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Watch How Shank 2‘s Co-op Delivers Twice the Stab-Em-Up Action
Released through the EA Partners program last year, Klei Entertainment’s gorgeously gory sidescroller won legions of fans with its retro presentation and fluid animation. The one thing everybody wanted was co-operative play featuring the bandanaed badass and his cohort Falcone. Your pleas were heard and the video above shows off how that’s going to look.…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 13, 2011 -
Here’s Another Problem With Retailer-Specific Preorder Items, Best Buy
Twice has Best Buy lured commenter I.Q.1 to its door with exclusive preorder goodness, and twice has he been denied. A cautionary tale, courtesy of Speak Up on Kotaku. I just want to share how as a gamer I am extremely disappointed with the service Best Buy has provided me in my last couple orders.…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2011 -
Bank-Robbing First-Person Shooter Hits PlayStation 3 Next Week
Payday: The Heist will be available for download in North America on Oct. 18 on the PlayStation 3 for $19.99, according to Sony Online Entertainment. This is the game we said played like the movie Heat Watch a new trailer for the game above. Sony says it highlights “one of the most difficult heist scenarios…
By Matthew Buzzi Published October 13, 2011 -
Men In Black Game to Blast Into Spring 2012
A Men In Black video game is due out in the spring of 2012 to conicide with the release of a new Men In Black movie, Activision and Columbia Pictures said this morning. The title will reportedly, in keeping with the spirit of the franchise, feature “action-packed, yet light-hearted gameplay mixed with edge-of-your-seat shooting excitement…
By Matthew Buzzi Published October 13, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
The weather is a bit dreary here at Kotaku HQ in Manhattan, and it can sap your motivation to go anywhere. But, we all have things to do and places to be, so we must march on! How’s the weather by you? Hopefully better than the rainy greyness we currently have here. Anyway, please take…
By Matthew Buzzi Published October 13, 2011 -
Three Minutes of Capcom’s Fright Club, it’s Like Fight Club but With More Braaaaaaains
Capcom and gaming pub Kill Screen spent the night treating the downtown NYC area to “Fright Club”, a gathering for people to come out and play two new Resident Evil games and one new take on Dead Rising. If you missed out, you can still catch Capcom at New York Comic-Con this weekend. Bonus Content?…
By Chris Carolan Published October 13, 2011 -
Aiko Island is a Good Idea Whose Time has Already Come
What was in my gaming app hopper this week? I had a choice. Something that was either blatantly derivative of an iPhone hit, involving vegetable matter and Japanese assassins, and another that was at least a little more discreet in its promotional copy. But sure enough, when I booted up Aiko Island, there was the…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2011 -
Vita Fever Starting in Japan
In-Store | TOKYO, JAPAN: Vita pre-orders start this weekend in Japan. (Photo: @AT_Coo | Twitpic) Grand Theft Auto III Getting Android and iPhone 4S Versions, Pricey Action Figure Rockstar Games revealed today that it would be honoring Grand Theft Auto III‘s 10th anniversary with a special edition. Later this fall, it’s coming to an array…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 -
Grand Theft Auto III Getting Android and iPhone 4S Versions, Pricey Action Figure [UPDATE]
Rockstar Games revealed today that it would be honoring Grand Theft Auto III‘s 10th anniversary with a special edition. Later this fall, it’s coming to an array of portable devices for Android, but fewer ones for iOS. “Grand Theft Auto III showed us the potential of open world games,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 -
Assassin’s Creed Heavily Inspires Indian Movie. Blows Our Minds.
Indian films are famous for their dance numbers. Tamil super hero flick Velayudham has them in spades. It also has what looks either Ezio or Altair from the Assassin’s Creed games—make that, really looks. Velayudham follows Indian actor Vijay as a milkman who becomes a vigilante to wipe out corruption. The similarities have not been…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 -
Ladies in Costumes Want To Sell You Images of Them…in Costumes
Cosgallery is “cosplay” meets “gallery”. But the works decorating the gallery are real, and they’re trying to sell you stuff. Recently held in Tokyo, Cosgallery let visitors wander two floors of cosplayer booths. The cosplayers offered their self-published ROMs or discs with photos on them. And they did that in costume. The reason why the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 -
Crafty Man Builds Mass Effect Sniper Rifle
Prop builder Zander Brandt figured the world was short on replica M-29 Incisor rifles from Mass Effect 2. So he went and made one. The Incisor is one of the sniper rifles available in the game, and for most of it was my go-to weapon; it’s the one that fires three shots at once. Most…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
Oh Man, Somebody is Making a Zelda: Total War Game
A team over at the Total War Center is making a mod for PC strategy classic Medieval 2: Total War that replaces the knights and pikemen of the vanilla game with the units and races from the universe of The Legend of Zelda It’s called Hyrule: Total War and brings twenty factions to the battlefield,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
Tekken’s Yoshimitsu is Cutting Heads and Taking Names
Yoshimitsu may be one of the stars of Tekken (and Soulcalibur!), but he’s not exactly a household name. Which should make Kotobukiya’s decision to make a big, expensive statue of him seem silly. That is, until you see it. Wearing his Tekken Tag Tournament 2 outfit, the detail in the figure and “gore” on the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
One of Japan’s Weirdest Games Cosplayed Before Your Eyes
PlayStation 2 title Super Galdelic Hour is nuts. It features females dressed as animals on a game show playing whack-a-mole with giant suckers and throwing pies in each others’ faces. You cannot take enough acid to reproduce a game like this, let alone the color palette. Cosplayer Omi Gibson, of Metal Gear cosplay fame, dons…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 -
There’s a new Shadowrun Game!
Cliffhanger Productions, the team currently working on Jagged Alliance Online, are also working on a new Shadowrun game. Yes, a new Shadowrun game. And it’s not a shooter. Phew. The popular old role-playing franchise, which had great adaptations on the Genesis and SNES and a terrible one on the Xbox 360 and PC, will be…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
This Game of Battleship Will get you Hammered
Battleship? It’s for cowards. And small children. Grown ups play Battleshots, which substitutes plastic pegs for boats full of booze. Sure, it takes a bit longer to set up, and costs a lot more than the venerable old board game, but it looks a lot more fun. Dangerous too, but there’s fun in danger You…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011 -
Let’s Look *Inside* PlayStation Vita Game Cases
With the PS Vita due out Dec. 17, Japanese retail is starting to get mock-ups of PS Vita game cases. Mock-ups like this. The retail who uploaded the pics also stuffed in a memory card to show you what it would look like with a PS Vita cartridge in it, as well as wrapping a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 -
David Hasselhoff Wants To Develop a Video Game (No, Really)
David Hasselhoff, probably for no reason other than the fact he is David Hasselhoff, figures a lifetime spent acting and singing at Germans has adequately prepared him for the role of video game designer. Speaking with Reuters about Burnout Crash, the EA game which he’s recently been helping market, the 59 year-old said, “I’ve wanted…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2011