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Fridays

To: Ash From: Crecente It is Friday, it is also one week away from Black Friday. Things are going to be crazy next week. That is all. What you missed This iPhone Game May Make You Forget You’re Playing on a Phone Kotaku Stalku: How To Track, But Not Kill, Your Favorite Kotaku Writers The…

Activision Hasn’t Bailed On Tony Hawk: Shred Yet

As much as Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is a success, the company’s other recent franchise release, Tony Hawk: Shred, is not. But Activision isn’t giving up on Shred, even in the face of pitiful sales. Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing tells Gamasutra, that things could turn around for the Tony Hawk franchise…

Kotaku’s 2010 Wii Gift Guide

The holidays are coming, and that means it’s time for you to start thinking about what sorts of gifts you want to give and get this year. This year’s slate of Wii releases saw plenty of reliable performers and familiar brands in the console’s strongest genres. But it also featured a few games in the…

Should You Buy A Wii?

The Nintendo Wii exploded off store shelves when it first launched back in 2006. Is it too late to hop on the Wii bandwagon, or has Nintendo saved you a spot? UPDATED for the holidays.] Consider this guide our formal advice on whether you should buy a Wii or not, and if you do, which…

Frankenreview: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Ezio might have a few underlings helping him out in his second outing, but the the video game reviewers in the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Frankenreview are legion. Ezio’s back and he’s heading to Rome to do some strategic killing in the name of all that isn’t Templar in the world, and he’s brought friends along…

Black Ops Is Making The Rolling Stones This Much Richer

That Call of Duty: Black Ops ad featuring Kobe Bryant and Jimmy Kimmel is selling more than just copies of Treyarch’s war game. It’s also bringing in cash for The Rolling Stones, thanks to the spot’s use of “Gimme Shelter.” Billboard runs the numbers of the Stones uptick in sales, noting that track sales of…

This Week’s Kotaku Video Game Review Round-Up

In the past week, we’ve reviewed seven video games (and a bunch of Black Ops gear). Some were great. At least one was not. These are our bottom lines for seven notable games, with links to our full reviews. Review: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 Improves With Age The Bottom Line: Naruto: Ultimate Ninja…

The Wii Is In The Red In Japan’s Hardware Chart

All it takes is a little red plastic to spur Wii sales in Japan. The Super Mario Bros. 25th anniversary edition of Nintendo’s console went on sale overseas last week, tripling sales of the Wii. Japanese gamers weren’t just hungry for fresh red plastic. There’s a copy of Super Mario Bros. pre-installed on the hard…

Unboxing OnLive’s Streaming PC Gaming Console

OnLive’s streaming PC game technology comes to gamers’ televisions when the OnLive Microconsole TV Adapters begin shipping early next month. Want to see what $99 buys you? OnLive’s Microconsole TV Adapter went on sale yesterday, with units expected to begin shipping the first week of December. It consists of a smallish black box that acts…

The Secret Passageways In Kotaku

You can hang out in the main room of Kotaku, reading stories we write for you. But if you slide the bookcase or push a loose brick on the fireplace you can access the hidden halls of Kotaku’s tagpages. If you can a theme page on Kotaku, it can exist. All you need to do…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Me and Sonic the Hedgehog have some catching up to do, so I’ll be playing Sonic Colors almost exclusively all weekend. Wait. Didn’t I say the exact same thing last week? Indeed I did. But things don’t always work out as planned. Sonic Colors didn’t make it to Kotaku Towers West (South) last week, so…

One Reason I Liked The New Assassin’s Creed

I enjoyed Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood for many reasons. One more: It’s the first game in years to compel me to bring out a notebook to solve a video game puzzle. (Solution censored for your enjoyment.) Memories of drawing the map for Metroid!

Your Personal Jetpack Is Almost Ready For Purchase

Martin Aircraft Company’s “Segway for the sky” is about to go into production. Can anyone lend me $100,000? The long wait will soon be over, and in no time we’ll be able to add ‘rich jetpack owners plummeting from the sky’ to our list of pet peeves. And don’t think I’m calling it the Segway…

What’s Next For id’s Mobile Rage

The big new iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch game from id Software will receive Game Center support and might even gain a feature a fan suggested on a message board, the game’s lead creator John Carmack told Kotaku yesterday. Support for Game Center, Apple’s game-networking service for iOS games, will be added back into the on-rails shooter. Id…

Totilo Talks The Top Games Of 2010 On Fox’s Strategy Room

Stephen Totilo has left the building, and is as we speak making a beeline for Fox News studios to talk the top games of 2010 in the Strategy Room. Who wants to watch? Does four appearances on Fox News’s Strategy Room make Totilo a regular guest? Will we soon have to start referring to him…

Review: Donkey Kong Country Returns Is Hypnotic, Hard Fun

The people responsible for turning Metroid on its head with Metroid Prime for GameCube now have their hands on Donkey Kong. What have they done with it? Delivered the expected, a Donkey Kong Country game that goes back to basics. Where others have experimented with Donkey Kong adventures in 3D worlds (Donkey Kong 64) and…

Sub-Zero’s Moves Are So Very Cold

You’ve seen the reason Sub-Zero fights, now check out the chillingly brutal moves the ice ninja is bringing to the next Mortal Kombat. Sub-Zero has always been one of my favorite Mortal Kombat characters. Not only can I pull off most of his freezing moves, I appreciate the fact that even if I don’t manage…

What Will Your Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 License Card Look Like?

What exactly is a Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 License Card? It’s the key to knowing the strengths and weaknesses of your online opponents, while learning a little something about yourself in the process. Every Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 player gets a License Card, and on that License Card is everything an opponent needs to know…

Lord Of The Rings Online Is Taking Your Hobbits To Isengard

The good news? Free-top-play MMO Lord of the Rings Online expands next fall with the Rise of Isengard expansion pack. The bad news? Guess where the traitorous wizard Saruman is hanging out lately. The epic tale continues in the fall of 2011, when Turbine finally makes it to Isengard in it’s epic massively-multiplayer online Hobbit…