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Halo Anniversary Minimates Put Cortana in Your Pocket
All I ever wanted was a clear blue curvy woman to call my own, and that’s exactly what we’re getting in Diamond Select Toys’ commemorative Halo Anniversary Minimates set. Coming this winter to a specialty toy seller near you, the Halo Anniversary Minimates set marks the debut of Cortana, Master Chief’s A.I. love interest, in…
By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Payday: The Heist Lets You Recreate Hollywood’s Best Capers with Three Friends
In my hour spent wearing a macabre clown mask robbing banks, looting armored vans and freeing prisoners, I rarely managed to succeed. It wasn’t because I didn’t have the tactics, or the ability, it was because I had, perhaps, a tad too much avarice. In most of the four scenarios of four-player cooperative shooter Payday:…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Metroid‘s Zero Suit Samus Given the ‘Genzoman’ Treatment
GENZOMAN created one hell of a cover illustration for Screw Attack Magazine‘s Anniversary issue. Check out the alternative piece w/ full text here Related Rampages: Fantasy Street Fighter | Zelda (More) Metroid by Gonzalo Ordonez Arias / GENZOMAN Via: svalts Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Speed Run Through a Gravity Defying, Laser-Shooting, Crate Throwing PS3 Game
Technically, by speed run I mean playing through a level of Rochard without dying faster than I did during my brief time with the game. The 2D platformer hits the PS3’s Playstation Network next week for $10. In it you play as the titular Rochard, a hapless space miner armed with a laser gun that…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Halo, Mass Effect 2, DC #1s and — New Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans Top This Week’s New Comics
Each Wednesday brings new comics worth reading. Some of them are about video games. This month, a lot of them are new DC super-hero comics, since that company is re-launching everything. Read on for recommendations of this week’s best stuff and for my capsule reviews of DC’s second wave of new books… Comics You Should…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sony’s PlayStation Network Goes Down, Now Expected to Return Today [Update: We’re Back!]
For the better part of the day, PlayStation 3 owners have been unable to take their consoles online via Sony’s PlayStation Network, a seemingly unplanned network outage that the company says it’s “working hard on restoring.” PlayStation Network service appears to have been interrupted early on Wednesday morning, with functionality still not restored. The company…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedDavid Hasselhoff Takes On an Ice Cream Truck in the Latest Burnout: Crash Trailer
If there’s one thing that video game trailers could use more of, it’s David Hasselhoff. So thank goodness for Criterion and EA, who conscripted the ‘Hoff to appear in the latest trailer for the just-released downloadable Xbox Kinect game Burnout: Crash. In the trailer, a swingin’ party is underway, and in its midst a dude…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Early Dark Souls Players Thwarted in Typically Brutal Fashion
Dark Souls doesn’t launch in Japan until tomorrow, but some players have managed to get their hands on copies early and are playing away without a care in the world. That is, until From Software invades their games with level 145 Black Phantoms. Utilizing Dark Souls‘ game-invading mechanic to their advantage, the folks at From…
By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
What It Will Take to Win the Next Console War
Veteran video game designer Soren Johnson doesn’t pick Great Motion Controls or Best Graphics as the most important weapon in the next generation of video game console wars. He picks the thing that Apple’s doing so well. Know this about Soren Johnson: he helped figure out the mathematical formula for religion (video game version). He’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis is How the Diablo III Beta Ends
Last night Crecente took us through the first ten minutes of the Diablo III beta test with his Witch Doctor. Now let’s take a look at the beta’s final moments with my lovely Monk. After helping rid the town of New Tristam of various lingering undead creatures and retrieving the crown of the Skeleton King,…
By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedSideway: New York is Maybe Super Paper Mario on the Ceiling, and Floor, And Wall
In Sideway: New York players take on a graffiti artist turned into a piece of his own art after taking on the wrong tagger rival. It’s a shaky premise attached to some mind-twisting gameplay that has your playing as a flat bit of art sliding along the walls, ground, floors and roofs of New York’s…
By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
NCIS Games Sure to Delight Video Game Playing Senior Citizens
This fall Ubisoft teams up with CBS to bring the award-winning NCIS series to video games, letting fans of special agent Gibbs and crew perform their own Naval criminal investigations, provided they can figure out that confounded video game system. Enjoyed by elderly people around the world, the NCIS franchise is a wellspring of introductory…
By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Biggie Smalls Plus Warcraft is Weirdly Amusing
The language is not safe for work and disconcerting if you’re not used to white people earnestly reciting profane rap lyrics that use a certain word… but with those warnings out of the way, check out Warning of Warcraft. This video, made by video game voice actor Oliver Vaquer, taking Biggie’s hit song Warning and…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Time To Align Your Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild
Phase one of guild creation for The Old Republic is complete, resulting in thousands of pre-game guilds just waiting to form on launch day, but what server will they launch on? That’s where phase two comes in. Let’s get aligned! Having your guild formed before the game comes out is all well and good, but…
By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
You Have One Last Chance to Make the Right Choice
Well gang, it’s been fun, but all games must end eventually. So welcome to the very last round of Would You Rather—brought to you by the folks at State Farm. Remember the good ol’ days of being snuggled up in your pillow fort with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book gripped tightly between your fingers,…
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UncategorizedThe Best Gears of War 3 Glitch So Far
We like Gears of War 3. We also like laughing at glitches. But when our intern Chris told me he found a Gears glitch that involved one of our Gears heroes falling through the world, I frowned. We’ve seen this kind of glitch so many times. But then intern Chris told me that the glitch…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Should the Kingdom Hearts Games That Suck Still Count?
In today’s continuity-shattering installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Yoshi Salcedo wants us to settle an argument he’s having with his girlfriend over Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts series. Should we disregard the DS games because they suck? My girlfriend and I are both Kingdom Hearts fans, and as usual we argued over who was…
By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Trains, Kobolds, Dancing Women and More in Our Latest Xbox Live Indie Favorites
Every few weeks we here at Kotaku make a selection of some of the best Indie games that Xbox Live has to offer. These are our latest favorites. You’ll be able to find the list here for reference, or in the “Kotaku‘s favourites” channel in the Indie Game section of Xbox Live’s Games Marketplace. SpeedRunner…
By Nick Partyka Published September 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Morning all, you prepped and ready for the Battlefield 3 beta? Perhaps you feel you won’t have the time because you were one of the lucky few to get into the Diablo 3 closed beta? Or maybe you don’t give a damn about either because there’s another upcoming release that has your attention. Now’s your…
By Nick Partyka Published September 21, 2011