First Look At Dark Souls, The New Demon’s Souls, In Action

FromSoftware is giving Demon’s Souls fans more of the punishing same with Dark Souls, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 follow-up to 2009’s brilliant and unforgiving role-playing game. Here is Dark Souls’ first glorious trailer. Formerly known as Project Dark, Dark Souls appears to deliver more tense dungeon crawling, strategic combat and innovative online multiplayer…

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Killzone Multiplayer Beta Pushed to Tomorrow

Originally scheduled to hit today, the multiplayer beta for Killzone 3, Guerrilla Games says, will now hit on Thursday, February 3rd at 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. But cheer up, they’re giving away 60 Killzone 3 Limited Helghast Editions to make up for the delay.

Is This The First Kinect-Created Music Video?

Some music video directors spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on fancy special effects. Filmmaker Dan Nixon just spent $150 on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect to create the music video for Echo Lake’s “Young Silence.” I don’t know about the song, but the imagery in Echo Lake‘s “Young Silence” is quite eerie and haunting, thanks…

A Video Game Dream House, Built Before Your Eyes In Hyper-Speed

Most 18-minute videos on YouTube are dreadfully boring, but Curtis Paradis, avid Sims 3 user, puts on a stellar show speed-building the most elaborate house I’ve ever seen in a video game. The house is elaborate. Lots of windows. Lots of furniture. It’s basically a mansion, something I’d never have the money for in real…

Eyes Deep in Deus Ex Human Revolution’s Must-Read Comic

It opens with a man masturbating on a Juarez, Mexico rooftop and wraps up with a head-exploding punch; surprising then that the first word that popped into my head when I finished reading the inaugural Deus Ex comic is smart. The first Deux Ex Human Revolution comic hits stands next week, dropping readers somewhere into…

Pirates Of The Caribbean Has Never Been So Blocky

You’ve seen the trailer, now check out the first action-packed, block-built screenshots of Lego Pirates of the Caribbean in action.

Stem Cell Shooting Gun Heals Massive Burns In Days

Treating serious burns is a time consuming process that normally takes weeks or months, leaving patients open to dangerous infections as they heal. This newly-developed stem cell shooting spray gun reduces healing time to days. Warning: Graphic video inside. Most of the damage from serious burns doesn’t come from flames. It comes from infections brought…

Crysis 2 Starts Spreading the Minimum Spec News

There is no room for the weak in this battle for New York City, according to the latest Crysis 2 trailer. Apparently, there’s also no room for weak computers either. Along with this new trailer comes the official minimum specs for playing the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game on your computer: * Internet connection…

Can Kinect Make You Swim Like Michael Phelps?

505 Games has teamed up with Olympic superstar Michael Phelps to create Michael Phelps – Push the Limit, “one of the most realistic and intense sports simulation video games ever.” Is it time to flood your living room? The Kinect is a magical device full of hope and wonder, but I’m having trouble envisioning how…

Duty Calls Is A Quick And Brutal Stab At Call Of Duty

Look away, Call of Duty fans. Bulletstorm’s Duty Calls parody game viciously sums up the Call of Duty experience in one painfully funny four-minute experience complete with boring briefings, bloody screens, and the obligatory slow-motion shoot-out. Watch us play it. If you plan on downloading and playing Duty Calls, don’t watch this video. It’s a…

Darkspore’s latest Hero is A Gravitic War Master

Darkspore hero Andromeda is one of the 25 heroes coming to EA’s strategic action-RPG computer game.

Transformers Vs. Zombies, DCU Online’s First Issue And More

My weekly round-up of comics — some of them about video games — is back, in a slightly new format. Read on for my recommendations. Our Week In Comics column will run every Wednesday, the day new comics are released in comics shops across America and, increasingly often, for download on the iPhone and iPad.…

Bulletstorm Mocks Call Of Duty With A Free PC Game

First Bulletstorm took on Halo with a touching, vomit-soaked diorama. That’s good enough for Halo, but to take on Call of Duty it’ll need something meatier, like the full downloadable PC game Duty Calls. I’ve seen games marketed by mocking other titles before (mocketing?), but never quite to the extent Epic Games is taking it…

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?

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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…