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  Your Computer Must Be This Powerful To Run Shogun: Total War 2

  Shogun: Total War 2 has been dropping jaws with its gorgeous visuals since it was revealed at E3 last year. Surely such lush graphics come at a steep price? Let’s see what the official PC specs say. It doesn’t take that beefy of a PC to simply play Shogun: Total War 2. The biggest hassle…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011
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  “I Made A Video Game Where You Can Blow Out A Man’s Asshole”

  Hear Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski utter the words that could one day appear on his tombstone in the latest installment of Bulletstorm’s Bulletpoints video series. Not safe for work, unless you work at a proctologist office. At least this video didn’t call me dick tits

  By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011
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  No Love For Store-Exclusive Bonus Items

  Commenter Curly Haired Boy rages against retailer-exclusive bonus items in today’s installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku. What’s the deal with retailer-exclusive bonus items? Fans hate missing out on them, they create more work for developers, and then the market awareness of a title just gets increasingly muddled. The completionist in me gets incredibly annoyed when,…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011
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  CES 2011 Can Only Get More Impressive After This

  Morphing cars, dancing Tiger Lillies? They’ve got nothing on this AC/DC-loving robot. Kotaku is on the ground at CES 2011 in Las Vegas, checking out all the show’s biggest news about video games, tech and whatever weird stuff we can find. Dig into our full CES 2011 coverage.

  By Brian Crecente Published January 7, 2011
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  The Mysterious, Magical Kentucky Route Zero, A 2011 Game To Anticipate

  The trailer for a game I hadn’t heard of comes with the most unusual description: “a magic realist adventure game about a secret highway in Kentucky and the mysterious folks who travel.” This is Kentucky Route Zero. I want to play it. All I know so far is what you can all see here and…

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011
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  If You Act Now, Dragon Age II’s Exiled Prince Is Free

  Today BioWare dishes out details on The Exiled Prince, the first installment of downloadable content for Dragon Age II that players get for free – as long as they preorder the game within the next four days. The Exiled Prince, much like The Stone Prisoner downloadable content for the original Dragon Age, introduces players to…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011
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  Pockie Ninja Mixes Naruto With Bleach, Unofficially

  After weeks of teasing something called Project Ninja with images of tiny Naruto and Bleach characters, online game operator NGames reveals Pockie Ninja, a web game featuring characters “inspired by” those popular anime series. So far all I’ve seen is bits of character art and this trailer, released today with the reveal of the game’s…

  By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011
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  We Are Servbot

  As seen at Capcom’s Las Vegas Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 party last night.

  By Brian Crecente Published January 7, 2011
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  We Almost Got Glasses-Free 3D Gaming Last Decade

  We’ll get a chance to play video games in 3D without wearing special glasses in the coming months, as Nintendo releases its 3DS system… but Nintendo already had glasses-free 3D gaming two machines ago. We just didn’t know about it. In an interview posted on Nintendo’s website, company boss Satoru Iwata talks about how the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  This is Kotaku’s official forum. In the comments here, you’re free to talk about video games all you want. Free of charge. Thanks to Trakata for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011
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  7 More Minutes of A Visually-Improved Morrowind

  Recently we told you about a fan project that gives 2002 role-playing game favorite The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind significantly upgraded graphics. Then this mod compilation got blocked due to complications. Still, here’s a new video of it. As our Luke Plunkett wrote overnight, all is not lost with the nixing of this so-called Morrowind…

  By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011
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  Burn It All Down

  To: Brian / Stephen From: Luke Here’s what you missed: GameStop’s Holiday Was A $3 Billion Disappointment Morrowind Mod Pack Put To The Sword Rumor: Here Are The PlayStation Phone’s Specs Let’s See The PlayStation Phone In Action Sony Thinks It Can Stop PS3 Hacks HD Re-Releases Should Be A Celebration, Not A Quick Buck

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Red Dead, Mass Effect & Uncharted Turn On The Charm

  Artist Emily Carroll’s video game-inspired works don’t fill the page with explosions, or large necks, or slutty women. They just show people smiling. Warm, happy smiles. While Carroll gets Red Dead’s Bonnie McFarlane 100% right, and assembles the sweetest team of Cerberus soldiers the galaxy as ever seen, that Chloe & Drake shot, from Uncharted…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Welcome, New Arcade!

  You only ever seem to hear about arcades closing these days, so let’s break that depressing trend and welcome the opening of a big new arcade instead. Pinball Wizard Arcade is located in Pelham, New Hampshire, and will be throwing its doors open on January 12. Not only does it have a great name, but…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Civ World May Be The Death Of Us All

  The game formerly known as CIvilization: Network – now more appropriately titled Civ World – is coming later this year. But if you’re lucky, you can play it this month. While the game’s open beta won’t be taking place until around June, beginning January 12 select alpha testers will be let in the front gates…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  It’s Not Really A PSP, But It’ll Do

  This “PS One Handheld Game Player” is in no way endorsed or supported by Sony. That doesn’t stop it playing PS1 games, though. For USD$77 you can buy the unit, based off an older PSP knock-off that was actually a portable TV and media player. This newer model, though, is more in line with the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Cave Maps Turn Into Dungeon Crawls

  The sandstone caves of Nottingham are a network of caverns and tunnels deep beneath the English city. There’s currently a project underway to “map” these caves, and the results look more than a little familiar. I never thought I would see the day where science, tourism and “noclip mode” intersected, but it appears that day…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Lord Of The Rings Tripled Its Revenue By Going Free-To-Play

  In a podcast, the developers of Lord of the Rings Online said that the switch over to a freemium play model has already tripled the revenue coming in from the MMO. That’s quite a turnaround, though it does raise the question of what the game’s revenue picture looked like before the change. Still, LOTR Online’s…

  By Owen Good Published January 7, 2011
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  HD Re-Releases Should Be A Celebration, Not A Quick Buck

  Earlier today, Sony and Eidos reiterated the launch details for a trilogy of Tomb Raider re-releases destined for the PS3. Part of that was a reveal of the pack’s cover, which has us shaking our heads in disappointment. The box art, pictured above, features the three covers of the games the bundle is collecting. There’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011
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  Sony Thinks It Can Stop PS3 Hacks

  Over the past week, the PlayStation 3’s copy protection has been blown wide open, the very heart of the console laid bare. Yet Sony believes it can prevent homebrewers (and, let’s face it, pirates) from taking advantage. “We are aware of this, and are currently looking into it,” a Sony representative tells Edge. “We will…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011