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MAG Goes To Vegas, Won’t Stay In Vegas

Super Street Fighter IV won’t be the only game in town during next week’s CES convention in Las Vegas. Sony’s bringing Zipper Interactive‘s PlayStation 3 shooter MAG to the show, giving fans a chance to rub elbows and shoot bullets. It’s a pretty straightforward affair. You show up, you’re of age, you play some MAG…

So Now I Have My Own iPhone — What Games Should I Get?

Usually the best gifts we get for the holidays are the ones we buy for ourselves. In my case, this would be an iPhone. Now that I’m in possession of what people are calling the next big portable gaming platform, I need to load it up with games. I’ve got a few in mind so…

R.I.P.

To: Ash From: Crecente Today we put our 15-year-old Border Collie, Lucy, to sleep. It was a peaceful, emotional procedure at our house. The death hit Trish especially hard. I adopted Lucy a week or so after Trish moved from Australia to the U.S. to eventually marry me. Trish couldn’t work, didn’t know the area…

What Budget Games Did Japan Flock To In 2009?

There comes a time when even underappreciated PlayStation 3 games like Valkyria Chronicles can outsell the Metal Gear Solid and Grand Theft Autos of the world. And, at least in Japan, it’s when those games reach “greatest hits” budget prices. Famitsu—and we’re guessing parent company Enterbrain—have tracked some of 2009’s bestselling games that bear the…

It’s A PopCap App Sale

Looks like I picked a good time to finally get an iPhone. PopCap Games — developers of many addictive games like Peggle and Bookworm — are having an App Store sale. From now until January 4th, you can get Bookworm, Peggle and Chuzzle for $1.99 each. Bejeweled 2, sadly, is excluded from this deal so…

Major Nelson Talks About Xbox Live, Natal, Bannings & More On Kotaku Talk Radio

This morning, the Xbox Live‘s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb took a few moments from his busy podcasting and Gamerscore inflating duties to chat with Kotaku readers, a very special episode of Kotaku Talk Radio that’s now available for download. Major Nelson bravely faced a flood of Kotaku readers and what seemed to be recently banned…

A Retro Gaming Room I Could Die In

I’ve seen many a lovely retro gaming room in my lifetime, but this one from Netherlands resident donkey*kong makes me want to lay my head down on his Famicom pillow and quietly pass away. It may be a little Nintendo-centric, but you have to admire the guy’s passion. Just about every major and many minor…

Shigeru Miyamoto Wishes You A Happy New Year, Nintendo Style

The newest issue of Japanese Nintendo magazine Nintendo Dream—the one with Link and Zelda on the cover, Spirit Tracks style—features a big batch of New Years wishes from Nintendo’s developers, including the Shigeru Miyamoto well-wisher seen above. And there’s a lot more where that came from, courtesy of the scanning prowess of Zelda Power, which…

It’s only a matter of time before Ubisoft decides to combine some of the popular “Imagine” series …

North American Record Of Agarest War Trailer Is Completely Shameless

The North American trailer for Compile Heart’s breeding RPG Record of Agarest War knows its audience, and with blurred nudity and a borderline money shot, grabs them by the…well it isn’t the throat. There were two ways to market this game in the states. Either Aksys could play up the fighting system and gloss over…

PETA Deems The Sims 3 Most Animal-Friendly Game of ’09

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals don’t hand out many video game awards, but when they do, they’re generally about games that favor eating vegetables and tofu over meat. PETA’s choice game of 2009? The Sims 3. The organization has lauded EA’s life simulator as the “most animal-friendly game” of the year, otherwise…

It’s The Little Touches That Make A Legend Of Zelda Themed Wedding This Great

Jaded as we are, we’re still thrilled to see a couple of Nintendo loving nerds like Kotaku reader Kyle and his recently wedded wife Ashley take The Legend of Zelda wedding theme to the next level. The classy level. Of course, Kyle and Mrs. Kyle had a custom made Triforce cake—obligatorily pictured below—but it’s the…

The Twelve Days Of Atlus

Twelve days – twelve fabulous prizes. Atlus keeps the holiday spirit alive well into 2010 with twelve days of random prize packages for members of the Atlus Faithful. Look at that JPEG, filled with wondrous prizes. Atlus has bundled up twelve unique prize packages filled with some of those items and is giving them away…

The Statistically Best Games of the Decade (Or Why Stats Sometimes Lie)

With the decade wrapping up it’s inevitable that our minds start to turn to how the past ten years went. That means thinking about which games were the best, most influential and had the deepest personal impact on us. I haven’t really had a chance to properly sift through my recollections and memories of ten…

What Were Amazon’s Video Game Bestsellers Of 2009?

The answer to that question can be mostly summed up with three letters: Wii. Nintendo’s console dominated online retailer Amazon.com’s video game department in 2009, securing nine of the top ten spots on this year’s bestsellers list. Only one game stood between Nintendo and perfect top ten ownership, Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare…

Try On Gaijin’s Wings Of Prey

Gaijin Entertainment let fly its new World War II combat flight sim Wings of Prey on Christmas Day, and now there’s a downloadable demo for those of you pondering dusting off the old flight stick. Wings of Prey is a pretty robust PC combat sim, with more than 50 missions, 40 planes, and extensive online…

Mass Effect 2 – Fight for the Lost

Get ready for Mass Effect 2—the latest installment of Bioware’s space-epic Mass Effect franchise. Humans are disappearing across the galaxy. It’s up to Commander Shepard and his team to find out why. Teamed up with a crew of the most lethal warriors in the universe – a savage, a psychopath, a genius, and more –…

Two Worlds II Is Too Good For Mundane Screenshots

Sure, Two Worlds II developer Reality Pump Studios will still release new normal screen shots, but they can be faked. Movies, on the other hand… …can still be faked. Along with these four new screens for Two Worlds II, Reality Pump has released a series of “MoveShots” at its website. “MoveShots” are tiny little videos…

Kotaku Talk Radio is Live: Let’s Talk With Xbox Live’s Major Nelson

Larry Hryb, Xbox Live‘s Major Nelson, is today’s guest on our live Kotaku podcast. We’re starting now. Call in. You could be live on the air with Mike McWhertor and Hryb. Want to know about Gamertag issues, top DLC or Arcade titles? Pester about the future of Xbox Live or possible CES news? Now’s the…

Divinity 2: Becoming The Dragon

Your character in Larian Studios’ Divinity 2: Ego Draconis starts off as a dragon hunter, but quickly changes his tune once he becomes a dragon/human hybrid. Typical! At last, the hunter becomes the hunted…and the hunter…at the same time. There’s definitely some hunting going on, that’s for sure. Your character’s transition from Dragon Slayer to…