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Hacker’s Fight With Sony Is Over, But Not For Anonymous

Sony and George Hotz, the hacker who jailbroke the PS3, reached a settlement that ends Sony’s multizillion dollar claim against the 21-year-old rapper provided he never screws with their stuff ever again. End of controversy, right? Well, someone failed to clear this with Anonymous, self-appointed sheriff of Internet privacy and free expression. Anonymous, which has…

From Dead Rising 2: Off The Record To Asura’s Wrath, A Capcom Blow-Out

Two new Resident Evils. A big new dragon game. The next Street Fighter twist. A Dead Rising remake. And one Hindu-inspired epic with an amazing boss battle. Those were the big games of Captivate 2011, a showcase recently held in Miami for many of the biggest Capcom games coming out in the next year. I…

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Backbreaker: Vengeance is Official; Releasing Only on Xbox 360

Backbreaker: Vengeance, a variant on the original Backbreaker’s wildly popular “Tackle Alley” mode, will be released for the Xbox 360 over Xbox Live this year by NaturalMotion and 505 Games. It’s exclusive to the 360. Panned at release, then shored up with a huge patch three months later, Backbreaker as a full football title fell…

Black Ops Mod Tools Should Arrive in May

A PC mod toolkit for Call of Duty: Black Ops should release next month, according to this Treyarch developer (and retweeted by community manager Josh Olin.) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 disappointed many when it did not release mod tools. Treyarch promised last year that Black Ops would bring them back.

Blurring Genres

A few years back I remember Kieron [Gillen] angrily arguing that genres were stifling development. I’ve decided to muse on that. Simply by applying the label we inhibit both the game’s development, and the audience’s appreciation of the results. So perhaps one of the most frustrating results of such thinking is the notion of labelling…

We’re One Step Closer to a Wall-E Society with This Kinect Powered Chair

The best part about this Kinect-powered armchair? Microsoft’s going to release the source code for it. Shown off today at the company’s MIX11 coder symposium, the Kinect-powered La-Z-Boy is a proof of concept for the Kinect PC software development kit, which will open up development over Visual Basic and C++. The recliner code will be…

Infamous, The Dark Phoenix Saga And A Guy Named Spencer

New comic books are released every Wednesday in comics shops across North America, as well as on the iPad (though those aren’t always so new). Every Wednesday, I recommend a bunch that are worth your dollars. There aren’t many video game comics of note this week, but there are a few Nick Spencer comics of…

What Kind Of Cruel Joke Is This?

THIS IS NOT FAIR | ATLANTA, GA : What kind of cruel toy manufacturer creates plush versions of festive treats that you cannot technically digest? (Photo by Michael Fahey) The Best New Idea In Zombie Video Games Lurches Through Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City That moment I knew Resident Evil: Raccoon City could be a multiplayer…

Portal 2‘s Steam Connection To The PS3 Explained

Developer Valve calls the PlayStation 3 version of Portal 2 “the best console version of the game,” for various reasons. For one, buying that version gets you a copy of the game for Steam too. But more important, to Valve at least, is that it brings the Steam platform to Sony’s console. Valve marketing man…

Madden Moves Its Release Date to the End of August

Traditionally arriving by the first or second Tuesday of August, Madden NFL 12 will be released three weeks later, Aug. 30, in a move EA Sports says will carry into future releases, too. Rob Semsey, a spokesman for EA Sports, said the change was not influenced by the current NFL lockout, which threatens the opening…

Tread The Dangerous Waters Of Resistance 3‘s Flooded City

This is the boat level from Resistance 3, a level we at Kotaku have seen and played before. But maybe you haven’t and maybe you have eight minutes to spare to see what Resistance 3 is doing new in terms of weapons, enemies and presentation. Watch as new Resistance star Joseph Capelli takes on Grims,…

Guitar Hero Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Resting

You can’t keep a good franchise down, and you can’t keep Guitar Hero down either. Activision may have killed off this year’s Guitar Hero game, but as Activision’s Dan Winters explains to GameIndustry.biz, there’s always next year. Last year Guitar Hero got the axe with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, the sixth major installment of…

How Thick Should Chun-Li’s Thighs Be?

Last week, in Miami, Yoshinori Ono, the cheerful, jokey lead producer of the Street Fighter series had just shown off his team’s new game, Street Fighter X Tekken. He and I were just about done talking about it I had time for one more question. I need only one more answered: “How thick are Chun-Li’s…

The Breathtaking Concept Art of Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One

While the next Ratchet & Clank game looks handsome enough in those new bright and cheery screen shots, the PlayStation 3 exclusive had a gorgeous base on which to build. This is a sampling of that concept art from Insomniac Games’ Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One. Cute, menacing, atmospheric, it’s all here. Some of…

Dead Or Alive Dimensions Kicks Off On May 24

Punching, kicking, throwing and jiggling, Dead or Alive style, comes to the Nintendo 3DS on May 24 in North America, Tecmo Koei announced today, nailing down the previously vague release date for Dead or Alive: Dimensions. This is the Dead or Alive that features every character to ever appear in the series, telling a story…

The Proper Difficulty For A Dead Rising Game

Dead Rising games have always been difficult, but gamers haven’t always been happy about that. What’s a fair way to make a game tough, and what isn’t? With each new Dead Rising release, the game creators at Capcom have been tweaking their answer and reconsidering what players want. With Dead Rising 2: Off The Record,…

The Disgaea 4 Premium Package Totally Gives A Fuka

Players willing to spend the hundreds of hours it takes to fully experience a Disgaea title deserve a little extra, and NIS brings that something extra this September with the Premium Edition of Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten for the PlayStation 3. I’m slowly collecting a stack of oddly-sized PlayStation 3 boxes, and it’s all…

The Chimera Have Won The War In Resistance 3 (And, Great, Now They Have Invisible Snipers)

Joseph Capelli’s trip across the war torn, alien occupied America in Resistance 3 will make a stop in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania where Chimeran forces will hunt him down. Here, Capelli will be pursued by the spotlights and the near-invisible snipers of that alien force. The Chimera have deployed a new threat in the third Resistance…

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