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  Abbottabad Gamer Likens Bin Laden Raid to Call of Duty, Town to Smallville

  Last Sunday didn’t seem like a special day to Azim Durrani. The 20-year-old university student woke up late. He helped out with chores in the house, met up with a friend for coffee and went home to play some Bulletstorm and some Unreal Tournament. He had some homework to do that day, but he was…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2011
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  Wikileaks Suspect Bradley Manning Found Inspiration in Video Games

  In The Washington Post’s in-depth profile of the alleged source of classified information passed to WikiLeaks, a childhood friend discusses how computer games played a part in introducing Bradley Manning to the world of ideas. Bradley Manning is the soldier that was arrested in Iraq in May of last year on suspicion of passing classified…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2011
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  Should Video Game Retailers Screen Their Employees for Fanboyism?

  Should video game store employees be allowed to let their personal preferences influence which products they suggest? That’s the question commenter Uncle Jesse asks in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Fanboys are everywhere, but do some of you who work at retail shops and try to influence your customers? Just because you love something, doesn’t…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2011
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  The INSANE Numbers of Brink

  Brink has some shocking large numbers connected to it. There are, for instance, 45 ways to die in the game and one hundred times the weapon sounds. But those are the small numbers. The big numbers? They run into the quadrillions. Wait did I just make that up? Here is the full rundown of crazy…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 6, 2011
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  Embrace Your Roots and Roll a D6

  Goblins all around me, I be hacking them all up, hacking them all up… [Thanks Dominique]

  By Brian Crecente Published May 6, 2011
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  The Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid’s wheel is the world’s most insane video game controller

  Leave it to Porsche to see the steering wheels of Formula One as just a starting point for the controls of its 911 GT3 R Hybrid racer — a Porsche with a flywheel system so awesome it’s designed to kill you by stopping your heart. Somewhere in Stuttgart, there’s a Porsche engineer building Joerg Bergmeister…

  By Justin Hyde Published May 6, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  It’s that time again, folks. Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves, a special place dedicated to talking about whatever games are on your mind. Special thanks goes out to ShinLord for today’s image. Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)

  By Mike Epstein Published May 6, 2011
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  Poll: How Do You Feel About Sony Today?

  Sony’s had a tough month or so. First they had a series of denial of service attacks to deal with, and then, perhaps connected, a massive intrusion of several of their networks that forced them to shut down most everything they had online. We’re all hoping that the service returns in time for this weekend,…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 6, 2011
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  Enigmo is Good to the Last Drop on Windows Phone 7

  While Pangea Software’s dripping liquid puzzle game may have been around in one form or another since 2003, Enigmo is brand-new to Windows Phone 7 users, and it’s making a splash. In Enigmo, various liquids (water, lava, oil) fall from droppers and bounce about each levels platforms. The player is tasked with utilizing various mechanisms…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2011
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  Alliance of Tattered Pantyhose

  POSTER GIRLS | TOKYO, JAPAN: Alliance of Valiant Arms gets a push at a PC gaming festival in Akihabara. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) If Portal 2 Were a Badass 1970s Flick It’s not, of course, but if it were, then maybe it would look like Tristan Reidford’s stunning send-up. Reidford is an artist at Valve,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  In a Post-PSN Hack World, Nintendo Club Asks for Your Privacy

  Club Nintendo, Nintendo’s members with benefits club, is now asking members for permission to collect data. Just don’t say no—if you want to be a member, that is. According to website MCV, those who turn down Nintendo’s request will have their Club Nintendo membership canceled and their redeemable Club Nintendo Stars (think points) lost. This…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  If Portal 2 Were a Badass 1970s Flick

  It’s not, of course, but if it were, then maybe it would look like Tristan Reidford’s stunning send-up. Reidford is an artist at Valve, where he does mainly modeling. He should do more movie posters. Check out Reidford’s site for more impressive work. Portal2 70s style movie poster! [Tristan Reidford Art via Reddit] Portal2 70s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  Banned Clothes Ripping Game Tears up Android

  Rip! Mosatsu wasn’t family friendly enough for Apple’s iOS, but Android’s happy to have it. The app was based on the Mosatsu photobooks that feature “torn” photos of models, revealing their underwear. Apple banned the app a few months after it hit the App Store, apparently as part of the company’s war on smutty apps.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  So, Where (or When) Do You Think Assassin’s Creed III Will Be?

  Turns out that new Assassin’s Creed title is another Ezio game. Good news, sure, as the last two have been great, but at the same time…people are getting the itch for somebody new. For that third Assassin’s Creed game. One that will get us out of the Renaissance and into not only the shoes of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  Why Play FarmVille When You Can Help Run an Actual Farm Online?

  Aimed at capitalising on the popularity of Facebook smash hit FarmVille, Britain’s National Trust has established MyFarm, which is in many ways a game of FarmVille, only for real. A real estate in Cambridgeshire, England has been set aside to be “run” by 10,000 “farmers”, who each month will determine via voting what gets built,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  The Xbox 360 and Sony NGP’s Love Child

  If the Xbox 360 and the NGP ever mated, this would be their spawn. Dubbed the iReadyGo, the Chinese made handheld is open source and will run Android. The iReadyGo’s CPU apparently runs at 1GHZ, and the handheld supports 3G, GPS and WiFi—meaning those will probably work with some sort of dongle? Like with Sony’s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  Europe, Your PSN Identity Protection Is Coming

  PlayStation Network users in the US are being given access to an identity protection scheme. In Europe? Sony is working on it, saying the number of countries, companies and laws involved means it’ll take a little longer to set up. [PlayStation]

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  Portal 2 Makes Us Want a 3D Printer. So Bad.

  Owning a 3D printer must be like owning magic. Because that’s all they seem to do. Just…spit out magic. Like these custom Portal 2 turrets. Michael Curry and Luis Rodriguez were showing these off at the recent RoboGames 2011. Looking at the scale, they appear to be around, what, two feet high? Meaning I really…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  A PC Game So Popular, It’s Appearing in Japanese Arcades

  The shoot’em up Touhou Project games are fan-made PC games created by a one-man game studio. Touhou Project‘s creator, Zun, has been free-wheeling about derivative work—something that changed earlier this year. Touhou Project games are starting to appear in small numbers in Japanese arcades. For a special event, one Akihabara arcade put Touhou Project games…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  This Guy Built a Working Assassin’s Creed Hidden Blade

  I can’t think of many/any places where this kind of concealed weapon would be legal, but I can think of one place we can admire its craftsmanship: here. YouTube user ammnra is the man behind it, wisely keeping the footage restricted to him testing the blade in his bathroom, and not running around on rooftops…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011