MLB’s Latest Flamethrowing Phenom Takes The Video Game Stage Today

Cincinnati’s Aroldis Chapman will be the second rookie to debut as the fastest thrower in all of video game baseball when he and his 103-mph heater are uploaded to MLB 2K10 sometime later this evening. Chapman, consistently clocked at more than 100 mph, will arrive on MLB 10 The Show with next week’s roster update,…

Hands On With The New Xbox 360 Controller [UPDATE]

Xbox Live’s Major Nelson was roaming PAX here in Seattle, probably needing something fun to do. So I asked him to let me try the new Xbox 360 controller with transforming D-pad — oh, and the analog sticks are different. Major Nelson even agreed to shoot this video, and while I put him to work…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s Labor Day weekend here in the United States and we at Kotaku will celebrate the three day weekend in the traditional way, with portable logic puzzles. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, here I come. In-between the time-twisting, brain-tickling fun, I may find some time to play Metroid: Other M, a Wii game that…

The Duke Nukem Forever PAX Demo: A Not-For-Kids Photo Gallery

We were encouraged to take as many pictures as we could of Duke Nukem Forever here at Penny Acrade Expo 2010 today. So I did. Excuse the shaky framing; I was trying to play while snapping pics. These shots show the two-level DNF demo, scenes photographed in chronological order. Oh, and one bottle of Duke…

Firefall, A Massively Multiplayer Online Shooter, Revealed By Ex-WoW, Tribes Creators

Red 5 Studios, the developer founded by former World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern, finally unveiled its long-in-the-making online shooter, Firefall today. The free-to-play futuristic action game also has a futuristic release date. Firefall, due “near the end of 2011,” takes place on a futuristic earth from the 23rd century, a “lush, dynamic open…

Duke Nukem Forever Impressions: Two Girls, One Duke

Duke Nukem is back and he needs to take a piss. The Duke Nukem Forever playable demo here at PAX 2010 makes the seemingly impossible a reality. People, including your Kotaku reporter, are playing Duke Nukem Forever, maybe a dozen years after we expected to. Duke, from what I can tell, hasn’t changed. He’s still…

The Cases Of The Missing Bullets

If a video game contains guns, does it also contain bullets? Not necessarily. Well, not necessarily — get this — depending on your philosophical take on what it means for a bullet to exist. The case of the missing bullets in video games is more of a quirk than a dire tragedy. There is no…

Free Fallout: New Vegas Graphic Novel Preview Hits iPad

Have an iPad and a bit of time? Might want to check out the free preview of the Fallout: New Vegas All Roads graphic novel. Bethesda Softworks teamed up with Dark Horse Comics to create this graphic novel penned by Chris Avellone, the game’s senior designer. The freebie gives you 12 pages of the graphic…

Resident Evil 5’s Jill Valentine Kitted Up

Cosplayer Spif Zaya, as seen in Las Vegas photo studio Envisage U’s top notch Cosplay galleries. Envisage U [via GameInformer]

Playing Around With iPhone Bit.Trip Beat

When Namco Networks brings WiiWare title Bit.Trip Beat to the iPhone it will include multiplayer and a slew of new levels. Here’s a look at an early build of the Pong-at-a-rave game in action on my iPhone. Note the music, the 8-bit stylings, the ability to purchase level packs, my chewed fingernails… wait, don’t note…

Gunfusion: Meet the Heavy

Meet the Heavy and ignore, for a minute his massive weight loss instead listening to his monologue about his gun, his wonderful, wonderful to-scale gun. Thanks to reader and cosplayer Logan Birch and a very special shout out to Sasha.

Your First Look at Duke Nukem Forever in Action

Yes, Gearbox Software really is turning the perpetual vaporware Duke Nukem Forever into a real live video game bound for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. But talk is cheap, that’s why we have gameplay footage as seen on 2K’s official live stream of their PAX booth. Leather-clad fists? Check! Urinals? Check! Hailing to the…

It’s Official: Duke Nukem Forever Coming From Gearbox In 2011

2K Games has made it official: Duke Nukem Forever is alive and, well, in the hands of developer Gearbox Software, confirming our earlier reports that the Borderlands studio was helping to complete the game’s absurdly long development cycle. The publisher announced this morning in advance of PAX 2010 that Gearbox Software was on the job,…

Duke Nukem Forever Spotted At PAX 2010

As this year’s PAX convention is just about to start, photos from the Penny Arcade Expo show floor confirm that Duke Nukem Forever—now with more Gearbox Software—will have a strong presence at the show. Publisher 2K Games is promising “something big” at this year’s PAX get-together, which we can only assume is 3D Realms’ long-promised…

H.A.W.X. 2, 8-Bit

Why wait for Ubisoft’s flight combat game H.A.W.X. 2 to come out for your console when you can play a fantastic 8-bit version of the game now on your computer, for free? Someone better be moving this over to the iPad stat! H.A.W.X. 2 Mini-Game

Nice T-Shirt Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford

As seen nearing Penny Arcade Expo. Looks like it could be a very appropriate shirt And it looks like it’s on the PAX floor as well [Thanks ch0diac]

Firefall Screen Shots

Firefall Concept Art

Original GoldenEye Dev Has A Slight Issue With Remake

Martin Hollis, who while with Rare was one of the men behind the original GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64, has some kind words to say about Activision, the publisher pushing the remake. Oh, sorry, did I say kind? “I imagine it is a business decision isn’t it?”, HOllis told Official Nintendo Magazine. “This name is…

This Only Works In John Woo Movies

If I learned anything from Unreal Tournament, it’s that two automatic pistols are better than one, and holding them sideways makes them fire faster. It’s two popular handgun fallacies in one! Unreal Tournament and the Unreal series in general have produced some pretty amazing weapons with equally impressive alternate firing modes. Some of my personal…