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Halo: Reach Challenges Are Alive Let’s Take a Look

As if you needed another reason to be playing Halo: Reach far too much, the game’s Daily and Weekly Challenges are now live. What are those, you ask? Have a look see.

A Peek At NBA 2K11’s Halftime Show

Operation Sports rolled out a six-minute video showing the second quarter of a Sixers-Knicks matchup. Gameplay galore, but the new news is the halftime show, confirmed last week, which you can get a whiff of at the 5:00 mark. The voice is of San Francisco’s KNBR-AM’s Damon Bruce, who once awarded me tickets to a…

Here’s me stabbing Crecente in the ass. It was a blast, met a lot of people to play Reach with. Favourite parts of the night would either be the whole blue team playing our improvised game type “Hunt Down the Kotaku Writers” in Team SWAT, or driving around in a Warthog with Crecente while trying…

Too Little Sleep, Too Much Coffee

To: Ash From: Crecente Who needs to workout when they can just skimp on the sleep and binge on the coffee? Seriously, my heart is pounding away as I type this. Cardio for the day: Check! Sounds like you guys have been absolutely slammed since you arrived in Tokyo. You’ve been doing a great job.…

American McGee’s Alice Officially Kicks Off TGS Cosplay

American McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns wasn’t playable at EA’s pre-TGS event, but the publisher tried to make up for it with a blood-stained cosplaying Alice who might cut you if you tried to grab the controller.

First Batch Of Madden Moments Live Arrive

The first batch of “Madden Moments Live” – replayable situations from the previous week’s real NFL games – went up to EA Sports’ servers today and, yep, one of them is Detroit at Chicago, ended by a dubious officiating decision. To recap: “Madden Moments Live” is the new downloadable content series being delivered by Madden…

Kotaku Play Date: Yes Please

Well that was a lot of fun! Last night Fahey and I went online to play Halo: Reach with an assortment of Kotaku readers, asking you all to create your own game sessions as well. We had a total blast. We’re definitely going to be doing more of this. Here are a few videos showing…

Meet The New Team Ninja

The men who make Dead or Alive, Ninja Gaiden and, now, Ni-Oh are Yasunori Sakuda (chief programmer), Yohei Shimbori (chief planner), Yosuke Hayakshi (team leader) and Yutaka Saito (art director), the “new” Team Ninja. Photographed at Umekawa-Tei in Tokyo.

Let’s TGS: Day One!

The Tokyo Game Show doesn’t kick off officially until later tonight Eastern time, but already there’s been plenty of news from the likes of Electornic Arts, Capcom and Tecmo. Here’s a look back at the day leading up to the big Tokyo show: See Japan Crumble (In 3D!!!) In Disaster Report 4 Ico, Shadow of…

Mega Man In Candy Form

Mmmm de-licious! At Capcom’s event in Tokyo, there was a candy maker on hand to whip up confectionary treats. Besides Mega Man, Ailu from Monster Hunter, Amatersau from Okami and the Umbrella Corporation logo from Resident Evil.

Speak-Up On Kotaku: Retail Rage, Halo Rage, Server Rage, And Muppets

In this week’s rage-fueled installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, Bharat Raghu, Jack2Pot, and Time Pilot AKA discuss retailer choices, Halo haters, and server downtime, while Darkboy1200 reminds us how awesome muppets are. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to…

Know Who Your Friends Are In Fallout: New Vegas

You can’t expect to survive the harsh wastelands surrounding New Vegas without the help of a few friends. Check out the dogs, robots, humans, super mutants, and ghouls that’ll be helping you survive Fallout: New Vegas. Not only do Fallout: New Vegas’ companions keep you company, they deliver helpful perks to your character, just by…

This Will Get You Drunk

Capcom-branded sake and a Daruma doll shaped as an Monster Hunter Ailu. As given to me by Capcom.

Snoop Dogg, Chuck, LL Cool J Boom Dizzle in Best Halo: Reach Vid Ever

And I thought our Kotaku Play Date on Halo: Reach was intense, at least we didn’t try distracting each other… But LL Cool J’s mindtricks don’t work on Snoop Dogg, or as the hip-hop star puts it: “A flatbed truck full of bikini models? Shoot, just another Wednesday for me.” No, Snoop Dogg is so…

The Price Of Demon’s Souls Drops

One of the prime contenders for Kotaku’s 2009 Game of the Year Award, Atlus’ Demon’s Souls joins the PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits line today, with the new $29.99 price tag sure to spark a resurgence of online play. If you had told me a year ago that Atlus would have a game in the PS3…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Gets Its Own Limited Edition Jeep

In what could be part of the ultimate collector’s edition for Black Ops, Chrysler will soon be rolling out a limited Call of Duty edition of the Jeep Wrangler. Forget the Halo: Reach Legendary Edition, how legendary would it be if Activision bundled a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops together with a limited…

Xbox Live Indie Clips: Prismatic Solid

In this week’s installment of Xbox Live Indie Clips, we take a look at Prismatic Solid, a colorful and stylish shooter that earned Japan’s Yoichi Hayashi $10,000 in Microsoft’s 2010 Dream.Build.Play contest. Prismatic Solid is a nifty little shooter that takes the player on a journey through six different colorful stages of bullet hell goodness.…

Pinball FX 2’s Rome Table Likely Not Built In A Day

Six stately new screens for Zen Studio’s Pinball FX 2 arrived this morning, along with info on how the sequel’s scoring system will give players the choice to stand with their friends or against them. Zen promised a more involved social experience in Pinball FX 2 for Xbox Live Arcade, and it all starts with…

Talking ‘Bout The Tokyo Game Show, Halo: Reach and Move

It’s a busy week for gamers. Earlier this week Xbox 360 exclusive Halo: Reach hit stores, leading to many sleepless nights for yours truly. Earlier this morning the Tokyo Game Show kicked off with a bang, as Electronic Arts, Capcom and Tecmo held events throughout the day in Tokyo. And later this week the Playstation’s…

Capcom Likes Dead Rising 2 Dev So Much They Bought Them

Capcom this morning said they plan to purchase Dead Rising 2 developer Blue Castle Games. The two studios will work together to create a new studio called Capcom Games Vancouver, said Keiji Inafune, designer of Dead Rising and Mega-Man. With the Vancouver developer becoming a Capcom studio, I wonder what will happen to Blue Castle…