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The Cheaper, Better Tasting Alternative To The Nintendo 3DS

In today’s short but sweet episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter 100Tacks spends a dollar on a portable Nintendo product that does 3D without the aid of special glasses. I got my 3D’S today for one dollar! About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have to say…

Dead Space 2 Steam Purchasers Are Dead In The Water

Dead Space 2 became available for pre-purchase on digital download service Steam yesterday. It went live early this morning. So why aren’t Steam users able to play it yet? Several readers have alerted us to an issue with invalid serial key errors when trying to activate newly-purchased copies of Dead Space 2 on Steam. The…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

This is Kotaku’s official forum. Today, we’d like to talk about video games. But we also need a favor. We’ve got this frightful image today from reader Nexus SIX, but we are running low on new January images. If you have Photoshop skills, please head over to #TAYpics and scare us up a few more…

The Surprise Dead Space Game You Need to Play

This week I found myself doing something I’ve never done before with an iPad. Playing a game, not to pass time, but because it was fun, frightening and I wanted to see what was going to happen next. Gaming on the iPhone and iPad is for me a diversion, something I do to take the…

Gearing Up For Sony Later This Week

Live from my hotel room in Tokyo! Sleepy, too. What you missed last night Rumor: The First Official Shot Of The PSP2? The Best Way To Stop Game Piracy Is With Silly Pirate Heads The Best Video Game Costume & Character Design Of 2010 The Nintendo 3DS Is The Anti-Game Boy When Street Fighters Go…

Inception Among Academy Award Nominees

Video game-like Inception was among the ten movies nominated for a best picture Oscar this morning. Other nominees included Toy Story 3 and The Social Network. Full list here.

The iPhone’s Most Popular Game Will Put Your Eye Out

Angry Birds didn’t sweep the nation, it swept the whole damn world. The game’s popular enough to merit more than stuffed animals, a board game and an animated series. It’s popular enough for a slingshot that you can shoot things with. This Angry Birds catapult is from the folks behind the stuffed toys and was…

Why Don’t Foreigners Like Japanese Role-Playing Games?

For decades, Japanese role-playing games ruled gaming. These days, they don’t. Now, Western role-playing games get all the attention and praise. What gives? Noting the low popularity of Japanese role-playing games outside their native country, Sakaguchi believes that role-playing games need to break the stereotype they’ve created. Sakaguchi tells Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and Xenoblade…

All Your “Villes” Belong To FarmVille

Game developer Zynga built an empire on social networking games like FarmVille, FrontierVille and CityVille. Notice what all those games have in common? They all have a “ville” suffix, which is why Zynga is readying legal action against Facebook game Blingville, from developers Overtime Apps, claiming that the use of “ville” infringes on its copyright.…

The Earth Is Ruined, So We Must Kill Lots Of Robots

A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda is an indie action title released last week on Steam (though it’s been available elsewhere since December). I thought it looked pretty cool, so decided to give it a try. Won’t you join me? In A.R.E.S., you play a robot on a space station who has to kill a ton of other…

NSFW: Are Your Eyes Playing Tricks On You?

Changed, indeed. Mobile game Battle Spin goes balls out in its latest trailer. As seen on GameTrailers via オレ的ゲーム情報

Hey, This Fallout Movie Isn’t Too Bad!

When the trailer for a fan movie about Fallout was released a few weeks back, I was…sceptical. Which was stupid, because the movie is now out, and it’s actually pretty damn good. The short film is called “Nuka Break”, and is about the journey of a Vault survivor, his Ghoul pal Ben and a former…

The Nintendo 3DS Is The Anti-Game Boy

Inexpensive, low-tech and sporting an impressive battery life, the Nintendo Game Boy was released in 1989. Next month, Nintendo is releasing the 3DS. It’s everything the Game Boy wasn’t. It is the Anti-Game Boy. Designed by Gunpei Yokoi, the Game Boy was big and bulky with gray graphics. The machine was and is almost indestructible,…

Everywhere You Look, Minecraft

This is a shot taken from an upcoming documentary about Minecraft, by the same guys who did chiptune doco Reformat the Planet. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

The Origins Of Pokémon (In Two Minutes)

The story of Pokémon is a long and ridiculous one. Cutting its origins down to a two-minute web animation saves us all a lot of trouble, heartache and having to actually watch an episode of the awful Pokémon cartoon series. DJChlorine has taken the very first episode of the long-running Pokémon animated series and broken…

When Street Fighters Go On A Gender Bender

French artist Bastien Vives has taken the cast of the Street Fighter series and reworked them. Most of them are now a different gender. Others are the same gender, they’re just…looking at the world in a new way. Guile, for example, is now a lady with a much more fashionable haircut. Dee Jay is also…

Kinect Delivers Its Ultimate Slap To The Face (Of A Small Child)

Start at 1:00 in. It’s OK to laugh. Because she survives. Actually, she doesn’t just survive, in the accompanying YouTube commentary her mother says “my daughter is fine” and “she doesn’t even have any bruises”, and commands us all to “watch it and laugh now!” If you say so, lady. The game in question looks…

Black Ops First Strike Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of “Stadium”, one of the new maps included with Black Ops’ first DLC.

Praying To The Anime Goddess

It’s said that there is a religion for everyone. Otaku are no exception. Ryohoji Temple, a Buddhist temple in Tokyo’s Hachioji, might have been built in the 16th century; however, it is anything but traditional. CNNGo reports that in June 2009, the temple’s chief monk Shoko Nakazato created a manga-esque sign to “tell the people…

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