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GameStop Starts Absurd Pie-In-The-Sky NGP Price Guessing

Yes, yes, we’ve heard you tipsters. GameStop is “estimating” that the NGP is a penny shy of a grand. I suspect they may be guessing or want to roll in glorious amounts of bogus pre-order cash. Update: Sarcasm, even sarcasm highlighted with italics and an abundance of adjectives and hyperbole, still doesn’t play on the…

Is Electronic Arts Really Not Making Games For The Next PSP?

There was one glaring omission from the list of developers working on games for Sony’s powerful new portable, the NGP While the list included developers big and small, from Tecmo Koei to Activision, publishing powerhouse Electronic Arts was nowhere to be seen. Why? It’s not just what we want to know, it also seems to…

Team Fortress 2 Does Its Best Dreamcast Impression

Space Channel 5 is a Dreamcast (and PS2) rhythm action game that had you controlling a sassy reporter through a series of dance-offs. It has absolutely nothing to do with multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2. Until now. Using the magic of the personal computer, YouTube user xcloudx01 has put together this clip in which Space…

The Bully Arcade Cabinet We Wish Was Real

With a built-in exercise bike and a sweet slingshot controller, this conceptual arcade cabinet from Kotaku reader Cobra would be the ultimate way to play Rockstar’s school days sandbox game Bully. Perhaps if arcades were more successful than they are today we’d see something like this sexy Bully cabinet sitting in the corner of our…

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Adds A Chinese Vampire And A Robotic Mutant Killer

We’ve got less than 20 days before the release of Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Capcom is still rolling out the new playable characters. Here comes the purplish pairing of Marvel’s Sentinel and Darkstalkers’ Hsien-Ko. Hsein-Ko and her sister Lei-Lei used a forbidden Tensei-no-Jutsu technique to try and bring their mother…

Celebrity Impersonators Flood The Virtual Spaceways

EVE Online recently introduced an amazing new character customization tool that has the game’s players seeing virtual stars at every turn. Space Conan O’Brien heads up our star-studded gallery. It’s the most versatile character editor I’ve ever seen, and now it’s in the hands of countless EVE Online players, sculpting faces to resemble their favorite…

The Complete Guide To Sony’s Next, Big Portable PlayStation

Sony’s impressive successor to the PSP was revealed to the world in Tokyo. Here is everything we’ve written about it, all of our hands-on impressions, photos and more. The PSP2 Is Here: Dual Analog Sticks, Touch-Sensitive OLED, 3G Built In & So Much More The PSP2 is finally here. Sony revealed its brand new PlayStation…

Witness the most face-melting action scenes from Enthiran, the Indian Terminator

We’ve been ridiculously excited for the Tamil science fiction blockbuster Enthiran once we heard that it was totally bonkers. And indeed, these clips prove that the movie delivers scads o’ madness. Robotic orb of machine gun death = total delight. In Enthiran (a.k.a. Robot), Dr. Vaseegaran (the Indian megastar Rajinikanth) builds the robot Chitti Babu…

NGP Battery Life Will Be Comparable To The PSP’s

The sight of Sony’s new NGP gaming handheld running demos of PlayStation 3 games is both exciting and terrifying for those concerned about the so-called PSP2’s battery life. Sony tells Kotaku that we can expect a decent amount of charge. The battery life target is the same as that of the current PSP 3000 model,…

EVE Gallery

A close, but not quite representation of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Kurt Russell, Morpheus, and George Michael walk into a bar. . . Cate Blanchett, captain of outer space. I could totally see this happening. You don’;t want a boyfriend. What you want is Mr. Spock. Want to know what happens to…

The NGP Reveal Summarized In Convenient Video Form

Want to hear all about the reveal of Sony’s Next Generation Portable without reading words? NetworkWorld’s video summary’s got gameplay, Sony executives, and the dulcet tones of IDG’s Tokyo bureau chief Martyn Williams.

Give Us Your Video Game Baby Names

Kotaku commenter LordDisco’s wife is pregnant with a bouncing baby boy, so he’s on the lookout for interesting labels to attach to this potential gamer in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku All right, everyone. Open for suggestions. My wife and I went to the doctor today for her 20-week checkup (She’s pregnant, by the way). That…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

This is Kotaku’s official forum. Please, huddled masses, talk here about video games. Thanks to Hisilarn for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics

Brink and Hunted Have Spring Release Dates

Brink, the first-person shooter designed to make elite team play possible for everyone will be out on May 17 in North America. Hunted, the Gears-of-War-style fantasy game arrives on June 3. Both are for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

A Beginner’s Guide To The NGP (Or, If You’re Just Joining Us, The PSP2)

Good morning, world! if you’re just waking up to news of Sony’s new handheld gaming platform, here’s a handy cheat sheet to get you started. It should give you all the basics. Then, when you’ve got a cup of tea and/or your breakfast ready, you can work your way through the rest of the evening’s…

A Sleepy Guy Talking NGP

Hey, I’m tired. But I bet you’re tireder. What you missed last night Yes, I’ve Played With Sony’s New Gaming Portable, The NGP Hands On With The NGP’s Brand-New Uncharted, And A Deviant Surprise Let’s See How Big This PSP2 Really Is The First Sexy Pics of the PSP 2 The PSP2 Is Here: Dual…

Guild Wars 2’s Guardian Is A Master Of Self-Sacrifice

ArenaNet replaces Guild War’s Monk with the better armed and armored Guild Wars 2 Guardian, a brand-new fighting profession that can sacrifice its own defenses for the sake of its allies. Where did the Monk go? There are no dedicated healing classes in Guild Wars 2. One of developer ArenaNet’s goals in creating the second…

Hands On With The NGP’s Brand-New Uncharted, And A Deviant Surprise

Another techy Sony product with more big promises. We’ve been here before, right? Not this time, though. If the NGP, or Sony’s Next Generation Portable, seems different, it’s because the way the portable lets gamers game. There’s something about the NGP that is simple, something that pops. Nintendo might’ve pioneered touch-based gaming, but Sony is…

NGP: Sorting The Myths From The Facts

For nearly four years, we suffered through rumours of what the PSP’s true successor would actually look like. Now that it’s finally here, let’s revisit those rumours, see how right we (and others) were! First things first: In October of last year, we heard a bunch of stuff from developers and other closely-linked sources. That…

A Visual Guide To The NGP