Test Drive Unlimited 2: My God It’s Full of Cars

The Test Drive series may not have as rabid a fan base as does Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport, but do either of those games have bikinis? No, I didn’t think so! Fortunately, Test Drive Unlimited 2 does. Test Drive Unlimited 2, like the previous game, appears to put an emphasis more on driving through…

Get Your Name Tagged in Crysis 2

EA Canada is offering to immortalize 50 people in virtual spray-paint or sharpie in Crysis 2, under a Twitter promo running over the weekend. It ends on Monday. Winners, drawn at random, get their names, gamertags or PSN IDs up on New York’s landscape in the game. You get eligible by Tweeting “Hey @Crysis, I…

Left 4 Dead 2 Kicks Off ‘Bleed Out,’ Adds Game Changing Vote

This weekend, things are going to get even harder for the poor Survivors from Left 4 Dead 2, thanks to the game’s latest rule-changing “Mutation.” And one Mutation is up for permanent, not weekly, contention. “Bleed Out” the second gameplay variation added to the rotation to those who have upgraded to Left 4 Dead 2’s…

Five Classic UFC Bouts Are Exclusive to PS3 Version

Earlier, THQ revealed the roster of fighters for UFC Undisputed 2010, with three of them exclusive to the game’s PS3 version. PS3 MMA fans also get another five classic bouts on top of the 15 offered in Ultimate Fight Mode. Here’s what you get: • UFN 18 (April 1, 2009) – Carlos Condit vs. Martin…

Review Round Up: A Well Oiled Machine

This week, Kotaku’s reviews took the fight to the streets and to the skies. They fought battles in the Old West and feudal Japan. And they involved one unsightly beanbag, nearly capable of launching a kitty cat into the stratosphere. 3D Dot Game Heroes Review: Connecting The Dots To The Past In which Mike Fahey…

Yo Dawg, We Put a Race Car Game on Yo Race Car

As part of our neverending mission to tell you what video game is now turning left four times at 100 mph on Saturday tonight, let’s check in with Joey Logano and the No. 20 GameStop Toyota. GameStop, which has a 21-race sponsorship deal with the NASCAR driver in the lower-run Nationwide Series, put Split/Second on…

Fallout: New Vegas Adds Hardcore Mode, Weapon Mods & More

If you’ve already spent hundreds of hours combing the wastelands of Washington D.C., Pittsburgh and Anchorage, Alaska in Fallout 3, what might convince you to revisit the post-nuclear version of Sin City in Fallout: New Vegas? Developer Obsidian Entertainment is taking over for Bethesda Softworks for the follow-up to Fallout 3, set three years after…

Armor’s Armor

To: Ash From: Crecente My armor came in… wrapped in bubble wrap. Who knew? Armor needs protection too! What you missed: The World of Crackdown 2 Is 1000 Meters Tall [UPDATE] Retailer: New Call Of Duty Goes To Arctic, Cuba, Vietnam Game Design as Make-Believe: Imagination 13 Extraordinary Halo Reach Screenshots, Shot By Gamers First…

Japan’s Console War: It’s Officially A Stalemate

Look, there’s really no way to sex up this week’s hardware contest in Japan. The battle between Sony and Nintendo is still too close to call, just as it has been for the past few weeks. The PlayStation family is slightly ahead of its biggest competitor, the Wii and DS line of products, with the…

Halo 2 Diehards Lured With Halo: Reach Beta Codes

Microsoft sent Halo: Reach beta codes to the last dozen still playing Halo 2 more than two weeks after multiplayer support was shut off for the original Xbox. Maybe it’s a hint to finally disconnect and play something else? Technically, this isn’t much of an award, as Reach beta keys were to be offered to…

Halo, Modern Warfare and A Leap of Faith

The largest game publisher in the world managed to end April on a high note despite two months of bad press, growing gamer discontent and a half billion dollar lawsuit over the personnel imbroglio surrounding their Modern Warfare games. It would have taken huge news to divert attention even slightly from the growing soap opera…

Rumor: Castlevania HD Whips Up Six Player Vampire Slaying

Fans of the 2D brand of Castlevania adventuring may get the “HD” game they’ve been clamoring for with Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, which publisher Konami trademarked earlier this month. According to a since-pulled report on Castlevania: Harmony of Despair at never know tech, Harmony of Despair is a multiplayer “Metroidvania”-style side-scrolling adventure, one that borrows…

Reminder: Tomorrow Is Free Comic Book Day

The American comic book industry wants you to buy comics! Head to your local comic book store tomorrow to celebrate the ninth annual Free Comic Book Day, and pickup free comics featuring everyone from Sonic the Hedgehog to Iron Man. The second Iron Man movies hits theaters next week, making this Saturday for Free Comic…

Chaos Rings Review: Ring Around The iPhone

From the creators of Final Fantasy and Wild Arms comes Chaos Rings, a 3D iPhone role-playing game that can’t possibly live up to its pedigree, can it? With Wild Arms studio Media Vision handling development, art designs by Final Fantasy VII art director Yusuke Naora, music by anime and video game composer Noriyasu Agematsu, and…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Now that the obligatory window of time between PC and Mac releases has passed—meaning the StarCraft II multiplayer beta is now playable on this here iMac—I’ll be working on my Terran game this weekend. It’s been many years since I’ve attempted a multiplayer StarCraft skirmish, so I fully expect a trouncing on Battle.net from my…

Fallout: New Vegas Screens

‘Nelson Tethers’ Could Be Gaming’s Fargo, A Wintry Black Comedy

In the next game from the studio behind the episodic adventure games Sam & Max, Strongbad, and the Tales of Monkey Island, the fictional town of Scoggins, Minnesota is a cold play and also a bit weird. “It’s a dark comedy,” the game’s lead designer, Mark Darin, told Kotaku in a phone interview today. “It’s…

Nelson Tethers

First Bulletstorm Screens Show Off Outrageously Large Guns, Plants

Painkiller developer People Can Fly are loading Bulletstorm for a 2011 release, promising “outrageously large guns” and “hordes of mutants and flesh eating gangs in an abandoned paradise,” all of which one can clearly see in brand new screen shots. The PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 shooter is coming next year, courtesy of Epic…

BlazBlue Gets Its Own Tournament Edition Joysticks

Mad Catz once again proves its mastery of slapping new graphics onto existing products with the Blazblue: Continuum Shift Tournament Edition joystick, sold exclusively through Aksys Games at $199.99 a pop. Right now I can get a Mad Catz Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition Fight Stick from GameStop for $149.99. This is essentially the same…