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BioShock 2, Gears Of War Figures Exclusive To Comic-Con

At this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, toy company NECA will be selling a few exclusives from their video game lines. Only attendees – or savvy web shoppers – will be able to pick up these up. Three video game figures will be sold: two from BioShock 2, and one from Gears of War 2.…

Yes, This Is The Best Final Fantasy VII Cosplay

By “best” I don’t mean “most realistic”, I mean the best. As seen on Topless Robot

Preowned Customers Paying Extra? GameStop Doesn’t Care

The recent trend for publishers to lock out content to customers buying pre-owned versions of games was supposed to be a swipe at GameStop, but the giant retailer reckons the move won’t hurt it one bit. “We support the creation of added downloadable content for popular franchises, as we see that as extending the life…

Macho, Macho Man, Nier’s Gotta Be A Macho Man

Ever wonder why there are two versions of role-playing game Nier? In the West, “macho” means big and muscular. Beefcakes! Just look at the majority of Western games. In Japan, however, ideas of masculinity are different. Someone can still be manly and strong, but not necessarily shaped like a gorilla. When development on RPG Nier…

Giant Buildings That Look Like Video Game Consoles

Yup. Giant buildings that look like – well, are – video game consoles. Don’t they look great? Pity, then, they’re not real. As is usually the case when we see a big batch of incredible video game photography/art, you can thank French magazine Amusement for these pics, showing what a PS3, DS and NES would…

Blur Punches Mario Kart In The Balls

Blur, the latest racing game from the team behind the Xbox’s Project Gotham series, has copped a little flak for being like Mario Kart, only with real cars. Instead of deflecting that argument, this ad just runs with it. To great effect! Sure, it does nothing to make me any more interested in picking up…

Did Square Enix and Yahoo! Change Japanese History? Um…

Earlier this week, a teaser site appeared on Yahoo! Japan, claiming that the web portal and the game company would change Japanese history. The teaser site than asked Twitter users to guess what was to come. The guesses ranged from Dragon Quest online to a search engine game. Those guesses are wrong. Totally wrong. Inside,…

Predator: Made from Spare Parts, Made of Awesome

It’s easy to become jaded in this job. To think, “Oh, I’ve seen that before, big deal“. Every once in a while, something comes along that makes me say, “Holy crap that is cool”. This is that something. Reader Guram from the Republic of Georgia spotted this statue at a…veterinary/pet convention. “It’s like a hybrid…

120 Metal Gear Solid Discs, But With A Catch

Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation 1 is a two disc game. If you could have 120 discs, which would you want disc 1 or 2? You can only have one! Disc 2 it is! An eBay seller is not giving away 120 MGS disc 2 discs, but selling them. Yours for US$499.95. Why? Who…

Publisher Actually Thinks Games Are Too Expensive

I think games are too expensive. You think games are too expensive. Surprisingly, a major international publisher thinks the same, Namco Bandai calling for a “worldwide summit” to discuss this crisis “I feel all the big video game companies need to join together in a worldwide summit to discuss the future of our industry. I…

Play The Bits Between Mass Effect 2 And Mass Effect 3

To date, Mass Effect 2’s downloadable content has been a little underwhelming, giving players who have completed the game little to do but spin their wheels. That’s set to change in the coming months. Why? Because BioWare will soon be moving on from post-game DLC and shift to pre-game DLC, with future packs planned to…

Valve: PS3 Is Like A GameCube

I’ve seen the PlayStation 3 compared to a lot of things in my lifetime, from a grill to a brick and everything in between. But a GameCube? That’s new. In an interview with 5BY5, Valve boss Gabe Newell has spoken of his company’s decision to release online gaming platform Steam for the Mac, and why…

Kotaku Off-Topic: Doobie-Oh-Seven

My apartment has been smelling like a baked horse turd for the past three weeks. My downstairs neighbor finally explained it’s because he has a license to grow ganja in the basement. It might be legal (Oregon law provides for growing medical marijuana, and deprioritizes policing other aspects of pot possession and use). But it…

Guilt and Gaming the Morning After

The sun rises around 6 am and that’s when it starts to come full force. Something about the hazy pink morning light strikes the perfect chord of misery. The mouse in my hand is a palmful of guilt, guilt, guilt, and my fingers clatter on the keys like the legs of a spider. It’s Final…

This Could Be The Best Call of Duty: Black Ops Trade Ever

You know who’s a huge and vocal fan of Call of Duty? Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco. In fact, if you can get him a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops early, he’ll give you season tickets. Ochocinco has already begun begging for a pre-release copy of the game, hitting up Black Ops…

A Peek at the Pitch for the Original — and Very Different — BioShock

We knew BioShock‘s original story was quite a departure from the finished game – a “deprogrammer” infiltrates a bioengineered cult. Irrational Games still sold the title on that concept, and has now posted seven scans from the original 20-page pitch. The images are the first installment in what Irrational promises will be the posting of…

Sega’s Big Sonic 4 News: It’s Delayed

Originally fixed for a summer release, today Sega pegged Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to “moar like latter half of 2010,” while touting the delay with a brave cheerfulness and saying it’ll allow for incorporating fan feedback into the game’s development. “For the first time ever, we’ve mixed internal suggestions alongside fan feedback to make some…

Snakes, Slimes & Super Mario Still Japan’s Favorite Things

As it has for the past two weeks, Square Enix’s latest Dragon Quest spin-off has slimed its way to the top of Japan’s video game charts. This week, it becomes the latest Nintendo DS game to sell a million units. Similarly, portable stealth action game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker spends its third week in…

Backbreaker Demo Hits Xbox Live Tomorrow

The demo for Backbreaker, the football alternative promising real-time physics in place of canned animations, will hit Xbox Live for gold subscribers tomorrow. PS3 owners will get the demo “soon.” By “soon,” Natural Motion hopes that will mean Tuesday. Xbox Live silver subscribers can expect access to the demo on May 28. The retail game…

What in the H-E-Broken Hockey Sticks is Going On Here?

EA Sports put up the first screenshot of NHL 11 on the game’s official Facebook page, intending to drop hints about what it’ll deliver. From the details of the frame, it looks like a new physics engine and broken sticks. “All-New Real-Time Physics Engine in NHL 11” is the caption to the grab – manifested…