Pink DualShocks? They’re For Girls!

Or so implies the latest e-mail from the folks at PlayStation, who are clearly aware that pink plastic video game accessories are not cross-gender compatible. As seen in my e-mail inbox.

Return of the Quack Is The Best Double Duck Vs. Evil Food Shooter You’ll Play Today

A tragedy has befallen the Songbird Kingdom. Irradiated food and twisted mutants run rampant and it’s up to you, Ducky and his trusty steed Lazerduck to rid the once peaceful land of Governor Cheeseburger’s evil hordes. This is Return of the Quack, a side-scrolling shoot ’em up that pits double the duck against mutant Fudgesicles,…

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 Is Now Move-Enabled

A title update now live on the PlayStation Network adds PlayStation Move support to a sports game where motion controls make the most sense: golf, specifically Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. EA Sports released a raft of screenshots and that video above to show what a Move-enabled golf simulation looks and plays like. Joining the…

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 PlayStation Move Screens

Happy Deputy Birthday Deputy Totilo

To: Luke From: Crecente Hey, hey! Happy Birthday Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo. I hope you’re doing something fun. If not, might I suggest a silent disco, followed by cheese, wine and crusty French bread. Have a good one, man! What you missed: A Look At the PS3 High-Def, Snap-On Video Screen LittleBigPlanet 2 As Street Fighter,…

Left 4 Dead’s Digital Comic Adventures Continue

Part two of the Left 4 Dead digi-comic “The Sacrifice” is live, the precursor to the upcoming downloadable content for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll download it as a PDF.

The Passion Of The Bynum

A demo isn’t the finished product. But Andrew Bynum hilariously stuck in the Jordan Wings pose at midcourt is not what NBA Elite 11 wants to see less than a day into its demo. NSFW language in the players’ reactions. I can’t remember the last sports title that didn’t have a patch available day of…

Christopher “Doc Brown” Lloyd Hard at Work on New Back to the Future Game

Telltale Games are hard at work on their new Back to the Future games with the help of Christopher “Doc Brown” Lloyd and Back to the Future screenwriter Bob Gale. Telltale Games sent along these photos to Kotaku showing Lloyd hard at work in the audio studio yesterday on voice recordings for the game. Gale…

Hydro Thunder Hurricane Has A Tempest A-brewing

Developer Vector Unit is injecting a dose of downloadable content to its high speed motorboat racing game, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, with the forthcoming Tempest Pack. What’s new for the sequel to Midway’s classic racing game? Stuff! Specifically, three new race tracks: the volcanic Atlantis, Atlantis, the stormy Bermuda Triangle, and the exploding barrel-filled Castle Von…

Christopher Lloyd

Mobile Guild Chat Coming To World Of Warcraft

Oddly coinciding with ArenaNet’s article about allowing players to communicate with guild members using mobile devices, Blizzard reveals that offline mobile guild chat will be coming to World of Warcraft as well. Fancy that! Yes, soon you won’t have to be at your computer to bug the hell out of your World of Warcraft guildies,…

Unboxing The Fancy Edition Of Civilization V

As we did with the Halo Reach Briefcase Edition and the StarCraft II More Expensive Edition, Kotaku is exposing the Civilization V Comes With Statues Edition (aka the $100 Civ V Special Edition) to the glare of sunlight. Here, unboxed. For more of what’s in the game, check out Kotaku’s Civ V review and our…

F1 2010 Revs Its Gaming Engines On 360®, PS3®, PC

F1 2010, the official game of the 2010 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™, races out today with all of this season’s teams, drivers and circuits including the return of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher. F1 2010 immerses players in the glamour and exhilaration of the world’s most exciting motor sport, from the paddock to the…

PlayStation Store Update: Early Late Edition

Your regularly scheduled PlayStation Store update hit North America on Monday, a bit earlier than normal, thanks to some scheduled PlayStation Network maintenance. So let’s catch up on what’s new. Blade Kitten, DeathSpank, Sonic Adventure and a pair of PlayStation import titles lead the list of new additions, with a slew of PlayStation 3 demos…

Halo: Reach Stops A Jet In Midair

New York Jets center Nick Mangold on the edge of his seat during a Halo: Reach event at the Jets’ training facility earlier this month.

Lara Croft Online Co-Op Will Happen, Just Later Than Planned

The news today that the PlayStation 3 and Steam/PC versions of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be out next week confirmed that online co-op won’t be available at launch, just as it wasn’t on the Xbox 360. “We didn’t want to deliver the subpar experience online,” Karl Stewart, global brand director at…

Christopher Nolan Wants To Make An Inception Video Game

The director of The Dark Knight and Memento wants to turn his latest film, the $750 million grossing Inception, into a video game. Just don’t expect it any time soon. Variety reports that Nolan has said “one thing we are looking at doing is developing a video game based on the world of the film,…

Ten Minutes Of BioShock Infinite Gameplay

Previously shown only to press behind closed doors, 2K has let slip nearly ten minutes of mind-blowing, vertigo-inducing gameplay footage from BioShock Infinite. You might want to have an air sickness bag at the ready. This extended gameplay trailer is currently available on Xbox.com and through Xbox Live on your Xbox 360, but as reader…

In Search Of History’s Best Video Games: Canon Fodder, Season Two

My friend N’Gai Croal and I have made a game out of choosing the 10 best video games of all time. This is a game, called Canon Fodder, that we invite game developers to play every six months or so. Earlier this month, during Canon Fodder season two, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of…

Imagining A Lego Mega Man

What do you get when you cross Mega Man with Lego? Graphic artist Raphael Phillips twists those two worlds together in his first Mega Man Lego collection over at The 8-bit Cubist The original Mega Man lends himself particularly well to the Lego treatment, consisting of not much more than blocks himself. The color swaps…