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Turning Old Vegas Into New Vegas

In the latest developer diary for Fallout: New Vegas, the team at Obsidian talk about how they tackled turning something old into something new, while keeping it old. I’m confused. Building a world based on the real world das we know it today is easy. With tons of old movies, archive footage, and photographs available,…

Running Backwards While Shooting A Shotgun Is A Bad Idea In Real Life

One brave or foolish gamer claims he took out his shotgun, went somewhere remote, and tried a common video game first-person shooter maneuver. The results were painful. This is how one man says he tried to back-up-and-shoot, using a shotgun, a broom, and a warehouse. He suffered some distress. The details were revealed in the…

Team Fortress 2 Now Lets You Buy Items With Real Money

No longer will you have to endure hours of Team Fortress 2 play just to unlock the game’s hidden weapons, defensive items and wearable accessories. Today, Valve opened the Mann Co. Store, which lets you buy goods with real-world cash. The update not only introduces a way to buy new guns, hats and fish-wrapped-in-newspaper melee…

Free-To-Play Free Runner FreeJack Enters Open Beta

FreeJack is a parkour MMO that looks like Jet Grind Radio, only without the skates, and starting tomorrow you can test it out. Free run through the streets of New Jack City against thousands of other players in FreeJack, a free-to-play parkour racing MMO from GamerKraft and Games Bridge Entertainment. It’s not the sort of…

The Wii Drawing Tablet Might Be The Best Wacky Wii Peripheral

Do you look at the Wii Remote and see the potential for an advanced fishing rod or bowling ball? Imagine it as part of a drawing tablet. I tested that set-up this week. It’s what Mario Paint Wii could’ve been. The Wii drawing tablet is technically called the uDraw Game Tablet. It is shipping in…

MAG Upgrades To Version 2.0

The 2.0 patch for Sony’s MAG went live today, bringing with it PlayStation Move support and enough game tweaks and changes it could be considered a whole new game. The full list of changes hitting in MAG patch 2.0 is huge. Developer Zipper Interactive has upped the level cap 60 to 70. There’s a new…

Bungie Made Halo: Reach, Look Mountain Dew and Doritos!

I am to be congratulated, it seems. I am one of just 300 people in the country to receive a Halo: Reach Honor the Code kit in the mail… courtesy of Mountain Dew and Doritos. What’s that entail, you might ask? Why six Halo: Reach-themed Mountain Dew drinks and two packs of Doritos stuffed into…

Skilled Photographers Struggling To Snap Good Photos Of Nintendo 3DS

The 3DS may be one of the most impressive pieces of gaming hardware ever promised, but it also may be the least photogenic. The glasses-free 3D graphics just don’t show well unless you see them in person. Normal cameras, even the ones wielded by professional photographers at this week’s big Nintendo conference in Japan, reduce…

Dragon Age DLC Gets All Wrapped Up In The Ultimate Edition

BioWare makes fans feel funny about every dollar they spent on downloadable content with the Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition, which bundles everything Dragon Age together for one low price. How much have you spent on Dragon Age: Origins and its downloadable content? BioWare says the whole shebang, including Awakenings, is worth $114. Players who…

Why Not Follow Kotaku on Facebook? Go on, you know you want to

Facebook isn’t just about farming, and mobbing and annoying the ever-loving-hell out of your friends. It’s also a great place to keep track of people and things and by things I mean what’s happening on Kotaku Read the site? Follow the Facebook. Check out who’s already hooked up and then join them and bask in…

Lex Luthor Is Definitely Compensating For Something

As a balding man, I object to the notion that a person with a hairless skull needs a giant suit of green and purple power armor to be a productive member of superhuman society in DC Universe Online. Lex has spent decades battling Superman to a standstill through sheer intelligence and cunning, but I guess…

Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare Comes To Life

After teasing us for two days, Rockstar finally delivers the terrifying trailer for Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare downloadable content. It was well worth the wait. Click to view The end of the trailer tells us that the Undead Nightmare downloadable content is coming “very soon,” but that’s not soon enough. Multiplayer is entertaining and…

F.E.A.R. The Almaverse

We saw brief, horrifying glimpses of the nightmarish landscape of Alma’s psyche in F.E.A.R. and F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. In F.E.A.R. 3 players will stare directly into its depths. The terror lurking inside Alma’s mind is normally her tool. She uses it to frighten her foes, allowing horrible things to pass into the real world…

Does A Programmable Wireless Xbox 360 Controller Count As Cheating?

Datel’s completely unauthorized TurboFire2 wireless Xbox 360 controller not only directly connects to the Xbox 360 without a dongle, you can connect it to your PC to apply “custom controller enhancements.” Microsoft should sue! Oh wait Microsoft filed a lawsuit against British peripheral manufacturer Datel back in April of this year, claiming the company “illegally…

Tall And Tan and Young and Lovely, The Kotaku From Ipanema Is Coming

Fact: Many of the most important moments in my life have been marked by Antonio Carlos Jobim’s wonderful song, The Girl from Ipanema. That song seems to drift through my best moments. So I was especially delighted to learn this month that like one of my favorite songs, Kotaku too will soon be in Portuguese.…

We’re giving stuff away, for free, for a month. Wheeeeeeee!

Will We Get More Monkey Island From Monkey Island’s Creators?

When news hit that Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer were working together again at the same studio, all thoughts seemed to shift to Monkey Island. And that makes sense. After all, the first two games in the Monkey Island series includes the first game the humorous development duo worked on together. It also includes the…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

We bid farewell to September’s AY image with this Lara Croft riff by reader MrMrScott. Celebrate by talking about games here. And please nominate an October painting over at #TAYpics (old paintings, please; include name of painter and art.)

Amazon Pegs World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Release For Early 2011

While the public still does not know what the official release date will be for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, online retailer Amazon indicated overnight a belief that the anticipated game expansion will be released in January. We’ve collected several e-mail tips from readers who report receiving e-mails from the online retailer in the last several…

But Our Princess Is Frozen In Carbonite…

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