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To: Ash From: Crecente I published our first gift guide today. You know what that means? You’d better start looking around for presents for your loved ones, if you do that sort of thing. Only a month and a half till the holidays. Get to it. What you missed Killing Castro Marvel Pinball: From Comics…

WSJ Reports Tomorrow’s iTunes Event Is Beatlemania

We’ve been waiting. And waiting. And, really, sort of gave up. But after years of speculation and dispute, the Wall Street Journal says The Beatles are arriving on iTunes, tomorrow. Streaming will have to wait for another day. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Details are scant, but they don’t really matter—all the WSJ claims is that EMI, Apple,…

Dead Nation Comes Alive On PlayStation Network Soon

The PlayStation 3 may get its next great top-down shooter later this month when the zombie-infested Dead Nation—you know, from the creators of the most excellent Super Stardust HD—comes to the PlayStation Network. Dead Nation is due for release (at least in North America, anyway) on November 30 via the PlayStation Store. Cost to you…

Blitz Through Time With Back To The Future

You have one minute to reach 88 miles per hour before being trapped forever at the bottom of the leaderboards in Telltale Games’ Back to the Future: Blitz Through Time, now available on Facebook. It’s Bejeweled Blitz with a Back to the Future twist, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Back to the Future: Blitz…

Kinect Sees A Million Sales In 10 Days

Microsoft says it has already sold one million Kinect sensors to Xbox 360 owners since the add-on for the console launched in the U.S. earlier this month. Xbox man Don Mattrick calls the 10 days worth of sales “a great start to the holiday season.” The Xbox 360 maker hopes to sell 5 million of…

The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games, Breaking The 80-Hour Barrier

Every month we dig into the numbers to find out which 20 Wii games are played the most by the average person who has them. For November, one game finally breaks the 80-hour barrier. That game, of course, is Monster Hunter Tri, the newly-crowned most-played/most-loved Wii game. This is the latest chart we’ve pulled for…

Mafia Wars Is Partially Responsible For The New Shenmue

If you’re still rooting for Sega’s ambitious Shenmue series, you may, someday, have Mafia Wars and Farmville maker Zynga to thank. Yu Suzuki, creative force behind games like Outrun, Space Harrier, Virtua Fighter and Shenmue, tells Famitsu in a new interview that he was in part inspired to create social game Shenmue City after playing…

Keeping The Cosplay In The Family

If you’re going to dress up as Final Fantasy X’s Lulu, you either need a moogle doll or a baby. This Youmacon 2010 cosplayer covers both angles, as seen at artist and photographer Kyle Mistry’s website Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Should You Buy an iPhone or iPod Touch For Gaming?

The iPhone and iPod Touch may not be the most successful smartphone and multimedia devices in history, but they’re certainly the ones with the biggest buzz. [UPDATED for the holidays.] Since their release in 2007 there have been countless upgrades, new models and of course those thousands and thousands of applications. This is our best…

Diablo III Could Also Come To Video Game Consoles [Update]

Could the Diablo series make a return to consoles? A handful of new jobs seeking fresh Blizzard talent with console experience sure makes it look that way. The studio that normally sticks to PC and Mac may be making a console version of Diablo III, according to new job listings spotted by Gamasutra. Blizzard is…

The Nintendo Download: DSiWare Feels The Need For Speed

As Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Wii owners prepare for Hot Pursuit tomorrow, DSi gamers can download Need for Speed: Nitro-X right now. Need for Speed: Nitro-X is a light version of Need for Speed: Nitro, the colorful candy installment of the franchise that hit the Wii and DS last year. It features 16…

To-Do In New York: Play Spy Party On Thursday

If you’re in New York City this Thursday, you can play Chris Hecker’s incomplete but already-excellent two-player game Spy Party. The game pits one player as a spy, who has to walk their avatar through a cocktail party, secretly planting bugs and doing other subtle spy things. The other player is a sniper who views…

Convert Information into Energy, Just Add Demon

Researchers in Tokyo have taken a physics law-breaking thought experiment from an 18th century Scottish theoretical physicist and made it a reality, converting energy into information using Maxwell’s Demon. James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist who wanted to prove that the second law of thermodynamics only held statistical certainty, and could…

Kotaku’s 2010 iPhone Gift Guide

With just two weeks until the busiest shopping day in the U.S. hits, 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 iPhone and iPad don’t warrant game gift giving too. Now…

Is This Bulletstorm Or The Actual Duke Nukem Forever?

The new trailer for Bulletstorm features a man yelling, in frustration, the phrase “Son of a dick!” [NSFW language warning, obviously.] The upcoming game may not have the sexuality of the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever, but it sure seems like it could be the new king of gleefully inappropriate violence. Duke, the longtime king of…

She-Hulk And Zero Join The Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Brawl

It’s the battle of the alternate characters, as the Hulk’s female counterpart and Mega Man X’s mentor and partner join the struggle for the fate of two worlds in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. With no major video game trade shows occurring until the new year, Capcom is forced to go to the old exclusive video…

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‘Something Around Assassin’s’ Coming In 2011

The next Assassin’s Creed is out on Tuesday. But people already want to know about the next one — will there be one in 2011? The official reply they’re getting is a cagey one, of course. “There will be something around Assassin’s,” Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft, the company behind the Assassin’s Creed series,…

Prince of Persia HD Collection Coming to North America in Pieces

The Prince of Persia HD Collection is a European-exclusive Blu-ray collection of Ubisoft’s original Prince of Persia collection remastered in high definition, but that doesn’t mean North America won’t be able to play them. We’re just not getting the Blu-ray. Nestled within the press release for Ubisoft’s first half 2010-2011 financial results are upcoming release…

New Driver, Ghost Recon Games Delayed

Two big sequels will be out later than expected. Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Driver: San Francisco, both showcased this past E3, now won’t be out until between March 2011 and April 2012, according to an update from publisher Ubisoft.