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One Little Change To How Cars Will Fight

In our line of work here at Kotaku we see games early, before they come out. Sometimes these games change, before you play them the first time. Who is to say that a change is for the better? The developers, probably, who are among the only people participating obsessively with — playing — the game…

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Is This Prince Of Persia Actress Sexy Enough For Her Role?

She’s played a Bond girl and a nymph who beguiled the gods, but someone out there thinks British actress Gemma Arterton might not be sexy enough for her role as the renamed Farah in next month’s Prince of Persia movie. Now I suppose that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but as far…

Project Natal & Its Instruction Manual(!) In The Wild

Looks like the Xbox 360’s motion sensing add-on is already in the wild and, more importantly, in the hands of someone willing to grab spy shots of the thing and the Project Natal hardware set up guide. While we’re trained to ignore video game manuals, the Project Natal set up guide tells us a thing…

StarCraft II Beta Gets Map Editor This Week, Mac Version Next Week

Blizzard is still hip-deep in the StarCraft II multiplayer beta, but fans of the sci-fi real-time strategy game should expect a pair of important updates over the next couple weeks, including the release of the game’s Galaxy Editor. StarCraft II lead Chris Sigaty says that the developer is planning to release the game’s map and…

Pretty Up Your Soldier With Battlefield: Bad Company 2 DLC

Tomorrow’s batch of downloadable content for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on the Xbox 360 lets players dress their soldiers with new outfits and weapons, because the most important thing on the battlefield is making sure you stand out. Available tomorrow on the Xbox Live Marketplace in Europe and the United Kingdom, the Kit Upgrade DLC…

A First Look at Marvel Vs. Capcom 3’s In-Game Graphics

You may have seen these images before, but not armed with this knowledge. Turns out that those six pieces of character art that Capcom provided to sites for Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 show how the characters will look in the game when rendered on Capcom’s in-house graphics engine MT Framework, the developer says. While Capcom…

Report: Nintendo’s New 3D Portable Hits This October

Nintendo’s venture into 3D gaming, courtesy of the recently revealed Nintendo 3DS, will hit as early as this October, according to a new report citing a “very senior publishing source.” CVG says it has on good authority from multiple “industry sources” that the Nintendo 3DS, which won’t require 3D glasses to display potentially dazzling three-dimensional…

Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing Introduces Weekly Game “Mutations”

While confirming a Thursday release date for Left 4 Dead 2’s “The Passing” downloadable content, Valve also reveals “Mutations,” featuring more than 20 new game modes rotated on a weekly basis, from “Realism Versus” to “Chainsaw Massacre.” It’s official: Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing will be out on Thursday, April 22 for the Xbox…

Halo 3 Now Downloadable To Xbox 360, But With An Asterisk

Back in 2008, the people who made Halo 3 had a warning for fans: Play the game from the disc; not from a harddrive. Today, Microsoft has a seeming contradictory sales pitch. [UPDATED: Microsoft comments] Today, Microsoft, the company that owns Halo revealed that Halo 3 is available for purchase and download onto the Xbox…

Cooking Mama In Trouble As Martha Stewart Enters The Video Game Business

Is there room for two cooking, crafting and gardening experts at Majesco? The U.S. publisher of the Cooking Mama series has signed a deal to produce video games based on America’s favorite ex-convict, Martha Stewart. I smell a cat fight. One of the most powerful women in the world, Martha Stewart made her name delivering…

Xbox 360 Avatars Get Super Street Fighter IV Costumes.

More avatar costumes are in bound from Capcom in the form of Super Street Fighter IV packs for the digital people living on Xbox Live. The packs will let you dress up your Xbox 360 avatars with “cool” Super Street Fighter IV items. No price has yet been mentioned. Capcom says that 16 characters will…

Underwater, Armed to the Teeth in Lost Planet 2

Lost Planet was all about the snow and ice. Lost Planet 2 mixes things up a bit with some jungle combat. But it wasn’t until I checked out the Lost Planet 2 map pack Capcom is selling that the game hooked my interest. You get get the release day map pack for free if you…

Five Brave Attempts At The Modern Warfare Calamity Song

Kotaku readers braver than I am have dared to sing a song about the travails of Modern Warfare development studio Infinity Ward — and recorded themselves. Prepare to update your custom soundtracks, people. NOTE: These are not radio edits. Some curses included. Lyrics by Kotaku reader Blood Eden, set to The Fray’s How To Save…

The Robots Rise In RISK: Factions

Stainless Games’ colorful candy take on the classic strategy game RISK gets even stranger today, as the developer reveals the third faction joining humans and cats in the battle for global domination: Robots. The first shots in the battle of RISK: Factions were fired in January, when the feline and human factions were revealed, cementing…

Super Street Fighter 4 Comes With A Tournament Manager, Special Trophies

Super Street Fighter IV will include robust online tournament support, allowing anyone with a copy of the game to host their own, tiered online tournaments. The game’s online Tournament Mode won’t be shipping with the game, due to hit the PS3 and Xbox 360 on April 27, but will arrive on June 15 as a…

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Thursday Is A Bad Day To Be A Left 4 Dead 2 Infected

Two teams of survivors means twice the trouble for the ravening hordes of infected in Valve’s Left 4 Dead 2 this Thursday, when The Passing downloadable content finally shows up on Xbox Live. Originally scheduled for late March, The Passing’s release date was narrowed down to this week last Friday, and now Microsoft’s downloadable content…

Dead Rising 2 Case Zero is a Prologue with a Purpose

Dead Rising 2 prequel, Case Zero, is much more than a glorified demo you have to pay for. The game bridges the gap between the first and second titles and gives gamers a taste of everything new Dead Rising 2 has to offer. Unfortunately, Case Zero remains, at least for now, an Xbox 360 exclusive,…