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  Wii Gun Involved In 3-Year-Old Shooting Is Amazingly Lifelike

  At the top is a Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol. Below, the WiiAuto Pistol. Mistaking the former for the latter, three-year-old Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan of Wilson County, Tennessee, shot and killed herself Sunday evening. Where does the blame lie? We reported on the accidental shooting death of Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan yesterday, mainly due to the…

  By Mike Fahey Published March 9, 2010
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  A Deeper Look at Shank Gameplay

  Kotaku darling, Independent Games Festival finalist and soon to be Electronic Arts-published game Shank gets a bit more face time this week as GDC kicks off. To celebrate, developers Klei released this new video showing a bit more of the 2D brawler gameplay. If you’re at GDC, you can swing by the game’s kiosk Thursday,…

  By Brian Crecente Published March 9, 2010
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  Dwindling Tokyo Game Show Hopes To Be World’s Biggest Game Gathering

  From a Japanese game developer saying that the Japanese industry was “finished” to lower attendance, last year’s Tokyo Game Show was disastrous. This year can only go up. Hopefully. This year’s TGS is the 20th Tokyo Game Show, and organizers have announced “a new midterm vision of becoming ‘The No.1 Information Network in the Asian…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves XIII

  Some role-playing game is out today. Talk about it or other video games here in Talk Amongst Yourselves. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 9, 2010
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  Curt Schilling’s All-Star Role-Playing Game Has A Publisher And A Mystery Title

  Call it Project Mercury, and as of today, call it an EA game. The epic role-playing game that won’t — confirmed! — be called The Adventures of Curt Schilling has a home and a whole lot of mystery around it. Last week, top people involved in Project Mercury briefed Kotaku on the news being made…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 9, 2010
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  What Is America Famous For?

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: GDC: Day Zero Mini-Bash has started to write complete sentences. So this afternoon he drew pictures of flags from different countries and then wrote a sentence or two stating what they were famous for. When he got to America, he asked me. I said “baseball, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, hamburgers,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2010
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  Rumor: Goodbye Ugly PSP Color!

  There are many PSP colors. Loads. And apparently, there will be one less. According to a Japanese retail blog, the “bright yellow” PSP-3000 will not longer be shipped to shops. Released in 2009, it seems that the color is one of the least popular PSP-3000 colors, if not the least popular. That probably means it…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2010
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  World Cup 2010: No Man United, Plenty Of Brazilian Ladies

  The 2010 World Cup draws near, and that means one thing: football. OK, two things: football, and an EA Sports football game cashing in on the World Cup. World Cup 2010 is essentially FIFA 10 with a focus on national teams, the reduction in available sides hopefully compensated for by an increase in polish and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2010
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  New Game Riffs On Guitar Hero, With A Real Electric Guitar

  There are strings on the newly-unveiled Power Gig guitar, which is coming, with a brand-new music game to video game systems this fall. But you won’t have to be Jimi Hendrix to play it. In advance of this week’s Game Developer’s Conference, Kotaku had the opportunity to witness a live demonstration of the guitar controller…

  By Stephen Totilo Published March 9, 2010
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  Bad Company 2 Might Go Mac As Well

  With Mac computers the flavour of the week, Battlefield developers DICE are not ones to be left off the bandwagon, saying that they’re “currently investigating” bringing Battlefield Bad Company 2 to Apple’s platform. DICE’s Karl Magnus Troedsson said as much yesterday, Tweeting “We’re currently investigating the possibility of making BFBC2 available on Mac”. Pretty clear,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2010
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  In Japan, Getting A Tattoo Means You Can Never Go Home

  At last night’s launch event for Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada showed up with a Fal’cie symbol from the game tattooed on his hand. He tweeted that he “probably” would not be able to return to Japan. Wada, of course, was being lighthearted. The tattoo, of course, is fake. It appears in…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2010
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  God of War III Sex Mini-Game, Exposed!

  Like previous God of War games, God of War III has sex mini-games. Because a mini-game is pretty much what sex is, isn’t it? The scene takes place in Aphrodite’s Chamber, and was almost cut. “It was more a debate between me and several of the story writers,” God of War III director Stig Asmussen…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2010
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  So, How Much Did It Cost To Make God Of War III?

  It’s not often we’re told how much a company spends making a video game. So when Sony discloses how much coin was spent developing God Of War III, we’ll note it down. According to John Hight, from Sony’s Santa Monica studio, the blockbuster cost USD$44 million. With the average cost of producing a current-gen game…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2010
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  Ladies, Here’s How To Look Like A Space Vixen

  This is a video guide on how to look like Miranda, one of the stars of sci-fi adventure Mass Effect 2. Not how to dress like her. How to actually look like her. Leigh Ann, from Charisma +2, is the star here, showing the game’s female fans (or the obsessed male fan with a patient…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2010
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  Microsoft, Poland Is Pissed Off

  The Xbox 360’s online service Xbox LIVE is available in 26 countries. Poland is not one of them. The service is available to other European Union countries, but it is not officially available to Polish gamers. (Those with broadband connections and American credit cards can apparently get online.) Polish gamers are claiming that as a…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2010
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  Mass Effect 2’s New Hovertank In Action, Blowin’ Up Geth

  Later this month, Mass Effect 2 players will get access to the Hammerhead hovertank, along with five new missions for the game. Here’s what the new toy looks like in action. It’s certainly more nimble than the Mako, your vehicle from the first Mass Effect, and the way those levels look custom-built around it is…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2010
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  How to Try Out for Final Fantasy XIV Beta

  Now that role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII has been released in the West, gamers are looking forwarding to the next Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XIV. Those who want to get into the beta, read on. Know that you must be willing to part with money and purchase the PS3 version Final Fantasy XIII. Players can…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2010
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  Modern Warfare 2, 25 Million Served

  Robert Bowling, community manager for Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward, has returned to his Tweeting ways after a week’s well-deserved silence And it’s straight back to Call of Duty PR work, too, with the revelation that since its release late last year over 25 million people have played Modern Warfare 2 across the Xbox 360,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2010
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  First Look At Bodycount, An “Orgy Of Bullets & Destruction”

  From the co-creator and designer of Black comes Bodycount, Codemasters’ newest shot at “genre-defining gun play” for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, a game you might have already heard a few peeps about. Designed by creative director Stuart Black, Bodycount promises both “jaw-dropping devastation” and an “exhilarating sensory overload of action,” according to the…

  By Michael McWhertor Published March 9, 2010
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  Don’t Expect World of Warcraft On Video Game Consoles, Ever

  World of Warcraft, the world’s most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is available on the PC and on the Mac. It is not available on home consoles like the PS3 and the Xbox 360. And it probably won’t be. “I think there’s a lot of reasons,” World of Warcraft lead producer J. Allen Brack…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2010