MLG Win Ruined By Faulty Xbox 360

Major League Gaming team Triggers Down came close to advancing towards another tournament win this weekend in Orlando, only to have an equipment failure rob them of the Halo 3 CTF win. As you can see in the video replay, Triggers Down were mere inches away from a win over rival team Classic. All four…

Three Of These Aren’t Mass Effect 2 Ads

Ads for Mass Effect 2, drinking laws. (As seen outside the subway station one stop past Kotaku’s NYC office, thanks to someone missing his stop due to listening to a This American Life segment about The Penguin meeting Mary Poppins.)

Serious Sam HD Encounters Xbox Live Arcade This Week

Xbox 360 owners get a chance to revisit the 2001 classic first-person shooter, now with much fancier graphics, with the release of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter this week on Xbox Live Arcade. Take your thinking caps off and settle in with some mostly mindless thing-shooting action, all for the low price of 1200…

Project Needlemouse’s Character Reveals Are Trivial

The names on this image represent potential playable characters in Sega’s Project Needlemouse 2D Sonic the Hedgehog revival, and only your knowledge of Sonic trivia can help narrow down the list! Sega is ready to reveal new information on Project Needlemouse, but the company isn’t giving away the information for free. Instead, every day for…

The Next Generation Of Blowing At A Game To Control It

If Wii MotionPlus or Microsoft’s Project Natal are the next generations of video game motion control, what, you may wonder, is the next generation of controlling a video game by blowing your breath at it? A company called Zyxio showed a new four-sensor system called SensaWaft that allows users to blow a mouse cursor across…

Frankenreview: Bayonetta

Sex sells, but what about combining sex with guns, magic hair, gigantic bosses, and over-the-top action? The results of the Bayonetta Frankenreview might not surprise you. I was sold on Bayonetta the moment I got my first glimpse of those pistol heels. For others, it took word that this was Devil May Cry creator Hideki…

Two Xbox Wrongs Possibly Make A Right

Game companies hate when people trade in gaming goods at game shops. Gamers hate the propensity for Xboxes to break. But were it not for these two things, an alleged crime would not have been exposed. From the files of news-from-December-about-something-that-happened-in-November comes the Daytona Beach, Florida News Journal’s tale of a purloined Xbox. On November…

Toyota FT-CH

BioShock 2 Screenshots Omit Blue Skies, Blue Oceans

BioShock 2, which I’ve been previewing, is a great-looking game set in an underwater city populated with interesting enemies, Big Sisters and Big Daddys. Too bad publisher 2K Games isn’t showing off the beautiful undersea world often visible outside.

Three Days To Armored Core 5’s Beginning

Call it a hunch, but the giant orange 5 that’s popped up at armoredcore.net/ac5/ might have something to do with From Software‘s reveal of Armored Core 5. Whatever the case may be, we’ll know in three days. January 14th is the date listed under the large, glowing 5, with the word “BEGINNING” suggesting that From…

Magic: The Gathering – Deal Of The Planeswalkers

If you’re an Xbox 360 owner and a fan of insanely addictive collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, this week’s Xbox Live Deal of the Week is definitely for you. Knowing Magic: The Gathering fans, most of you have already dropped 800 Microsoft points for the excellent Duels of the Planeswalkers, but for those of…

Create Your Own Worlds In The Sims 3

The Sims 3 allows you to create your own Sims, create your own home, and now you can create your own world, courtesy of The Sims 3 Create A World tool, a free download now available on TheSims3.com. The Sims 3 Create A World tool (beta) allows registered users of EA’s latest life simulation to…

NBA Jam Sets The Wii On Fire In 2010

There were jams and rumors of jams, but now it’s official – EA is bringing back Midway’s classic arcade basketball game this year with EA Sports NBA Jam for the Nintendo Wii. Midway’s NBA Jam took arcades by storm in 1993, it’s over-the-top arcade basketball action and colorful commentary packing in the crowds at the…

BioShock 2 Preview: Something Bad Is About To Happen

Two levels deeper into BioShock 2 and unwilling to spoil any of the major events in the game, I will instead share a feeling I’ve gotten from a preview of next month’s sequel from 2K Games: Bad things are coming. Previews of BioShock 2 hitting the Internet today, including this one, are based on the…

The Nintendo Download: Something, Something, Ace Attorney

It must be tough for lesser-known games when the Nintendo Download contains a big-name title like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, but Chronos Twins DX, ShadowPlay, and the rest of this week’s offerings put up a good fight. Good fight or no, it’d be hard for any title to compete with a port of the original…

You Don’t Want The New Hello Kitty Online Theme Stuck In Your Head

Watch the music video for Hello Kitty Online‘s new theme song once – and only once – and you may be safe. Some of us weren’t so fortunate. I downloaded this video for “The World is Saying Hello (Kitty)” this morning, figuring I would torture share it with our readers. I watched it once before…

Boy: Playing Xbox Will Get Me A “Nowhere Job”

An ex-NBA star recently asked a group of children where playing Xbox will get them. He was promoting fitness, so he probably expected a negative answer. And he got one. Here’s the Deseret News reporting on the noble effort of former Utah Jazz player Mark Eaton promoting fitness through an National Basketball Association program called…

LEGO Universe Screenshots: It’s In The Game

While amazing, the LEGO Universe trailer was short on in-game action. These screenshots are comprised of nothing but. I’m digging the look, but don’t remember LEGO figures ever being that shiny. Hopefully NetDevil tone down the sheen before the game’s release.

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CES 2010 Aims to Resurrect 3D

Las Vegas is a city of smoke and mirrors. It’s appropriate then that the biggest new innovation of sin city’s Consumer Electronics Show this year is itself a bit of visual sleight of hand: 3D. Giving images a sense of substance and heft have long been a goal in video gaming. More than once, that…