Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Hits Later This Month… For Some

Left 4 Dead 2’s demo will hit in early November, but people who pre-order the game will get it a week early, Valve announced today. The Left 4 Dead 2 demo will include gameplay from The Parish campaign, set in the New Orleans’ French Quarter. The demo will let one to four players game together…

New Nyko Wand Colors Only Look Delicious

Do not mistake the four new colors of Nyko’s Wii remote-alternative Wand controller for candy, as they will likely do horrible things to your teeth. We’ve mentioned Nyko’s Wand controller several times in the past, somewhat fascinated by the promise of their Trans-Port technology, which allows for digital signals to be passed along the expansion…

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A Little Bit Of Band Hero

If you’re interested in finding out what the difference is between Guitar Hero and Band Hero, now’s your chance, as a three-song demo for the game crops up on Xbox Live. Finger Eleven’s “Paralyzer,” Taylor Swift’s “Picture to Burn,” and Katrina & The Waves’ “Walking on Sunshine” make up the three-song set included in the…

People sure do love their zombie games. It’s the new WWII!

Tim Schafer Explains How To Play Brutal Legend

In an open letter on the Double Fine community site Brutal Legend developer and Double Fine head honcho Tim Schafer explains how best to play Brutal Legend and reminds everyone that the game isn’t a real-time strategy game. It is a historical fact that it began its life as an RTS game, inspired by Herzog…

Lego Rock Band Is Amazingly Blurry

90’s Britpop sensations Blur are the latest musical artists revealed to have undergone the rock block treatment for LEGO Rock Band. You may remember Blur from their runaway hit “Song #2,” which made its way into nearly every sports game published in the late 90’s, early 2000’s. The song’s profound lyrics included the haunting “Woo-hoo,”…

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Will You Fight For Gratuitous Slow-Motion Panty Shots?

Namco Bandai’s remarkably subtle and slow “What Will You Fight For?” viral videos for Tekken 6 get a lot less subtle the second time around. Women in their underwear fighting over shoes…there is absolutely no way I could comment on the contents of this video without being accused of being a sexist pervert, and I…

Nintendo Announces New Pokemon Game For Wii

Announced to Japanese retailers last week, today Nintendo has made it official: This holiday season will see a new Pokemon game. Called Poke Park Wii Pikachu no Daibouken (Pikachu’s Big Adventure), the 3D game stars popular Pocket Monster Pikachu. Poke Park Wii was developed by Nintendo subsidiary Creatures and will be released on December 5…

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Never Forget This Day, Never.

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Par-Tay Read this. You’d think after 25 years of “Take On Me”, they’d stick with it? What you missed last night “Eddie Riggs” Pimps Brutal Legend On Jimmy Kimmel Live Users Report Fallout 3: Game Of The Year Edition Save Snafu God of War III Demo Dated For Japan Gus…

You Have the Power

You may have noticed some changes to Kotaku this morning. Specifically to how important you have become to the site. While commenters have always had a huge amount of influence on the shape of Kotaku, starting today that’s even more true. In the past we’ve always insisted that tips and letters to the editor are…

Who Does This New Kingdom Hearts Character Look Like?

We know we’ve seen that stache before! But where? Upcoming PSP game Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep features a new character with the name “Master Eraqsu”. Eraqsu backwards in Japanese is close to “Square”. But there might be going on than a simple word play. Oh yes, much more. Some on the Japanese internet believe…

First Look At New Pokemon Feature Film

Like clockwork, every summer in Japan there’s a new Pokemon film. On the official Japanese website for Pokemon flicks, there is a 15-second streaming trailer. It’s got explosions! This latest film is dubbed Pocket Monster: Diamond & Pearl Platinum — there has already been a Diamond & Pearl triology, ending with this past July’s Pokemon:…

German Activist Group’s “Killer Game” Toss Makes Me Uncomfortable

Game Politics reports that a German advocacy group wants people to bring their “killer games” to the front of an opera house to throw away. One lucky tosser (har, har) will win a signed jersey from a sports team. The site goes on to link the group’s upcoming weekend event to a school shooting that…

Tecmo Koei Expects Fist of North Star To Sell A Million Domestically

Kenji Matsubara, Tecmo Koei Holdings honcho, expects big things of recently announced multi-platform title Hokuto Musou. The game is based on post-apocalyptic martial arts manga Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken). “Only in Japan, the game should sell a million copies,” Matsubara told the Nihon Keisai Newspaper. According to the paper, the game…

Insomniac Throwing Ratchet & Clank Community Day

If you live in Burbank, California — or just happen to be there Friday, October 23 — you should drop in on Insomniac for a Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time party. Last year, the developer threw a similar Community Day to celebrate Resistance 2. Apparently, it was such a success that they’ve…

NPD Groups Says Video Game Gift Sales Down This Holiday

Research group NPD predicts a less techy Christmas in their holiday retail outlook. So don’t act shocked if a book shows up in your stocking instead of a video game. Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst, explains in a press release that “consumers will be looking for the right gift, rather than the most extravagant or…

Looks Like A New Game Mode For Birth By Sleep

I was jealous when I heard Stephen Totilo played Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep at the Tokyo Game Show. But even if he saw it first, it looks like he didn’t see everything. Apparently there’s a board game-type of mode in Birth By Sleep that breaks up the hack ‘n’ slash monotony many non-KH fans…