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  Lord of the Rings: War in the North Has Ten Days

  With Skyrim-lust whipping fantasy role-playing game fans into a frothy puddle, perhaps November 1 is the best possible time for Warner Bros. to release The Lord of the Rings: War in the North As much as I trust Snowblind Studios to develop a compelling action role-playing game and as intriguing as the concept of an…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  The Best Gaming Pumpkins of the Season!

  With Halloween just around the corner, what better time is there to take a look at some of the best gaming-related pumpkins out there this year? I’m sure by now most of you have gotten a chance to cut into a defenseless pumpkin, if you’re into such things, and so I bring you the cream…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published October 28, 2011
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  How DUST 514 and EVE Online Bridge the Gap Between PC and PlayStation 3

  In CCP’s DUST 514 for the PlayStation 3, battles are initiated by corporations in the PC-based space MMO EVE Online. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, CCP server architect Lin Luo talks about how much fun making that work is. First we need to understand the basic flow of a DUST 514 battle. First,…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  “It’s a Lie!”: Republican Presidential Front-Runner Herman Cain denies SimCity Inspired to His Tax Plan

  According to the latest polls, businessman Herman Cain’s currently the Republican most likely to get the GOP presidential nomination. (And, yes, it’s early.) One of the reasons that Cain’s appeared attractive to the electorate has been his easy-to-understand 9-9-9 proposal to overhaul taxes. Game-savvy political commentators noted that a similar scheme shows up in the…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  These Screens Show Off Battlefield 3‘s “Back to Karkand” Expansion

  The launch trailer offered teasers of how the up-rezzed environments from previous Battlefield games would look in the upcoming Back to Karkand expansion pack, but these screens show them in all their Frostbite 2 glory. Back to Karkand will also include new dog tags, new Xbox Live achievements/PSN trophies, three new vehicles and 10 iconic…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  Take a Look at the Fine Art of Death-Dealing in This Darkness II trailer

  First they deliver an intricately carved pumpkin to Kotaku HQ, then this painful-looking trailer that showcases the flair with which you can dispatch enemies in the upcoming Darkness II. You can really see how the game uses its comic-book art style to maximum effect and those demon appendages give you even more options to off…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  The Launch Trailer for Goldeneye 007: Reloaded Will Shake and Stir You

  It’s going to be a little while yet before we get to Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s iconic secret agent on the big screen. The fact that he’ll be reprising the role in Activision’s new Goldeneye game is as good a reason as any to pick up the modern take on a FPS classic. The…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  If a Woman was the Lead Character in Grand Theft Auto…

  Women in Grand Theft Auto games have had many roles. Mom. Girlfriend. Nightclub manager. Criminal. Lots of roles. Just never the main one. On the eve of the release of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, and with no inside knowledge about who will be the star of this new game, I find…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011
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  Kerrigan Shrute, StarCraft‘s Drag-Queen of Blades

  I thought I was the most hideous Queen of Blades in StarCraft history during my session with Blizzard DOTA at BlizCon 2011 last weekend. Last night Dwight from The Office proved me wrong. I feel Dwight makes a valid argument in the second half of this clip from last night’s Halloween episode of NBC’s The…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  Microsoft Shows How Windows Phone Will Play Nice with Xbox 360

  One of the big selling points for Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7 OS has been the interconnectivity between smartphones running the platform and their Xbox 360 game console. Word of the dedicated Xbox Companion app—which essentially turns your handset into a remote for the 360—came down the pike recently but Microsoft recently shot video of…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  Bayonetta Teaches Our Children a Dirty Lesson

  In today’s very special episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage warns of a very dangerous message lurking in the otherwise pure and innocent Bayonetta. What are we teaching our children? Oh my goodness I can hardly believe it! As I’m a monogamous gamer, I will only play or make comments on one game,…

  By Mike Fahey Published October 28, 2011
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  ‘Free+’ Does Seem A Little More Honest Than Free-to-Play

  People who are fans of words that mean what they’re supposed to mean are probably not fans of the rhetorical loophole exploited by the term “free-to-play”. Many of the most popular games on PCs, cell phones and tablets are “free-to-play”, or “free 2 play”, as the phrase is often spelled in order to free it…

  By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011
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  Battlefield 3 Tanks Invade London’s Rush Hour

  A line of commuter-transporting, 16-ton tranks took to the streets of London earlier today to carry commuters to work and celebrate the release of Battlefield 3 in the UK. The “tanksis” didn’t charge any fares for navigating the packed streets around Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, and Buckingham Palace. “Tanksis have been brought to the…

  By Brian Crecente Published October 28, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Happy Friday! Another weekend is ahead of us, and I’m optimistic that it will be a good one! Do you have any interesting plans to share with everyone? What will you be playing on these much-needed days of rest? I’m going to finally sink my teeth into Battlefield 3 for a significant chunk of time.…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published October 28, 2011
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  What Game Handled Weather Changes the Best?

  Whipping rain that dots your screen in a firefight. Fog that hides lingering zombies. Sheets of ice that cause you car to spin out of control. Weather can be an important part of video games. Over the years there have been some amazing takes on gameplay-impacting weather. In this, our inaugural “NeoGAF Asks” story, Gaffer…

  ScOULaris Published October 28, 2011
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  Every Day is a Struggle to Survive with Zombie Tools

  Nuclear apocalypse? Zombie apocalypse? Whichever you think is more likely, the makers of August’s PipClock have you covered with a new suite of iPhone tools sure to come in handy when society completely disintegrates, yet again. Zombie Tools, for all iOS devices, is like its PipClock sibling, an alternate reality game that allowed me to…

  By Owen Good Published October 28, 2011
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  Nintendo Adding Playable Demos, eShop Web Interface and Sleep Mode Downloads to 3DS

  We live in an era of demos and freemium games now and one thing that’s probably hampered the fortunes of the 3DS game library is that users can’t try anything before they buy it. There’s no ability to sample and see if a title might be worth your ducats. After apparently getting requests from Nintendo’s…

  By Evan Narcisse Published October 28, 2011
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  The Lost Vikings Slug It Out

  Pixel artist João Victor G. Costa reimagines Blizzard’s classic platformer, giving it a more modern touch. Should You Buy PixelJunk SideScroller? Yes PixelJunk SideScroller is the latest PS3 title from Q-Games. The Kyoto-based game studio continues to churn out high quality digital games for the PS3 under its PixelJunk banner. More » Looks Like Somebody has…

  By Luke Plunkett Published October 28, 2011
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  The Best Catherine Cosplay Just Got Better

  Last March, Kotaku posted cosplaying superstar Omi Gibson’s take on Catherine, noting that it was a “masterclass”. But now it’s better. Cosplayer Shin’ is Vincent and does a fantastic job of bringing the neurotic character to life. Vincent is as commitment-phobic, indecisive as ever. This cosplay even has sheep horns, and how often can you…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 28, 2011
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  Dead Rats Reborn as Pokémon

  Tokyo has a rat problem. Shibuya is crawling with “super rats”. They’re called “super”, because the rodents seem highly resistant to rat poison. One thing these rodents aren’t impervious to? Artists. A few years back, Japanese art collective Chim Pom caught rats in Shibuya with nets and rat traps. According to the Huffington Post, the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published October 28, 2011