One Dead Sackboy And The Rest Of The LittleBigPlanet 2 Collector’s Edition

This might be the most dramatic opening of a video game collector’s edition ever committed to video, though probably not. It’s the LittleBigPlanet 2 Collector’s Edition! Let’s open it. Why did I order the LittleBigPlanet 2 Collector’s Edition? I think it was the bookends that got me, which is strange, as all of my bookshelves…

Two More 3DS Games With Strange Names

Add two more games to the Nintendo 3DS roster: Pet Zombies in 3D “lets players reanimate their very own zombies with a range of customizations” and Face Kart: Photo Finish, a racing game from the makers of Dementium The Ward, both from Majesco.

Halo Reach Myths Busted

The force of a gravity hammer will not save you from a terrible fall (in Halo; probably also in real life). That and other Halo Reach myths are busted (or confirmed) in the newest episode of Halo Reach Mythbusters. I don’t need to know whether airborne beetles can kill motorcyclists, which is a myth the…

Kongregate Arcade Floods Android With Free Games

The Kongregate Arcade app for Android brings more than 300 free games to your cell phone… if you have an Android. The app also lets you check out ratings, high scores and comments and even download games to play offline. iPhone owners? Sorry it’s Flash.

See How Bulletstorm Builds A Clone Army

Gruesome shoot ’em up Bulletstorm is going to throw plenty of cannon fodder your way, beefy bad guys waiting to have their heads blown off, be kicked into spikes, crushed by elevators or suffer some creative combination of all three. Where does that walking target practice come from? From one guy, a buff, bald blank…

These LEGO Brick Birds Are Angrier Than Ever

LEGO artisan Tsang Yiu Keung has discovered the secret to success in Rovio’s ridiculously popular Angry Birds: If throwing birds doesn’t stop the pigs, throw bricks instead. LEGO bricks, to be precise. Tsang has painstakingly recreated most of the game’s major players in LEGO form, right down to a little LEGO slingshot for hurling blocky…

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Let’s See If Superman 64 Really Is The Worst Game Of All Time

Some people say Superman 64 is the worst video game ever made, but why trust them? One brave man is doing the YouTube equivalent of flying faster than a speeding bullet. He’s playing the game for us to watch. “It’s one of those so-bad-it’s-good games,” YouTube user ProtonJonSA says of the 1999 Nintendo 64 disaster,…

How Realistic Do Gamers Want Their Games To Get?

In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Matt_Twombly ponders the advanced realism coming in games like Rockstar’s L.A. Noire. When do games become too real? Reading the latest editorial on L.A. Noire got me thinking: How realistic do gamers actually want their games? There is all this talk this generation of immersion and games’ capacity to…

Kotaku Editorial Board: Beta Goes Live Soon

Sometime within the next month Kotaku Beta will become plain old Kotaku. Now’s probably a good time to host another Kotaku Editorial Board to discuss the changes and try to answer some of your questions. One important thing. You might want to check out this neat little trick on the beta site. Try moving through…

2010 Game of the Year Finalist Debate: Red Dead Redemption

In another universe, they made a box containing Red Dead Redemption that’s just for me. The front is familiar. The back, though, boasts the kind of bullet points I might demand of a great video game: –Respects Your Intelligence (Because it doesn’t bore me with some easy and obvious macho super-hero of a main character.)…

This Is How South Korean Children Battle Game Addiction

It looks like torture, and for children In South Korea that are used to playing video games non-stop, ruining their grades in the process it might be. This is where parents send their children to learn a little self-control. You’d never see these sorts of images featuring North American children. One glance at the pained…

Castlevania Harmony of Despair Gets New Content

If you’re a fan of Xbox 360’s Castlevania Harmony of Despair you’re in luck. Konami today says that Extra Stage: The One Who is Many is now available on Xbox Live Arcade for 320 Microsoft Points.

Video Game Reduced to 30 Seconds of Disapproving Moms

Electronic Arts’ latest Dead Space 2 campaign is brilliant. Why? Because it uses the power of the disapproving mom to sell violent video games. Who knows if these are real moms being really disgusted by the notion of a game that essentially requires you to dismember your enemies and features vomiting deaths and exploding faux…

These Sackboys Are Barking Up The Wrong Tree

LittleBigPlanet 2 hits stores today, and while it does a lot of things, the Xbox 360 is one thing it will not do. As seen on BertieA’s Flickr stream. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Heroic Company Of Heroes Dev Lives On In His Daughter

In September Company of Heroes Online lead designer Brian Wood was killed in a car crash. His pregnant wife Erin survived. NBC’s Today talks with the widow about how she’s keeping Brian’s memory alive for her newborn daughter. Brian Wood lost his life in September of 2010, but through his actions a new life was…

Get Your Gaming Deals in October

Lifehacker’s incredibly detailed guide to deal hunting just went live, reaffirming that October is the best month to land a deal for gamers. Check it out.

Angry Team COCO Birds Make Late Night Appearance

He doesn’t talk about it much, but either Conan O’Brien is a gamer or someone on his team is. How else do you explain the subtle gaming references that keep popping up? This little video showed up last night early in the show. Poor Richter Pig La Bamba Pig.

The Uncanny X-Men At The Mercy Of One Of Games Journalism’s Greats

Kieron Gillen was one of the most profound and prolific video game journalists working in the industry. Some would even say he invented games journalism. Now the future of Marvel’s Uncanny X-men is in his hands. Kieron Gillen has worked with just about everyone in the video game business. He’s written for PC Gamer UK,…

Kinect Hacked To Perform Surgery

We’ve seen the Xbox 360 Kinect control robots before, but never robots with tasks this important. A group of graduate engineering students at the University of Washington are using Microsoft’s device to guide the actions of surgical robots. Scientists and engineers have been working for years to integrate gaming technology into the human-controlled robots that…