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The Best Gaming Mixtape You’ll Ever Hear

Akira the Don, rapper, producer, hip-hop musician and gamer, dropped nearly an hours worth of amazing Street Fighter-themed music on his site this week. The 51-minute Street Fighter Mixtape may start out a bit slow, but once it gets rolling you’re not going to want to stop listening. Akira says the album, A Tribute to…

Castlevania Puzzle Screens

Project Natal “World Premiere” To Be Complete Media Cirque Du Soleil

Microsoft is holding the “world premier” of Project Natal the Sunday before E3 2010, with a special performance by Canada’s own Cirque du Soleil adding an air of magic, wonderment, and subtle creepiness to the evening. Sunday, June 13 is the date of what Microsoft is calling the “world premiere” of Project Natal, the camera-based…

The First Hour of Red Dead Redemption

There are surprises in the first hour of Red Dead Redemption, the grand Western from the development house of Grand Theft Auto. I won’t spoil the most important ones today. A day ago I was in the virtual West, in the rough country of John Marston’s United States at the moment when car motors started…

Meatbook Faux

The result of leaving a Macbook Air on Media Molecule artist Rex Crowle’s desk. As seen on Media Molecule’s blog

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Oh man, just when you think it’s good weather for Boktai, you discover … it’s not. But it is good weather for commenting about video games. So please do it. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Map Pack Deploys Next Month

Enough whining about the high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack! It’s time to whine about the likely high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack, due out early next month for the Xbox 360. During a company financial earnings call last week, Activision’s Thomas Tippl seemed to indicate that the next…

I Have Slightly High Blood Pressure And Am Concerned

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Dent Yikes! That sounds painful. Sooooooooooooooooo……… My doctor said I have slightly high blood pressure, which worries me. As I previously mentioned, I’ve been trying to exercise daily. Now, I need to worry about lowering my blood pressure. Ungh. My dad, who is 74 and seems to be in good…

Easy or Access? Bulletstorm Walks the Line in an Insular Genre

A death-dealing, results-driven, elite space mercenary who, to be honest, is a bit of a dick, Grayson Hunt doesn’t look like a guy who deals in caring, sharing or hand-holding words like “accessible.” But his game, Bulletstorm will. Put down that ridiculously large weapon: Bulletstorm is still outlandishly violent, serving headshots and explosions galore to…

Bulletstorm Puts Its Foot Down

If Epic Games’ new game Bulletstorm breaks new ground in a familiar, crowded genre, it’ll be in the use of melee attacks that aren’t as traditional to the first-person perspective. They’re the first link in the game’s chain of cruel. Not that there isn’t still plenty of shooting done in the first-person perspective. Bulletstorm’s first…

It’s Like Many Things, But Still Unlike Anything, Say Bulletstorm‘s Creators

Shooters and summer action movies have plenty in common, not least in how both are commonly pitched: Something and something meet something else. Epic’s Bulletstorm, due in 2011, will enter this fraternity with similar references. “It’s the Burnout of shooters, with a little bit of Duke Nukem,” Epic Games’ design director Cliff Bleszinski said, “and…

Bayonetta Creator Not Thrilled With Erotic Bayonetta Send-Ups

Bayonetta is one sexy game. The main character, Bayonetta, is encased in a full-body suit made of human hair and struts around in high heels outfitted with pistols. See? That’s hot. And is fertile ground for porn parody fan art. However, Bayonetta designer Hideki Kamiya doesn’t exactly seem too happy with that sort of thing,…

This Guy Owns A Game Company, Now He Wants To Buy Liverpool FC

Liverpool FC is one of the world’s oldest, proudest and most successful sporting teams. It’s also on the shopping list of a Chinese video gaming giant. Zhu Jun is founder of The9, the online gaming provider that used to operate World of Warcraft in China, and now holds a majority stake in Red 5 Studios.…

Dressing The Part For This New Yakuza Trailer

Certainly, not all game designers dress like their characters. There is one, however. His name is Toshihiro Nagoshi. He is brown. Nagoshi, an accomplished game designer in his own right with a nose for good games, is famous (infamous?) for his love of tanning salons and tracksuits. Nagoshi has been known to don a black…

Nintendo: Don’t Judge Our 3D Just Yet

Love it or hate it, 3D is making major waves. Nintendo is the latest company to jump on the 3D express by releasing a glasses-free 3D handheld gaming device tentatively called the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo doesn’t only make games for hardcore players. It also makes games for the casuals. So when the company stated it…

Mass Effect 2 Gets New “Man vs Robots” Downloadable Content

There’s more “premium” downloadable content on the way for EA’s Mass Effect 2, and while this newest pack doesn’t introduce a new character, it does have you playing John Connor over five missions. The pack is called “Overlord”, the entire thing set on a single planet as you try to shut down a dangerous enemy…

In 2009 PSP Sales Were Down, PS3 Sales Were Up

Sony released today its financial results for the 2009 fiscal year (April 1 – March 31), and where there’s results, there’s hardware sales figures. The Networked Products & Services division – of which Sony Computer Entertainment is a part – saw its sales fall by 10%, the company blaming exchange rates, along with both a…

OnLive Getting British Release

OnLive, the “cloud” service that promises/hopes to revolutionise online gaming by removing the need for a PC or a console, will also be launching in the United Kingdom, it’s been revealed today. British Telecom has teamed up with the American company to bring the service to Ol’ Blighty, and in doing so has also bought…

CounterStrike Meets Second Life Meets Asian Massage Lady

This year’s Cannes Film Festival isn’t showing just one movie about gaming culture. It’s showing two. There’s French thriller Black Heaven with its naked bottom and now this, R U There with its awkward elevator propositioning. As website New World Notes notes, R U There is a Dutch/French film that was shot in Taipei and…

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker’s Toys, By Square Enix

The Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker figures from Square Enix (who, yes, also make toys) that we first spied earlier this year are now available for preorder. They are both detailed and expensive. There are four figures available: Snake, and three Metal Gears from the game (Pupa, Chrysalis & Basilis). Snake stands a decent 26cm…