got caught up in…

The Norway Killer Who Used Call of Duty to Train Won’t Be Able to Use Insanity as a Defense

Anders Behring Breivik—the man who confessed to killing 77 people last year in the worst mass murder Norway has ever seen—has been found to be legally sane by court-appointed psychiatrists, according to the Associated Press. The new finding—by psychiatrists Terje Toerrissen and Agnar Aspaas—negates a previous assessment by other mental health professionals, which had declared…

Zen Studios Brings Its Free Pinball Platform to the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita

With FarSight Studio’s The Pinball Arcade hitting the PlayStation 3 and Vita today, Zen Studios wants to make sure everyone knows they’ve got their own pinball platform heading to Sony systems this spring, and it’s (technically) free. As they did with Pinball FX 2 on the Xbox 360 some two years ago, Zen Studios is…

Lost Planet 3 Debut Trailer Leaks Online

A leaked trailer shows that Capcom is readying a new entry in its Lost Planet series. The Lost Planet 3 trailer shows a frozen tundra, reminiscent of the the earlier game’s settings. The CGI heavy trailer, however, shows more snow, more bugs, and more giant mechas—and more giant mechas fighting giant bugs. The game is…

Resident Evil 6 Shambles Forwards, Now Out in October

Last we heard, Resident Evil 6 was out in November. Well, that’s now changed, as a leaked trailer – posted on Sony’s Italian YouTube site and since pulled – indicates the game’s release date is now October 2. We’ll have more coverage on the game later today. New Resident Evil 6 trailer [NeoGAF]

A Whole Bunch of Crazy Anime Mashed Up for Your Gaming Pleasure

For years Bandai Namco has been releasing mega crossovers of giant robot anime—ranging from Gundam to Evangelion to Voltron—in the Super Robot Wars series. But having made many other types of anime tie-in games in the past, giant robot anime aren’t the only anime Bandai Namco holds the licenses for. So earlier this year they…

French Presidential Candidate Goes Green with Final Fantasy

Above, French presidential candidate Eva Joly makes her pitch as the country’s Green Party representative. While she might not be familiar to Kotaku readers who do not follow European politics, the music playing underneath the campaign spot should be. It’s from Final Fantasy X If American presidential candidates can quote Japanese anime, why can’t French…

Gundam High Fashion Sure Is Bizarre

You are looking at Gundam inspired clothes. You know. Gundam. Giant mechas. Colorful uniforms. Gundam. Starting this April, a new men’s shop called “Strict-G” is opening in both Tokyo and Shizuoka. It will feature Gundam flavored clothing and accessories from Japanese brands, such as Edwin. Bandai Namco is also producing “original” clothing items, such as…

Dressing Final Fantasy as Assassin’s Creed Still Looks Underwhelming

Yes, yes. Japanes role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2 is getting downloadable costumes that include Mass Effect and Assassin’s Creed outfits. If you didn’t find the screenshots thrilling, here is the AC trailer…you might find thrilling. I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: I really don’t understand the point of these cross game costume…

This Anime Crossover is Complicated, Chaotic and Blessedly Original

Heroes Phantasia, the anime crossover RPG, has playable characters from a total of nine different anime. But how lame would it be if you could only choose three or four party members like most JRPGs? Fear not! Heroes Phantasia has a complex battle system that allows you a grand total of 16 characters in battle…

Japan Tries To Figure Out Why Everybody Loves One Piece

While the overall sales in manga are slowly declining in Japan, there is one notably strong on-going series: One Piece. The manga’s latest volumes, volume 64 and 65, have both sold over 4 million copies each in their first print run. In 2010, volume 57 of One Piece sold a record-breaking 3 million copies in…

Sony Thinks It’s Going to Lose Even More Money

Today, Sony doubled its forecast of annual loss to US$6.4 billion. This year will be the fourth year of losses for Sony. [BBC]