Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Eyes-On

The head of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge developer, inXile Entertainment, doesn’t take comparisons of his dark dungeon crawler to Gears of War unkindly—even if you’re labeling it Spears of War and Gears of Warcraft. inXile CEO Brian Fargo takes that as a compliment, but when showing us the latest version of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge,…

Five Ways To Suck In The Halo Reach Beta

Who the hell shoots and tosses grenades at their own team? Someone who wants to fail in the Halo Reach beta, that’s who. Here’s a few handy tips for folks who really want to suck. What qualifies me to tell you how to suck at the Halo Reach beta? For starters, that’s me in the…

The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games

Every month we here at Kotaku crunch some numbers and tell you which 10 Wii games get played the most, per gamer, on the Nintendo Wii. Today, we’re doubling our efforts. This is the top 20, as of May 1. Answers to frequently anticipated questions 1) No! This is not a list of the top-selling…

The Force Unleashed II Dated Just In Time For Star Wars Day

May the Fourth be with you, and I couldn’t imagine a better time for LucasArts to nail down a late October release date for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. While I’m sure most of you would have preferred celebrating unofficial Star Wars Day by playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, at least now…

Leveling The Playing Field

Handicaps are not a very hot topic in the gaming industry. We hear a lot about single player games/campaigns. Though reviewers typically don’t have enough time to sufficiently cover multiplayer games such modes and features get decent mention. Still, hardly anyone talks about well designed handicap features in multiplayer games. This is completely understandable. When…

Get Your PS3 Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package Codes

Playstation 3 owners finally get a chance to pick up Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Package starting today for a whopping $14.99. Better still, here are the 10 PS3 codes to get the pack for free. Surprise!!! FBJN-MNBK-MK6Q G9HJ-HMBL-G697 PQ2J-LQB6-7JLF APQ3-6DBH-5FKR KDJJ-GJBB-9JEE L3PT-ARBQ-5EKN 8BBK-LTBF-BJ99 FPFE-98B3-RL3E B2F9-3CBR-N2B9 JERJ-ANB9-QCEJ

Tron Goes 8-Bit Again

There’s old school Tron, Intellivision style, and then there’s 8-Bit Weapon’s Tron Tribute EP, featuring five chiptune mixes of Wendy Carlos’ iconic music from the first video game movie. With Tron Legacy, the sequel to Disney’s 1982 classic, heading our way this holiday season, excitement is building in fans of the original movie, resulting in…

Samuel Jackson’s Iron Man 2: The Video Game Outtakes

This short video showing the voice work that Samuel L. Jackson and Don Cheadle did for the upcoming video game adaptation of the Iron Man 2 movie, isn’t meant to be an outtakes reel, but it is! My favorite part, Jackson confessing that he wasn’t prepared to say “that” word, but had practiced all of…

What Is Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles?

The latest edition of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Newsbeat newsletter lists a May 18 release date for the Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles downloadable content, which is interesting, as we’ve never heard of it. What is the Darkspawn Chronicles? Microsoft’s description of the downloadable content certainly doesn’t help with an explanation, simply stating that the 400…

Sid Meier’s Pirates! Sets Sail For The Wii

Nintendo can’t seem to escape the reach of piracy, especially now that one of game industry legend and this week’s Kotaku Talk Radio guest Sid Meier’s most beloved games is making its way to the Wii this fall. Sid Meier’s Pirates! first hit the stormy seas of PC gaming back in 1987, when it won…

Game Boy Used In High School Bomb Scare

A Nintendo Game Boy and a cell phone made up a bomb-like device that caused the evacuation of a Florida Panhandle high school yesterday. A concerned student discovered the device, reportedly consisting of the Game Boy, a mobile phone, and some protruding wires, taped to the underside of sink in a restroom at Pensacola High…

Apple Quietly Fixes iPad’s Broken App Store Revealing 1,422 Games

Last month I pointed out how Apple managed to break a broken system with the launch of the iPad and its platform specific App Store. On the iPad, I pointed out, you weren’t able to browse through the enormous collection of applications on your own, instead you were limited to checking a categories Apps out…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

No, E3 is next month. This month is TAY. Well, let’s not kid ourselves. TAY is every day, of every month. Almost. Chat here about video games, will you? Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

I *Might* Change Cell Phone Carriers

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Happy Birthday Tristan! Happy birthday Tristan! That summer camp he is going to sounds awesome! My cell phone, which I had blessed, is a Docomo phone. I am thinking about eventually getting a new iPhone. Mrs. Bashcraft is also considering getting an iPhone. But in Japan, the carrier for iPhones…

A Brief New Look At Brink

Why the long faces? Because these four screen shots comprise our only update on Splash Damage’s first-person shooter Brink, a game that we would’ve had a brand new look at were it not for one attention-starved volcano. Bethesda’s recent preview event was absent one game, due to Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupting and preventing London-based Splash…

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Screen Shots

Rage Impressions: The More Fun Apocalypse

Quake and Doom makers id Software may be treading well worn post-apocalyptic territory in Rage, but for all the grotesque mutants and post-cataclysmic disaster, this Mad Max-style story of survival looks like… fun. Some of that may be due to the bright, blue-skied environments rendered by the developer’s id Tech 5 engine. There’s an uncommon…

Fallout: New Vegas Weapon Mods

Rage Screen Shots

Fallout: New Vegas Preview: Meet Sunny, Dinky & Tabitha

Your first day in Fallout: New Vegas starts badly as you recover from being shot in the head, left for dead in a post-nuclear wasteland and apparently so worse for wear the town doctor can barely put you back together. Obsidian Entertainment’s newest contribution to the Fallout universe—the developer was born from the ashes of…