Netflix On Wii Is A Medieval Love Story

One million Wii owners have tried out Netflix. It’s a healthy number, but given the size of the console’s install base, Netflix probably wants more. Cue the expensive commercials targeted specifically at Wii users! It’s like a well-dressed Lord of the Rings meets…Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood. Actually, considering they then show a Notting Hill box…

Mario Creator “Always” Has Regrets

You’d think that the guy who created Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Wii Music wouldn’t have any regrets. Oh wait. “As soon as we’ve finished a project, I always have regrets about what we could or should’ve done,” said Nintendo’s Shigeru Miaymoto in a recent interview with Edge magazine. “But then there…

EA: We Have The World’s Biggest-Selling Downloadable Game

Companies rarely, if ever, release sales figures for digital game sales. Makes compiling charts, and applauding records, difficult! We do know one thing, however: EA’s Battlefield 1943 is apparently the most popular console downloadable title ever made. As part of it’s fiscal year report released earlier today, publisher Electronic Arts says that the downloadable shooter…

Waggles At Twenty Paces

This year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles has two of the biggest game companies go literally head-to-head in…waggle. Nintendo has had Wii Remote motion control since the console went on sale back in fall 2006. Sony, however, is adding a motion controller called to the Move to the PS3 later this year. While Sony…

Gender Benders: The Goddess Of War, Master Chiefette & Dude Raider

Seeing as much of what we associate with a famous game character is related to their gender, how would you feel if, say, Lara Croft was a dude? Or Luigi a plumbette? You can face that bizarro scenario in these pics by David Stonecipher, the same guy who brought us the “game characters with beards”…

How You Can Get Big Muscles

Chest this, chest that. Prince of Persia star Jake Gyllenhaal is more than a chest. He is also wonderful hair. And good hygiene. “It took six months to grow my hair, and shampooing and conditioning it on a daily basis helps to develop a really really chiseled physique in the arms, you be surprised!” says…

Charity Games Bundle Story Has A Happy Ending

We got a little bummed yesterday that people were pirating a games bundle released for charity. Let’s put that behind us today, and instead focus on the positive aspects of said bundle. Like the fact it’s made over $1 million. Yes, since its release last week, Wolfire’s Humble Indie Bundle has been bought by 118,810…

Toad, In Unofficial Bicycle Form

Toad is in a whole bunch of Mario games. But that’s not all, oh no, that’s not all. Spotted at Toys R Us is this “Look Out” Tech Team bike. A Kotaku found it and then laid it out on the linoleum for all of you people to gaze at. There’s something game related on…

Bad Company 2 Sells Five Million, FIFA Sells A Lot More

EA’s modern-day shooter Battlefield Bad Company 2 may not have been able to stand toe-to-toe with competitor Modern Warfare 2, but it’s accounted for itself regardless, selling an impressive five million copies. A feat FIFA 10 was able to double. EA revealed the sales figures in a press release earlier today, saying that Bad Company…

EA Bringing “Marquee” Game To 3D, Multiple Titles To Motion Controllers

EA COO John Schappert said today that the publisher will be showing off a few new, unannounced games at E3, all of them making use of some of gaming’s most promising – and potentially gimmicky – technology. Speaking during his company’s fiscal results conference call, Schappert said “we will also unveil games that make use…

Privates, The First Twin Stick Shooter Set In A Vagina

Attention! This is Privates, a new game from the developers of Time Gentlemen, Please! coming to the PC and Xbox 360, one that will give many hardcore video gamers a second chance to encounter a vagina. Zombie Cow Studios, the developer behind the vaginal and anal action of Privates, explains the downloadable title as a…

Kotaku Off Topic: Don’t Worry, It’s Safe

Consider tonight’s edition of Kotaku Off Topic a great place to practice not getting banned tomorrow. Come for the conversation, stay for the helpful Kotaku commenters who know how to comment well. If you missed today’s Day Note warning, it’s worth noting. The Kotaku comments are in need of some scrubbing—fewer throwaway two word comments,…

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What Sports Gamers Can Expect, If There Are No More Free Passes

Strong users of rental services and resale or trade-in options, sports gamers justifiably feel blindsided by EA Sports’ new “Online Pass,” which requires a ton of once-standard game content to be activated by a one-use code. To recap: Yesterday EA Sports revealed its “Online Pass” strategy, which will begin in June with the next Tiger…

A Look At The (Possible) New York City Of The Future

New York City is one of the most played locations in games, serving as the inspirational backdrop for games like Grand Theft Auto, Prototype, Crysis 2 and many, many, (perhaps too many) more. Will future visions of the Big Apple be… fun? Newsweek tasked three architecture firms with envisioning and designing how a future NYC…

If We Had DLC a Decade Ago

Actually, we did. They were called “unlockables” and, after playing the game a lot, you got them for free. Seen via Reddit.

Best Buy Launching Its Own Video Game Mag

Retailer Best Buy may have had limited success aping competitor GameStop’s lucrative (for now) used games business, but it’s taking another cue from the video game giant—it’s launching its own video game print magazine. @Gamer is Best Buy and Future US Publishing’s new game mag, which was discovered by Kyle Orland at the Game Beat.…

Split With Founders Sends Major League Gaming CEO Packing

The founders of Major League Gaming and the league’s CEO have parted ways over a difference in how the professional gaming league should be expanding, with the ousted chief apparently not getting support for more aggressive growth plans. Matthew Bromberg ran the New York-based league for the past four and a half years; he’s out,…

PlayStation Store Update: Major Expansion

This week’s update to the North American PlayStation Store may be light on games, but it’s fit to burst from the flood of downloadable content, some of which you might even want! New expansions and add-ons for BioShock 2, Nier, Lost Planet 2 and Super Street Fighter IV are just some of the new digital…

Dead Space 2 Will Haunt The PC

After some back and forth about the fate of the PC version of Visceral Games’ Dead Space 2, it appears the sci-fi horror game will indeed scare up a release on Windows. Electronic Arts listed the PC version of Dead Space 2 on its slate of fiscal 2011 releases, with the Visceral Games developed sequel…