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  Is It Too Late To Preorder The StarCraft II Collector’s Edition?

  Isn’t the Collector’s Edition of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty gorgeous? It’s already sold out at several major retailers, but we’ve found a few places where the $99 package can still be secured. IncGamers is reporting that the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Collector’s Edition is no longer available for preorder at several major retailers…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 17, 2010
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  Game Club: Alan Wake

  Attention to those of you planning to play Alan Wake. Read this first, so that you can play — and discuss — the game with the rest of Kotaku. I am delighted to announce that after the tremendous success of the Game Club’s look at and discussion of Modern Warfare 2, we’re bringing it back…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 17, 2010
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  “Please Get In My Cardboard Box”

  Being a junior high student isn’t easy — especially if you’re in a cardboard box. The kid in the box says, “Please get in my cardboard box.” The girl replies, “Cardboard box?” And the kid gestures and says he was actually asking the dude, who gets in the box with him.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2010
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  The Reject Pile Of Spring 2010

  It was time for spring cleaning in my household, so I am getting rid of these games. I try to possess as few video games as possible, because it is my dream to only own masterpieces. I haven’t achieved this dream yet — hey, I can’t bring myself to get rid of Geist, okay? But…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 17, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Be happy you live now. Because if you lived, oh, 100 years ago, you couldn’t comment here or anywhere about video games. If that’s not a sign of progress, what is? Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 17, 2010
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  The Growing Spectacle of Gaming’s International Spotlight

  Last year featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tony Hawk and Stephen Spielberg. This year there will be Cirque du Soleil and perhaps others. Each year in the days leading up to E3’s international gathering of video game makers and publishers in Los Angeles, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo host press briefings to lay out the year’s…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 17, 2010
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  The Lunch I Made? Just Awful, Horrible And Rotten

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Mini-Bash has been sick the past few days. Today, I made lunch, and as I made lunch, the realization that I was making a horrible, horrible lunch set in. I panicked! The noodle dish that was in my mind was the noodle that was being produced in the fry pan before…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2010
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  Capcom: Japan Has No Hope In Hell Unless…

  When Osaka-based Capcom isn’t making popular video games, it is doing something else entirely: ragging on the Japanese game industry. Last September at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom exec and Mega-Man designer Keiji Inafune declared the country’s game industry “finished”. Now it’s Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi’s turn. “If the Japanese games industry doesn’t…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2010
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  Starcraft, If It Had Been Made In 1984

  Don’t get bummed out, Starcraft fans! We’re not going to let the morning pass without some good news. Well, not news. It’s more a clip, of what Starcraft would look like on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Smartly, the isometric viewpoint has been dropped in favour of the NES’ speciality, side-scrolling, which though messy in parts,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2010
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  Project Natal Is…White? [UPDATE]

  Released last year, this is the official concept promotional image of Microsoft’s upcoming motion control system Project Natal. It is black. Update: Microsoft comments, clarifies nothing. “Project Natal” is the code name for Microsoft’s controller-free motion controls that, as the promotional clip states, makes the players the controller. But even when the device was on…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2010
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  A Mech For The Sega Arcade Fan Who Has Everything

  Border Break is the latest in a long line of Sega arcade games featuring mechs beating the crap out of each other. Here’s an action figure base don one of them, so you can bring the battle to your desktop/bathtub. This is the Shrike Type I, by Kotobukiya. Scheduled for release in Japan in July,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2010
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  This Nier DLC Costume Is Not Subtle

  Along with a younger version of the protagonist, role-playing game Nier (read our review!) is getting new downloadable outfits. One of which sure is saucy! Kotaku already posted this costume’s concept art. However, concept art doesn’t show how something looks in-game on character Kainé. It only shows the concept And in concept this, probably shouldn’t…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2010
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  Are These The Ten Hardest Games?

  “Hard” in gaming is relative. What I might think is easy, you might think is not. What you might consider a piece of cake, I may find impossible. Website shortlist.com has compiled a list of the “Top 10 Hardest Games”. Agree, disagree, but first, read the list: 10. Jet Set Willy (1984, Software Projects /…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2010
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  Nintendo 3DS Going Widescreen?

  An FCC filing submitted by Nintendo and Mitsumi, an electronics manufacturer, seems to be for the new Nintendo 3DS handheld. There’s not much to it, but what there is should give hope to fans of widescreen gaming on the go. That pic above there is most likely a testbed for the Nintendo 3DS. Since the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2010
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  What Are You Looking For In A Video Game?

  We can all agree that video games are a form of entertainment, but just what about them entertains you? What are you looking for, or getting out of them, when you sit down with a controller in hand? I bring this up because over the weekend I was talking with a friend about Modern Warfare…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2010
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  Nintendo Stresses “Glasses-Free” Aspect of Nintendo 3DS

  While Nintendo possibly isn’t showing the Nintendo 3DS until the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, today in Tokyo, Nintendo provided vague hints about what is to come. Several insiders tell Kotaku that Nintendo Chief Financial Officer Yoshihiro Mori played things close to his vest, unwilling to divulge too much about the upcoming Nintendo 3DS.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2010
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  First Look At Arkham Asylum’s Action Figures [Update]

  The first images of the recently-revealed Batman: Arkham Asylum action figures have dropped from a gargoyle and landed online, and if they’re one thing, they’re faithful to the source material. And if they’re two things, they’re faithful to the source material and a poor quality black & white photo. Sorry! But that’s what you get…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2010
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  A Mario Ending You *Might* Not Have Seen

  It’s 2010. Hopefully by now you have beaten 1985’s Super Mario Bros. If not, please get off my lawn and go away. If you have, continue onward to spoilers! In 1986, a special, limited-edition version of Super Mario Bros. was given away by Japanese radio program All Night Nippon. The game is a hybrid of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2010
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  Korea’s Starcraft Scandal Worsens

  The scandal enveloping Korea’s professional Starcraft scene appears to be worse than first believed, with eleven gamers under investigation amid allegations that gambling organisations have been running a “training institute” to lure players into illegal match-fixing. As we reported last month, an investigation has uncovered widespread corruption in the upper echelons of Korea’s pro gaming…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2010
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  A Short History Of Daisy Dukes

  The female trainer for the totally new forthcoming Pokémon: Black & White is wearing, as website Tiny Cartridge points out, Daisy Dukes. But what are Daisy Dukes? Jean shorts, a shorter and literally cooler version of blue jeans, were worn in the 1950s and 1960s as cut-offs. And it was in the late 1960s and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2010