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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: NPH WTF

After about one commercial break, it was clear Neil Patrick Harris was just up there cashing a check last night at the 2010 Video Game Awards. What won’t Doogie host? Is he available for birthday parties? This week’s challenge: Neil Patrick Harris’ rampage continues. His awkward intrusions on video games didn’t end with last night.…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

Every kiss begins with Kay, and every week begins with TAY. Nothing captures the radiant luster of your video game conversation like our one-of-a-kind princess-cut open thread. Nerf Herder is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just shop up this image and submit…

All The News, All The Trailers From The Spike VGAs

What happened at today’s Spike TV Video Game Awards? New game announcements, first look trailers (some with actual gameplay), release dates, and Neil Patrick Harris. Catch up on the most important news and videos right here if you missed anything. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Bethesda Game Studios reveals the sequel to Oblivion, the role-playing…

Uncharted 3 Is Due Out Nov. 1, 2011

Uncharted 3 opens with Nathan Drake once again facing deadly circumstances, perhaps not as imminent as a train hanging from a cliff. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception arrives Nov. 1, 2011. This premiere is entirely in-engine, says studio Naughty Dog.

First Look At The New SSX

EA’s extreme snowboarding series SSX is back. The next entry is SSX: Deadly Descents and it looks wildly different from any other SSX. Based on what we can see in this trailer, it looks like the features match up with what we already heard, with avalanches, squirrel suits and helicopter drops playing a big role…

Guillermo Del Toro Wants To Make You ‘Shit Your Pants’ With ‘Insane’

Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro has officially named the game he’s making with Saints Row and Red Faction developers Volition Inc. Del Toro’s horror game is Insane and it’s coming in 2013. See it teased now. THQ exec veep Danny Bilson says on his Twitter account that Guillermo del Toro and THQ…

Is The Sequel To Prototype Still A Prototype?

That’s what they’re calling it, anyway. As promised, Prototype 2 arrives next year in 2012, and here is the game’s debut trailer from the Spike Video Game Awards

Resistance 3 Gets A Release Date

The PS3 exclusive hits Sept. 6, according to this trailer, which just aired at the 2010 Video Game Awards in Los Angeles. The clip combines live action cinematics with gameplay sequences.

The First Mass Effect 3 Trailer Looks So Damn Good

BioWare and Spike just unveiled the first full look at Mass Effect 3 and holy hell does it look amazing. As previously outed by EA, the Earth is burning and terrifying machines are destroying the human race. Mass Effect 3 will be out by holiday 2011, according to this first-look tease of the shooter RPG.

Kratos Enters The Arena Of Mortal Kombat

Tipped earlier in the week, this Mortal Kombat trailer at the 2010 Video Game Awards makes it official: Kratos is a kombatant in the PS3 version of the game.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Unveiled, Dated For 2011

Bethesda Softworks just announced the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series and the sequel to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be called Skyrim. And it’ll be out next year. Bethesda’s Todd Howard introduced the game with a brief teaser showing a stone dragon and a dramatic narration that sets up the story of…

Batman: Arkham City Gets A Little More Strange

The debut trailer for Batman: Arkham City just aired at the 2010 Video Game Awards. Batman’s nemesis this go around will be Dr. Hugo Strange, who knows the Dark Knight’s darkest secret.

SSX Deadly Descents Confirmed At Spike VGAs

The logo for SSX Deadly Descents just popped up during the Spike TV VGAs broadcast, confirming the reveal of EA’s next entry in the wild snowboarding series. We’ll have to wait a bit longer for the official reveal, but here’s what we’ve heard so far.

It’s Spike Video Game Awards Time [Updated With Winners]

Equal parts Oscars and E3 keynote – well, maybe more folks are tuning in for the latter – the 2010 Video Game Awards are on, live on both coasts, on Spike TV. We’ll be breaking out news as it happens. Neil Patrick Harris is your host. Rumors for this year’s debut blitz include SSX, Mass…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Work Stoppage Winners

Last week’s challenge: Imagine a world in which negotiations broke down and video game performers went on strike. Video game characters of the world unite! You’ve got nothing to lose but your pixels. artisttheone (4) kicked off the unsafe conditions theme with a pissed off Super Meat Boy. AcidCrownie (2) continued it with the obligatory…

Media Molecule Sends Out LittleBigPlanet2 Code — But Just One

A new batch of beta trial invitations for LittleBigPlanet 2 were supposed to go out this month, and they did, but apparently they all contained the same key. Not only that, AFPO-VCHR-CODE looks like a placeholder. Either way, it’s not valid, and those invited into the LBP2 beta went all triple down-button after entering it.…

What’s Modern Warfare Doing In A Special Needs School?

That’s what parents near Sacramento, Calif., want to know and, you know, I do, too. Officials at East Valley Education Center in Oakdale, Calif. refused to appear on camera, but it sounds like they were using video games as an incentive or a reward to help kids with developmental difficulties socialize. That’s well and good…

Anti-Defamation League Slams ‘Fun” Holocaust Video Game As Horrific And Inappropriate

A video game that depicts an uprising in a Nazi death camp has drawn harsh criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, which told Kotaku that the Holocaust should be off-limits for video games. Earlier this week Sonderkommando Revolt, a video game set amidst a violent prisoner uprising at the Auschwitz death camp, came to light. The…

The 2011 Video Game Bowl — And Playoff — Spectacular

Do you want a college football playoff? Do you love the tradition of a New Year’s Day packed with A-list bowls? You can have both, with Stick Jockey’s video game simulation of a 16-team tournament – and 27 bowls. Note: This is a very long column. There are more than 40 games described below. I’ve…

Box Scores: Cheesers Gotta Pay

All it takes is a couple bad experiences with a Madden cheeser to put you off multiplayer for good. So when you get a cheeser down and he’s begging for mercy, you gotta make him suffer. For all of us. Nekolas doesn’t usually play head-to-head matches often because of cheesing. Such tactics include “nano blitzes,”…