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  Myst May Be Coming To A Theater Near You

  Puzzling adventure game Myst, the best way to show off your bad-ass new CD-ROM drive in 1993, may be the next video game to get a big screen adaptation. According to a report from Deadline, Cyan Worlds’ adventure game series has been optioned for “live action film treatment.” Producers Hunt Lowry (Donnie Darko) and Mark…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010
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  Get Chills With Left 4 Dead’s ‘The Sacrifice’ Cinematic Trailer

  Next week, downloadable add-on “The Sacrifice” comes to Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, giving the original Survivors, Zoey, Francis, Bill and Louis, a chance to beat up on Spitters, Chargers and Jockeys with melee weapons. To set the mood, Valve has released a heart-pounding cinematic trailer for The Sacrifice, filed with thrills,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010
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  NBA Elite’s Cover Star Learned Of Postponement Over Twitter

  Kevin Durant, the cover athlete for NBA Elite 11, “spoke with noticeably more sullenness” in his first comments since EA Sports indefinitely postponed the game. Hearing the news first via Twitter probably did not help his mood. “They said it wasn’t as up to par as they wanted it to be,” Durant, the all-star forward…

  By Owen Good Published September 30, 2010
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  Please Review This

  To: Ash From: Crecente We’re continuing to tweak the new review system we’ll be using. It still needs a bit of work, but I think it’s coming along nicely. I’ll be writing up a full run down of the system and our new criticism pieces probably next week. Otherwise we spent most of the day…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 30, 2010
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  Fist of the North Star Declares November ‘Already Dead’

  The holiday season with be covered in liquefied guts, now that Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage has a release date. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 brawler lands in North America on November 2, Tecmo Koei revealed today.

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010
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  Forza 3 And All Its DLC Ultimately Collected

  Microsoft kicks off a multi-year partnership with BBC hit television show Top Gear next month, packing in 90 minutes of Top Gear TV content into the Forza Motorsport 3 Ultimate Collection, along with every bit of DLC released so far. Today is a day for making people feel bad about buying downloadable content. First Dragon…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010
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  Call of Duty: Black Ops Achievement ‘Leak’ Is Spoiler City

  The next big Call of Duty game has just had much of its single-player game spoiled, thanks to an early look at the shooter’s list of achievements and trophies. What do Black Ops‘ achievements tell us about Treyarch’s war game? (Perhaps too much. Stop reading now if you would prefer to keep Black Ops’ locations,…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010
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  Chesty Jake Moves To World Of Warcraft

  Fans can get up close and personal with Prince of Persia: Sands of Time’s Chesty Jake in the Egyptian-themed Uldum zone in World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion. Thanks, Michael!

  By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010
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  Video Proof That Outland Is The Child Of Ikaruga And A Platformer

  We’ve described Outland. We’ve shown screenshots. Now watch the 2011 downloadable game from the makers of Super Stardust HD in action. The trick is the color-switching, Ikaruga-style. When the hero is red, red bullets don’t hurt him and red elevators work. Blue bullets do hurt him, but he can switch to blue. When he’s blue,…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2010
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  Put A Half-Life 2 Headcrab Zombie On Your Shelf

  Who doesn’t love sending Half-Life 2‘s headcrab zombies to the great beyond with a few whacks of Gordon Freeman’s trusty crowbar? And who wouldn’t love to have said bloody, shambling headcrab zombie in statue form? Thankfully, the next great Gaming Heads creation based on Valve’s Half-Life games is coming soon. The figure makers is opening…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010
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  Turning Old Vegas Into New Vegas

  In the latest developer diary for Fallout: New Vegas, the team at Obsidian talk about how they tackled turning something old into something new, while keeping it old. I’m confused. Building a world based on the real world das we know it today is easy. With tons of old movies, archive footage, and photographs available,…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010
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  Running Backwards While Shooting A Shotgun Is A Bad Idea In Real Life

  One brave or foolish gamer claims he took out his shotgun, went somewhere remote, and tried a common video game first-person shooter maneuver. The results were painful. This is how one man says he tried to back-up-and-shoot, using a shotgun, a broom, and a warehouse. He suffered some distress. The details were revealed in the…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2010
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  Team Fortress 2 Now Lets You Buy Items With Real Money

  No longer will you have to endure hours of Team Fortress 2 play just to unlock the game’s hidden weapons, defensive items and wearable accessories. Today, Valve opened the Mann Co. Store, which lets you buy goods with real-world cash. The update not only introduces a way to buy new guns, hats and fish-wrapped-in-newspaper melee…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 30, 2010
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  Free-To-Play Free Runner FreeJack Enters Open Beta

  FreeJack is a parkour MMO that looks like Jet Grind Radio, only without the skates, and starting tomorrow you can test it out. Free run through the streets of New Jack City against thousands of other players in FreeJack, a free-to-play parkour racing MMO from GamerKraft and Games Bridge Entertainment. It’s not the sort of…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010
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  The Wii Drawing Tablet Might Be The Best Wacky Wii Peripheral

  Do you look at the Wii Remote and see the potential for an advanced fishing rod or bowling ball? Imagine it as part of a drawing tablet. I tested that set-up this week. It’s what Mario Paint Wii could’ve been. The Wii drawing tablet is technically called the uDraw Game Tablet. It is shipping in…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2010
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  MAG Upgrades To Version 2.0

  The 2.0 patch for Sony’s MAG went live today, bringing with it PlayStation Move support and enough game tweaks and changes it could be considered a whole new game. The full list of changes hitting in MAG patch 2.0 is huge. Developer Zipper Interactive has upped the level cap 60 to 70. There’s a new…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010
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  Bungie Made Halo: Reach, Look Mountain Dew and Doritos!

  I am to be congratulated, it seems. I am one of just 300 people in the country to receive a Halo: Reach Honor the Code kit in the mail… courtesy of Mountain Dew and Doritos. What’s that entail, you might ask? Why six Halo: Reach-themed Mountain Dew drinks and two packs of Doritos stuffed into…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 30, 2010
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  Skilled Photographers Struggling To Snap Good Photos Of Nintendo 3DS

  The 3DS may be one of the most impressive pieces of gaming hardware ever promised, but it also may be the least photogenic. The glasses-free 3D graphics just don’t show well unless you see them in person. Normal cameras, even the ones wielded by professional photographers at this week’s big Nintendo conference in Japan, reduce…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2010
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  Dragon Age DLC Gets All Wrapped Up In The Ultimate Edition

  BioWare makes fans feel funny about every dollar they spent on downloadable content with the Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition, which bundles everything Dragon Age together for one low price. How much have you spent on Dragon Age: Origins and its downloadable content? BioWare says the whole shebang, including Awakenings, is worth $114. Players who…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2010
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  Why Not Follow Kotaku on Facebook? Go on, you know you want to

  Facebook isn’t just about farming, and mobbing and annoying the ever-loving-hell out of your friends. It’s also a great place to keep track of people and things and by things I mean what’s happening on Kotaku Read the site? Follow the Facebook. Check out who’s already hooked up and then join them and bask in…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 30, 2010