The Nintendo Download: It’s Not BlazBlue, It’s BlayzBloo

Aksys plays it fast and loose with the names in this week’s Nintendo Download, with BlayzBloo: Super Melee Action Battle Royale for the DSi and Deer Captor, a game where you “capture” animals with guns and crossbows. I suppose Aksys is showing its range, but I suspect the DSiWare BlayzBloo: Super Melee Action Battle Royale,…

Metal Gear Arcade Finally Showing Up In Japanese Arcades

Metal Gear Arcade, the 3D arcade shooter first revealed last summer, is finally starting to pop up at arcades in Japan, but only for a limited-run public test. The game, spotted in arcades in Yokohama and Tokyo, features 3D glasses, life-sized plastic guns and can link up to four cabinets for multiplayer matches. It also,…

The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games

Monster Hunter is on course to beat Smash Bros. while, lower Rock Band 2 continues to tangle with… Run Factory Frontier? These are the 20 most-loved Wii games as of August 1, 2010. (Click the chart to enlarge it.) Welcome to August and Kotaku’s monthly look at the most-loved Wii games on Nintendo’s home console.…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

We’ve got a new image for this month’s Talk Amongst Yourselves and new opportunities for you. You can still talk about games below each day’s TAY. But you can also now submit the next day’s image at #TAYpics Thanks to reader Kirk Douglas for this month’s template image, Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech. If you…

EA’s Create Has You Designing Your Own Puzzling Levels

Electronic Arts unveiled a new game this morning that seems to blend the best of LittleBigPlanet’s level creation with Scribblenauts’ imagination and puzzle solving. Create, due out this November for the Mac, Playstation 3, PC, Wii and Xbox 360, has players creating levels, designing and solving puzzles in a free-form open world. “Create uses families’…

Get your image featured in the next installment of TAY! All you need to do is put a joke or some sort of witty word-ballooned comment on top of this month’s image. Have fun… One technical note…. post your submissions at 500-pixel width.

Get your image featured in the next installment of TAY! All you need to do is put a joke or some sort of witty word-ballooned comment on top of this month’s image. Have fun…

WELCOME BACK BRIAN CRECENTE

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft How was Mexico? Good? Rested up, rarin’ to go? I’d love some Mexico food. Like right now. Please someone make it happen!! What you missed last night Game Cafe Robbed, Gamers Fight Back, Lots Of Punches To The Head 151 Pokemon Used As Sexual Innuendo The King Of Fighters XIII Is…

Cosplay Queen Eyes The World of Warcraft Movie

Meet Alodia Gosiengfiao. She’s a popular cosplayer, a gamer and totally interested in being a blood elf in the World of Warcraft flick. But she doesn’t just want to be in the movie, she’s apparently had a meeting with Legendary Pictures, the studio producing the big screen version of World of Warcraft, to discuss the…

One Year Of All This, In Japanese

Kotaku Japan, the Japanese version of Kotaku.com, is celebrating its one year anniversary. Congrats to the entire Kotaku Japan team!

This Osaka Building Is Due For A Slimmer Redesign

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In The Future, There Is Only Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress…Warhammer 40K…two very different beasts, but bring them together and you’ve got…a very different beast. This clip shows a work-in-progress skin pack for Team Fortress 2, bringing Space Marines to the dusty battlefields of Valve’s shooter. It may look a little strange to see the big guys running around wooden barns at such a…

How Consoles Can Leave A Company Vulnerable To Hackers

At the Defcon security conference in Vegas last week, a pair of hackers have shown that the humble Nintendo Wii can leave large companies vulnerable to attack. How? Well, because many companies like to have a Wii in the office for downtime, that’s how. Seems a lot of offices know that controls need to be…

Italy, You Are Cosplay Champions

This Sunday, a cosplaying duo representing Italy beat out rivals from 14 other countries to take first place at the World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya. The winners dressed as Link and Ganondorf from The Legend of Zelda. Luca Buzzi cosplayed as Link, while Giancarlo Di Pierro was Ganondorf. The finalists performed a 3-minute live-action play…

Another Square Enix x Metal Gear Solid Action Figure

Square Enix has released the first set of official images for its second Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker action figure, this time featuring Snake in his jungle fatigues. It’s retailing for around USD$55, but as of today only has a Japanese release frame, which is sometime around November. Square Enix’s Play Arts figures may look…

First Look At Art For New Tales Game

Namco Bandai’s “Tales” franchise is quite popular in Japan. It’s so popular that Tales of Vesperia caused the Xbox 360 to sell out in Japan — quite a feat considering the sluggish sales in the region. The company has confirmed three new Tales titles, which already leaked out earlier today on the Namco Bandai site.…

Is Nintendo Missing Out On Developing Markets?

In an investor Q&A published on Nintendo’s website, president Satoru Iwata explains why Nintendo does not officially release games or systems in developing nations (think Latin America, India, South-East Asia, Africa, etc). And he seems to be missing something. “It is true that not only those in Japan and the other developed countries in North…

The King Of Fighters XIII Is Buggy And Needs Special Rules

Arcade fighting game The King of Fighters XIII not only features jiggly ninja Mai Shiranui, it also features lots of bugs. That’s why the game needs special rules for tournament play. At Japan’s Tougeki fighting game tournament, there are special rules in place regarding the game’s bugs. Here are the bugs, and Tougeki’s rules regarding…

Metal Gear Solid Goes Merry For The Third Time

Long-time readers may remember Merry Gear Solid, a great little Christmas-themed Metal Gear title. Well, the game’s creator, Arthur Lee, is back with a third game in the series, and this time it’s gone 3D. Looks fun! The last two ended up being released in playable form, so hopefully this one is too. And when…

The Korean StarCraft II Plane On U.S. Soil

The StarCraft II jumbo jet has been spotted in Atlanta by reader John. Thanks John!