Setting Up Kinect Is Like Preparing For A Date

Vacuum your floors. Reduce background noise. Make sure you have adequate lighting. Are we playing video games here or hoping to score? This Xbox Live video shows the steps needed to ensure a pleasurable Kinect Experience. Kinect will never work in my apartment. I do have six feet of room between my television and my…

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Visual Guide

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock’s debut trailer. The girls of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock can transform into far less attractive cobra women, so don’t get too attached. If you’re looking for lurid camera angles, watch this teaser trailer. Megadeth’s “Sudden Death” on Expert difficulty proves that developer Neversoft isn’t letting up on the challenge…

First Resistance 3 Screens Paint A Grim Picture

A collection of screenshots and concept art for Resistance 3 have surfaced, painting a wonderfully dark picture of the United States in the grip of the Chimeran forces. Can Joseph Capelli save the day? Kotakuite Darkos87 pointed us towards these fresh Resistance 3 screenshots and concept art pieces on Flickr, giving us our first look…

Uncharted 2 Gets A Well-Deserved Game Of The Year Edition

We can think of no better recipient of a Game of the Year Edition than Kotaku’s 2009 Game of the Year Uncharted 2. What will $50 net fans come October 12? The Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition hits retailers on October 12. Celebrating the myriad awards given Naughty Dog’s masterpiece including…

ZQ Fall Edition Makes Dead Rising 2’s Zombies Chic

The fall issue of Zombie Quarterly is here, packed with zombie dating advice, Fortune City’s latest haute fashions, some neat DIY for affordable mayhem and an exclusive interview with the new guy in town: Chuck Greene. As always, the big draw to ZQ’s chunky 40-plus page special fall preview is as much the photos as…

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Red Dead Redemption’s Cover Art Has Seen Better Days

Rockstar teases us with a first look at the artwork for the upcoming Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare downloadable content. The Undead Nightmare art is a gruesome take on the original Red Dead Redemption cover art, with James John Marston replaced with a slightly more fearsome cowboy. The Undead Nightmare pack follows Marston on a…

Preview: Finding Happiness With Child of Eden

Developer Q? Entertainment’s Child of Eden finds players in a happier place than the game it was inspired by, the trippy 2001 musical shooter Rez. Rez, for those who may have missed it on the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 or Xbox Live Arcade, is an on-rails shooter built on the multi-sensory concept of synaesthesia and the…

Child of Eden’s Ending Will Feature Your Happiest Moments

Tetsuya Mizuguchi wants to share your “happy feelings” with the world—or at least with the people who play Child of Eden, developer Q? Entertainment’s spiritual sequel to the classic synaesthetic shooter Rez. Ubisoft and Q? announced “The Journey Project,” a user generated submission initiative that will let players share their joy with the world, at…

Child of Eden Screenshots & Artwork

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The Stars Shine Bright In Fable III

Simon Pegg, Ben Kingsley, John Cleese, and Michael Fassbender headline an all-star cast of men and women with British accents in this voice acting installment of the Lionhead video diaries. The voice cast for Fable III is one of the most talented gathering of voices ever assembled. Particularly impressive is Sir Ben Kingsley in his…

Registration Opens For PAX East 2011

With the Penny Arcade Expo’s habit of selling out far in advance, fans eager to attend next year’s PAX East should probably register as soon as humanly possible. PAX East moves into its new digs at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center this March, which means more room for fans to hobnob with games and…

Dead Rising 2 High Stakes Edition Unboxing

The Dead Rising 2 High Stakes Edition showed up on the doorstep of Kotaku tower last night, like some unwanted waif. Of course our first thought was to tear apart the $90 bundle for Capcom’s zombie game and show everyone what was inside. Here’s hoping no children in baskets ever show up on our doorstep.…

Talk Amongst Yourselves, Minecraft Edition

This here is our Rubens painting that you’ve all been Photoshopping this month, but it’s been re-done in Minecraft. Take a bow, reader KindaGamey! The rest of you, please discuss video games. Oh, for reference, this is the original Rubens. Submit your image riffs to #TAYpics. Only two days left before we change images. But,…

MAG, Demon’s Souls and Others Get PS3 Price Cuts

Well, well, well, what do we have here? Some price drops on a few of our favorite PS3 games is what. Sony Computer Entertainment America added seven more games to their price-reduced Greatest Hits library today. And among the list is one of last year’s best games: Demon’s Souls. Not surprising news, but still fantastic.…

Fall’s Here, Summer’s Dead

The corn mazes are open, the pumpkins on sale, the leaves are turning brown and, if Mother Nature didn’t hate us, it would be getting cooler here in the Northern Hemisphere. That’s right it’s fall, time not only to prepare for the coming of winter, but also the spending of money. While the glory days…

I Think The Child Has Become Attached

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Funny Story Tomorrow, Mrs. Bashcraft is going to have lunch with her mother. I am going to watch Micro-Bash. Recently, the moment he becomes separated from her, the kid, who is one, kinda freaks out! He starts saying “No Mommy, no Mommy” and then begins crying. This is, like I…

At Least One Japanese Game Developer Is Doing Great

Level-5, the Fukuoka-based developer behind Professor Layton and White Knight Chronicles, is loving the Japanese game industry. Why? Because it has made the company lots of money and funded some swanky corporate digs. The studio has posted pictures that mostly depict the company’s Fukuoka headquarters. There are lots of meeting rooms, a rec room, libraries…