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There Are Common Threads Of “Fun” In Japan, American And Europe

Hiroyuki Kobayashi, designer of Sengoku Basara (aka Devil Kings), talks East vs. West. Via 1Up

The 288,945 Most Popular Websites On The Internet

Earlier this year, Alexa sat down and compiled a list of the top 1,000,000 websites in the world. Listing those sites would be good reading, but looking at a picture of the most popular ones is much cooler. Nmap have run a script that gathered the 288,945 most popular websites from that list, stuck their…

When Will Final Fantasy Versus XIII Be Out? One Day

Role-playing game Final Fantasy Versus XIII was first shown in 2006 at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles. It’s now 2010, and the game is not out. And don’t expect the game to be out in 2011. “We have no release date information to update,” Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase told website Gaming Union. “Unfortunately…

Playboy Gets Into The Online Gaming Business

Playboy has had enough of letting people simply license games based on the magazine and its bunnies, today revealing a deal with online developer Bigpoint to host games on the magazine’s website. The first of these games, due out later this year, is called Poisonville, which as you can see by the trailer is a…

Could You Play Modern Warfare 2 Without Killing Anyone?

And I don’t mean in singleplayer. I mean multiplayer. Because Glen McCracken is doing just that, trying to reach the maximum level 70 in multiplayer without killing a soul. How the hell is he going to do that? He uses a riot shield, and gets his XP from grabbing flags in the game’s Domination mode.…

No One Has Ever Been This Excited By Time Traveler

As seen in Flickr user Bathlander’s Strong National Museum of Play photo set.

Guild Wars 2 Necromancer Revealed

Now that I’ve posted my impressions of playing one at Gamescom, ArenaNet has gone ahead and posted the official reveal of the next Guild Wars 2 class, the Necromancer. Once I got home from Gamescom, I hopped onto the original Guild Wars, which I purchased following my post on the Ranger class that everyone loved…

Cowboys Stadium Is A Venue In EA Sports MMA

Recently, the CEO of MMA promotion Strikeforce mentioned he’d visited Cowboys Stadium. As Strikeforce is a licensing partner of the upcoming EA Sports MMA, some took that to mean the site might show up in the game. They’re right. MMA enthusiast site MiddleEasy.com pinged EA Sports’ Randy Chase to ask about Cowboys Stadium – considering…

The Cutest Okamiden Book Cover and Marker Ever

Found over on the e-Capcom online store for Capcom Japan, this adorable little soft book cover includes a button, picture of Chibiterasu’s cub face and a bookmark that looks like his tail. Okamiden Book Cover [Capcom-Unity]

The Rise Of Jetpacks, The Beasts Of Halo, Two Rants And More

Crecente and I hosted the latest Kotaku Talk Radio podcast today, and now you can download the one-hour show to hear us talk Gamescom, Halo Reach and both the future and noisiness of jetpacks. Jetpacks… everybody is wearing them, in video games at least. That’s just one of the deep topics we cover. I do…

Avenger, Assembled

The M8 Avenger rifle from Mass Effect, as constructed by Volpin Props and spied by reader Kai N. Check the link for many more images of its construction.

Newest Madden iPhone Management App Now Available

EA Sports has published an update to its free iPhone application allowing Madden players to manage their Online Franchises away from the console. Madden NFL 11 Online Franchise Companion’s greatest utility is in proposing and accepting trades among members of your online franchise. You may also keep track of schedules, results, roster moves and other…

How To Keep A Clean Sheet In FIFA 11

New to this year’s edition of EA Sports’ FIFA will be the opportunity to play as a goalkeeper in the game’s career mode or in online team play. This tutorial gives the basics of the position’s entirely new control set. The fundamentals: You’re given an on-pitch marker that shows the best position to play the…

Case Zero

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: There Are Too Many Shows Too Close Together Looks like Totilo is starting to nail down on the appointments for Penny Arcade Expo this week. How is Tokyo Game Show looking? I’ve been playing through Dead Rising II: Case Zero today. So far no sign of Frank West yet. Dangit.…

Google’s ‘Game Developer Advocate’ Leaves

After a little over four months on the job, Google’s “game developer advocate” is no longer with the company. The development follows his discussion at GDC-Europe of Google’s revenue plans for games sold over its Chrome Web Store Mark DeLoura, a veteran with deep ties to the industry, joined Google in early April; on his…

Speak-Up On Kotaku: Extreme-Gs, The Wireless 60, Kotaku Sneakers, And Sadness

Yes, we’re back to this again. This week on Speak-Up on Kotaku, Subterpunk, AnnexOne, StrategyMonk, and Mr. Pie! punctuate the return of this feature with Extreme-G, console knock-offs, some awesome shoes, and the sad state of the Dreamcast. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku:…

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Zynga Sued Over Mafia Wars Name

Popular Facebook game Mafia Wars comes under fire today as creator Zynga is sued for trademark violation by Digital Chocolate, the creator of the Mafia Wars mobile phone game series. Digital Chocolate, a developer of mobile and PC games founded by EA founder Trip Hawkins, is the creator of the Mafia Wars mobile phone game…

The Latest James Bond 007: Blood Stone Screens and Teaser

When McWhertor got a second look at James Bond 007: Blood Stone last week in Germany he said the game may have won him over Here’s a look at some of the new trailers and screenshots of the game to perhaps explain why. In it we see Daniel Craig’s Bond taking down some bad guys…

How To Succeed As A World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Beta Tester

Getting into the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta is all about having fun and experiencing new content, right? Wrong! Machinima.com sets Cataclysm beta testers straight in this guide to winning the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta test. Beta testing is your chance to have a say in what direction a game goes in, while helping…