More Talk Of Portal 2 Arriving Early As GLaDOS Invades Bit.Trip Beat

Could Valve actually release Portal 2 ahead of schedule, forcing us to rethink the properties of the universal constant known as Valve Time? Because the developer of Bit.Trip Beat, one of the title participating in Valve’s Potato Sack Pack offer and its associated alternate reality game, are hinting at that very thing. Gaijin Games just…

BlizzCon 2011 Tickets Will Briefly Be On Sale Next Month

Blizzard has cordoned off two fleeting moments in time next month in which fans can attempt to spend $175 per ticket to attend the annual celebration of all things Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo-related in Anaheim, California. BlizzCon 2011 takes place in October this year, same as last year, bucking Blizzard’s trend of alternating between August…

Sega Says It Had Streets of Rage Remake Pulled To ‘Protect Our Intellectual Property Rights’

The fan-made Streets of Rage homage released earlier this month after eight years in the making was recently pulled at the request of Sega. The original maker of the 16-bit Streets of Rage games says it took action to “protect our intellectual property rights.” Sega’s full statement is here

Ubisoft Tries Motion Controlled Fighting Again With Kinect’s PowerUP Heroes

Your Xbox Live avatars can engage in mortal combat with the Kinect powered PowerUP Heroes, scheduled to brawl on the Xbox 360 this June. Along with the announcement, in Ubisoft’s trademark oddball style, comes a deliciously goofy live action trailer for the game. Ubisoft calls PowerUP Heroes “the ultimate super power-infused full-body fighting game for…

You Can Star In The Next Sexy Catherine Trailer

In an effort to convince everyone that Catherine isn’t just about sexy anime women, Atlus is holding a contest to get fans to talk about love and marriage for the next trailer. Check out the YouTube description for more info.

The Threat Of A Tennessee-Sized Finger And Other Dangers Debuting In Asura’s Wrath

There’s a guy named Asura, who you can control, sometimes with very few buttons. He’s the star of Asura’s Wrath, a new absurd action game. Asura keeps the world safe… from giant fingers and other divine threats. Asura’s daughter has been kidnapped by demigods. Plus, there’s ogres of some sort that he has to worry…

Basement Defense? Anomaly Warzone Earth Turns Tower Defense On Its Head

I think the moment where Anomaly Warzone Earth—I don’t see a colon on the game’s website; letting all three words of the title evenly plod from the mouth pleasingly highlights its Eastern European pedigree—really grabbed me was the first time I rerouted my caravan of tanks and mechanized walkers to loop to endlessly pummel a…

A Marriage Built On Love, Respect, And The Need To Catch Them All

In today’s love-fueled Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Maureliuswolf explains just how amazing his Pokémon-loving wife as they ramp up to their second anniversary. I was planning on waiting to get the 3DS until OoT comes out; however, my wife had other plans. You see, two weekends ago, we saw the deal on Kotaku for Pokémon…

How Street Fighter X Tekken Controls And Why It’s Not Street Fighter Vs. Tekken

“Why isn’t your game called Street Fighter Vs. Tekken?” I asked Street Fighter X Tekken producer Yoshinori Ono last week in Miami. That “X” is pronounced “cross.” “We were trying to make it a much more adversarial kind of title,” he replied through a translator. “What we saw with the old Vs. games, like ‘X-Men…

The PlayStation Portion Of E3 Starts… Here?

We’ve been asked by the people behind PlayStation to save the date. June 6, 5pm Pacific. Los Angeles. That’s when their big E3 press conference will happen. That’s when we’ll probably find out about the biggest and best gaming plans for the PS3 and NGP, at least for the next year. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft…

Our First Peek At Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Gameplay Looks Vaguely Familiar

Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios pulled together some of the biggest names in fantasy to create Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, so it should come as no surprise that the game in motion looks like several excellent fantasy role-playing games rolled into one. So this is what happens when comic book artist and toy designer Todd McFarlane,…

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Is More Than A Four-Character Expansion

Many of the facts about the upcoming home version of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition leaked already. It adds four characters: Evil Ryu, Oni, Yun and Yang. It improved the game’s spectator mode, adding an Elite Channel that lets people watch games contested by players with 3000pp or more. It lets you follow up…

These Portal 2 Boots Were Made For Not Dying Painfully

The fourth and final Aperture Laboratories investment opportunity video is here, harping on the benefits of not having Chell’s shins forced into her nasal cavity when falling from great heights. You don’t want your shins inside of your nasal cavities. You do not even want The Shins inside your nasal cavity, which is probably why…

Running While Gunning Featured In Two Upcoming Resident Evil Games

In a break with controversial tradition, you won’t have to stop to shoot in either of the next two Resident Evil games. You can run-and-gun in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City; you can run-and-gun in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. Raccoon City is a team-based shooter, meant to be played either as black ops squad…

Magicka: Vietnam Runs Through The Jungle

It’s April 12, and Arrowhead Games is ready to drop players of their action role-playing game Magicka into the most treacherous fantasy land of them all: Vietnam. Check out the launch trailer and grab the expansion on Steam for $4.99

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Dragon’s Dogma Is The Devil May Cry Team’s Next Big Gamble

The first time I saw Dragon’s Dogma, I thought that the creators of the recent Devil May Cry sequels were making a mash-up of God of War and The Elder Scrolls. And I thought that that was a bad idea, a bad use of the labor of the largest development team to ever create a…

Why a 40-year-old Datsun is the second most popular car in Forza 3

It’s really no surprise that on this list of the 99 most-raced vehicles in Forza 3, the pole position goes to the Bugatti Veyron and its 1,001 virtual horsepower. Right behind it? The Datsun 510, a 40-year-old compact Japanese car. Why? For the same reasons they’re popular among classic racers — light weight and easy…

Asura’s Wrath Is Insane, See?

Asura’s Wrath may be the wildest game on the horizon. It’s an action game from Capcom and the people who made .hack, but more importantly, it’s about a man named Asura who has to fight the giant finger of a god, among other things. I saw this game last week at a Capcom showcase in…

See The Battles Of Street Fighter X Tekken, Plus A Dino Crisis Wink

Street Fighter X Tekken is a tag game, some of the heroes of Street Fighter against the heroes of Tekken. Fighting in such places as a Dino Crisis stage or in front of a ruined Capcom office. Enjoy a look at some of the game’s fights and look for more information about the game later…