Why You Need To Follow Gears Of War’s Executive Producer On Twitter

Gears of War’s executive producer Rod Fergusson is exchanging Twitter followers for bonus experience points in Gears of War 2 over the San Diego Comic-Con weekend. He’s already in over his head. Let’s make him suffer! If you’re a Gears 2 player low on rank, then next weekend is your time to play. Baiting players…

Brilliant ‘Sonic 2 XL’ Hack Adds Onion Rings, Morbid Obesity

You know what the Sonic the Hedgehog series has been missing? Dangerous levels of obesity resulting in adult onset diabetes and eventually death, a glaring omission corrected in the Sega Genesis hack Sonic 2 XL. It makes Sonic a fat-ass. The trick here is to avoid the onion rings scattered about Emerald Hill Zone and…

GameStop’s Buy Two Get One Free Used Sale Starts Tomorrow

Various sources have confirmed to Kotaku that GameStop will be holding a two-day buy two, get one free sale on used titles starting tomorrow and running until July 17. They hate to sell them, but they’re forced to.

Some of The Best Fights of EVO 2010

EVO, the annual fighting game world championships, draws thousands of players competing in six games. It has helped create gaming stars like 2010 Super Street Fighter IV champion Daigo Umehara, and a reputation for unbelievable game-play seen nowhere else. Here’s a look at some of our favorite videos from this year’s throw-down. This year’s EVO…

Layton Gets a New Date

Puzzle fans can look forward to enjoying the third installment in the Professor Layton series for Nintendo DS earlier than expected. Nintendo announced today that the launch date of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, a tale surrounding a time-traveling letter from 10 years in the future, has been moved up a week to September…

PlayStation Move Bundled Up, In Pictures

Are you ready to invest in motion control for your PlayStation 3? Sony has laid out your options for hopping onto the PlayStation Move bandwagon, three ways to make your PS3 Move-ready when the control scheme launches in September. As it already specified at E3 2010, Sony is planning on offering two Move bundles. One…

The Hulu Plus PlayStation Plus Preview Is Go

Starting today, select subscribers to Sony’s premium PlayStation Plus service will have an opportunity to pay to preview Hulu Plus on the “first and only” console to feature the service in 2010. A Sony press release continuously stresses one point: “PlayStation 3 will be the only console to offer Hulu Plus in 2010.” It’s true…

‘I Just Don’t Like Living In A Culture Focused On Meaninglessness’

Nick Marroni wants to expose corruption, one video game at a time. That makes Nick Marroni a dissident, a rebel, and, well, a very odd game designer. He’s 28. He lives with his folks in Detroit. He once sold lawn care and was good at it, though he regrets the chemicals that work foisted on…

Red Orchestra Developers Go Full Circle With The Ball

Tripwire Interactive, the studio formed by members of the team responsible for the award-winning Unreal Tournament 2004 mod Red Orchestra, has picked up Teotl Studios’ award-winning Unreal Tournament 3 mod The Ball and is running with it. Tripwire Interactive is a studio built from the winnings of the Intel-sponsored Make Something Unreal contest. Since the…

Theft and Recreation

Every year at the Penny Arcade Expo, attendees get to share their design concepts at the “Pitch Your Game Idea” panel. If you listened to Robert Ashley’s most recent episode of A Life Well Wasted you know nearly every gamer has an game idea. The vast majority of them are utter garbage. For those serious…

The Ranger Brings Pets To Guild Wars 2

The latest class revealed for ArenaNet’s Guild Wars 2 is the Ranger, a bow-using, pet-charming, trap-setting class that might just out-hunt World of Warcraft’s Hunter class. The Ranger class answers a question many players have been bugging ArenaNet with since the first reveal of Guild Wars 2: Will the game feature pets? The answer is…

Ranger Gallery

Deathspank! Harry Potter! Lisa Foiles! Let’s Talk!!!

It’s Wednesday which means it’s time for our weekly podcast, a chance to chat about games with you. Yes, you! This week Stephen Totilo will be joined by myself and Kotaku columnist Lisa Foiles. We’ll be chatting about the week’s news, reviews and the upcoming Comic-Con. We’ll definitely have time for both Deathspank and Harry…

Microsoft Brings Halo: Reach, Gears Of War 3, Fable III, And Kinect To Comic-Con

Microsoft brings out the big guns at the 40th annual Comic-Con International, with a line-up of panels and playables featuring Kinect, Gears of War 3, Fable III, Halo: Reach, and more! Microsoft has a powerful line-up of Xbox 360 games coming out in the latter half of this year, and the 40th annual Comic-Con International…

The 108 Stars Of DJ Hero 2’s Destiny

What does DJ Hero 2 and RPG series Suikoden have in common? Both feature 108 stars, though while Suikoden’s stars represent demonic overlords from an ancient Chinese story, DJ Hero 2’s stars simply represent. Check out the full list below. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind a Suikoden game where instead of collecting…

Music From Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World The Video Game

Scott Pilgrim cartoonist Bryan Lee O’Malley posted a track from the upcoming video game adaption of the movie adaption of comic Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, over on his website. “Another Winter” aka World 1-1 of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a single, wonderful track from the singularly wonderful Anamanaguchi. Go have a listen.…

One Million PlayStation minis Sold

More than one million PlayStation minis have been downloaded worldwide since Sony launched the bite-sized game line for the PlayStation 3 and PSP nine months ago. Which minis have sold the most? More importantly, which have you purchased? Sony introduced the PlayStation minis program during GamesCom 2009. The smaller, easily downloadable titles were perfect for…

Atari Revives The Original Survival Horror Game

In 1981 Atari 2600 gamers took their first steps into the haunted Graves Mansion in Haunted House, the original survival horror console game. Now, nearly 30 years later, Atari prepares to drag us back, kicking and screaming. The original Haunted House was a quick and dirty little horror game for the Atari 2600 that somehow…

An Amazing Sackboy, Sackgirl Collage

As presented to Haran_Elessar on his birthday by his girlfriend. Note the Sackboy and girl button eyes, real clothes and tiny, little stickie-outie eyelashes. [Thanks HE]

How About A 4D Racing Game?

Earlier this week we brought you a story about a man who is making a video game that is laid out across four spatial dimensions. It’s a platformer. But what, we had asked him, about a 4D racing game? In Marc ten Bosch’s in-development 4D game Miegakure, a character can climb across what merely looks…