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PC Gaming Week Confessional, Luke Edition

We are all over PC gaming this week, but what do we know about PC gaming? Each day, one Kotaku editor will reveal their PC gaming knowledge and share some memories. Yesterday you read about Ashcraft’s experiences, now it’s my turn. Are you a PC gamer? You bet your ass I am. While I own…

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Famous Developers Share Their Favorite PS2 Games

This week is the tenth anniversary of the PlayStation 2’s launch in North America, and as part of the celebrations Sony rounded up a bunch of big-name developers and asked them what their favourite PS2 games were. Don’t worry, it’s not just Sony or Sony BFF developers giving their thoughts; everyone from Ken Levine to…

Threepio, R2 Break Into A Store To Play Video Games

When they’re not starring in movies or cartoons, Star Wars’ C-3PO and R2-D2 like nothing more than to…break into a large British electronics retailer, turn on all the TVs and play some video games. And that’s probably the least entertaining part of this commercial for Currys & PC World Megastores, in which Threepio plays the…

Woman Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session

A 22 year-old woman from Jacksonsville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of…Farmville. Alexandra V. Tobias says her three-month old child, Dylan Lee Edmondson, had been crying while she was trying to play the popular Facebook casual game. This angered Tobias, who told authorities that she shook the baby,…

Gal Gun’s Panic Button Saves You From Looking Like A Perv

Developer Alchemist’s creepy schoolgirl shoot ’em up Gal Gun is not the type of thing you’d be proud to play. Thankfully, the developer of the Xbox 360 game knows this, letting players keep their fetishistic arcade action a secret. Gal Gun, which puts players in the role of a high school student who must fend…

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

We’ve got a fully functioning open thread right here and after a day of competing with LA traffic, we’re going to hand you the steering wheel for this one. You may want to talk about Blade Runner. You may want to talk about video games. You may want to talk about any of the following…

Left 4 Dead Comes To Mac, Goes Cheap

Mac owners can start “grabbin’ peels” today with the arrival of the original Left 4 Dead, which Valve has released via Steam. To celebrate the latest Windows-to-Mac port, Left 4 Dead is now 50% off. But wait, there’s more! In addition to Mac support for Left 4 Dead—delivered kind of on time, no less—Valve has…

These Are Your Best Last Minute Video Game Halloween Costume Ideas

Ninja Golf. Phalanx. Wall Street Kid. David Jaffe. If any of these names ring a bell with you or your friends, you may have a great Halloween costume idea ripe for the taking right here. As is annual tradition, the retro costumesmiths at Vintage Computing and Gaming have put together a can’t lose list of…

Team Fortress 2 Gets Its First Boss Monster, Second Halloween Update

Halloween has come to Team Fortress 2! And so has the game’s first boss monster, the axe-wielding, jack o’ lantern behatted Horseless Headless Horsemann. It’s all part of Valve’s second annual TF2 Halloween special. The latest update for the oft-updated Team Fortress 2 adds an all-new map, the spooky Mann Manor, as well as a…

Annual EA Layoffs Hit NBA, Skate Teams Hardest, Sources Say

EA has issued its latest round off layoffs today, describing them as “season roll-offs,” which sounds much more pleasant. According to sources claiming knowledge of the situation, EA Canada, developer of Skate and NBA Elite, bore the brunt of those cuts. Electronic Arts reps confirmed to Kotaku that layoffs were happening at the publisher-developer, but…

A Look At Free-To-Play Star Trek – Infinite Space in Action

Star Trek – Infinite Space gets its first trailer today, giving us a glimpse of what the free-to-play game hopes to deliver. The Galaxy at War trailer launched along side the preview site for the upcoming game, which is set in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine time line. Gameforge promises to update the site…

Borderlands’ Big Level Up Update Explained

Gearbox Software’s promised patch for its smash-hit action RPG Borderlands is coming, raising the level cap for everyone in the pursuit of better loot and harder bosses. When’s it coming? Soon. Soonish. Maybe. An official post on the Gearbox forums says the free title update for Borderlands is finished on the dev side. They just…

A Glimpse of The Call of Duty: Black Ops Multiplayer Maps

Here’s a glimpse at the multiplayer map select and killstreak screens of upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops. While McWhertor detailed the killstreaks for Black Ops back in September, I think this is the first time we’ve seen what our source tells us is the full multiplayer map list.

A Winner Is You

To: Ash From: Crecente I love being able to give away cool prizes to our readers, especially during tough economic times like these. I know it’s not a job or mortgage payment, but I’d like to think it brightens the winners day just a bit. As much fun as the contests may be though, I…

Geek Is…

Geek. This word is power, Chris Metzen, Blizzard’s senior vice president of creative development tells us. This word is identity. This is our word. And for one weekend it was also BlizzCon’s word. After watching this video that is all things us, all things Blizzard, take a minute to read the rest of our coverage…

Show Us Your Gaming Rig

No, this isn’t my current gaming rig. It’s a postmortem picture of the last computer I built myself which died by heat and electrical shorts. These days I run a Voodoo with an AMD 64 FX-60 2.5 GHz dual core processor, 2 gigs of memory and an ATI Radeon X1900 graphics card. It’s in need…

Call of Duty: Black Ops ‘Little Known’ Multiplayer Facts

Treyarch is declassifying information on Call of Duty: Black Ops‘ many multiplayer features, offering a quick briefing on the online half of the game a few weeks before launch. For example, did you know that Black Ops supports split-screen online multiplayer? Oh, you did? That’s why Treyarch community guy Josh Olin is calling these “little-known…

Minecraft’s Biome Reveal Video Also Prettiest Minecraft Video

Notch, developer of the world carving, item alchemy game Minecraft, is bringing players of the PC hit a treat for Halloween: biomes. What are biomes? This video shows you ten of them. These collections of Minecraft flora and fauna range from arctic to desert zones, with each biome capable of spawning its own monsters and…

We Have Kinect, Home Testing Begins

I possess this box. In this box was an Xbox 360 Kinect and games. Courtesy of Microsoft, Kotaku is now a gaming news outlet that can be the controller. We have Kinect. One is hooked up to my TV. The Xbox 360 Kinect launches on November 4. As an agreement for getting the device early,…