Kotaku’s 2010 PC Gift Guide

There’s no faster way to somebody’s heart than to buy them a great PC game. With that (and this week’s Black Friday sales) in mind, here are our picks for PC games to stuff in that special someone’s stocking. Whether you’re looking for a strategy game, shooter, role-player or something completely out of left field,…

Thank Conduit 2 For Giving Us New Media This Day

High Voltage Software’s Conduit 2 gets a chance to shine today with an all-new trailer and screen shots for Wii owners to feast upon. Get ready to set the mood, Conduit style. Sega’s next attempt at bringing an original first-person shooter to the Wii is due February 15, 2011. For our most recent impressions of…

Pokemon Invade Thanksgiving Parade, Menace Papa Smurf

Man, can you imagine being that little Papa Smurf statue in the bottom left of the screen and then looking up to see a big, yellow Pikachu hovering over you.. staring. While Pikachu was busy glaring at the diminutive Papa Smurf, a collection of 14-foot tall Poke figures rolled along the parade path. Enjoy! [Thanks…

Review: Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem Is More Donkey Kong Than 2010’s Other Big Donkey Kong Game

Some other Donkey Kong game came out from Nintendo in November 2010. Donkey Kong Country Returns, they call it. Yeah, sure. Like the essence of Donkey Kong is running to the right. The ape must stand defiant. Mario must run. Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem is the third fourth of the Mario Vs. DK…

How Are You Spending Thanksgiving?

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Turkey Day This is how I’m spending mine. Oh, I’ll be posting, too. Stay tuned for our forthcoming GT5 review! What you missed last night PlayStation Boss To Become Sony President? GT5 Online Woes Screw Up Your Singleplayer Games, Too We Might Have A New Black Ops Tomahawk Kill Champ…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

It’s Thanksgiving in the U.S., it’s a month before Christmas, and it’s the day to talk about games. Why don’t you thank your favorite game or game developer in the comments here today. And I will thank Yossarian for today’s image. Boldly submit your images to #TAYpics

The Slowest Gran Turismo 5 Race You’ll Ever See

Gran Turismo 5 is realistic. How can you tell? Well, a tiny little Fiat 500 has trouble getting up a mountain in the real world, so it makes sense it can’t get up a mountain in GT5, either. Note we’re not talking about the rather shiny new Fiat 500. That’s fine. This is the original,…

The Best Video Game Black Friday Deals and How To Get Them

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the parade! Delight in your dinner! Prepare for tomorrow’s battle. There are two types of people in the world. Those of us who want nothing to do with the bedlam, the insanity, the ferocity of Black Friday’s plentiful, big deals. And those of you who live for the moment. This survival guide…

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Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t Worry, We’re Still Here

While most of us (really all of us) are busy eating Turkey or sleeping, there will still be a steady stream of stories coming to you from Kotaku. That means a survival guide to Black Friday, a review, videos, and plenty and plenty o’ stories. How did we do that? MAGIC! KA-BLAM!!!!

Will Gran Turismo 6 Be On The PS3 Or PS4?

While gamers across the world are finally getting their hands on the oft-delayed Gran Turismo 5, series creator Kazunori Yamauchi and his team are working on the inevitable follow-up Website Eurogamer asked Yamauchi if Gran Turismo 6 will appear on the PlayStation 3 or Sony’s next console. The game designer stated that he “doesn’t know”.…

Old Actors Say The Darndest Things

You know when a man truly sounds like he’s out of touch? Not when he’s blaming the next big thing, but when he develops selective memory about the last big thing. As seen on The Telegraph

Why You Don’t Trust Strangers On The Internet

Japanese cops don’t only arrest dudes selling phony hug pillow covers. Sometimes they arrest other types of criminals. Like people trying to scam gamers out of vital information. This week 29-year-old company employee Yu Nishimura and 39-year-old medical claims worker Kaori Tanaka were arrested for violating Japan’s Unauthorized Computer Access Law, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun.…

Chicken For Thanksgiving, Courtesy of Castle Crashers

The mascot of The Behemoth, the studio behind the PS3 and Xbox 360 downloadable hit Castle Crashers, is a giant chicken. Fittingly, it’s pledging gifts of livestock to needy families in developing countries through the end of November. You may contribute too, the catch is they’re tying the donations to follows on Twitter or likes…

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Fever Comes To Japan

The bestselling game in Japan this past week was an American-made game, with Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops nabbing the first place spot on the country’s sales charts. Just how well did Black Ops do? The PlayStation 3 version came out on top, finding 129,000 Black Ops fans in Japan. The Xbox 360 version…

Review: The UnderGarden Is A Relaxing Dip In The Ocean

I’m almost out of pollen. A nearby creature strums the guitar as I float about. I’ll just hang here for a few more seconds before bringing life to some undersea flowers and restocking on pollen. Right now, I float. Recalling games like Electroplankton and Flower, The UnderGarden is a puzzle platformer in which players explore…

Pop Stars Move Kinect In Japan

Microsoft doesn’t view Kinect simply as just some peripheral. It’s as important as a console. That’s why the company poured millions into launching Kinect. And as expected, Xbox 360 sales saw a spike in Japan. Xbox 360 sales actually tripled. But that wasn’t big enough for the console to overtake the DSi. Or the DSi…

GT5 Online Woes Screw Up Your Singleplayer Games, Too

If you’re trying to play Gran Turismo 5 at the moment and wondering why everything is stalling and running so slowly – even in your singleplayer games – you can thank “extreme online traffic congestion”. While that’s a common and understandable thing to be affecting the multiplayer side of a major game so close to…

PlayStation Boss To Become Sony President?

According to a report on Bloomberg, Sony is looking at taking the job of company president away from current CEO Sir Howard Stringer, with one of the possible candidates for that role being PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai. While Stringer, who took the job as president in 2009 (having been with Sony since 1997) will retain…

A Motorcycle To The Skull? Hell, Why Not

Long a tough sell to Western gamers, Sega may actually have found a way to market the Yakuza series of crime games outside Japan: package its trailers like the hammy movies the games so dearly want to be. Yakuza 4, the latest game in the series, was released in Japan in March, but won’t be…