Monday Night Combat Preview: The Other Instant Winner

I’ve already written about one of my two favorite new games at PAX East. This is the other one. Monday Night Combat is an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive coming from Uber Entertainment, the development studio with the artist who can do better backflips than the rest of us. It is a game of team-based, class-based…

Sega Channels Conduit 2 To Wii This Fall

High Voltage Software will give fans of its original shooter The Conduit another opportunity to enjoy first-person shooting thrills on the Wii. The latest issue of Nintendo Power unveils the sequel, Conduit 2. That’s Conduit 2, not The Conduit 2, it appears, for reasons that are still unclear. But what is clear is what Sega…

UFC Chief Backs Off Threat To Ban Fighters, Still Loathes EA

UFC president Dana White will allow fighters appearing in EA Sports MMA, a rival to his successful UFC Undisputed video game series. But UFC fans who buy the EA game beware: White says that’s “fucking nuts.” Kotaku grabbed a couple of minutes with White late last week at an elaborate evening nightclub event held for…

Sociologist Spends 2,300 Hours Seeking Civilization In World Of Warcraft

Sociologist and director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation, William Sims Bainbridge spent 2300 hours entrenched in popular MMO World of Warcraft, looking for look for insights about Western civilization. What did he find there? William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D., is no spring chicken, but he braved the wilds of Azeroth for 2200 hours,…

It’s Too Late To Turn Back Now

The Saboteur Is A Lot Less Chesty On The iPhone

With a rating of 12+ on Apple’s App Store, Hands-On Mobile’s iPhone take on EA’s The Saboteur promises more Nazi foiling and less randomly topless women. The Saboteur is now available on the App Store, with $2.99 scoring purchasers 12 missions spread across seven environments, with a less potty-mouthed Sean Devlin amassing an arsenal of…

The Cutest Indie Game Plushie Ever

Indie game developer Edmund McMillen goes full circle, so to speak, as Bigshot Toyworks releases a couple of plush toys based on his award-winning PC game Gish, starring a loveable ball of tar out to save his girlfriend. With a new Gish game on the horizon and a cameo by the grinning black ball in…

Medal Of Honor Developer: “Afghanistan Sort Of Chose Us”

This fall, one of the biggest war video game franchises will be set in a current war, the conflict in Afghanistan. Why? Not politics, a developer told Kotaku. Not current events. “We never chose Afghanistan,” Medal of Honor executive producer Greg Goodrich said in a recent interview in New York City. “Afghanistan sort of chose…

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Street Fighters

UDON Entertainment gets down and dirty with every Street Fighter character to ever go a round this June, with the release of the Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia, with information ranging from fighting styles to favorite foods. Did you know high school ninja Ibuki loves roasted sweet potatoes and is an extremely fast eater, or…

Man Arrested Allegedly Trying To Steal Early Copy of Game At Convention

Atomic Games’ Xbox Live Arcade shooter Breach impressed one PAX East visitor so much he apparently attempted to steal the code, and he might have succeeded too, if not for one fatal mistake – telling the developers he was stealing it. We don’t condone stealing here at Kotaku, but we do enjoy being helpful, so…

Modern Warfare 2 Charity Raises Unemployment Awareness By Handing Out Games

To celebrate today’s release of Modern Warfare 2’s new Stimulus map pack, publisher Activision delivered copies of the game to more than 300 U.S. Navy ships, submarines and recreational facilities around the world. In this video we see crew members of the U.S.S. John C Stennis getting their free copies of the game in San…

Come Chat Blur Live with Bizarre Creations Tomorrow

Join us tomorrow on Kotaku Talk Radio to chat with Bizarre Creations about their upcoming racer Blur. A project lead from the team behind Project Gotham Racing and upcoming Blur will be on Kotaku Talk Radio this Wednesday at 11 a.m. Kotaku Time (that’s 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT), giving you a chance to…

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Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack Is Live, But Broken [UPDATE 4]

Details are still sketchy, but we’re getting a number of reports that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 map pack that hit this morning is not entirely working. The Stimulus Pack delivered five new maps for the multiplayer portion of Activision’s popular shooter for 1200 Microsoft Points. But readers are reporting a slew of…

This Is Not Spain

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: From DSi XL to iPAD I went on a vacation recently. Not to Spain, though! I have never been to Spain, sadly. I’d love to go one day. My uncle lives in Barcelona. And I really like the Whit Stillman movie Barcelona, so yeah. We went to Spain Mura (“Village”),…

Korean Girl Group DSi Ads Are Not Exciting

One of South Korean’s most popular girl groups, Girls’ Generation, is appearing in DSi ads for Nintendo of Korea. The ads are, to put it kindly, dull. Here is one ad. Here is another ad. But come to think of it, pretty much all DSi commercials aren’t exactly thrilling television. Girls’ Generation music videos shilling…

Hacker Working To Save PS3 Linux Support

Next month, the PS3 will be ditching its Linux operating system support — something that the console has had since it launched in 2006. There must be a way to stop this, no? On April 1, Sony will release the next firmware update for the PS3, bringing it to v3.21. It seems the sole purpose…

Vintage Catalogues Revive The Ghost Of Nintendo Past

Reader Brett must have known our adolescent selves were in need of entertainment, otherwise he wouldn’t have pointed us towards this motherload of vintage Nintendo merchandise catalogues. From the Japanese publisher’s 1992 edition (Packed with gift ideas!) to a magnificent “Zelda Box” released in Japan in commemoration of the release of Wind Waker, there’s a…

LeChuck Piece Makes All Other Tattoos Walk The Plank

Not sure how we missed this tattoo of Monkey Island antagonist LecChuck last year. Maybe it was so fantastic it burned clean through our collective consciousness. As seen on Geekologie.

Gundam As Girls

Yes, Gundam are mobile suits. They’re mecha! And sometimes, they are cute doe-eyed girls. Since 1982, MS Shojo (MS Girl) has been published in monthly publication Gundam Ace. Familiar with most anyone who follows Gundam, MS Shojo was created by veteran Gundam mecha designer Mika Akitaka and pretty much spawned the entire young-girls-as-mecha subgenre. Akitaka’s…