Duke Nukem Forever Gameplay Footage

This clip is currently being hosted on the site of a now-former 3D Realms employee (though it can no longer be accessed publicly). It’s full of, supposedly, Duke Nukem Forever gameplay footage. You’ll see many of the same enemies from that concept art that surfaced the other day, so it certainly looks legit. It also…

SF Flowchart: All Roads Lead to Shoryuken

This incredibly deep flowchart nails the entire spectrum of decision-making Ken presents to 98.7 percent of those who play Street Fighter – especially jump backwards-Hadouken! Of course the best part is, no, you never learn anything. Even if you do manage to land the jumping kick to a shoryuken, it was probably just dumb luck…

Gears Screenwriter Wants the Rock

Chris Morgan just finished the Gears screenplay and knows who’d be a perfect Marcus Fenix. “A really f’ing good actor” who can blend silent toughness with humanity. AKA Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson! Talking (again) to the MTV Movies Blog, Morgan calls The Rock “a genuine actor. Not only can he play the tough guy, but…

Gametap Partners Up with Microsoft

Age of Empires 2, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Mech Warrior 4 are on the way to the game portal GameTap, following an agreement reached with Microsoft Game Studios, announced last week. The full catalog was not specified in the GameTap news release of Thursday. GameTap said only that its users “will have access to…

Scout-Chop: You’re Gonna Love His Ball

YouTube user CastingOutTheSelf mined the Scout soundfile and came up with, lo and behold, a dead-ringer script for everyone’s favorite hooker-beating pitchman. How the hell did we go a week before seeing this? So very well played. But wait, there’s more! Hang on for the testimonials at the end. Audio possibly NSFW. Just more proof…

When they were changing Origin Systems to an official online only EA studio, the name everyone at Origin wanted was: Electronic Arts Texas Multi-player Entertainment

PlayStation Home Offers Affordable Housing

What’s more affordable than free, anyway? Beginning Thursday (May 14) you can get some new digs in PlayStation Home if you’re tired of the standard-issue harborside apartment. “Chamber Apartment” is free, but only for a week. After that, you can expect to cough up some dough. The new pad features fantasy-inspired architecture, and a courtyard…

Eidos: Sequels, and Sequels to Sequels

Eidos’ Ian Livingstone, recently named Wookiee Life President or Square Enix Proconsul or something, gave a kitchen-sink interview in which sequels for nearly every major Eidos IP were tipped, teased or confirmed. Speaking to Gaming Indians, Livingstone says IO Interactive is working on a new Hitman title; Kane and Lynch 2 has a hoped-for release…

Mod Makes L4D Survival into Versus Mode

Playing survival mode as special infected kind of defeats the purpose, IMHO. But some guys at Left 4 Dead mods say they’ll drop configs for that soon – if Valve doesn’t spoil the fun first In the video above, posted Wednesday, you see human controlled infected, plus 8 bots versus human survivors, playing on The…

Sackboy is the Law

No, that’s not fan art. Media Molecule’s announced that stickers and costumes for Judge Dredd – and others from the 2000 AD comic universe – will arrive May 28. Much as I’d like to flesh that out, that is all the information contained in a movie poster Media Molecule put up on its site sometime…

Weekend Coupons: A Bad Mutha

Perhaps because of Mother’s Day, there seem to be few sales bonanzas and so there ain’t much to talk about this weekend. Especially since Steam’s big weekend sale is for Universe at War: Earth Assault. Nothing against this RTS, which comes from Petroglyph, and they do that genre right. But I can tell it’s a…

Announced, This New Clone Wars Game Is

If you can stomach any more of Yoda’s by-now insufferably clichéd inverted predicate/subject bullshit, here’s the trailer for The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, which is announced for Sept. 15 across all major platforms. Posted this video, did Entertainment Weekly. Embedded it is not. Visit their page to see it, you must. Wii and DS, the…

Rumor: Jaffe Tease Means Twisted Metal at E3?

David Jaffe‘s already said Twisted Metal is coming to PS3. And sure, lots of games involve cars and humans. But a sloppily posted screenshot of an email may tease the game’s unveiling at E3. This week on his blog, David Jaffe – the series’ co-creator – posted a screenshot that seemed to discuss the development…

Kotaku Originals: Two Turntables and a Microphone

DJ Hero’s turntable controller twittered out this week, later confirmed by Activision and compared (by your humble editors) with the Scratch controller. We also turned Stephen Totilo loose on a terrorized games industry. Stephen’s presence on staff should boost the headline count in this here roundup quite nicely. He accounted for 12 in the first…

The Team At 3D Realms Says “Goodbye”

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Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy Falls In Fall

Sequel to the so-so Alchemists of Al-Revis, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy promises more of the Atelier Iris-flavored alchemy and crafting elements that the first game paid homage to. The first Mana Khemia took a bit of a hit in the ratings for being long-winded. But with screens this pretty, I may not mind…

Brutal Legend’s Star Didn’t Always Look Like Jack Black

The star of Brutal Legend, Eddie Riggs, looks a lot like his voice actor, Jack Black. But he didn’t always look like Jack Black. No, he once looked like someone better. This is a very early concept piece depicting Eddie Riggs, where the inspiration is clearly the overlord of rock, Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister. Only with…

What Games Have Aged The Best?

Hey! Hey you!! It’s Friday, let’s talk. This is Tell Us Dammit, no, make that TELL US DAMMIT. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader…

Finally, Cricket Returns To Consoles (And PC)

Been a while since we had a good, new cricket title. That may hopefully change later this year when Codemasters releases Ashes Cricket 2009 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Wii. Beating EA’s Cricket 09 to the punch, and with new developers at the helm (Australia’s Transmission Games), the game is being released…

Phantom Brave: We Meet Again Looks Hauntingly Familiar

I’m not completely sure what Phantom Brave on PlayStation 2 was supposed to be a successor to: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, La Pucelle: Tactics or some other cult hit tactical role-playing game. But it doesn’t matter because Phantom Brave: We Meet Again is Wii a port of the PS2 game—and therefore not beholden to whatever…