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Courtney Love Now Says Cobain Would’ve Been Cool With Guitar Hero 5

Professional widow Courtney Love, PO’d at Activision for how Kurt Cobain of Nirvana is presented in Guitar Hero 5, says Cobain probably would have found his game appearance amusing. But since he’s dead she gets to do all the suin’. Telling the U.K.’s NME magazine, Love characteristically spewed filth-flarn-flarn-filth when passing along this update. What…

Kotaku Originals: iPad the Score

Apple’s unveiling of a tablet PC threatened to crowd out the rest of the games and devices news this week, but we didn’t let that stop us from delivering our usual slate of reports, reviews and rumors. iPad Hands On With Apple’s iPad, Everything But The Games iPad Doubts: A Gamer’s Problems With Apple’s Wonder…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

Looks like George is late for both the iPad announcement and the State of the Union. Who schedules these things in January, anyway? It’s not a convenient month for travel. But it’s always a convenient time for Kotaku’s open thread. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

Sony Pleased As Punch With Apple’s iPad

While Nintendo president Satoru Iwata expressed some rather public disappointment with the new Apple iPad yesterday, representatives from rival firm Sony couldn’t be happier. “Apple’s entrance into the portable gaming space has been a net positive for Sony,” Sony’s John Koller, Director Hardware Marketing, told the Wall Street Journal. “When people want a deeper, richer…

Final Fantasy XIII On… The PS2?

Square Enix’s role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII is a PlayStation 3 game (and an Xbox 360 game!). But at one time, the game was running on the PS2. Early artwork and screens have been published in two new books from Square Enix, giving insight into the game’s design process. These test version images pre-date E3…

LittleWhite Knight Chronicles

Sony & Level 5’s White Knight Chronicles, for the PS3, is a very serious affair. Lots of world-saving, and giant creatures with sharp knees. So it’s refreshing to see the game’s characters presented in a softer light. This White Knight character pack for PS3 platformer LittleBigPlanet will be out on February 25, along with some…

No Mature Games Allowed In Xbox Game Room

One of the biggest potential stumbling points for the 360’s (and PC’s!) Game Room – having to secure an endless stream of ESRB ratings – has been solved in a fairly unique way by Microsoft. Whereas similar platforms – like Nintendo’s Virtual Console for the Wii – submit each game to the ratings board individually,…

Borderlands DLC Gets Bundled, Burned To Add-On Pack Disc

Gearbox Software and 2K Games will take the currently release downloadable content for their hit Borderlands and slap it on some DVDs next month with the release of the Borderlands Add-On Pack. Retailer GameStop is listing the double DLC disc for a February 23 release date, bundling the add-on we liked a lot (The Zombie…

Kotaku Off Topic: Belly Burger

There really aren’t enough video games built around the concept of the hamburger. Similarly a shame, the amount of burger in my digestive tract at this very moment. I’m about to correct that. While you’re reading, contemplating and commenting in tonight’s Kotaku Off Topic thread, in which anything can be discussed, I’ll be at my…

Six More Screens for MLB 10 The Show

MLB 09 The Show won wide praise for the strength of its visuals, and in these six screenshots SCEA’s released, it’s a solid bet MLB 10 The Show will live up to those expectations too. I went back into this game this week to reacclimate myself to it, since the March 2 release is not…

No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise Suffers Delay of Game

The Japanese release of No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 port of the Wii original, won’t make its previously announced February 25 release date. Travis and company won’t touch down until sometime in April. So what does that mean for those of us outside of Japan? Well, at least we…

Multiplayer Patched Into Original Aliens vs. Predator Re-Release

Rebellion’s boss promised the Steam re-release of 1999’s original Aliens vs. Predator would support multiplayer. They’ve delivered, patching in the support for that today. Here’s what it will and won’t do: • Integrated with Steam Overlay • Uses Steam name • Host/Join games via bare-bones in-game lobby browser • Can invite and join friends and…

WarioWare D.I.Y. Has Made Me A User Generated Content Convert

Game programming may come to the masses in the most micro of forms with Nintendo’s upcoming do-it-yourself mini-game collection WarioWare D.I.Y., one of a handful of new titles we got to go hands-on with this week. I’ve been a longtime fan of the WarioWare series of seconds-long games since the original WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!…

Games Ban Might Encourage Somali Teens to Shoot Real Guns

Somalia has a ton of problems, but at least it does have cybercafes where kids can enjoy playing games. But a fun-killing Islamist group has ordered them shut down in a ban on games in territories under its control. Hezb al-Islam ordered the cafes closed and declared that “laying video games will be prohibited. Video…

Tecmo Thinks It’s Making Games That Appeal To Women Now

You may not think off Tecmo as a company that’s targeting the fairer sex with much of its line-up, but Quantum Theory producer Yasuo Egawa says that is exactly what the publisher has been doing for the past few years. Egawa tells Edge that Tecmo wants to offer the female gamer something that’s not just…

Metal Gear Solid: Rising’s Raiden Has Changed

Kojima Productions has apparently turned Metal Gear Solid: Rising’s Raiden from brown-eyed to blue, one of many little tweaks to the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty co-star since his E3 2009 debut. The new Raiden is less undead looking, has a little more bounce in his wavy white hair, is slightly more matte…

Will We Ever See Games In The Winter Games?

This happens every two years. Someone looks for an Olympics story, someone thinks up a video game angle, and presto, reconstituted discussion of video games as an Olympic event. This year’s participant: Macleans, the Canadian news magazine. Macleans quotes Ted Owen, who’s certainly beat this drum before. He’s the boss of the Global Gaming League,…

Dear President Obama

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: TGIF So Tristan just wandered up to my office to let me know he emailed the president of the United States. I asked him why, he said he wanted to let him know that he liked his speech the other day. Apparently while I spend my iPhone time reading Kotaku,…

This Week’s Top Five Hotter-than-Hades Stories

It’s Friday and it’s time for the top 5 hottest Kotaku stories of the week. Warning: reading them may scorch eyebrows, eyelashes, and/or facial hair. Brought to you by Dante’s Inferno. In Stores 02.09.10. Read ’em and burn after the jump. 1. Mass Effect 2’s Sex Scenes Already Revealed – 87,886 views 2. Kotaku ‘Shop…

Game Developers See Potential, Not Gold Rush in Apple’s iPad

On its surface, Apple’s iPad may seem like a glorified e-book reader, but developers working on games for the system say they see within its extra-large screen and faster processor, great gaming potential. “Our creative teams are really just digging in and brainstorming ideas that the power and specs of the iPad might bring to…