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This is your one warning. Get ready to try to win our Fallout: New Vegas neon sign today. Our post that includes the fourth and final rule for entry goes live at 11:40 Kotaku Time (1:40pm Eastern). Entries must be submitted beneath that post. (Other pertinent details here.)

This Is One Extremely Rugged Portable PlayStation 3

Legendary console modder Ben Heck’s creations are normally quite elegant, but when a couple in Afghanistan asked for something rugged, he gave them this majestic beast. What you’re looking at is a PlayStation 3 built into an existing Pelican Storm case. It features a 22 inch LCD display, built-in speakers, networking, a TV tuner, and…

Happy Holidays, Dood!

The secret behind NIS America’s success? It’s a company that knows nothing says “Happy Holidays” like a tortured soul trapped in the body of a legless penguin.

Fallout: New Vegas Is Rolling In The Dead Money

Dead Money, the first batch of downloadable content for Fallout: New Vegas, is now available on Xbox Live, and we’ve got a lovely screenshot gallery so the PC and PlayStation 3 gamers can play along. Fallout: New Vegas players that scraped up the 800 Microsoft point asking price for the Xbox 360-exclusive Dead Money are…

Dead Money Gallery

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome to winter, at least up here in the Northern Hemisphere from where we look down on Luke Plunkett. Celebrate the season by talking about video games. Thanks to lilmp89 for today’s image. Submit your best images to #TAYpics

Super Mario’s Next Sports Game Will Be Out In February

Mario Sports Mix, the Wii game created by the company behind Final Fantasy, will be out for the Wii in North America on February 7, according to a Nintendo press release today. The game features Mario and his extended cast of friends and foes playing hockey, basketball, volleyball or dodgeball in the kind of super-powered…

I Can’t Wash That Cap

To: Totilo From: Luke I have a limited attention span. Especially when I pick up a stack of papers and find, lying under them, a piece of gaming hardware I’d been looking for for weeks What you may have missed on Kotaku in the last 12 hours Gran Turismo 5 Just Got A Hefty Tune…

New Black Ops Zombies Map Named

The new Zombie map sold in the $15 Call of Duty: Black Ops “First Strike” expansion will be called Ascension, according to an Activision press release. Any theories on what that means? First Strike will be available for Xbox 360 download on Feb 1; other platforms later.

Retro GTA Homage Delayed On Wii (But There’s Good News)

Retro City Rampage, an ode to both the games and culture of yesteryear, was one of the few WiiWare games we’d been looking forward to as 2011 draws nearer. It’s also now probably one of the last. Why? Because it’s now coming out on Xbox Live Arcade as well. Those who have been following the…

Get Some Of The iPhone’s Best Games For Under A Buck

Inspired by the Humble Indie Bundles, a band of developers behind some of the iPhone’s finest games have banded together to run a little charity drive of their own. TL;DR: awesome iPhone games for $0.99. Because Apple’s App Store can’t wrap things in a neat little package like the Humble Indie Bundle, the Indie iPhone…

The Ultimate Valkyria Chronicles Tribute

Crystal Graziano, one of the world’s finest cosplayers (and whose Metal Gear Solid outfits blew us away at the Tokyo Game Show), is also a big fan of Sega strategy series Valkyria Chronicles. In this gallery, she transforms into Selvaria Bles, getting not just the outfit right, but the, uh, proportions of the evil lady…

The Devil Made These Mario Hoodies

Mario is normally a bringer of joy. Of happiness. But not here. Wear this hoodie and you will bring naught but terror Though styled on the Baby Milo version of Nintendo’s mascot, the result of a collaboration between Japanese clothing company Bathing Ape and the video game powerhouse, these shirts don’t look legit. Mostly because…

Mario Isn’t Just About Jumping, You Know

Comics legend James Kochalka (American Elf) has penned this great comic in the second issue of Kill Screen magazine, in which we get to the core of why so many people love playing as a tiny plumber in red overalls. It’s a message worth remembering. All too often it’s easy to get caught up in…

What If Indiana Jones Was A…Classic PC Adventure Game

Oh, wait, it was. Twice. OK, then, if it was an even older adventure game, maybe it would have looked like this! Artist Andy Rash, who did the delightful collection of pixellated Star Wars characters we featured a few weeks back, has done another set from the Indiana Jones movies. Like the Star Wars ones,…

Rock Band Creators Suing For A Cut Of The Rock Band Money

A group of former shareholders in Rock Band developers Harmonix – including company CEO Alex Rigopulos and his co-founder Eran Egozy – are suing parent company Viacom, amid claims massive bonus payments are being avoided. According to a report on Gamasutra, it appears that as part of the deal which saw Viacom purchase Harmonix back…

Ten Years Of Threadless, Ten Years Of Video Game T-Shirts

Online clothing store Threadless, purveyors of t-shirts for nerds, turned ten this year. Happy Birthday, guys! In celebration, here are some of the site’s best gaming t-shirts. Note these are the ones that have made it into production, not simply turned up for voting. As a fan of the site, I actually grabbed one of…

Minecraft Enters Beta, Is Now v1.0

Indie darling Minecraft took a big step towards a final, proper release today, with the game officially leaving “alpha” stage and entering “beta”. Next time you play, you’ll be playing Minecraft v1.0. The shift to beta was made with the promise of improvements and additions to the game, and the first of those come in…

Splinter Cell Re-Releases Creeping Up On The PS3 In 2011

As we expected, seeing as it was leaked earlier in the year, Ubisoft will next year be re-releasing a box set of older Splinter Cell games on the PlayStation 3. Called The Splinter Cell Trilogy, it’s looks like it’s a second release of a box set first put out on the PlayStation 2, only this…

The Dark Side Of The Moon

As we fade into the darkness at Kotaku, we’re reminded that it’s about to get darker than ever, thanks to tonight’s lunar eclipse. How about an off-topic request for tonight, then? For those of you lucky enough to witness tonight’s total lunar eclipse — details right here — how about sharing your photos, videos and…