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  What Are You Playing This Weekend?

  I’m not gonna lie. This weekend will be a major Demon’s Souls weekend. Again. After investing more than 100 hours in this PlayStation 3 game, what else is there to do? Well, beat it for the third time, finally accomplish the Mephistopheles assassination quests, farm some crystal lizards and get the Demon’s Souls platinum trophy.…

  By Michael McWhertor Published April 1, 2011
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  Atlus’ Fake Rock Of Ages Ripoff Gathers No Moss

  If a game company is going to do something silly for April Fools’ Day, we might as well all get a free game out of it, right? Today Atlus accuses developer ACE Team stole the idea for action-strategy game Rock of Ages and used it to make a 2D game that you can play right…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2011
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  Grand Theft Auto‘s Latest Gift To Hollywood Looks Painful

  There are many wonderful things that a Hollywood filmmaker could borrow from Grand Theft Auto, including better police chases and user-controlled soundtracks, but the director of this weekend’s Jake Gyllenhaal movie Source Code is snatching something else. Here’s filmmaker Duncan Jones talking to the Columbus Dispatch: There’s this infamous video game, Grand Theft Auto, where,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 1, 2011
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  New Angry Birds Already Hits 10 Million Mark

  Angry Birds Rio, the Angry Bird sequel for iPhone, iPad and Androud has already been downloaded 10 million times, 10 days since the game came out, according to the website Mobile Entertainment, which confirmed the details with the game’s creators at developer Rovio. The Finnish game-makers count the free and paid versions of Rio in…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 1, 2011
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  The Week in Gaming Apps

  We checked out one pricey Final Fantasy game, a neat GameBoy camera emulator, discovered a game that reminded us of Final Fantasy Tactics, X-Com and Shining Force, flicked footballs and played a PC MMO on an Android tablet. It was a week of Gaming Apps that saw the start of an examination of games not…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 1, 2011
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  This Is A Live-Action Modern Warfare Killstreak

  What would Call of Duty killstreaks look like in real life? Maybe like this. This was created by a crew called The Film Fest Rejects, who also made a video featuring Solid Snake facing off against his greatest foe: Sam Fisher Good job, rejects!

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 1, 2011
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  Dungeon Siege III or Diablo III?

  With Blizzard reluctant to nail down the release of Diablo III, Dungeon Siege III is increasingly looking like the computer game that will be satisfying my clicky dungeon brawler itch this spring. Here’s a look at Lucas, one of the game’s four playable characters. Clicky!!!

  By Brian Crecente Published April 1, 2011
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  We Offer 3DS Advice To Nerds

  I appeared on College Humor’s Nerd Alert show yesterday in order to make the other people on the show seem funnier. They also wanted my expertise about the 3DS, which I told them they don’t need to buy now — but should plan to get someday. Sure, we already told you that here at Kotaku,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 1, 2011
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  Your First Episode Of Back To The Future Is Free

  Episodic adventure crafter Telltale Games has dropped all charges for the first installment of its Back to the Future series, making it available for free download to anyone with a PC or Mac capable of playing it.

  By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2011
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  Sega Makes No Apologies For This Thor Wii Trailer

  While the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the upcoming Thor movie tie-in game embrace the thunder god’s movie appearance, Red Fly Studios’ version looks a bit more like World of Warcraft exploded in New York City. Graphics aren’t everything, of course. I’ll take a fast-paced cartoony game to a slow and stuttering graphically…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2011
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  Vendetta Online Offers a Glimpse of What a Portable Eve Online Could Be

  This is no Eve Online, nor is it meant to be. It’s Vendetta Online, a 7-year-long space massively multiplayer online game now playable on Android tablets. While there is much that separates the twitch space combat, and NPC alien infested outer limits of Vendetta from the purely player driven machinations of Eve, one can serve…

  By Brian Crecente Published April 1, 2011
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  Addictive Is The New Epic

  In this addictively epic edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage the Skilled Furby is having trouble dealing with the video game industry’s ever-changing buzzwords. Apparently, “addictive” is the new “epic”. A while back we started seeing that every game included an “epic” storyline where the fate of the universe rested in the balance. Now,…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2011
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  Watch The Lovely Ladies Of Mortal Kombat Beat Each Other Skinless

  First we got an all-ninja round of Mortal Kombat tag team action, and now Netherrealm Studios gives us an all-female battle royale. It’s all fun and games until the crotch skin comes off. Which is better, Mortal Kombat ninja battles, or this video of the Mortal Kombat ladies in action? It’s a trick question, really.…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2011
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  The Gmail Version Of Kinect Is Google’s April Fool’s Joke

  Imagine a world in which sending an e-mail is as simple as standing in front of an Xbox 360 Kinect and making a fool of one’s self. Send a message not by pressing a button, but by making a stamp-licking gesture. Stand on one foot to inscribe a P.S. These are the joke innovations for…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 1, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Welcome to April, a new month for talking amongst yourselves about video games. A new month brings new art. This month, you’re invited to make visual video game riffs upon The Class Pranksters, a painting by Auguste Joseph Trupheme that was submitted by reader Ari Kagura. Submit your image to #TAYpics (Read this thread for…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 1, 2011
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  These New Shots From Skyrim Are No Laughing Matter

  There’s nothing funny at all about the latest screenshots from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, unless you count the amount of time I spent making sure no one hid penises in them. No one is safe on April Fools’ Day. We’ll spend as much time today verifying our stories are true before posting them as…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2011
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  This Is Not The Next Guild Wars 2 Character Class, But We Wish It Was

  ArenaNet’s upcoming massively-multiplayer online game Guild Wars 2 has warriors, magic-users, and rogues. What’s missing? Elite military commandos. For one day and one day only, that role has been filled. Imagine playing through a SOCOM mission with your buddies and finding yourself in World of Warcraft. That’s the idea behind ArenaNet’s Commando class for Guild…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2011
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  April Fools’ Day Is Stupid. I Hate It.

  AMPLE | OSAKA, JAPAN: A card game aimed at kids provides an eyeful. (Photo: Brian Ashcraft) Wake Up, Kotaku Good morning, Kotaku. It’s April 1. April Fools Day. A day when the internet becomes a wasteland of bad jokes and annoying fake news. So wherever you tread today, be cautious. And if it’s any consolation,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2011
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  2010 Was The Year The Sony Passed Nintendo In Japan

  According to Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan last year. The PSP also outsold the Nintendo DS. This is the first time Sony has ruled both home and portable consoles. [via Famitsu]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2011
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  Fukushima Nuclear Plant Getting Help From…An Xbox 360 Controller?

  The situation at Fukushima is far from over. The Japanese government is working hard to cool the nuclear cores and contain the problem. Help from outside is being enlisted, too. Help that is powered by an Xbox 360 controller. North America’s QinetiQ deployed its unmanned Talon robots in Fukushima. According to QinetiQ, the robots are…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2011