China’s Team Fortress 2 Rip-off Sexes Up ‘Meet The Sniper’

Chinese shooter Final Combat, an unsubtle, shameless swipe of two other free-to-play games—Valve’s Team Fortress 2 and EA’s Battlefield Heroes—has a new playable class it would like to introduce: the Sniper. The sexy, short-skirted, probably-does-not-urinate-in-jars Sniper. See, where Xunlei’s Final Combat distinguishes itself from Valve’s team-based shooter is in the fact that two of its…

The Classic Klonoa May Be Your Next PSone Classic

PlayStation game Klonoa: Door to Phantomile was recently re-rated by the ESRB for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. That means the 1998 original is a very likely candidate for a digital PSone Classics re-release. 🙂

Plush Life

Cutters – Cut The Rope plushes mint in box, as seen at an Electronic Arts held event in New York City today. (Photo by Brian Crecente) MapleStory: Thief Edition is a Two-Dimensional Adventure MapleStory, the blockbuster Korean MMO game, has turned up on more platforms than just the PC. It’s on the Nintendo DS, for…

Spartans Vs. Predators – Whoever Wins, We Win

Master Chief becomes an unstoppable force with his new Predator upgrades! Master Chief Predator by friend of ShrubbyTreeBush Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission. Master Chief Predator by ShrubbyTreeBush

Zelda and Robin Williams Still Reminding You they Love Ocarina of Time

Turns out the commercial that Robin and Zelda Williams put out last month was not alone in the universe. Zelda leaked on Twitter that another commercial existed somewhere. Here it is.

What Battlefield 3 Needs

For the past few weeks I have found myself returning to my favourite multiplayer game of last year, Battlefield: Bad Company 2. It’s a punchy rascal of a game, but it also hints at plenty of things that could be better in the future, and reminds us of lots of things that have been better…

PlayStation Store Update: Everybody Limbo

PlayStation 3 owners, you are now cleared to download last year’s excellent puzzle platformer Limbo, one of the dark highlights of this week’s North American PlayStation Store update. Already played that? Well, there’s a lot more. One PlayStation Move downloadable game (Fast Draw Showdown) and one undead tower defense game (Dead Block) are also new…

Robbed GameStop Store Employee Threatened with Blasting

You’re in the GameStop, you’ve got your gun at the ready, you’ve cleared the cash register area of children, and now you’re ready to make your demand. “Give me the money!” Good! Now follow it up with a threat! “…or I’ll blast you!” Wait, what? You shouldn’t rob video game stores; that should really go…

Darksiders II‘s Death and the Horse He Rode In On

The extended announcement trailer for THQ’s Darksiders II is here, giving us a deeper appreciation of Death and his majestic steed. Is it just me, or is that horse looking a little pallid? After bringing war to life in Darksiders the first, Vigil Games takes on the monumental task of granting a personality and likeability…

The Darkness II Slips From Crowded Fall to Early (Still Crowded) 2012

The thinning of the fall and winter 2011 video game herd claims a victim today, as 2K Games delays Digital Extremes’ The Darkness II. Originally on the books for an October release, 2K is now aiming the first-person shooter for February 2012. 2K updated the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game’s release date today…

More Waiting for Nintendo 3DS Games As Sega Delays Two

Sega’s side-scrolling ninja game Shinobi and puzzler CRUSH3D, both originally due in September have been pushed. Griptonite’s Shinobi is now a November 15 release in North America, with CRUSH3D moving way out to February 21 of next year.

NCAA Football 12: The Kotaku Review

A century’s worth of traditions spread over 100 teams makes college football one of the top subjects when sports fans start gumming How It Really Oughta Be: Who gets into what bowl, what rivalry should be rescheduled, what schools should be in which conference if everyone wasn’t so fixated on starting their own TV network.…

The Final Catherine Trailer is Nothing But Gameplay and Promo Bumper

With Atlus dropping Catherine into the laps of North American gamers next week, said gamers should familiarize themselves with these extended clips of block climbing to soften the shock of seeing it in your nightmares. Catherine is sexy, sassy, scary, sure; it’s also about climbing tons of blocks, sometimes being chased by creepy babies. It…

The Story of Rapture Begins Here

Andrew Ryan was a visionary, dreaming of a utopian society where great men and women could live free of the rules and the government keeping them from realizing their true potential. His story begins in BioShock: Rapture, available today in bookstores everywhere. Written by John Shirley, the award winning author of Cyberpunk classics like City…

Call of Juarez: The Cartel Includes At Least One Cowboy Hat

And there’s also this um, western music, and the dusters. So there you go: Western shooter.

GoldenEye 007 Reloaded Is Real, Coming to PS3 and Xbox 360

Activision will be tightening up the graphics on 2010’s GoldeneEye 007 for the Wii—the re-imagining of the 1997 Nintendo 64 game of the same name—bringing it to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as GoldenEye 007 Reloaded. See? Reloaded, expected to be officially unveiled at the San Diego Comic-Con this week, appears to be a…

Get Hunters HD on the Cheap

Hunters HD, the iPad and iPhone game that Luke recently enthused about, is on sale for the next day or so. Pick it up now for $0.99, down from the regular price of $7.99. Since it’s release in February, the team-based strategy game has been downloaded more than 500,000 times.

Our Newest Xbox Live Indie Favorites are Full of Rainbows and Death

Every two weeks, we weigh in on our favorite selections on Xbox Live’s indie channel. These are not Microsoft-approved games. They’re created by everyone from the average Joe to upstart game companies, and reviewed by users like you. We list the stand-outs here and in the Kotaku’s Favorites channel in Xbox Live’s Games Marketplace. New…

Build Your Own Private Plane in Your PC Room

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is the most successful mass produced light aircraft in history, yet it exists in a price range far beyond the reach of mortals. Its controls, however, can be yours for $450, courtesy of Mad Catz. Mad Catz is now shipping a trio of officially licensed Cessna products to PC; the Cessna…

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