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Beer-Battered Kotaku Talk Radio

We invite you to listen to the newest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio right here, or download the one-hour show to your favorite MP3 player. This is an experimental episode. Crecente was traveling, so Mike McWhertor and I teamed up for this New York – Los Angeles edition. In this episode, we try a new…

Fedor Wins The What-If Fight

Randy Couture (left) and Fedor Emelianenko (right), cover stars of EA Sports MMA, have never fought in real life. They battled in-game at a launch event Tuesday, with the big Russian taking bragging rights. [Image via EA Sports]

Cabela’s Is Back, And This Time It’s Packing Heat

To video games, Cabela’s means The Gun, the pump-action piece of plastic with which you mow down herds of deer and squadrons of waterfowl. Yet it’s never appeared for any Cabela’s game on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Until now. Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 11, which releases on Tuesday, brings The Gun – more accurately, the…

Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 11

Making Team Fortress 2 Hats Turns Out To Be Very Profitable

The recently launched “Mann-conomy” for Team Fortress 2 has quickly become a profitable venture for the community modelers who cranked out new weapons, hats and accessories for Valve’s game. Valve just sent out royalty check to creators… and they’re big. Five TF2 community members—Rob Laro, Shawn Spetch, Steven Skidmore, Spencer Kern, and Shaylyn Hamm—created new…

BioShock Infinite In Four New Screens

Irrational Games, the people behind the BioShock in the sky coming in 2012, have released four new screens of the upcoming BioShock Infinite that might feel a tad familiar. You’ve seen these people, place and things before, but not from these angles. You may have seen these things in gameplay video, perhaps in the game’s…

Don’t Worry About The Witness

Some gamers who loved Jonathan Blow’s Braid were perplexed when early footage of his team’s next game, The Witness, debuted on Kotaku last month. To those alarmed or confused, Blow offers some encouraging words. “The only two guys who have played The Witness to completion have said it will be better than Braid when it…

Reaper Heading For PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, PSN and PSP

Luc Bernard’s Reaper was going to be an episodic downloadable PSP title. Now it’s a full downloadable title coming to the PSP, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and possibly even the PlayStation Network. Let’s celebrate with three new exclusive screens! Reaper is a rather fetching little 2D action-adventure title starring one of Death’s little helpers gone…

Sony: We’ve Moved More Than A Million PlayStation Moves

Sony’s motion controller add-on for the PlayStation 3 has been out for a little more than a month in North America. How’s the PlayStation Move doing, according to Sony? Oh, spectacularly, of course! Sony Computer Entertainment America says it has shipped—meaning sold to retailers, not necessarily to consumers—”over one million units” of the Move in…

How Many Of These NES Games Can You Name?

In this video, you can see more than 700 Nintendo Entertainment System games, supposedly every unique North American NES game ever released, 1.1 seconds allotted to each. How many can you name? They’re in alphabetical order, if that helps. This is an impressive compilation by the folks at NES Guide. It celebrates the silver anniversary…

Fallout: New Vegas Updated, PC Bugs Squashed?

As promised, Fallout New Vegas publisher Bethesda says they’ve patched the PC version of the new role-playing game and are working on updates for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions soon. “We have just released an automatic update for the PC version of Fallout: New Vegas that resolves quest and scripting issues,” Kotaku was…

LEGO: Knights Of The Old Republic Is Such A Tease

I mean, there’s already LEGO Star Wars. There’s even LEGO Star Wars based on a video game. Why not go one better and make some LEGO: Knights of the Old Republic? I don’t mean a game. Just the LEGO. Stephan de Prouw made both of these, the big one being a Hammerhead-class cruiser, the small…

Man Sets Fire To GameStop, In Stand-off With Police [Update]

A man has reportedly set fire to and barricaded himself within a Roseville, California GameStop location, claiming to have possession of a gun in a stand-off with local police. The Westfield Galleria at Roseville has been evacuated. According to reports from the scene, the fire set by the man has been extinguished by sprinklers and…

Kotaku Goes To BlizzCon 2010

It’s time for BlizzCon 2010, Blizzard’s annual fan gathering and celebration of all things Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft. What does Blizzard have in store for fans this year? The show kicks off tomorrow with our live blog of the opening ceremonies at noon Pacific. From there we’ll take you on a Blizzard-soaked trip all weekend…

New XPS Laptops From Dell Have Core i5 Processors, HD Webcams and JBL Speakers

They may look extra-unwieldy next to yesterday’s Airs, but the XPS line has returned—much to its fans’ delight, I’m sure. There are 14, 15 and 17-inch options available, each with backlit keyboards and brushed aluminum outers. Inside though, there are some decent specs (particularly when you consider they start at $899. Intel Core i5 460M…

For The First Time, Rockstar Games Previews A Game With A Rhyme

We knew Rockstar Games was going to include a cooperative multiplayer gamers vs. zombies horde mode in the October 26 Red Dead Redemption expansion Undead Nightmare. Who knew they were going to make a poem about it? See/hear it here.

Frankenreview: Vanquish

Strap on your power armor, light up a cigarette, and join Sam Gideon as he attempts to kick the assembled video game critics in the face in the Vanquish Frankenreview. Can Sam Gideon keep a despicable Russian military leader from turning New York into the next San Francisco? That’s just silly. New York will never…

Microsoft Japan Looks to Schoolgirl Cachet to Sell Kinect

Two girls from SKE48, a spin-off act of Japan’s most popular female group, are appearing in Kinect television spots. The U.S. might be just now getting what’s apparently a Kinect ad, but Japan is already on its second! Both “Future Report” ads look like late 70s – early 80s science programs and differ significantly from…

The Battle Of The Spartan DJs

The day after I posted a clip of my Halo: Reach helmeted Xbox 360 avatar playing DJ Hero I went online to do battle, and found a truly worthy adversary. It was 2AM on Wednesday morning when this little guy popped up as a challenger in a random online DJ Hero battle, and I immediately…

Forsaken World Is Not Your Average Asian MMO

Most North American players of massively multiplayer online games see an Asian-developed free-to-play MMO and automatically assume it’s just another pretty grind-fest. Perfect World Entertainment’s director of marketing Jon Belliss says those assumptions are mostly correct. “90% of the time they are absolutely right,” says Belliss, speaking to me along with Perfect World’s director of…