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  The Dark Night

  Kotaku readers, after a day of video game news and discussion, let’s insert a little combo breaker, tonight’s open thread where you can discuss whatever you want to, video game related or not. If you haven’t already seen it, the most exciting nerd development of the day is the reveal of The Dark Knight Rises…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  What the Hell’s Going On With ModernWarfare3.com?

  Go ahead. If you haven’t already done so today, go to ModernWarfare3.com. You’ll see that you’re directed to the official Battlefield 3 web site. That’s some good trolling, no? But who’s sticking it to Activision by redirecting visitors from what appears to be an official looking Call of Duty site to one of its chief…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  The Promise of Haptic Feedback, Coming To Your iPhone

  The makers of ViviTouch want to bring tactile feedback to your iPhone and iPod touch, technology that will offer the sensation of something touching back when you tap your touchscreen. Artificial Muscle boasts that its ViviTouch tech, an add-on for the iPhone platform, will let users “feel the difference between hundreds of sensations, not just…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  Valve Shows How Team Fortress 2‘s ‘Meet the Medic’ Sausage Was Made

  “Meet the Medic,” the eighth and penultimate video in Valve’s “Meet the Team” shorts was a long time a-comin’. Why the long wait between “Meet the Spy” and the video introducing Team Fortress 2‘s Medic class? Well, Valve scrapped (at least) two previous attempts at “Meet the Medic,” one that involved the doctor coming back…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  The Relationship Experts of the Today Show Don’t Think Men in Their 30s Should Play Video Games

  Dudes who play video games in their thirties and beyond? What’s up with that?! That’s the question posed to the leathery co-hosts of the fourth hour of Today, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, who explain that, well, that’s just weird! Gifford, Kotb and advertising exec/dude advice giver Donny Deutsch—author of The Big Idea: How…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  Mortal Kombat‘s Newest, Wettest Ninja Punches In on July 19

  The purple one, Rain, is the latest addition to Mortal Kombat‘s cast of characters. The god of inclement weather joins the excessively bloody Skarlet and blind swordsman Kenshi as the third downloadable add-on for NetherRealm’s ultra gory fighter. You can see the super soaker, who made his first appearance as one of the many palette-swapped…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  Night Patrol

  CAMP MERCURY, IRAQ – Marines embark on risky night patrols around their base in one of Iraq’s most dangerous zones to prevent attacks and keep insurgents at bay. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images) PipClock Has You Duck-and-Covered in Case of Apocalypse With the exception, maybe, of VATS calling out your headshots, our modern mobile devices…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 11, 2011
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  You Can Make Octodad 2 A Bizarre Reality

  The video game about the difficulties of secretly being an octopus while wearing a business suit, Octodad, is getting a sequel. But it won’t happen without the help of people hungry for third-person tentacle stealth action willing to spare some change. The team behind Octodad, a student project featured in the Independent Games Festival Student…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Portal Gun

  Proving once again that everything plays better when you add Portal, the folks at Dorkly arm Zelda’s hero with a little cutting-edge tech, courtesy of Aperture Science. The ensuing madness knocks the pig right out of Ganon.

  By Mike Fahey Published July 11, 2011
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  A Game Called Achron and the Theory That Games Would be Better With Time Travel

  In the first mission of the upcoming computer game that Chris Hazard, PhD, has been trying to make since 1999, our hero, a man named Holloway meets himself. In the second mission, Holloway’s foot soldiers are killed in an ambush. But time can be backed up. The men can be given new orders in the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 11, 2011
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  The The King of Kong Remake Is Still On, but May Go Mockumentary

  The high score battle between Donkey Kong pros Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell was immortalized in 2007’s The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. And for the past four years, there’s been talk of that movie being remade, further fictionalized in a film adaptation of a film. But now it appears that the planned…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  The King of Fighters XIII Brings Console-Exclusive Content to North America in October

  Atlus narrows down the fall North American release for the console version of The King of Fighters XIII today, promising console-exclusive characters, stages, and game modes galore. Until then, expect screenshots and trailers galore, much like these. See if you can spot some of the console-exclusive content in the trailer of the thirteenth King of…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 11, 2011
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  First Look at Dishonored, the New Game from Arkane and Deus Ex Designer Harvey Smith

  That right there? That’s Dishonored, the new stealth assassination game from Bethesda, Arx Fatalis dev Arkane Studios and Harvey Smith, one of the creative forces behind Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows. Why does it sound so interesting? Dishonored‘s blend of first-person stealth, magical gadgetry and ever-changing world is why, details which are laid out…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  The Pea Shooters and Samurai of the Wii’s Rhythm Heaven

  We checked out the upcoming Wii version of music-infused Rhythm Heaven at E3, but we weren’t able to let you listen to it because it’s was so loud. This time around we’re in the relative quiet of Nintendo’s New York offices, where Stephen Totilo tried his hand at stabbing peas with a fork and slicing…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 11, 2011
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  The Authoritarian Control of Labor in Tiny Tower

  While playing Tiny Tower, do you worry about your Bitizens’ happiness, or ignore them in favor of staffing your shops? Blogger Jorge Albor at popmatters.com examines the Marxist implications of doing well in Tiny Towers As Albor explains, playing Tiny Tower works, is not difficult, all it takes is a a little patience, but there’s…

  By Jen Schiller Published July 11, 2011
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  Fallout: New Vegas’ Old World Blues Isn’t Exactly Brain Surgery

  Due out July 19, the Old World Blues downloadable content for Fallout: New Vegas isn’t exactly brain surgery, but it’s pretty damn close. Does removing the entire brain count? After the inevitable apocalypse comes and goes, I plan on avoiding science altogether. The post-apocalypse and the powers of science simply do not mix in a…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 11, 2011
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  I Was Wrong To Blow Off this New Kirby Wii Game

  One month ago, in the Nintendo booth at E3, I asked Nintendo people to tell me which Nintendo game I shouldn’t overlook. Kirby Wii, they told me. But I was never a Kirby fan. I never played the pink puffball’s original enemy-inhaling games. I was ready to ignore them. I’ve cherished only two Kirby games,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 11, 2011
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  The Music and Maker of the Final Fantasy Rhythm Game Theatrhythm Revealed

  Square Enix has made the unusual mash-up of music and role-playing game known as Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy official. The Nintendo 3DS game will span the music and characters of thirteen Final Fantasy games and comes from a promising developer. Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy is in development for the 3DS from Tokyo-based studio indieszero. The developer’s credits…

  By Michael McWhertor Published July 11, 2011
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  Nearly Six Minutes of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

  This is like no Resident Evil game you’ve ever played: You run, you gun, you eat through boxes of ammo. In Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City the creep dead are less an inevitable death and more a tactical weapon that can turn on you. Wound an enemy deeply enough, or be wounded enough, and they…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 11, 2011
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  Lend a Helping Hadouken

  Can’t get enough Street Fighter? Love making a positive impact in the world? Then today’s your lucky day. To celebrate the release of Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Capcom commissioned a group of artists to create these one of a kind, Street Fighter skate decks. Now, Music for Relief is auctioning off these beautiful boards…

  By Max Abrams Published July 11, 2011