Another Publisher Gets In on the MMA Craze

505 Games, fresh from putting out the unlicensed pro football challenger Backbreaker, will bring an unlicensed mixed martial arts title to E3, one that promises action more brutal than the UFC or Strikeforce-branded games. Supremacy MMA, for the Xbox 360 and PS3, will take injuries in a more extreme direction, up to breaking someone’s neck.…

A Less Inspiring Take on the BP Oil Spill

We all know Mario is the not the game character best equipped to clean up in the aftermath of a gargantuan environmental disaster. That would be Phoenix Wright. [via Game Politics]

NCAA 11 Demo Unlocks 11 New Uniforms

Those sweet Nike Pro Combat threads in the eight-team NCAA Football 11 demo aren’t just for looks there. They’re also in the full version, for looks. Downloading the demo gives you access to the alternate uniforms in the main game. Playing each of the four matchups – Florida at Florida State, Oklahoma at Texas, Ohio…

A Sampling of Scott Pilgrim’s World of Pain

In two minutes of pure fury, see teenage angst-enstein Scott Pilgrim tear through hordes of bullies and losers, diss Guitar Hero and kick someone’s ass for $9.85. (And hear the badass chiptone-inspired soundtrack.)

The New Code of Used Sports Games

With UFC Undisputed 2010 two weeks ago, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 this week, the era of pay-to-play multiplayer has come to sports video games. Nothing we’ve seen so far suggests it’ll be a brief experiment. It absolutely remains a 100 percent free feature for those who buy a new retail version of a…

E3 2010 Preview: Recapping an All-Star Lineup

It’s difficult to narrow down the list of E3 showcase games to “most anticipated” status because each series has fans fired up for the next installment. But this week, Kotaku bravely picked out its biggest games of E3. We think. The major console and publisher pressers are watched for the surprises, but they’re anticipated because…

USA vs. England World Cup

The World Cup match between England and the United States is on and we’ve got tons of readers on both sides of the pond. Sports fans or no, take your nationalism and trash talking to the open thread in Box Scores, or hashtag your comments #worldcup, #usaengland, #beatusa or #beatengland

Vindicating Vindictus

OK, I really got off on the wrong foot Thursday with Vindictus, the new MMO from Nexon that we’ll see more of at E3. So, let’s make a reintroduction with this trailer, giving the game’s backstory. Vindictus, readers. Readers, Vindictus The broadest theme is familiar: Lone stranger in a strange land, here to save a…

Box Scores: Four Overtimes for Fighting

What makes for a more epic game in the Stanley Cup Finals – four overtimes, or four fights? How about both, and a shorthanded goal to win it? Reader jayc4life‘s masterpiece on NHL 10 is the timely choice for Box Scores’ game of the week – leading the Chicago Blackhawks to a 2-1, 4OT victory…

Everything’s Ring-a-Ding in Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout 3 introduced us to the Ink Spots and 1941’s “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire.” Fallout: New Vegas opens here with Kay Kyser‘s. “Jingle Jangle Jingle,” the No. 1 hit for eight weeks in 1942. That’s about the only useful thing I can add to this two-minute video, slam full of…

The Moneysaver: A Fish Called Coupons

Wanda, do you have any idea what it’s like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of saying “Do you have children?” and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday. Today’s quote is for all our English friends, whom we’ll meet in two-and-a-half hours in the…

The Week in Review: The 3DS Comes Into Focus

The week before E3 is always a gathering storm of rumor, hype, and anticipation. Friday, however, delivered something unusual even for the usual pre-expo chatter: A potential look at what could be a show-stealer for Nintendo. That above is Kotaku’s mockup of the new Nintendo 3DS, working off a schematic created by a Chinese blogger…

The Director Of The PS4 Viral Clips Revealed

Earlier this week, a mysterious viral clip appeared online. It was followed by another equally mysterious clip. Sony denied the clips were theirs. So, alright then, who made them? Meet Han West. He’s a 24-year-old half-Chinese, half-American filmmaker, working on his Master of Fine Arts in Singapore at New York University’s Tisch School of the…

Killzone 3 Trailer Heavy On Jetpacks (And Gameplay!)

It’s nice to see a Killzone game where ruined cityscapes aren’t the dominant environment. It’s also nice to see that it’s yet another 2010 game featuring jetpacks. Why? Because jetpacks are great.

First Dead Space 2 Gameplay Footage Floats Into View

I’m not usually one to get excited over trailers, even ones with a heavy focus on gameplay footage. But hot damn, seeing Isaac floating around making nasty things explode like this has me more than a little excited.

Force Unleashed II’s E3 Trailer Is Not Fond Of Stormtroopers

This cinematic trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is gorgeous, but also feels a little off; I know the room’s locked, but even still, I wouldn’t trust a few stormtroopers to take out a freakin’ Jedi

Gran Turismo 5’s E3 Trailer Is Missing Something

Here’s the E3 trailer for Sony’s hotly-anticipated PS3 racer, Gran Turismo 5. Those still hanging for its release will notice something is missing. Yes, a release date. It’s not there. Just lots and lots of pretty cars. Guess we’ll have to wait for Sony’s E3 press conference next week for word on when people will…

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LEGO: The First-Person Shooter

LEGO games have mostly been confined to kid’s titles and platformers. We’ve yet to see a LEGO first-person shooter. If we ever do, I really hope it looks like this. This is a bolt-action Lee Enfield sniper rifle, built to scale by Jack Streat, and made entirely out of LEGO. It’s not built to just…