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Kotaku’s 2010 Windows Phone 7 Gift Guide

We’re down to the last day or so before the peak of consumerism kicks off, it’s probably a good time to start thinking about what sorts of gifts you want to give and get this year during the holidays. And don’t think that digital platforms like the Windows Phone 7 doesn’t warrant game gift giving…

Here’s What The Hell The Canadian Military Wanted With $25K In Video Games

Previously on Weird News from Canada: A garrison outside of Montreal opened a requisition for $25,000 worth of video games, an order a headquarters spokeswoman called “strange.” Turns out they’re gifts for soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. Whoops. Canada’s Defense (sigh, Defence) Ministry followed up with the Canadian Press, which first reported the story, to verify…

Activision’s Half Million Dollar Indie Contest Delayed, But Still Alive

The deadline to announce the winners for Activision’s $500,000 independent game development contest came and went… a month ago without word of any winners. What happened? Have no worries, Activision tells Kotaku, the contest finalists have been selected and notified, but the process is taking a bit longer than they expected. “We’ve concluded the first…

LittleBigPlanet 2’s ‘Controlinator’ Makes Driving Bunnies & Camels So Easy

More controlerifous than LittleBigPlanet 2’s ‘Creatinator,’ with smoother handling than its ‘Grabinator,’ Sackboy’s newest tool—the ‘Controlinator’—makes piloting and steering anything in the PlayStation 3 sequel so much simpler. We doubt you’ll miss the roundabout ways you used to make things controllable in the original LittleBigPlanet after experiencing the wonders of the Controlinator, which as this…

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Philandering Point Guard’s Ratings Get A Timely Adjustment In NBA 2K11

San Antonio Spurs all-star Tony Parker and Eva Longoria got dee-vorced last week, around the time it was discovered that Parker was doing some dribble-drive penetration with a former teammate’s wife. NBA 2K11’s latest roster update factors in the breakup. Parker’s now rated “not loyal” for player management purposes (the background calculation went from an…

Turkey Day

To: Ash From: Crecente Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving! The day after? Black Friday! Crazy!! I can’t believe how quickly this year has been zipping buy. While we’re going to be running on skeleton staff tomorrow, we’ll still have some interesting stories coming, including at least one review and our Black Friday Survival guide. Exciting! Off to ponder…

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Gives You ‘Animus Project’ For Free

Ubisoft is giving the gift of downloadable content to Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood owners a little early, handing out the “Animus Project Update 1.0” for free on December 14. What do you get for your precious time and bandwidth? A new game mode, “Advanced Alliance,” for one. It’s a spin on the original Alliance Mode with…

GoldenSunDarkDawn Visual Thing

Psynergy is the power of the elemental forces in Golden Sun, used by characters in battle and to solve environmental puzzles. All about Djinni. These are Djinni (singular Djinn). How could you not collect them? Meet the new Heroes of Vale, same as the old Heroes of Vale, mostly.

A Visual Guide To Racing Games

Whether you feel the need for speed or the need to make the car you’re driving sounds as close to the real thing as possible, The Kotaku Genre Guide to Racing Games has you covered. We’ve covered role-playing games, first-person shooters, and real-time strategy games in our ongoing genre guide series, so naturally the next…

Activision: Call of Duty Boxed Copies Will Never Have Subscriptions

The Call of Duty experience you have now, the one that includes Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops and future Call of Duty boxed games, will never include a subscription fee, Activision tells Kotaku. “We will never charge for multiplayer for Call of Duty,” Eric Hirshberg, newly appointed CEO of Activision Publishing, told me as our…

Steam Is Just Giving Away Games This Thanksgiving

Savings just got ridiculous on Valve’s Steam service, with the company practically giving away games like Deus Ex, Half-Life 2, and Borderlands… and actually giving away tons of video games to Steam members on top of that. Check the official Steam site for “Give & Get” daily deals on the aforementioned games and more, because…

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These Are Wood Pokémon

Some people say there are no wood Pokémon. Not true. There are woodcut Pokémon. Friend of the site Matt Hawkins curated a recent event at New York City arts gaming showcase Babycastles featuring an artist’s Pokémon woodcuts. They come from artist Maré Odomo, who used a laser cutter to make them, and will be on…

Blizzard Really Wants You To Start Playing World of Warcraft Now

If World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion has finally piqued your interest in jumping into Blizzard’s massive-multiplayer online role-playing game, right now may be most fiscally sound time to invest in WoW. Blizzard is selling the first three releases in the six-year-old series for a pittance. Just five bucks for World of Warcraft, another five for…

When Pokémon Fans Are All Grown Up…

If Pokémon was a little more adult, a little classier, maybe its posters would look less like toy commercials and more like this. By Kody Christian

Hopefully, Gears of War 3 Has Some Of This In It

Whenever I see a new look at the Unreal Engine, I wonder: How will they use this in the next Gears of War? I did that in March. I’m doing it again with this brand-new look at the updated Engine. This is a trailer for the latest iteration of the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, the…

Guess How Many Points Deadspin Scored Against John Salley

Why in the name of NBA JAM shouldn’t Deadspin EIC A.J. Daulerio and contributing editor Drew Magary fly to LA to play 2-on-2 with ex-NBA power forward John Salley (aka Spider) and the short but court-prowess possessing Kevin Hench (the Henchman)? On November 12, at the Cheviot Hills recreation center in sunny Los Angeles, a…

A silver UFO hovers quietly in the air over a Turkish city

Filled with the sound of morning birdsong, this video of a UFO over Turkey taken last week is as much a slice of Turkish city life as it is a record of possible alien incursion. I like the way you can hear what sounds like somebody chopping vegetables in the background – I think this…

Mass Effect 2 Gamers Greatly Prefer Playing As Soldier Dudes

I’m a guy, and I seldom play games as anything but a guy. I play Mass Effect as a female character, though, for some reason. Very few of my fellow Mass Effect gamers do. Fewer than one of five. What to make of this? It’s hard to say without knowing the percentage of Mass Effect…