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You Can Help Fund Indie Game: The Movie

After covering the 2009 Game Developers Conference, BlinkWorks Media decided they wanted to create a documentary film that studies independent game developers as a way to understand the medium and the theory behind video games. Independent filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot have gathered footage from GDC 2010, along with interviews with creators at Flashbang…

Scientists Implant Biofuel Cells Into Rats, I Call Next

A team of scientists from Joseph Fourier University in France have successfully implant biofuel cells into rats, generating 6.5 microwatts by harnessing the power of glucose. If they can amp that up, I might never need a DS charger again. A glucose biofuel cell works by taking the naturally occurring glucose and oxygen in an…

The Stars And Surprises of The Prince Of Persia Red Carpet

Who was at the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time big-time Mann’s Chinese Theater premiere in Hollywood yesterday? These folks, among others… (All pics by Frazer Harrison of Getty Images unless otherwise noted) First, we’ve got the Prince, Jake Gyllenhaal. Ben Kingsley is in the Prince of Persia movie. Eddie Murphy is not. When…

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Stays Cloaked Until 2011

The future has been delayed, now that Ubisoft has pushed its next big Ghost Recon game into next year. Ubi’s big boss Yves Guillemot had bad news/good news today for anyone hoping to play Ghost Recon: Future Soldier this year. Citing “a very competitive environment,” Guillemot said that Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will miss its…

The Spikes and Spears of Lara Croft’s New, Great Game

I had a chance to check out Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light earlier this week and absolutely loved it. Here’s a closer look at those fantastic graphics I was talking about. You should also check out the game in motion

Reminder: Alan Wake Game Club Starts Here, Wednesday

Just a few hours after two Alan Wake creators join us on Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll begin our bookclub style discussion of the game. One chapter per session, starting tomorrow at 3pm KT (2pm PT, 5pm ET). We showed you the Alan Wake Game Club schedule yesterday, and Crecente and I will remind you of…

Imagination and The Secret History of Video Games

To be a gamer in the 80s and early 90s required a special kind of perseverance, especially if you were a computer owner. Whether it was the superhuman patience needed to load a game off a cassette tape, the willingness to soldier on when the floppy disk containing your favourite game corrupted or the ability…

Assassin’s Creed Publisher Could Copy EA’s Downloadable Content Model

Answering a question about downloadable content during their fiscal year 2009-10 fiscal earnings call, Ubisoft indicated it would likely they would adopt EA’s Project 10 Dollar DLC plan sometime in the future. Ubisoft’s earnings were down for the year but strong for the final quarter of fiscal year 2009-10, riding on strong sales of Wii-exclusive…

Beware This Ruinous Prince of Persia Glitch [Spoilers]

I was enjoying playing Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands as I played it this weekend for review. That doesn’t mean I wanted it to glitch near the end and force me to start over. Too bad for me. This post contains videos of the inescapable room I found myself in while playing a finished…

BlizzCon 2010 Tickets Ready To Sell Out In June

Mark your calendars, Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft fans, as Blizzard lays out two dates in early June for you to attempt to spend $150 a ticket to BlizzCon 2010. Like last year, Blizzard is selling tickets to its immensely popular fan gathering in two batches. The first batch goes on sale on Wednesday, June 2,…

PixelJunk Shooter 2 Is Full Steam Ahead

PixelJunk Shooter will be the first title in Q-Games’ series of PlayStation Network games to get a proper sequel, with “everything and the kitchen sink” going into PixelJunk Shooter 2. Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert outs the shooter sequel in a post on the PlayStation blog today, indicating that PixelJunk Shooter 2 is currently in full…

Lara Croft And The New Addictive Game

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is the sort of game that we need to see more of on the PS3 and Xbox 360: Easy to play, hard to put down, but not a throwaway side project or appendage to some bigger effort. Unlike any Tomb Raider game before it, the Guardian of Light…

Dead Space 2 Screens

Reminder: Alan Wake Creators Live On Kotaku Talk Radio On Wednesday

Kotaku Talk Radio will be recording live on Wednesday. 11am Kotaku Time. 1pm ET. 10am PT. Host: Me. Guests: Matias Myllyrinne and Oskari Häkkinen of Alan Wake studio Remedy Entertainment. Call-in and live-streaming details will be on Kotaku at showtime.

Guild Wars 2 Fashion Is 250 Years Ahead Of Its Time

When the world is in turmoil, fashion is everything. Guild Wars 2 character artist Kristen Perry discusses the process of creating the clothes the races of Tyria will wear 250 years after the first game. Guild Wars 2 is a completely different animal than Guild Wars. Rather than having to create styles for the handful…

The Importance Of Writing

It was recently announced that God of War writer Marianne Krawczyk will be lending her talents to the upcoming game Shank. I thought the God of War games were above-average in the video game narrative department and Shank looks like a well-done update to one of my favorite games, Metal Slug. However, instead of making…

Unofficial Super Mario Sequel Out Now

Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be out for Nintendo Wiis in America this weekend, but why wait several days to play a new Mario game? Super Mario Star Scramble 2 is out now, for now. The new Mario game is a side-scrolling Mario adventure from Dutch developer Kenney Vleugels, a Nintendo fan who has already…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Distilled To A Purer Substance

Have you ever played a game where the minigames or secondary goals were more exciting and compelling than the rest of the entire game? It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. Through extensive research (asking my friends), I’ve found that this varies in a highly personal way. I had a friend in high school who…

The Mumps

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Am I A Wake? Mini-Bash just got over a case of the mumps. Was really worried because, you know, the mumps can cause hearing loss. Really bad luck on getting them as we had scheduled him for a shot, and right before he was supposed to go, he…got the mumps.…