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Kotaku Shop Contest: Kinect Goes to China Winners

The inevitable counterfeiting, bootlegging and knock-offing of Kinect in certain Far East markets was the inspiration for last week’s contest, and many enterprising ‘shoppers joined the cause to create glorious images for the benefit of all. Let’s take a look. For some reason, the less I could tell what was going on with a box,…

New Mass Effect 2 Weapons Pack Will Precede “Broker”

Astute Mass Effect fans noticed that, in the screens accompanying news of the upcoming extension “The Lair of the Shadow Broker,” Shepard’s packing two weapons currently unavailable. BioWare’s confirmed a new weapons pack is coming, earlier than this next DLC. BioWare’s Jarrett Lee took to the forums to confirm what people were seeing was authentic.…

And Now For The Rest Of The (Beginning Of The) Story …

If you saw that 30-second teaser on Thursday and wondered what the heck was going on with Batman’s costume and Superman’s lack of a shave, this six-minute video setting up DC Universe Online’s story should answer a lot of questions. Thanks to Antiterra for the tip.

Tomb Raider Avatar Items Available For Plunder On Thursday

If you’ve ever wanted to cross dress your avatar as Lara Croft, your chance is coming. The tomb raider’s super-tight shorts are among a set of themed outfits hitting Xbox Live Marketplace on Thursday. Right now, a premium theme celebrating Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is already available on the marketplace. That’ll be…

Digital Distributors Dispute NPD Rankings

Impulse and GamersGate are two pretty well known digital download services – we feature them every week in The Moneysaver – but they didn’t show up in an NPD assessment of digital versus brick-and-mortar sales. Earlier in the week, NPD Group claimed that digital download sales of PC games had almost caught up with games…

The Future Is The Past, But Not For Long

Thursday’s news of “The Jordan Challenge” coming to NBA 2K11 certainly felt like a trip down memory lane – of video games, as well as His Airness’ career. In the days when Michael Jordan was the premier athlete in the NBA, if not the world, sports video games were on the whole not fully licensed,…

Street Fighter X Tekken, Tekken X Street Fighter Revealed At Comic-Con

Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono had his “Street Fighter IV and Beyond” panel interrupted by Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada today, with the rival fighting game makers joining together to announce two Street Fighter versus Tekken collaborations. Street Fighter X Tekken was introduced with a teaser trailer featuring Street Fighter’s Ryu facing down Tekken’s Kazuya…

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition Announced At Comic-Con

At today’s “Street Fighter IV and Beyond” panel, Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono revealed that he and his team “haven’t forgotten about Street Fighter III.” As proof, Ono offered an announcement, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition. “We’re just starting to work on it,” Ono said of the new version of Street Fighter III, so…

YouTube Easter Egg Lets You Play “Snake”

How long this has been available, who knows, but someone just found an Easter egg in YouTube that allows you to play a game of Snake on the video while it’s paused or plays. I’ve confirmed this for myself – it takes some doing, and maybe it’s because I’m using a Mac, but if you…

British Tab’s Bogus GTA Story Brings Bigtime Apology — and Damages

The idea that Rockstar Games was making “Grand Theft Auto: Rothbury” – whether or not a ghastly crime was committed there – was so sensationally ridiculous that when The Daily Star alleged such a plan, I ignored it. Rockstar didn’t. The studio has now extracted a remarkable apology from the U.K. tabloid, which last week…

Dead Space: The Backpack Is Finally Here

Extend the fiction of Dead Space to your shoulders and show the world your current stasis levels with Visceral’s new Isaac Clarke backpack. Grab it at the Visceral online store if this is whole Dead Space thing is your bag.

Box Scores: The Rich Get You-Know-What-er

Not because he’s a Duke fan – heavens, no, really folks – but Kotaku reader Shwing apparently felt that one of college sports’ A-list Haves should also Have a major bowl bid. And the Orange Bowl committee sighed. Duke’s major bowl history is – you see this every goddamn year in their media guide –…

Hello Traveler, There Is New Papercraft Available At The Bounty Board!

Borderlands’ lovable, annoying Claptrap, done in papercraft by Leo Firebrand, who also made the famous papercraft Fallout 3 laser pistol. More images and plans at his site.

The Moneysaver: Untouchable Bargains

You wanna know how you do it? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way, that’s how you get coupons! Hardware • Amazon is taking pre-orders for the new Xbox 360 4GB Slim Console bundled…

The Week in Review: Hot Fun in the Summertime

When I was a kid, summer meant saving up my paperboy money for two things: Fireworks and video games. Both necessities converged in 1985 – which staggers me to realize it was 25 years ago. Growing up in a newspaper family, the big deal each July was the North Carolina Press Association’s “Summer Institute.” NCPA…

Why Is StarCraft So Popular In Korea?

StarCraft might not be South Korea’s national pastime, but that doesn’t mean sometimes it seems like it is. While not everyone in South Korea plays StarCraft (or plays computer games, for that matter), the game is big there. No, it’s huge — twelve years after it launched. There are professional StarCraft leagues, pro StarCraft players…

Designing Beautiful Guns For Video Games

Pascal Eggert, gun nut and currently artist at Crysis developers Crytek, got his job doing what he loves: designing firearms for video games. Some of you may think he’s crazy, but I think having someone onboard who is so into his shit that he designs not only a weapon’s appearance but its inner mechanics as…

Let’s Get A Good Look At Square Enix’s Halo: Reach Action Figures

Square Enix, in addition to making fancy video games, also makes a fancy toy or two. The company’s Play Arts Kai line of highly detailed figures is welcoming Halo: Reach to the fold with two waves of posh toys. Halo: Reach’s Noble Team squad will be immortalized in high grade materials starting this fall, when…

The Arguments For, And Against, Another Jaws Video Game

There have been two (well, technically three) games based on the world’s first Summer blockbuster, 1975’s Jaws. And they all sucked. Doesn’t the quintessential underwater villain deserve better? Ashcraft, our resident film expert, and myself, our resident shark hater, decided to find out. What follows is an informal email discussion on the subject, which begins…