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There’s Now A Shooter To Teach People How To Play Shooters

If you suck at shooters – think Call of Duty, Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield – then you probably need help. You could ask your friends, but for a less embarrassing solution, you could try FPS Trainer. It’s a game that’s designed to…teach you how to play shooter games, instructing you on the basic (and…

Star Blazers Creator Dead After Falling From…Boat

This Sunday, 75-year-old Yoshinobu Nishizaki, co-creator of 1970s animated series Space Battleship Yamato (imported to the West as “Star Blazers”), fell from his 485-ton boat “Yamato” at an island port in southern Tokyo. Nishizaki produced other nautical-themed anime like Space Carrier Blue Noah, Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight and Yamato 2520. The other co-creator of Space…

Call Of Duty, Time To Man Up And Move On

The Call of Duty series has gone from the Second World War to the present day and now, with Black Ops, back to the Cold War. That’s seventy years of warfare covered across seven main Call of Duty games. The fact Black Ops spans multiple decades and multiple conflicts shows that for a series born…

Kinect Unloved And Lonely In Tokyo

In an effort to give Japanese gamers a hands body-on with Kinect, Xbox Japan set up a demo station at a large electronics store in Tokyo’s Shinjuku. Make that, a lonely demo station — for now, at least! According to the individual who took these images, the photos were snapped sometime between 1 and 2pm.…

There’s Only One John Marston Action Figure

Rockstar doesn’t do action figures. There have been none made for Grand Theft Auto, none for Bully, none for Rockstar Table Tennis. So fans have to step in, do it themselves. This Red Dead Redemption custom was made by Deathlimbo, out of an old – would you believe it – Remy (from Street Fighter) figure…

Where Did All The Japanese Trends Go?

During the 1980s, Japan saw trends like Hello Kitty-type character products and brand-name fashion. The 1990s gave birth to Tamagotchi, Bandai’s portable game character, as well as sticker picture machines and even Windows 95 fever. Now? Now, Japan has eco cars and “fast fashion”, which are clothes from cheap chain stores. Not very exciting! As…

Back On God’s Time

To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Ice Tea In the old days, you had the Saturday newspaper to tell your dumb ass you got an extra hour of sleep during the switch from Daylight Saving time to Standard time. And if you didn’t take the Saturday paper, the Sunday paper said so. And if you…

Armed Robbers Snatch 100 Copies Of Black Ops In GameStop Heist

Two guys with semiautomatic firearms were hellbent on breaking street for Call of Duty: Black Ops, sticking up a Baltimore-area GameStop and looting it of 100 copies of the game, due out Tuesday. The Harford County, Md. sheriff’s office said the heist happened Saturday evening, and the robbers waited until closing time to hold up…

From Russia With Love, Five Minutes Of Dragon Age II Gameplay

Igromir 2010, which attentive readers know is the Eastern Europe equivalent of E3, is taking place this week, and from there comes this video of a Dragon Age II floor demonstration. Discuss!

The Week In Games: Call of Duty Black Out

Much like Madden’s first Tuesday in August, Call of Duty’s second Tuesday in November is getting to be a gaming holiday. No one’s going up against Activision’s military shooter, which looks to break records set last year. Sunday (Nov. 7) FlingSmash (Wii) Monday (Nov. 8) Gods vs. Humans (WiiWare) Tuesday (Nov. 9) Call of Duty:…

Gamer Fails Super Mario Bros. Speed Run, While Mario Creator Watches

Andrew Gardikis once beat Super Mario Bros. in five minutes. Shigeru Miyamoto created Super Mario Bros. a quarter century ago. The two men were at the Nintendo World Store today, where Andrew tried to repeat his feat. Miyamoto watched. Pressure! The event was part of a celebration at the Manhattan store for the 25th anniversary…

Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists

Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 5 Religions That Would Make Great Video Games [Ranker] This is, essentially, how to make the Top 5 religions (by number of adherents) into…

Is Kinect Already Hacked?

Judge for yourself. Someone claims to have written a driver for the Kinect’s motor, and he’s extracted a Kinect’s-eye view of what players look like to the device (above). A while back we had a series of monochromatic shots animated together, showing you how the Kinect recognizes players. This gives you a better view of…

There May Be Better Ways To Spend A Day, But They’re Not As Awesome

(Zombie) Jölan, a Kotaku ‘Shop Contest all-star, is brilliant in other media, too: Namely, Minecraft. “How I spent my day,” he says of the above construction.

K Monthly – October 2010

Welcome to the October 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of the best original video game coverage, including reviews, previews, features, and weekly columns, from Kotaku—plus an all-new look at the future of Kinect for the Xbox 360. We spoke to two of the men behind the Xbox 360’s new hands-free…

Interactive Comic Will Set Up Mass Effect 2 For PS3 [Update]

Mass Effect 2 is coming to the PS3; Mass Effect 1 is not. As the sequel can account for consequences of choices you made in the original, some were wondering how this will be addressed on the PS3. The answer, according to a BioWare producer in the print edition of the German magazine Play3, is…

How Microsoft Plans To Put A Video Game Controller In Everything

Microsoft is spending half a billion dollars to make sure that when you hear the word Kinect you think “the future of video games.” But Microsoft believes that the real potential for the voice recognition, motion-based technology is how they plan to use it with cell phones, computers and perhaps in the military and health…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Time Travelers Edition

A couple weeks ago, the Internet flipped out when someone thought they found a time traveling woman using a mobile phone in the middle of a Charlie Chaplin silent flick. This is something that made the nightly news. Turns out the large woman so rudely chatting away on her Droid in The Circus, circa 1928,…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

Not sure that we should be making Infected jokes where the Columbian Exchange is involved. Blankets anyone? Too soon? It was 500 years ago. p4w4rr10r 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 it to the #taypics…

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