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Creator Commentary Comes To Monkey Island 2 Remake

The upcoming release of a Monkey Island 2 special edition is special not for the revamped graphics, but for the inclusion of a commentary track featuring the original game’s creators: Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman. While it’s not the first game to do so – Valve has been dropping them into games for…

The Neon Genesis Evangelion Convenience Store

Big cities in Japan are packed with convenience stores. It seems like there is one on every corner. (Sometimes there is!) There is one that stands out from the rest. Convenience store chain Lawson has opened a special Lawson Tokyo-3 conbini, or convenience store. Tokyo-3 is the fictional setting for the groundbreaking franchise Neon Genesis…

Possibility of Criminal Charges Over New iPhone

On April 19, sister site Gizmodo.com broke the exclusive news that Apple has been working on a new iPhone. Now, authorities are considering whether to file criminal charges over its sale, reports The New York Times. According to NY Times blog Bits Blog, the district attorney in San Mateo County in California has the option…

Wu-Tang’s RZA Working On Game With Activision

RZA, one of rap group The Wu-Tang Clan’s more prominent members, has revealed over the weekend that he’s been working with video game publisher Activision on a new game. He doesn’t say what exactly the game is, but since there’s pics of him wearing motion-capture suits, we can assume it’s something he’d appear in as…

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I Want You To Vote For The Best Kotaku WarioWare DIY Microgame!

Hey! Don’t forget to place your vote for what you consider the best Kotaku-themed WarioWare: D.I.Y. game created by you, the readership. The winner will walk away with some mega-sized Nintendo prizes, so choose your votes carefully. We need you to help us whittle down an impressive 95 WarioWare: D.I.Y. microgames to a more manageable…

The Cat Came Back

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Surprise Snow I’d semiadopted a neighborhood stray back during a terrible cold snap in the winter. She doesn’t get along with my indoor cat at all, so she spends most of her time outside. Friday I noticed she didn’t show up for dinner. Turns out she’d gotten locked in a…

A Compendium of Lame Excuses from the Banned

There’s only so many ways you can blame your Xbox Live profile saying nasty or verboten things on someone else. The truly creative are able to depict it as something beneficial to society. Like breast cancer awareness. Kotaku reader LOL It’s Bert got bored, apparently, and began sifting through the Xbox Live forums, finding several…

Get Clean With Old School Cartridges

Novelty soap maker Geeksoap has a new line of bars – they can’t market them as NES, Super Nintendo, or Gameboy cartridges, trademark reasons. But that’s obviously what they are. The NES and Super Nintendo soap are $6.50 , weighing eight and nine ounces respectively; Game Boy soap is $2, weighs 1.5 ounces and more…

Week in Games: Super Spring Harvest

It feels like there’s something for everyone in this week’s batch of new releases. Super Street Fighter IV is a big name, but not the only one. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa also drops, along with some choice DLC. NIER and Dead to Rights: Retribution give heft to a solid Tuesday; Tecmo Bowl Throwback…

Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists

Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Top 10 Video Game Tribute Raps [The Kartel] We routinely get tips to the latest video game rap tribute; here’s a helpful compilation of 10…

More than Guns Go Bang in Red Dead Redemption

The ESRB’s served up a no-surprise M for Red Dead Redemption but enlightens us as to why – drugs, blood and a whole bunch of words Roy Rogers never said to Dale Evans. Redemption gets the full buffet of mature content: Blood, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs. Here are…

Jet Set Radio Coming to Xbox Live Arcade?

Someone named “Xbox360 Leaker” dropped a screenshot of a French-language Xbox Live Marketplace that shows the Dreamcast classic Jet Set Radio available as a demo. The picture, of unknown provenance, adds weight to rumors that other Dreamcast classics are inbound. Jet Set Radio was the game’s Japanese name (Jet Grind Radio was its name in…

“The Passing” Also Gives a Shout-Out to Plants vs. Zombies

We knew that Left 4 Dead 2‘s new expansion, “The Passing,” paid a graffiti tribute to Dead Rising‘s Frank West. It looks like the game’s creators admire Plants vs. Zombies as well. Reader Stephen H. sent in this grab – we’re trying to get a bigger image – but evidently Crazy Dave is the guy…

What’s So Fun About Games, Anyway?

Rather than ponder games’ artistic merit, Brian Hertler tackles a question that’s a little more lighthearted, yet no more answerable: Just why do we find video games – even the simplest ones – so fun? The answer isn’t in their novelty, says Hertler, a graduate student at Georgia Tech. Writing for GameCrashers, Hertler says that…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Madden Curse Edition

Thursday, EA Sports revealed the cover athlete for Madden NFL 11, and the player they selected certainly is deserving. Now let’s consider some of the less deserving athletes out there. Ben Roethlisberger immediately comes to mind. His six-maybe-four game suspension for trying to hump a drunk 20-year-old in a bar crapper was announced a day…

Kotaku Off-Topic: If You Can’t See the Tread …

My tires haven’t been replaced since I bought my car in 2005. There’s more than 50,000 miles on them. I’m scared to put a penny in the tread, knowing the answer will probably cost another $399.99. Back in my hometown there was a businessman named Fred Norman, who fought with Patton’s Third Army in World…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Legal Warfare Edition Winners

Activision and Infinity Ward’s founders are going through an unbelievably nasty, painful divorce, and as the children caught in the middle of it, we decided you should draw some pictures to describe your feelings. Remember, Mommy and Daddy may not love each other but … well they probably don’t love you either. Especially after seeing…