Armed Robbers Snatch 100 Copies Of Black Ops In GameStop Heist

Two guys with semiautomatic firearms were hellbent on breaking street for Call of Duty: Black Ops, sticking up a Baltimore-area GameStop and looting it of 100 copies of the game, due out Tuesday. The Harford County, Md. sheriff’s office said the heist happened Saturday evening, and the robbers waited until closing time to hold up…

From Russia With Love, Five Minutes Of Dragon Age II Gameplay

Igromir 2010, which attentive readers know is the Eastern Europe equivalent of E3, is taking place this week, and from there comes this video of a Dragon Age II floor demonstration. Discuss!

The Week In Games: Call of Duty Black Out

Much like Madden’s first Tuesday in August, Call of Duty’s second Tuesday in November is getting to be a gaming holiday. No one’s going up against Activision’s military shooter, which looks to break records set last year. Sunday (Nov. 7) FlingSmash (Wii) Monday (Nov. 8) Gods vs. Humans (WiiWare) Tuesday (Nov. 9) Call of Duty:…

Gamer Fails Super Mario Bros. Speed Run, While Mario Creator Watches

Andrew Gardikis once beat Super Mario Bros. in five minutes. Shigeru Miyamoto created Super Mario Bros. a quarter century ago. The two men were at the Nintendo World Store today, where Andrew tried to repeat his feat. Miyamoto watched. Pressure! The event was part of a celebration at the Manhattan store for the 25th anniversary…

Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists

Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 5 Religions That Would Make Great Video Games [Ranker] This is, essentially, how to make the Top 5 religions (by number of adherents) into…

Is Kinect Already Hacked?

Judge for yourself. Someone claims to have written a driver for the Kinect’s motor, and he’s extracted a Kinect’s-eye view of what players look like to the device (above). A while back we had a series of monochromatic shots animated together, showing you how the Kinect recognizes players. This gives you a better view of…

There May Be Better Ways To Spend A Day, But They’re Not As Awesome

(Zombie) Jölan, a Kotaku ‘Shop Contest all-star, is brilliant in other media, too: Namely, Minecraft. “How I spent my day,” he says of the above construction.

K Monthly – October 2010

Welcome to the October 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of the best original video game coverage, including reviews, previews, features, and weekly columns, from Kotaku—plus an all-new look at the future of Kinect for the Xbox 360. We spoke to two of the men behind the Xbox 360’s new hands-free…

Interactive Comic Will Set Up Mass Effect 2 For PS3 [Update]

Mass Effect 2 is coming to the PS3; Mass Effect 1 is not. As the sequel can account for consequences of choices you made in the original, some were wondering how this will be addressed on the PS3. The answer, according to a BioWare producer in the print edition of the German magazine Play3, is…

How Microsoft Plans To Put A Video Game Controller In Everything

Microsoft is spending half a billion dollars to make sure that when you hear the word Kinect you think “the future of video games.” But Microsoft believes that the real potential for the voice recognition, motion-based technology is how they plan to use it with cell phones, computers and perhaps in the military and health…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Time Travelers Edition

A couple weeks ago, the Internet flipped out when someone thought they found a time traveling woman using a mobile phone in the middle of a Charlie Chaplin silent flick. This is something that made the nightly news. Turns out the large woman so rudely chatting away on her Droid in The Circus, circa 1928,…

Review: GoldenEye 007

The fat-chewing topic for hardcore gamers today who were the adolescents of the 1990s has been GoldenEye, the seminal Nintendo 64 shooter. Why can’t they bring it to a modern console? Finally, “they” have. But it’s neither reboot nor remake. GoldenEye 007 is instead the “reimagining” of the 1997 classic, reconfiguring the story of the…

Sunday Comics

Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Nov. 1 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Nov. 4 – Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Nov. 5 – Read more of Penny Arcade Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull published Nov.…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

Not sure that we should be making Infected jokes where the Columbian Exchange is involved. Blankets anyone? Too soon? It was 500 years ago. p4w4rr10r is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just shop up this image and submit it to the #taypics…

GoldenEye Visual Guide

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Politics As Usual Winners

Tuesday’s elections in the United States provided the grist for our two-week shop contest, imagining, examing and implementing political motives in video games and their characters. We’ve rounded up the 20 best in this gallery. E pluribus funny! adventlife (1), DEVOlutionSpud (5), HobbitGamer (11) and Snufkin (18) all made political hay out of the Obama…

Country-Style Donkey Kong Comes Back

A blend of cinematics and gameplay in this minute long trailer show you what to expect from Donkey Kong Country Returns. Unveiled at E3 five months ago, it’s due for the Wii on Nov. 21.

Find It In The New Vegas Classifieds

Something Awful, on target as always, skewers side mission premises in Fallout: New Vegas. Eight more ads are at the link. Seen on Something Awful.

NBA All Star ‘Addicted’ To Call Of Duty

Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams has long had Nov. 9 circled. Not because his team will play LeBron James and the Miami Heat then. Because it’s when Call of Duty: Black Ops releases. Williams says he’s “addicted” to it. “I actually don’t play any new video games except ‘Call of Duty,'” Williams told ESPN’s Jon…

Far Too Soon For EA Sports To Tap Out

It was little coincidence that THQ and Ultimate Fighting Championship waited until Oct. 19 to announce an eight year extension to their exclusive video game pact. That was the day EA Sports MMA released. EA Sports MMA and UFC Undisputed are a rare pairing, being directly competing licensed sports titles with different ship dates. So…