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Video Games Let Down Mike Tyson On Live TV

If you are Mike Tyson, the former baddest man on the planet, and you are appearing on WWE’s Monday Night Raw, make sure that the boxing video game running behind you doesn’t show Muhammad Ali thrashing you. The blurry image above shows Tyson confronting WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels on Monday Night Raw last night. Tyson…

Former Staffer Compares Rockstar NY To The Eye Of Sauron

Following a blog post last week describing unfair work conditions at Rockstar San Diego, a former Rockstar New York staffer spoke to MTV Multiplayer of the fear the East coast office instills in the developer’s West Coast employees. Last Thursday’s blog post, signed by “Determined Devoted Wives of Rockstar San Diego employees,” described mandatory long…

Final Fight: Double Impact Puts You Back In the Arcade

The most impressive thing about Capcom’s download ports of arcade classics Final Fight and Magic Sword aren’t the gameplay, it’s the frame that the game plays within. Gamers have the option of turning on a frame for the games that turns the sides of the monitor into replicas of the old gaming guides that used…

Star Trek Online Boldly Enters Open Beta

Prepare to pick out your uniform, christen your starship, and boldly go where only closed beta participants have gone before, as Cryptic launches the open beta test for Star Trek Online. It feels like only yesterday that Cryptic was revealed as the developer of Star Trek Online. The game was officially announced in July of…

Lost Planet 2’s Debouse Has a Big Mouth

These screenshots of Lost Planet 2 creature Debouse go great lengths towards explaining why they decided to lose the planet in the first place. When you’ve got a cross between those frilled, spitting dinosaurs from Jurassic Park and a Sam Keith drawing wandering around your planet, losing it is probably your best bet. Capcom’s Lost…

Razer Reinvents, Perfects the Xbox 360 Controller

The second to last thing I was expecting to be writing about my visit to Razer’s CES booth was an Xbox 360 controller. The last thing? That I like it more than Microsoft’s version. The Razer Onza includes two programmable bumpers, a 15-foot braided cable, a more-responsive directional pad and the ability to adjust the…

BioWare Confirms Spring 2011 Release Window For The Old Republic

BioWare today confirmed the spring 2011 release window for Star Wars: The Old Republic that EA CEO John Ricitiello mentioned yesterday, promising exciting updates and reveals throughout 2010. Ricitiello spoke about the release window yesterday during an EA financial update conference call. Now BioWare’s Sean Dahlberg confirms the news via a message posted this morning…

Mass Effect 2 Sets Its Sights on the Modern Warfare Crowd

Famed role-playing game developers Bioware are going after a surprising audience with their upcoming RPG, Mass Effect 2: Fans of first-person shooters. While Mass Effect 2 will remain very solidly in the realm of role-playing game, the combat has been reworked specifically to try and attract the same sort of gamer who plays Modern Warfare…

Naughty Bear Is Slightly Disturbing

A disheveled teddy bear casually wielding a machete is exactly the sort of thing I used to have nightmares about as a small child. When AJ previewed Artificial Mind & Movement’s Naughty Bear for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, she neglected to mention the machete. What kind of nightmare world do we live in where…

Ace Combat Returns To The PSP

Project Aces returns to the PlayStation Portable this summer in Ace Combat Joint Assault, bringing fierce aerial battles to the skies of London, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Those are just three of the locations you’ll be swapping missiles over in Ace Combat Joint Assault, the second game in the venerable flight combat series for the…

iPhone Chart Toppers: Trenches Hits the Charts

Zombies still cling to the top spot and only one new game managed to break into the list: Trenches. Have any of your played it yet? Here’s the full list: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews. Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Call…

TVs Getting More Natal-y This Fall

Late 2010 will improve our ability to play video games without a controller in our hands. But even if you skip getting a Project Natal, there will be ways for you to motion-control your TV with a hand wave. The New York Times reports that the Xbox 360’s Project Natal is just one of many…

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Mad Catz Wants to Take on Fight Stick King Hori in Japan

Hot off the success of their licensed Street Fighter tournament edition fight sticks in the U.S., Mad Catz is hoping to expand their reach into the land of Street Fighter: Japan. Currently popular fight-stick manufacturer Hori has the licensing rights to Street Fighter in Japan, said Alex Verrey, the Mad Catz’ spokesman. But they’d like…

What’s Your Opinion Of 3D?

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Kotaku’s Newest Day Note Slated For Release January 11 Welcome back from CES. Wanted to ask you our thoughts on 3D? The jury is still out for me — I actually like the flatness of, you know, regular HD TV. Remember when that was a big deal? What you missed…

Nintendo, Beyonce Can’t Quit You

Pop diva Beyoncé has renewed her partnership with Nintendo of America, but this time she’s back to shill more than Nintendo products: She’ll be shilling her own, too. Through Nintendo, she’s promoting her own fashion line, Deréon, which was co-created by Beyoncé and her mother, designer Tina Knowles. Last year, the singer appeared in ads…

Another Perfectly Good Piece Of Box Art, Ruined By Americans

What is it with American publishers – Sony Computer Entertainment in particular – and ruining nice pieces of foreign box art that should otherwise have been left untouched? Take Heavy Rain, for example. Above is the PAL cover to the game, revealed a month or so ago. It’s dark, it’s mysterious, it’s slightly menacing. Exactly…

Let’s Watch This No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise Spot

Action title No More Heroes, a game supposedly intended for the Xbox 360 originally and then moved to the Nintendo Wii, is finally coming to the Xbox 360. And the PS3. With No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, the series is making the leap to hi-def. According to a Famitsu article from last fall, the game…

More Fable III Concept Art

Still want some Fable III screens? Once again, there are no Fable III screens. Sorry. There are images of , a queen, a king and his family and chimney sweeps. The action role playing game, which allows players to choose between good and evil, moving on from a stylised renaissance and is, Dickens novels in…

One Earth, The MMO That’s Also A TV Show

Well, this is different. Thanks to a massive injection of capital from General Electric, the SyFy network and a games developer are building a project in which an MMO and a TV show interact and “co-evolve”. The project has the name “One Earth“, and the game is being worked on by Trion World Network, who…