Game About Befriending A Young Boy Is “Contentious”

Peter Molyneux, the game designer behind the Fable franchise, is working on Project Milo. The game is about a relationship with a young boy. Yep! According to Molyneux, there are “huge mountains” with the subject matter. “The reason for that is it is enormously contentious for us to do a game, a story, an experience,…

Deep Inside Xbox 360 Kinect and Why It’s the Future of Microsoft

Kinect is more than an Xbox 360 peripheral, it’s the future of Microsoft, or at least a very possible one. It’s the beginning of Microsoft’s plans for natural user interfaces, the step beyond the thing you’re staring at right now. *** Kinect is as much a product of serendipity as anything else. When Microsoft hired…

BioShock 2 Getting Story-Expanding Add-On

2K Games’ BioShock 2 is getting a new single-player focused downloadable game add-on that will include new characters, story and abilities, the developer said today. Minerva’s Den has players taking on the role of an all new character as they team up with Brigid Tenebaum to fight a dictator’s hold on a district in the…

In This Game, You Spank Girls

Seven girls are trapped in hell. Your job, as their prison guard, is to rehabilitate them. From the developers Nippon Ichi (Disgaea) and Imageepoch (Arc Rise Fantasia), Criminal Girls is “the role-playing game where you punish young girls”. Each of the girls represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins. So there is one girl that…

Borderlands Getting Steamworks Achievements

Got Borderlands on Steam? It has been confirmed via press release that the game is getting Steamworks achievements, but won’t have any additional Steamworks features.

Smash Bros. Creator: Once You Go 3D, It’s Hard To Go Back To 2D

Masahiro Sakurai, the man behind Smash Bros., is now the man behind Nintendo 3DS game Kid Icarus Uprising. Is it his first 3D game? “Yes this is indeed my first 3D game but I have a feeling that it’s going to be hard to go back [to 2D],” Sakurai tells the Official Nintendo Magazine. According…

The Last Ranker Gets Its First Manga

While Last Ranker might sound like a Square Enix PSP game, it’s not! Released this July, the Capcom game was produced by Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney producer Kazuya Niinou. It is getting reborn in Japanese manga form. Warriors in the game are ranked on how they battle, and the game follows Zig as he ascends…

Download The Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Single Player Demo Right Now

Doesn’t matter if Modern Warfare 2 was originally released in fall 2009, the single-player demo has finally hit both Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network. If you weren’t one of the 20 million who bought the game, check it out.

Five New Arcade Games To Get Excited About

Arcades are not dead. Here are five upcoming arcade titles that prove it. During 2008 and 2009, the financial crisis hit the Japanese gaming industry hard. Arcades and home consoles felt the crunch. According to Capcom’s most recent financial statement, “Performance up year-on-year on existing-arcade basis, indicating that the market downturn has ended.” (Capcom not…

You Row, I’ll Game

As seen in Hakodate, Japan by HitBit.

Scott Pilgrim Actor Talks World of Warcraft Movie

Director Sam Raimi might only be in the nascent stages of the World of Warcraft movie, but that hasn’t stopped folks from expressing interest in the film. Even Brandon Routh, who’s appearing in the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie, seems keen. “I’m kind of a gamer,” Routh recently told MTV. The actor, decked out in a…

Let’s Watch A Pokemon: Black And White Commercial

Nintendo’s fifth generation of Pocket Monsters, subtitled Black and White, will be released next month in Japan. The game will feature wall-to-wall new Pokemon. It will also make use of the DSi’s camera, so you can wave at the other nearby players. No, the game doesn’t actually send out a glowing blue ring when it…

It’s Kinda Like Tekken, But For Real

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Roger Huerta made his acting debut in the Tekken movie as the character Miguel Caballero Rojo. Rojo’s fighting style is brawling — perfect for a street fight. That’s exactly what happened over the weekend. At around 2AM, a dispute broke out in front of a bar in Austin, Texas. A…

How Activision Pissed Off Pro Paintballer Greg Hastings

Activision has lost a fan in Greg Hastings, the paintball playing pro who lent his name to two Activision-published games. According to Mr. Hastings, the mega publisher not only tried to “steal” his franchise, but also his identity. Hastings, who also has a game to promote in Greg Hastings Paintball 2—this one’s published by Majesco—tells…

Inside Kinect Gallery

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Kinect Design Gallery

Appetite For Distraction

Good evening, Kotaku readers. Come, join us in this post where we open our minds, our threads and maybe even our hearts to the things not necessarily video game related (like New Yorker cartoons). Did anyone out there 100% Achievement Unlocked 2 like I did today? And did you see these re-captioned cartoons from The…

Is There A Space Invaders Coffee Table Book As Well?

Did you get your Space Invaders couch? Because now there’s a $130 Space Invaders coffee table to match it. Seen on Etsy via Hot Blooded Gaming.

Report: Fable III Will Not Work With Kinect (At Launch)

Peter Molyneux, the main man behind Fable, dropped some good news and some bad news about the next game in that series today: Fable III will not support Microsoft’s Kinect controller when the game ships later this year. But Molyneux says that Kinect support—in some still unknown form—will come to Fable III at after launch,…

The Cooperstown Model Comes To Video Games

Whether you think it should be in Tokyo, Silicon Valley or elsewhere, the International Video Game Hall of Fame inducts its inaugural class this weekend in Ottumwa, Iowa. Today, the mayor went on NPR to justify why it belongs there. Mayor Dale Uehling appeared on this afternoon’s All Things Considered and invoked Cooperstown, home of…