E3 2010 Preview: Recapping an All-Star Lineup

It’s difficult to narrow down the list of E3 showcase games to “most anticipated” status because each series has fans fired up for the next installment. But this week, Kotaku bravely picked out its biggest games of E3. We think. The major console and publisher pressers are watched for the surprises, but they’re anticipated because…

USA vs. England World Cup

The World Cup match between England and the United States is on and we’ve got tons of readers on both sides of the pond. Sports fans or no, take your nationalism and trash talking to the open thread in Box Scores, or hashtag your comments #worldcup, #usaengland, #beatusa or #beatengland

Vindicating Vindictus

OK, I really got off on the wrong foot Thursday with Vindictus, the new MMO from Nexon that we’ll see more of at E3. So, let’s make a reintroduction with this trailer, giving the game’s backstory. Vindictus, readers. Readers, Vindictus The broadest theme is familiar: Lone stranger in a strange land, here to save a…

Box Scores: Four Overtimes for Fighting

What makes for a more epic game in the Stanley Cup Finals – four overtimes, or four fights? How about both, and a shorthanded goal to win it? Reader jayc4life‘s masterpiece on NHL 10 is the timely choice for Box Scores’ game of the week – leading the Chicago Blackhawks to a 2-1, 4OT victory…

Everything’s Ring-a-Ding in Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout 3 introduced us to the Ink Spots and 1941’s “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire.” Fallout: New Vegas opens here with Kay Kyser‘s. “Jingle Jangle Jingle,” the No. 1 hit for eight weeks in 1942. That’s about the only useful thing I can add to this two-minute video, slam full of…

The Moneysaver: A Fish Called Coupons

Wanda, do you have any idea what it’s like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of saying “Do you have children?” and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday. Today’s quote is for all our English friends, whom we’ll meet in two-and-a-half hours in the…

The Week in Review: The 3DS Comes Into Focus

The week before E3 is always a gathering storm of rumor, hype, and anticipation. Friday, however, delivered something unusual even for the usual pre-expo chatter: A potential look at what could be a show-stealer for Nintendo. That above is Kotaku’s mockup of the new Nintendo 3DS, working off a schematic created by a Chinese blogger…

The Director Of The PS4 Viral Clips Revealed

Earlier this week, a mysterious viral clip appeared online. It was followed by another equally mysterious clip. Sony denied the clips were theirs. So, alright then, who made them? Meet Han West. He’s a 24-year-old half-Chinese, half-American filmmaker, working on his Master of Fine Arts in Singapore at New York University’s Tisch School of the…

Killzone 3 Trailer Heavy On Jetpacks (And Gameplay!)

It’s nice to see a Killzone game where ruined cityscapes aren’t the dominant environment. It’s also nice to see that it’s yet another 2010 game featuring jetpacks. Why? Because jetpacks are great.

First Dead Space 2 Gameplay Footage Floats Into View

I’m not usually one to get excited over trailers, even ones with a heavy focus on gameplay footage. But hot damn, seeing Isaac floating around making nasty things explode like this has me more than a little excited.

Force Unleashed II’s E3 Trailer Is Not Fond Of Stormtroopers

This cinematic trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is gorgeous, but also feels a little off; I know the room’s locked, but even still, I wouldn’t trust a few stormtroopers to take out a freakin’ Jedi

Gran Turismo 5’s E3 Trailer Is Missing Something

Here’s the E3 trailer for Sony’s hotly-anticipated PS3 racer, Gran Turismo 5. Those still hanging for its release will notice something is missing. Yes, a release date. It’s not there. Just lots and lots of pretty cars. Guess we’ll have to wait for Sony’s E3 press conference next week for word on when people will…

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LEGO: The First-Person Shooter

LEGO games have mostly been confined to kid’s titles and platformers. We’ve yet to see a LEGO first-person shooter. If we ever do, I really hope it looks like this. This is a bolt-action Lee Enfield sniper rifle, built to scale by Jack Streat, and made entirely out of LEGO. It’s not built to just…

What is the Worst Sequel Ever?

Who is ready to talk? Are you? What about you? And you? This is Tell Us Dammit. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person.…

Your First Look At The Battlestar Galactica Game

We’re pretending the last Battlestar game didn’t exist. We are also, sadly, trying to pretend this web-based MMO is actually a space shooter that looks as good as this trailer. Developers Bigpoint have certainly nailed the look and sound of the show with all that shaky-cam and views from a Viper’s gun barrels, but it…

Play Your Own World Cup With These Video Games

The 2010 World Cup is the biggest sporting event on the planet, and will keep billions of people glued to their TV sets for the next month not just for live matches, but for some video games as well. Like the Olympics and Super Bowl tend to do, whenever a World Cup rolls around (they’re…

Ninja Gaiden Creators Reveal Devil’s Third, The Bloody New Shooter From Valhalla

Famed video game designer Tomonobu Itagaki and his select group of creative warriors at Valhalla Game Studios are making a new game, Devil’s Third, a hyper-violent shooter for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Valhalla Game Studios is allying with publisher THQ to bring its newest action game to consoles, an original effort that Itagaki…

First Look At Devil’s Third, The Debut Shooter From Valhalla

The team responsible for the bloody action of Ninja Gaiden and the blistering head-to-head combat of the Dead or Alive fighting game series is taking its shot at shooters with Devil’s Third, coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game’s debut trailer gives players a look at Valhalla Game Studios’ stab at multiplayer…