Universal Studios is working on more than just a Michael Jackson game, with word slipping out yesterday that an MMO based on mythical monster hunter Van Helsing is also in development. Handling the game will be a partnership between SEE Virtual Worlds and Entropia Universe creators MindArk. There’s not much else to tell at the…
Microsoft has been successful the world over with its operating systems. Even in Japan, Windows is the most common OS. However, the computer giant hasn’t seen those same results there with gaming. That hasn’t always been the case. In the early 1980s, Microsoft Japan aimed to create a standard for computers akin to the VHS…
Continuing their welcome tradition of showing us games they never actually made, Irrational has this week lifted the veil on Monster Island, a title the BioShock developers never finished (though we wish they had). First conceived at the beginning of the decade, Monster Island is described by Irrational as an “action/strategy console game” that took…
In Japan, Rie Tanaka (Phantasy Star Portable, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3) is such a popular voice actress that last year she got her own trading cards. This year, she’s getting her own hug pillow cover. Progress! Hug pillows are called “dakimakura” with “daki” referring to “hug” and “makura” meaning “pillow”. Dakimakura covers typically show…
In the six months leading up to September 30, 2009, Nintendo sold 11.7 million DS units worldwide. In the six months leading up to September 30, 2010, that figure has dropped by nearly half, to 6.69 million. It’s to be expected, of course. Not only is the DS getting a little long in the tooth…
When Jodie Sweetin was 13, Full House was canceled. The actress, who played Stephanie Tanner, grew up, got married and started doing meth. But her second husband, she says, was a gaming junkie. In her tell-all memoir UnSweetined, the 28-year-old actress talks about overcoming her drug addiction and how difficult it was for her after…
We are all over PC gaming this week, but what do we know about PC gaming? Each day, one Kotaku editor will reveal their PC gaming knowledge and share some memories. Yesterday you read about Ashcraft’s experiences, now it’s my turn. Are you a PC gamer? You bet your ass I am. While I own…
Super Meat Boy is described as “tough as nails” by its developers. And boy, they aren’t kidding. Ready to be put through the grinder? Super Meat Boy is a 2D platformer in the vein of hard retro games like Namco’s Quest of Ki. The plot is simple: Dr. Fetus kidnapped Bandage Girl, and it’s up…
This week is the tenth anniversary of the PlayStation 2’s launch in North America, and as part of the celebrations Sony rounded up a bunch of big-name developers and asked them what their favourite PS2 games were. Don’t worry, it’s not just Sony or Sony BFF developers giving their thoughts; everyone from Ken Levine to…
When they’re not starring in movies or cartoons, Star Wars’ C-3PO and R2-D2 like nothing more than to…break into a large British electronics retailer, turn on all the TVs and play some video games. And that’s probably the least entertaining part of this commercial for Currys & PC World Megastores, in which Threepio plays the…
A 22 year-old woman from Jacksonsville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of…Farmville. Alexandra V. Tobias says her three-month old child, Dylan Lee Edmondson, had been crying while she was trying to play the popular Facebook casual game. This angered Tobias, who told authorities that she shook the baby,…
Developer Alchemist’s creepy schoolgirl shoot ’em up Gal Gun is not the type of thing you’d be proud to play. Thankfully, the developer of the Xbox 360 game knows this, letting players keep their fetishistic arcade action a secret. Gal Gun, which puts players in the role of a high school student who must fend…
We’ve got a fully functioning open thread right here and after a day of competing with LA traffic, we’re going to hand you the steering wheel for this one. You may want to talk about Blade Runner. You may want to talk about video games. You may want to talk about any of the following…
Mac owners can start “grabbin’ peels” today with the arrival of the original Left 4 Dead, which Valve has released via Steam. To celebrate the latest Windows-to-Mac port, Left 4 Dead is now 50% off. But wait, there’s more! In addition to Mac support for Left 4 Dead—delivered kind of on time, no less—Valve has…
Ninja Golf. Phalanx. Wall Street Kid. David Jaffe. If any of these names ring a bell with you or your friends, you may have a great Halloween costume idea ripe for the taking right here. As is annual tradition, the retro costumesmiths at Vintage Computing and Gaming have put together a can’t lose list of…
Halloween has come to Team Fortress 2! And so has the game’s first boss monster, the axe-wielding, jack o’ lantern behatted Horseless Headless Horsemann. It’s all part of Valve’s second annual TF2 Halloween special. The latest update for the oft-updated Team Fortress 2 adds an all-new map, the spooky Mann Manor, as well as a…
EA has issued its latest round off layoffs today, describing them as “season roll-offs,” which sounds much more pleasant. According to sources claiming knowledge of the situation, EA Canada, developer of Skate and NBA Elite, bore the brunt of those cuts. Electronic Arts reps confirmed to Kotaku that layoffs were happening at the publisher-developer, but…
Star Trek – Infinite Space gets its first trailer today, giving us a glimpse of what the free-to-play game hopes to deliver. The Galaxy at War trailer launched along side the preview site for the upcoming game, which is set in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine time line. Gameforge promises to update the site…
Gearbox Software’s promised patch for its smash-hit action RPG Borderlands is coming, raising the level cap for everyone in the pursuit of better loot and harder bosses. When’s it coming? Soon. Soonish. Maybe. An official post on the Gearbox forums says the free title update for Borderlands is finished on the dev side. They just…
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