GameStop’s iPhone Advergame Can’t Be Preordered, Returned For Store Credit

In terms of gameplay, Buck And The Coin Of Destiny isn’t half bad. It’s a one-touch, Canabalt-style random platformer. It is, however, a Big Free Ad for GameStop. And like its namesake, it costs a buck. Buck the Bunny is the retailer’s mascot – maybe you’ve seen him sigh his way through generic platform levels…

Building A Metroid Cannon For Halloween

11 year-old Joe DeRosa wants to dress up as a girl this Halloween. That girl is Samus Aran, star of the Metroid series. So his dad Tony is helping him build an awesome arm cannon. This adorable video showcases the construction of the cannon, which with light and sounds (based on the Metroid prime design…

Gran Turismo 5 Creator Still Thinking About Bikes

Project Gotham added them. Burnout did too. Could Gran Turismo 5 be the latest car racing game to introduce motorbikes? “The environment we have right now allows us to drive motorcycles, but we need to get Gran Turismo 5 done first,” series creator Kazunori Yamauchi told PSM3. “Once that’s out of the way, if there’s…

Predict How The Supreme Court Will Vote In This Online Fantasy League

This year marks the first anniversary of a Supreme Court fantasy league that a recent law school graduate from Virginia is running online. Participants try to accurately guess all nine justices’ votes, collecting badges and achievements for their performance. FantasySCOTUS by Josh Blackman (pictured) has 5,000 players – some of them, he says, are pretty…

Introducing Off Topic Air

Good evening, Kotaku readers. Tonight, we’re excited to share with you an all-new in innovation in open threads. Still the same great non-video game related discussion, but only two-thirds of an inch thick. It really is amazing. So, did anyone out there already drop some cash on Apple’s new products? I’m conflicted about the new…

A Celestial Paint Job

Okami-themed decal job spied in the parking lot of an unnamed Michigan college campus by reader Chris S. The driver’s love for the game extends from hood to license plate.

John Romero Wants To Make You His Friend With New Facebook Game

The co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein is putting his name on something a little friendlier, a Facebook app by the name of Ravenwood Fair. That’s right, John Romero is asking you to suck it down, casually. Romero is part of the team behind the recently launched Ravenwood Fair, VentureBeat reports, a new Facebook app…

Is This Kinect Ad More To Your Liking?

This video just popped up on YouTube, purporting to be the debut advertisement for Kinect once its television marketing campaign begins. Ads that leaked out before this one were “unfinished.” It’s certainly professionally edited, and contains some footage we haven’t seen in the previous three rough cuts. It still keeps the visual focus on the…

Game Dev Puts Game Dev Story Into Perspective

Adrian Chmielarz, creative director at Bulletstorm and Painkiller developer People Can Fly, weighs in on iPhone mini-sensation Game Dev Story, later explaining it “might actually be tons of fun for people who are not in game dev, but for us… I mean, what developer’s first hire is a secretary?”

Awesome NES Coffee Table Up For Sale on eBay

Matt, the guy who built the stunning, giant-size Nintendo Entertainment System coffee table we showed you about a month ago, just listed his masterpiece on eBay. Bids open at $400. Besides one hell of a conversation starter, the coffee table includes some pretty smooth functionality, such as power outlets where the controller ports would be,…

Review: Time Crisis: Razing Storm

Time Crisis: Razing Storm isn’t just a chance to play a fantastic light gun game on your PS3; it’s a chance to play three of them—and, if you want, you can even use the PlayStation Move controller to do so. This compilation includes the destructible environments of Time Crisis: Razing Storm, a re-release of Time…

Billy Joel Coming To Rock Band 3, Thanks To ‘The Office’

The Piano Man is bringing some of his biggest hits to MTV Games and Harmonix’s Rock Band, arguably the best reason to pick up a copy of Rock Band 3‘s new keyboard controller. Ten tracks from Billy Joel will be coming to Rock Band 3 starting in December, including “Big Shot,” “Captain Jack,” “It’s Still…

NBA Live 10 Roster Update Available Now

With NBA Elite 11 indefinitely postponed, EA Sports promised to continue supporting NBA Live 10 with a fully updated roster for the 2010-2011 NBA season. All the league’s players are included, but there are some features the update won’t have. Most importantly, while this year’s rookies will be included they won’t have “cyber face” support,…

I’m Here

To: Ash From: Crecente Uneventful flight into San Francisco today. I’ll be up late tonight and then flying out tomorrow afternoon to home, hearth and wonderful family. I was chatting with Trish on the phone waiting for boarding to end and as I said goodbye I told her, as I always do, that I love…

Xbox Live Ditches ‘Silver’ Class For ‘Free’

Say goodbye to Xbox Live “Silver,” as Microsoft appears to be dropping the name of that tier of its Live service in favor of something less confusing. “Free” is the new “Silver.” It’s little more than a name change for the free entry level version of the Xbox’s online service, but the scrubbing of Silver…

A New Kind Of Busch Beer

Alcohol references of any type usually mean an ESRB rating stricter than E. This isn’t new to NASCAR games. But it’s amusing to see Kurt Busch, driver of the Miller Lite No. 2. get his own brand of beer. Eight new screenshots for NASCAR The Game 2011, due next year from Eutechnyx, show us some…

NASCAR The Game 2011 Screens

NBA Jam On 360/PS3 Listed For $49.99

GameStop today listed the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of NBA Jam for $49.99 with a street date of Nov. 16. The game will feature all of the content available in the just-released Wii version, plus online multiplayer. NBA Jam on the Xbox 360 and PS3 was originally to have been a free downloadable game…

Join the Psycho Circus, Luchador?

Killer Clown, Zombie Clown and the equally-insane Psycho Clown are waiting to put the gory smackdown on whomever dares to challenge them in the ring. Strap on your most hideous mask and get into the ring—Lucha Libre: Héroes del Ring is out today. Play in English o en Español! Lucha Libre: Héroes del Ring delivers…

The Bargain Bin: Domino Rally

What kind of game can you buy with $7.50 at your local Target? This kind of game. Let’s take a look at UFO Interactive’s Domino Rally. I can’t resist a bargain, especially one sporting cover art as attractive as Domino Rally. Just look at it: It screams “You’ve got absolutely no self-control and I’m under…