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  In Under 10 Minutes, I’ll Show You the Good and Bad of Kirby’s Return to Dreamland

  I recently recommended that people skip the new Kirby game for the Wii, Kirby’s Return to Dreamland. I don’t hate the game. I just think you have better options. I also think you might like to see more of the game, since it’s a charmer and has good stuff in it. Sit back and enjoy…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011
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  “To (Insert Your Name Here)!”: Facebook App Puts You in the Best PlayStation Commercial Ever

  You remember that franchise character-filled “To Michael” short film that Sony premiered a few weeks back? Still get tingles thinking about it, right? Well, now you can be the player that Kratos, Cole McGrath and Ezio all praise for making them alive and awesome. There’s a Facebook app that substitutes your face into that immortal…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  Why Yes, I’d Love to Play Wizardry on My iPhone

  After receiving a rather lukewarm reception on the PlayStation Network, Acquire is bringing the Japanese-flavored old fashion turn-based dungeon crawling of Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls to iOS next week. Long before I was running through MMORPG dungeons in full first-person 3D, I was pointing and clicking my way through PC classics like Bane of…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  The Dust, Danger and Despair of I Am Alive

  There’s a moment near the start of Cormac McCarthy’s gripping post-apocalyptic novel The Road when a father holds up a gun to protect his son. Their lives hang by a thread—their assailant is alone, but his friends are near, and if the man pulls the trigger, he and his son will doubtless be discovered. And…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published October 28, 2011
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  Things Get Epic in This New Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Trailer

  Could Skyward Sword be the best Zelda game of all time? Well, it’d be nice if that was the case, since it’s the franchise’s anniversary year and all. See if watching this GameTrailers exclusive trailer does anything to convince you. Exclusive Origins Trailer HD [GameTrailers] You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this post,…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  I Don’t Know What Project Hell Yeah! Is, But Sega Seems to Like It

  Today Sega has revealed that they’re working with Big Bang Mini developer Arkedo on something called Project Hell Yeah!, a game so exciting it requires an exclamation point. All we know so far is it will have monsters, possibly a dead rabbit, and was originally developed for the Dreamcast 2. Oh wait, they lied. I…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  This Guy Is Making a Time Travel Calendar

  Alex Griendling knows that there is a problem with most modern calendars. They mark the weekend and include the holidays. But they don’t include important moments in time travel. You can get some fancy calendar that includes years and years of Christmases and Flag Days, but did they mark the day when the Terminator came…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011
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  This Concept Art Video Shows How Skyrim Comes to Life

  No matter how fast Bethesda staffers can speedrun through the latest Elder Scrolls game, it’s still freaking huge. It can be tough to appreciate how much work goes into a project like this when you’re caught up in the experience. That’s what so great about the latest blog post on the official Elder Scrolls site…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  Lord of the Rings: War in the North Has Ten Days

  With Skyrim-lust whipping fantasy role-playing game fans into a frothy puddle, perhaps November 1 is the best possible time for Warner Bros. to release The Lord of the Rings: War in the North As much as I trust Snowblind Studios to develop a compelling action role-playing game and as intriguing as the concept of an…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  The Best Gaming Pumpkins of the Season!

  With Halloween just around the corner, what better time is there to take a look at some of the best gaming-related pumpkins out there this year? I’m sure by now most of you have gotten a chance to cut into a defenseless pumpkin, if you’re into such things, and so I bring you the cream…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published October 28, 2011
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  How DUST 514 and EVE Online Bridge the Gap Between PC and PlayStation 3

  In CCP’s DUST 514 for the PlayStation 3, battles are initiated by corporations in the PC-based space MMO EVE Online. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, CCP server architect Lin Luo talks about how much fun making that work is. First we need to understand the basic flow of a DUST 514 battle. First,…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  “It’s a Lie!”: Republican Presidential Front-Runner Herman Cain denies SimCity Inspired to His Tax Plan

  According to the latest polls, businessman Herman Cain’s currently the Republican most likely to get the GOP presidential nomination. (And, yes, it’s early.) One of the reasons that Cain’s appeared attractive to the electorate has been his easy-to-understand 9-9-9 proposal to overhaul taxes. Game-savvy political commentators noted that a similar scheme shows up in the…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  These Screens Show Off Battlefield 3‘s “Back to Karkand” Expansion

  The launch trailer offered teasers of how the up-rezzed environments from previous Battlefield games would look in the upcoming Back to Karkand expansion pack, but these screens show them in all their Frostbite 2 glory. Back to Karkand will also include new dog tags, new Xbox Live achievements/PSN trophies, three new vehicles and 10 iconic…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  Take a Look at the Fine Art of Death-Dealing in This Darkness II trailer

  First they deliver an intricately carved pumpkin to Kotaku HQ, then this painful-looking trailer that showcases the flair with which you can dispatch enemies in the upcoming Darkness II. You can really see how the game uses its comic-book art style to maximum effect and those demon appendages give you even more options to off…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  The Launch Trailer for Goldeneye 007: Reloaded Will Shake and Stir You

  It’s going to be a little while yet before we get to Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s iconic secret agent on the big screen. The fact that he’ll be reprising the role in Activision’s new Goldeneye game is as good a reason as any to pick up the modern take on a FPS classic. The…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  If a Woman was the Lead Character in Grand Theft Auto…

  Women in Grand Theft Auto games have had many roles. Mom. Girlfriend. Nightclub manager. Criminal. Lots of roles. Just never the main one. On the eve of the release of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, and with no inside knowledge about who will be the star of this new game, I find…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011
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  Kerrigan Shrute, StarCraft‘s Drag-Queen of Blades

  I thought I was the most hideous Queen of Blades in StarCraft history during my session with Blizzard DOTA at BlizCon 2011 last weekend. Last night Dwight from The Office proved me wrong. I feel Dwight makes a valid argument in the second half of this clip from last night’s Halloween episode of NBC’s The…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  Microsoft Shows How Windows Phone Will Play Nice with Xbox 360

  One of the big selling points for Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7 OS has been the interconnectivity between smartphones running the platform and their Xbox 360 game console. Word of the dedicated Xbox Companion app—which essentially turns your handset into a remote for the 360—came down the pike recently but Microsoft recently shot video of…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  Bayonetta Teaches Our Children a Dirty Lesson

  In today’s very special episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage warns of a very dangerous message lurking in the otherwise pure and innocent Bayonetta. What are we teaching our children? Oh my goodness I can hardly believe it! As I’m a monogamous gamer, I will only play or make comments on one game,…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  ‘Free+’ Does Seem A Little More Honest Than Free-to-Play

  People who are fans of words that mean what they’re supposed to mean are probably not fans of the rhetorical loophole exploited by the term “free-to-play”. Many of the most popular games on PCs, cell phones and tablets are “free-to-play”, or “free 2 play”, as the phrase is often spelled in order to free it…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011