This Is What Rhythm Heaven Looks Like On Wii

Nintendo makes great rhythm video games in the form of Rhythm Heaven—simple, but smartly designed arcade-style games that are incredibly addictive and rich. The company is bringing one of those to the Wii and it too looks fantastic. Along with the new Kirby game for Wii, Nintendo showed off its latest Rhythm Heaven at an…

The Manly Art Of Posing With Video Game Systems

I’ve never posed with a video game system. I doubt you have either. But the top men in video games do that any time there’s new gaming hardware to show off. How cool can you look posing with plastic? In chronological order, here are some of the great achievements in hardware-posing, as photographed by the…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Once more unto the new game plus, dear friends. I’ll be playing through Dead Space 2 this weekend for the second time this weekend, a chance to scratch the PlayStation Trophy itch and power up a flamethrower. Dead Space seems to be among the few franchises I personally deem worthy of a replay. I’ve played…

A Visual Guide To Black Ops First Strike

Lurking somewhere beneath this striking Left 4 Dead style First Strike zombie poster are a series of screens showing off the new zombie playground and four new multiplayer maps coming to Xbox Live on February 1. Study them and survive. Videos are all fine and good, but nothing beats the good-old unmoving screenshot when it…

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Yikes, Maybe The Xbox 360 Can’t Replace The Cable Box

Five families in the Boston area agreed to ditch their cable TV connection for a week and use an XBox 360, Apple TV, or similar device instead. Stories like this usually involve relieved, money-saving people. Not this one. The idea is that a person could avoid paying a cable TV bill by using a gaming…

Epic Games: Sony’s Next Gen Portable is a “Pretty Huge Deal”

Launched earlier this week, Sony’s hefty NGP already has quite a number of game developer fans. Among them is the company behind Gears of War, Unreal Tournament and Bulletstorm. “I’ve played our demo on it and I’ve played Dungeon Defenders on it,” said Epic vice president Mark Rein. “I think Sony has done a great…

Sure, Let’s Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitos Into The Wild

Malaysia recently released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild. What reason could there possibly be to justify such a thing? Malaysia’s intent is indeed honorable. They aren’t purposefully trying to create a super powered variant of one of the world’s most deadliest disease carriers. To the contrary, these 6.000 bugs have been genetically altered…

What’s Your Favorite Gaming Desktop?

It looks like I am now officially in the market for a new gaming desktop and what better way to figure out what to get then to ask the gamers of Kotaku? First a couple of rules: I’ve built every desktop I’ve owned, besides my current one, which I heavily modified. This time I want…

Teamwork Is Key In Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Flashpoints

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Flashpoint system will give players of BioWare’s upcoming MMO the chance to team up and take on epic group adventures, like rescuing an important Jedi Master from the Imperial planet of Taral V. We’ve seen plenty of solo gameplay for Star Wars: The Old Republic, but not much in the…

Doodle Jump Gets A Visit From Russell Brand’s Easter Bunny

The star of Universal’s upcoming live-action-meets CGI movie Hop is making a side trip to the iPhone next month, when the Russell Brand-voiced Easter Bunny bounces in for a cameo on the iPhone’s all-time top paid U.S. iPhone app Doodle Jump. The Easter Bunny (or E.B., as he’s called in the film) seems like the…

How Sony Can Make Their Next Gen Portable A Must Buy

Today, Sony is on the handheld gaming campaign trail, preparing for us to vote with our dollars this fall. Should you buy an NGP — the successor to the PSP — in late 2011? It depends on whether Sony finally gets its PSP line right, if Sony’s prose matches its poetry. The Promise This past…

The New Wii Kirby Loses The Yarn But Keeps The Epic

Revealed during yesterday’s Nintendo investor meeting in Japan, there’s a new Kirby game headed to the Nintendo Wii, and this time around the pink puffball is a bit more substantial than he was in Kirby’s Epic Yarn. Another Kirby game due out in Japan a little over a year since the last? The strong critical…

Did The Next Generation Portable Steal 3DS Thunder?

Kotaku commenter Truthtellah was really excited about the 3DS. Now that Sony has outed it’s Next Generation Portable, he’s a bit less excited. Did Sony steal some wind from Nintendo’s sails? That’s your topic for today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. So… to be completely honest, this new NGP announcement has taken a bit of steam out…

Anarchy Reigns Teaser Is All Sexy Sound And Fury

The first teaser trailer for PlatinumGames online multiplayer brawler Anarchy Reigns might not tell us much about the game, but with pulse-pounding music and the flash of deadly weapons it’s sure giving off a sexy vibe. Yesterday Sega and PlatinumGames gave the online multiplayer brawler previously known as Max Anarchy a proper name: Anarchy Reigns.…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

This is Kotaku’s official forum. Here you may talk about video games all day long. Thanks to reader OrbitofGlass for today’s TAY image. Submit yours to #TAYpics. Only two slots left open for this month’s image!

QuakeCon Runs Aug. 4 – 7

QuakeCon, the annual celebration of all things id Software (and now Bethesda Softworks), kicks off on Aug. 4 in Dallas, Texas this year. The event will run until Aug. 7 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel.

This Gamey Noun Beat Out Crotchal “Junk” As 2010’s Best Word

Terror baby, gate rape, fauxhemian, skyaking: 2010 was a wonderful year for words. Even more delightful, then, that a term that can sometimes be applied to games won. Beating out the onomatopoeic (nom), the crotchal (junk), the controversial (Wikileaks) and even the buzz-worthy (trend), the word “app” was selected earlier this month as 2010’s word…

Breakfast with CheapyD

Had breakfast with CheapyD from CheapAssGamer this morning, which was a lot of fun. I believe this was the first meal I had in Tokyo this week that didn’t involve me hunched over a computer, stuffing food in my mouth. Very much looking forward to this weekend. Need to decompress. Missed an event at my…

Watch This Shower Scene, And Somebody Else Might Find Out

Survival horror game The 3rd Birthday is heavy on fan service (tentacle anyone?). For example, there’s an unlockable shower scene. And if you watch that, Square Enix just might know it. The Tokyo-based game is using the game’s data logs and Square Enix Members connectivity to track how many times players have viewed the shower…