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Hey, Seattle Gamers and Game Developers, Show Us Your Snow!

We hear that Seattle is covered in ice and snow is a total mess. We’ve even got this picture from near the offices of Bellevue-based developer 5th Cell to prove it. Are you in Seattle and covered in the snowpocalyspe? Show us in the comments section below. We want to see your winter wonderland. The…

Ex-Police Chief Admits He Stole FBI’s Xboxes

There are things you shouldn’t do when you’re the police chief. One of them is stealing the Xboxes that the FBI planted in a car because they thought you were dirty. Former East Saint Louis police chief Michael Baxton plead guilty yesterday to doing just that. From the Belleville News Democrat‘s story about Baxton’s plea:…

Dance Central Mobile App Encourage Impromptu Dance Battles

Available today on iTunes, the Android Market, and wherever it is Windows Phone 7 users get their apps, Dance Central 2 Dance*Cam encourages fans to record their dance routines via mobile phone and upload them for friends to judge. I’ll pass!

It’s Official! Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield Co-Star in Resident Evil 6

As teased at NoHopeLeft.com and GameStop advertising materials, Resident Evil 6 is officially coming this November, bringing the series two most popular male leads together for the first time. Taking place some ten years after the Raccoon City incident that started this whole business, Resident Evil 6 begins with the President of the United States…

A Response to My Critics About the ‘Homophobic’ Language in Battlefield 3

On Monday, I wrote about homophobic language in Battlefield 3. I thought I had sufficiently unpacked the words I quoted from the game’s multiplayer dialogue in order to make my point clear. Perhaps not. Unpacking bias in language is about context and association. It’s basically a semiotic exercise, pulling sentences apart and figuring out what…

Wait, Don’t Cancel Yet! Check Out What’s Coming Soon for Star Wars: The Old Republic

With yesterday’s patch 1.1 player-versus-player debacle stemming a flood of threatened account cancellations, BioWare has released a video showing off what the coming months have in store for Star Wars: The Old Republic, in case you choose to stick around. In case you missed yesterday’s story, patch 1.1 basically transformed the high-end PVP planet of…

We’re Talking About Portal 2 at This Week’s Kotaku Game Club!

Howdy folks, welcome to week two of the Kotaku Game Club‘s discussion series looking back at Portal 2. This week we’re going focus on the game’s mechanics: The building blocks that come together to make the game’s puzzles. Remember, since our Portal 2 discussions aren’t chronological, there may be spoilers from the entire game today.…

Rumor: Resident Evil 6 Hits This November

New of Resident Evil 6 leaked early today. The game will be out on November 20, 2012, according to some images snagged by IGN. It looks to be headed for XBox 360 and PlayStation 3. IGN tried to get RE publisher Capcom to confirm, but they got the standard not-commenting-on-rumors thing. The viral site nohopeleft.com…

Space-Kraken and Evil Twins: All in a Day’s Work for Kid Icarus

Yesterday, I had a chance to play a whole bunch of Kid Icarus: Uprising, the upcoming shoot-em-up for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld. My impressions are here In this trailer, you’ll get a sense of the fast-paced combat from the game, with protagonist Pit facing off against a Space-Kraken, Space-Pirates, and even the “dark” version of himself.…

Skyrim Faces the Greatest Threat it Has Ever Seen: Giant Friendship-Breathing Ponies

The twisted terror of the Macho Man has nothing on the latest threat to besiege the people of Skyrim. Friendship becomes a dark magic indeed when My Little Pony Fluttershy descends from on high. I’ve seen My Little Pony horse texture mods for Skyrim, but this mod takes the pony-worship to a whole new level.…

And a Resident Evil: Revelations Demo Shall Lead the Nintendo Download

The Nintendo Download post normally showcases one of the many downloadable titles you can buy from WiiWare, DSiWare, or the eShop each week, but this week’s all about try-before-you-buy as Capcom unleashes a playable demo of Resident Evil: Revelations for the 3DS. An entirely new chapter in the Resident Evil saga begins right here, right…

Blizzard Still Busily Mucking About With Diablo III‘s Core Systems

Is Diablo III coming to consoles? That’s not a question Blizzard’s going to answer until they finish the PC version, and judging by today’s letter from game director Jay Wilson, they’ve still got quite a ways to go. While we eagerly await the release, developers are still figuring out the game’s core systems. The Diablo…

Kid Icarus: Uprising is a Gaudy, Goofy, Surprisingly Hardcore Shoot-‘Em-Up

When Nintendo announced Kid Icarus: Uprising at last year’s E3, I remember the enthusiastic response from the crowd. “Hooray!” they said. “A new Kid Icarus game!” And yet when we paused to think about it… “Hooray? A new Kid Icarus game?” That initial enthusiasm was actually a little puzzling. It was nice to see Nintendo…

Kid Icarus: Uprising Screenshots

Mortal Kombat Getting Touchscreen Fatalities for Its PlayStation Vita Version

Yesterday’s confirmation of a Mortal Kombat game for Sony’s upcoming handheld didn’t offer much in the way of details. There was cover art and not much more. Boo. But MK co-creator Ed Boon talks in depth about bringing the revitalized fighting game to the Vita over on the official PlayStation Blog. All of the content…

More Senators Abandon PIPA, But Lead Author Says Blackout Sites Wouldn’t Have Been Affected

Support for PIPA, the Senate version of the notorious Stop Online Piracy Act, is dwindling faster than most media outlets can keep up with them. If you woke up to an article today that reported that X number of Senators have dropped their support for the Protect IP Act, you can assume they under-counted. Many…

Shank 2 Sticks It To Players February 7

Shank 2, the sequel to Klei Entertainment’s stylish 2D pulp fiction beat-em up, gets the drop on the PlayStation Network and PC February 7, with the Xbox Live Arcade version lagging a day behind.

Dungeons & Dragons Online‘s First Expansion Pack Travels to the Forgotten Realms

The most disappointing aspect of Dungeons & Dragons Online was that the game was set in Stormreach instead of the much more popular Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Turbine rectifies that mistake with the first expansion pack for the six-year-old MMO, Menace of the Underdark Why has it taken six years for Dungeons & Dragons Online…

What Difficulty Setting Do You Play On, or How Hard Do You Like It?

With today’s news that BioShock Infinite will include a special old school difficulty mode, commenter Blessrok is curious about what difficulty setting you play on by default? Are you an easy-going gamer, or do you like to be punished? Tell us in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I don’t know about anyone else, but for…

Protest Game Super SOPA Bros. Shows a Future Without Any Super [CENSORED] Tributes

We’re used to seeing tons of Mario tributes on the internet, in live action videos or custom-made browser games where Nintendo’s mascot does things he wouldn’t normally do. The Japanese publisher seems to turn something of a blind eye to most of these. But SOPA probably wouldn’t. It’s that supposition that powers NoLan Labs’ Super…