Microsoft Not So Keen On HD Re-Releases For The Xbox 360

From Ico to God of War to Sly to Beyond Good & Evil, the PlayStation 3 is currently being inundated by high definition ports of classic PS2 games. The Xbox 360? Notsomuch. “I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad idea,” Microsoft Game Studios Corporate Vice President Phil Spencer told IGN. “I’m going to think about…

Pokémon Weren’t Originally In Pokémon Snap

What do you call Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap with no Pokémon? Snap? “Originally, Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64 system wasn’t a Pokémon game,” recalls Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, “but rather a normal game in which you took photos, but the motivation for playing the game wasn’t clear.” With the Pocket Monsters got-to-collect-them-all craze…

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Visual Guide

Kinect Hits The…Home Shopping Network

We know, Kinect is shooting for a market more familiar with the Wii than with Modern Warfare perks, but it’s still a little strange seeing an Xbox 360 console pop up on the Home Shopping Network. Normally, you’d expect to see magic dusters, or crap that cleans silverware, or some revolutionary ab-busting torture device (or…

GameStop To Accept iPods For Trade-In?

You may not think iPods are true gaming machines, but retail giant GameStop certainly does, as it may soon be accepting Apple’s handheld devices for trade-in. From ancient iPod Shuffles to the more contemporary iPod Touch, if you’ve got an outdated iPod lying around the house that you can’t offload onto a partner or sibling,…

Review: Fable III

We want to be king, do we not? We want, at least, to try it, to reign wise and strong, loved, perhaps, or feared. Fable III is the video game that could let you learn which kind of ruler you might be. At least, that was the plan. Fable III is the third game in…

A Visual Guide To Fable III

Fable III’s debut trailer Fable III’s E3 2010 trailer Fable III’s heavyweight voice-acting talent at work. Fable III’s multiplayer marriage system.

You’re One Ugly Mother…

Who else has Halloween fever? If so, can someone recommend a specialist? This is just the off-topic open thread in which to do those kinds of things. It’s also the place for neat internet discoveries like Ray Villafane’s insanely detailed pumpkin carvings. I was going to dedicate some time to pumpkin carving before this weekend,…

Police: PlayStation 3 Brawl Ends With One Man Dead

Wichita, Kansas police are on the hunt for Benjamin Redgate, who they suspect is partly responsible for the death of Luke German, the result of a disagreement over a “video football game on PlayStation 3.” Benjamin Redgate’s older brother has already been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in relation to the case. The Redgates…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Hero Is Not The Strong, Silent Type

Treyarch and Activision have been relatively quiet on the single-player side of Call of Duty: Black Ops. But it appears Alex Mason, the main protagonist of the next Call of Duty, will have a lot to say. The developers of Black Ops have made a “very deliberate choice” to make Mason a more verbose, more…

What If 2010’s Spikiest PC Platformer Went 3D?

Terry Cavanagh’s wonderful VVVVVV is one of the best 2D platformers of 2010. But what if the gravity-flipping spike-filled interstellar adventure ventured into the third-dimension? It might look a little something like this. Sadly, VVVVVVX is just a mock up. Or, as creator “Roxfox” describes it, “just a thing I made in Maya to prove…

Scott Pilgrim Comes Together In A Beautiful Package

November is shaping up to be the second coming of Mr. Pilgrim. In addition to a DVD/Blu-ray release of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and updates to its game adaptation, the video game-infused comic book series is getting attractively boxed. Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley revealed the pretty box set on his personal web…

Feel The Epic Of Disney Epic Mickey’s Newest Trailer

The second cutest epic for the Wii is coming to North America November 30, giving Mickey Mouse fans a chance to explore the morality of Disney’s most famous mascot. Epic Mickey‘s newest trailer focuses on the epic-ness of it all. Sample Epic Mickey’s lovely opening cinematic and some of its painting and erasing gameplay for…

Peeeee Ceeeeee

To: Ash From: Crecente Today was even more fun than usual at Kotaku Tower. We spent a lot of time, too much time perhaps, talking about computer gaming. I ended up googling tons of Issac Asimov pictures and fantastic TRS-80 game ads on my hunt for the first computer game I ever played. Good times.…

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Costume Quest Becomes Healthy Food

Super Mario cakes? Doom jello sculptures? No edible homage to video games would be surprising unless the edible homage was… healthy? One inspired cook made a dish of Costume Quest for her boyfriend to eat and for us to admire. The source material is the recently-released downloadable Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 Halloween role-playing game…

Kids Don’t Want Toys For Christmas, They Want iPhones, iPads & Kinect

Video games like LEGO Harry Potter and fancy new controllers—Kinect and PlayStation Move—are among the most wished-for items this holiday, according to a new survey. But it’s Apple’s iOS-based devices that kids are demanding most. According to battery maker Duracell’s survey, the Duracell Toy Report, the most wanted “toy” that kids aged five to 16…

The Princess Is In Another Castle… Feasting On The Flesh Of The Living

A zombie Princess Peach? Anyone would think Halloween was right around the corner. By Luke Denby, thanks Glob!

How To Marry Another Gamer Online Via Fable III

Two of the guys behind Fable III celebrate the eve of Fable III’s North American release by showing us how players can marry each other through the game’s online co-op. But they censor the sex. Voila! A a baby appears. Look for Kotaku’s Fable III review soon. If only we could get our reviewer to…

It’s Official: Nintendo Has Sold A Ridiculous Amount Of Wii Remotes

63,500,000. That’s the number of Wii Remotes Nintendo says it has sold in the United States since the Wii launched in November 2006. How did Nintendo manage to move so many of the damn things? Wii Play was a big help, responsible for nearly 13 million Wii Remotes being snapped up by U.S. consumers. Wii…