Dead Space Aftermath Piles On The Cartoon Gore

January offers double the Dead Space, with the sequel to Visceral Games’ sci-fi horror hit landing on the 25th and the similarly gory animated spin-off, Dead Space Aftermath, arriving the same day. EA expands the Dead Space universe even further with Aftermath, a bloody animated film that follows up on the events of the original…

VGAs’ Overall Television Ratings Slide For Fourth Straight Year

The Video Game Awards are a high-profile event, but trade mainstream exposure for a production some gamers find cheaply stereotypical. That bargain still hasn’t conclusively paid off; overall ratings declined for a third straight year, but gained in some demographics. Variety reports that Saturday’s production delivered 627,000 viewers to Spike, a 3 percent drop from…

O Christmas Tree

Re: Guess You Could Call This Man My Hero What’s your Christmas tree look like? What you missed Look! Holiday cards!! Call Of Duty Guy Overpays For Five Games, Minecraft Guy Quadruples That Crysis 2 Is For Future-Soldiers Who Want To Think Jump the Line For the Age of Empires Online Beta A Glimpse at…

Is This Kinect’s First ‘Sex’ Game, Or Is It Just The Creepiest?

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 camera-controller Kinect has been hacked for dozens of fascinating purposes. Now we have its sleaziest, a working demo of a virtual girl groping “game” that lets you rub down polygonal boobs with your own hands. Sex video game maker ThriXXX claims it has built a Kinect-based interface for its brand of sex…

This Is What The iPad Adds To Pocket God

Pocket God, the hit iPhone-sized game about tormenting cartoon islanders gets an iPad spin-off tomorrow. With it, you’ll be able to toss the little guys into space, onto Uranus and through some classic arcade homages. I played it today. In the video here, I try the starter Pocket God: Journey To Uranus game. The developers…

Analog Pitching Controls Come To MLB 11 The Show

In a control switch that’s likely to be controversial to some, MLB 11 The Show’s default pitching, throwing and hitting controls will move to the right analog stick, though it will include the old face-button commands for the lifers. ESPN’s Jon Robinson, getting the first preview of Sony’s genre-leading baseball franchise, says the analog-based pitching…

MLB 11 The Show Screens

Rock Band Is Coming Down With Pac-Man Fever In 2011

Truly terrible arcade-inspired album Pac-Man Fever is coming to Rock Band Network next year, letting Rock Band owners relive the 1982 Buckner & Garcia classic from the comfort of their plastic instruments. IGN reports that Ozone Entertainment, which is carving out a niche in offering musical curiosities via Rock Band Network, will bring Bucker &…

Check out Tim Burton’s Superman Lives disco suit in action

We’ve posted concept art of the absolutely fabulous costume from Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, but how does the suit look on film? Like Clark Kent escaped from a Kryptonian rave. Here’s the video from Steve Johnson FX, which also provided concept art for J.J. Abrams’ Superman Fly-By [Spotted on Topless Robot]

The Mass Effect Activity And Coloring Book Is Not For Kids

For the wee Mass Effect fan in your life who prefers coloring inside the lines and navigating mazes, as opposed to making hundreds of dialogue tree choices, give them the Mass Effect Coloring and Activity Book. Created by Something Awful forum goer skoolmunkee for the Mass Effect Secret Santa event, the Mass Effect Coloring and…

Ubisoft Says Happy Holidays With this Moving Greeting Card

You’ve seen digital cards, physical cards, and now a really neat video card from Ubisoft to you. Yes, YOU!

On My iPad, An Ambitious Tower Defense Game In World of Warcraft Clothing

The second iPhone/iPad/iTouch game using the Unreal graphics technology that made last week’s Infinity Blade look so stunning is out on Thursday. We played it today. This is Dungeon Defenders: First Wave. The game is a sort of a tower-defense adventure — players setting up structures that can kill or block waves of enemies —…

Kirby’s Epic Yarn Gets Patched At Club Nintendo

Nintendo’s excessively adorable Wii game Kirby’s Epic Yarn provides the latest contribution to America’s version of Club Nintendo, two pairs of patches that will embroider their way into your heart. Visitors to E3 2010 may already have some of these coveted Kirby patches, but Club Nintendo members can swap “coins” for them if they need…

This De Blob Cake Better Not Taste Like Ink

Few things are important enough to pull me away from my vacation time to post on Kotaku. The one and a half foot tall De Blob cake that just arrived on my doorstep from THQ certainly qualifies. Since I began writing for Kotaku back in 2006 I’ve seen more than my fair share of video…

De Blob Cake Gallery

This is officially the first game-related cake I’m going to get to eat, but how do I carve up art? Rice Krispie treats covered in fondant. Yum! I’ve almost never wanted to eat something’s fingers more. Happy holidays? Mission accomplished. Dynamic Blob action shot! Crane shot. De Blob has absolutely no ass.

A Glimpse at EA’s Employee-Only Version of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

A rarely covered perk of working at a major publisher includes getting some pretty sweet editions of your favorite video games. Take for instance this EA Crew Edition of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Besides they fancy box art, the PC version of the game includes seven exclusive cars for employees: Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722…

The Tomb Raider Game That Might Work Well On An iPhone

Square Enix is bringing Tomb Raider spin-off Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light to iPhones, iPods and iPads this week. It’s the kind of Tomb Raider game that might play just fine with a touchscreen. The top-down cooperative adventure has already been released on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as a downloadable game,…

Still Not Sure What To Make Of Bodycount

Codemasters’ Bodycount, the first-person shooter that was at one point headed by Black creator Stuart Black, but no longer, is a curious thing. It’s part inspired by Lady Gaga and all about “the bullet and its impact on the world.” The latest trailer for Bodycount, due sometime during the summer of next year for the…

Jump the Line For the Age of Empires Online Beta

Over on Alienware’s Arena website they PC maker is giving out beta keys for Age of Empires Online. While it appears that the the giveaway has run into some hiccups, Microsoft says they are working on a solution and that folks with the keys will get into the beta for the online-only PC strategy title…

This Is Why I’ll Never Play Luigi’s Adventure 3

A few years ago, someone made Luigi’s Adventure 3, an unofficial riff on Super Mario World that features Luigi. I’ve never played it. Now that I’ve seen it played in an ongoing Let’s Play series at YouTube, I never will. All I need to see is the first minute of action here. That, my friends,…