The Week In Games: No, *You* Are The Controller!

Get your lean on this week when Microsoft finally unleashes Kinect on the Xbox 360 owning populace. But if you’re not a fan of motion-controlled games that make you sweat, there’s plenty of Bond, Kratos and Pikachu on tap! Monday, November 1 PokePark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure (Wii) Monopoly Streets (Xbox 360) Tuesday, November 2 God…

Valve’s Take On Dota Explained By Its Creator

The makers of Half-Life, Team Fortress and Portal are taking popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients and making it their own. The man behind it all gets into the nitty-gritty of the all-new Dota in a new Q&A. Icefrog, the man tasked with overseeing development of the original Dota, explains on the official…

Ash, You Have Four Hours To Respond

To: Ash From: McWhertor Re: Don’t Press The Toilet Buttons! I’ve been wondering. Do you ever read my day notes, Ash? I bet you read the ones from Crecente. To test you, I’m going to ask you to say the codeword “Rosebud” when you get into work. If I don’t hear it by 10pm Pacific…

Rumor: Resident Evil In The Hands Of SOCOM Team

Following in the trail blazed by Dead Rising 2, the next Resident Evil game may come from the Great White North. SOCOM developer Slant Six Games could be the latest studio tapped by Capcom to create its games. A document forwarded to Kotaku indicates that a new, team-based Resident Evil game is currently in development…

DirecTV Unplugs Video Game Channel G4

X-Play is on pause for DirecTV subscribers. The satellite TV provider has dropped video game-centric network G4 from its line-up today, with DirecTV saying it has “no plans” to bring back the cable channel for its 18 million U.S. customers. DirecTV said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly that rising costs are partially to blame…

Here they Are, The Winners of An Autographed Copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops

Here it is the last giveaway for the month of October: Two North American copies of the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition signed by Treyarch. We randomly selected the lucky two winners from our list of newsletter subscribers. If you were subscribed, you were entered. It’s something I’ll be…

Frankenreview: Fable III

If there’s one thing compiling the Fable III Frankenreview has taught me, it’s that even the most powerful monarch is subject to the court of popular opinion. In this case the court of popular opinion features the opinion of the assembled video game reviewers, who seem to have mixed feelings when it comes to the…

Did You Win One of Three Pro Elite Wireless Controllers?

Over the weekend we kicked off a contest to give away a Pro Elite Wireless PS3 Controller from Power A to three readers. The controllers have reverse analogs, motion control, dual rumble, glowing buttons, custom L2 and R2 triggers and are rechargeable. The good news is that you didn’t have to do anything if you…

What Good Can Come Of The Meeting of Metallica & Call of Duty: Black Ops?

About a million dollars worth, actually. Activision and Metallica are teaming for a good cause and a selfish one, with the band headlining the publisher’s Call of Duty: Black Ops launch party and finding unemployed military vets jobs. The stars of Guitar Hero: Metallica will also be the stars of Activision’s big promotional push for…

Size Limit Spoils Super Meat Boy’s November Release On WiiWare

Team Meat has crushed any hopes of its sadistic platformer Super Meat Boy making a November release on the Wii. The indie developer says squeezing the game down to WiiWare size is responsible for delaying the game’s release. Addressing the “internets,” Team Meat says that a November release on WiiWare is “impossible,” saying it has…

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Vagina Shooter Scores Penis Enlargement

Zombie Cow Studio’s vagina-based shooter Privates grows a pair and then some next year, when the free game finally gets its inevitable dick-based downloadable content. Set loose upon an unsuspecting world last August, Privates took gamers on a horrific journey deep inside a woman’s reproductive organs, controlling a crack squad of condom-headed commandos as they…

The PlayStation Move Push Gets Weirder

Unusually dressed models showing off the Move motion controller as part of the PlayStation showcase at last week’s Paris Games Week. Never mind the Move, when will Sony release the official PS3 head-mounted disc? As seen on Flickr

Need Some Hibernation Entertainment?

It’s cold season and there is absolutely no reason to go outside again until April. Take this short survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win a $150 gift certificate to Game Stop. That will buy enough games to keep you entertained for the next few months. [Rules]

Get A New Bird’s Eye Look At Firefall

For a game that the developer will be handing out for free, Firefall looks impressively promising. The large scale team-based online shooter—don’t call it an MMO—is certainly pretty from way up here. It’s also pretty handsome on the ground, where much of the shoot ’em up action will take place. Given the game’s Tribes and…

Scientists Discover A Way To Erase Bad Memories

Science fiction takes another step closer to reality today as scientists discover a way to delete traumatic memories from the brains of lab animals. Your fear of Kotaku’s regular science posts may soon be a thing of the past! As human understanding of how the brain works expands, so does the number of delightful little…

Guitar Hero Becomes Synthesizer Hero

Confession: I adore Jan Hammer. So a mod turning a plastic guitar into a synthesizer is looking – and sounding – pretty good about now. Granted, the quality of tune possible with this crude mod isn’t up to the lofty standards of Mr. Hammer, but it’s the thought that counts, and this was a pretty…

This Is Good News For The Future Graphics Of Minecraft

Minecraft has a great personality, but it’s not the prettiest game in the world. Fortunately for the more superficial of us, developer Notch has taken some of that Minecraft money and hired a great artist, one you already know. That’d be the Swedish artist who calls himself “Junkboy.” You may remember him from such JPEGs…

Super Street Fighter IV’s Latest Costume Pack Is A Day Late

Yesterday would have been the perfect day for Super Street Fighter IV’s Ryu, Ken, Dan, Gouken and Akuma to play dress-up with the new Ultra Shoryuken Pack. At least PlayStation 3 players can pay $3.99 today for these striking new costumes. Xbox 360 players will have to wait until tomorrow to put their 320 Microsoft…

The Video Gamer’s Anthem, Maybe

Do gamers need a theme song? An anthem that celebrates the gamer lifestyle and proves they can get girls? Did I just hear the lyric: “Get a girl and break the trend? And prove the ruuuumorrrrs wrong!”? This video was made by Tejbz, whose YouTube page describes him as a 22-year old student in Sweden.…