Summer Video Game Movie, Banjo Kazooie

Even if you owned a Nintendo 64 and loved playing Banjo Kazooie as I did, you may not think of Rare’s bear-and-bird action game as a summer game. One wonderful part of it was. Listen to this first clip. It is summer. Let me explain. I refer you to Click Clock Wood, a late-game Banjo…

How To Meet Girls At Comic-Con, The Pikachu Way

Step one, put on a huge Pikachu costume. That’s it. There’s no step two. As seen outside the Pokemon booth at Comic-Con, which dwarfs the Nintendo video games booth.

Infamous 2’s New Look Makes an About Face

Remember when Cole McGrath debuted his new look on the Game Informer’s cover? Never mind! Designers heard the chorus of mehs – many comparing McGrath to Starkiller from Star Wars: STFU – and are going back to the drawing board. At a San Diego Comic-Con panel, the Infamous 2 studio, Sucker Punch, acknowledged fans’ antipathy…

Hasta La Vista

To: Everyone From: Crecente OK guys, I’m off to Mexico for a week’s vacation. (Feel free to sing along). When I get back I will officially be 40 years old. Yes, I’m that old. Frightening. My plans for the next seven days? Read books, kayak, perhaps surf, swim, lounge, drink, eat and sleep. See you…

In The Quest For The Best Resident Evil Controls, Motion Gets Another Turn

Does anyone know what the best way is to control a Resident Evil game anymore? At least Capcom keeps doling out options, including PlayStation 3 motion control, which I sampled this week. We’ve been hearing about motion control support for Resident Evil 5 since last year, and our own Brian Ashcraft played RE5 with Wii-like…

Brother Against Brother in the North and South of the NFC

Winding up its screenshot tour of the National Football League, Madden NFL 11 takes us to the NFC North and NFC South, and to the home of the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints and cover athlete Drew Brees. Madden NFL 11’s demo releases on Tuesday, and the game is out Aug. 10.

See Two Dead Twisted Metal Games With Wildly Different Concepts

David Jaffe of Eat Sleep Play and co-creator of the new Twisted Metal for PlayStation 3 revealed two game proposals that will likely never see reality at Comic-Con today. One was post-apocalyptic, the other unexpectedly street culture and hip-hop infused. One of those titles was codenamed Twisted Metal: Apocalypse. Jaffe showed artwork of a decimated…

Starcraft II is Shipping, But You Still Can’t Play It

Don’t Panic! The server’s wont be up until the day the game ships. If you got the box copy early just relish that fancy box art because if you try to play early this is the message you’re going to receive.

The Who, What, And How Of Battlestar Galactica Online

We’ve seen the game’s trailer, and now we have the first screens of Battlestar Galactica Online, along with a pretty good idea of who you’ll be fighting as, the ships you’ll be fighting in, and what you’ll be fighting for. The E3 trailer for Bigpoint’s Battlestar Galactica Online wasn’t too shabby, but then it wasn’t…

Madden NFL NFC North and NFC South

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions’ Hidden & Obscure Costumes

The Spider-Man of Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions has an impressive wardrobe, with an old-school Amazing outfit and a futuristic suit from the year 2099. At Marvel’s video game Comic-Con panel today, Spidey’s wardrobe rapidly expanded. In addition to the Noir, Amazing, Ultimate and 2099 outfits, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions also features unlockable versions of Spider-Man’s cosmic…

Borderlands’ Claptrap Toy Is So Good We Won’t Call It Cel-Shaded

NECA Toys will bring Borderlands’ helpful unicycling robot Claptrap to store shelves in toy form this October, complete with the ability to dispense a catchphrase or two. Prototype versions of the 4″ Claptrap were on display at NECA’s Comic-Con booth, among other things that we’ll stuff into a gallery soon. Click on the images above…

Halo: Reach For The Sky

Boondock Saints star Sean Patrick Flanery gets a taste of his own medicine at Comic-Con 2010, as seen on MTV

Do You Demand A New Surfing Game?

I used to work for a guy who just didn’t understand why there weren’t any great surfing video games. I couldn’t explain it. Does the world need one? We’ve had some surfing games. In the early 90s, for example, I played a lot of the surfing mode in California Games on my Atari Lynx. I…

Get Your Medal of Honor Beta Keys Here

Didn’t buy Bad Company 2? Still want in on the Medal of Honor beta? No worries, below you’ll find two dozen beta keys first-come, first-served. The beta is now available for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC gamers. Enjoy! GXWH-96WF-EH7Z-T39E AD8D-3BUA-FKKG-HSWF 5LDZ-JVSR-4MFP-K865 6HKY-3GZ9-NCM4-7FGS E4DM-4PSG-JGK7-NTFX CYP3-9BSQ-D4M8-GS6B 7F5W-WY2U-LST8-JLNZ DS7M-F54C-K3GB-WEXK ANC2-L87L-KS9T-6ZQT 3CA4-U4HS-54R2-F69F GVUJ-9M27-TRBE-SHEF CE4Q-R9DN-8FVE-34W3 EPXG-76GQ-YMMY-RDGE 2EEG-U6FG-T9UY-BNZF BG7E-DNT6-JLV9-NQP7 3GRN-NK88-A44V-CBWV FRGZ-MZS7-3W23-PAGB…

He’s The Juggernaut, Spider-Man!

Activision has released a pair of new videos for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, showing off the unstoppable Juggernaut and the slightly more stoppable Scorpion 2099 in action. While it’s nice to see Juggernaut making an appearance in a Spider-Man video game, helping add a little more of that gameplay variety McWhertor liked so much from his…

Two God of War Ghost Of Sparta Stats

At a PlayStation event in New York this week, I played the PSP’s God of War: Ghost of Sparta and learned some details. 1) A Sony producer said the game will be 25-30% longer than the first PSP God of War, based on the playtests and focus groups now trying the game. (The earlier portable…

StarCraft II Did Not Cost $100 Million To Make

Last week we reported on a Wall Street Journal article that tagged the development cost of StarCraft II at more than $100 million. According to Blizzard, it was a case of right price, wrong game. How much did StarCraft cost to make? Blizzard hasn’t said, nor is it planning to any time soon. What Blizzard…

Sand on My Back, Joystick In My Hand

Growing up in the 70s in Maryland, there was nothing more rewarding than a trip to the beach. But it wasn’t the sun, sand or the surf that attracted me, it was the boardwalk. This week’s celebration of the summer of gaming here on Kotaku reminds me of those trips. Each summer, Ocean City Maryland’s…

This PlayStation 3 Controller Is Shaped Like An Assault Rifle

Your PS3 controller is shaped like a big plastic mustache. Ours is shaped like a gun. This is a $65 PS3 Assault Rifle Controller (not a light gun!). From CTA Digital: the people behind the Wii bowling ball