The Suite Life of Making Pokemon Commercials

When they’re not making Disney television shows about living in suites located in hotels and cruise ships, the Sprouse brothers are busy hawking goods. In this case, Nintendo goods. Check out this behind the scenes look at brothers Dylan and Cole Sprouse’s upcoming Pokemon commercial, due to hit television next week. Click to view

Old Spice Man’s Delightful Dating Tip #1,453

Looking for that perfect, swoon-inducing, fresh-smelling date idea? Old Spice Man made this little PSA to alert you to what bliss could come if your man just knotted a white cardigan around his manly shoulders and took you for a ride. Get your man as fresh as humanly possible with Old Spice

Looks Like Dance Central Will Support Rump Shaking

Harmonix has officially confirmed nine songs from Dance Central‘s danceable soundtrack, including hits like Bell Biv Devoe’s “Poison” and Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.” The Xbox 360 game’s new ESRB rating may have just outed three more. Dance Central’s “Teen” rating appears to be a product of some of its lyrical “suggestive references”—things like “Did your…

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QuakeCon’s Steam Sale Prices Are Insane

Where can you get 27 different id Software and Bethesda Softworks titles for only $70? At the Steam QuakeCon 2010 Sale, along with daily specials on the best games the two companies have to offer. Buying the 27 games included in Steam’s QuakeCon pack individually would run you $233.25, which is a fair price to…

id Unleashes Impressive Rage On The iPhone [UPDATE]

During his keynote speech at QuakeCon 2010, id Software’s John Carmack demonstrated Rage on the iPhone, running at 60 frames-per-second and able to “kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2.” Carmack’s demonstration, using the id Tech 5 engine, could possibly be the most impressive tech we’ve seen on the iPhone. Running on the…

Bethesda Snaps Up Another Developer, Arkane Studios

Bethesda Softworks’ Pete Hines just revealed at QuakeCon 2010 that its parent company Zenimax Media has welcomed another developer into its fold. Zenimax, which acquired Quake developer id Software last year, is also the new home of Arkane Studios. Arkane Studios may be best known for its role-playing game Arx Fatalis, its level design contributions…

Aion’s Assault On Balaurea Bonus Pets Are Functional As Well As Ornamental

Picking up Aion’s free Assault On Balaurea expansion at retail has its benefits, including one of several retailer-exclusive pets, each with a special benefit for players possessing it. Dibs on the odd-looking squirrel thing! Assault On Balaurea, due out on September 7 in North America, adds pets to NCsoft’s MMO, but not the useless cosmetic…

QuakeCon 2010 Keynote Liveblog, AKA, Man, I Hope They Mention Doom 4

It’s time to liveblog the QuakeCon 2010 keynote, everyone! What will id (and Bethesda) talk about? Click to viewQuakeCon 2010 Keynote

Israel’s Lottery Balls Are Raving, Rabid

Unless Ubisoft has been holding out Rayman’s Raving Israeli Lottery Balls on us, the company responsible for these Israeli lottery commercials has some explaining to do. Reader Ido sends us these two YouTube videos of commercials currently airing for the Israeli lottery, featuring an extremely familiar set of animated lottery balls. The spots depict people…

BioShock Infinite Goes Beyond The Sea & Into The Skies

The trailer teased a return to the underwater failed Utopia of Rapture, first seen in 2007’s BioShock. But last night, we saw BioShock Infinite in action, a live demo. This next big thing from Ken Levine’s Irrational Games is something different. This is the BioShock of a floating city, of America in 1912, of a…

What Is BioShock Infinite?

The first trailer for Irrational Games’ next big project, BioShock Infinite, has appeared at WhatIsICarus.com. What does it all mean? Check back at noon for the full story

New Uncharted 2 DLC Skins Drake’s Sidekicks

You say you want more sidekick characters in your Uncharted 2: Among Thieves online multiplayer? How about three Sullivans, two Chloes, and an Elena? The Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Sidekick Skins pack answers players desperate need for more sidekick action, with multiple skins for three of Drake’s best buddies, plus Dillon and Mac from the…

The Magnificent Mustachioed Gaming Heroes

From the man who brought you the bearded faces of gaming’s most beloved characters comes this look at some manly faces covered in macho mustaches… and one bereft of his. My favorite of the much has to be Donkey Kong sporting not only a magnificent handlebar mustach, but also a crazy pompadour. Who’s your stylist?…

Global Agenda Gets A Facelift

This dynamic new login screen will greet Global Agenda players this afternoon, heralding the completion of the Sandstorm update, bringing sweeping changes to the game’s Agency-Vs.-Agency PVP. Want to see the login screen that didn’t make the cut? Today developer Hi-Rez Studios finally completes the Sandstorm game update for Global Agenda that started rolling out…

Nerdy Real Life Superheroes to Keep City Safe from Bullies, Jocks

They walk among us—average citizens who don capes and masks at night to battle evil-doers. They call themselves Real Life Superheroes, and they are, of course, deeply nerdy. A visit to the World Superhero Registry – the apparent home of this movement on the web – reveals images of adult men and women in full-on…

Disney’s World Of Cars Online Won’t Let Me Be Car 69

Yesterday Disney debuted its latest virtual world, Disney-Pixar World of Cars Online, with parental controls so strict I couldn’t number my car 69 for some odd reason. Create a car with eyeballs and drive yourself to distraction in the family-friendly browser-based online game based on Pixar’s award winning movie. Use the mouse to maneuver your…

Call Of Duty’s RC-XD, Ready For Deployment

If you can have this much fun with Call of Duty: Black Ops’ remote-controlled vehicle in-game, imagine how much fun you’ll have with the real version included in the game’s newly-revealed Prestige Edition What young boy hasn’t imagined strapping explosives to a remote-controlled car to take out his imagined enemies? Of course now we’re much…

Atari Shifts Test Drive Unlimited Into 2011

Atari and Eden Games today delayed Test Drive Unlimited 2 until an early 2011 release to allow further multiplayer development. The Beta too is delayed.

QuakeCon Begins, Keynote Later Today

Today is day one of QuakeCon in Dallas, Texas. The main event should be the show’s keynote address, which kicks off at 2:00pm in Dallas, which is 1pm Kotaku Time (aka MT). We’ll be liveblogging it. Last year’s keynote featured news about Quake Live, Xbox Live Arcade and iPhone releases from id software, more news…