Super Mario All-Stars Coming To America

Already released in Japan, the Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition will be making its way to the States this December, Nintendo of America revealed today. Priced at US$29.99, the Limited Edition comes with Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 as well as a…

Yup, That’s A Boss Battle

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Resident Evil Creator To Develop Games For…Bethesda

Tango Gameworks, the new studio headed up by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, has just been bought by Zenimax Media, the firm which also owns Oblivion developers Bethesda and Doom creators id. Mikami, whose last project was the just-released Vanquish, will remain in Tokyo with his team, where he will stay on as the head…

Ice Cube Adding Call Of Duty To His Resume

Jack-of-all-trades Ice Cube is lending his voice to the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops. Ice Cube first made a name for himself first as a rapper, but has since branched out into a successful acting, writing, directing and producing career. Some of his film roles include Boyz n the Hood, Three Kings and Friday…

One Sure-Fire Way To Slow Vanquish Down

Junkboy, the man to thank for 22 of the sweetest “demakes” we’ve seen all year, has a new piece up for lovers of Platinum Games’ latest effort Vanquish. Called “Wank-ish”, it takes the sickeningly-fast 3D shooter and turns it into a 2D game ala Wild Guns I liked Vanquish, but a lot of the time…

What’s It Like To Lose Your Lead Ninja?

Until 2008, the head ninja of Team Ninja (not pictured) was Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki. Then he left and filed a lawsuit over unpaid wages. More Tecmo developers left, too. What’s that like for the other ninjas? “I’ve been with Team Ninja ever since I graduated from college, so everything I know about…

Someone Is Making A Van Helsing MMO

Universal Studios is working on more than just a Michael Jackson game, with word slipping out yesterday that an MMO based on mythical monster hunter Van Helsing is also in development. Handling the game will be a partnership between SEE Virtual Worlds and Entropia Universe creators MindArk. There’s not much else to tell at the…

Microsoft’s Computer Gave Birth To Japanese Gaming Legends

Microsoft has been successful the world over with its operating systems. Even in Japan, Windows is the most common OS. However, the computer giant hasn’t seen those same results there with gaming. That hasn’t always been the case. In the early 1980s, Microsoft Japan aimed to create a standard for computers akin to the VHS…

BioShock Creators Had Monster Island On Their Minds

Continuing their welcome tradition of showing us games they never actually made, Irrational has this week lifted the veil on Monster Island, a title the BioShock developers never finished (though we wish they had). First conceived at the beginning of the decade, Monster Island is described by Irrational as an “action/strategy console game” that took…

Sleep With This Voice Actress’s Pillow Cover

In Japan, Rie Tanaka (Phantasy Star Portable, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3) is such a popular voice actress that last year she got her own trading cards. This year, she’s getting her own hug pillow cover. Progress! Hug pillows are called “dakimakura” with “daki” referring to “hug” and “makura” meaning “pillow”. Dakimakura covers typically show…

Nintendo DS Sales Fall Through The Floor

In the six months leading up to September 30, 2009, Nintendo sold 11.7 million DS units worldwide. In the six months leading up to September 30, 2010, that figure has dropped by nearly half, to 6.69 million. It’s to be expected, of course. Not only is the DS getting a little long in the tooth…

Full House Star Sued Over Video Game Jibes

When Jodie Sweetin was 13, Full House was canceled. The actress, who played Stephanie Tanner, grew up, got married and started doing meth. But her second husband, she says, was a gaming junkie. In her tell-all memoir UnSweetined, the 28-year-old actress talks about overcoming her drug addiction and how difficult it was for her after…

PC Gaming Week Confessional, Luke Edition

We are all over PC gaming this week, but what do we know about PC gaming? Each day, one Kotaku editor will reveal their PC gaming knowledge and share some memories. Yesterday you read about Ashcraft’s experiences, now it’s my turn. Are you a PC gamer? You bet your ass I am. While I own…

Review: Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy is described as “tough as nails” by its developers. And boy, they aren’t kidding. Ready to be put through the grinder? Super Meat Boy is a 2D platformer in the vein of hard retro games like Namco’s Quest of Ki. The plot is simple: Dr. Fetus kidnapped Bandage Girl, and it’s up…

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Famous Developers Share Their Favorite PS2 Games

This week is the tenth anniversary of the PlayStation 2’s launch in North America, and as part of the celebrations Sony rounded up a bunch of big-name developers and asked them what their favourite PS2 games were. Don’t worry, it’s not just Sony or Sony BFF developers giving their thoughts; everyone from Ken Levine to…

Threepio, R2 Break Into A Store To Play Video Games

When they’re not starring in movies or cartoons, Star Wars’ C-3PO and R2-D2 like nothing more than to…break into a large British electronics retailer, turn on all the TVs and play some video games. And that’s probably the least entertaining part of this commercial for Currys & PC World Megastores, in which Threepio plays the…

Woman Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session

A 22 year-old woman from Jacksonsville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of…Farmville. Alexandra V. Tobias says her three-month old child, Dylan Lee Edmondson, had been crying while she was trying to play the popular Facebook casual game. This angered Tobias, who told authorities that she shook the baby,…

Gal Gun’s Panic Button Saves You From Looking Like A Perv

Developer Alchemist’s creepy schoolgirl shoot ’em up Gal Gun is not the type of thing you’d be proud to play. Thankfully, the developer of the Xbox 360 game knows this, letting players keep their fetishistic arcade action a secret. Gal Gun, which puts players in the role of a high school student who must fend…

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

We’ve got a fully functioning open thread right here and after a day of competing with LA traffic, we’re going to hand you the steering wheel for this one. You may want to talk about Blade Runner. You may want to talk about video games. You may want to talk about any of the following…