FIFA World Cup 2010 Review: I Got 199 Teams, But Vatican City Ain’t One

As has been customary with every World Cup and European Championships since the year 1998, EA Sports has this year released a video game to cash in on the planet’s biggest sporting event, the 2010 World Cup. Being, you know, the planet’s biggest sporting event, you can hardly blame EA as a business for wanting…

Uncharted Movie Could Go Forward With An Unlikely Director

Who will direct the big screen adaptation of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune? The LA Times reports that the film’s producers and Sony, the studio backing the flick, have a short list of favorites that includes David O. Russell. Who’s that? You may know him best as the director of Gulf War drama Three Kings…

Get Your PC Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package Codes

PC owners finally get a chance to pick up Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Package starting today on Steam for a whopping $14.99. Better still, here are the 10 Steam PC codes to get the pack for free. Surprise the second!!! C482E-A8ZSV-QX6B9-32DI3-8RQ4P C482E-A8YI3-HRCWQ-6AK77-AZJ7Z C482E-A8993-RE5NY-AP6G4-DYDW6 C482E-A8855-4DIFF-FWXE4-YJECE C482E-A87SH-WYSYC-RSF44-Z985Y C482E-A86I9-FZ3PY-737F7-J5VXG C482E-A8TWK-F85IK-DKHVL-4MYBE C482E-A8SQZ-BKQK8-88K3C-SDMPB C482E-A8R6E-Q7CKS-5A9E6-XY45Z C482E-A8Q3D-PWVHK-2B42Q-YBBAW

Steam For Mac Gets A Little More Support From Tripwire

The Mac faithful will have more than just Valve-developed games at their disposal when Steam makes the transition to Apple computers next week. At least two more games, first-person shooters Killing Floor and Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45, are coming too. Big Download confirmed with publisher Tripwire Interactive that it’s porting its pair of Unreal Engine-powered…

Get Gish, World of Goo & More Cheap, Do Good Things

How much would you pay for a copy of World of Goo, Gish and three additional games that don’t prominently feature black blobs dripping with indie cred? Thanks to the Humble Indie Bundle you pay exactly “whatever.” Wolfire is offering a five game bundle that includes Aquaria, Penumbra: Overture, Lugaru, Gish and World of Goo…

Who Needs NFL Teams When You Can Make Your Own?

NaturalMotion’s Backbreaker might not have the official NFL license like Madden does, but who needs that when you’ve got the tools to make the football team of your dreams at your fingertips? I’m going to call mine the Atnalta Falchions! I am both excited and filled with dread at the options Backbreaker gives players for…

Rocket Knight Returns Looking Better Than Ever

Konami’s update to 16-bit platformer Rocket Knight is showing more visual promise, the high-flying adventures of the armor-wearing Sparkster reigniting our interest in modernized old-school gaming. For anyone unfamiliar with the adventures of Rocket Knight or the complex stories that often accompany anthropomorphized furry mascots, heroic opossum Sparkster must rid his home of the Kingdom…

The 28th Golden Joystick Awards Need Your Help

Voting is now open for the 28th annual Golden Joystick Awards, giving us until May 27 to make sure the unreleased Powerpuff Girls Snowboarding iPhone App makes it onto the shortlist for Ultimate Game of the Year. The Golden Joystick Awards are the longest running video game awards, and they are powered by gamers’ votes,…

Paint, Grass and Counters

To: Luke From: Crecente Our house has been packed to the brim with folks doing work. We’ve had painters in, folks resodding the back yard, and today someone came in to rip out the old counters and install new ones. This coming weekend we’re moving a bunch of things to a storage center to give…

PlayStation Store Update: Happy Now?

Welcome to the newer, earlier, more Tuesday-flavored North American PlayStation Store update, which brings with it more shooting, shootin’ and shoot fighting. The rescheduled PlayStation Store update brings with it the no-longer-timed-exclusive Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package, the PlayStation Network version of Lead and Gold and the UFC Undisputed 2010 demo. Hey!…

Nier Review: Not Without His Daughter

Can one hideously ugly man facing impossible odds to save his daughter from a mysterious disease make for a beautiful action role-playing game? Find out in our review of Square Enix’s Nier. Dog-faced Nier’s young daughter Yonah has been infected with the strange Black Scrawl virus, and he’ll do whatever it takes to free her…

Best Halo Reach Glitch So Far

It is true that betas are allowed to have glitches. That doesn’t make them any less entertaining to watch. And, hey, who can complain if Halo Reach still has bugs? What people are playing now is just a beta. Up top is the best glitch I’ve been about to find on YouTube so far from…

How Xtreme Is Castle Crashers’ New Volleyball Mode?

This xtreme!!! It may not induce a thirst for tossing back a Mountain Dew or inspire us to shred something, but the PlayStation Network release of Castle Crashers is not tame looking by any means. The official Behemoth Development Blog sets up our first look at the new competitive mode coming to Castle Crashers—you know,…

Splinter Cell, Far Cry Director Quits Job In Moving Fashion

In a heartfelt letter on his blog, Clint Hocking, the main man behind Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Far Cry 2, explained yesterday why he’s leaving the studio he’s worked at for a decade, Ubisoft Montreal. The full letter to fans and peers is a must-read, but if you’re short on time, here is part…

Fearing Lost Could End Like A Video Game

Video games have given the world joy, joysticks and Super Mario. They’ve been accused of worse. Let us hope they have not inspired TV series, like Lost, to end simplistically (thus, badly!), the way so many video games do. In the interest of not spoiling ABC’s Lost for those who are not caught up —…

You’re Committed. So Are We

Over 1,600 Kotaku readers have shared their feedback with us via the 2010 Gawker Media Census. 70% of those who responded play at least 11 hours of video games per week—up from 60% last year. We admire your stick-to-it-ive-ness. Join the party—click through to submit your Census! The Gawker Media Census 2010 is a way…

Hydro Thunder Hurricane Churns Out New Modes, New Media

You know what was missing from the original Hydro Thunder? That’s right. Exploding barrels. Thankfully, developer Vector Unit has corrected that oversight in Hydro Thunder Hurricane, coming to Xbox Live Arcade. The new developer taking the Hydro Thunder reins from Midway promises all-new ways to enjoy wet and wild speedboating action with a handful of…

Hydro Thunder Hurricane Screen Shots

Another High Quality Street Fighter Fan Film? Awkward…

Street Fighter: Beginning’s End is a fan film with amazing fight choreography, some tight special effects, better than normal Ken hair, and a terrifically bad sense of timing, releasing the same week as the Capcom-sanctioned Street Fighter Legacy. Street Fighter: Beginning’s End is the work of Los Angeles filmmaker Chris Cowan, whose Thousand Pounds Fight…

Reminder: Sid Meier Live On Kotaku Talk Radio On Wednesday

Kotaku Talk Radio will be recording live from CBS Radio on Wednesday. 11am Kotaku Time. 1pm ET. 10am PT. Hosts: Crecente and me. Guest: Sid Meier. Call-in and live-streaming details will be on Kotaku at showtime. Join us!