Quick, How Many Ads Can You Spot On This NASCAR Box

Let’s thank the crew behind the Activision Eutechnyx NASCAR 2011 The Game Lowe’s GoDaddy Cheerios Impala. They gave us some super box art that run real good today. The game releases March 29, part of a sportspocalypse month in gaming.

Is Nintendo Bringing Back The Insufferable ‘Friend Code’ For The 3DS?

Nintendo’s clumsy method for connecting Wii and Nintendo DS players to others online, the dreaded Friend Code system, may be returning for the Nintendo 3DS if a report from magazine Famitsu is accurate. In a preview detailing online multiplayer for Capcom’s Super Street Fighter IV 3D, the Japanese magazine writes that players can manage an…

By Super Mario’s Beard, Batman!

Robert Mangaoang went all out with his latest mash up drawing. Honest Abe, Mario and the goddamn Batman make for one awesome little crime fighter. Related Zombies: Vader | Ackbar | Ewok | Ryu | Ghost | Master Chief Super Batman Lincoln Mario by Robert Mangaoang (Etsy) (Twitter) Via: doomsdaily Need your daily fill of…

Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime Screens

A Deeper Look Inside Ghostbusters’ Sanctum of Slime

You know, Atari’s taking a big risk with its next Ghostbusters game. Huge risk. You say something like “Sanctum of Slime” and you’re just asking for nasty double entendres about, well, you know … goin’ up ol’ mustard road. That’s not what these eight screenshots are about, however. No, they’re about the weapons the ghost-fighting…

Glass Monkey, That Funky Monkey

What’s made of blue glass and shaped like a monkey with a joystick in its hand. Weird, right? What you missed The Xbox 360 Tries Again To Replace TV Programming Batman Would Completely Dominate World Of Warcraft Accused Tucson Shooter Asked Fellow Gamers If They Had ‘Aggression 24/7’ Was Modern Warfare 2 An Act Of…

A Bittersweet Reunion With The NES

Can your Nintendo miss you? Can you keep it together while a man reflects on the misty water-colored memories of Super Mario Bros. 3 speed runs and being a Battletoad? Are you already re-hooking up your NES, Kotaku reader? Still Unemployed 13 [YouTube via Reddit]

Painful Laughter, Killing Castro And My Other Favorite Gaming Moments of 2010

Suicide, laughter, and the believed death of a communist leader. These were just some of my ten favorite moments from my favorite games of 2010. (Spoilers) We’ll have favorites from the rest of the team throughout the week. There are SPOILERS ahead so don’t read it if you don’t like SPOILERS Brian Crecente’s Favorite Gaming…

MMA Contender Muscles Up For an M-Rated Release

Unsanctioned, underground and uncompromising, says the mixed martial arts title Supremacy MMA. It’s also unrated as of now, but if it’s got a shattered femur flopping around in it, one can expect the game to be rated M. That would make Supremacy MMA, from 505 Games, the second major sports game to get a Mature…

Colbert, You’re Doing It Wrong

iPhone enthusiast and The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert gives a wag of his finger to Rovio’s pig-smashing hit Angry Birds on Twitter. Pity Stephen’s parakeet.

Which Console Is Best For First-Person Shooting Racists?

In order to determine which video game console you should play, you must ask yourself a few questions. Are you a gamer? Do you prefer first-person shooters? Racist or non-racist? Dorkly’s handy flowchart insults and informs. Judging by this graphic, I should be playing games exclusively on the original PlayStation. I have absolutely no problem…

You Still Have Time To Help Shape The He-Man Game, Got Any Ideas?

Just one week ago we were pretty sure that a He-Man video game was in the works. It turns out that it’s more of just a hope and a dream right now. So now’s your chance to be influential. Danny Bilson, avowed Kotaku reader and head of “core” games at game publisher THQ told us…

Mass Effect 2 Is Also Coming To The PlayStation Store

It may be a little late, but Mass Effect 2 for the PlayStation 3 is doing something seriously right. In addition to shipping on good old reliable Blu-ray discs next week, it’s also coming to Sony’s PlayStation Network. BioWare will release a digital download version of Mass Effect 2 on January 18 on the PlayStation…

Minecraft Marches Past A Million

Minecraft, the world-building indie hit, has now racked up more than 1,000,000 sales, says its creator Markus “Notch” Persson. Not bad for a game still in beta!

Zac And Snoop Play the Charity Game

Snoop Dogg and Zac Efron spent last night at the H.O.M.E. Foundation’s STIKS Celebrity Video Game Challenge in Hollywood, where Efron battled fellow actor Michael Strahan in Madden NFL 11 for the I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

What Guillermo Del Toro Told A Roomful Of Game Developers

Movie director Guillermo del Toro goes to a meeting with the game developers who are working on a new game trilogy with him. He delivers an ultimatum. Danny Bilson, one of the higher-ups from the game’s publisher at THQ recalled this ultimatum while talking to Kotaku today: “He said, ‘At the next meeting I want…

So, Is This Your Legend of Zelda Rip-off, Gameloft?

On the one hand, the next iPhone and iPad game from the copycats at developer Gameloft has airships. One the other, the “legendary” unnamed game also has talking trees, will o’ wisps and adventure on horseback. See a link? Since Gameloft already has at least one Final Fantasy-like—Eternal Legacy—on its long list of iOS clones,…

This Video Game World Record Will Blow You Away

Yesterday Guinness awarded Jesse Moerkerk of Dutch gaming magazine N-Gamer a world record certificate for playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 for 18.52 minutes. Oh, and he did it while free-falling. It’s a brand new Guinness world record, but a world record nonetheless. From within the confines of an indoor skydiving tunnel, something I didn’t know…

One Day You Might Think ‘Saints Row’ Without Thinking ‘Grand Theft Auto’

Saints Row is the video game series many of us think of, with good reason, as the premiere Grand Theft Auto imitator. In theory, we won’t think of the next Saints Row that way. “All I can tell you is that [pause] it’s all good,” Danny Bilson the head of “core” games at Saints Row…

Scientist Plan Probe To Study Uranus

Uranus is a cold and distant world that hasn’t been seen up close for 25 years. British scientists propose a plan to launch a satellite in that could shed new light on the mysteries of the frozen planet. The seventh planet in the solar system and the third largest, Uranus was first discovered in 1781…