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Google’s Pac-Man Front Sapped 4.8 Million Hours of Productivity

The nearly universal reaction to seeing Google’s playable 30th anniversary Pac-Man doodle was, “Well, there goes Friday.” Indeed. A productivity firm has calculated the time spent playing Google’s Pac-Man front at more than 4.8 million hours. RescueTime, makers of productivity tracking and optimization software, looked at the average time that 11,000 of its users spent…

Mass Effect: The Movie Is Really Happening

BioWare’s epic sci-fi role playing game is on its way to a theater near you, with Legendary Pictures—the studio banking on the notion that video game movies will be a Big Deal—reportedly picking up the film rights. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog, Legendary has set events in motion that may ultimately bring…

See 29 Teams in 28 Screens of NCAA Football 11

See that guy right there? That’s not Jeremiah Masoli. EA Sports can’t show the Oregon quarterback, not because of amateurism regulations or the licensing agreement, but because the dude burgled the SAE house. With Masoli suspended the entire season, you’ll instead be getting Nate Costa – er, well, “Schmate Schmosta” if the lawyer-mans is reading…

The Fall of The PSP In America Due To Piracy, Says Sony

The PSP may rule the roost in Japan, but in the U.S. of A., it’s enjoying a less comfortable last place spot, selling but a fraction of its direct competitor. Why the drop off and what’s Sony doing about it? Sony’s Rob Dyer tells Gamasutra that rampant piracy of PlayStation Portable games is the system’s…

Is It Cool To Out Yourself As A Gamer Yet?

Short answer: no. The slightly longer answer is no, thanks to developmentally retarded and over-sexualized “mature” video games, brain-dead stories, obsessive nitpicking nerds, and embarrassing entitlement issues. The very long version at Cracked is more amusing than depressing, thankfully. [Cracked]

Fan-Submitted NBA Jam Catchphrases Are Actually Pretty Good

NBA Jam will immortalize four fan-submitted catchphrases in the game when it reboots on the Wii this year. Last night EA Sports put up 64 candidates – all read by original announcer Tim Kitzrow – and many are surprisingly edgy. The submissions have been paired off, tournament-bracket style, with the final four to be included…

Kotaku Season Finale?

To: Ashcraft From: Stephen Re: What’s It Like To Be Reviewed In Japan? If I’ve learned one thing today, Mr. Brian Ashcraft, it is that the people of the Internet like answers. Not all of them. About half of those who watch a show like Lost expect the deep mysteries of the things they like…

Knights Contract Tries To Outgore Splatterhouse

Namco Bandai’s latest may look like a direct competitor to its own Splatterhouse, but the recently revealed Knights Contract only appears to overlap it in screen-covering gore. Its wholesome looking witches are nicely contrasted by its blood-spurting hideous freaks. There’s not much you need to know about the PS3 and Xbox 360 game that we…

What the NFL Antitrust Ruling Might Mean for Madden

Although the Supreme Court today refused to give the NFL an antitrust exemption in negotiating exclusive licenses – and the league sold one to EA Sports’ Madden series – the decision doesn’t necessarily jeopardize such deals for video games. As the case title suggests, American Needle vs. NFL is about apparel licensing, specifically hats. But…

One Negative Review For Super Mario Galaxy 2

Taken by Kotakuite FuuRe_cl at a mall in Chile.

Knights Contract Screens

All the Blood, All the Metal of Splatterhouse in Motion

Magic The Gathering Gets Steam-Powered

After a successful run on Xbox Live Arcade, Wizards of the Coast is bringing Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers to keyboard and mouse set via Steam next month. Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers for Xbox Live was an addictive little digital version of the long-running collectible card game, that…

Let’s Discuss Alan Wake Episode Three – Now

Let’s go back to me in high school. Sophomore year. English class. Camus’ The Plague. None us read it. The teacher made us sweat it out silently. You talk about Alan Wake Episode 3 please. I, uh, am behind! Sorry folks, but your Game Club hits rough waters today thanks to a skipper spending his…

Doom II & Voodoo Dice Do Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday

It’s double the dose of Xbox Live Arcade this week, as id Software’s classic demonic shooter Doom II and mystical puzzle game Voodoo Dice do their thing for the Xbox 360 owner looking for something downloadable. Voodoo Dice, if you’re not already intimately familiar with it, is “an innovative puzzler that challenges you to solve…

Here’s Your Special Launch-Day Halo: Reach Hat

Halo fans who pick up Reach on its September 14 release date will score this attractive exclusive in-game Spartan Recon Helmet. Fans who wait until after launch day aren’t really fans, now are they? Just in case you needed incentive to pick up Halo: Reach on launch day, Microsoft offers it in the form of…

ModNation Racers Crashing Our Podcast Live This Week

One of the creators of ModNation Racers, the next big PlayStation 3 exclusive, joins us for Kotaku Talk Radio this week. I invited him, so I guess he won’t technically be crashing United Front’s Dan Sochan will hang out with us for one hour, taking your calls about anything you want to know about, including,…

First Killzone 3 Screens, Official Details

Killzone 3 is coming to the PlayStation 3 in dazzling 3D, an exciting revelation made doubly official by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and a trio of new screens that show off the game’s frosty jetpack-filled action. That icy arctic fun won’t be the only environment Killzone 3 players find themselves in, as the official confirmation…

The Most Provocative Movie Of 2010 Is Now A Flash Game

The Human Centipede could be the most disgustingly appropriate movie video game ever created. Warning: Content probably not safe for anyone. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a horror film by Dutch director Tom Six, in which a German doctor dreaming of creating new species kidnaps three people and joins them together, mouth to anus.…

iTunes Chart Toppers: Old Man Pac-Man

Pac-Man is on the charts. Welcome back, old man. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: — Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 5 1 2 Pac-Man (Namco) $4.99 1…