Who Wants Sarah Palin’s Xbox 360 Autograph Anyway?

People might want the Alaska politician-cum-celebrity’s autograph, but maybe just not on an Xbox 360 for a million bucks. Ask David Morrill, who apparently spent the last two years trying to sell one. Because for the past two years, an Xbox 360 purportedly signed by Palin has wasted away on eBay. CNBC noticed that the…

Sony Telling People The PSP2 Is As Powerful As A PS3

A report on trade site MCV reckons Sony has been telling “licensees” — ie the people making games for it — that the PSP2 “‘is as powerful as the PlayStation 3”. It’s part of a clear strategy Sony has for the upcoming (and still not yet officially unveiled) handheld, which is that it’s “specifically requesting…

The Most Dangerous Thing In Liberty City Is…Silly Cars

The PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV can be a funny beast when people start to mess around with it. Take, for example, the game’s cars. And what happens when you all but turn off their friction. As you can see in this new clip below, created by a modder, things go freakin’ bananas.…

Pucker Up, Pikachu

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Masked Avengers Doing Good In Japan

A forty-year-old manga starring a mask-wearing wrestler is inspiring Japan to do good. Only, they are dishing out presents instead of punches. Rwar. This holiday season, child welfare facilities around Japan were inundated with anonymous gifts under the name of “Naoto Date”, the hero of retro manga and anime Tiger Mask. Tiger Mask followed the…

Yoostar 2 ‘300’ Performance

Yoostar 2 ‘Terminator’ Performance

Does The World Really Need A Wireless Graphics Card?

It would seem the answer is a tentative “yes”, with the release of the KFA2 GeForce GTX460 graphics card. Those spindly extensions are wi-fi antennas, meaning the card can transmit its video signal over thin air. Why, you may ask, would I want to do that? The thinking is that it lets people separate their…

Killzone 3 Is A Movie With A Game Attached

Hope you like your cinematic sequences, Killzone fans, because the third game in the PlayStation shooter series will have over 70 minutes of cutscenes

Jumping The Flagpole In Super Mario Bros. — On The First Level

Jumping the flagpole in Super Mario Bros. is possible. This has been proven. Have you seen it on World 1-1, though? Well, thanks to this glitch, you will. [NSFW audio because this guy’s nom de plume is ‘Motherfucker Mike’]. Mike says this video is 100 percent real and was done on a console, not on…

GameStop Wants Access To Your Xbox Live Account

While GameStop is perfectly happy selling you Xbox Live points cards at the moment, in the future, the retailer wants to do more than that. It wants your Xbox Live details, so it can send you the stuff it’s selling. “Today you pick the card up off the rack that’s associated with that map pack,…

FBI Pulls Online Game Records Of Accused Tucson Shooter

The FBI on Wednesday asked for communications logs from Earth Empires, the massively multiplayer online game played by Jared Loughner, accused of the shooting Saturday in Tucson, Ariz. that left six dead and 14 wounded, including a member of Congress. Earth Empires’ administrator told the Wall Street Journal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation asked…

Football Player Loses Part Of Finger, Call Of Duty The Big Loser

Tom Alexander, an up-and-coming Rugby Union player from Canberra, Australia, lost the top of his finger in a freak accident earlier this week. And he’s bummed, not because he’ll miss any football, but because it affects his Call of Duty. I like this story. Not just because he plies his trade for my beloved hometown…

The Big Open Thread

Please take this post and use it as your nightly open thread to talk about video games, cinema, news, music and everything else you’re interested in, but can’t find a smooth segue while commenting in a post about Mortal Kombat. We’re leaving the key with you tonight, so please turn the lights off when you’re…

Stamina Is Much More Hard In Fight Night Champion

“Women weaken legs,” said the famous trainer Mickey Goldmill. So does a sledgehammer to the kisser. Fight Night Champion’s going to bring a more sophisticated stamina system that you’ll need to know to keep from being a two-punch chump. Now, that thing Goldsmith also said about eating lightning and crapping thunder, that’s not part of…

Mass Effect 2’s Launch Trailer Strikes Back

BioWare is giving PlayStation 3 owners a chance to play Kotaku game of the year contender Mass Effect 2 next week, priming them for sci-fi excitement with a new launch trailer for the game. How does it compare? Specifically, how does it compare to the original Mass Effect 2 launch trailer for the Xbox 360…

Pro Evo Star Caught In Hotel Liaison With FIFA 11

At FIFA’s awards gala, Gerard Pique, FC Barcelona teammate of Lionel Messi, outed the Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 – and 2009 and 2010 – cover athlete as a secret admirer of the competing title. Via FIFA Interactive World Cup’s Twitter.

THQ’s New Look – Love It Or Loathe It?

The people who publish video games Red Faction, Saints Row, UFC Undisputed and, soon, Homefront are putting the old THQ out to pasture. At least, that’s where the logo is going. This is the new “THQ.” This type of re-branding is something we’ve seen a lot of recently, with companies like Starbucks, Myspace and the…

Quick, How Many Ads Can You Spot On This NASCAR Box

Let’s thank the crew behind the Activision Eutechnyx NASCAR 2011 The Game Lowe’s GoDaddy Cheerios Impala. They gave us some super box art that run real good today. The game releases March 29, part of a sportspocalypse month in gaming.

Is Nintendo Bringing Back The Insufferable ‘Friend Code’ For The 3DS?

Nintendo’s clumsy method for connecting Wii and Nintendo DS players to others online, the dreaded Friend Code system, may be returning for the Nintendo 3DS if a report from magazine Famitsu is accurate. In a preview detailing online multiplayer for Capcom’s Super Street Fighter IV 3D, the Japanese magazine writes that players can manage an…