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Frankenreview: Borderlands

It’s a first-person shooter! It’s an RPG! What the hell is it!? It’s Borderlands. So how is it? A ragtag quartet of adventurers wander across the surface of the planet Pandora, searching for the Vault of legend. Along the way they shoot things, gain levels, and gather enough weapons to choke something large that eats…

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Impressions: EA Vs. Capcom

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles may have shown better a month ago, but the preview build I saw yesterday had the unfortunate fate of trying to follow-up last month’s EA’s on-rails shooter, Dead Space Extraction. Is it fair to compare? Not completely. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, a follow-up to 2007’s Resident Evil: The Umbrella…

Perfect Dark XBLA: Re-Skinned Elvis Has Entered The Building

Three new screenshots for the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Rare’s Perfect Dark have surfaced on the developer’s website, showing off some re-skinned weapons and a new look for Joanna Dark’s Maian pal, Elvis. 4J Studios seems to be doing a fine job of updating the original Perfect Dark to HD for its Xbox Live…

Kotaku Talk Radio: Past, Present and Future of PC Gaming

In this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll be talking about PC gaming, where it came from and where it’s headed. Are you a PC gamer? A console gamer? Both? With the roll out of Windows 7 later this week and recent news of Modern Warfare 2‘s lack of hosted servers I’m sure you…

Australia Rates Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Predator

We’ve been patiently waiting for more on Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon 4 since June. Now a listing appears on the Australian ratings board website for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Predator. Coincidence? Ubisoft announced Ghost Recon 4 way back in April, and since then we’ve not heard a peep. No screenshots; no concept art; and no actual…

Uncharted 2, Street Fighter IV, And Tekken 6 Come Home Tomorrow

As promised, Uncharted 2 gets it’s very own game-riddled PlayStation Home space this week, with Tekken 6 and Street Fighter IV coming along for the ride. The Uncharted 2 home space, which we’ve discussed previously, is set inside a Nepalese village, where players can hunt for an ancient Ganesh mask, participate in a torch race,…

For Little Money And In Many Words, These Gamers Help You

In Richmond, Va., a 43-year-old father of three lines up a camera at his TV to film himself playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. In British Columbia, a college student flips open his laptop and fires up his PS3. In San Antonio, a guy picks up another three memory cards on the way home from working…

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The Saboteur: Just Getting Started

There’s a lot more to Pandemic’s The Saboteur than sneaking in and out of brothels. Check out the latest trailer for a taste of some of the other distractions of occupied France. Totilo declared the art style of The Saboteur a winner in his recent preview of the game, and I’m inclined to agree. He…

What Don’t We Know about Dead Rising 2’s Multiplayer?

Dead Rising 2‘s taste of multiplayer, dressed up in a faux game show Terror is Reality, seems to be hiding something. During a presentation this week of Capcom’s upcoming zombie-killing action game Dead Rising 2, game writers got to once more check out the game’s four modes of multiplayer, robust mini-games that have gamers competing…

100 Million Need For Speed Games Sold

15 years, 15 games, and now more than a 100 million units sold. EA celebrates the Need for Speed franchise surpassing 100 million units sold with a shiny graphic and some fun facts. 100 million is a large number. According to EA, it represents nearly every household in America, and is three times the population…

Scenes From A Prison Break

We know what the television show Prison Break looks like, but what about the video game adaptation of said show? Take a look-see. If you look closely at this set of screenshots for Deep Silver and Koch Media‘s Prison Break game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, you will indeed see a prison.…

Podcast Fever: The PC Game Blues

Don’t forget to join us later today for our weekly live episode of Kotaku Talk Radio. We will be broadcasting live from New York… though since no two Kotaku editors can be in the same place at the same time, I’ll be at Gawker HQ while Totilo broadcasts from a secret location in Brooklyn. This…

Hands-On With Frank West And His Zombie Horde

Dead Rising’s Frank West can beat down opponents with golf clubs and baseball bats in Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom, but it’s his ability to call on shambling zombies that makes him a formidable opponent. Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom, with its colorful cast of Capcom characters and throwbacks from Japanese animation company Tatsunoko productions, is almost more about…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Isn’t Sleep Great?

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Gawkerville This morning was rooooooough. Had a fever over 39 degrees (I dunno what that is anymore in American, sorry!), and it was extremely difficult to sit and hold my head up. Was breaking out in cold sweats, but sleep for a good couple of hours and am feeling somewhat…

Interactive iPhone Game Gets… Book Deal

Well, the “game” is an interactive audio adventure, so don’t be too surprised. Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books has inked a three-book deal with Realtime Associates’ F.J. Lennon for a series of novels based on his his iPhone title Soul Trapper: Episode 1. In the three-hour game, reports game site GameSetWatch, players are a…