Barack Obama Passes Historic Video Game Health Care Bill

Pixelated president Barack Obama proposes the “Video Game Health Care Bill,” with Phoenix Downs, med kits and antidotes for every Moogle, woman and child being chased by ghosts. Inspiring stuff. [College Humor – thanks, MC Double Def DP!]

Kotaku Off Topic: No Foolin’

Welcome to a very serious edition of Kotaku Off Topic, one free from April Fools’ Day pranks, mostly because it’s March 31, damn it. OK, that maybe wasn’t true, because tonight’s selection of links features at least two hoaxes, but they’re things one should be aware of. This edition of Kotaku Off Topic also features…

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Screenshots & Character Art

Zeno Clash’s XBLA Release Is Delayed

Perhaps you noticed that today Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition was supposed to release on Xbox Live Arcade. Perhaps you noticed that it did not. “It’s been pushed back a tad,” says the developer. “Sorry about that to everyone,” wrote Andres Bordeu on the ACE Team forums. “It should come out early April. Atlus will be…

Real Bullet Hell Action Coming To Your iPhone, Courtesy Cave

Fans of frenetic arcade shoot ’em up action of the Cave variety will be able to put their touchscreen twitch skills to the test this spring with the release of Espgaluda II for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Cave promises a port of the 2005 arcade game—which also saw release on Xbox 360 in Japan…

Five Stars Will Also Suffice

Funny, I think the same thing can be said of NPR’s music and book reviews. Via Fake AP Stylebook, which anyone in media should be following. And anyone outside of media.

A Baker’s Three Dozen of UFC Undisputed 2010 Screens

Caution, there are a whopping 39 screenshots of UFC Undisputed 2010 behind this door, and if your computer monitor is of a poor constitution it might destroy itself rendering such manly badassery. Brendan Shaub, James McSweeny, Marcus Jones and Roy Nelson are featured – they were the semifinalists in The Ultimate Fighter Season 10, and…

Gears of War Developer To Debut Next Game on Late Night

The host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writes that the design director for popular Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War will be on his show next week to debut his next game. Game developer Cliff Bleszinski, who worked on both Gears of War and Gears of War 2, has not yet talked about when…

Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack Review: Pricey Maps

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 remains the most popular game played on Xbox Live since its launch late last year, but that doesn’t mean that the fans of the fast-paced, first-person shooter couldn’t use some new ways to play. Enter the Stimulus Pack. The first Modern Warfare 2 map pack, coming to the Xbox…

First Conduit 2 Screens, Details On Online Co-op

Sega is making Conduit 2 doubly official today, offering a first look at the sequel to last year’s The Conduit for the Wii, complete with new details and a chance to put your face in the game. Conduit 2 will build upon the original with a new Team Invasion Mode, a cooperative multiplayer option that…

Kotaku Talk Radio Races Out Another Episode for Download

The outfit responsible for Project Gotham Racing and the forthcoming Blur joined us today to talk racin’ with Kotaku Talk Radio. You can download the .mp3 faster than it takes to get two new tires and a splash of gas. If you missed Crecente, Totilo, Bizarre Creations’ Gareth Wilson and of course our lively cast…

Prepare for April Fools

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Become Right Handed Or Left Handed, Time to Decide! If there were one day I year I don’t enjoy working on a gaming blog it would be April Fool’s Day. Deciphering the news from the “jokes” is a chore. A painful chore. What you missed: How They Brought NBA Jam…

Club Nintendo Updates With New Games, New Goods

Members of the North American version of Club Nintendo can start blowing those coins they’ve been saving up on new goods, including two new video games exclusive to the program, a new Game & Watch Collection. Game & Watch Collection 2 packs in an impressive three whole Game & Watch games into a single Nintendo…

Indie Sports Game Unites Developer’s Dream with a League’s Ambition

By the end of April, Xbox Live’s Indie Games channel will see a very unusual first: The service’s first sports title licensed by a professional league, and backed with the sponsorship of a major brand. NLL Lacrosse 2010 will be the pro sport’s video game comeback nine years after its one and only console release.…

Moral Kombat Available Everywhere You Watch Movies

There’ll be no excuse left for not seeing Spencer Halpin’s documentary exploration of video game violence, Moral Kombat, as the film will soon be available on every web-enabled device imaginable. Moral Kombat is a compelling documentary that explores video game violence from both sides of the argument, created in 2007 by Spencer Halpin, the brother…

New Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Introduces Rock Mario

What new flavor of mushroom does Super Mario Galaxy 2 offer? The delectable rock ‘shroom, which gives Mario the ability to turn himself into a boulder and bowl over Bowser’s minions. That just one of many power-ups highlighted in this new trailer. The familiar Super Mario Bros. staples—Fire Flowers, Starman—join the most recent Super Mario…

This Week In Comics

New format time! Let’s try this. I go to my local comics shop on Wednesdays, sometimes skipping and going on every other Wednesday. This week, among the stuff I’d be picking up is the Previews catalog, which might be the most technologically backwards thing that I do. It’s a catalog for comics that will be…

Not Apple, Anything But Apple!!!

Have an irrational or rational hatred of all things Apple? Don’t care about the iPad? Then you might want to bookmark this link to avoid all of our coverage on the soon to be launched tablet. www.kotaku.com/tag/not:ipad

Abandon All Hope, There Are No Plans For Geometry Wars 3

“Right now we don’t have any plans for Geometry Wars 3 or anything,” said Bizarre Creations’ Gareth Wilson during the Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, and all that could be heard afterwards were the relentless sobs of millions of disappointed fans. Gareth took delivering the news in stride, but fans who played the original Geometry Wars…

One Way To Build A Better UFC Game: Make It Faster

The next UFC game doesn’t exactly borrow from Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting or Super Street Fighter II Turbo, but the Street Fighter fan behind the game’s fighting combat recently explained why a faster-playing UFC game is a better one. THQ combat designer Omar Kendall, who knew full well at last week’s party for the…