The Games, Girls And Hardware Of Korea’s Biggest Expo

GStar, South Korea’s annual video game expo, ended on Sunday, but the show’s photos live on. The event showcased computer games like World at Warcraft: Cataclysm, arcade games like Tetris Giant, iPad games like Kart Rider, and console games from the PS3 and Xbox 360. Check out the festivities in the gallery below with images…

Let’s Dress Like It’s The End Of The World (And We’re Playing STALKER)

GSC Game World, developers of the cult PC shooter series STALKER, think there are people out there who would like to dress like someone who scrounges around in post-apocalyptic wastelands. So they’ve come up with an official line of STALKER clothing! You can’t buy any of these yet – GSC are just in the “prototype”…

Why Play Video Games When They Play Themselves

Woody Allen once said, “Showing up is 80 percent of life.” It seems to be 100 percent of new Xbox 360 game Joy Ride. Developed by Big Park Studios, Kinect Joy Ride is a launch title for Microsoft’s new motion peripheral. The game is one of the weaker titles in the Kinect retail launch line-up…

A Visual Guide To GStar

NSFW: Snake’s Behaviour In The Field Has Been Erratic (At Best)

It says a lot about the Metal Gear Solid series that the best description of its follies I’ve ever seen comes from an Irish comedian. The man on stage is Dara O’Briain, who as you can see, is such a big fan of the Metal Gear series (and plenty of other games!) that he devotes…

You Too Can Play Video Games In A Virtual Aircraft Sitting In Your Driveway

You don’t need to spend tens of thousands of dollars if you want to own your own flight simulator. You can just do what this guy did and build your own! Matt Thomas built this rig, called the Moving Axis AirCraft Simulator (MAACS), in a way that sounds astonishingly simple when you consider what’s been…

Green, Orange DSi Consoles To Go On Sale This Week

Interest in the Nintendo DS is drying up as people await the arrival of the new 3DS. Which means Nintendo has to resort to an old trick to keep shifting units: release handhelds in new colours. We’ve been passed this retail listing from Best Buy, showing some of the chain’s Black Friday deals. Alongside a…

The Great Hug Pillow Arrest

Some cops arrest drug dealers, murderers and master thieves. In Tokyo, Japanese police arrested a 25-year-old vocational student from China for selling knock-off hug pillows. Called “dakimakura” in Japanese, the term is used to refer to all types of hug pillows (even those orthopedic in nature), but in recent years, they have become synonymous with…

Sony Has ‘Exclusive PlayStation 3 Reveal’ The Day After Spike VGAs

The day after Spike TV’s Video Game Awards hit us with a deluge of new trailers, game reveals and celebrity guest appearances, Sony will hold an “exclusive PlayStation 3 reveal” event in Hollywood. What could it be? Uncharted 3? While the invite makes no mention of the game (or games) that Sony will have present…

Shaun White Skateboarding Visual Guide

Review: Shaun White Skateboarding’s Path Of Enlightenment

Some skating games show things that are, and ask you “why not?” Shaun White Skateboarding sees things that aren’t, and leaves you to ask “why.” Ubisoft hitches its hopes in the skating genre, populated by heavies like Activision’s Tony Hawk series and EA’s Skate, to Shaun White, a gold medalist snowboarder. The differentiator in this…

Think Clearly And Carry A Big Stick

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Fridays Folks have heard me complain about the lack of maintenance response in my apartment, so when a heating duct decided to offer some thoroughly maddening screeching, I knew I was gonna be on my own. It’s in a floor vent and I’d hit the sides of the thing with…

Ten Minutes Of Mega Man Online Gameplay Surfaces

The first two official trailers for Mega Man Online, the sidescrolling MMO, were both two minutes of nothing but cinematics. Here’s more than twice that amount, all of it gameplay. This went up earlier this week, apparently filmed by a Korean site. Opinions? Reactions? Yeah, you’ve got ’em. Let’s hear it. Thanks to Krakenstein for…

The Week In Games: Gran Prize

Four years after the PlayStation 3’s launch, the console’s definitive racer at last arrives. You’re forgiven for waiting until you have it in hand to believe it. Other launches this week: Splatterhouse and Donkey Kong Country Returns. Sunday (Nov. 21) Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii) – The big ape returns in this classically tough platformer.…

Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists

Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Eight PlayStation Games That Made You Cry [Gaming Bolt] I remember Leigh Alexander bawling over the end of Metal Gear Solid 4; it’s No. 2…

New Vegas’ “Dead Money” Concerns The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

In Bethesda’s latest newsletter, a designer on Fallout: New Vegas spills details on the upcoming “Dead Money,” the Xbox 360-exclusive DLC extension to Fallout: New Vegas due on Dec. 21. It’s essentially a treasure hunt for a mysterious city, in this case the Sierra Madre, “an opulent and extravagant resort that was supposed to be…

EA Sports On NBA Elite: “It Was Just Going To Be A Bad Game”

With NBA Jam on shelves and earning praise (deservedly), EA Sports is being a little more candid about NBA Elite, the canceled title and Jam’s original dancing partner. “Ultimately, it was just going to be a bad game,” Andrew Wilson, head of worldwide development for EA Sports, told IGN. “I think that the goal of…

Halo Wars Goes Dark On Dec. 15

Barely two years after its release, Microsoft is pulling the plug on Halo Wars on Dec. 15, axing leaderboards and stat-tracking as well as the forums. Fans of the real-time strategy game are not pleased. The community was informed of this on Tuesday. They were told they’d be “transitioning … to Halo Waypoint’s forums,” which…

Age of Empires III is 10 Cents

Got a dime? Today’s Games For Windows Live deal is a high-value target: Age of Empires III is just 10 cents. That’s for today only, so run go get it while you can.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Flaws

This week, Jezebel found in an auction of Playboy memorabilia several pre-publication centerfold shots with some unsexy editorial markup scrawled all over. (NSFW, nudity). It was an unsavory depiction even for one of magazines’ most prolific airbrushers. Also, boobs. Hold on, hold on. Get back here. Now, that got me to thinking about another population…