Kevin Butler Commits Gran Theft Turismo

With each new major PlayStation 3 release comes a new video starring Kevin Butler, Sony’s VP of game commercials. In this Gran Turismo 5 spot he claims responsibility for the game’s greatness, and claims a sporty little number for himself. Should I purchase Gran Turismo 5? Every time a new game in the series comes…

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The Next Pirates Of The Caribbean Game Will Be LEGO-ized

Following in the footsteps of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean is the next film franchise to get the LEGO treatment from TT Games. The Captain Jack Sparrow image you see here is not an official model from the upcoming game, but this custom creation from Devon Syvertsen shows…

Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s Remote Killing and Elbow Sword

Deus Ex: Human Revolution looks like it’s shaping up quite nicely. In this second gameplay video, we get to see some of the weapons, gadgets and settings in the upcoming game. I love how customizable Adam Jensen appears to be. And elbow swords? Yes, please.

Nintendo Getting Better With Its WiiWare Demos, But Not Nailing It Yet

More demos of WiiWare games are coming — finally. But they’re still only going to be offered for a limited time and won’t be for all titles. For several years, Nintendo has been selling some terrific downloadable games in its WiiWare store: World of Goo, Thru-Space, Swords & Soldiers, Art Style: Light Trax, and plenty…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Get on that light cycle and comment about video games. Right here. Congratulations to reader Yankton for today’s great image. Submit yours to #TAYpics

Hull Zero Three – An Excerpt

Author Greg Bear isn’t just a one-time Kotaku guest columnist and a prize-winning science fiction author. He’s also the guy working on the origin story for the entire HALO universe. But before The Forerunner Trilogy kicks off, Bear has another book hitting stores: Hull Zero Three. A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Continuing Domination Over Books, Games, Movies, President Bush

Call of Duty Black Ops set a five-day record for getting people to part with their money, according to its creators today. $650 million in copies sold around the world in the span of a work week. Black Ops publisher Activision, you know, the one a lot of gamers love to hate because of their…

Shoot Down Friends’ AR.Drones With Parrot’s Augmented Reality iPhone Game

Remember Parrot’s awesome iPhone-controlled AR.Drone? Of course you do. Grab an AR.Drone-owning friend and when the augmented reality app hits the App Store, get downloading for some healthy Bluetooth-based competition. It’s a two-player game, which rather limits the app, as you’ll need to find someone else who owns a $300 (£300) drone as well as…

Vaporware Legend Returns From The Dead

Wardevil, a game five years in development that was reportedly cancelled last month, is for some reason now being brought back from the dead and given a new name. British creators Ignition have decided that, rather than develop the game in-house, it will now be built via a combination of local and outsourced talent, and…

Dead Space, Figure, Doopedy-Do

Toy company NECA has released the first official shot of their upcoming figure based on the upcoming Dead Space 2. Seeing hero Isaac in colour and in such clear detail for the first time makes me realise he looks…familiar. He looks like he did in the first game, sure, but look down. Past the helmet,…

They Really Need To Stop Making These Mega Man Online Trailers

Why? Because all it makes us want is a Mega Man movie, not some side-scrolling online game. These teaser trailers for the Korean online game Rockman Online (or Mega Man Online) are getting better and better, turning the cute platformers into dark, violent, exciting affairs. Which makes it all the more disappointing when you see…

How Long Until Kinect Turns Into Skynet?

Why play games on Kinect when you can hook it up to a robot, teach it how to learn from its surroundings then take your orders with the wave of an arm? Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, has done just that, connecting Microsoft’s motion-sensing peripheral to a small robot (a hacked…

Tattoos Are A Last-Gen Feature

It’s…just…yes. As seen on Pichu, via Gamefreaks Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Uh, Where’s Fable III On PC?

It’s a valid question. After all, the Xbox 360 version is out, while the PC version is not, and does not even have a release date. Well, according to Lionhead, it’s still…in development, the team behind the series saying “Fable 3 PC Version is still in development here at Lionhead so PC GAMERS don’t panic.…

Great Shot Kid, That Was One In A Million

There are one-in-a-million kills, and then there are one-in-a-gazillion-million-billion kills. Or, in this case, suicides. Reader Adam sends us this clip of a game of Halo: Reach, in which he fires off a shot that misses its target. He does, however, manage to hit first the ground and then a distant mountain, which results in…

The “Future Of Video Games” Goes On Sale Tomorrow

OnLive, the streaming service that has the potential to change forever the way we play (and purchase) video games, will begin selling its small TV “console” tomorrow. And it’s got a rather attractive price-point to go along with it. The small unit, which plugs into your internet connection and then into your TV – bringing…

The New Medium Where Writers Are Trying To Make It

What would you expect to be paid to write a video game script? $100,000? Maybe you’d get that a few years ago, but the rate is now more between $10,000 to $20,000, writes The New York Observer. It’s one of the more interesting did-you-knows cropping up in a collection of anecdotes about solid writers who…

Review: Hoard Will Set Your Friendships On Fire

With so many multiplayer experiences these days revolving around perks and persistent characters, it’s nice to see a game that remembers the key to good competitive gaming is often just to keep things simple. Hoard is a party game that creates small boardgame-like maps, puts players in control of dragons then has them competing to…

Cars Love Gran Turismo 5 Too!

If you thought the first Japanese TV commercial for Gran Turismo 5 – the one with the toy cars – was fun, it’s more fun when the toys are swapped out for dozens of real cars. I lost count of the number of different cars I saw in this ad, but suffice to say, it’s…