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The Nintendo Download: $8 Artsy Game vs. $2 Flashlight

Bit.Trip Fate might be another game in a musically and graphically inventive series. Flashlight is a flashlight. Bit.Trip Fate might be fun. Flashlight might save your life (according to the official product description). Decision time, NIntendo download consumers! Our Mike Fahey usually chronicles the Monday releases brought to Nintendo systems by the ever-unusual collection of…

John Lennon’s Imagine Album Coming To Rock Band

John Lennon’s most popular solo album, Imagine, will be “among the first albums” available for download following this week’s launch of Rock Band 3, according to the game’s developers. Hyping this week’s release of Rock Band 3, MTV Games and Harmonix revealed that the legendary Beatles’ full 10-song Imagine album will be paid downloadable content,…

Show Us Your Gaming Laptop

Here’s a shot of just a few of the laptops I currently have in the house. I even use some to play games on. What’s not shown? The laptop so worn down that you can see the circuitry through the top of the case, the laptop with the “I Rock, I’m a Rocker” sticker on…

Mario And Luigi Sitting On A Surfboard, Eating Popcorn

As seen by me. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

3D And Gyro Sensor Might Make Racing Difficult

The Nintendo 3DS has 3D and a gyro sensor. That doesn’t the 3D gaming and motion sensing gaming go together on the 3DS like peanut butter and jelly. The 3DS has a sweet spot for viewing 3D. Tilt the console to the side, and the 3D effect vanishes. Gyro sensing is based on tilt controls!…

iTunes Chart Toppers: An Angry Bird Sandwich

Angry Birds didn’t just regain the number one spot on the iPhone and iPad, it’s also got a second top ten spot on both platforms. Halloween magic! Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds Halloween (Rovio Mobile) $0.99 1 — 2 Cut the…

Digital Storm’s New High-End Gaming PCs Light Up BlizzCon

At BlizzCon 2010, high-end gaming PC builder Digital Storm showed us a pair of machines powerful and attractive enough to make any PC gamer’s heart sing…and their wallet cry for mercy. One of the big differences between console and PC gaming is that you can’t spend thousands of dollars for a more powerful Xbox 360…

Here are 25 Codes for the Killzone 3 Beta, Get Em While They Last!

No warning (unless you follow us on Facebook or Twitter), no contest, no rules. Just grab one of these 25 codes for the Killzone 3 beta and have fun. Update: They’re all gone. It would be nice if you came back after redeeming one and let people know which you took. That is all: J5HT-QJN5-R5AL…

Let’s Check Out the New Maps of Halo: Reach

Why don’t we! Seen in this video is a look at the new maps of the upcoming Nobel Map downloadable content pack coming to Halo: Reach. That means Anchor 9, Tempest, and Breakpoint. The 800 Microsoft Point map pack hits Nov. 30.

Microsoft: We Are Doubling Down on PC Games

Exactly a year after rolling out Windows 7 with much fanfare, Microsoft seems to be finally remembering the gamers who help make their platform so popular. The Oct. 22, 2009 launch of Windows 7 happened with almost no reference to gaming, or the people who use the system so prevalently to game. It was a…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

It’s time to talk more about video games and to wonder where all the TAYpics have gone. With a week of October to go, the #TAYpics supply is running low. Reader MrMrScott gets us out of a jam today, but Kotaku needs you, dear readers, to submit your best images for Talk Amongst Yourselves to…

A Week of PC Gaming on Kotaku

One might think that Kotaku Tower is a place bereft of computers, or at least gaming on computers, judging by how infrequently we write about them. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. More than half of us actually love computer gaming. I myself grew up on PC gaming, skipping everything from the Nintendo…

Please Imagine This Photo!

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Busy busy nite. Wanted to get a photo up for this Night Note, but have a billion other things I need to get to first. Apologies! What you missed last night Blizzard Says Valve’s DOTA Trademark “Doesn’t Seem The Right Thing To Do” PSP2 Will Be Bigger, Out Fall 2011, Currently…

Valve Checking Out Blizzard

Gabe Newell from Valve gets in a few rounds of DOTA. As seen on HalfLife2.net. Thanks, lamba! Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Dragon Ball, The Blue Jeans

There are Dragon Ball manga, Dragon Ball anime, Dragon Ball toys and Dragon Ball video games. How about jeans? Got them, too. Priced at ¥18,900 (US$234), the jeans are made in Fukuyama City, Japan and feature knowing nods to the Dragon Ball franchise. The jeans go on sale this December in Japan. Nothing quite says…

Red Dead’s Best Update Has Nothing To Do With Zombies

My first thirty seconds of Red Dead Redemption’s multiplayer went a little something like this: whistle for donkey, get on donkey, get shot in the face by somebody on a horse. That pattern continued for another few days I love the idea behind the game’s free-roam multiplayer, where random strangers are thrown together on the…

Blizzard Says Valve’s DOTA Trademark “Doesn’t Seem The Right Thing To Do”

Defence of the Ancients Allstars was a Warcraft III mod. Now, Valve is trying to trademark the name. That doesn’t sit very well with Blizzard, the developers of Warcraft III. “To us, that means that you’re really taking it away from the Blizzard and Warcraft III community and that just doesn’t seem the right thing…

Costume Quest

Super Mario Bros’ Controls Were Originally Different

In Super Mario Bros., the “A” button is jump, and the “B” button is run or shoot fireballs. It wasn’t always that way. The original plan for Super Mario Bros. was quite different. For example, it involved shooting. A booklet included in the Wii title “Super Mario Collection Special Pack” shows just how different. The…

The Art Of Dragon Age

While Dragon Age fans wait for a proper coffee table book outlining the story (and art) behind the creation of BioWare’s award-winning RPG, the next best thing is currently up over on Pixologic. The art team from the game has opened up and shared a ton of really interesting content, including character renders and even…