Monster Hunter Tri Keeps Going And Going

If Capcom has its way, once you put Monster Hunter Tri into your Wii you’ll never want to take it out, with regularly scheduled downloadable quests and events keeping the game fresh well past release. The on-disc content is only the beginning in Monster Hunter Tri, coming exclusively to the Wii on April 20. Capcom…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s Friday, officially the kick off of the weekend for those of us at Kotaku Towers, a chance to kick and play some video games. You know, for fun I’ll be playing two things this weekend, wrapping up God of War III (not pictured) on my PlayStation 3 and Astral Puzzle Meltdown (actually pictured) on…

The Best Gaming Application Of The iPad So Far

As seen in a Stacker Large machine at the Windward Mall in Honolulu, Hawaii. – Thanks Geeq!

The Biggest Break Up In Video Game History

Intrigue, backstabbing, secret messages and double agents: Reading the world’s largest game publisher’s counter-suit against the top people in charge of creating one of the biggest video game franchise in history is like dropping into one of their Modern Warfare video games. Told from the perspective of Activision, the publisher didn’t take lightly the firing…

Mass Effect 2: Kasumi – Stolen Memory Micro-Review: Boredom Amongst Thieves

Mass Effect 2’s first substantial piece of downloadable content since the game’s release, “Kasumi – Stolen Memory,” does a lot of things right as far as DLC goes. Problem is, it also does a lot of things wrong Presenting gamers with the chance to add another member to their crew of galactic misfits, Stolen Memory…

Activision Infinity Ward Gallery

Modern Warfare Publisher Had “Good Reason” To Fire Top Modern Warfare Makers

If you play Modern Warfare 2, you just might be busy racking another kill. But the people who made the game are in another round of their own combat. Activision, the game’s publisher, tells Kotaku this battle was necessary. On the heels of filing a lawsuit accusing Jason West and Vince Zampella, the recently-fired former…

Acti Lawsuit Gallery

Ousted Modern Warfare 2 Makers Counter-sued By Activision

A little more than a month after the two top men behind Modern Warfare 2 were fired by their publisher and sued because of it — that publisher, Activision, is suing back, the Los Angeles Times reported today. The paper reports details of an Activision lawsuit against former Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince…

A Japanese Game With Goddesses About…The Game Industry?

A video game about the game industry? That could be pretty boring. Inside baseball. Zzzzzz. It would need something to sexy it up! Upcoming role-playing game Neptune takes place in a fictional world called “Game Industry”, which is split into four different worlds with four different goddesses: Purple Heart (Neptune), Green Heart, Black Heart, White…

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Screens

Infection Vs. Resurrection: The New Science of the Zombie

Where once they shuffled, now they run. Initially born of forbidden voodoo rituals or the sign of a religious apocalypse, for the past decade zombies have slowly metamorphosed into the by-products of something else entirely. Science now, not the supernatural, is most often to blame when loved-ones become something less than human and begin to…

Microsoft Points Now Sold In More Reasonable Batches

At some point over the last couple of days, Microsoft made a small yet significant adjustment to how you buy Microsoft points online. Notice the difference? That’s right, now Microsoft points are sold in North America in increments of 400, to better match the normal pricing of Xbox Live Arcade titles and downloadable content. Previously,…

Rush ‘n Attack: Ex-Patriot Screens

No Computer Can Run This Crysis 2 Trailer

Trailer for the late 2010 video game Crysis 2, in flipbook form. (To watch the old-fashioned digital video version of this trailer, check out the bottom of today’s Kotaku Crysis 2 preview.)

A New Star Wars: The Old Republic Planet You’ve Never Seen Before

If the latest planet revealed for BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic sounds familiar, then you’re mistaken, as Voss has never appeared anywhere in the Star Wars mythos. Discovered by accident shortly after the Treaty of Coruscant, Voss is a strange alien world locked in conflict. War rages on the planet’s surface between the tech-savvy…

The Biggest Game Of 2009 Is Under Siege This Month

Uncharted 2, the undisputed best game of 2009 among people who really liked it, gets a third dose of DLC this month in the Siege Expansion Pack, which brings new maps, a new game type, and Nathan Drake in a wetsuit. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves’ multiplayer offerings get a strong shot in the arm on…

Grand Theft Auto Used To Steer Children Away From Violence? That’s New

Grand Theft Auto, often the whipping-boy for the anti-violent video games movement, is being used by a program in Merseyside, England to help stop children becoming desensitized to violence. Welcome to Bizarro world. Whenever the subject of violent video games arises, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto franchise seems to be the go-to example of a game…

Your Guide to Xbox 360 USB Drives

Now that you can use a standard USB flash or hard drive with your Xbox 360 it’s time to figure out which is the best to use. Fortunately, Rooster Teeth’s Achievement Hunters rounded up a bunch of drives to test out how quickly they allow you to install games on them and if they impact…

Nothing Says Good Morning Like Fresh Saw 2 Screens

Perhaps fresh isn’t the best word for these screens of Konami’s sequel to the horror game based on the movie with a jillion sequels, but none of the other adjectives I considered were compatible with keeping down your breakfast. Jigsaw is back in Saw 2, another light-hearted romp exploring the joys of self-mutilation and preservation.…