This Dead Island Trailer Has More Rewinding and Rap

How did things go so wrong on the Dead Island island? The game’s new E3 trailer explains… just a little bit more.

Spider-Man: Edge of Time Screens

Spyro’s Back in This Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure Trailer

Bringing toys and games together, Skylanders uses a platform to sync action figures to your game.

Kinect Fun Labs Delivers Object Scanning, Life-Like Avatars, Personalized Bobbleheads, and More

Going live on the Xbox 360’s Kinect hub later this morning, Kinect Fun Labs is a series of gadgets that deliver enhanced functionality to Microsoft’s magical camera peripheral, including scanning in your face to create realistic avatars and unrealistic bobbleheads. While the official reveal isn’t happening for another hour and a half, the Xbox.com website…

All the Metal, Mechs and Bullets You Could Ever Want

Out this year in Japan (next year elsewhere), Armored Core V is the latest mech combat title from From Software. This is the game’s latest trailer. More at the game’s official site

Microsoft’s E3 2011 Website Outs Halo 4 and More

Microsoft’s E3 2011 briefing isn’t until 9:30 AM Pacific. Someone forgot to tell the Xbox.com guys that, because for a brief moment around 9:30AM Eastern, fans caught a glimpse of Halo 4 Dance Central 2, Halo 4, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Kinect Star Wars, and more appeared in name only this morning, the links attached…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves! This is a forum for talking about any and all video game-related topics, so feel free to talk about whatever games are on your mind today. Let’s all give Incursor a hand for his nifty Red Dead Redemption-themed image. Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics…

3DS System Update to Strike Tonight

It looks as though the 3DS is scheduled to update to version 2.0.0-2U sometime this evening. Keep an eye out for it.

This Guy Will Make Duke Nukem Drinks to Get You Shitfaced

This is Mike. He makes drinks. Game drinks. He’s interested in possibly making a book of his game-themed cocktails. I’d rather watch him on YouTube. This is fascinating. I love the abrupt pan at the beginning. I love all the booze. I love how soothing Mike is. There’s a whole website, too, filled with game…

Demolition Dash is an Adorable Little Rampage

The cops are yelling something at me in French—I think it’s “We’re cops!”—but, like a two-year-old with a head of steam, I pay them no mind, knocking over everything in my way and screaming at whatever won’t move. Demolition Dash doesn’t put you at the wheel of a terrible toddler but something just as cute,…

E3 is About to Begin. Get Ready.

While the showroom floor won’t open until tomorrow, E3 begins today, with press conferences from Microsoft, Ubisoft and Sony. There’ll be new games, new info and, most importantly, new hardware to take a look at. We’ll be coming to you live from Microsoft’s press conference first up, which is due to commence at 9:30am PST.…

When Iggy Pop and His Boogers Came to E3

Lust for Gaming | LOS ANGELES, CA: In May 2004, Iggy Pop showed up at the E3 PlayStation 2 celebration (Photo: Robert Bertoia | Getty) Your Handy Guide to E3’s Big Press Conference Kick-Off Times Keeping track of E3’s big press conferences-where all the important announcements are made-can be hard enough. But keeping track of…

Nintendo Japan Joins Twitter

Welcome to 2009, Nintendo! The Kyoto-based game maker is finally joining Twitter. If you like getting Nintendo announcements in Japanese from Nintendo Co., Ltd., then this is a Twitter account you should follow! [ファミ通]

Eight Minutes of NeverDead Lives!

NeverDead is a tongue-in-cheek third person shooter in which you can rip off your head and THROW IT. Designed by Shinta Nojiri of Metal Gear Ac!d fame and developed by Rebellion of Aliens vs. Predator fame, NeverDead is due out later this year on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Just Imagine These Ninja Boobs in 3D

When the girls of Senran Kagura aren’t jiggling their jubblies, they’re eating phallic sushi rolls and playing in the surf. You can change character costumes, too. Boobs aside, the trailer does show hack-and-slash and adventure element, before going back to the default: boobs. Oh yeah, the game also has boobs. Did I mention boobs? Boobs.

Hey, Why Does Japan Have More Time to Get Excitebike?

File under UNFAIR. In North America and Europe, 3D Classics: Excitebike can be downloaded free of charge until July 7, 2011. In Japan, it can be downloaded until July 31. What gives?

Call of Duty: Elite Starts Shooting Next Month

Call of Duty Elite, Activision’s attempt to make even more money out of the venerable shooter franchise, will go into beta on July 14. It’ll be invite-only, and only Black Ops’ multiplayer users will be considered.

Hitman: Absolution‘s First Screens Look Like This

Not one screen, but two. Until now, we’ve only had 27 seconds of a teaser, but here are apparently Hitman: Absolution‘s first in-game screens. Slated for a 2012 release, multiplatform Hitman: Absolution is the fifth Hitman title. The latest screenshots for Hitman: Absolution screens sneak in [Eurogamer via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

Someone Finally Got Cloud’s Hair Right

I see literally hundreds of people trying to cosplay as Final Fantasy characters for this feature, and few even get close to matching Square Enix’s vision of vertical, spiky locks. So this authentic mess of hair is something to be both admired, and applauded. I don’t care if it’s a plastic wig. The entire point…

Your Handy Guide to E3’s Big Press Conference Kick-Off Times

Keeping track of E3’s big press conferences-where all the important announcements are made-can be hard enough. But keeping track of them and then knowing what time that is in your particular part of the world? That’s really hard! So we figured, let’s make it a little easier on you guys, and put together this chart…