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Tremble Before Our Massive Borderlands 2 PAX Gallery

You thought you saw all there was to see of Borderlands 2 at Gamescom last week? These two fresh shots direct from PAX will show you how very slightly wrong you were. Man, that’s an empty looking gallery. I almost added a picture of a friendly kitten, just because those two new shots looked lonely.…

Hollywood Wastes No Time Securing the Movie Rights to Indie Mech Shooter Hawken

Gamers aren’t the only ones impressed by upcoming indie mech shooter Hawken‘s distinctive style and dynamic combat. Hollywood has taken notice as well, and now there’s a movie in the works. A Romeo & Juliet meets District 9 movie. That’s how developer Adhesive apparently refers to the story behind Hawken, according to production company DJ2…

Dead Rising 2 Off The Record‘s New Sandbox Mode is All I Ever Wanted

Capcom makes all of my zombie killing dreams come true this weekend as they reveal the all-new sandbox mode for Dead Rising 2 Off The Record at PAX, finally setting players loose into the undead apocalypse with no timer to hold them back. Forget Zombrex. There’s no helicopter on its way. It’s just you, thousands…

Murder Balls, Meat Grinder, Juggernaut Will Haunt Your Twisted Metal Valentine’s Day

Here’s a look at Dollface’s particular blend of crazy as featured in upcoming road mayhem racer Twisted Metal. Crazy, she’s crazy for feeling so blue…

I Can’t Believe It: The Razer Blade Might Not Just Be the Future of PC Gaming—It May Be the Future of PCs

Does PC gaming need to be saved? It’s a question so arrogant it upset gamers for weeks after gaming peripheral manufacturer Razer posed it. After seeing this morning’s reveal of their new creation, the Razer “Blade” gaming laptop, I think I’m ready to go one better: I think Razer may not just save PC gaming—I…

The Sights, Sounds and Costumed Brute of Halofest

We got into Halofest a day early for a press preview event and tried to soak in all the Halo that we could. There was a lot! As you can see in this gallery of photos and videos. Enjoy…

Elevator Action Deluxe Adds Much Needed Dancing, Pompadour to Arcade Classic

What’s a developer to do when the game they’re bringing from the arcade to console is already just fine? Add funky dancing and crazy haircuts of course! The Aug. 31 release of Elevator Action Deluxe does also include the original Taito arcade classic, so I may be able to cope.

There Are Halo 4 Teases on this Wall

There is so much Halo stuff at the big Halofest event this weekend at the Penny Arcade Expo that it would be easy to miss the final massive panel on the rear of a wall that commemorates the release and achievements of each Halo game. But if you find that last panel, back in a…

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The Classic Magnum Returns in an Upcoming Halo: Reach Title Update

At PAX’s Halo-fest, 343 Industries detailed a coming title update for Halo: Reach, slated for release sometime in October. The title update will balance several of the suit abilities, changing Armor Lock’s damage absorption to be based on the amount of energy a player has remaining. It will also shorten the duration of Active Camo…

The Razer Blade is Gaming’s Deadliest New Laptop

The death of PC gaming, it turns out, will be stopped by a new, multiscreen, ultra-thin, 17-inch $2,800 laptop from Razer. Accessory-maker Razer today unveiled their first laptop, codenamed the Blade. The laptop was developed with NVIDIA and Intel and features a Intel Core i7 processor, a “high performance” NVIDIA GeForce graphics processor, an LED-backlit…

This Custom Arkham City Xbox Could Be Yours

I love custom 360s. The best custom jobs take into account all the details of the console, transforming the 360 instead of simply applying a new skin. Xbox’s facebook page now includes a mysterious photo album titled ????. The images in the album are a gorgeous custom Batman: Arkham City Xbox 360, which is up…

How Do You Fuel a Marathon Gaming Session?

Aside from making us all hungry, commenter FortWaba shares with us the supplies he needs to make it through a video game all-nighter. What food and drink fuels your power-gaming sessions? Bring enough to share in today;s Speak Up on Kotaku. Some people use strategy guides, some use music, some go it alone… I just…

Guess Which Platform Gets Skyrim DLC First

The downloadable love affair between Bethesda and Microsoft continues with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as the first two installments of add-on content are revealed as 30-day exclusives for the Xbox 360. They did it for Fallout: New Vegas, and heck, for awhile there it looked like the PlayStation 3 version of Fallout 3 wouldn’t…

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The Halo 4 Warthog Will Debut in Forza 4, But You Can’t Drive It

One of the biggest surprises of this weekend’s Halofest celebration of all things Halo here in Seattle is the news that Halo 4‘s Warthog will make its interactive debut this year, in a non-Halo game. The new Warthog will appear in the interactive car-ogling garage mode of this fall’s Forza 4. The series’ lead creator,…

Talk Amongst Yourselves- The Sleepin’ on the Job Edition

After today, we’re tapped out of TAYpics. If you’ve got a great idea, or a good idea, or a kind of okay idea, SUBMIT! Thanks to Prof. Gast for today’s TAYpic. Hopefully our pick for next month’s TAYpic will inspire more of you to edit away. Mostly because if you don’t Brian will eat your…

All of Gears of War 3’s Multiplayer Maps and Modes In All of Their Glory

A remastered version of Gears of War classic multiplayer map Gridlock rounds out the ten multiplayer maps that will be included Gears of War 3, Epic Games said today. All ten maps, detailed in the gallery above, will be playable in versus, beast and horde mode. The modified version of Gridlock includes graphic enhancements, new…

The Brave Firefighting Aliens of Titan Are the Real Heroes of Sprinkle

That humanity, always screwing things up for the little blue guy. The inhabitants of Saturn’s moon Titan lived in peace and harmony until human tourists accidentally set the place of fire. Typical. Good thing they’ve got some of the finest water physics yet seen on an Android device at their disposal. Mediocre Games keeps its…