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…

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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…

Art Style Digidrive Micro-Review: The Superiority Of Video Games

I’m sure opera, movies and cave paintings are fine forms of entertainment, but can any of them derive fun from such a mundane activity as directing traffic? After a several weeks of inactivity, the Art Style series has returned to North America’s DSiWare shop with Digidrive, an abstract puzzle game about directing traffic that can…

World Of Warcraft Celebrates Thanksgiving

World of Warcraft finally adds a virtual Thanksgiving celebration to it’s lineup of seasonal holidays, and just like the real Thanksgiving, Pilgrim’s Bounty is mainly about cooking and eating. I knew something was missing from World of Warcraft. If I am going to be nearly comatose from eating brown food, then my WoW character should…

GameStop Throwing “World’s Largest” Mordern Warfare 2 Tourney

You remember when “tournament” used to mean knights in armor and jousting and stuff? Of course you don’t. Everyone knows “tournament” means “chess” or “video games” now. GameStop announced today that it would hold the “world’s largest” Modern Warfare 2 tournament kicking off Nov. 20 both online and at 2,900+ US GameStop locations that might…

Halo Waypoint Saturday Feature: The Duel

Every Saturday is video day in Halo Waypoint, and this week features the debut of “The Duel,” the next episode from The Halo Legends anime anthology. “The Duel” takes us back in time thousands of years to the dawn of the Covenant, where a shamed Elite defies his Arbiter fate and embarks on a mission…

Try Jurassic: The Hunted Before You Stare At It Quizzically On Store Shelves

Activision sprung Jurassic: The Hunted on us only a month ago, barely giving folks time to see it, much less find out how it played. Perhaps an Xbox 360 demo will shed some light. Jurassic: The Hunted, developed by Cauldron HQ and released two weeks after it was announced on the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation…

Command & Conquer Producer Says His Audience is Unbalanced

Speaking to Edge Magazine in an interview about his upcoming game, Command & Conquer 4, Producer Raj Joshi laments that real time strategy gamers get their kicks “entirely … from smashing another human in a videogame.” The full Joshi quote as pulled by Gamerzines reads: “RTS players are great people but some of them have…

Darksiders: Instruments Of Destruction

In this video, titled Darksiders Book One: The Horseman’s Road, we get a look at the tools that former apocalyptic horseman War utilizes in his twisted quest for redemption. I’m liking the look of Darksiders more and more each time I see it. The gameplay does seem derivative of other action platformer titles, but I…

Rock Band Next Week: Tom Petty And Kelly Clarkson

With the recent release of LEGO Rock Band, you’re just going to have to get used to seeing names like Kelly Clarkson popping up in our weekly Rock Band update posts. We apologize. Not only does next week’s Rock Band Music Store update bring six live tracks from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, it also…

Nintendo Takes Over Malls Across America

As if the mall couldn’t be any scarier this holiday season, Nintendo is setting a Nintendo Holiday Mall Experience for shoppers to try out mid-mad dash. The Mall Experience is intended to make “it easier than ever for holiday consumers to sample the year’s most sought-after games” for the Wii and DS/DSi. Demo stations will…