Maybe You Only Think You Smell Bad

What’s worse: Smelling bad, or only imagining you smell bad? Psychiatrists are considering adding olfactory reference syndrome – a syndrome where the victim believes they emit an imagined foul odor – to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. As a lifelong gamer and frequent science fiction convention attendee, I tend to run into…

Ride Again with Rockstar

Rockstar Games is hosting this year’s Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic on June 20. Of course that means that there will be an eclectic sampling of pop stars tooling around Marcus Garvey Park come Father’s Day. Among those riding the .75 mile track for the $15,000 prize will be Olympic Champion Walter Perez of Argentina, four-time…

Are You Ready For Some Different Football?

The first thing game reviewers see in the box containing review code for next week’s Xbox 360 and PS3 football game Backbreaker is that piece of paper, that saying. Hope the game isn’t maddening.

Battlestar Galactica Composer Signs on For SOCOM 4 Tunes

Bear McCreary, the man behind a wicked-cool name and the music of Battlestar Galactica, is working with developers Zipper to produce and record SOCOM 4‘s soundtrack. Better still, you have a chance to hang out with Bear at his secret studio next week.

Metal Torrent Micro-Review: Not As Good As A Coinstar

The minute you start playing Metal Torrent, you’re almost done. But the brevity of Nintendo’s first DS shoot-em-up isn’t the worst of it. My local bank offers more entertaining ways to press buttons and hear jangling sounds. Metal Torrent is a $5 vertical shoot-em-up for the DSi from publisher Nintendo and development studio Arika, the…

Round Abound!!!

What Kind Of Gamer Are You?

The average U.S. gamer is spending more time gaming than ever before, but only 4% of the gaming population is classified by the NPD Group as “Extreme Gamers.” What kind of gamer are you? The NPD group has released the 2010 edition of its Gamer Segmentation report, which looks into gaming and game purchasing habits.…

Killzone 3 Hands-on: Bigger, Better & More 3D

Killzone developer Guerrilla Games and Sony showed off the first playable version of the PlayStation 3’s next entry in the series, a Killzone that feels familiar, but much improved, a bigger world with smarter enemies. Oh, and stereoscopic 3D. The playable demo, available in both 2D and 3D versions at Sony’s Killzone 3 showing, started…

Killzone 3 Screens

Frankenreview: Red Dead Redemption

John Marston faces off against some of the toughest hombres the waning Old West has to offer in Red Dead Redemption, but he’s never faced a posse quite as cantankerous as the game reviewers we’ve rounded up for this Frankenreview. We’ve gathered the roughest, toughest game reviewers this side of the 1900’s to size up…

Bulletstorm Storms GameTrailers TV Tonight

Want more Bulletstorm? Tonight’s episode of GameTrailers TV has you covered, with interviews with the shooter’s design director Cliff Bleszinski and producer Tanya Jessen. We’re told the 12:20 AM Eastern and Pacific episode on Spike TV will include some “big gameplay reveals,” including one gigantic boss battle.

Tension Keeps Video Games Interesting

At present, the word “tension” is almost exclusively considered negative. The quest of the modern man is to reduce tension, or stress, which are known causes of disease and emotional distress. The desired state is one of complete relaxation. However, in the artistic world, we find that many descriptions of good works imply tension: taut,…

Crash Bandicoot 2 Finally Brings Multiplayer

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D was plenty fun back in the day, back when Apple just opened the floodgates to iPhone gaming. But these days it’s looking threadworn. That’s probably why Activision just released Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D 2. Now with mulitplayer and a “new adventure.” But for $10? Kinda crazy!

Load-Time-Shortening ModNation Racers Update In The Works

ModNation Racers on PlayStation 3 may be a fine racing game, but its frequent 30-plus-second load times are lamentable. Good thing one of the game’s producers told us a fix is coming. “That’s something we are aware of,” ModNation producer Dan Sochan told Kotaku on our latest edition of Kotaku Talk Radio when I mentioned…

Monkey Island Success Could Mean More Adventure From LucasArts

Could the success of the Monkey Island Special Editions herald LucasArts’ return to straight adventure games? I spoke to Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge project lead Craig Derrick about the new remake and the possibilities it raises. It’s a time of resurgence for Guybrush Threepwood and the cast of the Monkey Island series.…

IGN Vixen Goes Topless For Charity

IGN’s Jessica Chobot recently went topless for charity, allowing a Sony artist to give a cast of her chest a “God of War” paint job. The plaster result will be on display at the God of War III art show at Gnomon Gallery before going up for auction to benefit the Keep-A-Breast foundation. Sadly, I…

Old School Meets Pre-School

As seen on Jamie Lynn Greenwood’s Flickr stream.

Lost Planet 2’s Second Map Pack Has Something Old And Something New

If we’re going to complain about Modern Warfare 2 DLC including older maps, should we also complain about the return of the original Lost Planet’s Frozen Wasteland as one of two maps in Lost Planet 2’s second map pack? There are a couple of major differences between Lost Planet 2’s second map pack, due out…

How To Crochet Your Own Assassin’s Creed Sackboy

First you need to know how to crotchet, of course. But once you’ve got that down, this video has your back.

Need For Speed World Starts Its Engines In July

EA’s massively-multiplayer online racer goes live on July 20, giving PC drivers a chance to experience the mix of open world driving mixed with role-playing game style progression completely free, to a point. Need for Speed World is free-to-play, meaning that anyone with a PC strong enough to handle it can download the game, setup…