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Bad Company 2 Video Spoofs Modern Warfare 2’s “F.A.G.S.” PSA

When Battlefield: Bad Company 2 riffed on rival Modern Warfare 2‘s “Mapathy” promo last week, it could be seen as a playful poke. This, however – a comprehensive parody of October’s infamous “F.A.G.S.” video – is a straight-up nutshot. For those not familiar with C.C. Sabathia or why he would be in this video, his…

EA Sports MMA Serves Up Four Courses of Pain

Having seen it at GDC, Totilo gave us his impressions of EA Sports MMA yesterday. Today, EA Sports released a batch of 16 screens. How about that ballroom setting? Nothing like fine dining while two guys pound each other senseless. I’ll confess to being a neophyte at MMA, so the combatants aren’t very familiar to…

Who Is Brave Enough To Squeeze Into This Vinyl Samus Zero Suit?

Only answer if you’re also wealthy enough to afford the form-fitting suit that made Samus Aran more of a sex object after Metroid: Zero Missions, because this custom-made Zero Suit probably won’t go cheap. The folks at Wii Folder are auctioning off this one-of-a-kind bounty hunter get up on eBay, which they call “the best…

Capt. Mario Answers The Call Of Duty

Mario as veteran spec ops commando and Peach as kidnappable scientist in “Super Mario Warfare” by the talented and regularly featured Agent Scarlet, as seen at DeviantArt via GameFreaks. (Thanks, Morris!)

Well, That Didn’t Take Long; MLB 2K10 Patch Arrives

After vowing yesterday a patch fixing a bad multiplayer glitch and punching up the game’s AI had been “fast-tracked” for delivery, MLB 2K10‘s team backed it up today with the arrival of the game’s first Xbox 360 patch, sometime overnight. The patch finally, fully enables bug-free online ranked games against random opponents. If it punched…

Infinite Space

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Why Can’t I Find Heat On Video?! I’m surprised to find how intrigued I am by Sega’s DS role-playing game Infinite Space. Maybe it’s because it’s a portable space sim. Maybe it’s because it is based on a novel by Arthur C. Clarke. I don’t know, but I’ve just now…

Spider-Man’s Spectacular Game Series Soldiers On With Shattered Dimensions

The Spider-Man license won’t go to waste at Activision just because Spider-Man 4 isn’t coming to movie theaters next year. There will be more Spider-Man games, including one known as Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. The latest issue of GamePro magazine makes mention of the still-unannounced Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, divulging no other details on the latest Marvel…

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Studios Dial Up Dollars From Smartphone Games

There is one bright spot in the flailing videogame industry, and Hollywood already has started taking notice. Last year, while videogame sales were down 11 percent, U.S. mobile game publishers took in about $539 million in sales — up 9.3 percent, according to research firm SNL Kagan. Even more impressive, annual customer spending is likely…

Gears Of War 3 Dated For April 2011 By Edge, Not Epic

Gears Of War developer Epic Games hasn’t dated (or even confirmed) the third game in the stop and pop shooter series, but someone else has, pegging the third entry for an April release in 2011. Now, Edge may not be in an official position to schedule Gears Of War 3, but according to “a trusted…

Wii-Exclusive Samurai Warriors 3 Journeys To America

Tecmo Koei’s Wii-exclusive third entry in the Samurai Warriors series is coming to North America this fall, with Nintendo of America signing on to handle publishing and distribution duties. Nintendo apparently sees something special in the third entry in the Samurai Warriors series, a spinoff of the storied Dynasty Warriors franchise. The game was released…

GDC Imbues Cocksure Codemonkey With False Sense of Coolness

It’s been two days since Jake’s plane from sunny SFO landed in flat OKC, but his friends think the real Jake is still somewhere hiding deep within the halls of the San Francisco Moscone Center. This new Jake is new. He’s lively. He’s cocksure. Like a man after having sex or bowling a turkey, Jake…

Play the Best Bracket this March

Play the SoBe Lifewater™ Zero Inhibitions Bracket Challenge and you could win up to $10,000,000. You could even win a chance to ball with former NBA point guard and current TNT basketball analyst, Kenny “The Jet” Smith. Or perhaps a pillow-fighting with Kendra Wilkinson is more your style? Either way, this is the college basketball…

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Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Snoozes Its Way To America

Square Enix is bringing the PSP prequel to its incredibly popular Kingdom Hearts series to North American shores, unsurprisingly, applying a vague “summer” release date to Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. The fifth entry in the Disney-Square Enix crossover series, Birth By Sleep will be armed with a few new additions in its North American…

In This Life-Saving Minesweeper Game, The Mines Are Real

Every year upwards of 20,000 lives are lost in war-torn countries due to unexploded ordinance such as land mines. Can a video game educate children about land mine avoidance where traditional methods have failed? That’s the hope of Corey Bohil, a visiting assistant professor at Michigan State University’s Department of Telecommunication and project lead on…

95% Of What You Knew About The Grinder Is Wrong [Updated With Exclusive Screenshots]

When a Wii-exclusive first-person shooter turns into an Xbox 360 game, it changes. What was first-person and four-player co-op was a top-down four-player shooter on the 360, when Kotaku played it at Game Developer’s Conference last week. The transformation, from “weird Western” FPS to “weird Western” Gauntlet-style game was motivated by development studio High Voltage…

Where’s My F-ing God of War III?

As seen at a Best Buy God of War III midnight launch. Imagur [via Reddit, thanks Yargh]

Sam Fisher Tweets His Quest For Vengeance

With the NSA’s Third Echelon taking the hunt for Sam Fisher to Facebook, the protagonist of Splinter Cell: Conviction turns to the only people he can trust – millions of Twitter users. Yesterday the Third Echelon commandeered a Facebook page, using it to warn the general populace of one Sam Fisher, an armed and dangerous…

Dante’s Inferno: Trials of St. Lucia Preview: Mod of War

In April, you can re-shape hell, or fly through it as a lady. And you can play through it with a friend, as co-op comes to this year’s biggest God of War competitor. A couple of weeks ago, Kotaku got a look at the upcoming downloadable content for Dante’s Inferno, the Trials of St. Lucia.…