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Trauma Team Undergoes Pre-Op Price Drop

Atlus’ eagerly anticipated surgical simulator Trauma Team for the Nintendo Wii is coming on May 18, and rather than submit the game to Atlus’ traditional last-minute delay, they’ve gone and dropped the price by $10 instead. Score! I tease Atlus, but only because they have a tendency to scoot their games across the calendar with…

The Grinder For Wii Will Still Be A First-Person Shooter

Just because High Voltage Software’s horror shoot ’em up The Grinder is making the leap to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, transitioning from first-person perspective to top-down shooter, doesn’t mean the original Wii version is dead. Far from it. According to High Voltage’s CEO Eric Nofsinger, the Wii version is still a going concern,…

Linkin Park’s Video Game Doesn’t Look Nearly As Bad As It Should

Grammy-winning rock band Linkin Park have teamed up with mobile game developers Artificial Life to create Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion, an iPhone game that looks like it could actually be highly entertaining. The evil PixxelKorp has stolen Linkin Park’s music, and it’s up to you and your friends to get it back, preserving the sanctity…

Games, Ghostbusters And Possibly One Crime: Everything We Saw At PAX East

Mike Fahey and I (not pictured above) went to Boston last weekend to cover PAX East. More than 15 new game previews a chat with PAX’s founders (pictured above!) and several adventures later, this is everything we did…. The Many, Many PAX East Previews Red Dead Redemption Preview: I’m A No Good Dirty Horse Murderer…

Finally, Some Metroid: Other M Gameplay

Don’t let the first 30 seconds of this new Metroid: Other M trailer fool you. Wedged in the middle of more pre-rendered Samus Aran action is actual gameplay of the new Wii adventure (and *ahem* Zero Suit Samus footage). Not only does Metroid: Other M look fantastic in motion, it looks fast—Team Ninja fast, at…

Super Street Fighter IV Box Art Gets A Welcome Dose Of Dudley

Fans disappointed by the drab box art Capcom rolled out for the North American release of Super Street Fighter IV should be pleased with the updated look, which ditches Cammy for the ever-dapper Dudley. I was not pleased with the original box art one bit, likening it to tossing bits of clip art about in…

The Original Super Mario, At 75, Is Busy

You do not retire after having Super Mario Bros. named after you. No, the reclusive Mario Segale, former Nintendo of America warehouse landlord, is developing property, massively. Powerful Segale family has massive vision for Tukwila expanse [The Seattle Times]

First Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Details Go Beyond Amazing

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-man is going on a spectacular multi-dimensional adventure in his next outing, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, which sends old Web-head to realities both “amazing” and “noir.” Let’s hope the two remaining mystery realms don’t include a “suck” dimension. The previously teased Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions will toss Spider-Man into four separate Marvel universes, according…

The 10 Tribes Of Final Fantasy XIV – Oh Look, Dark Elves!

Sure, Final Fantasy XIV only has five races that are renamed versions of the races from Final Fantasy XI, but with two tribes each, that’s like ten races total! Let’s take a look at them, shall we? The Japanese Final Fantasy IV site now formally splits each of the game’s five races into two separate…

Monday Night Combat Preview: The Other Instant Winner

I’ve already written about one of my two favorite new games at PAX East. This is the other one. Monday Night Combat is an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive coming from Uber Entertainment, the development studio with the artist who can do better backflips than the rest of us. It is a game of team-based, class-based…

Sega Channels Conduit 2 To Wii This Fall

High Voltage Software will give fans of its original shooter The Conduit another opportunity to enjoy first-person shooting thrills on the Wii. The latest issue of Nintendo Power unveils the sequel, Conduit 2. That’s Conduit 2, not The Conduit 2, it appears, for reasons that are still unclear. But what is clear is what Sega…

UFC Chief Backs Off Threat To Ban Fighters, Still Loathes EA

UFC president Dana White will allow fighters appearing in EA Sports MMA, a rival to his successful UFC Undisputed video game series. But UFC fans who buy the EA game beware: White says that’s “fucking nuts.” Kotaku grabbed a couple of minutes with White late last week at an elaborate evening nightclub event held for…

Sociologist Spends 2,300 Hours Seeking Civilization In World Of Warcraft

Sociologist and director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation, William Sims Bainbridge spent 2300 hours entrenched in popular MMO World of Warcraft, looking for look for insights about Western civilization. What did he find there? William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D., is no spring chicken, but he braved the wilds of Azeroth for 2200 hours,…

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The Saboteur Is A Lot Less Chesty On The iPhone

With a rating of 12+ on Apple’s App Store, Hands-On Mobile’s iPhone take on EA’s The Saboteur promises more Nazi foiling and less randomly topless women. The Saboteur is now available on the App Store, with $2.99 scoring purchasers 12 missions spread across seven environments, with a less potty-mouthed Sean Devlin amassing an arsenal of…

The Cutest Indie Game Plushie Ever

Indie game developer Edmund McMillen goes full circle, so to speak, as Bigshot Toyworks releases a couple of plush toys based on his award-winning PC game Gish, starring a loveable ball of tar out to save his girlfriend. With a new Gish game on the horizon and a cameo by the grinning black ball in…

Medal Of Honor Developer: “Afghanistan Sort Of Chose Us”

This fall, one of the biggest war video game franchises will be set in a current war, the conflict in Afghanistan. Why? Not politics, a developer told Kotaku. Not current events. “We never chose Afghanistan,” Medal of Honor executive producer Greg Goodrich said in a recent interview in New York City. “Afghanistan sort of chose…

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Street Fighters

UDON Entertainment gets down and dirty with every Street Fighter character to ever go a round this June, with the release of the Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia, with information ranging from fighting styles to favorite foods. Did you know high school ninja Ibuki loves roasted sweet potatoes and is an extremely fast eater, or…

Man Arrested Allegedly Trying To Steal Early Copy of Game At Convention

Atomic Games’ Xbox Live Arcade shooter Breach impressed one PAX East visitor so much he apparently attempted to steal the code, and he might have succeeded too, if not for one fatal mistake – telling the developers he was stealing it. We don’t condone stealing here at Kotaku, but we do enjoy being helpful, so…

Modern Warfare 2 Charity Raises Unemployment Awareness By Handing Out Games

To celebrate today’s release of Modern Warfare 2’s new Stimulus map pack, publisher Activision delivered copies of the game to more than 300 U.S. Navy ships, submarines and recreational facilities around the world. In this video we see crew members of the U.S.S. John C Stennis getting their free copies of the game in San…