What Is Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles?

The latest edition of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Newsbeat newsletter lists a May 18 release date for the Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles downloadable content, which is interesting, as we’ve never heard of it. What is the Darkspawn Chronicles? Microsoft’s description of the downloadable content certainly doesn’t help with an explanation, simply stating that the 400…

Sid Meier’s Pirates! Sets Sail For The Wii

Nintendo can’t seem to escape the reach of piracy, especially now that one of game industry legend and this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio guest Sid Meier’s most beloved games is making its way to the Wii this fall. Sid Meier’s Pirates! first hit the stormy seas of PC gaming back in 1987, when it won…

Game Boy Used In High School Bomb Scare

A Nintendo Game Boy and a cell phone made up a bomb-like device that caused the evacuation of a Florida Panhandle high school yesterday. A concerned student discovered the device, reportedly consisting of the Game Boy, a mobile phone, and some protruding wires, taped to the underside of sink in a restroom at Pensacola High…

Apple Quietly Fixes iPad’s Broken App Store Revealing 1,422 Games

Last month I pointed out how Apple managed to break a broken system with the launch of the iPad and its platform specific App Store. On the iPad, I pointed out, you weren’t able to browse through the enormous collection of applications on your own, instead you were limited to checking a categories Apps out…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

No, E3 is next month. This month is TAY. Well, let’s not kid ourselves. TAY is every day, of every month. Almost. Chat here about video games, will you? Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

I *Might* Change Cell Phone Carriers

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Happy Birthday Tristan! Happy birthday Tristan! That summer camp he is going to sounds awesome! My cell phone, which I had blessed, is a Docomo phone. I am thinking about eventually getting a new iPhone. Mrs. Bashcraft is also considering getting an iPhone. But in Japan, the carrier for iPhones…

A Brief New Look At Brink

Why the long faces? Because these four screen shots comprise our only update on Splash Damage’s first-person shooter Brink, a game that we would’ve had a brand new look at were it not for one attention-starved volcano. Bethesda’s recent preview event was absent one game, due to Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupting and preventing London-based Splash…

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Screen Shots

Rage Impressions: The More Fun Apocalypse

Quake and Doom makers id Software may be treading well worn post-apocalyptic territory in Rage, but for all the grotesque mutants and post-cataclysmic disaster, this Mad Max-style story of survival looks like… fun. Some of that may be due to the bright, blue-skied environments rendered by the developer’s id Tech 5 engine. There’s an uncommon…

Fallout: New Vegas Weapon Mods

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Fallout: New Vegas Preview: Meet Sunny, Dinky & Tabitha

Your first day in Fallout: New Vegas starts badly as you recover from being shot in the head, left for dead in a post-nuclear wasteland and apparently so worse for wear the town doctor can barely put you back together. Obsidian Entertainment’s newest contribution to the Fallout universe—the developer was born from the ashes of…

A First Look At PSP’s God of War: Ghost of Sparta

Ready at Dawn is back on the Playstation Portable development train, promising to top their best portable effort and one of the greatest games ever made for the PSP with God of War: Ghost of Sparta. Here’s a first glimpse at how the game will look when it hits the PSP and PSPgo later this…

God of War Returns to the PSP

God of War: Ghost of Sparta is headed to the Playstation Portable later this year and the best part, it’s being developed by the folks who made the first, fantastic God of War PSP title The title will be a collaborative effort between Ready at Dawn, who developed God of War: Chains of Olympus, and…

This Man Can’t Really Sing

But he has an awesome beard. And a big heart. And the song is touching. Depressing as hell, but touching. I’ll see all of you on Rainbow Road. Morning music videos: “Rainbow Road”, the most off-key Mario Kart tribute ever/a> [I Heart Chaos]

There Will Be A Pro Evo Soccer This Year

There will be a 2010 release of Konami’s venerable football series Pro Evolution Soccer. It will be called Pro Evolution Soccer 2011. If you need a moment to compose yourself, now is the time. New features promised are a new animation system, new AI, new commentary (FINALLY) and, most promising, an online Master League. In…

More “Hollywood” Mega Man Art

Oh boy. Remember those professional Mega Man renders we showed you last month? Turns out there are more of them. The first batch were by pro artist David Espinoza, but it turns out his friend Yoshi Vu has been working on some as well (the pair were hammered playing Mega Man 2 when they came…

The Building Blocks Of Video Games

Like movies, the design of games can often be reduced to a set of “building blocks”, various elements that you can combine to form the final product. It’s an abstract concept, but one that’s perfectly illustrated in this…card game. Put together by Christophe Berg, Niki Smit & Liselore Goedhart, “Game Seeds” is part of the…

Let’s Listen To The Akihabara Girl Group Sing Dragon Ball

You know, why not. That’s what ears are for. As previously posted, idol group AKB48 is singing the ending theme for anime series Dragon Ball Kai. AKB48 has, depending on many members have joined or left, around 48 members. Seven members from the Akihabara-based idol outfit will make up a new sub-group called “Team Dragon”…

Can You Spot The Differences?

These days the majority of multi-platform games look about the same. Not No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise. No More Heroes was originally released on the Wii, but No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise is an HD port of the game. Heroes’ Paradise was released on the Xbox 360 and the PS3 last month. How are these…