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Watch! South Park tackles Game of Thrones. Watch! Shout your enemies off of cliffs in Skyrim. Play! Tina shoots astronauts with cheeseburgers on her iPad. Watch! Turning nostalgia into drama.

By Tina Amini Published April 26, 2012

20 Years Later, Mortal Kombat Will Still Rip Your Spine Out

Remember the first time you died while playing Mortal Kombat? One minute you were preparing to throw an uppercut and the next Kano had your character’s still-beating heart in his hands. Well, the mega-franchise has evolved a lot since its arcade days, but it’s still as drop-dead gruesome as ever—especially with the exclusive release of…

Woman Caught Stealing Video Games After Selling Them Back to Store She Stole Them From

Stealing is wrong. That’s pretty much universally understood. But going back to the store you just stole from, to sell them the goods you took? Well, that takes a certain kind of chutzpah. And it also gets you caught. Police in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, report that a woman went into a video game store (called, appropriately,…

By Kate Cox Published April 26, 2012

New Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Screens Show Off Father-on-Son Violence

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will be making a September debut, marking the current-gen debut of co-op martial arts brawls for Namco’s fighting game series. This new batch of screens highlights various tag moves, the new Fight Lab mode and new looks for several characters. Young Heihachi still looks little creepy to me, honestly. Tekken Tag…

By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! Characters from a plethora of fighting games have…

By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012

18 Things About Dishonored That You Should Know

Earlier this week, I received a wood-framed clock in the mail. It was a promotional tchotchke from the people making Dishonored, the kind of thing a big video game company sends a gaming reporter to make sure they remember their game exists—and perhaps to cultivate some favorable emotions about the game. It is, of course,…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 26, 2012

Talking Games Media at the East Coast Games Conference

Video game professionals and professional hopefuls attending the East Coast Games Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina this morning have a unique opportunity to watch me and several other members of the games media talk about balancing our love of games with our love of talking about journalism. The East Coast Games Conference is an annual…

By Mike Fahey Published April 26, 2012

Watch Adam Sessler’s Best Video Game Rants Right Here

It’s not an exaggeration to say that an era ended yesterday. G4 aired its last episode of X-Play with popular commentator Adam Sessler as co-host on Wednesday, just hours after Kotaku reported that Adam Sessler would no longer be working at the network While Sessler was best known for review and interview segments on X-Play,…

By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Squeezed Into a Hallway? Not Bad!

This June legions of Battlefield fans, quite frankly, won’t be surprised in the least with the release of Battlefield 3: Close Quarters. The DLC title says it all. And the trailer released several weeks ago reveals everything you need to know. But a lack of surprise doesn’t mean you won’t love it. (And, hey, we’ve…

Douglass C. Perry Published April 26, 2012

First Black Ops 2 “Screenshots” Leaked Via Special Effects Company

Some images, reportedly originating from the website of Hollywood special effects company Reel EFX (but since pulled), look like they could be our first look at the next Call of Duty game. Or at least some parts of it. For a while now, Activision has been teasing the game with shots of a gun-toting “quadcopter”,…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012

Nintendo Just Posted Its First Annual Loss

Today, Nintendo announced its first annual operating loss in its history as a public company. Sluggish Wii sales and a strong Japanese yen hurt Nintendo—not to mention a rocky rollout for the Nintendo 3DS. The game maker chalked up a US$455.9 million operating loss for the 2011 financial year. “What went wrong was that sales…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 26, 2012

A Tetris Swimsuit is Sexier Than it Sounds

Obviously with a ton of Tetris-inspired prints lying around the warehouse, fashion label Black Milk have added a Tetris swimsuit to its existing line of Tetris leggings While the leggings were faintly ridiculous, the swimsuit is a much more sensible affair. Relatively. Though at AUD$90 (which these days is basically USD$90), you better really like…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012

Lost Planet 3 Screens Star Frightened Space Jesus

Capcom has updated Lost Planet 3’s website to include a range of new screenshots for the upcoming sequel that, let’s be honest, nobody really asked for. Scattered amongst them are shots we saw when the game was first unveiled, but most are new, showing a mix of killer snow aliens and a man whose beard…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012

How Beautiful Video Game Shirts Are Made

Japan’s King of Games are one of the finest video game clothing merchants on the planet. Anyone who’s owned one of their shirts, or even been around one, know they ooze quality, from the fancy boxes they ship in to the durability of the prints. I’ve had a Zelda shirt of theirs around six years…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012

Looks Like Left 4 Dead 2 is Running Officially on Linux

When tech guru and Linux fan Michael Larabel visited Valve yesterday, he promised more info and pics than simply saying Steam was coming to Linux. Looks like he’s come through. Larabel has posted images of Left 4 Dead 2 running natively on Linux, and says a release of Steam itself – likely in the form…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012

Dragon Quest X Gets a Release Date for Japan!

Square Enix‘s highly anticipated 10th Dragon Quest game has just gotten a release date! The new online RPG, Dragon Quest X will be hitting the shelves (in Japan) on August 2nd of this year. Much like the 11th and 14th incarnations of the Final Fantasy series, Dragon Quest X will be online only with a…

By Toshi Nakamura Published April 26, 2012

A Story About Sly Cooper, By Mark Serrels, Aged 30

The fridge is full of energy drinks. Heads hover motionless, inches from illuminated screens. An arcade machine sits tucked in a corner. Gorgeous concept art, in various stages of completions, drapes itself on all four walls. Sanzaru feels like a place where video games are being made. The open area studio is littered with print-outs;…

Mark Serrels Published April 26, 2012

This Map Shows All the Places Nathan Drake Has Been

All the places he’s been since we’ve been in control of his good self, at any rate. Posted by Sony yesterday, the map contains some standard infographic stuff, but also a handy guide to just where Drake’s travels have taken him across four games. It’s…not that far, really! You should come to Australia next time,…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012

What a Skyrim Helmet Looks Like in the Real World

Harrison Krix, aka Volpin Props, is someone whose work you should be very familiar with if you’re a regular Kotaku reader. His latest piece is this incredible helmet from Skyrim, which through good design and fine craftsmanship reaches into the game, grabs a Draugr helmet off someone’s head and rips it right back into the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012

MMO Company Hacked in 2010, Just Found out About it Now

Cryptic, the guys behind Star Trek Online and Champions Online, have found out this week that they’ve been hacked. User details have been stolen, and some “portion of the passwords” present in a database were even cracked. Which is bad. What’s worse is that the hack took place in December 2010 With Cryptic only finding…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012