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You Could Download Kinect Betas Now, But They’re Useless

Does your Xbox 360 feel incomplete? Is it full of save files and Xbox Live Arcade games, maybe a theme or two but no Kinect-enabled software? You can waste some bandwidth today and change that. You can download the 1.7 GB Joyride Beta file, so that you can prepare to play a controller-free driving game.…

Spoiler Alert

To: Brian From: Luke I haven’t seen Inception yet. And would have liked it to be a complete surprise, as I’m was intended. But man, when it’s your job to be on the internet all day, it makes stuff like that hard. No. Not hard. Impossible. 🙁 Here’s what you missed: What Came First, The…

Red Faction Gets A Vehicle Combat Game

The question over the weekend was “Is THQ working on a downloadable Red Faction game?” The answer on Monday morning is “yes!” Speaking at GDC Europe today,THQ Digital creative director Don Whiteford has revealed Red Faction: Battlegrounds to be a downloadable title for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, which unlike the last (and…

Hey, Don’t Run Unauthorised World Of Warcraft Servers, OK?

Because if you do, it’ll cost you $88 million. That’s how much Scapegaming’s Alyson Reeves was ordered to pay Blizzard following a court case, in which Reeves was found guilty of charging users to play on an unauthorised World of Warcraft server. Over the years, she’d amassed over $3 million from these unsuspecting players, which…

Metroid: Other M Puts Those Duct-Taped GameCubes To Work

I think it’s the highest praise you can heap on a Wii game, at least in terms of its appearance, when you can say it doesn’t look like a Wii game. Instead, with all those colours, explosions and (most important of all) clever camera placement, Team Ninja’s debut Metroid effort looks closer to something you’d…

Scott Pilgrim vs Some Badass Animated Gifs

The super-talented Paul Robertson was one of the main men to thank for Scott Pilgrim being one of the best-looking games we’ve seen so far this year. Here, we take a look at some of the reasons why that is. Robertson has posted several examples of his work for the game on his personal site,…

New Batman Game Lets You Use Your DS On The Wii

The upcoming Batman: The Brave and the Bold will be doing something too few games have done so far this hardware generation: feature cross-play compatibility between the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. The game will be available on both systems, and if someone is playing the Wii version alongside someone on the DS, the person…

Zoey Goes Ninja While The Engineer Does The Robot

Using sparse backgrounds, 3DS Max and the power of C&C Music Factory, Lionhead animator James Benson has for the last month been taking some of Valve’s best characters and breathing a little extra life into them. In the clip above, Left 4 Dead’s Zoey breaks free from the confines of a first-person perspective and figures…

What Came First, The XCOM Or The Game?

I paid a visit to 2K Marin’s Canberra offices last week to have a chat with the developers of the upcoming XCOM reboot for the 360 and PC. And there was really only one question I wanted to ask. As a big fan of the old series, and someone more than a little disappointed to…

Lemonade Tycoon

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Gamescom Spectacular Days Away My neighbor’s kids visit him every other weekend. Today they set up a lemonade stand. We’re not on a high traffic street. I just know I’m gonna buy two cups of lemonade when I go to the gym and when I come back, pay them $1…

A Few Notes of Elton John in Mega Man 2’s Soundtrack

Reader Andrew G. has, since he was six, always thought that the theme for Dr. Wily’s Castle from Mega Man 2 sounded like Elton John’s “I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That.” Both were released in 1988. So, this is what it’s come to this weekend. Alright. Well, enjoy watching Mega Man rock…

Hey — Why Aren’t There Any Ladders In Fallout?

Answer: “We’re game development pussies,” Bethesda’s Todd Howard said at a QuakeCon panel on Friday. No really, the engine in Fallout and Elder Scrolls runs into AI problems if ladders are introduced, and the developer just works around them. “One day, we tried to figure out why we wanted ladders so bad because we don’t…

The Week in Games: The Dog Days of August

Square Enix owns the week as Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days releases on Tuesday, with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light coming to Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday. Sunday, Aug. 15 Battle vs. Chess (PC) House M.D. (Mac, PC) Tuesday, Aug. 17 Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (PC, PS3, 360) – In…

Kotaku’s Top Five 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. •The 50 Greatest Video Game Race Tracks [Breakdown Cover] With 50 tracks and videos for all of them, they’ve really done their homework on this…

Medal of Honor’s Singleplayer Will Present ‘Two Different Sides’

Perhaps I spoke too soon about Medal of Honor’s singleplayer. In this look at the campaign, executive producer Greg Goodrich says the story will be told “from two different sides.” This video shows two singleplayer missions, including one in which players head into town to gather intel on al Qaida. It seems unlikely the singleplayer…

A Big Burner, And I Don’t Mean The Cigar

Graffiti in London promoting Meeting Of Styles 2010, an annual graffiti artists’ get-together happening Aug. 21. As seen on World Graffiti Urban Art via Hot Blooded Gaming

Inevitably, Someone’s Mad That You Can Be The Taliban In Medal of Honor

I must be inside the bubble, because the idea of playing as the Taliban in Medal of Honor multiplayer didn’t hit me as particularly controversial. Fox News noticed. Though it did treat the subject reasonably, the woman they interviewed doesn’t. This segment aired on Fox & Friends yesterday and, despite the network’s poor rep with…

Three Minutes of Zealotry in Halo: Reach

Three maps, not part of the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta, were recently confirmed. We saw Reflection on Friday. Here’s Zealot, which has low-gravity features that seem very useful for … jumping right into a melee to the face. There’s a gravity lift at the center of the map (should be a popular camping spot, hm?)…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bored to Death

This piece of original art, which appeared in Gizmodo this past week, is our exploitable inspiration for the latest Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Big thanks to Sam Spratt for his permission for you to use this original drawing to make a witty, visual one-liner about … what? A boring game? Vaporware? Load times? Or maybe you…