Do You Prefer Your Collector’s Edition Goodies Physical Or Virtual?

Art book or golden gun? Poster or multiplayer skin? In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid wants to know why some people prefer in-game collector’s edition prizes to tangible swag. What’s your poison? Why do so many people prefer in-game baubles rather than real world items when they order collector’s editions? I went into GameStop…

Mad Catz Is Making Official Wireless Headphones For The Xbox 360

Finding a quality set of headphones for the Xbox 360 just got a lot easier, as Microsoft teams up with peripheral maker Mad Catz to create a line of co-branded wired and wireless stereo headphones under Mad Catz’s Tritton brand. Mad Catz and Microsoft will be working together to design the headphone line, which will…

Two-Face Wants You

These lovely new images for Batman Arkham City hit today. Harley? Check. Two-Face? Check. Naughty clowns? Check. Your thoughts?

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome back to Kotaku’s official forum. Chat here about video games. Everyone else is doing it. Thanks to reader Aryxandre for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics

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MineCraft Comes to the iPhone With a Hate-Mail Inciting Twist

Game developer Robots and Pencils have been getting lots of attention lately, much of it in the form of hate mail. The developer recently released Minecraft World Explorer for the iPhone and iPad, an unofficial app that allows gamers to explore the worlds they create in the incredible popular computer game Minecraft. It sells for…

What Did I Do At 3pm Today?

On the dot, at that! What did you do? What you missed last night Why Halo’s Master Chief Is So Damn Empty It’s Like Angry Birds, Only With Balls How To Stop The Simplest Form Of Video Game Cheating Are Angry Fans Really Ruining Video Games? A New Super Mario Bros. Is Coming To Nintendo…

Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Is All About Teamwork

The latest Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One trailer shows how players can join forces to use the same weapon.

In 2011, Your Mecha Better Be Ready For Battle

This year, Armored Core 5 will be released in Japan. And if you like mechas, you’ll be all over this game. More details about the game, which was first revealed last year, are in the latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. As previously posted, the game’s concept is “mayhem” mechanical action. The game will…

Ringo Starr Ready To Drum Out A Video Game?

Ringo Starr might be “absolutely crap” at Rock Band, but that isn’t going to stop him from trademarking the crap out of his name, Ringo. Rather, Ringo™. The famed drummer registered the trademark for “downloadable computer games via the internet and wireless devices” as well as “toys, namely toy vehicles, plush toys” and “pet toys”…

Why Halo’s Master Chief Is So Damn Empty

Gaming has characters with memorable personalities. But Master Chief, the protagonist of the Halo series, is a total void. And there’s a reason for that. According to the studio’s lead writer Joseph Staten, “We left-out details to increase immersion; the less players knew about the Chief, we believed, the more they would feel like the…

Steam Can Save Your Screenshots

Steam has a new feature in beta whereby PC users can snap screenshots and have them uploaded to the cloud, where all their mates can see them. Handy for team bonding sessions!

It’s Like Angry Birds, Only With Balls

Bullistic is an Angry Birds clone. Only, I think I like it better. It’s the same premise as the Android and iPhone smash hit: you use a slingshot to vault animals across a stage so they break stuff, only instead of pigs, you’re now smashing vases and china. There’s a corny heavy guitar soundtrack, genitalia…

Japan’s Most Controversial Voice Actress Coming To Final Fantasy

Aya Hirano, who pissed off Japanese nerds with the admission of her social life, is coming to upcoming Final Fantasy game Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy​. Hirano will be lending her vocal talents to the game, voicing the character Prishe. Hirano started out as a voice actress, but is crossing into the mainstream in a way…

Mark Zuckerberg Will Never Catch ‘Em All

If Nintendo’s monster-catching craze was not a game, but a social network. As seen on +5 Mace

The 3DS Is 4D? 5D? Bwah?

When the Nintendo 3DS was first introduced, there was a trailer showing Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto shaking a dog’s paw that popped out of the 3DS, and Nintendo of America honcho Reggie Fils-Aime getting his faced burned off. Easy to understand! Since then, Nintendo’s enlisted the likes of popular boy band Arashi to make o-faces…

Witness The Birth Of Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. was first released in 1985. Back then, games weren’t designed on computers, using fancy 3D models. They were designed on paper, by men who ate nails for breakfast and wrestled bears after supper. Nintendo has published a new interview on its website with the creative forces behind the classic NES game. To…

It’s Dangerous For Your DS To Go Alone

Kotaku reader vidhagans had a problem. Her Nintendo DS, it was cold. Naked. Needed shelter. So she made these two cases, sporting Zelda themes, and now the thing is warm. And we are impressed One is based on Link getting his hands on the Triforce, the other on the scenery of SNES classic A Link…

How To Stop The Simplest Form Of Video Game Cheating

While spit-screen gaming is the ideal means for two people to truly share a multiplayer experience, it’s not without its problems. Like cheating. A problem these two industrious souls have managed to overcome. Above, witness exhibit A, which we’ll call the “ghetto method”. It involves some tape and a blanket. And the second player, who…

Little Girl Gamer Melts StarCraft’s Heart

This isn’t the first time this pre-schooler’s been exposed to StarCraft. The 4-year-old commentated on a StarCraft 2 match with “shooties” a few month back. But, now, she’s playing In the latest video, “Stargirl” plays Protoss on easy A.I. She needs to make more guys and wants to click on big buildings. She likes to…