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What Are Gears of War Characters Doing In My Lost Planet 2?

In a collaboration with Capcom, American game developer Epic is lending Gears of War’s main characters Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago to upcoming action title Lost Planet 2. The appearance of both Gears characters in Lost Planet 2 was revealed in a trailer shown today at Xbox Japan’s Capcom event. It is believed that the…

Xbox Japan’s Big Capcom Announcements Are…

PC title Monster Hunter Frontier is coming to the Xbox 360. It was announced at the Xbox Japan event today in Tokyo. But that’s not all. The game first appeared on the PC back in summer 2007. A closed beta test will begin this May in Japan. Initially, there will be a PC server and…

X10 Sees Microsoft Return To Hosting Its Own Game Show

Having abandoned the show to the Canadian wilderness in recent years, Microsoft is bringing its “X” event back into the limelight in 2010, with a showcase night planned to take place in San Francisco next month. The last proper “X” event was all the way back in 2006, when Peter Jackson was in attendance promising…

What Is Xbox Japan’s Big Capcom Announcement?

Later today, Xbox Japan is holding a special event in Tokyo with game developer Capcom. The event was teased last week with an image that simply read: Capcom x Microsoft 2010.01.26 CAPCOM TITLE PREMIERE FOR XBOX 360 But what is this new title? There is a scan floating around that purports to announce Monster Hunter…

Rumor: LA Noire’s Development More Of A Mess Than We’d Imagined

We were this morning pointed towards the Twitter account of a certain “veracious_shit”, who says they are a source close to Team Bondi’s long-in-development LA Noire. And veracious has some interesting things to say. Cataloguing the long, drawn-out history of one of the most mysterious games of this hardware generation, veracious claims to reveal a…

A Week In Comments

Heavy Rain’s First Nine Minutes Hit The Shower, Down Some OJ Comment by: evolutionman Nominated by: Donutta You know, watching this, I have this gut feeling that this will be the game that destroys video games. I look at it, and I think “Pfft, that’s just getting me to push buttons at the right time.”…

We Could Have Had (Another) 2D God Of War

While God of War on PSP was a good enough game, the real achievement was in how developers Ready At Dawn managed to translate the console experience onto a handheld. But did you know they almost didn’t bother? In an interview at IndustryGamers, RaD’s Dana Jan said “There were early discussions of making Chains of…

Report: Warner Bros. Rebooting Mortal Kombat (The Movie)

According to a report on Bloody Disgusting, Warner Bros. Studios is looking to start production on a reboot of 1995 film Mortal Kombat. Having bought the rights to the franchise when it picked up Midway last year, BD say that Warner is looking to get Oren Uziel to write up a script for the project,…

Kotaku Off-Topic: Mildly On-Topic

Earlier today we were wondering what would be the onomatopoeic spelling of the Xbox Live Achievement Unlocked sound.. At first I suggested “bloo-ick” but Fahey corrected that with “bo-deet.” Now I think it’s more like “buh-plock.” This is the kind of crap you think about after an eight-hour drive up I-5, beginning at 6 a.m.…

+ Muscle, + Stamina, – Fat

Poster seen by reader Reagan M. in a gym – not in Ganton, but New Zealand.

Classic Stadiums Will Be Unlockable, Won’t Be Easy

This makes me feel like your 88-year-old grandpappy, but MLB 10 will have the old Polo Grounds. Back in the day, its centerfield ad read “Always Buy Chesterfield,” a cigarette. Guess SCEA didn’t want a T rating for tobacco reference. As we mentioned earlier, the Polo Grounds will be available as preorder DLC for MLB…

Donkey Kong Versus The Fantastic Four

Comic artist Anthony Vukojevich‘s Donkey Kong take on Fantastic Four #26, as seen on Covered – Thanks David!

Sixteen Games That Make iPhone Gaming Worthwhile

The iPhone is no gaming device… unless you make it one. I had this idea late last year while preparing for a month-long trip to Australia. I wanted to see if I could turn my iPhone into a satisfying, gaming device. The thing is, I love gaming on the iPhone, but more often than not…

Dr. Phil Scolds Farmville Addict

I don’t completely disagree with everything Dr. Phil says for once. Confronting a Farmville-obsessed mom in danger of neglecting her kids, he said, “You have a ridiculous addiction to a ridiculous computer game.” He got that last part right. The mom, named Teresa, evidently unplugged her home’s wireless router to boot everyone from the family…

Home Check

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: We’ve been going through the process of adopting a Great Dane recently. I had a Great Dane when I was in high school and every since I’ve wanted to have another. Sure, I guess I could go out and buy one from a breeder or (shudder) a pet store, but…

No. 1 Xbox Live Indie Game Made Six Figures

Major Nelson released a list of the top 20 Xbox Live Indie Games more than three weeks ago, but self-reported sales data from the creator community puts the first full year of the service in greater focus. While full numbers for sales, trial downloads and revenue are not available for all titles, the developers of…

Broken Sword Polished Up For The iPhone

Fresh jokes, new puzzles, and cutscenes from celebrated Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons put the Director’s Cut in Broken Sword: The Director’s cut, an enhanced version of the beloved adventure game, available now for Apple’s iPhone. It’s been a long time since I’ve played through the story of journalist Nico Collard and American tourist George Stobbart,…

Assassin’s Creed II PC Priced, Dated, And Spec’d

Blood flows free in the streets of Renaissance Italy anew come March 16th, when the PC version of Assassin’s Creed II hit store shelves, balancing a $60 price tag with free downloadable content. The PC version of Ubisoft’s Game of the Year contender is priced a bit steeper than PC gamers are used to, but…

Few Of History’s Top Books Made Into Games, Good Or Bad

With EA’s Dante’s Inferno game on the verge of release, draw your eyes to some lists of the 100 greatest books of all time. Few games have been made based on the books, for better or worse. I found a Top 100 Books list from Newsweek (a meta list of other lists), posted last summer.…

The Darwinian Invasion Of Xbox Live Begins Next Month

In 2008, independent developer Introversion announced an Xbox Live Arcade version of its innovative PC strategy action puzzler, Darwinia. Now Darwinia+ is only a few short weeks away. Introversion’s long struggle with MIcrosoft’s high standards has finally come to an end, and the XBLA release of Darwinia+ is scheduled for February 10th. 1200 Microsoft points…