Live From CES It’s Kotaku Walking Through Your Set

CES is packed with a lot of things. Things like technology, porn stars, video games, celebrities and live shows, shot on sets I can accidentally walk through. Exciting! What you missed CES 2011 Can Only Get More Impressive After This “I Made A Video Game Where You Can Blow Out A Man’s Asshole” This Is…

Fight Night Ultra-Realistically Turns Faces Into Steak Tartare

Wanna watch Cristobal Arreola’s gut ripple when Mike Tyson slams him with a righthand missile the midsection? Pick up Fight Night Champion. It’ll bring that, plus a lot of blood. Tommy Morrison looks like he tried to hang drywall with his face. Miguel Cotto looks like he french-kissed a bandsaw. Hey, how many metaphors can…

Delicious Overkill: The Gratuitously Overclocked 5 Ghz Core i7 Monster

Sometimes a computer at CES is interesting because it’s functional and intuitive. Sometimes a computer is interesting because it’s the size of an air conditioner, filled with heinously tacky neon lights, and overclocked to hell. Guess which one this is! I found Origin PC’s 5 Ghz, liquid-cooled “Big O” sitting on a dusty stretch of…

Get Ready For Aion’s Next Big Transformation

Since its release, Korean-born MMO Aion has undergone a profound transformation as developers hone gameplay to suit the needs of a North American audience. NCsoft’s Sean Neil tells us how the upcoming 2.5 update will further refine the Aion experience. Aion is a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game that’s been striving to please its players since…

First Gameplay Video Of MLB 11 The Show Surfaces

GameTrailers got a camera on MLB 11: The Show at CES, giving us a 90-second duel between Boston’s Josh Beckett and Philadelphia’s Ryan Howard. The hitter appears to be using the game’s new analog controls. It appears that way because of Howard’s multiple hitches as he waits on the pitch; that, and the hitter was…

Super Mario Bros. By Way Of Edward Gorey, On An iPhone

Grimm is a new iPhone game that has me wondering why I’ve never played a video game rendered in the aesthetic of the great, spooky aesthetic of legendary illustrator Edward Gorey before. Thank goodness I finally did, for one dollar. This is our iGame Of The Day. I’m playing it here for you. I didn’t…

Fable For The Phone Is A Fun Round Of Coin Golf

The Fable series may be known best for its wild ambition, but the Windows Phone 7 spin-off keeps things perfectly simple. This is Fable: Coin Golf. Microsoft says the mobile phone take on Fable draws upon traditional British pub games like Shove Ha’penny, Bar Billiards and Skittles, tasking you with launching the “Hero Puck” into…

Avatar Kinect’s Silent Scream Hints At Enormous Potential

The silent man contorts his face in expressions of agony and humor. A fine web of digital lines traces every movement. He grimaces, he smiles, his eyes go wide, his mouth gapes open in a silent scream. Nearby a second video shows a strikingly similar cartoon adaptation of the silent screamer going through the same…

Win A Gold Xbox 360 From Castle Crashers

Last week, the makers of Castle Crashers boasted the game had hit more than two million players since its release on Xbox Live, and hinted that they’d commemorate the milestone with a gold Xbox 360. They’ve now revealed their plans. The gold 360 – gold-plated, to be sure – will be the grand prize in…

Impromptu Asteroids Championship Pops Up at CES

Time to test your Asteroids skills! Ion Audio, makers of the iCade stand that turns your iPad into a diminutive arcade cabinet complete with buttons and a joystick, is hosting a little impromptu Asteroids tournament at the Consumer Electronics Show this weekend. The person with the highest score come Sunday at 4 p.m. wins one…

What’s Up With Xbox 360 As A Cable Box, Virtual Game Room, And Game Show Host?

Microsoft has a lot they want to talk about at this Consumer Electronics Show: Their big Kinect sales numbers, the future of that tech, their new phone. But they also have a few things they’re not keen to discuss. The makers of computer and cell phone operating systems and the Xbox 360 likes to push…

Rumor: Japanese Nintendo 3DS Games More Expensive Than DS Games

Just hours before a weekend-long 3DS Nintendo World showcase kicks off in Tokyo, an established Japanese gaming news outlet is reporting details about the system’s launch in that country that could signal what we’re getting in March in the U.S. The Japanese site Inside Games puts the price of 3DS games at 5800 Yen, compared…

Watch A $5,000 Game Controller Land A Plane In Las Vegas

Why spend mere hundreds of dollars on a fancy flight stick for your flight simulator needs when you can spend thousands on Saitek’s Procedure Trainer, an insane collection of instrument panels, yokes and rudder pedals? Mad Catz is showcasing the latest, impressively expensive Pro Flight controller set up from Saitek at CES 2011, a staggering…

Could This Be the Perfect Portable Gaming PC?

Perhaps the most innovative bit of gaming tech at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show is a palm-sized, touch-screen gaming PC that comes packed with a keyboard that can transform on the fly. But Razer isn’t even sure they’re going to be able to sell the Switchblade micro laptop. Robert Krakoff, president of the computer accessory…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Torchlight? Yes. Bejeweled Blitz Live? Probably. Beyond Good And Evil HD? You bet. Some bad Chinese Kinect knock offs? All this and more, thanks to a weekend spent at CES 2011. I’ll spend much of my weekend cruising the halls of CES, looking for games, curiosities, and photo opportunities, but tonight (at least) I’ll be…

A Halo Crossover We Hadn’t Thought Of

Halo’s Master Chief modeling the trademark shorts worn by Arthur in Capcom’s retro classic Ghosts ‘N Goblins. As seen on the Twitter feed of Halo creators Bungie Studios

Superman Gallery

It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s The Guy With The Red Underwear!

One would think that after more than 70 years of fighting crime on Earth, someone would have worked up the courage to tell Kal-El he was wearing his underwear wrong. Behold Superman, in all his DC Universe Online glory. I guess when a guy is strong enough to bench press the planet you allow him…

They’ve Added Hamlet To This Video Game

The free fantasy video game Mabinogi has been out for a couple of years, entertaining players with the kind of swords and dragons adventure stuff lots of gamers like. Now the developers are adding something even more fun: Shakespeare. First they’re adding Hamlet, then Romeo & Juliet. You’ll play as a supporting character during reenactments…

ilomilo gallery

Here’s a little co-op play of ilomilo. Mind my partner’s controller clumsiness. It’s the first time she played. In the darkness of the final chapter, light plays a part in getting ilo and milo together. The introduction tells a story of slightly confused friendship. This mini-game is unlocked once you find a certain item in…