China’s Game Machine Slaughter House

While it appears that nearly all of these 600 video game machines are used for gambling, it doesn’t make their death at the hand of Chinese police any less tragic. I can see copies of World of Warcraft going into a bonfire next. Contraband [Time, thanks Kyle]

Boomerangs? Beat Gauntlets? Guitar Rock! A Look at Dynasty Warriors Online

Is mowing down hundreds of enemies, like cutting through grass with a scythe, your kinda thing? Then you’re probably looking forward to Aeria’s Dynasty Warriors Online which is packed with weapons and enemies who stand like chaff on the field of battle, waiting to be knocked down. If these screens, and the concept for this…

Weta Is Making Halo: Reach ATVs (And You Can Have One)

Weta Workship, the New Zealand studio that specializes in fantastical concept design and manufacturing, the team responsible for making a drivable Halo Warthog, is making more Halo vehicles. Exactly two Mongoose-style ATVs. And you can win one. Microsoft has tapped Weta to make a pair of working Halo: Reach Mongoose ATVs that “look and sound”…

A Master Storyteller

Hello, Kotaku. Would you like to join us for some off-topic conversation? Would you like to start with some apps? Maybe a few jalapeno poppers or an Awesome Blossom(TM)? Speaking of Awesome Blossoms(TM), while the above photo represents the opening course of my recent dinner with Team Ninja, it’s become something of a tradition for…

The Hall of Fame Comes To NBA 2K11

Ordinarily a goal of singleplayer career modes, enshrinement in the Hall of Fame will now be a feature of NBA 2K11’s Association, the franchise management and season-simulation mode. That image carries a disclaimer because it doesn’t reflect a screen from the game – it’s apparently a marketing-only pre-render. And while the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall…

Why I Won’t Be Liveblogging The Tester Season 2

Earlier this year, we all had a laugh along with/at the expense of a handful of video game industry hopefuls competing in the PlayStation Network reality show The Tester. Sadly, I won’t be liveblogging the series’ next season. That’s because, as Sony Computer Entertainment announced earlier today, I was invited to be a guest panelist…

That’s One Way To Sex Up Team Tennis

Classic racy ad for Tengen’s Davis Cup World Tour on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, and you didn’t have to hide the magazine under your mattress. Seen on GameDummy via Reddit – a Redditor notes the ad references this picture (NSFW)

Report: Nintendo 3DS Hardware Specs Revealed

Nintendo’s next handheld game machine, the Nintendo 3DS, will be significantly more powerful, thanks to hardware specs that represent a vast improvement over the Nintendo DS and its more powerful successor, the Nintendo DSi. IGN, citing “persons familiar with the hardware who spoke to us under the condition of anonymity,” report that the 3DS will…

NBA Elite 11 Gets Fully Custom-Made Soundtrack

Soundtracks in sports titles are typically a compilation of licensed works from recognizable artists. NBA Elite 11 this year changed course, going with a fully custom soundtrack composed by producer 9th Wonder and J. Cole, from Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label. It’s the first EA Sports title to have a custom-created soundtrack. “Being the first artist…

Pink DualShocks? They’re For Girls!

Or so implies the latest e-mail from the folks at PlayStation, who are clearly aware that pink plastic video game accessories are not cross-gender compatible. As seen in my e-mail inbox.

Return of the Quack Is The Best Double Duck Vs. Evil Food Shooter You’ll Play Today

A tragedy has befallen the Songbird Kingdom. Irradiated food and twisted mutants run rampant and it’s up to you, Ducky and his trusty steed Lazerduck to rid the once peaceful land of Governor Cheeseburger’s evil hordes. This is Return of the Quack, a side-scrolling shoot ’em up that pits double the duck against mutant Fudgesicles,…

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 Is Now Move-Enabled

A title update now live on the PlayStation Network adds PlayStation Move support to a sports game where motion controls make the most sense: golf, specifically Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. EA Sports released a raft of screenshots and that video above to show what a Move-enabled golf simulation looks and plays like. Joining the…

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 PlayStation Move Screens

Happy Deputy Birthday Deputy Totilo

To: Luke From: Crecente Hey, hey! Happy Birthday Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo. I hope you’re doing something fun. If not, might I suggest a silent disco, followed by cheese, wine and crusty French bread. Have a good one, man! What you missed: A Look At the PS3 High-Def, Snap-On Video Screen LittleBigPlanet 2 As Street Fighter,…

Left 4 Dead’s Digital Comic Adventures Continue

Part two of the Left 4 Dead digi-comic “The Sacrifice” is live, the precursor to the upcoming downloadable content for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll download it as a PDF.

The Passion Of The Bynum

A demo isn’t the finished product. But Andrew Bynum hilariously stuck in the Jordan Wings pose at midcourt is not what NBA Elite 11 wants to see less than a day into its demo. NSFW language in the players’ reactions. I can’t remember the last sports title that didn’t have a patch available day of…

Christopher “Doc Brown” Lloyd Hard at Work on New Back to the Future Game

Telltale Games are hard at work on their new Back to the Future games with the help of Christopher “Doc Brown” Lloyd and Back to the Future screenwriter Bob Gale. Telltale Games sent along these photos to Kotaku showing Lloyd hard at work in the audio studio yesterday on voice recordings for the game. Gale…

Hydro Thunder Hurricane Has A Tempest A-brewing

Developer Vector Unit is injecting a dose of downloadable content to its high speed motorboat racing game, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, with the forthcoming Tempest Pack. What’s new for the sequel to Midway’s classic racing game? Stuff! Specifically, three new race tracks: the volcanic Atlantis, Atlantis, the stormy Bermuda Triangle, and the exploding barrel-filled Castle Von…

Christopher Lloyd

Mobile Guild Chat Coming To World Of Warcraft

Oddly coinciding with ArenaNet’s article about allowing players to communicate with guild members using mobile devices, Blizzard reveals that offline mobile guild chat will be coming to World of Warcraft as well. Fancy that! Yes, soon you won’t have to be at your computer to bug the hell out of your World of Warcraft guildies,…