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Left 4 Dead’s ‘The Sacrifice’ Comic Series Goes Live

Valve’s sequel-spanning digital comic that explains just what happened to Left 4 Dead’s original Survivors, dubbed “The Sacrifice,” is yours for the reading. How do things go so horribly wrong between the original game and “The Passing”? Well, Tanks. Part one of “The Sacrifice,” part of Valve’s new cross-game story arc plans, offers us plenty…

He Doesn’t Have To Give This One Back

Reggie Bush today forfeited his 2005 Heisman Trophy. He also starred on NCAA 07’s cover. EA Sports, of course, won’t erase that. But if Bush hadn’t played in 2005, it’s likely Heisman runner-up Vince Young would have made the cover. Custom Vince Young cover via Fanblogs.

Valve Wants To Hear Your Body Talk

Let’s get physical, or more specifically, let’s get biometrical, as Valve’s Gabe Newell, Erik Johnson and Doug Lombardi talk to PC Gamer about using players’ intrinsic physical reactions to playing video games. Valve doesn’t just want to hear how much you like its games. Valve wants to know how you really feel, and the company…

Enslaved Is More Than One Giant Escort Quest

in the latest developer diary for Ninja Theory’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, the fine folks at Ninja Theory explain how Monkey and Trip work together, all while standing in an abandoned home stacking monitors. I quite like it when a developer tries to use compelling locations and nifty special effects to spice up their…

Vanquish Gets Armored Up In The UK Special Edition

Sam Gideon comes alive in this exclusive special edition of Sega’s Vanquish featuring a lovely window box and one extremely sexy seven inch figure. It’s time to make some friends in the UK. Vanquish’s distinctive visual flair has been catch the eyes of gamers everywhere since Sega first drew back the curtain on the sci-fi…

The Dead Rising 2 Hydraulic Zombie Shovler in Action

Dead Rising 2 is all about killing zombies creatively . Thanks to the inclusion of duct tape in the action game, that’s not a problem. In this video we see what happens when you duct tape a shovel to an electric hammer chisel, aka the poor man’s jackhammer. Not exactly effective unless the zombie you’re…

When Mega Man Meets Mortal Kombat

What do you get when you cross Capcom’s 8-bit hero Mega Man with the deadliest fighters this side of Outworld? You get the most adorable collection of cold-blooded killers ever. Flickr user ShampooTeacher teaches us a thing or two about combining two of gaming’s most beloved franchises with the help of a little fancy beadwork.…

Pro Guitar Mode Makes Rock Band 3 Harder, Slightly Confusing, Socially Redeeming

At last, your shame will end. At last, you will be able to tell your guitar-playing friends that you too can play guitar, well sorta, thanks to Rock Band 3’s pro guitar mode. Plus, you will have learned guitar better There is a simplicity to Rock Band 3’s Pro Guitar mode that words can convey…

Chicago’s Second Baseman Has His Priorities Straight

Seen on Chicago White Sox Brent Lillibridge’s Twitter on the eve of a do-or-die series with the Minnesota Twins, via ESPN

Storming The Stronghold In Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption’s Liars and Cheats DLC is due out next week, bringing with it the brand new Stronghold game type, and this is what it looks like. You can never have enough flags in online multiplayer games; that’s what I always say. Red Dead’s new Stronghold multiplayer mode increases the number of flags in…

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A Metal Goodbye to Halo 3

Halo: Reach, as much as I loved it, also brings with it some bad tidings. Eventually, one day, the success of Reach will mean the death of Halo 3. Let’s take a moment to say goodbye to a Halo we loved to play with this video montage from Machinima.Com.

Blizzard Prepares To Ban StarCraft II Cheaters

StarCraft II players using unauthorized hacks and modifications to get a leg up on the competition might want to give fair play a try, as a Blizzard statement indicates the end of the line is in sight for cheaters. Blizzard is a company that takes cheating quite seriously. Regularly banning massive numbers of players for…

Thanks For Everything, Video Games

A globe of fire temporarily replaced a portion of the blackness on the horizon. The fire shimmered close to where my eyes landed, and then peeled back farther away. My fingertips were freezing. I coughed. The cough brought the pain in my jaw to life. I removed my bandanna and retied it, trying to wedge…

The Colorful Cast Of The Tester’s Second Season

Meet Big Fazeek, Max1m, War Princess, Gaymer, Mo Chocolate, and the rest of the cast of season two of Sony’s PlayStation Network reality show The Tester, in which players compete for one of the worst jobs in the gaming industry. The first season of The Tester gave us an interesting look at the sort of…

DC Universe Online Adds Talking Monkeys In Purple Undies

Batman’s archenemy is a homicidal lunatic, Superman has a megalomaniac hell-bent on world domination, and the Flash? The Flash has a hyper-intelligent gorilla. Check out Gorilla Grodd and the monkey fun bunch in these latest screens from DC Universe Online. I suppose the logical evil opposite to the Flash would be a guy who moved…

Kotaku Play Date: Halo: Reach

We like playing video games. You like playing video games. Don’t you think we should try playing together sometime? Why not, other than the absurdly high hurdles presented by technology and a crazy ratio that is approaching 1 million readers for every Kotaku staffer. But hey, it’s worth a try right? For our first ever…

PopCap Launching Casual Gaming “Disneyland” In Korea

PopCap Games, the company behind ridiculously addictive games like Bejeweled and Plants Vs. Zombies, has teamed up with MMO company NCsoft to create PopCap World, an online multiplayer social game service launching in Korea later this year. Korean gamers, known for latching on to online games and never letting go, are about to meet some…

Capcom’s Marvelous Tokyo Game Show Swag

With the Tokyo Game Show just days away developers and publishers are starting to prep for the big show, creating websites for their news, rolling out new views and, of course, unveiling the goodies they’ll be giving away. Here’s a look at the freebies you can get at Capcom’s booth. Capcom TGS