E3 Musketeers

While everyone is in Los Angeles talking about next year’s games, three big ones will drop this week: Red Faction: Armageddon, the PS3-exclusive inFamous 2 and the tactical shooter Operation Flashpoint: Red River. Should the 3DS eShop come online as planned, goodies are in store there, too. Monday • 3D Classics: Excitebike (3DS eShop) •…

Hackers Who Hit Sony Now Breach Nintendo’s U.S. Website

Nintendo said today that hackers breached a server for its U.S. website but no customer information was compromised. The hacker group Lulzsec, which is behind other breaches of Sony websites earlier this week, claimed responsibility. Lulzsec posted a server configuration file as proof of its involvement yet said it wasn’t targeting Nintendo. “We just got…

SmackDown vs. 3DS

This one arrived a little too late for last week’s contest, so we held it over for this week’s. Reader Kevin’s star cameo on WWE Friday Night SmackDown last week provides us with many exploitable images for you to do your thang. This should be another one that writes itself, folks, so go to town.…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

Alright dammit, this isn’t Shut Up Amongst Yourselves. Talk! Don’t make me make you! Once again Incursor is our weekend TAYpics derby winner. That guy is on a rampage. Only you can stop him! Submit your pic to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Suffers E3 Trailer Outbreak

The entirely CGI E3 premiere trailer for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City found its way to the Internet sometime this morning via Europe. You may see it here. No gameplay, but it deals with the game’s story through the eyes of Umbrella operatives tasked with cleaning up their little T-virus mess. You may also play…

Sunday Comics

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published May 30. – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published June 3. – Read more of Nerf…

Million-Dollar Winners Winners

Asshole Dog. Bad Dudes. Cake jokes. Memes are, by definition, overdone, but the last one went past its expiration date in last week’s ‘Shop Contest, according to everyone. So let’s put it to bed with this week’s look at the MLB 2K11 Million-Dollar Perfect Game. dmcshinobi’s (6) cry-moar salute to everyone who bitched about the…

Mortal Kombat Battles .. the Ukrainian Parliament?

If I understood Ukrainian or Ukrainian politics, who knows what I would think of this video. But operating on the principle that everything’s zanier in a foreign language, I’m gonna call Mortal Kombat vs. the Ukranian Parliament a laugh riot. Especially when one of the fatalities involves turning punching Raiden in the balls, then turning…

Shop Contest Finalists for June 4

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She’s Got World 1-1 Nailed

I see I should have posted these sooner. A friend of “Kaci,” whose nails are presented here, sent us some pics of her awesome Super Mario Bros. manicure. These have now gone viral. Congrats to Kaci on her newfound fame, and our compliments on the artwork.

It’s in the Game, Unless It’s Outside the Lines

Without fail, every time I bring up this job and its subject, usually with folks outside the business, the topical jokes start rolling. Whatever the latest controversy or embarrassment is in sports, people ask if that’s going to be simulated in the next edition of Madden, Tiger Woods or NBA 2K Sometimes someone comes up…

Michael J. Fox Returns for Back to the Future‘s Final Episode

A.J. LoCasio’s virtuoso Marty McFly has anchored Telltale Games’ Back to the Future through its first four episodes, and will do so again in the fifth. That doesn’t mean there’s no room for the character’s original actor. Michael J. Fox is featured in the series’ conclusion, “Outatime,” due for the PC and Mac on June…

DUST 514 Screens

Will EVE Online‘s Console Shooter be PS3-Exclusive?

DUST 514, the FPS console counterpart to CCP’s sci-fi MMO EVE Online, is due for a big announcement at E3 2011 if this countdown clock is any indication. One fan went poking around through the site shortly after it went live and found some interesting things, since removed. First would be these seven screenshots (gallery…

These are the Big Games of E3 2011

Guns. Swords. Balls. The video games of E3 2011 will have all these and much more when the industry’s annual conclave kicks off this week in Los Angeles. There will be a staggering number of titles shown on E3’s vast floorspace. Many will release this year, some will release next year. Some are brand new…

The Best Videos of the Week

Maybe you want to see what you missed on your favorite Gawker Media sites this week. Or maybe you’re just exhausted after playing post-holiday catch-up at work and you’re in need of a visual escape. Well, whatever the case, we’ve got you covered. Here are some of the most amusing and entertaining videos we watched…

Paris Match

Grand Slam tennis is known for matches of epic length, frequently spanning four hours or more. In video games, more than an hour on the sticks is enough to conjure memories of Borg-McEnroe at Wimbledon 1980. Kotaku reader Frequenter and apal decided to pick up Top Spin 4 and play Roger Federer vs. Novak Djokovic…

Rumor has Microsoft Announcing TV Service at E3

I love the weekends before E3. I’ve worked four. You get everything in the tips jar—yesterday we got one that said Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would be a Wii 2 launch title. It was too earnest to be a troll. Anyway, this one is in heavy circulation and Microsoft has issued a no comment, so…

The Doctor Doesn’t Pay

You know, I hate to come down from Wayne County. I have businesses in Lansing. I have muffler shops, chicken chains. I got slums to collect the rent from. I have a chiropractic practice. I make adjustments to the human spine! And this little trip has cut far too much into my professional time! Dan…

Five Years Later, Mom in Warcraft Neglect Death Goes to Prison

It took five years, but a woman who played World of Warcraft day after day as her three-year-old daughter wasted away, dying of malnutrition and dehydration, is headed to prison. Rebecca Colleen Christie of Las Cruces, New Mexico was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday. Christie’s case was at the vanguard of the horrifying…