Behold, Spirit Tracks Multiplayer Screens

Those of you familiar with The Legend of Zelda: The Four Swords will have no trouble recognizing the color coded chaos going on in these screens. The rest of you will want to check out my multiplayer preview.

Tekken 6 PSP Is Out, And This Is What It Looks Like

The tiny handheld version of Tekken 6 is in stores and on the PlayStation Network today, and we’ve got a video showing you what you can expect from the tiny fighter. It looks like Namco Bandai did as fine a job porting over Tekken 6 to the PSP as they did Soulcalibur IV. I’d run…

Games, Games, Games

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: When Did You Stop Believing in Santa Claus? I spent today doing my posts, pre-writing columns and features, and playing fames lots and lots of games. Fun. No sarcasm this time. What you missed: The DS and DSi Gift Guide Excitebike: World Rally Micro-Review: Race back to 1985 It’s Amazon…

Old News ’95: Sega Might Sell Vodka In M-Rated Games

Talk of urinals and deodorant ads in games got me wondering how long people have been talking about in-game ads. I found some chatter from 1995. The era of “Cool Spot,” the 7Up video game and other in-game ad dreams. You are reading Kotaku’s once-weekly (early this week!) journey back to yesteryear. It is March,…

The PlayStation Portable Buyer’s Guide

The Playstation Portable got a fun, new little brother this year in the form of the slide-n-go, download-only PSPgo. The PSPgo launched on Oct. 1, kicking off an impressive glut of download-only games on the Playstation Store. It also marked Sony’s promised push for new, triple-A games for the Playstation Portable including MotorStorm, LittleBigPlanet and…

WoW At 5, The Video

Fahey wrote a superb chronicle of Warcraft and World of Warcraft yesterday to commemorate that latter’s fifth birthday. If you want more, a lengthy, funny and sometimes emotional series of interviews is live at WoW’s official site. Standout stories include Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime discovering that World of Warcraft would be a hit based on…

A Holiday Message From The Society Against PlayStation

The recent batch of PlayStation 3 ads hearkens back to a simpler time, when all you needed to market your console was a little song, some puppets, and a stick. Ah yes, the 90’s. The console wars were so much better back then, when companies weren’t afraid to create obviously fake protest groups in order…

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Review: Three’s A Welcome Trend

The Year of the Wii Lightgun Shooter continues with a Resident Evil entry that is two-thirds fun retro, never scary yet surprisingly generous. Too bad it makes a poor first impression. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles is a follow-up to 2007’s Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. Both Wii games are lightgun takes on gaming’s most…

Far Cry 3 Is Go

According to a comment by Ubisoft’s Kevin Shortt, development on the third installment of the Far Cry series is underway, and so far things look “pretty exciting.” Shortt made mention of Far Cry 3 during a recent media junket on the Avatar video game. UK magazine OPM asked the writer whether or not he was…

EA Makes Mercs Inc, A New “Pandemic” Game, Official [UPDATE]

Less than a day after the game’s existence was leaked, EA confirmed that a new Mercenaries is in development. The publisher announced the title as the next release from Pandemic, the studio that was all but shut down last week. The new game is in development at EALA, the studio where a core group of…

MLB 2K10 Longoria Gallery

Tampa Bay’s Longoria is — Officially — MLB 2K10’s Cover Man

2K Sports announced today that it’s chosen Evan Longoria, the All-Star third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays, for the cover of MLB 2K10, and will put six designs up to a vote of fans of the series. Ten days ago Kotaku obtained and published a confidential marketing survey showing that Longoria, the 2008 American…

Splatterhouse Gets Appropriately Splattered Shoes

We weren’t sure if Namco Bandai was taking the new Splatterhouse game seriously until we saw the exclusive Globe International Superfly model Splatterhouse shoes. We’re big video game shoe fans here at Kotaku, though Crecente’s collection is far greater than mine. Perhaps I will 1UP him with a pair of Splatterhouse Superfly high tops. I…

Why I Play World of Warcraft

Oh, not me specifically. I don’t play World of Warcraft. But I am powerful curious as to why millions and millions of people sink money into the Blizzard moneymaker year after year for a game that you can never win. Truth be told, I did actually take a stab at WoW a few years back…

Beat A Man Into A Urinal, Consider Buying Deodorant

I think I can tell when ad people are joking. I tested that skill recently at an in-game advertising event. The people from Take Two saying a BioShock Big Daddy would be a great pitchman for Black and Decker? Joking. The Ubisoft guy who preceded them? Maybe joking. He was talking about smashing people into…

Nightwing Is Still Nightwing In DC Universe Online

Dick Grayson might be running around in a Batman costume with Bruce Wayne’s son in the comics, but in DC Universe Online he’s still rocking the Escrima sticks as Nightwing. I thought DC Universe Online was going to try and coincide with the storylines currently happening in the comics, but apparently that isn’t the case.…

Watch the Wedding of Man and Game Character

Over the weekend, Owen reported on the marriage of one very lonely guy and his in-game video game character. BoingBoing’s Lisa Katayama watched the “wedding ceremony” online and reported on what she saw, noting that some who viewed the event wondered aloud if Japan was coming to an end. I’m not sure about Japan, but…

Just Cause 2 Plummets Towards March Release

Square Enix has announced a March release date for Just Cause 2, in which secret agent Rico Rodriguez parachutes his way around another island while things explode. This time around Rico hits up the South East Asian island of Panau, where his former boss Tom Sheldon has retired with a whole lot of Agency intel…

It’s Amazon Gold Box Game Deals Day Again

Amazon.com loves gamers. More specifically, Amazon.com loves the amount of money we spend on games, and are rewarding us once again with chances to spend less money with a day of Gold Box deals. Today’s Gold Box deals come on top of this week’s Black Friday game specials. So far we’re looking at an Xbox…

Rock Band Yoko Ono

For every form of expression there is a Yoko Ono, but for every Yoko Ono there is a Call of Duty. Think about it. It’s deep. Seriously. Watch the video. Rock Band Yoko Ono