Haters Gonna Hate

To: Luke From: McWhertor Re: Funds Raised! Well, this week sure was capped with blustering nonsense! I can’t wait to drink away this work week’s worth of silliness, conclusion-jumping and finger-pointing, forgetting my troubles with a few games of Left 4 Dead 2 and whatever libation I choose to purchase from my local Vons. Look,…

A New Look At Borderlands’ The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned

Who’s excited about fresh Borderlands content? Even if it’s zombie-related? I know I am, planning on downloading The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned as soon as is humanly possible. Or within my window of laziness. Anyway… Gearbox Software released a batch of new media for the Borderlands expansion, content that looks like it would’ve been…

Notebook Dump: Excuse Time

Today’s Notebook Dump is different. I usually use the Notebook Dump as a place to tell readers about facts I’ve picked up that don’t merit their own posts. Today, however, it’s more relevant to talk about why I don’t have as much to share this week. A game reporter spends some weeks… distracted. This week…

Left 4 Dead 2’s Midnight Riders, Ellis Take To YouTube, Facebook

Gamers looking for more story in their Left 4 Dead 2 experience may want to refocus their efforts on the web. Ellis, one of the game’s new Survivors, and his favorite fictional band, the Midnight Riders have YouTube accounts. Right now, there’s not much to the Midnight Riders’ YouTube channel, just like the web site…

Yes, Mass: We Pray Was More Dante’s Inferno Schtick

That Mass: We Pray trailer posted earlier this week? Totally Dante’s Inferno marketing. And well done too, as numerous sites both within and outside the video game coverage space posted it as genuine. But marketing it is, the latest in Electronic Arts‘ attempts to drum up interest in Visceral Games’ Dante’s Inferno, due early next…

Modern Warfare 2 Deployed To NASCAR Paint Job

Just as DJ Hero, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Guitar Hero have done before it, Modern Warfare 2 will grace the chassis of GameStop’s NASCAR Nationwide Series entry car. It’ll do so this weekend, too! Driver Joey Logano will go round and round in the Modern Warfare 2 themed stock car, moving at high…

Sackboy Gets Furried By Sonic The Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog fans looking for something 2D and side-scrolling to tide them over until Sega’s “Project Needlemouse” pokes its way to consoles can spend some time with LittleBigPlanet’s Sackboy later this year, thanks to new Sonic-themed costumes. According to PlayStation.com’s Hong Kong presence, as spotted by Siliconera, LittleBigPlanet costumes that ape Sonic the Hedgehog,…

ModNation Racers: Express Your Inner Pink Kitty Girl

The latest trailer for the PlayStation 3’s ModNation Racers gives us a much better feel for the sheer amount of customizing you’ll be doing when the game launches next year. Once more I get the distinct feeling that I will spend hours upon hours designing my racer, car, and special tracks, only to get bored…

Review Round-Up: Assassin’s Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Indiana Lego 2, And More

We reviewed a bunch of games this week on Kotaku and dare I note that the sequels had a better batting average than the originals? EyePet Review: His Master’s Voice In which Luke Plunkett’s furniture and lighting fail to meet Sony standards. Command & Conquer: Red Alert Micro-Review: Palm-Size Power Trip In which freelancer Matt…

Square Enix Already Rolling Out Paid Gyromancer DLC

In the grand tradition of My Life as a Dark Lord for WiiWare, Square Enix releases a batch of tiny paid downloadable content for two-day old puzzle RPG Gyromancer. To be fair, the downloadable content for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Dark Lord came out the same day the game was released…

Mysterious New 2K Games Shooter Teased By Spike [UPDATE]

The Spike TV Video Game Awards will once again double as as an autumnal E3 as new games are revealed, new trailers unveiled. Halo: Reach is coming. As is whatever this game is, teased first on Kotaku in video below. Click to view Thoughts? Theories? Is it Ken Levine’s new game? Is it BioShock 3?…

Kotaku Game Club: Modern Warfare 2 Discussion Resumes.. NOW (Levels 13-15)

Outer space and betrayal are a part of the fourth (of five) Game Club meetings about the Modern Warfare 2 campaign. Thoughts on the penultimate batch of levels? We’re covering: -Second Sun (Goodbye, space station) -Whiskey Hotel (Goodbye, Oval Office – almost!) -Loose Ends (Goodbye Ramirez Roach and Ghost) Those of you who didn’t exactly…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

I’m making this weekend a Demon’s Souls weekend. Now that the holiday review season is dying down, it’s time to play a little catch up. So into the Nexus I will go, armed with my Knight and a heavy dose of fear, as I harvest souls for the long-delayed Kotaku review of From Software’s PlayStation…

Star Wars Galaxies Fans Generate 3 Million Works Of Fan Fiction

In just over a month since the release of Star Wars Galaxies Chronicle Master mission creation tool, fans have created more than three million pieces of interactive Star Wars fiction. The Chronicle Master system works much like City of Heroes Mission Architect, allowing players to use in-game tools to create their own missions and share…

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Multiplayer Preview: Spreading The Phantom

It seems like nobody noticed (except of course the developers) that Link’s newest adventure has a multiplayer mode. Too busy paying attention to trains and a ghostly Zelda along with Link for the ride, I guess. But anyway, Spirit Tracks has multiplayer. Boy does it ever have multiplayer, and boy did we ever play it.…

Read ‘Em and Weep: Here are Your Top 5 Running-Out-of-Juice Stories

Wow, you guys loooove to write. (We do too!) Thanks to all who entered the PS3 and Energizer Power & Play Station contest. Read the top 5 entries after the jump, then email the name of your fave to [email protected]. Kyle H: I was in the middle of an 8vs8 Socom: Confrontation battle with 3…

Left 4 Dead Campaigns Now (Unofficially) Work In Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2 fans longing not for Francis, Bill, Zoey and Louis but for Dead Air, No Mercy, Death Toll and Blood Harvest have one more reason to go for the PC version of the zombie apocalypse shooter. Industrious Left 4 Dead modders have devised a not-exactly-simple workaround to bring the original game’s four…

Borderlands The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned Screens

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Who Is Beating Up Chun-Li?

An update to the official Japanese Super Street Fighter IV blog teases a new character reveal for Super Street Fighter IV next week. Who could possibly be the source of so much Chun-Li pain? Capcom US posted a link to the Japanese site today with the headline “New Super Street Fighter IV Art and… A…