Xbox Avatars Invade the Windows Phone With Full House Poker

Full House Poker is both an Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 game. A poker title that tracks your card-playing skills and pot across both platforms. While the Windows Phone 7 version of the game, due out this spring, doesn’t let you play against other gamers, it does keep an eye on how much money…

One Valid Excuse For Sucking At Fighting Games

Do you suck at fighting games? So does Kotaku commenter Masterage, but he actually has a valid excuse. Feel free to borrow it! I love fighters, but they don’t love me. I’ve just been told that my dyscalculia could actually be stopping me from correctly remembering complex combo chains. Would explain a lot, actually, as…

An iPad Game Played While Wearing A Fake Minotaur’s Head, Of Course

Hall of fame video game create Jeff Minter doesn’t make bland games. They’re a festival of old-school graphics and techno music. And he demonstrates his latest, Minotaur Rescue, while wearing a minotaur mask. This one’s 99 cents. Haven’t tried it yet, but it looks like classic Minter. From Gridrunner to Tempest 2000 and beyond, his…

CES 2011 Can Only Get More Impressive After This

As we trudge through the myriad of gadgets, gizmos, reasons to spend, reasons to weep for humanity, we keep coming across these head-scratchers. Yesterday it was the EN-V doing deep, squat-thrusts in an empty parking lot. Today? Today, it’s this trio of performers paid to stand still and occasionally move slowly. C! E! S! Kotaku…

They’re Selling Comics On The iPad The Wrong Way

I primarily use my iPad for video games, but I realized recently that it could be perfect for reading comics, something I enjoy doing. But then I tried to buy some. Comics have been for sale on the iPad since Apple’s tablet first went on sale half a year ago. I remember the Marvel Comics…

The History Of The House That Built Guild Wars

Guild Wars’ developer started out with three former Blizzard employees working out of a spare bedroom. See how far they’ve come in this video retrospective celebrating ten years of ArenaNet. With the eagerly anticipated Guild Wars 2 on the horizon, ArenaNet could become bigger than it’s three founders ever imaged. It’s astonishing to think that…

Flying Hamster Teaches Us about The Beer And The Bees

If you missed out on The Game Atelier’s fur-flinging shooter Flying Hamster when it came out as a PSP mini, the iPhone brings you closer to the heroic tale of beer, bees and bullets than ever before. Flying Hamster has its sense of humor in the right place. One moment it’s simply colorful and cute,…

A Quick Look At Fable III Playing on the PC

We already knew that Fable III is coming to the computer, but Microsoft wanted to put worrying minds to rest but showing the game off in action at the Consumer Electronics Show today. There’s no new information about pricing or a release date. And while the game looks slightly slicker, there’s not a huge visual…

Gaming Technology Helps India Prepare For Terrorist Attacks

This 3D model of Bangalore’s Garuda Mall would be right at home in a modern video game, but it’s much more than that. It’s part of a simulation aimed at helping emergency response teams deal with the all-too-real possibility of a terrorist attack. Terrorism is a major issue in India. Over the past year alone…

The Snow Cliché, And The Rest Of The Modern Combat Eye-Rollers

One of several clichés of modern military first-person shooters lamented by the jokers at Cracked. Oversimplifying? Sure. But you try telling these screenshots apart. The full graphic is at Cracked.com

If Toy Story Was Made By The Mass Effect People

Not since the Terminator had to decide what to tell the janitor knocking on his door has a movie icon had such excellent choices of what to say or do next. What should Toy Story’s Woody do here? [UPDATE] The dialogue wheel in this drawing is a riff on the same system used in the…

Mafia Wars Feels The Sting Of The Green Hornet

Wherever there is crime you’ll find the Green Hornet and Kato, and that includes Zynga’s popular social mobster game Mafia Wars, where players can unlock one hell of a ride if they play their clicks right. Zynga teams up with Sony Pictures Entertainment for the first theatrical tie-in for its hit game Mafia Wars. Between…

The Portable Laptop That Might Make PC Gaming On-The-Go Work

This is the Razer Switchblade, currently an “innovative concept design” for a portable laptop computer with a customizable keyboard and touchscreen interface, a device that promises a “full desktop experience in a netbook sized solution.” World of Warcraft on-the-go, anyone? That’s one of the ways that Razer is pitching the Switchblade concept, as well as…

This Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Magazine Cover Has A Secret

Game Informer has revealed the cover for its February issue, dedicated to Bethesda’s recently-revealed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and while the front is rather classy and subdued, there’s a mysterious party going on around back. What looks like a rather plain cover the print version comes with a special ultraviolet coating that gives the…

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 Hits Early Next Month

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 hits the PS3 on Feb. 1 and the Xbox 360 on Feb. 2. It will cost $15 for the PS3 and 1200 Microsoft Points on the 360.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War II – Retribution Plays The Race Card

Do you love all six races in Dawn of War II – Retribution enough to get the $39.99 Collector’s edition, or are you so preferential you’ll preorder one of the special race packs? THQ’s latest strategy foray into the Warhammer 40,000 universe is coming in March, which gives players plenty of time to decide where…

New Killzone Trailer Shows Grand Spectacle, Desperate Struggle Of Sci-Fi War

Killzone 3 looks like an impressive first-person shooter, but I sense some apathy out there. FPS games… there are so many of them. This trailer helps. Last month, Killzone’s head creator Herman Hulst was in New York, showing me part of the game. He told me we’d get to know more about the enemy Helghast…

Razer Switchblade Gallery

These Are The First Video Games In The New Mac App Store

If you have a new Mac or fancy getting one that runs Mac OS X v10.6.6., you can get a free app store on it, as of today. It’s got more than 1000 apps, Apple says. Which games? I took a tour of the Mac App Store today, which you watch in the clip atop…

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Gains Marvel Girl And Mayor Man

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3’s big release is only a little over a month away, but Capcom still has some characters up their sleeves. Final Fight’s wrestler-cum-mayor Mike Haggar joins the battle, and Phoenix rises from the ashes once more. Mike Haggar’s inclusion in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 was pretty much a given, with pictures of…