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  Your First Look at an Intense Dead Space 2 Trailer

  Dead Space 2 is one of the year’s most anticipated games, and we’ve got an inside look at the action-horror series’ next chapter. Check out an exclusive pulse-pounding trailer featuring Smashing Pumpkins, plus our interview with Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis. Who can Isaac Clarke trust? How can he survive on a whole space station full…

  By Charlie Jane Anders Published January 12, 2011
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  Praise Jesus, In Front Of A Super Mario Backdrop

  Why is Bishop Paul Ojeda preaching in front of a giant Wii Remote and some of those tall mushrooms from Super Mario Brothers? It was part of the Austin Power House Church’s Wii Love Jesus event which involved a guy running around dressed as Mario, kids doing trust falls and lots of fake Wii Remotes.…

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 12, 2011
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  Not Even Superman Can Defeat Mother Nature

  Sony Online Entertainment’s massively multiplayer superhero game DC Universe Online launched yesterday, and I was not there to see it. What diabolical villain kept me from playing a major MMO release on day one? What you are looking at is enough snow to cause a major metropolitan area to grind to a halt. It may…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2011
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  Was Modern Warfare 2 An Act Of Sabotage?

  Was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 a “silent rebellion” on the part of Infinity Ward, an early shot in the big Activision legal battle? Kotaku commenter Shibuya ESPer explores the possibility in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. Has anyone ever considered the ridiculous possibility that (Modern Warfare 2) was actually a premeditated “silent rebellion” type…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2011
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  Accused Tucson Shooter Asked Fellow Gamers If They Had ‘Aggression 24/7’

  In the months leading up to a violent Tucson shooting spree, gamers and friends say Jared Lee Loughner spent time in gaming forums rambling and talking about anger issues under a variety of drug-inspired user names. In one post found in the forums for massively multiplayer online game Earth Empires, the 22-year-old high school drop…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2011
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  This Is Not The Right Outfit To Wear In A Firefight

  This is what passes for well-protected in SG Interactive’s newly-launched free-to-play online first-person PC shooter Project Blackout. Nothing says “I’m combat ready!” like a camouflage crop jacket, Daisy Dukes with fishnet stockings, and a padded orange thermal bikini top.

  By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2011
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  Okamiden Masters the Art of Breaking Wind

  Our latest look at Capcom’s portable take on Okami was full of breaking wind. You break wind to the left, you break wind to the right, you break wind straight on, all to show off the game’s latest magic brush technique. In Okamiden you work wolf pup Chibiterasu through the game with the help of…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2011
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  Batman Would Completely Dominate World Of Warcraft

  Billionaire Bruce Wayne uses his fortune to fund his never-ending war on crime. If events had played out differently, perhaps he’d be a gamer, using his fortune to fund a never-ending war against the Lich King. In this video mash-up created by Justin Herrera, the Dark Knight spends his considerable resources to create the World…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2011
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  Limbo Leads Developers Choice Award Nominations

  BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 is nominated for five of ten awards at the 11th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Rockstar’s western epic Red Dead Redemption is up for six. Playdead’s downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game Limbo has them both beat. Limbo’s stark visuals, thoughtful puzzles, and purposefully vague story captivated players last year, and they…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2011
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  The Xbox 360 Tries Again To Replace TV Programming

  Starting this spring Microsoft will again test the waters for a video game that replicates, perhaps replaces, something you might watch on television. In 2009, Microsoft turned the once-popular television game show 1 Vs. 100 into a very popular mob trivia game on the Xbox 360. The game had a regular season, a live audience…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2011
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  The Brutality After A Mortal Kombat Fatality

  The fatalities in classic fighting game Mortal Kombat are so horrible. But have you seen what happens after them? Click to view Dorkly Bits: Mortal Kombat After Fatality [YouTube]

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 12, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  This is Kotaku’s official forum, the place where you can talk all you want about video games. Today’s excellent image comes from reader JIberry. Submit your best one to #TAYpics

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 12, 2011
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  Explode American Capitalist Pigs For Free, For Fun

  The folks behind Alien Hominid HD have a little Freudian present for you iPhone gamers out there. Developers The Behemoth are in the process of turning Super Soviet Missle Mastar, a mini-game hidden in Alien Hominid HD, into a free iPhone title. Complete with big white phallic missile, capitalist pigs and a U.S.-shaped target, all…

  By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2011
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  With Booze, Does Size Matter?

  To: Crecente From: Bash RE: Epic Sends Me The Tiniest Gin and Tonic I see your mini-gin and tonic and raise you two mini cups of Japanese sake! What you missed last night Shooting Dogfaces, A Singsong Voice And My Other Favorite Gaming Moments Of 2010 It’s Game On In Japan’s Sex Hotels Did Capcom…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011
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  Telling Others Where They Can Put Their Doodle

  Put away your pens and paper, because the makers of the iPhone’s most popular games don’t want anyone else doodling. Doodle Jump from Lima Sky is a regular in the top ten on the Apple App charts, but it’s not the first iOS game to have “doodle” in it. However, other developers are claiming that…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011
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  PSP2 Megaton To Drop On January 27

  Rumor has it that Sony is holding a meeting in Tokyo on January 27 to finally reveal the PSP2. More info on VG247.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011
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  Shooting Dogfaces, A Singsong Voice And My Other Favorite Gaming Moments Of 2010

  2010 might be over, but my memories of the year’s games still live on and on. Here are some of my favorite gaming moments of 2010. These are in no particular order and do know that these moments are not a list of my favorite games of 2010. Several of these games would show up…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011
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  A Wretched Hive Of Scum And Assassini

  Donglu Yu is an artist who worked on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. With the game now complete and out in the wild, it’s time for Yu to share some of her amazing work. As a lover of heavy coffee table books that are full of concept art, I can only hope that one day, Ubisoft sees…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011
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  Did Capcom Totally Copy Someone Else’s Work?

  Capcom Mobile has a little game out on the App Store called MaXplosion, where you run around a science lab blowing yourself up. If you think that sounds familiar, well, that’s because it is. It appears to be almost identical not just in premise, but in execution and even visual themes to ‘Splosion Man, a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011
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  This Apartment Is No Nerd Slob Hole

  The thing about nerd hovels is that the their stereotypical image is of being dark, dank, messy and cluttered with crap. Swiss dude Melonpan’s lair is anything but. It’s breezy and bright and all his game controllers, comics and figures are neat and tidy and displayed with such care. More pictures of his going’s on…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011