Own The Art Of Alice: Madness Returns Before The Game

We won’t be able to get our hands on Alice: Madness returns the game until June 14. Luckily Dark Horse’s gorgeous 184 page hardcover art book for the game will be here in May to tide us over. Due for publication on May 11, The Art of Alice offers fans an unprecedented look at the…

Resistance, Mutilated Bodies and Kylie Minogue

I flew into San Francisco today. I’m actually sitting in a middle to back row of The Great Gamification Debate as I write this. GDC is SO on. Also, check back in a few hours for an interesting new game announcement. Think Fast, Shoot Fast, Kick Ass In many ways, Playstation 3 first-person shooter Resistance…

PS3 Owners, Your Crysis 2 Demo Is Coming Soon

The multiplayer demo for Crysis 2 will come to PlayStation 3 owners on March 15, EA confirmed today. The full retail game ships one week later, so play it quickly!

Go To Hell With Shadows of the Damned This Summer

Shinji Mikami and Goichi “Suda 51,” the creators behind demon-slaying action adventure Shadows of the Damned, will bring their next adventure to consoles on June 7, EA revealed today. The developers said during an onstage presentation that their work is heavily influenced by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s direction in the 2007 exploitation double feature…

Batman Doesn’t Just Let Random Superheroes Wander Into The Batcave

Even a comic book-based video game requires a little suspension of disbelief. Take the Batcave Inner Sanctum group combat raid from DC Universe Online, in which Batman enlists a group of newbie heroes to protect his most sacred of places. “Wow, Batman. Your inner sanctum is directly under Wayne Manor? How weird is that?” Right,…

Alice: Madness Returns Makes A Very Important Date For June

The man with the coolest name in video games, American McGee, put a date on Alice: Madness Returns at GDC today. The dark world of Wonderland will return on June 14 when Spicy Horse’s sequel comes to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Microsoft Reanimates Dead Xbox Live Gamertags

Was your original choice for an Xbox Live gamertag unavailable? Well check again! Microsoft has started reviving previously used and unavailable gamertags, so now’s the time to recapture your former glory. Some bastard is still hogging the Fahey gamertag, but you might have better luck. According to Xbox Live’s Major Nelson, Microsoft is slowly reactivating…

It’s Not A Game Developers Conference Without Capoeira

While preparing for the 2011 Game Developers Conference to kick into full gear tomorrow, our Stephen Totilo takes a moment to soak up the not-so-local flavor outside San Francisco’s Moscone Center. McWhertor, Totilo, and Crecente are all getting ready for the non-stop pace of GDC 2011, so I’m left alone in Kotaku Tower, forced to…

Gears of War 3’s Designer On Betas, Bugs & Cheerleader Outfits

Gears of War design director Cliff Bleszinski wants you to play his game’s upcoming beta, not only to extract a “metric fuckton of data” from your playing time, but for you to upload whatever bugs you see to YouTube. Bleszinski, who says the April-due Gears of War 3 beta is as much about weapon and…

The Best Game Design Schools In North America

Looking to embark on a wondrous career in game design? GamePro Media and The Princeton Review have teamed up for a second year to list the 10 best graduate and undergraduate schools for video game design in North America. With video games becoming an increasingly important part of our culture every year, more and more…

Sins Of A Solar Empire Spurs A Rebellious Expansion

The intergalactic war of Ironclad Games’ real-time strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire has gone on too long, prompting the game’s third expansion, Rebellion, packed with new tech and ships capable of destroying entire fleets all by their lonesome. Diplomacy is no longer an option in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. Sub-factions have…

PlayStation Home Soon To Be Home To First-Person Shooters & Racing Games

This spring, Sony’s social networking platform PlayStation Home will graduate to version 1.5, bringing with it “real-time multiplayer.” That update is designed to make fast-paced video games, racers and first-person shooters, playable in Home. The next big PlayStation Home upgrade will introduce new development tools that include “an improved physics engine, refined animation and graphics,”…

PixelJunk Shooter 2: The Kotaku Review

For one third of PixelJunk Shooter 2, players will command a small spaceship whose guns and thrusters must contend with the small problems of creatures that belch missiles or lava and with the large problem that the caves through which it flies are intestines churned with the processes of digestion. For the remaining two-thirds of…

Thermal Attraction Watches Change Color As Your Body Temp Rises

All in favor of heating up, raise your hands. This spring, show just how much body heat you generate with the new Thermal Attraction watches from Diesel. Their straps register body heat and show the world how hot you are by changing color. All watches come with silver and black dial with digital function. Check…

A Video Game, Violence, And Depression Study That Looks At The Big Picture

Over the past decade countless studies have arisen supposedly proving a causal link between video games, violent behavior, and depression. A new study conducted by Christopher J. Ferguson pinpoints why all of the others may have gotten it wrong. Video games cause violent behavior. Video games don’t cause violent behavior. Video games cause depression. Video…

Bam! Pow! Kinect Can Turn Your Life Into The Batman TV Show

When I punch a man in real life, no cartoon words pop up in front of my fist. But on the 1960s Batman TV show that kind of thing happened when heroes traded fists with villains. Now, thanks to the Xbox 360’s Kinect sensor array and students at Carnegie Mellon University, we can enjoy that…

The Most Surprising Fantasy Game Expansion Pack Ever Created

Yes, the first expansion pack to Arrowhead Studios’ runaway PC role-playing hit Magicka is titled Magicka: Vietnam. It’s okay to be a little speechless here. We’re right there with you. Magicka is an action role-playing game that’s won the hearts of PC gamers around the world with its combination of intelligent action and tongue-in-cheek humor.…

Mod Men Shows You How PC Modding Is Done

Want to enter the magical world of PC modding but have no clue where to start? Mod Men is a new five-episode web series that will show how the experts turn boring old PCs into works of high-performance art. Modder-extraordinaire Bill Owen of Mnpctech stars in Mod Men, a web television series for both PC…

L.A. Noire Examines Death In All of Its Misery

Elizabeth Short was beaten, sliced lips to ears, forced to eat excrement and then cut in half and drained of blood. Her gruesome death on Jan. 15, 1947 was never solved despite the efforts of LA’s best police and worst journalists. Nicknamed The Black Dahlia, her case has been loosely linked to other serial killings…

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