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  Gambit Graces Ultimate Alliance 2 Artwork

  New box art for Marvel Ultimate Alliance two seems to indicate that a certain ragin’ cajun might be making an appearance in the upcoming sequel. Every character gracing the latest Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 box art, now popping up at retailers around the internet, has been announced as a playable character in the game, except…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 1, 2009
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  Seek ‘N Spell Blends Running And Scrabble

  In Seek ‘n Spell you use the iPhone 3G‘s built in GPS to run around the real world gathering letters that you can use to score points with big words you spell out. The game has you pick a big open space, than uses GPS to create a satellite map of your location. The game…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 1, 2009
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  Finally, Grease: The Video Game

  News that 505 Games and Paramount Digital are bringing the musical Grease to the Nintendo Wii gives me chills – which could be multiplying. 505 Games is overseeing development on the new project, which looks to be an all-singing, all-dancing party game that takes advantage of both the Wii’s motion sensing controls and a microphone.…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 1, 2009
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  Kotaku’s Summer of Gaming

  With the year half over and the northern hemisphere’s summer in full swing, it’s time for vacations, long-lazy days of hanging out, and the great outdoors. Growing up in…, well growing up just about everywhere, my summers usually meant staying outside until it was dark out and my parents were serving dinner. But nowadays I…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 1, 2009
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  Celebrate Your Independence With Double Gears 2 XP

  What better way to celebrate Independence Day weekend than sitting inside an air-conditioned house gathering twice the normal experience points in Gears of War 2? With Title Update 4 dropping just in time for America to celebrate its independence from British tyranny, which seems a bit silly now that we look back, now is the…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 1, 2009
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  Band Of Bugs Thrusts Your Avatar Into Battle

  Be a part of an elite insectoid military force next week, when NinjaBee introduces Xbox 360 avatar support for strategy title Band of Bugs, along with an entirely new game released as DLC. Developer NinjaBee delivered one of the earliest avatar-supporting Xbox Live Arcade titles in A Kingdom for Keflings, and now they’re putting your…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 1, 2009
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  Eve Online Novelized.. Again

  Another novel set in the gamer-driven world of Eve Online is hitting this fall, this time with the backing of Sci-Fi/Fantasy book publishing giant Tor. The 400-page Eve: The Burning Life hits this November for $15 and that’s about all we know about the book so far. No mention of the plot other than the…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 1, 2009
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  Square Enix Mystery Solved – The Four Warriors Of Light

  Square Enix’s mystery countdown title is a mystery no longer, as scans from the latest Weekly Shonen Jump reveal The Four Warriors of Light: A Final Fantasy Anecdote. At least that’s the way the game’s name translates according to our own Brian Ashcraft, who pored over the scans to glean what information her could. The…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 1, 2009
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  THQ And Jakks Square Off Over WWE License Renewal

  It’s a no holds barred legal struggle between partners Jakks Pacific and THQ over when and if they should renew their licensing agreement with the WWE, set to expire at the end of this year. Jakks Pacific has gone ahead and notified World Wrestling Entertainment of their intentions to renew to license to create video…

  By Mike Fahey Published July 1, 2009
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  Office Life Before Blogs

  ‘Deadline’ – A Post It Stop Motion @ Yahoo! Video Back when I had a regular work-a-day job, back when dalek’s floated up basement stairs and dinosaurs roamed Saturday morning TV, there were no blogs to fill the long, lonely paycheck days. Instead we had to amuse ourselves in more creative ways, like with office…

  By Brian Crecente Published July 1, 2009
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  The diner-goers of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks welcome a new month of TAY. Please greet these classy folks and continue to chat here about video games. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Stephen Totilo Published July 1, 2009
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  Still Air Conditioner Free

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Drinks at the Saucer Oh yeah, I grew up in Dallas. Been to Fort Worth a gajillion times. No, a gajillion and one. Who’s counting? Speaking of air conditioning (smooth, eh?), Japanese buildings don’t typically have central air — but rather, individual air conditioner units you put on the wall…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 1, 2009
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  Bend Over, Britain, Here’s Your DJ Hero Pricing

  DJ Hero will be $120 when it’s released in the United States. Which is pricey, but not unheard of. When it’s released in the UK, however, it’ll follow a precedent set by Rock Band in being ridiculously expensive. The title – which will bundle the game and a plastic turntable controller – has a recommended…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 1, 2009
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  Hey Jerry Bruckheimer, Why Do Movie Games Suck?

  It’s a good question! One that Jerry Bruckheimer – with his silver screen experience and interest in the games business – is well-placed to answer. Speaking with Games Radar, the ginger fox (and overseer of the upcoming Prince of Persia flick) answers with “I couldn’t tell you that. They just haven’t quite captured the imagination…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 1, 2009
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  Kojima Productions? Here to Help

  At E3, it was announced that Metal Gear Solid developers Kojima Productions would be helping with Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. But Kojima Productions isn’t developing the game — that duty belongs to Madrid-based MercurySteam Entertainment. So what is KP doing? Lending moral support, it seems. “Kojima Productions is playing more of a support role,” explains…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 1, 2009
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  Brutal Legend Wii Cancelled, Will Not Reach Valhalla

  While never confirmed to exist by Electronic Arts, we were all fairly sure that somebody, somewhere was working on a Wii version of Brutal Legend. Now we’re hearing that version has been binned. Destructoid report that the game has been cancelled “due to quality and technical concerns”. Which sounds a lot like what you’d expect…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 1, 2009
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  So Why Didn’t Wii Ghostbuster Copy The Cartoon?

  For anyone growing up in the 1980s, cartoon The Real Ghostbusters was quality Saturday Morning television. It seems like it would be perfect fodder for the Wii version of the Ghostbusters game. When asked why the animated series, which rad from 1986 to 1991, wasn’t tapped, game designer Drew Haworth explains, “We avoided reference to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 1, 2009
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  Some Last.fm 360 Pricing Details

  Last.fm is coming to the Xbox 360, sticking another multimedia feather in the little beige box’s hat. But we’re left with two burning questions: how much will it cost, and can we stream the music in our games? The most important of those questions is the streaming one, and sadly, we don’t have an answer…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 1, 2009
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  Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Dated And Detailed For Japan

  Tecmo is bringing Xbox 360 exclusive Ninja Gaiden II and big guns to the PS3 with Ninja Gaiden Σ 2. It has a few new game modes (including online co-op), some new characters and a whole range of fixes for the problems that plagued the 360 edition such as better camera control. The game will…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published July 1, 2009
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  Shock: Alienware Release Tasteful Product (And It’s A Monitor)

  You know Alienware for custom gaming PCs, yeah, but they’re also synonymous for releasing hardware that is so ugly, it ain’t got no alibi. Which is what makes this monitor so refreshing. Coming in at 21.5 inches, it’s a “gaming” monitor in that it’s got stuff normal people wouldn’t want/need in a display, such as…

  By Luke Plunkett Published July 1, 2009