Rumor: Call of Duty Has Another New Developer In Raven [Update]

With close to half of the team at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward bailing on the troubled developer, publisher Activision appears to have found a new source for Call of Duty development. Raven Software, the developer of sci-fi shooters Wolfenstein and the recently completed Singularity, has been pulled off its current…

Street Fighter Legacy Is Great, But It’s No Bison’s Tuesday

Is Legacy really the best piece of footage based on the illustrious Street Fighter name? Guest writer Sinan Kubba explores. OK, after three straight posts of ranting, it’s time to shower a bit of love. And nothing released last week is more deserving of a love shower than the excellent fan-made production Street Fighter: Legacy.…

The Most Useless Zombie-Fighting Weapons Of Dead Rising 2

Dead Rising 2, like its predecessor is a video game that offers players the opportunity to re-kill zombies with dozens — hundreds? — of common and uncommon items. I recently tried to find the worst weapons in the game. Author’s note: I was playing a pre-release demo of Dead Rising 2 under the supervision of…

God Of War Writer Gets Shanked

Marianne Krawczyk, best known for bringing Kratos to life as the writer of God of War, is lending her talents to a different kind of hero in Klei Entertainment’s Shank. Shank’s story is a gritty, personal tale of revenge, and that’s one subject that Marianne Krawczyk is fluent in, thanks to writing credits for all…

How About A Kane And Lynch Movie Poster? A Comic Book?

It’s not too different from the upcoming film’s promotional artwork at the Cannes Film Festival. Out in 2011, the Kane & Lynch flick is based on the video game franchise and stars Bruce Willis as Kane and Jamie Foxx as Lynch. The big screen version is being written by Kyle Ward and directed by first…

Quadriplegic Gamer Calls For Custom Button Remapping In Console Games

To many of us, custom button remapping in video games is a luxury, but for quadriplegic gamer Chuck Bittner, forced to control games with his mouth, it’s a necessity. Bittner, seen here hating on the Rust map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, broke his neck in a car accident, resulting in total paralysis…

BioWare On Final Fantasy XIII: Not An RPG

BioWare’s Daniel Erickson on Final Fantasy XIII, as seen on Strategy Informer

The Best Gaming Mixtape You’ll Ever Hear

Akira the Don, rapper, producer, hip-hop musician and gamer, dropped nearly an hours worth of amazing Street Fighter-themed music on his site this week. The 51-minute Street Fighter Mixtape may start out a bit slow, but once it gets rolling you’re not going to want to stop listening. Akira says the album, A Tribute to…

Castlevania Puzzle Screens

Project Natal “World Premiere” To Be Complete Media Cirque Du Soleil

Microsoft is holding the “world premier” of Project Natal the Sunday before E3 2010, with a special performance by Canada’s own Cirque du Soleil adding an air of magic, wonderment, and subtle creepiness to the evening. Sunday, June 13 is the date of what Microsoft is calling the “world premiere” of Project Natal, the camera-based…

The First Hour of Red Dead Redemption

There are surprises in the first hour of Red Dead Redemption, the grand Western from the development house of Grand Theft Auto. I won’t spoil the most important ones today. A day ago I was in the virtual West, in the rough country of John Marston’s United States at the moment when car motors started…

Meatbook Faux

The result of leaving a Macbook Air on Media Molecule artist Rex Crowle’s desk. As seen on Media Molecule’s blog

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Oh man, just when you think it’s good weather for Boktai, you discover … it’s not. But it is good weather for commenting about video games. So please do it. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Map Pack Deploys Next Month

Enough whining about the high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack! It’s time to whine about the likely high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack, due out early next month for the Xbox 360. During a company financial earnings call last week, Activision’s Thomas Tippl seemed to indicate that the next…

I Have Slightly High Blood Pressure And Am Concerned

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Dent Yikes! That sounds painful. Sooooooooooooooooo……… My doctor said I have slightly high blood pressure, which worries me. As I previously mentioned, I’ve been trying to exercise daily. Now, I need to worry about lowering my blood pressure. Ungh. My dad, who is 74 and seems to be in good…

Easy or Access? Bulletstorm Walks the Line in an Insular Genre

A death-dealing, results-driven, elite space mercenary who, to be honest, is a bit of a dick, Grayson Hunt doesn’t look like a guy who deals in caring, sharing or hand-holding words like “accessible.” But his game, Bulletstorm will. Put down that ridiculously large weapon: Bulletstorm is still outlandishly violent, serving headshots and explosions galore to…

Bulletstorm Puts Its Foot Down

If Epic Games’ new game Bulletstorm breaks new ground in a familiar, crowded genre, it’ll be in the use of melee attacks that aren’t as traditional to the first-person perspective. They’re the first link in the game’s chain of cruel. Not that there isn’t still plenty of shooting done in the first-person perspective. Bulletstorm’s first…

It’s Like Many Things, But Still Unlike Anything, Say Bulletstorm‘s Creators

Shooters and summer action movies have plenty in common, not least in how both are commonly pitched: Something and something meet something else. Epic’s Bulletstorm, due in 2011, will enter this fraternity with similar references. “It’s the Burnout of shooters, with a little bit of Duke Nukem,” Epic Games’ design director Cliff Bleszinski said, “and…

Bayonetta Creator Not Thrilled With Erotic Bayonetta Send-Ups

Bayonetta is one sexy game. The main character, Bayonetta, is encased in a full-body suit made of human hair and struts around in high heels outfitted with pistols. See? That’s hot. And is fertile ground for porn parody fan art. However, Bayonetta designer Hideki Kamiya doesn’t exactly seem too happy with that sort of thing,…

This Guy Owns A Game Company, Now He Wants To Buy Liverpool FC

Liverpool FC is one of the world’s oldest, proudest and most successful sporting teams. It’s also on the shopping list of a Chinese video gaming giant. Zhu Jun is founder of The9, the online gaming provider that used to operate World of Warcraft in China, and now holds a majority stake in Red 5 Studios.…