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Machine-Gun This Truck from the Comfort of Your Computer Desk on Valentine’s Day

Out in the middle of the desert, a remote-controlled M249 Squad Automatic Weapon will unload its magazine into Sweet Tooth’s iconic ice cream truck from Twisted Metal, releasing on Tuesday for the PlayStation 3. The trigger will be thousands of spacebars from across the Internet, and the finger on one of them can be yours.…

Radiant Historia Gets a Re-Release in March

Radiant Historia released in North America more than a year ago for the DS and quickly distinguished itself as a top-flight JRPG. Trouble is, Atlus didn’t print enough copies to satisfy demand. Case in point: A new copy is now listing for $105 on the used-games brokerage Glyde. Well, fans who missed out the first…

“This is Crap,” Sony’s Chief of Development Said, After First Playing Demon’s Souls

We’ve heard (as far back at 2010) Sony admit that it blundered big time by not publishing Demon’s Souls in North America. Now we know why they passed. Shuhei Yoshida, Sony Computer Entertainment’s head of product development, told Game Informer that he played two hours of the game as it was close to final, and…

Take the Official Tour of the PlayStation Vita

After posting its official unboxing teaser video on Thursday, Sony yesterday published this 12-minute guided tour of the system, explaining all of the features and benefits of the PlayStation Vita, with Guy Longworth, PlayStation’s chief marketer, and John Koller, who is the boss of PlayStation’s handheld division. The PlayStation Vita launches in North America on…

This Skyrim Mod Literally … Well, See For Yourself

This is an update to the Portal Core Space mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and it references the Meme Who Must Not Be Named. But it does so quite hilariously—and loudly. Turn your volume down before playing. It’s not NSFW, just loud. I especially like “Search Joke •Empty.” The Most Literal, and Best,…

March Mass-ness is Sooner Than You Think

There are eight days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training in baseball. More importantly, there are 24 until Shepard, Alenko and Liara report for duty in Mass Effect 3. Pre-order deals on the sci-fi epic RPG already are out, along with savings and credits on this week’s UFC Undisputed 3 and Twisted Metal…

Wired Controllers Blamed in Attempted Murder

Cops in a northeastern Pennsylvania community booked a man on attempted murder charges, saying he tried to strangle his wife with “a video game cord.” Either he was playing with wired console controllers from a generation ago, or the guy went and grabbed the Xbox 360 brick to choke his spouse. Either way, on Tuesday,…

Turn Out The Stars

Greetings, camp Kotaku. It’s friday evening, and that means it’s officially the weekend! I hope you had a fun week. I sure did. We welcomed more simultaneous voices to Kotaku than… maybe ever? Plus, we rolled out our plan to offer regularly programmed chunks of programming, sort of like we’re a TV network. (They’re still…

The Week in Unbelievably Gorgeous Screenshots: Grand Theft Auto IV

Since we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy “video game photographer” behind the website DeadEndThrills, I’ve been sharing some of his work each week here. This week Harris brought in some great shots from a modded version of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV. Let’s take a look! (Small note: This week, the full…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Fleeing from the NeverDead tyranny, the last Battlestar, Goodlactica, leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest to a shining planet known as UFC Undisputed 3 THQ’s mixed martial arts simulation landed on my doorstep today. Much as I’d like to spend time with Gregethor, my do-over mage in Skyrim (currently level 12, enrolled…

The Roof, the Roof, the Roof is Not on Fire, Says Konami

An image circulating Twitter earlier today seemed to imply a Konami office building in Japan was burning. It most certainly was not, a spokesman told Kotaku. Reading into Japanese Twitter users’ feeds, it appears this “strange smoke” might be only building steam. All is well.

Five Days of Pure Unadulterated Gaming App Hotness

Balls were kicked. Knights were wound. Towers were defended. Passwords were hacked, and the dead rose to detect among the living in another spectacular Week in Gaming Apps. What a wild and wonderful five days it has been. We got to play a colorful little tower defense game with an unfortunate pay scheme. We learned…

Get Five Amazing Game Soundtracks For as Little as $1

Hey, why should indie game developers get to have all the bundling fun? Game composers should get to experience the joy of bundling too. I’m glad to see that they finally are. The folks behind the recent first-ever Indie Game Music Bundle are back with… can you guess the name?… the Indie Game Music Bundle…

This Mass Effect 3 Misspelled “Renagade” Console is Up for Grabs [UPDATE]

EA has put a “Mass Effect 3 Mission Command” app on Facebook, through which fans can unlock some Avatar items and possibly get chosen for early access to the game’s upcoming beta. There’s also a big sweepstakes opportunity to win one of two custom Xbox 360s, painted in the game’s Paragon and Renegade themes. EA…

Why We Love Our Commander Shepard

Many of us here at Kotaku like Mass Effect. And as people who like Mass Effect are wont to do, we really like to talk about its protagonist, Commander Shepard. Specifically, we like to talk about our Commander Shepard. You see, despite the guy on the box, the main character in the actual game can…

This Dancing Bear is My Favorite Part of Street Fighter X Tekken

One of the only things better than beating a friend at a fighting game is childishly gloating about it, and no gloating is complete without an amazingly victory dance. That’s why I’m a giant fan of Kuma’s victory dance in Street Fighter X Tekken. It’s snarky, clownish and exudes a sense of “Neener-neener-neener” that’s hard…

Concentrate All Firepower …

Concentrate All Firepower on that LEGO Star Destroyer | The assembly of an enormous Executor-class Star Destroyer, in LEGO. It’s 50 inches long, 3,152 pieces. (via Geeks are Sexy) Your Guide to the New Kotaku Network Starting on the evening of February 12, Kotaku will begin to offer scheduled programming. Your listings are at left.…

The Most Adorable Exploding Humans I’ve Seen All Day

We reported last month on EA’s upcoming Warp, a top-down puzzler featuring Zero, a cute and cuddly little orange alien who makes humans (and anything else) explode violently into bloody goo. Today, we get to see Warp‘s gameplay in action! Really, there’s something deep-down comically satisfying in seeing a burbling little colorful G-rated guy pop…

This Week in the Business: ‘Activision Should Man Up and Buy Take-Two.’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Activision should man up and buy Take-Two.”—Asif Khan, analyst with Panoptic Management Consultants, on what Activision should do to make sure their sales numbers continue to look good. QUOTE | “THQ is dancing on the edge of the abyss.”—Steve Peterson, West…