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New Crackdown 2 Screens Show Off Shiny Preorder Armor

As far as purchase incentives go it’s no Halo 3 multiplayer beta, but Crackdown 2’s preorder bonus armor is definitely…okay, I’ve got nothing. While the inclusion of access to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta definitely pushed sales of the original Crackdown, I think the game proved itself to be a worthwhile purchase on its own.…

First Screens Of Left 4 Dead 2’s “The Passing,” New Infected, New Weapons

Valve released new details on the first downloadable add-on for Left 4 Dead 2 today at Microsoft’s X10 event, explaining how “The Passing” will handle the meet up with the original Left 4 Dead survivors. Now, let’s have some media. These ten new screens of the new episode, coming to the PC and Xbox 360…

More Alan Wake Footage, More Flashlights In The Dark

Microsoft and Remedy released a new trailer for Alan Wake today. I love how he gets hit by a flying mine cart and just shrugs it off.

Left 4 Dead 2’s “The Passing” Coming March, Followed By Comic, More L4D DLC

Valve is showing the first downloadable content pack for Left 4 Dead 2, “The Passing,” at today’s X10 event. The new campaign is now aiming for a March release, the start of new content for the zombie apocalypse shooter. In “The Passing,” players will meet up with the original Left 4 Dead’s survivors, Francis, Bill,…

360 Scores The Only Final Fantasy XIII Bundle Outside Of Japan

Microsoft confirms the March 9th release of a Final Fantasy XIII 250GB Xbox 360 bundle, noting that it’s the only console outside of Japan to come bundled with the game. At the X10 event in San Francisco today, the company revealed that the rumored Xbox 360 North American Final Fantasy bundle is indeed a reality,…

Exclusive Dead Rising 2 Prologue Coming To Xbox Live

Xbox 360 owners’ wait for Dead Rising 2 just got a bit more tolerable, with the announcement of an exclusive playable prologue, Dead Rising: Case Zero, launching on Xbox Live prior to the game’s release on August 31st. Crecente is embedded at Microsoft’s X10 event in San Francisco, where he sends word of a special…

Alan Wake Slated For May 18, Looks Good

The long-in-development Alan Wake, one of the most enigmatic titles in development for the Xbox 360, will finally be released on May 18, Microsoft announced today. Earlier this week, the game’s developers gave Kotaku a live demonstration. It was impressive. Alan Wake has been in development by Max Payne makers Remedy Entertainment for more than…

Nothing Says I Love You Like A Stuffed Scrotum?

Who needs an actual game to generate buzz? Certainly not Postal developers Running With Scissors, celebrating Valentine’s Day with an adorable plush scrotum named Krotchy. Every once in a while we half-heartedly wonder when Postal III is going to come out. We haven’t seen much of the game, and Running With Scissors is supposed to…

Star Trek Online Couldn’t Resist The Borg

Cryptic just couldn’t resist using the Borg as its first big content update for Star Trek Online. After all, nothing can move the Borg! Wait, that’s not right. The Borg are the best at what they do, and what they do isn’t pretty. Having recovered after the Voyager crew somehow dealt them a severe blow,…

Prototype Developer Radical Cut In Half

Radical Entertainment, developer of Prototype and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, has been hit with substantial layoffs today, according to development sources close to the Vancouver-based studio. Approximately 90-plus employees have been let go, sources say. That’s about half the studio’s headcount, apparently, affecting two of the three development teams at the Activision Blizzard owned…

We’re At X10, In The Shadow Of Apple?

Fable III is at X10. Alan Wake is at X10. Bungie is at X10, presumably with you-know-what. And so too is Kotaku. Brian Crecente has just hustled himself into Microsoft’s big 2010 gaming showcase out in San Francisco. He shot me over some photos and notes that the event’s got some signage issues. Outside, you’ve…

Blonde Dragon Age: Awakening Companions Don’t Have More Fun

Velanna the Dalish Elf is the latest new character revealed for the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins expansion Awakenings, and she’s got a bone to pick about how her people have been treated. In Dragon Age: Origins, elves are treated as second-class citizens, and that’s putting it gently. The humans took their lands, burned cities to…

This Time We Mean It: Top Bioshock 2 Dev Takes Your Calls Friday

We at Kotaku now know what it’s like to have a release date slip. Tomorrow, thanks to the melting of yesterday’s New York blizzard, we’ll finally do our live weekly podcast. Bioshock 2’s creative director will take your calls. May I quote my own post from pre-blizzard Monday, back when everything was so much sunnier?…

The Littlest Sister Of Them All

BioShock 2 Big Daddy and Big Sister, complete with Little Sister, crafted by White Tiger Miniatures, commissioned by Kelly, who has more pics at her deviantART page.

Key Bragging Stat: How Your Demo Did

Word just hit from EA that their Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo is “on pace to become the fastest downloaded demo in EA history.” It has been downloaded to Xbox 360s and PS3s more than two million times. In the past week EA has also said that its Dante’s Inferno demo was downloaded three million…

Scenes From Samurai Shodown Sen

So Samurai Shodown Sen is coming to the North American Xbox 360 this spring, courtesy of XSEED. What’s that going to look like? Pretty lifeless, if you ask me. It’s a problem that crops up whenever classic 2D characters are rendered in 3D, though some companies have done a much better job of it recently.…

How To Play The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo

If you’re having trouble making any progress in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer demo, this tutorial video should help. Or you could just ignore it and keep sniping me for no reason. Did you know the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer demo had goals? You did? Well if I’ve played it with you on…

Married By Master Chief, One Year Later

A year ago, I attended a Halo wedding. It was in Orlando. The bride entered to a live rendition of the Halo 3 menu music. A man dressed as Master Chief married bride and groom. Here’s what happened next. A year past their wedding, Desirai Labrada and John Henry have become an inspiration to the…

If All You Need Is Love, Then You’re In Luck

The Beatles’ classic “All You Need is Love,” once exclusive to the Xbox 360 version of The Beatles: Rock Band, is finally making its way to the PlayStation 3 and Wii, with its charitable intentions intact. Released for the Xbox 360 in September of last year, “All You Need is Love,” quickly became the fastest…

Shockwave Cares Not For Your GameStop War On Cybertron Preorder

Shockwave is confounded by your impulsive, irrational excitement at his appearance as a preorder bonus multiplayer character for Transformers: War for Cybertron. Shockwave is a cold, calculating machine that only cares for usurping Megatron as leader of the Decepticons, not because he holds any hatred for him, but because it is logical that he do…