Team Fortress 2’s Heavy Finally Playable In… A Poker Game

Telltale Games’ tease that featured a cryptic crossover between Homestar Runner, Penny Arcade, Sam & Max and Team Fortress 2 turns out to be the developer’s latest gambling game, Poker Night at The Inventory. Yeah. The Heavy, Strong Bad, Tycho and Max the “hyperkinetic rabbity thing” will play what Telltale calls “a new style of…

These Portal Bookends Are A Success

Custom-made Portal shelf art, spied by reader martinf1 via Bob’s House of Video Games

Don’t Buy The New Crackdown 2 Add-on (Yet)

Crackdown 2 players who downloaded the newly released Toy Box add-on for the Xbox 360 game are finding their games on lockdown. Reports from readers and the official Xbox support forums indicate today’s DLC is a bit broken. Crackdown 2 players are reporting that the Xbox 360 game will freeze up when attempting to load.…

NBA Elite 11 Gameplay Video Officially Surfaces

Gameplay video for NBA Elite has been conspicuously rare up to now. Yesterday, Operation Sports got its hands on directly captured gameplay video from EA Sports, giving five minute looks at the flow of the player-vs.-player and player-vs-CPU action. That first video above is a player-on-player game, which OS says took place between NBA Elite…

Nintendo’s Verbally Abusive Wave Race Easter Egg Finally Unearthed

Nearly nine years after the game’s release on Nintendo’s GameCube, an Easter Egg that unlocks a verbally abusive asshole mode in Wave Race: Blue Storm has been discovered. The code, publicized by NeoGAF forum-goer RaoulDuke, changes the normally enthusiastic and informative pit crew voices heard in the jet skiing game into that of a total…

The Kinder, Cuter Monster Hunter Is Already A Big Success

The Monster Hunter brand is big in Japan. Big enough to support an adorable, gameplay changing spin-off in the form of MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Ailu Mura. It’s Japan’s biggest game right now. The PlayStation Portable game moved more than a quarter million copies in its debut week in Japan, according to sales tracker Media…

Answering Questions About NBA 2K11’s Postgame Q&As

Many sports gamers imagine backstories and outside-the-lines interactions for their created players. NBA 2K11’s servicing that this year with “My Career,” a narrative hub for the game’s singleplayer career mode that offers a chance to create a public persona. 2K Sports today put up that video demonstrating how these types of interactions affect how you…

Talibanned

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: So, iTunes 10, Huh Video Game Pulled Globally From Military Stores Over Taliban Inclusion“>We broke a pretty big story today, speaking with the commanding general of the Army and Air Force Exchange Services about his decision to effectively ban the sale of Medal of Honor at all Army and Air…

Sega’s Handling Of Its Next Yakuza Game Is Looking Good

The last Japanese mobster game that Sega released for the PlayStation 3 came to North America noticeably scathed. Missions were missing, as were hostess clubs and any semblance of box art integrity. Fortunately, things are lookin’ up for Yakuza 4. Sega released new screen shots, new video and new, infinitely sexier box art for the…

Yakuza 4 Screen Shots

Madden’s NFL Predictions — And A Few Of Our Own

Madden NFL has an impressive record picking Super Bowl winners; it also takes an annual stab at the much less exact science of predicting the season, which a simulation says ends with Baltimore and Green Bay as conference champions. Running a one-shot sim in Madden NFL 11’s franchise mode, EA Sports returned ties for the…

Clowns Versus Bunnies *Does* Sound Like A Bloody Good Time

Rare is the first-person shooter that lets us pit murderous clown versus flamethrower-wielding Vegas showgirl, beach bunny against surfer bro. Ubisoft’s new Bloody Good Time does, a multiplayer kill-fest from the developers of The Ship. Developer Outerlight is bringing Bloody Good Time to Xbox Live Arcade and to PCs via Valve’s Steam service, built on…

Disney’s Throwing A Tron Theme Park Dance Party

Disney will be transforming its California Adventure theme park, located right next to Disneyland, into a Tron-themed festival of lights with ElecTRONica, the digital dance party scheduled to launch this October. It’s not a ride, it’s an “‘electrifying’ experience for the entire family” and “the greatest nighttime dance party to ever rock Disney California Adventure,”…

Our First Look At Mega Man Universe Gameplay

Click to viewMega Man Universe, which will be making an appearance at this weekend’s PAX, looks pretty great. I like in particular how sharp… Rockman and Ryu look? YES!

Gunfusion: The Doom Rickroll

Sometimes, the obsession with guns in video games gets ridiculous. So we’re celebrating acts of “gunfusion.” Here we have the ultimate, unofficial Doom weapon, which we first highlighted in 2008

See Epic Games’ Project Sword For The iPhone In Action

If you missed yesterday’s Apple event, you may have also missed Gears of War and Unreal Engine developer Epic Games showing off its new first-person slasher for the iPhone and iPod touch, Project Sword. You shouldn’t miss it this time. While Project Sword appears to be a highly simplified combat experience, it is graphically very…

Rockstar’s L.A. Noire Now Scheduled For Early 2011

Confirming speculation about the next big game from the makers of Grand Theft Auto, publisher Take Two publicly delayed L.A. Noire to the first half of 2011. The publisher did not cite any reasons for the delay. A press release for the company’s earnings stated: “The release of L.A. Noire is now expected during the…

PX Commanding General Explains Global Ban on Medal of Honor Game

The commanding general of the Army and Air Force Exchange Services told Kotaku today that his decision to have Medal of Honor pulled from U.S. military bases worldwide was spurred by “well-documented reports of depictions of Taliban fighters engaging American troops” in the game. “Out of respect to those we serve, we will not be…

RZA Joins The Ranks of DJ Hero 2 Playable Characters

Wu-Tang Clan founder and world-famous DK RZA will be a playable character in upcoming game DJ Hero 2, Activision said today. “I’m very excited to be involved with DJ Hero 2. As both a DJ and gamer from an early age, the game combines two of my passions,” said RZA. “I loved working with the…

Will Duke Nukem Forever Come Out To Play At PAX?

Last month, Kotaku was told that 3D Realms’ ridiculously long-in-the-making shooter Duke Nukem Forever would finally see the light of day, thanks to a saving throw from Borderlands studio Gearbox Software. Duke’s reveal was rumored to happen at this weekend’s PAX convention. At the time, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford would neither confirm nor deny that…