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Why George Lucas Won’t Make Any More Star Wars Movies

From an interview with The New York Times (Top photo by Ethan Miller | Getty)

By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012

Here’s Your Borderlands 2 Lilith Model, in the Flesh

Gearbox’s long and no-doubt exhaustive search for an attractive young woman who looks like an attractive video game woman is over. Australian Yasemin Arslan will be playing the part of Lilith in the upcoming Borderlands 2. You can see her in-character in the clip below. Hopefully with this competition over Gearbox can now turn their…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012

Hand Over the Roast Beef and Nobody Gets Hurt

Happy Tuesday, Kotaku-eers. Welcome to another late-night open thread. I’m your friendly MC, Benekirk Humblethatch. Have you had a good start to your week? Are you as excited as I am that Justified‘s third season begins tonight? You may be taking tomorrow off to boycott SOPA, but we’ll still be here at Kotaku, reporting SOPA…

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012

Mass Effect 3 + Kinect Looks Like This, Beta On February 14

Mass Effect 3 will use Kinect. But how, you ask, will that work? How dorky will I sound yelling things at my TV set? Watch this clip to find out. It’s…well, it doesn’t look too bad! Though these commands are all rather sterile. How well it works with my eyes full of tears or my…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012

Shadow of the Colossus, Amalur Demo, Uncharted 3 DLC New This Week on the PlayStation Store

Some good stuff in this week’s PlayStation store update. We’ve got full-game downloads for a number of solid titles, including Crysis 2, Rainbow Six: Vegas, and individual downloads for the HD versions of both Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. That latter one, in particular, is certainly worth $20, even if you played it on…

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012

Hey, Valve, What’s Going On, Eh?

Republished from Rock, Paper Shotgun Valve have created themselves an interesting situation. Presenting themselves as bastions of consumers, remarkably accessible to gamers, regularly inviting in groups of modders – often to give them jobs – and always being present to offer a quote on how customers deserve to be treated with more dignity, they establish…

John Walker | Rock Paper Shotgun Published January 17, 2012

Power.

Mood lighting | U.S. Marines take aim in a scene lit like an action game. (Image via Flickr.) These Are The 40 Most Powerful People In Video Games The world of video games is full of mighty people-people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we play games on, how we buy…

By Stephen Totilo Published January 17, 2012

I See a Faster Fable in the The Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Demo

You get exclusive items for Mass Effect 3 if you play the demo of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, but that shouldn’t be the only reason you play it. From the demo, Reckoning looks like it could be a fairly entertaining and worth-while RPG. If you played Fable and thought, “Man, this combat is too slow!”…

By Nick Vannucci Published January 17, 2012

Double Fine’s Latest Gets a Launch Date

Double Fine’s latest game, the Kinect XBLA minigame collection Happy Action Theater, now has a launch date of February 1st. It will cost 800 Microsoft Points, or $10.

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012

Would You Let Hissing Cockroaches Crawl On Your Face for a PlayStation Job?

Season three of Sony’s The Tester sees competitors doing completely ridiculous things for a chance at a production associate at PlayStation’s Santa Monica Studio. What sort of ridiculous things? See for yourself. I’ve gone through a great deal of shit in the pursuit of gainful employment over the past several decades, but I can honestly…

By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2012

‘Retreats’ Delay SOPA Hearings To February

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has issued a statement that due to Republican and Democratic “retreats,” hearings regarding the controversial Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) will resume in February. SOPA’s Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, is scheduled for a vote on January 24th.

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012

Does The Gore in The Darkness II Make You Squeamish?

Ready for a bit of the ‘ol ultra-violence? Featured here are the grossest, gnarliest, and most stomach-churning moments contained in the demo for upcoming video game The Darkness II If you’re an Xbox Live Gold member, The Darkness II‘s demo is available to you right now. PC, PS3 and non-gold Xbox players can grab the…

By Nick Vannucci Published January 17, 2012

Uncharted as a Gay Romance? It Kind of Works!

I recently opined that one of the things I didn’t like about Uncharted 3 was that it lacked a delightful love-triangle like the one in Uncharted 2. Turns out maybe there was one, and most of us just missed it. The jokers at “Touchbone Pictures” have put together this parody trailer for Uncharted: Drake’s Devotion,…

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012

Bury Yourself in Soft and Cuddly Plush Worms

After spending the past 17 years trying to kill them it’s a lovely change of pace to be able to cuddle them. Team17 has just launched a new line of plushies based on one of the most adorable war game franchises ever, Worms With such iconic character designs it’s a wonder we haven’t been buried…

By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2012

Be Advised, Halo 4 Beta Sign-Ups Are Fake

David Ellis of 343 Industries’ Halo team has tweeted: “If you see a page claiming to allow you to sign up for a Halo 4 beta be advised, IT’S A FAKE.” Hear that? It’s a faaaaake

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012

Star Trek Online Free-to-Play Now Open To Everyone

Set your phasers on stupid Trek reference, as Cryptic’s Star Trek Online opens its free-to-play docking bay and invites the world inside following a brief subscriber-only period. To see what players get for free, hit up the official Star Trek Online web page

By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2012

Katy Perry Is Now Making Video Games

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel like you wish you could just, I don’t know, deck out your Sims sim in Katy Perry gear, start a sim-music career, and go on tour? Well, now you can. EA has announced that the…

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012

Epic’s Bleszinski to Host the Game Developers Choice Awards

The Game Developers Conference has announced that Epic Games head Cliff Bleszinski will be hosting the Game Developers Choice awards, which take place the week of GDC.

By Kirk Hamilton Published January 17, 2012

NBA Jam: On Fire Edition Will Get Roster Updates, EA Sports Says

EA Sports has confirmed to Kotaku that NBA Jam: On Fire Edition will be getting a roster update. The publisher’s preceding silence on the subject had led some to believe it had abandoned post-release support for the 2-on-2 arcade basketball game. Responding to a Kotaku request for comment, an EA Sports spokeswoman said that’s not…

By Owen Good Published January 17, 2012

Six New Challengers Appear for Street Fighter X Tekken, Plus a Vita Version Surprise

With Street Fighter X Tekken due out in early March, now is not the time for a tight trickle of new character reveals. That’s why Capcom has dropped six new fighters on us today, three from their team and three from the opposition. Has your favorite character been confirmed? Well that all depends, now doesn’t…

By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2012