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

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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…

Women’s Tears Are A Real Turn-off

In today’s Friday fun edition of the daily Kotaku science post, scientists in Israel make women cry and then make men smell their tears. Surely that’s got to be fun for somebody. Making women cry is something that men do on a regular basis, often without any idea how or why they are doing it.…

You Can’t Secretly Play The New Angry Birds At Work

The new Mac version of Angry Birds only plays at full-screen. So forget secretly playing this game when your boss, professor or other favorite authority figure isn’t watching. You can’t hide it quickly. You can, however, watch our video preview. Check out a few minutes of the $5 (discounted from $10!) Mac version of Angry…

This Is Portal 2 Played With A Magnetic Motion Controller

Keyboard and mouse controls got you down? Yeah, didn’t think so. But if millimeter precise motion control sounds like an interesting way to play Valve’s first-person puzzler Portal 2, you might want to buy yourself a Razer Sixense. Razer’s motion control scheme for the PC, which uses a magnetic field to track a pair of…

Your Computer Must Be This Powerful To Run Shogun: Total War 2

Shogun: Total War 2 has been dropping jaws with its gorgeous visuals since it was revealed at E3 last year. Surely such lush graphics come at a steep price? Let’s see what the official PC specs say. It doesn’t take that beefy of a PC to simply play Shogun: Total War 2. The biggest hassle…

“I Made A Video Game Where You Can Blow Out A Man’s Asshole”

Hear Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski utter the words that could one day appear on his tombstone in the latest installment of Bulletstorm’s Bulletpoints video series. Not safe for work, unless you work at a proctologist office. At least this video didn’t call me dick tits

No Love For Store-Exclusive Bonus Items

Commenter Curly Haired Boy rages against retailer-exclusive bonus items in today’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku. What’s the deal with retailer-exclusive bonus items? Fans hate missing out on them, they create more work for developers, and then the market awareness of a title just gets increasingly muddled. The completionist in me gets incredibly annoyed when,…

CES 2011 Can Only Get More Impressive After This

Morphing cars, dancing Tiger Lillies? They’ve got nothing on this AC/DC-loving robot. Kotaku is on the ground at CES 2011 in Las Vegas, checking out all the show’s biggest news about video games, tech and whatever weird stuff we can find. Dig into our full CES 2011 coverage.

The Mysterious, Magical Kentucky Route Zero, A 2011 Game To Anticipate

The trailer for a game I hadn’t heard of comes with the most unusual description: “a magic realist adventure game about a secret highway in Kentucky and the mysterious folks who travel.” This is Kentucky Route Zero. I want to play it. All I know so far is what you can all see here and…

If You Act Now, Dragon Age II’s Exiled Prince Is Free

Today BioWare dishes out details on The Exiled Prince, the first installment of downloadable content for Dragon Age II that players get for free – as long as they preorder the game within the next four days. The Exiled Prince, much like The Stone Prisoner downloadable content for the original Dragon Age, introduces players to…

Pockie Ninja Mixes Naruto With Bleach, Unofficially

After weeks of teasing something called Project Ninja with images of tiny Naruto and Bleach characters, online game operator NGames reveals Pockie Ninja, a web game featuring characters “inspired by” those popular anime series. So far all I’ve seen is bits of character art and this trailer, released today with the reveal of the game’s…

We Are Servbot

As seen at Capcom’s Las Vegas Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 party last night.

We Almost Got Glasses-Free 3D Gaming Last Decade

We’ll get a chance to play video games in 3D without wearing special glasses in the coming months, as Nintendo releases its 3DS system… but Nintendo already had glasses-free 3D gaming two machines ago. We just didn’t know about it. In an interview posted on Nintendo’s website, company boss Satoru Iwata talks about how the…