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Building The Perfect Star Trek Frankengame

Has the perfect Star Trek video game been created? Perhaps not, but by taking key elements from the Star Trek games we’ve played over the past three decades, I believe we can come up with the perfect Star Trek Frankengame. Over the years, many Star Trek video game titles have come close to perfection in…

“New” Duke Nukem Forever Footage Opens Old Wounds

More remains from the exploded corpse of Duke Nukem Forever have been found, uploaded to YouTube and paired with unusually inappropriate music, giving followers of the Duke Nukem soap opera another chance to grieve the loss of 3D Realms’ game. The apparently leaked footage is dark, blurry, occasionally covered in on-screen blood and might be…

Capcom’s Dark Void, Resident Evil Expectations, Plus A Probable Typo

Here are screengrabs from a Capcom’s earnings report, in beautiful black-and-white chart form. A report of sales since April 1, 2009, which may have helped the company make a profit: A list of hoped-for sales: And, in a list of upcoming titles, a probably typo I’ve e-mailed Capcom about. Note there was no listing for…

On The iPhone, GT May Not Stand For Gran Turismo

The trick with checking out a new iPhone game from Gameloft, the makers of many hits on the platform, is to look for a clue of resemblance to some other game you’ve heard of. Cars? “GT Racing”? A ha! Later this week or early next, Gameloft will release GT Racing: Motor Academy on the iPhone…

Chime Rings In Release, ‘Splosion Man Goes Cheap On XBLA This Week

This week’s Xbox Live Arcade release is Chime, the Zoë Mode developed musical puzzle game that may evoke thoughts of Lumines with its quad-building mechanic, quad-clearing timeline and choice soundtrack selections. The XBLA game features tunes from the likes of Moby, Orbital, Philip Glass and more, giving your Xbox 360 a bit more music cred.…

Try A Little Miles Edgeworth On For Size

Capcom takes advantage of the Nintendo DS’s download capability today, putting up a demo for Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth two weeks ahead of the game’s release date. Sometimes I forget that I can download things to my regular old DS. Hell, sometimes I forget I can do it with my DSi, and I write…

Romance With Disabled Girls: How (And Maybe Why) An Unusual Video Game Came To Be

About three years ago, one of the most notorious online message board communities decided to create an unusual video game. It would be a Japanese-style erotic dating simulator starring girls with disabilities, a topic not unfamiliar to the 4chan group. The genesis of Katawa Shoujo, an erotic visual novel set on a private campus for…

Aliens Vs. Predator’s Horde Mode

Check out this trailer for Aliens Vs. Predator’s Survivor Mode, in which up to four players co-operatively take on the Alien hordes. I suppose it’s time to set aside the comparisons to Gears of War 2 and simply accept Horde Mode as a standard game type in online multiplayer shooters. It’s just the natural progression…

The Last Guardian Screen Shots

Raven (and I) Need You!

Tomorrow I’m writing up my review of Playstation 3’s MAG. But today, today I need to earn my command stripes and spend an inordinate amount of time playing the game. Unlike our typical reviews, games with heavy multiplayer aspects, like massively multiplayer online titles and online-only games, get a bit of a different approach. We…

Days Of Thunder Drops The Hammer This Summer

Are you ready to drop the hammer? Test your speed against greats like Cole Trickle, Rowdy Burns, and Russ Wheeler in Days of Thunder, coming this summer to PC, Mac, Xbox Live Arcade, and the PlayStation Network. Yes, Piranha Games and Paramount Digital Entertainment are making the dreams of early-90’s racing movie fans come true…

Dante’s Inferno: The Original World Map

As seen at The World of Dante, an illustration by Lindsay McCulloch. Speaking to Kotaku commenters during today’s live chat, Dante’s Inferno producer Jonathan Knight said that the real “ah ha” moment for him in deciding whether Dante’s Inferno the book could be turned into Dante’s Inferno the video game was seeing a map of…

EA Brings Hell To The Super Bowl

EA is dropping a huge portion of the Dante’s Inferno advertising budget this Sunday with the company’s first Super Bowl commercial, hoping to capture the massive cross-section of football fans familiar with the work of Dante Alighieri. With the estimated cost of a half-minute Super Bowl commercial estimated to cost close to $3 million, EA…

Live Chat in the Comments with Jonathan Knight, Executive Producer, Visceral Games

Let’s give a sound Kotaku welcome to our special guest, Jonathan Knight, Executive Producer at Visceral Games. Ask him about his work on the new EA game Dante’s Inferno. You’ve got an hour…ready, set, comment! [More about Jonathan after the jump.] Jonathan grew up playing games on the family Apple II that still sits in…

The Nintendo Download: Monkey Island Ends, Shinobi World Beckons

WiiWare finally sees Tales of Monkey Island through to its dramatic conclusion, and Alex Kidd takes a trip to Shinobi World, plus golf, cards, puzzles, and a little action RPG, all in this week’s Nintendo Download. It’s been nearly two months since PC players got their hands on the fifth chapter of Telltale Games’ Tales…

Memories of Strange New Worlds, Strange New Ideas

Star Trek has always held a certain mystique for me. Not just because it starred a courageous Captain James T. Kirk, a man who every Sunday managed to squeeze fist-fights, flirtation and phaser battles into a single hour of glorious TV, but because of the way I viewed the show… literally. The Star Trek of…

Resonance Of Fate’s Dancing Even Better Than Its Underpants

Resonance of Fate‘s panty shots had one Kotaku commenter wondering where the fan service for women was. It’s right here, along with a little something for the guys as well. The curvaceous Barbarella provokes an interesting reaction in Resonance of Fate’s Vasheron, culminating in what could be the new mating dance for the human race.…

Join The Queue For Command & Conquer 4’s Semi-Open Beta

EA has launched the multiplayer open beta for Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, and all you have to do is sign into your free GameSpot account and wait. You see, waiting for your key is the key to waiting to get into the C&C 4 multiplayer beta. GameSpot is doling them out by the…

iPhone Chart Toppers: X Games and Spore Creatures Hit

Call of Duty: World at War Zombies seems to be making a comeback, likely powered by the release of it’s free “lite” version last week. The newcomers to the list are Spore Creatures, which I’ve just started playing myself, and X Games SnoCross, which seems to offer some pretty spectacular graphics. Here’s the full list:…

The Good Old Cheese-And-PSP Sales Tactic

The LocoRoco edition of the PlayStation Portable becomes yet another gaming product to take advantage of the great crossover between fans of video games and fans of string cheese, as seen in a circular from this past weekend.