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Anti-Gay Star Wars Complainers Now Complaining About Spambots

Who is waging the public opinion battle between anti-gay “family values” groups and the video game creators who dared to allow same-sex romance in their massive new Star Wars game? The anti-gay crowd says the Star Wars defenders are getting help from spam-bots. (Would they be spam-droids?) Anti-gay controversy over The Old Republic began in…

The New Devil May Cry Seems a Lot Like The Old Devil May Cry

Check out these new screenshots from DmC: Devil May Cry, the new action game developed by Ninja Theory and shown off at Capcom’s Captivate conference in Rome earlier this month. It looks bloody and action-packed, much like every other game in the gory, surreal series. Although this time protagonist Dante is apparently a terrorist. And…

Crow Could Be the Greatest iPhone Game I’ve Played

As the credits rolled I place my iPhone on the table, leaned back in my chair and attempted to work out in my head how to present Sunside Games’ Crow. I was having an incredibly difficult time of it, and now I realize why: Crow is much more than my Gaming App of the Day.…

The Ever-Impressive New Steel Battalion Has Four-Player Co-op

I’ve yet to see a trailer for Capcom’s Kinect-and-controller Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor that didn’t impress me. I’ve even seen people play this game and it doesn’t look dopey (it seems that you don’t use the Kinect all that much.) Today we’ve got two clips of the game’s four-player, online co-op. It looks as good…

Resident Evil Chronicles HD Makes On-Rails Zombie Killing Look Good

Heading to the PlayStation Network this June, Resident Evil Chronicles HD takes Wii rail shooters Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles, bundles them together, and makes them look like this. I never got a chance to play these two Resident Evil side stories, so I’m quite looking forward to a chance to get my PlayStation Move…

Blame Capcom for No Watch This, Play This Today

Our usual noon diversions will have to hold off today so that we can make room for all of the new trailers spilling out of Capcom Captivate

Uh-Oh. Lost Planet 3‘s Developer Made Some Pretty Bad Games.

News of Lost Planet 3‘s announcement leaked earlier today, but here are the official screenshots, revealed by publisher Capcom at the Captivate event in Rome earlier this month. Development studio Spark Unlimited (best known for the poorly-received Turning Point: Fall of Liberty) is helming the title, a prequel to the first Lost Planet game. Which…

Dragon’s Dogma Looks Stressful, Includes Fat Rats

Bundled with the Resident Evil 6 demo this May is Dragon’s Dogma, a game as brown and green as Skyrim and, Capcom execs surely hope, just as interesting for fantasy game fans. Well, we can confirm from one of two new gameplay trailers released to day that the game includes large rats. Check that box…

Street Fighter x Tekken Vita Version Features New Characters, Cross-Console Play with PS3

We’ve got new trailers for the PS Vita edition of Street Fighter x Tekken. Capcom promises 55 characters in the Vita version: the 43 available in the console game as well as six more from each side. Blanka, Cody, Dudly, Elena, Guy, and Sakura round out the Street Fighter crew, and Alisa, Bryan, Christie, Jack,…

In Resident Evil 6, Even The Zombies Have Guns

While Resident Evil 4 is generally regarded as the highpoint of Capcom’s survival horror series, it also represents the point at which the franchise began abandoning its nerve-fraying focus in favor of a more action-oriented experience. Of course, if RE4 is the title that started alienating fans who prefer raised goosebumps to ratcheting body counts,…

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You’ll Get An Achievement For Killing Your Friends In Max Payne 3

Rockstar today released the full list of achievements for upcoming third-person shooter Max Payne 3, which will be out May 15. You’ll get trophies for pulling off headshots, ingesting painkillers, collecting Golden Guns, dangling from chains, and killing your friends, among other gory acts. Check out the full list on Rockstar’s website The Achievements and…

Cliff Bleszinski Was At Work Before 9am Today

Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski was at work prior to 9am this morning. Stay tuned to Twitter for further developments on this breaking story. [Twitter]

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! Indigo Prophecy‘s the game getting a macabre tribute…

New Resident Evil 6 Trailer Leads Today’s Avalanche of Capcom Gaming News

Want a new Resident Evil 6 trailer? You got it. Want a new, earlier RE6 release date? You got that too. (October 2!) Want a new Lost Planet? Well, you’re getting it anyway. Today’s the day an avalanche of news, trailers and screenshots hit the web, including here at Kotaku. And this avalanche started rumbling…

New Devil May Cry Trailer Shows the Revamped Dante in Action, Calls Him a Terrorist

A trailer for Capcom’s latest installment of the Devil May Cry series has leaked online. It shows off Dante’s controversial new look, as well as an old man in a suit ranting about terrorists. Despite the new look, the game doesn’t seem to be a departure from anything that made the older Devil May Cry…

Persona 4‘s English Voices Baffled By Anime Casting

Sentai Filmworks surprised fans at Anime Boston this weekend by announcing that the original English voice cast for Persona 4 would be reprising their roles for the North American release of the anime based on the PlayStation 2 role-playing game. Even more surprised were the voice actors themselves. Perhaps Sentai officials got caught up in…

The Norway Killer Who Used Call of Duty to Train Won’t Be Able to Use Insanity as a Defense

Anders Behring Breivik—the man who confessed to killing 77 people last year in the worst mass murder Norway has ever seen—has been found to be legally sane by court-appointed psychiatrists, according to the Associated Press. The new finding—by psychiatrists Terje Toerrissen and Agnar Aspaas—negates a previous assessment by other mental health professionals, which had declared…

Zen Studios Brings Its Free Pinball Platform to the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita

With FarSight Studio’s The Pinball Arcade hitting the PlayStation 3 and Vita today, Zen Studios wants to make sure everyone knows they’ve got their own pinball platform heading to Sony systems this spring, and it’s (technically) free. As they did with Pinball FX 2 on the Xbox 360 some two years ago, Zen Studios is…

Lost Planet 3 Debut Trailer Leaks Online

A leaked trailer shows that Capcom is readying a new entry in its Lost Planet series. The Lost Planet 3 trailer shows a frozen tundra, reminiscent of the the earlier game’s settings. The CGI heavy trailer, however, shows more snow, more bugs, and more giant mechas—and more giant mechas fighting giant bugs. The game is…