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  iPhone Chart Toppers: Dexter Arrives

  With the inclusion of a new “Top Grossing” category in the iTunes’ App Store we finally get a more realistic look at which games are bringing in the most money. As a new feature we will be tracking these, posting the results as a top ten list every week. Here’s your first look: Position Title…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2009
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  Chaos Rises In Dawn Of War II

  The Chaos Space Marines enter the fray in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising, bringing new single-player and multiplayer content to the acclaimed real-time strategy game. Chaos Rises next spring, when THQ releases the next chapter in the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War saga, Chaos Rising. The Chaos Space Marines, a dark…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2009
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  Blur Release Blurred To 2010

  Another game drops from the 2009 holiday season lineup, as Activision pushes the finish line on Bizarre Creations‘ Blur into 2010. It’s all in the name of multiplayer, according to the Activision press release announcing Blur’s move into next year, a move that will give the development team “more time to enhance the game’s innovative…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2009
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  Bakugan: Contender to the Pokemon Throne?

  “There it is!” The three words electrifies the crowd. The children swarming in the front yard of the Denver suburban house run to the curb. They crane their necks, point, howl with excitement. The one-ton truck eases its way through the last turn and straightens, a 42-foot trailer in tow. As the truck rolls down…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2009
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  There’s a Kotaku party going on in Japan, and we’re keeping the spirit alive here at home. Party like you’re in the Kotaku comments section! Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

  By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2009
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  So Tired, So Very Tired

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Was up to like 3 or 4 last night talking to the wonderful people at Trump House. Sooooooooooooooooo tired. Think one beer will have me on the floor. Don’t want get too blotto, and it’s easy to do on an empty stomach. What you missed last night Blomkamp: Master Chief Is…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2009
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  Halo Anime: Watch Some Now

  On Friday night, Spike TV showed, amongst a ton of Halo 3: ODST coverage, a preview of the upcoming Halo anime project, Halo Legends. Here’s just the anime stuff. Looks…better than I was expecting, actually. Nice blend of ham-it-up chit-chat and some more serious, knife-in-the-neck kind of stuff.

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009
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  Square Enix, Modern Warfare 2, If Only

  For reference, see this. Thanks Dareon!

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009
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  Erotic Game Now Detecting Shapes (Oh Dear)

  Teatime, developer of adult Love Death series, is bringing Tech48’s face tracking camera tech to Love Death 4. What’s more, the game will detect shapes. This cannot end well. It’s not yet known how this shape recognition tech will be employed in the game, but the pictured example seems to indicate that you-know-what will play…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2009
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  Scribblenauts Figure Only Needs One Word: Aaawwww

  Despite a groundswell of internet love, Scribblenauts isn’t quite at the stage where they’re churning out official action figures. Still, that doesn’t stop people making their own. This custom Munny figure, by Don Schwabs, is great. Great for the figure, yeah, but also great for the tiny pencil. So cute! Scribblenauts Munny by Don Schwabs…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009
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  Want To Work For This Company? Make A Gundam Model

  In Japan, job hunters often have to take a battery of tests and go through a gantlet of interviews. Add to that, Gundam model making. Artificial teeth maker Bitec Global Japan has made Gundam model-making into the application test for the new college grads. This October, hopefuls will be required to put together and paint…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2009
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  Battlefield Heroes Changes Coming

  For the first time since the game went into open beta earlier this year, significant changes are being made to one of the classes in EA’s free-to-play online shooter, Battlefield Heroes. That class is the gunner, for whom three of his abilities have now been modified. – The gunner’s “grenade”, the explosive keg, now not…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009
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  Why We Moved Our Party, And Can’t Recommend Trump House

  Sometime after midnight last night, I was awoken from my drool inducing slumber. My cell phone was ringing, and it was Kotaku columnist Tim Rogers. “Dude,” he started, “It’s the club owner. He’s talking money, and he sounds high.” BUT FIRST! Here are directions to Mother, the location of our event tonight in Shimokitazawa —…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2009
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  Let’s Tap (Your iPhone)

  Let’s Tap, former Sega talisman Yuji Naka’s quirky Wii party game that involved…tapping things, is coming to the iPhone as a series of individual apps. The main Wii game is being broken up into five apps, with the first – Tap Runner – available now. You can play the games the same way you did…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009
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  Blomkamp: Master Chief Is A Victim Of The Military-Industrial Complex

  You may be as sick as we are of hearing how the Blomkamp/Jackson Halo movie is dead. For all that chatter, however, you probably never heard what it was about Halo that got Blomkamp interested in the first place. Sure, there are lasers and aliens and intergalactic fighting. If you were born with a penis…

  By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009
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  No, Their Jubblies Are Not SIXAXIS Controlled

  As seen on Game Watch Impress.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2009
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  Kotaku Party: Change of Venue

  Change of plans. We’re still having the Kotaku party but we decided to move venues after the owner of the Trump Room club called us at 1 a.m. Monday and demanded six times our agree upon fee. Fuck that. We passed and instead called up Mother at 2 a.m. and switched our party to that…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 21, 2009
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  Legal Tender

  To: Luke From: Owen Re: Flight to Tokyo GO! It’s funny what the mind archives sometimes, and the reveries these things inspire. This week I found a 1968 Swiss franc in a pile of quarters dispensed by the laundromat coin changer. I looked it up online, halfway fantasizing I’d found something rare. I’ve never seen…

  By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009
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  Gift Card, Free Action Figure with ODST

  Toys ‘R’ Us is sexing it up for Halo 3: ODST – buying it from the retailer between now and Sept. 26 gives you a $20 in-store gift card and an action figure, both free. This deal is in-store only, unfortunately, so those with no TRU are SOL on ODST. The retailer ran a similar…

  By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009
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  Rare: “We’re Long Past the Stage” where Goldeneye Deal is Feasible

  The long, sad tale of bringing the groundbreaking shooter Goldeneye to Nintendo’s Virtual Console, or Xbox Live Arcade, appears to have ended long ago, with a whimper. Addressing a reader question about Goldeneye ever getting an agreement between Nintendo and Microsoft, releasing it to current generation consoles, Rare said, alas, no. That was some time…

  By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009