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Dante’s Inferno: The Official Novelization Of The Book

One title not highlighted by EA CEO John Riccitiello today was the release of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, part of The Divine Comedy. Yes, that’s the book, soon to be republished bearing the Dante’s Inferno video game’s likeness. Random House and EA have buddied up to release of paperback edition of the epic poem upon which…

Leaked Aliens RPG Footage Offers Early Look At Canceled Game

Obsidian Entertainment’s Aliens role-playing game for Sega, known commonly as Aliens RPG and less commonly as Aliens: Crucible, is dead. But recently leaked footage of Aliens RPG means it is still not yet forgotten. Footage of the canceled Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC game sneaked out this weekend, offering “an extremely early pre-production build”…

Star Wars: The Old Republic Heading For A Spring 2011 Launch

During Electronic Arts’ fiscal year 2010 update call today, CEO John Riccitiello cited Star Wars: The Old Republic as a key driver of the company’s digital business, noting that the MMO was making “great progress towards a spring 2011 launch.” With all of the character classes revealed, new planets being added to the game’s Holonet…

Kotaku’s Newest Day Note Slated For Release January 11

To: Totilo From: Totilo Re: Totilo / Hey Look! Whale In A Can Would you look at the time? Man, it’s like, past time to be writing the Day Note. Good thing Crecente is actually off today and not checking the site. He’d see that this Day Note is late. Good thing he’s away. What…

There May Be More Madworld In The Wii’s Future

Platinum Games debut Wii game, the bloody beat ’em up Madworld, may not have been a blockbuster success, but that doesn’t rule out the possibility of a sequel. It’s actually sounding more like a distinct possibility. Despite regularly being listed among the original M-rated games that just don’t perform well on the Wii, for whatever…

96-Hour Marathon Allegedly Blinds Chinese Gamer

In the name of science – or because his domestic situation was driving him nuts – a Chinese man played games at a cyber cafe for four straight days. The good news? That will only temporarily blind you. Unlike porn, which yada yada insert joke here rimshot hey-oooo. Anyway, according to the China Daily, a…

Dante’s Inferno: Behold The Ten Circles Of Fraud And Deceit

According to this developer diary covering the next to last area in Dante’s Inferno, Fraud and Deceit are where all hell breaks loose. Of all the circles of hell, it makes sense that fraud and deceit would be the most packed. As Dr. House taught me, everybody lies, and when liars die, they become part…

EA Expects Worse Fiscal 2010, New “Innovative” Madden 11

Electronic Arts announced today that it’s going to have another tough fiscal year, having a worse FY 2010 than previously planned. But CEO John Riccitiello was upbeat on the company’s 2011, which features “an innovative and new take on Madden.” EA has shed the more optimistic vision of its fiscal 2010 to $3.675 billion, down…

Monsters Probably Stole Your Princess

Sonic the Hedgehog Level Creator creators Mediatonic are making a move onto the PSP next month with Monsters Probably Stole My Princess, a game that pushes the size limit for PSP minis. PSP minis are limited to 100MB in size, and Mediatonic is cutting it awfully close with Monsters Probably Stole My Princess, which weighs…

BioShock 2’s New And Tweaked Plasmids Explained

I previewed BioShock 2 today, but I did not describe how the series’ Plasmid powers have changed since the last game. Thankfully, MTV Multiplayer did. Take it away, my former blog: Scout An extremely unique plasmid, this allows you to basically turn into a ghost at will. In “ghost” form you’re invisible, but you can…

Toyota Unveils New Hybrid Car For “The 8-Bit Generation”

Car maker Toyota unveiled the FT-CH “dedicated hybrid concept” at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, a car notable for its younger skewing design, cheaper price and, in Toyota’s own words, its “8-bit generation” inspired design. According to the official announcement, the Toyota Europe Design and Development (ED2) center in Nice designed the…

MLG Win Ruined By Faulty Xbox 360

Major League Gaming team Triggers Down came close to advancing towards another tournament win this weekend in Orlando, only to have an equipment failure rob them of the Halo 3 CTF win. As you can see in the video replay, Triggers Down were mere inches away from a win over rival team Classic. All four…

Three Of These Aren’t Mass Effect 2 Ads

Ads for Mass Effect 2, drinking laws. (As seen outside the subway station one stop past Kotaku’s NYC office, thanks to someone missing his stop due to listening to a This American Life segment about The Penguin meeting Mary Poppins.)

Serious Sam HD Encounters Xbox Live Arcade This Week

Xbox 360 owners get a chance to revisit the 2001 classic first-person shooter, now with much fancier graphics, with the release of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter this week on Xbox Live Arcade. Take your thinking caps off and settle in with some mostly mindless thing-shooting action, all for the low price of 1200…

Project Needlemouse’s Character Reveals Are Trivial

The names on this image represent potential playable characters in Sega’s Project Needlemouse 2D Sonic the Hedgehog revival, and only your knowledge of Sonic trivia can help narrow down the list! Sega is ready to reveal new information on Project Needlemouse, but the company isn’t giving away the information for free. Instead, every day for…

The Next Generation Of Blowing At A Game To Control It

If Wii MotionPlus or Microsoft’s Project Natal are the next generations of video game motion control, what, you may wonder, is the next generation of controlling a video game by blowing your breath at it? A company called Zyxio showed a new four-sensor system called SensaWaft that allows users to blow a mouse cursor across…

Frankenreview: Bayonetta

Sex sells, but what about combining sex with guns, magic hair, gigantic bosses, and over-the-top action? The results of the Bayonetta Frankenreview might not surprise you. I was sold on Bayonetta the moment I got my first glimpse of those pistol heels. For others, it took word that this was Devil May Cry creator Hideki…

Two Xbox Wrongs Possibly Make A Right

Game companies hate when people trade in gaming goods at game shops. Gamers hate the propensity for Xboxes to break. But were it not for these two things, an alleged crime would not have been exposed. From the files of news-from-December-about-something-that-happened-in-November comes the Daytona Beach, Florida News Journal’s tale of a purloined Xbox. On November…

Toyota FT-CH

BioShock 2 Screenshots Omit Blue Skies, Blue Oceans

BioShock 2, which I’ve been previewing, is a great-looking game set in an underwater city populated with interesting enemies, Big Sisters and Big Daddys. Too bad publisher 2K Games isn’t showing off the beautiful undersea world often visible outside.