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The Massive GamesCom Preview Gallery

Take a peek at what’s going on this week at GamesCom in Germany, as Kotaku takes you on a tour of the convention grounds, with a special sneak peek at the show floor. We spent today wandering around Cologne, Germany, taking in the local flavor, before our curiosity got the better of us and we…

Xbox Indie Clips: AvaGlide

Today on Kotaku’s Xbox Indie Clips we take a look at AvaGlide, the Xbox Live Indie Game that gets us in a Pilot Wings sort of mood. Our pal Luke Plunkett drooled over Haiku Interacive’s Xbox Live Indie Game AvaGlide a few weeks back, but couldn’t play it, because Australia doesn’t have Xbox Live Indie…

Ghost Recon Predator Shows Its Screenshots, Its RC Car

Confirming a leak last month from the U.S. games ratings board, Ubisoft confirmed today that there’s a new Ghost Recon coming to PSP, a welcome addition to the platform’s thinned line-up. It’ll be out in November. At the PlayStation blog, Ubisoft brand manager Nate Mordo establishes the game as a squad-based mission behind enemy lines…

Somehow, Gun Loco Is From The People Who Make Final Fantasy

When you think Square-Enix’s Japan studios, do you think violent shooter with people wearing over-sized rabbit heads? Gun Loco, a 2011 disc-based Xbox 360 exclusive fits that bill. The game’s website launches on Wednesday, so this might be a Gamescom thing. The oddest aspect of the pre-release describing the game is that the characters are…

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‘It Would Be Dishonest To Say This Is Not BioShock.’

If BioShock Infinite debuts with a gameplay demo and a trailer that includes no Little Sisters, no Rapture, no — so far — apparent storyline connection to earlier BioShocks, is it really a BioShock game? Yes, its creator told Kotaku. “It would be dishonest to say this is not BioShock,” Irrational Games creative director Ken…

A Very Strange Place To Find A Trading Card Game

The last place I expected to discover a fully-realized online trading card game, complete with duelist animations, experience point rankings, and animated dueling effects, was the virtual world of Second Life. I wouldn’t have discovered the LOGOS Collectible Card Game at all, had an e-mail from the game’s creator arrived a month ago. Fortunately my…

German People Look Silly Playing Kinect Too

Upstairs at a two-story GameStop in scenic downtown Cologne, Germany, a young woman tries out Kinect, where du bist der Controller I’ve arrived in Cologne a few hours ago, took a brief nap in my tiny hotel room without air conditioning, and then took a stroll through the town, looking for something to spend money…

This Is What The Halo Reach Xbox 360 Sounds Like

Microsoft’s Major Nelson just posted the Halo sound-effects the Halo Reach edition of the Xbox 360 makes when powered up and when the tray slides. He’s offering them as ring tones, an act we’re not prepared to judge yet.

iTunes Chart Topper: Madden Fever

Madden reigns supreme on this weeks iTunes Chart Topper. Being a digitally distributed port, bargain bin deals the day Madden 12 is inevitably unveiled is out of the question. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Madden NFL 11 (EA) $7.99 1 — 2 Angry…

We’re In Germany This Week, These Are The Big Gamescom Events

We’ve got two Mikes and one Brian in Cologne, Germany this week for Gamescom, the ever-expanding video game showcase that makes E3 look tiny and introduced the PS3 Slim to the world last year. We’ll be covering some big events live. Bookmark this. Cologne is six hours ahead of my time zone (East Coast) and…

Sony PSP Ad Mocks Apple iPhone Gaming

Apple has taken shots at the DS and PSP. The iPhone has more games, they say. Sony fires back with this ad, basically saying, yeah, but our games are better. I’ve seen game companies take shots at each other in ads. It’s common. In fact, mocking Nintendo has been a seasonal sport for Mario rivals.…

Doom 4 Targeted For Console And PC, Wolfenstein In ‘Thinking About It’ Phase

Doom 4 was a no-show at this year’s QuakeCon, and id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead told me he’ll take the arrows for raising expectations it would be there. He also share with me a sliver of details about the game. Doom 4 is well into development at id. Hollenshead said “a team and a half”…

Xbox 360 Re-Done As Arcade Cabinet

This is a custom-made arcade cabinet for this week’s downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game (coming later to PS3 and PC) Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light. Xbox Live hype man Major Nelson Tweets that he’s giving this away

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You Could Download Kinect Betas Now, But They’re Useless

Does your Xbox 360 feel incomplete? Is it full of save files and Xbox Live Arcade games, maybe a theme or two but no Kinect-enabled software? You can waste some bandwidth today and change that. You can download the 1.7 GB Joyride Beta file, so that you can prepare to play a controller-free driving game.…

Spoiler Alert

To: Brian From: Luke I haven’t seen Inception yet. And would have liked it to be a complete surprise, as I’m was intended. But man, when it’s your job to be on the internet all day, it makes stuff like that hard. No. Not hard. Impossible. 🙁 Here’s what you missed: What Came First, The…

Red Faction Gets A Vehicle Combat Game

The question over the weekend was “Is THQ working on a downloadable Red Faction game?” The answer on Monday morning is “yes!” Speaking at GDC Europe today,THQ Digital creative director Don Whiteford has revealed Red Faction: Battlegrounds to be a downloadable title for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, which unlike the last (and…

Hey, Don’t Run Unauthorised World Of Warcraft Servers, OK?

Because if you do, it’ll cost you $88 million. That’s how much Scapegaming’s Alyson Reeves was ordered to pay Blizzard following a court case, in which Reeves was found guilty of charging users to play on an unauthorised World of Warcraft server. Over the years, she’d amassed over $3 million from these unsuspecting players, which…