PETA Doesn’t Want Animals In The Mafia

Reacting to yesterday’s news that popular Facebook game Mafia Wars is adding animals as weapons, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals requests developer reconsider, using Zynga founder Mark Pincus’ own beloved pet as ammunition. Pit bulls, tigers, and lions are among a few of the animals that Mafia Wars, a social game that’s…

This Week In Comics

As is so often the case, the press I’m reading about comics is about crossovers. Blackest Night. Siege. They are, despite the hate they get — the suspect claims of “event fatigue” — the most popular thing in comics. Technically, we’re at something of a lull in crossover comics. DC just finished their Blackest Night…

A Look At the Real, Not-So-Sexy Samurai of Capcom’s Latest Game

Fact is never as sexy as fiction. That’s painfully obvious when comparing the in-game looks of some of Japan’s most famous samurai to their real world appearance. In Sangoku Basara Samurai Heroes, you take on the role of a historic samurai during Japan’s Warring states period. But somehow these famous generals end up looking like…

Final Fantasy XIII PlayStation Home Items Come To North America

Let your Final Fantasy fanhood ring across the hallowed halls and cubbyholes of PlayStation Home today, as Final Fantasy XIII avatar items, costumes, and spaces make their way to North America. You might recall the gear that made its way to the Japanese version of PlayStation Home last year. The costumes transforming avatars into generic…

The Accidental Love Child of Wii Fit And WarioWare

EA Sports Active 2.0 is probably going to be a healthy product when it is released: software marshaled for good. EA Sports Active 2.0 as demonstrated for me last night was something else, something somewhat intriguing and probably, amusingly dangerous. You see, EA Sports Active 2.0, set for PlayStation 3 and Wii release late this…

Dead Rising Star Passes Through Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing

Players passing through an abandoned pool hall in Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing might catch a glimpse of the last words of a Capcom character who has covered wars, you know. Possible Dead Rising spoilers ahead? Behold the final words of Frank West, another victim of the zombie apocalypse. Left without film, without a…

Marvel Vs. Capcom Comic Books a “Natural Thing” [Update]

A Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 comic book mini-series is under discussion at both companies, the makers of the Street Fighter comic book series tells Kotaku. While Marvel declined to confirm that they were discussing the creation of a limited run comic book based on the upcoming game, Marvel’s Chris Baker told Kotaku that Marvel Vs.…

The Luxuries And Problems With Six-Screen Gaming

Six monitors, bolted together, might make your gaming better. It will certainly make it take up more room and, as Kotaku learned yesterday, it introduces a couple of new complications. Complication 1: It’s expensive. Yesterday, in New York, I got to see graphics-card-maker AMD’s six-monitor gaming set-up in action. They call it the Eyefinity 6,…

MAG Deploys Free Fast Attack Gear Pack

Zipper Interactive unzips its second free downloadable content for massive multiplayer shooter MAG next week, with a trio of special edition sniper rifles ready to make life more difficult for players with a love for wide-open spaces. The second dose of free MAG DLC is known as the Fast Attack Gear Pack, focusing on players…

Who Shouldn’t Be In Marvel Vs. Capcom 3?

Yesterday we asked you to tell us who you wanted to see in Capcom’s upcoming fighter Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. That was the easy question, now the hard one. Who wouldn’t you want to see in the game set for the PS3 and Xbox 360 next year? I bugged both Capcom and Marvel folks about…

Live Action Alan Wake Prequel Channels Twin Peaks

What mysteries lurk within the eerie mountain town of Alan Wake’s Bright Falls? Find out this Sunday, when the first two episodes of a six-part live action prequel series show up on Xbox Live. Acclaimed short film director Philip Van takes us on an eerie, suspense-filled tour of Alan Wake’s setting in “Bright Falls,” a…

Bungie Lets Its Inner Fan Shine In Halo Reach’s Carnàge Carnivàle

In this latest video documentary for Halo Reach, Bungie developers discuss the features of the upcoming multiplayer beta with the same sort of enthusiasm you’d see from a bunch of guys hanging out at a game store. Designer and Kotaku alum Luke Smith and engineering lead Luke Timmins in particular display a level of enthusiasm…

Spot the Hidden Capcom Images

Capcom handed off this baggie of goodies to the press attending this year’s Captivate events in Hawaii. Among the freebies were this fancy pair of flip flops, which at first glance appear to have a relatively generic Hawaiian print on them. Look a little closer, though, and you might notice some telltale signs that these…

London Ravaged By Aliens In City Of The Daleks

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games start off with a bang with City of the Daleks. The BBC has revealed new details on the series’ first episode, which begins in a destroyed London and ends on the Dalek home world. Written by Phil Ford, City of the Daleks does exactly what fans would expect from a…

Halo Reach Legendary Edition Lives Up To Its Label

Halo Reach is Bungie’s last hurrah in the Halo universe, and they aren’t saying goodbye without a lovely Limited Edition and one final, ultra-expensive Legendary Edition. First we have the Halo Reach Limited Edition, priced at $79.99. $20 over the standard price scores fans a recovered ONI “black box” holding the game disc, an exclusive…

Can Americans Love A Dreamy Samurai Game?

The Sengoku Period of Japanese history was rife with intrigue, war, social upheaval and, apparently, sexy samurai. Capcom’s enormously popular Sengoku Basara action video game series has spawned comics, movies, a line of food products, a live-action theater production and castle tours, but little interest over the years outside of Japan. The Japanese developer hopes…

This Is Tiger Woods Mini-Golf, Without Windmills And Sort Of With NASCAR

The next big golf video game on the Wii, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 adds mini-golf. Why? Best answer I got from EA Sports yesterday is because they like to add something every year. But is it true mini-golf? Donning my average-man cap, I asked some EA Sports representatives who were showing the new Tiger…

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Mega Man on the iPad

Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune doesn’t even need a pen and paper to whip up a drawing of his youthful robot hero, not when there is an iPad around. Follow the rest of our Captivate coverage here.

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