Going Off The Rails On A Guitar Made Out Of An NES

Here’s a late entry for our 2010 Gift Guide Obscene Nicety and Sublime Naughtiness: an electric guitar made out of an NES. It’s $150, though currently its maker only has one in stock. You can get it through GetLoFi.com’s web shop, according to the caption on the YouTube video. “The signal is routed through the…

This Amazing Deus Ex Trailer Will Need Some Popcorn

This is a new cinematic trailer for next year’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It’s, uh, pretty great. You’ve seen some of the sequences before in previous clips, but much of it is all new, and is looking incredible. Not from a gameplay standpoint, as you see precisely zero in-game action over the space of five…

Black Ops Has Probably Already Outsold Your Favorite Video Game

Call of Duty: Black Ops was released a month ago today. In that time, it has already sold more copies in the USA than games like Ocarina of Time, Super Mario Kart and Halo 3. Looking for specifics? That’s 8.4 million copies sold. In just the United States. Of course, it helps that the game…

Butterbean Returns To The Ring In Fight Night Champion

Yesterday we saw Eric Esch – aka Butterbean – getting his flab knocked around in Fight Night Champion. He’s one of 13 new boxers on a roster of 54 licensed personalities appearing in the game when it releases next year. Here’s the full card: Boxers New To Fight Night Champion “Butterbean” Eric Esch Chad Dawson…

Portal Gets Broken In The World’s Fastest Speed Run

This Portal player can beat the game in less than ten minutes, with many levels flying by in mere seconds. How can a Portal speed run happen so fast? Break Portal apart at the seams, of course. This sprint through Valve’s first-person puzzler is a combination of speedy backwards jumping, slipping through cracks in the…

Cool Game Arrives For The PS3’s Attractive People In Time For Christmas [Update]

Two years after its release on the PC and the Wii, all five episodes of Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People are coming to the PlayStation Network in North America on Dec. 21. Pricing wasn’t mentioned in Telltale Games’ statement on the PSN release, but the set of five currently runs $29.99 on the…

Nintendo’s Revised History Of Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. is 25 years old this year. To commemorate that anniversary, Nintendo is releasing the Super Mario All-Stars collection for Wii. The way Nintendo explains what Super Mario Bros. is and how one plays it has changed over the years. None of those changes are dramatic, though. What Nintendo calls Super Mushrooms in…

Clearing Up When X-Men Gets Here And What It Costs

If you’ve read that Konami’s arcade classic X-Men is getting a timed exclusive on Xbox Live Arcade, fear not, PS3 owners. Well, PS3 owners in North America anyway, where the game’s coming out a day earlier on PlayStation Network. A Konami rep verified for Kotaku that X-Men is out Dec. 14 on PSN, Dec. 15…

They’ve Got Jenga On The iPhone

The Natural Motion people know their physics. So they made a football game. And then they made a Jenga game. This iPhone Jenga game costs $3 and is out now. In the video I show the regular mode and the arcade mode. If you love Jenga, I guess this is good, but it feels more…

Aimez La Resistance, Get More Screenshots

Enough people paid the Facebook “Like” ransom so Insomniac released another four Resistance 3 screens today (on the heels of the seven that went out yesterday). There’s also a theme you can slap on your PS3. The studio had held the five shots hostage until more folks hit their page’s like button. Apparently some threshold…

The Coolest PlayStation 3 Bundle You Can’t Buy

Now this is a bundle: Laser-etched Killzone 3 PlayStation 3. Move Controller. PlayStation Eye Camera. Nike Move sneakers. Nike Killzone combat boots. Sony showed it all to us at a PlayStation event in New York today. This Nike Move PS3 bundle, as we’ve mentioned regarding the shoes inside it, won’t be sold to consumers. But…

A Visual Guide to the Sharp Shooter

The Goriest Nintendo Entertainment System

Hardcore gaming at its finest! Evan M. Lopez used this monster within a poster/postcard/flyer for Autumn Society‘s October Video Game Gore show. Video Game Gore by Evan M. Lopez Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.

Epic Mickey’s Designer Addresses Kloodgy Camera Complaints

A common criticism of Disney’s Epic Mickey (made by Totilo in his review, too) concerns the game’s flawed camera view. Warren Spector, the game’s designer, says the problem is the game bridges two styles that use fairly standard angles. “We did the best we could given that we were not trying to make a platform…

Late Night Dinner

Date: 12/9/2010 Time: 17:00 Location: New York City If you didn’t have the time to read Kotaku today, here’s your five-minute glimpse. Lawrence Of Arabia Inspires Next Year’s Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception U.S. Pegs Kim Jong-Il’s Second Son As A Gaming Loser First Live Demo of Uncharted 3 Hits TVs Nationwide Next Week Kotaku’s 2010…

Call of Duty “Phenom Booter” Use Lands British Teen In The Slammer

A U.K. teen using a tool called “Phenom Booter” to kick players off Call of Duty servers back in September is now enjoying a stay in jail following an investigation by the Manchester police department. Phenom Booter, which triggers a denial-of-service attack that can clear a server of specific users, or all of them, is…

Fight Night’s New Legacy

In case it wasn’t clear, “Champion Mode,” which is the role-playing career of fictional fighter Andre Bishop, is a wholly separate mode in Fight Night Champion. Legacy, the old career, will still return, with improvements. The big deal seems to be the addition of an experience point system replacing the old training structure whereby a…

A Disappointing Console Debut For Nintendo’s Plumber

In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, P4w4rr10r decides he’s a video game reviewer from 1986, taking on some game about a plumber on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Review: Mario Jumps His Way Into Oblivion In March, Nintendo will drop Super Mario Bros. in the States, a side-scrolling platformer for the brand new Nintendo Entertainment System. It…

This Is The Official PlayStation Move Submachine Gun

In case the official PlayStation Move handgun wasn’t powerful enough, Sony today reveals the PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter, a $40 Killzone 3-friendly plastic housing for your Move and navigation controller. Or you could just buy the new jungle green Dualshock 3. Now that Sony has their answer to the Wii remote and nunchuck it’s time…

Follow Me. Call Me. I Love You. Be Stupid.

What do you have to say in ten characters or less? You’d better think of something clever, because Diesel Watches wants you to have a brand-new LED panel watch, into which you can program anything you like. Ideas include: BrushTeeth, Pay Bills, High Score… Diesel’s new watches feature a scrolling LED message display, a silicone…