Madden 11 to Explore the Difference Between Simplified and Easy

Two videos and some screens released today give visual context to Madden NFL 11‘s “Gameflow”, described in Totilo’s preview yesterday, and other features that designers say will halve the amount of time required to play a game. Play-calling gets a big streamline and not just within Gameflow, the new mode in which an offensive coordinator…

Madden NFL 11 Screens

Play Way More Than 18 Holes With The Raunchy Tiger Woods’ Affair Tour

The face of EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour series is now the unwilling subject of another video game, the adults-only, sexually explicit screw ’em up Tiger Woods Affair Tour 2010. D-Dub Software, makers of the free-roaming sexual, drug-charged Bonetown, have struck while the iron is room temperature, turning Woods’ extramarital dalliances into a video…

BioShock 2 Won’t Go Metro This Week

The Rapture Metro pack, previously scheduled to arrive this week for BioShock 2 fans hungry for more of the multiplayer action they so desperately crave, will miss its stop. 2K Games has pressed pause on the downloadable map pack’s release. Instead, the BioShock 2 Rapture Metro add-on will coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3…

Fourteen Halo 2 Fans Refuse to Let It Die

Lots of people continued playing Halo 2 past the midnight deadline Microsoft gave 12 days ago for discontinuing original Xbox multiplayer support. Fourteen have managed to still keep their consoles connected and running since, prolonging the game’s final goodbye indefinitely. Console overheating concerns and dropped Internet connections have whittled their numbers, but so far, neither…

Shopping is fun

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Mini-Bash: “I Want To See A Ferrari” Hey, I was just talking to you. How was IKEA? What you missed: This Was Your Captivate 2010 These Real Pokemon Will Give You Nightmares What’s My Motivation? Why We Play The Top 100 Games How Game and Movie Ratings Work Super Street…

There Are Secret Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Demons In This Post

Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey features a password system that lets players summon special demons via secret codes, like the two they’ve passed on to Kotaku to share with our readers, including one for password-exclusive Alciel, the Black Sun. The latest Shin Megami Tensei DS game to hit North America features a sophisticated demon…

UFC Undisputed Demo Arrives April 29

Last week THQ mentioned early access to the UFC Undisputed 2010 demo but didn’t mention a release date and was vague on the terms. Now we know it’s Thursday, and anyone registering at the Undisputed community site gets a code. The UFC Undisputed community blog promises that signing up gives you one code per person,…

Modern Warfare Developers Seek Half a Billion in Activision Suit UPDATE

A group of nearly 40 past and present Infinity Ward developers have banded together to file suit against the publishers of Modern Warfare 2 for half a billion dollars, alleging breach of contract and unpaid royalties, according to court documents obtained by G4 TV.com. The Infinity Ward Employee Group’s suit, which lists 38 plaintiffs including…

Jazz Comes Late To The War For Cybertron Preorder Exclusive Party

It seems to me that you’d want to announce all of your retailer preorder exclusive items at the same time, to avoid shutting out one particular store, but here comes Jazz, ready to fight multiplayer battles for Best Buy customers. Activision revealed Shockwave as the GameStop preorder bonus multiplayer character for Transformers: War for Cybertron…

Erasers Hint At New Game From Sam & Max Creators

Why did Telltale Games send me erasers and an iPod Touch today? I’m sure one of the reasons was to tease their next game. The 8GB iPod Touch (which Kotaku will be giving away to charity) contains some images and video, all meant to tease Scoggins Erasers, which appears to be the next project from…

Press Pause for a Few and Take the Gawker Media Census 2010

Last Census go-around, we found out that 61% of Kotaku readers play at least 11 hours of video games per week. Obsession anyone? Surely you can pause for 10 minutes in between levels to share your media predilections. C’mon. After all we do for you? The Gawker Media Census 2010 is a way for us…

Even Orcs Need To Shop For Home Furnishings

Australia’s Connect Furniture targets the loveseat-shopping Warhammer and World of Warcraft crowd, as seen at Ads of the World. Bonus naked fairy furniture shopping marketing after this…

What On Earth Is Mega Man Universe?

A trademark application filed last week by Capcom for Mega Man Universe could indicate big things in store for everyone’s favorite blue bomber. IS Capcom working on a massively-multiplayer Mega Man title? It sounds unlikely, but that’s the first thought that comes to mind when seeing the name Mega Man Universe. The trademark application, discovered…

Reminder: Prepare To Call The Crackdown 2 Creators And Ask Them Stuff

Kotaku Talk Radio will be recording live from CBS Radio on Wednesday. 11am Kotaku Time. 1pm ET. 10am PT. Hosts: Crecente and me. Guests: Top guys making Crackdown 2. Call-in and live-streaming details will be on Kotaku at showtime.

Sega Shoots Gunblade NY & LA Machineguns Clip At Us

Sega makes its Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns port to the Wii official with the first trailer for the Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns Arcade Hits Pack, a new opportunity to reminisce about the company’s arcade past. Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns Arcade Hits Pack, previously revealed courtesy of the ESRB, packs in one Sega…

World Of Warcraft’s New Recruit-A-Friend Reward Is So Romantic

What could be more romantic than flying over the moon-dappled snow of Azeroth’s northlands with your significant other’s arms wrapped around you, straddling the new X-53 Touring Rocket, World of Warcraft’s first two-person flying mount? Blizzard wantts you to play World of Warcraft, but if they’ve already got you, they’ll gladly take your friends, and…

Medal Of Honor Should Let Soldiers Lie Down And Shoot, Gamer Argues

Gamers have needs. They have requests for the games that they play, some of these demands surprisingly specific. Today, let us consider the case by one gamer for the ability to shoot from a prone position and some accompanying news. A writer and apparent member of the U.S. Coast Guard who writes by the name…

Super Street Fighter IV Review: Rebirth of a Gaming Nation

Released to U.S. consoles last year, Street Fighter IV helped to reinvigorate the franchise, if not the entire fighting genre. Now, a little more than a year later, Capcom is at it again, perhaps with less lofty goals. Where Street Fighter IV introduced Capcom and Street Fighter fans to the notion of 3D fighters brawling…

Guild Wars 2’s Design Manifesto Details Anti-Social Social Enhancements

Guild Wars developer ArenaNet launches its new blog in grand fashion today, with a design manifesto detailing all the ways that they’re raising the MMO bar for Guild Wars 2, from exciting combat to a novel solution to kill stealing. The more I read about ArenaNet’s goals in developing the follow-up to Guild Wars, the…