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Take A Walk On Warhammer 40K’s Wild Side

Dawn of War II’s next expansion will let you play as someone other than the forces of the Imperium. Here’s video of evil Space Marines as proof. The forces of chaos are one of the new playable factions in Dawn of War II, another being the Orks, along with the Eldar and the Tyranids. The…

Report: Sony So Wants Its Chip Factory Back At Discount Rates

Back in 2008, Sony sold its Nagasaki chip plant to Toshiba. The factory produces chips for the PS3. Reports say Sony now wants the factory back. Besides PS3 “cell” chips, the factory also produces chips for Toshiba televisions as well as other digital products. Sony apparently wants to pay ¥50 billion for the factory, which…

How Does Mass Effect 2 On PS3 Look?

Mass Effect 2 is landing on the PlayStation 3 a year after the 360 and PC versions. So does it look better? The short answer is “no”. The long answer is “it’s complicated”. The technical specialists at Digital Foundry have sat down with the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game (now that there’s…

Cats Love Yarn Kirby

They also love chasing mice, but you won’t be getting rodents as a freebie with your February 2011 issue of Nintendo Dream magazine. The publication is coming packaged with this Epic Kirby inspired strap. It goes on sale this month in Japan, cat not included. 『毛糸のカービィ』オリジナル「ふわもこストラップ」がニンドリ2月号の付録に付いてくる [インサイド via Tiny Cartridge]

Gran Turismo 5 Wishes You A Merry Christmas

Here we were, only earlier today saying not enough video games get into the Christmas spirit, and what does driving sim Gran Turismo 5 go and do? Get into said Christmas spirit. If you’ve got the game, go boot it up and listen to the music when the main menu first kicks in. Playing in…

Japanese Supermarkets Overrun With Game Crap

Clean up on aisle six! Japanese supermarkets are awash with gaming-related food and snacks. These photos were taken a several different supermarkets over the course of a month. Many of the supermarkets had the same products, but some items (like the Pokemon fermented beans) were a bit harder to find. While Inazuma Eleven and Pokemon…

Call Of Duty In Real Life Looks Hard

Internet video superstar Freddie Wong, fresh from showing us how to do a real-life Rocket Jump, now shows us what a futuristic round of Call of Duty would like. Spoilers: it has great lighting, but strange character design. It’s funny, the whole time I was watching it, I was thinking: this looks great on camera,…

Smackdown vs. Raw’s Second DLC Pack Available Now

A classic Lex Luger skin (pictured), and The Nexus stable’s Wade Barrett, David Otunga and Justin Gabriel are included in the latest DLC extension for WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011, available now on the PS3 and Xbox 360’s download services. Also included are British Bulldog, the diva Layla, the NXT arena, and Shawn Michaels. The…

Police Arrest Man Accused Of Stealing Consoles From Kids With Cancer

Earlier this month, a man broke into a hospital and stole consoles that were used by kids with cancer. Good news, everyone: police say they’ve caught the guy. Charles Everett Hinton has been arrested by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, and charged with burglary, larceny after burglary, and damage to property. He stands accused of breaking…

Inevitably, The 8-Bit Halo De-Make Lands In January

The de-make craze shows no sign of abating. Pixel Force, following its successes with Left 4 Dead and DJ Hero homages, will reduce Halo to an 8-bit platformer (with top-down Warthog driving) next month. But, erm, about Cortana … Promising all of the action – and extra-curriculars with the cutscenes – of the original Halo,…

MotorStorm’s Festivus For What’s Left Of Us

Scads of unseen gameplay illustrates this latest MotorStorm: Apocalypse video, which explains how the game’s Festival mode will handle the party in an urban environment beset by disaster. There’ll be more of a story to unify your races. That means what happens in previous races will carry through to the next, which sounds like something…

Flipping Virtual Skirts Should Get You Slapped In Real Life, Too

Here’s an iPhone game to play if you don’t want anyone sitting next to you on the bus: Upskirt. Yes, it’s what you think it is, right down to the skirt-flipping sensei with the panties on his head. The trailer says Upskirt (which looks like it’s based on this flash game) is due Jan. 11,…

A Visual Guide To The Game Boat

Bulletstorm Option Will Allow For Fewer Vulgarities, Expletives, Dicktits

If your sensibilities can tolerate the incineration and impaling of pus-oozing space zombies, but not the profligate use of cuss words, then Bulletstorm is your game. The raucous shooter will feature an option to tone down its notoriously salty language. So says Adrian Chmielarz of the game’s studio, People Can Fly, in this tweet. “Bulletstorm…

The Guts Of The PlayStation 3

Conceptual artist Mads Peitersen finished up his new “PS3 Anatomies” commission for the Official Playstation Magazine UK. It’s so full of life! PS3 Anatomies by Mads Peitersen (Twitter) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.

World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm MMO Log Part Two: For The Alliance!

Our second and final MMO Log for World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion begins with a five-year-old Horde character defecting to the Alliance. Kotaku’s MMO reviews are a multi-part process. Rather than deliver day one reviews based on beta gameplay, we play the game for four weeks (or in this case, two) before issuing our final…

Go West, Old Friend, With Dead Rising 2’s DLC

No memes about covering wars, you know, in this new trailer for Dead Rising 2: Case West. Just the return of Dead Rising’s intrepid photog and a hint at the story behind his team-up with the sequel’s motocross-racing protagonist. Dead Rising 2: Case West is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and arrives Dec. 27. It…

I Got This Mask

To: Ash From: Totilo Stories you may have missed from the day shift Call of Duty Publisher’s Accusations Are ‘Deliberate Misdirection,” Rival Says What Ever Happened To The Christmas Video Game? Do Video Games Really Need To Be Immersive? Are Game Companies Doing Enough To Avoid Funding War In the Congo? The Year She Stopped…

The Year She Stopped Arguing Whether Video Games Are Art

What was 2010? Maybe it was the year we got past the “are-games-art” debate. Game developer Kellee Santiago hopes so. She was in the thick of it, as she discovered one very early morning back in the spring. The Santa Monica-based game developer was in Baltimore last April, booked on the first flight out of…

Need A Sure-Fire First Down in Madden? Try “Cougar Cross” [Update]

The folks at Madden NFL 11 put out a list of all plays run by all of its zillion-plus users so far, sorted by average gain. No. 2 is “Cougar Cross,” which sounds like Rex Ryan’s wife’s best-selling video. In fact, I’m not sure where you find it in the playbook. I’ve never seen it…