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Nintendo Doubts You Can Take the Wii U to the Bathroom

Prior to E3, as details of the next Wii were becoming clear, I had a dream that I could play the games on Nintendo’s next console in my bathroom The idea is that the Wii 2—which we now know will be called the Wii U—can stream games that normally run on your TV onto the…

Eyes-on With Sony’s New PlayStation 3D Display (Which Can Render Splitscreen Gaming Obsolete)

Sony is trying to make 3D gaming on its PlayStation 3 more affordable with its very own PlayStation branded, stereoscopic 3D monitor—comparatively cheap at just $500 USD for 24 inches of 3D gaming. Better still is the monitor’s ability to deliver full-screen gaming to two players at once. Sony’s “official 3D Display,” due this fall,…

In Defense of Duke Nukem Forever

Who is Duke Nukem, and why—after all of these years—are we still talking about him? One of our readers has described him as a “character that people actually love or hate. Or feel something about. As opposed to military personnel (1) and (1a).” In a sea of “blandness,” according to the reader, the Duke is…

Lulz Security Raids Bethesda Softworks Servers and US Senate

The scurvy dogs aboard the SS Lulz have raided Bethesda Softwork’s servers after unsuccessfully trying to extort game info out of them. Ah well. They’ve also released a bunch of internal data from the US Senate’s website for further giggling. The Bethesda attack centered around FPS title Brink, from which LulzSec plundered over 200,000 user…

See Sackboy’s New Touchscreen Tricks in LittleBigPlanet for PlayStation Vita

There’s a new LittleBigPlanet for Sony’s new PlayStation Vita. It’s a game that plays mostly like the LittleBigPlanets you’ve played before, but it may be the more fun version, the one with the best new touchscreen and tilt-based tricks. Media Molecule helped walk us through the LittleBigPlanet at E3 2011 last week, which you can…

The Wii Jaws Game is for Kids, the 3DS One Isn’t

This fall’s Jaws: Ultimate Predator will be released on the Wii and 3DS and, in it, you’ll play as a shark. No surprise there. That’s how it worked in 2007’s Jaws Unleashed As the shark you chew boats and people. You’ll rip off limbs, but only on the 3DS version of Ultimate Predator. Like the…

Which Limited-Edition System Do You Wish Would Be Brought Back?

A couple of weeks ago we asked you guys which vintage controller you’d bring back into play if you had a magic fairy game-mother. Responses ran the gamut from “Screw you. MODERN TECH TOTALLY ROXX!” to “Alas, I keep dreamin’ of the day when my Dreamcast was in my hands.” Since controllers alone started such…

Ubisoft Struggles To Explain How Powerful the Wii U Is

As you can imagine, many reporters had questions about the Wii U’s hardware, relative to the PS3 and Xbox 360. One of the few people who actually provided some answers was Ubisoft Quebec’s senior technical architect Marc Parenteau, who was brought in to discuss a Wii U Assassin’s Creed at a developer round-table. Unfortunately, even…

Let Me Tell You How to Defeat an Armored Demon Warthog in Dark Souls

Playing Demon’s Souls spiritual sequel Dark Souls at E3 2011 left me with just as many questions as answers. How, exactly, does the beacon fire system work? What does it mean to be “hollowed”? And why won’t Namco Bandai answer those questions when asked about this punishing and complex role-playing game? I’ll tell you what…

Fallon Kicks Off Gaming Week Tonight With Modern Warfare 3

Video Game Week kicks off on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon tonight on NBC with the help of Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling who will be playing Modern Warfare 3 with writer and actor Simon Pegg. Not into Call of Duty, even if it’s being played by the guy who helped pen Shaun of the Dead?…

The E3 2011 Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Line Was Short (and Not Real)

The long-awaited Half-Life 2: Episode 3 wasn’t really at E3, but YouTube master of digital manipulation FreddieW shows us what could have been… though, surely at least eight people would have lined up for the game. (Thanks to everyone who sent this in.)

Ranking the Tech Nerds Who Own Sports Teams

You might have wondered why so much attention was lavished on one doughy white guy after the Mavericks won the NBA title last night. That was Mark Cuban, technology billionaire, and possibly the best owner in professional sports. But he’s not the only nerd with a big wallet and a sports fetish. Here’s how Cuban…

The Single Greatest Trailer For the Greatest Games of E3

Can you imagine if this was one game? One shooting, stabbing, jumping, running, driving, flying master piece of gore, politics, character growth, feminism and dude-brotopia? It could never happen, but for a bit more than three minutes Polygamia managed to mash together all of the games of E3 into this one singular video event. Enjoy…

Hitman Absolution In One Sexy Brochure

Hitman Absolution was one of many of the games I saw at E3 that impressed me not only with its new take on an old formula, but in the new story it was trying to tell and the character it was trying to refresh. Here’s a look at the sleek brochure the IO Interactive was…

The Long Path to Discovering that God Hand is Awesome

How great was God Hand, a 2006 PlayStation 2 game that IGN gave a 3.0 out of 10 to? Very, very great, Kotaku reader Bondage Zombie finally realized. And with that eureka he has sworn off looking at review scores, as he explains in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku Whenever a new game is released,…

I Guess it Was Bethesda’s Turn to Get Hacked

Bethesda announced this morning that a group of hackers have grabbed data from some of their users, including “e-mail addresses and/or passwords.” If you frequent Bethesda’s sites, like their forums or the Brink statistics site, change your password. [BethBlog]

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Microsoft Office Web Apps Wants To Be Your Friend

Everyone’s computing needs are a little different and thus everyone has a slightly different relationship with their documents. Well, like the perfect buddy, Office Web Apps has your best interest in mind, and despite being available any time, day or night, it won’t ever call you and be all, “What are you doing right now?…

Watch Me Fail at Super Mario 3DS Over and Over and Over and Over and…

Super Mario 3DS is a wonderful, difficult, though not too surprising, Mario experience. It delivers the joy of maneuvering Nintendo’s titular Mario through a colorful world of moving blocks, anthropomorphic enemies, power-ups and coins. It even seems to lean a bit on the 3DS’ ability to deliver 3D imagery without the need for glasses. Many…

Homefront Studio Shut Down, Series Creation Shifting To Montreal

The New York City-based developer of Homefront, Kaos Studios, has been shut down, according to a source close to the studio. It’s not clear if the shutdown was due to the performance of the game, the high cost of operating a studio or some combination of factors. We’ve reached out to THQ for official confirmation.…