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Force Unleashed II’s E3 Trailer Is Not Fond Of Stormtroopers

This cinematic trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is gorgeous, but also feels a little off; I know the room’s locked, but even still, I wouldn’t trust a few stormtroopers to take out a freakin’ Jedi

Gran Turismo 5’s E3 Trailer Is Missing Something

Here’s the E3 trailer for Sony’s hotly-anticipated PS3 racer, Gran Turismo 5. Those still hanging for its release will notice something is missing. Yes, a release date. It’s not there. Just lots and lots of pretty cars. Guess we’ll have to wait for Sony’s E3 press conference next week for word on when people will…

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LEGO: The First-Person Shooter

LEGO games have mostly been confined to kid’s titles and platformers. We’ve yet to see a LEGO first-person shooter. If we ever do, I really hope it looks like this. This is a bolt-action Lee Enfield sniper rifle, built to scale by Jack Streat, and made entirely out of LEGO. It’s not built to just…

What is the Worst Sequel Ever?

Who is ready to talk? Are you? What about you? And you? This is Tell Us Dammit. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person.…

Your First Look At The Battlestar Galactica Game

We’re pretending the last Battlestar game didn’t exist. We are also, sadly, trying to pretend this web-based MMO is actually a space shooter that looks as good as this trailer. Developers Bigpoint have certainly nailed the look and sound of the show with all that shaky-cam and views from a Viper’s gun barrels, but it…

Play Your Own World Cup With These Video Games

The 2010 World Cup is the biggest sporting event on the planet, and will keep billions of people glued to their TV sets for the next month not just for live matches, but for some video games as well. Like the Olympics and Super Bowl tend to do, whenever a World Cup rolls around (they’re…

Ninja Gaiden Creators Reveal Devil’s Third, The Bloody New Shooter From Valhalla

Famed video game designer Tomonobu Itagaki and his select group of creative warriors at Valhalla Game Studios are making a new game, Devil’s Third, a hyper-violent shooter for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Valhalla Game Studios is allying with publisher THQ to bring its newest action game to consoles, an original effort that Itagaki…

First Look At Devil’s Third, The Debut Shooter From Valhalla

The team responsible for the bloody action of Ninja Gaiden and the blistering head-to-head combat of the Dead or Alive fighting game series is taking its shot at shooters with Devil’s Third, coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game’s debut trailer gives players a look at Valhalla Game Studios’ stab at multiplayer…

Kotaku’s E3 2010 ‘Predictions’ & Fantasy Betting Pool

Next week, all eyes will be on E3, as the video game industry blows the doors off the Los Angeles Convention Center with megaton-caliber announcements amid a sea of 3D games and motion control madness. What else will happen? Well, we have our suspicions! Some of those suspicions are all but confirmed, some are rumor,…

Duke Nukem Lawsuit Settled and Tossed

The breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against the longtime developer of the longtime-developed Duke Nukem Forever has been settled and ended. Both sides agreed to pay their own legal costs, and neither can sue on the same grounds again. Shacknews was first to report that Take-Two Interactive’s suit against 3D Realms/Apogee Ltd was dismissed with a very…

PlayStation Comes Out On Top In Japan’s Weekly Console War

The neck-and-neck battle for weekly hardware dominance in Japan is tipped in Sony’s favor this week, with the PSP and PlayStation 3 continuing their reign at the top of the country’s sales charts. As it was in previous weeks, the PSP sits comfortably atop that list, with the PS3 and Wii again battling for second…

Creative Boss is Said to Walk Out on Assassin’s Creed

Game Informer is reporting that Patrice Désilets, the creative director for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, may have left his job just as the publisher is speeding the sequelization of the very successful franchise. Ubisoft’s official statement to Game Informer was the standard no comment for rumor or speculation, and its public relations office added they were…

NBA Elite Vows It’ll Bring Everything Under Control

NBA Live renamed itself NBA Elite, brought in the producer of the widely acclaimed NHL series, and set about fixing two huge gameplay gripes – unfathomably random shooting, and losing control once you entered a two-player animation. This video explains how they hope to fix that beginning in NBA Elite 11. Shooting becomes skill-based on…

Joey Logano, U R MR NASCAR

Four races into a 21-race sponsorship with GameStop, NASCAR driver Joey Logano averages a fifth-place finish with games sponsorship on his hood. He looks to change that in Kentucky tomorrow with an intimidating Super Mario Galaxy 2 paint job. As part of our neverending mission to document Logano’s performance in the name of video games,…

Is A New Patapon One Of Sony’s E3 Surprises?

Countdown clocks… we love ’em! The makers of Metal Gear Solid, Burnout and Banjo Kazooie all have countdowns ticking away on their respective sites. Sony has one too, less subtly teasing what appears to be a brand new Patapon game. This particular countdown clock teases an impending beta test and appears to feature some hidden…

Here’s What Tecmo Koei Is Bringing To E3 2010

Dynasty Warriors and Ninja Gaiden publisher Tecmo Koei is bringing Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage, Quantum Theory, Warriors: Legends of Troy, and Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll to E3. Every game but the last is due fall 2010.

We Are Roger for E3

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: I Am Going To Stick A Song In Your Head, Watch Me We, as you’re well aware, broke quite a story today, confirming through sources, early reports of what a blogger in China spilled about Nintendo’s 3DS. And then greatly expanding on the tidbits he or she leaked out so…

How Much Will Rock Band 3’s ‘Pro’ Controllers Cost?

The next version of Rock Band is going “Pro,” adding a new keyboard controller, a 102-button, six-string guitar controller and a new cymbal add-on for the game’s drum controller. How much will Pros have to pay to play? Peripheral maker Mad Catz revealed the pricing of its new Rock Band 3 controllers today, the ones…