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.…

Gears 3 Reveal Spoiled, But There Is Another

While the Xbox Live dashboard spilled the beans on Gears of War 3, according to CVG sources, Epic is also planning to reveal a shooter in development for EA later this month. Sources told CVG that Gears creator Epic Games originally planned on revealing this mysterious new EA shooter next week, only to have the…

It’s All Good In The Mega Man Hood

DeviantARTist Brendon Phillips’ Mega Man-inspired hoodie designs make me wish I could sew, as seen at DeviantART via Capcom Unity

Building A Friendlier And Safer Wii Gun

1) Don’t call this device you use to go hunting on the Wii a “gun,” even if you hold it like one. 2) Don’t make it look like one either. Those are some of the notes that the creators of the “hunting controller” for the June-targeted Wii game Bass Pro Shops The Hunt worked with…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Who remember the last time a big video game announcement went as planned? Happens about as often as no one here comments about video games. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

Gamers of the iPhone, Your Attention Please

It appears that the iPhone’s online identity crisis may be nearing an end, but at what cost? Earlier this week Apple unveiled a potential solution for one of the key issues that remain for gaming on their popular iPhone, iPod and iPad devices: The lack of a single cohesive online experience for playing games. The…

I Don’t Want To See Car Death

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: One, Two, Three Tomorrow, Mini-Bash are going to go to the video store (remember those?) to rent a movie. He said he wanted to see a Mr. Bean video. (Kid loves Mr. Bean and has been calling his younger brother “Teddy” for the past week or so.) Mini-Bash really likes…

Crysis 2 Preview: Two Ways To Save New York, New York

According to Crysis 2, one of the biggest shooters coming to consoles and PCs this fall, there will be two ways to save the Big Apple in early September of 2023: Like a predator; or like a tank. Developers from German development studio Crytek came to the New York City of 2010 this week to…

Sengoku Basara 3 On PS3 and Wii This Summer

Capcom’s wildly popular historical action epic Sengoku Basara 3 has a release date for Japan. Would you like to hear it? Lean closer. July 29 The game will be released on the Nintendo Wii and the PS3. It will allow players to hack-and-slash a bunch of enemies and punch giant holes in the ground. As…