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What Good Can Come Of The Meeting of Metallica & Call of Duty: Black Ops?

About a million dollars worth, actually. Activision and Metallica are teaming for a good cause and a selfish one, with the band headlining the publisher’s Call of Duty: Black Ops launch party and finding unemployed military vets jobs. The stars of Guitar Hero: Metallica will also be the stars of Activision’s big promotional push for…

Size Limit Spoils Super Meat Boy’s November Release On WiiWare

Team Meat has crushed any hopes of its sadistic platformer Super Meat Boy making a November release on the Wii. The indie developer says squeezing the game down to WiiWare size is responsible for delaying the game’s release. Addressing the “internets,” Team Meat says that a November release on WiiWare is “impossible,” saying it has…

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Vagina Shooter Scores Penis Enlargement

Zombie Cow Studio’s vagina-based shooter Privates grows a pair and then some next year, when the free game finally gets its inevitable dick-based downloadable content. Set loose upon an unsuspecting world last August, Privates took gamers on a horrific journey deep inside a woman’s reproductive organs, controlling a crack squad of condom-headed commandos as they…

The PlayStation Move Push Gets Weirder

Unusually dressed models showing off the Move motion controller as part of the PlayStation showcase at last week’s Paris Games Week. Never mind the Move, when will Sony release the official PS3 head-mounted disc? As seen on Flickr

Need Some Hibernation Entertainment?

It’s cold season and there is absolutely no reason to go outside again until April. Take this short survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win a $150 gift certificate to Game Stop. That will buy enough games to keep you entertained for the next few months. [Rules]

Get A New Bird’s Eye Look At Firefall

For a game that the developer will be handing out for free, Firefall looks impressively promising. The large scale team-based online shooter—don’t call it an MMO—is certainly pretty from way up here. It’s also pretty handsome on the ground, where much of the shoot ’em up action will take place. Given the game’s Tribes and…

Scientists Discover A Way To Erase Bad Memories

Science fiction takes another step closer to reality today as scientists discover a way to delete traumatic memories from the brains of lab animals. Your fear of Kotaku’s regular science posts may soon be a thing of the past! As human understanding of how the brain works expands, so does the number of delightful little…

Guitar Hero Becomes Synthesizer Hero

Confession: I adore Jan Hammer. So a mod turning a plastic guitar into a synthesizer is looking – and sounding – pretty good about now. Granted, the quality of tune possible with this crude mod isn’t up to the lofty standards of Mr. Hammer, but it’s the thought that counts, and this was a pretty…

This Is Good News For The Future Graphics Of Minecraft

Minecraft has a great personality, but it’s not the prettiest game in the world. Fortunately for the more superficial of us, developer Notch has taken some of that Minecraft money and hired a great artist, one you already know. That’d be the Swedish artist who calls himself “Junkboy.” You may remember him from such JPEGs…

Super Street Fighter IV’s Latest Costume Pack Is A Day Late

Yesterday would have been the perfect day for Super Street Fighter IV’s Ryu, Ken, Dan, Gouken and Akuma to play dress-up with the new Ultra Shoryuken Pack. At least PlayStation 3 players can pay $3.99 today for these striking new costumes. Xbox 360 players will have to wait until tomorrow to put their 320 Microsoft…

The Video Gamer’s Anthem, Maybe

Do gamers need a theme song? An anthem that celebrates the gamer lifestyle and proves they can get girls? Did I just hear the lyric: “Get a girl and break the trend? And prove the ruuuumorrrrs wrong!”? This video was made by Tejbz, whose YouTube page describes him as a 22-year old student in Sweden.…

Why I’m Afraid Of NCsoft’s PR Department

NCsoft’s Lincoln Davis plays up his uncanny resemblance to a certain Showtime serial killer during last Friday’s Halloween festivities. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

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This is what a perfect run of the first level looks like. This is definitely not me playing. The path can get really bumpy. Boss fights require quick thinking and quick reflexes. It’s be a really soothing experience if not for all the bullets.

Video Games Keep Tricking Us Into Doing Things We Loathe

What if the gap between the work we “have to” do and the video games we want to play were smaller? It’s happening – and while it’s helped me reach some goals, it’s also concerning me a bit. I’ve been trying for some months now to put down the controller and get more organized, get…

Mortal Kombat’s Scorpion Shows Off His Most Brutal Moves

Simply having access to Scorpion’s brutal move set in next year’s new Mortal Kombat isn’t enough. It’s in the way that you use them. This is obviously a video of someone who knows what they’re doing controlling one of Mortal Kombat’s most iconic anti-heroes as he punches, kicks, and grabs his way through a host…

Watch the World’s Coolest Math Teacher Troubleshoot a Haunted PC

This man is unarguably the greatest math teacher in the history of math teachers. Or at least the greatest at pulling off large-scale video projector pranks that leave you laughing, stunned, and a little bit awed. This isn’t Biola University professor Matt Weathers’ first outing with a stunt like this; his Halloween lecture last year…

Here are the Winners of Those Neat LEGO Wii Controllers

Over the weekend we kicked off a contest to give away a Power A LEGO Play & Build Wii Remote and ProPack Mini Wii MotionPlus controller to three newsletter subscribers. The good news is that you didn’t have to do anything if you already subscribed. Everyone who gets the Kotaku newsletter was entered. Here are…

Project Gotham Racing Making A Comeback

Project Gotham Racing’s engines have been stalled since Activision bought developer Bizarre Creations in 2007. Is Microsoft warming up European development studios for a potential PGR revival? “Trusted sources” tell game development website Develop that Microsoft is currently courting several independent European studios to revive the franchise that was the definitive racing experience on the…

Bejeweled 3’s Zen Mode Will Put You In A Trance

Bejeweled ‘s Endless mode is soothing enough to put players into a blissful trace. With subliminal positive affirmations, fine aural tones, and breath modulation, Bejeweled 3‘s Zen mode could have players slipping into puzzle-induced comas. After spending countless hours arranging gems into groups of three or more in previous iterations of Bejeweled, I would argue…