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The New Pac-Man Is Gorgeous In So Many Ways

How pretty can a Pac-Man game be? Let Pac-Man Championship Edition DX show you, a game that’s dripping with sleepy ghosts, new ways to play a very old game and more visual style than you can shake a stick at. Actually, don’t threaten Pac-Man CE DX with that stick. It’s too lovely to threaten with…

Tomorrow, I’ll Play A Video Game In A Car

To: Ash From: McWhertor Re: Consider This A Bra Clarification Ash! I have something to do this weekend! It is not play video games for Kotaku, but to play video games in a car, a car that was designed to project a video game on a wall. I’m heading to Pixel Pushers at the Scion…

Fight Night Champion Is EA Sports’ First M-Rated Game

Not yet officially rated by the ESRB, promotional copy on the game’s official page bills EA Sports’ next boxer as the publisher’s first ever M-rated game. “As the first-ever ‘M’ rated EA Sports title, Fight Night Champion showcases the truest graphical representation of the sport, lifestyle, and culture of boxing with authentic and dynamic blood,…

Begin, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Will In February

The next great Star Wars LEGO adventure kicks off in February 2011, LucasArts has confirmed, bringing the plastic galactic battle into the Clone Wars era and adding a little real-time strategy to the series. LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars from LucasArts and TT Games will combine the double licensing power of the Clone…

Mafia Wars Agency Takes The Rap For Vandal-Marketing Stunt

An ad agency has taken the fall for a guerrilla marketing stunt that had the city of San Francisco threatening Facebook-games maker Zynga with vandalism and other charges. The agency will pay the city $45,000 in fines. In August, San Francisco officials were steaming mad over the fake $25,000 bills glued to city sidewalks as…

Meet Super Kong, Your Donkey Kong Country Returns ‘Super Guide’

The new Donkey Kong Country also has a new Kong and features the third appearance of Nintendo’s helpful “Super Guide”, the help system introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. This is our first look at Super Kong in Donkey Kong Country Returns. But he looks familiar… Maybe we’ve seen him before under another name?…

Xbox Live Indie Clips: Get Your Girlfriend Into Games

Will the Xbox Live Indie game Get Your Girlfriend Into Games actually get your girlfriend to start playing video games? the answer may surprise you! Okay, no. Our weekly look at Xbox Live Indie Games isn’t just about highlighting games we like. It’s about taking games like Get Your Girlfriend Into Games, you know, games…

Nintendo Trying To Figure Out What Went Wrong With Newest Metroid

Nintendo wanted to sell a million copies of Metroid: Other M, which wasn’t a bad game. They won’t, not by the end of the year in America, and now they’re trying to figure out why. Was it the quality of the game? Do people not care about Metroid? Was it really a problem, as some…

Grand Theft Auto Finally Jacks The Mac

Mac owners, get ready to game like it’s 2001, as the Grand Theft Auto III trilogy has finally come to Apple computers. Better late than never, right? Thanks to Rockstar Games and TransGaming’s Cider engine, those of us who prefer Mac OS X to Windows can play Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: San…

Colbert Takes On Nintendo Like Donkey Kong

In response to Nintendo’s attempt to trademark “It’s on like Donkey Kong,” Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert decides to squat on other dated catchphrases, just in case. Nintendo’s trademark application for “It’s on like Donkey Kong” might be more of a marketing stunt for Donkey Kong Country Returns than a serious attempt to secure the phrase,…

These Lego People Liked The Older Games

Flickr user Sirekat likes to take Lego mini-figures out on the town. To the Louvre. To the Centre Pompidou. To the artsy places in Paris, including a museum for video games, seen here. A good time was had by all, I hope. As seen on Sirekat’s Flickr stream

Prepare Your Sacrificial Offerings

The time has come to prove your devotion to the dark overlords, aka, the most popular band in the universe, aka, Dethklok. Gather your virgins and slaughter your goats because the gods of metal demand their tribute. They have a bestowed a gift upon the world: Metalocalypse Season 3 on DVD and Blu-ray! Season 3…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Will I be playing Sonic Colors this weekend? Only the UPS man (or FedEx man) knows for sure. And will Sonic Colors live up to the promise of being a very good Sonic the Hedgehog game? Only future me knows! I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Sonic Colors does make an early appearance at Kotaku…

A Sudden New Appreciation For Metro 2033

A pair of models show off the sexier side to Metro 2033 at the World Exhibition Centre in Moscow during Game World 2010 earlier this month, as seen at English Russia Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Wii 2 Is Not A Must For 2011

This Wii has had a great run, but surely Nintendo’s console is primed for replacement? Nintendo of America’s top guy, Reggie Fils-Aime, told Kotaku today that a successor to the Wii doesn’t have to come out in 2011. Of course he’d say that, right? He’s got Christmas 2010 coming and he wants the world to…

Why Male Spiders Prefer Virgins

It’s Friday, so I picked something lighthearted and fun for the daily Kotaku science post. Did you know male wasp spiders snap their genitalia off inside the female during sex? Don’t worry, they have two sets. The animal kingdom is a funny place, filled with odd little discrepancies that keep people like University of Hamburg…

The Best Way To Ask People To Prepare For Your Wedding and Its Very Real Cake

Tara and Seth are getting married. They also happen to love Portal. So they hired Gawker artist Sam Spratt to design their save-the-date for their upcoming spring wedding. Seth tells Kotaku that he and his fiance are both big sci-fi geeks and love the game Portal. They wanted to do something incredibly different and quirky…

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Gran Turismo 5 Bending Laws Of Time, Space

According to the instruction manual for The Sly Collection, a PlayStation 3 game released this week, Gran Turismo 5 is out now. We know that is wrong. Then again, last month, I walked into a GameStop and saw this: Gran Turismo, once set for a Nov. 2 release is now supposed to come out on…