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  Penny Arcade Expo East Inks Deal For Three Years in Boston

  The organizers of Penny Arcade Expo have signed a three year agreement with the Massachusetts Convention Center to bring PAX East back to Boston for at least three more years, the Boston Herald reports. The show’s first year on the East Coast brought nearly 60,000 fans and developers to the three-day event in Boston. The…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2010
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  Blizzard’s Real Name Forum Policy Has Fans In An Uproar

  Blizzard’s decision to use players’ real first and last names in the StarCraft II and World of Warcraft forums draws strong negative reactions from fans. Why are they so upset? Let’s take a look. Blizzard posted the news yesterday in its official forums that, come the launch of StarCraft II’s new community site prior to…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2010
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  Was Kinect-Enabled Dance Central Really One of the Best Games of E3?

  Why! Why, you keep asking, did Kotaku heap so many awards on Dance Central? And what about the Game Critics? They did too? Has the world gone crazy? Now’s your chance to find out. We’ve got the project leader of Kotaku’s best new game of E3 2010 on the phone live to take your calls…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2010
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  Split/Second’s Reality Show Destruction Spreads To The PSP

  After a successful debut on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, Disney’s destruction-driver racer Split/Second gets down-sized and down-to-business on the PSP this holiday season. The PSP version of Split/Second features the same hyper-competitive reality television show premise and explosive action of its big brothers, only smaller and less-detailed. While it lacks the online…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2010
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  Blood Gulch Returns In Halo: Reach

  It’s Bungie Day, and the developer celebrates with a new video featuring Rooster Teeth’s Red Vs. Blue crew coming home to a new and improved Halo: Reach version of the Blood Gulch map. The Rooster Teeth boys are in fine form as they help Bungie celebrate the seventh day of the seventh month, also known…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2010
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  Report: Sony Working on New Gaming Machine

  Is Sony working on a new handheld gaming machine? That’s what the Wall Street Journal seems to think. Buried in their story about the possibility of high-speed cell connections coming to gaming platforms is this juicy little nugget: Meanwhile, Sony is developing a portable device that shares characteristics of handheld game machines, e-book readers and…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2010
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  APB Transforms A Regular Guy Into A Pierced And Tatted Criminal

  Cops and robbers MMO APB is world filled with grungy-looking criminals covered with tattoos and riddled with piercings. Now Realtime Worlds is letting fans vote on how they permanently disfigure a real human being with the Human Avatar Project. The Human Avatar Project is a reality television take on video game marketing. Over the period…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2010
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  The 25 Least-Loved Wii Games, Maybe

  We toil each month to show you which Wii games get played the most by Wii owners. But which games do people buy or rent and then… ignore? We’ve got some winners (losers) for you here. We may need to qualify this list with a few asterisks, but based on stats reported on Nintendo’s official…

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 7, 2010
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  Bombastic Developer Details New Twisted Metal

  Now that the cat is out of the bag, developer David Jaffe has gone from denying the existence of a new Twisted Metal game to spilling beans about it. In a series of Twitter posts and replies to questions, the famously bombastic developer detailed some of the upcoming vehicle combat game. While Twisted Metal will…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves 3

  Are you waiting for your favorite gaming franchise to reach its third installment? We can’t help. But we can release Talk Amongst Yourselves 3 today, if that’s any consolation. Now, please talk about video games here. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 7, 2010
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  StarCraft II Beta Patching, Phase Two Imminent

  A new patch for the StarCraft II beta test has hit Europe, raising hopes that the promised phase two of the test will be starting shortly. It’s been a month since Blizzard shut down phase one of the StarCraft II, and fans around the world have been patiently waiting for the second phase of the…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2010
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  Get Some Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Packs Here

  Activision hooked us up with some codes for the PC and Playstation 3 versions of the latest Modern Warfare 2 pack. Grab a code for the Resurgence Pack below for your system of choice and plug it in, but do it quickly, these bad boys are going to disappear. Be nice and make sure to…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2010
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  Rarely Use A/C

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Hanging Out Yeah, and it’s kinda hot here! But whenever we flip on the A/C, one of the kids gets sick or a sore throat. So we just…sweat. What you missed last night It’s Like Where’s Waldo, Only With Team Fortress 2 When Instant Death Was Only A Step Away…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 7, 2010
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  When Arcades Die

  This is the famed Osaka arcade U.F.O. Nagase. So full of life and drink machines. This is the arcade now. As website Versus City noted this past spring, U.F.O. Nagase was going out of business and had been scheduled to be torn down. The arcade was visited by top players in Osaka and by top…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 7, 2010
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  Michael Jordan Video Game Cover Revealed, Cribs Ali’s Nickname

  Here is Michael Jordan on the cover of this fall’s NBA 2K11. Cool image, a long time coming, but isn’t Muhammad Ali “the greatest of all time”?

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 7, 2010
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  All The Basara You Can Eat

  Nothing says “historical action game” like food at karaoke parlors. At an event in Tokyo today, Capcom celebrated the completion of Sengoku Basara 3 (Devil Kings in the West) by revealing that the series will collaborate with karaoke chain Pasela Pasela is known for having better food than your average karaoke outfit. That isn’t saying…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 7, 2010
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  Fallout 3 Action Figure Emerges From The Vault

  There still aren’t any official Fallout figures. Shame. There are custom figures, though, like this one, which is pretty great. Based on NECA’s Hitman figure from a few years back, it’s the creator’s stab at recreating the (well, his) main character from Fallout 3. It’s nowhere near beardy enough to be mine, but I can…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2010
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  Beers Of War

  Reader Ben was at the Flying Saucer in Raleigh the other day when he noticed something strangely familiar about the pub’s “wall of fame”. The Saucer has a wall where anybody that has had at least one each of the pub’s 200 beers is immortalised with a commemorative plate. It’s not 200 beers in one…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2010
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  Would You Like To Pose With A Virtual Girl?

  Love Plus, Konami’s schoolgirl love simulator for the Nintendo DS, is quite popular in Japan. How popular? The game’s heroines recently graced the cover of a mainstream TV listings magazine. Think about it. When was the last time you saw game characters on TV Guide? Make that, schoolgirl game characters. At a recent event in…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 7, 2010
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  FIFA 11 Out In September, Going For Pro Evo’s Jugular

  With FIFA enjoying on-the-field superiority over competitor Pro Evo, EA Sports’ series is going after the one area Konami still enjoy dominance: team and player editing. For over a decade, FIFA’s editing and creation tools have been severely limited by the game’s reliance on licensed content, the most you can normally do being to tinker…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2010