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Bizarre Devs Took a Chance, May Get Closed

Three years after purchasing the developer behind Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars, Activision appears to be in the process of deciding how to ditch the studio. “Over the past three years since our purchase of Bizarre Creations,” an Activision spokesperson told Kotaku today, “the fundamentals of the racing genre have changed significantly. Although we…

New Pac-Man Begets New Galaga Begets New, Uh, Metro-Cross

The next Pac-Man, called Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, looks great. It’s another trippy, techno remix of a classic Namco arcade game. More are coming, the company revealed today. New Galaga and new Metro-Cross. Galaga Legions DX will be the next Galaga, according to a company press release. Namco puts no date on it, but it…

Which Call of Duty: Black Ops Accessories Are Worth Buying?

Call of Duty: Black Ops wasn’t a huge game for just Activison and Treyarch, it was also a big deal for Mad Catz, the king of franchise-specific add-ons like glasses, controllers and headphones. Here’s what I thought of Mad Catz many Call of Duty: Black Ops controllers, headphones, mice and even mousepads. Some are worth…

Same-Sex Marriage Thrives In Frontierville

While the majority of U.S. states don’t legally recognize same-sex marriage, the wilds of of Zynga’s Frontierville have no need for laws, spawning 650,000 boy-boy, girl-girl unions. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus delivered the impressive statistic yesterday during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco while rattling off other interesting statistics about the company’s game portfolio.…

The Witcher 2 Collector’s Edition Comes To A Head

You want the head of Geralt of Rivia? CD Project Red and Atari will give you the head of Geralt of Rivia and much, much more in the $129.99 collector’s edition of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. CD Projekt Red and Atari had a big hit on their hands with 2007’s the Witcher, so…

Visual Guide to Mad Catz PS3 Black Ops Controller

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Spreads the Love In February

Nothing says “I love you” like taking your significant other to a midnight launch event for Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, coming to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on February 15. This is the box art you’ll see hitting store shelves the day after Valentine’s Day 2011, when Capcom unleashes the…

Princess Leia On The Wall, Asteroids On the Ceiling

A lovely shrine to things that were excellent in the 1980s, as seen on the Flickr page of Touch Arcade editor Blake Patterson. Cool computer room, Blake!

Two New Modes Hit Crackdown 2 Today

Crackdown 2 is getting two new gameplay modes, one free and one not, with the release of the Deluge Pack today. Before you download the pack, you’ll have to decide if you want to pay for the Crackdown’s version of Horde mode or if you’re fine with getting just the game’s take on capture the…

Talk Amongst Yourselves Gift Guide

It’s gift guide season here at Kotaku, though all the image we have today tells you is which game not to buy. Lesson learned, carry on and talk about video games, will you? Thanks to reader jaz350z for today’s image. Submit yours at #TAYpics

They’re Like LEGO, But Way, Way, Way Smaller

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Shopping Do you have “nanoblock” in the U.S.? They’re these made-in-Japan LEGO-type bricks, but significantly smaller. According to the nanoblock website, the world’s smallest blocks. Their small size means greater detail. Check out a nanoblock review here Here is a photo I took in a toy store of nanoblocks constructed…

A Visual Guide To Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

This official trailer sets up the game’s single-player storyline. You’re seeing bits of the game’s missions in here. Your reviewer plays two of the game’s virtual training missions. This separate mode includes at least 22 platforming and combat challenges, each of them with a target score and an online leaderboard. This is the game’s multiplayer…

Shift 2 Unleashed Unveiled Hyperbolically

Electronic Arts today let us know that the next Need For Speed, the one following today’s release of Hot Pursuit, will hit in the spring of 2011. That’s really all they tell us about Shift 2 Unleashed, opting instead to drop this trailer on us and more adjectives than I think I’ve ever seen in…

APB Goes Free-To-Play The Hard Way

In September, Realtime Worlds’ cops and robbers MMO APB: All Points Bulletin closed its doors. In early 2011, free-to-play MMO publisher GamersFirst launches APB: Reloaded. GamersFirst CTO and COO Bjorn Book-Larsson tells Kotaku how the resurrection is going down. Developer Realtime Worlds launched APB in June, and while the Grand Theft Auto-flavored online game met…

Not Your Average PC Gaming Rig

As Korean MMORPG “The Exiled Realm of Arborea” nears its release, a fancy gaming rig is rolled out for the press, complete with six LCD monitors and fishnet stockings. As seen on Game Watch Impress Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

What Consoles Japanese Gamers Own, Which Ones They Play

Just because you own a game console, that doesn’t mean you play it, right? At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, event organizers polled 1,171 attendees on a variety of topics, including the Move and Kinect. Only 7.7 percent are planning to buy the PlayStation Move, while 6.3 percent are going to buy Kinect. Other topics…

Call Of Duty Looks More Fun When The Computer Does All The Shooting

Your AI buddies in Black Ops may not be able to shoot the hinges, but they can shoot hundreds of heavily-armed soldiers, and do it so well you can clear a level without firing a single shot. Those must be some hinges! And OK, so ONE shot is fired, but we can overlook a glorifed…

Would You Buy Half A Game Now And Pay For The Rest Later?

Rod Cousens, CEO of Codemasters, has an idea on how to solve the growing dispute between publishers and retailers over pre-owned sales: sell you part of a game now then have you download the rest later. The battle, which has gotten rather public over the past twelve months, is over the revenues retailers like GameStop…

The PS3’s Raunchiest Game Gets A Raunchy Trailer

Female characters eating bananas. Female characters covered in goo. Female characters covered in ferrets? Strategy game Record of Agarest War 2 is the follow up to, wait for it, Record of Agarest War. That game was deemed “too hot” for GameStop, resulting in the limited edition package (the one with the boob mouse pad) getting…

I Tried To Think Of The Most Harmless Thing…

…something that I loved from my childhood, something that would never ever possibly destroy us. Vault Boy. By Renée Chio, as seen on Gamefreaks