How Microsoft Plans To Put A Video Game Controller In Everything

Microsoft is spending half a billion dollars to make sure that when you hear the word Kinect you think “the future of video games.” But Microsoft believes that the real potential for the voice recognition, motion-based technology is how they plan to use it with cell phones, computers and perhaps in the military and health…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Time Travelers Edition

A couple weeks ago, the Internet flipped out when someone thought they found a time traveling woman using a mobile phone in the middle of a Charlie Chaplin silent flick. This is something that made the nightly news. Turns out the large woman so rudely chatting away on her Droid in The Circus, circa 1928,…

Review: GoldenEye 007

The fat-chewing topic for hardcore gamers today who were the adolescents of the 1990s has been GoldenEye, the seminal Nintendo 64 shooter. Why can’t they bring it to a modern console? Finally, “they” have. But it’s neither reboot nor remake. GoldenEye 007 is instead the “reimagining” of the 1997 classic, reconfiguring the story of the…

Sunday Comics

Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Nov. 1 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Nov. 4 – Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Nov. 5 – Read more of Penny Arcade Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull published Nov.…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

Not sure that we should be making Infected jokes where the Columbian Exchange is involved. Blankets anyone? Too soon? It was 500 years ago. p4w4rr10r is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just shop up this image and submit it to the #taypics…

GoldenEye Visual Guide

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Politics As Usual Winners

Tuesday’s elections in the United States provided the grist for our two-week shop contest, imagining, examing and implementing political motives in video games and their characters. We’ve rounded up the 20 best in this gallery. E pluribus funny! adventlife (1), DEVOlutionSpud (5), HobbitGamer (11) and Snufkin (18) all made political hay out of the Obama…

Country-Style Donkey Kong Comes Back

A blend of cinematics and gameplay in this minute long trailer show you what to expect from Donkey Kong Country Returns. Unveiled at E3 five months ago, it’s due for the Wii on Nov. 21.

Find It In The New Vegas Classifieds

Something Awful, on target as always, skewers side mission premises in Fallout: New Vegas. Eight more ads are at the link. Seen on Something Awful.

NBA All Star ‘Addicted’ To Call Of Duty

Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams has long had Nov. 9 circled. Not because his team will play LeBron James and the Miami Heat then. Because it’s when Call of Duty: Black Ops releases. Williams says he’s “addicted” to it. “I actually don’t play any new video games except ‘Call of Duty,'” Williams told ESPN’s Jon…

Far Too Soon For EA Sports To Tap Out

It was little coincidence that THQ and Ultimate Fighting Championship waited until Oct. 19 to announce an eight year extension to their exclusive video game pact. That was the day EA Sports MMA released. EA Sports MMA and UFC Undisputed are a rare pairing, being directly competing licensed sports titles with different ship dates. So…

Screens Showcase Dead Space 2’s OPFOR

Get your talon-like hands on this batch of 15 multiplayer screens for Dead Space 2 that Electronic Arts sent out out yesterday. In addition to the humans, you can see a couple types of playable necromorphs. Dead Space 2 is due Jan. 25, and it blows me away that’s three months from now. Sheesh, where…

“Super There Will Be Blood” Will Make You Laugh Like A Bastard From A Basket

This uproarious short – a finalist in Empire Magazine’s “Done In Sixty Seconds” competition – reduces all the key dramatic scenes and dialogue of “There Will Be Blood” to 8-bit presentation. Pick up that milkshake! “Super There Will Be Blood,” by Owen and Adam from tomfoolerypictures, had me snickering from Plainview’s first tumble down the…

Box Scores: River City Ransom Basketball

When we say any sports game qualifies for Game of the Week, we mean it. That goes for Ganbare Dunk Heroes, in which Kotaku reader Skutarth finally triumphed over those no good hicks on the “Texas” squad. For those not familiar, Dunk Heroes is “essentially River City Ransom Basketball,” as Skutarth says. Released for the…

Fallout Wiki Editors Have A Lot Of Time On Their Hands — And Use It

Fallout: New Vegas released 18 days ago. That’s 432 hours. Since then, more than 475,000 hours have been spent reading and editing the Fallout: New Vegas wiki. That’s 58 years. Over on Wikia, where numerous games’ wikis are tended by legions of fans, Fallout added more than 1,200 new pages since the game’s release, and…

Dead Space 2 Multiplayer Screens

The Moneysaver: Back To The Coupons

Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t preorder Star Wars: STFU II with a free shipping coupon he’d melt my brain. The Moneysaver’s back from vacaycay, gang. We resume with our regularly scheduled coupons and deals, already in progress. Hardware • Xbox 360 2010 Holiday Bundle…

I normally don’t find much to disagree with when it comes to Mr. Crecente’s reviews, but my impressions with Sonic Free Riders have been very positive. The tutorial never really spells out that you aren’t supposed to crouch unless you’re jumping or leaning forward to speed up, but once I figured that out, everything clicked.…

The Week In Review: Kinect To The Court

Kinect arrived, bringing a means of controlling games by grasping at thin air. The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could change how games are sold, even made. It was a week that carried the scent of history. Our verdict on Kinect: it’s a winning piece of technology, albeit one in need of…

Steamboat Mario Bros.

I like Paper Mario’s stylised ake on the Mushroom Kingdom, but I’d like this one even more. By belldandies, as seen on Rampaged Reality