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Ace Attorney Investigations Preview: More Of A Game

Out in Japan this year and coming to America in 2010, Ace Attorney is a return to crime-fighting and lawyering on the Nintendo DS, with maybe the best mechanics in the series… if that’s what series fans are looking for. I believe that Ace Attorney games — which I can’t help still thinking of as…

Play Drums With Animal On Your iPhone

There is now an iPhone game that allows you to play drums against Animal from The Muppet Show. Truly we live in an age of wonders. Walt Disney has released The Muppets Animal Drummer on the iTunes App Store, allowing players to rock out with the world’s greatest practitioner of the drumming art. You can…

Assassin’s Creed II’s Gap-Filling DLC Priced And Detailed

Ubisoft has delivered details and pricing info for January and February’s Assassin’s Creed II downloadable content, which fill the gaps in Ezio’s DNA sequence. How much will it cost to complete the game? Yes, as Totilo theorized, the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities DLC, dropping in January and February respectively, comprise the…

Why Andy Richter Didn’t Win A VGA Award

On last night’s episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, sidekick Andy Richter expresses disappointment that he didn’t win a Spike VGA award for his work as the voice of Ezio in Assassin’s Creed II. The only reason I can imagine for such a grievous oversight is the fact that he didn’t actually voice Ezio…

This Week: Gilt Man’s Best Deals on the Coolest Gear

Stop playing WoW and get dressed! Join Gilt Man today for deep discounts on awesome stuff from Penguin, American Apparel, Flip Video, Gordon Rush, and Jack Spade. Sale runs today at noon through EOD Friday, so Gilt Man up now. Flip Video The Flip Video is a digital video camcorder created by Pure Digital Technologies.…

The PSP Comic Store Opens Today

What better day than a Wednesday to launch Sony’s new digital comic book service on the PSP? I’m not sure how it works in other countries, but here in the U.S., comic book fans have received Pavlovian conditioning that starts them drooling once the clock rolls over from Tuesday to Wednesday. Wednesday is when the…

They Worked On The Game You Played, But Didn’t Get Credit [UPDATE]

Imagine pouring months, even years of work into a project, and then being unable to put your name on it. Unfortunately, that’s the reality for many video game developers – and there’s not much they can do about it. “I was working for Codemasters at a new studio of theirs, managing a team of programmers,”…

Battlefield Heroes Population Swells To 3 Million

Despite strong opposition to some of the more recent changes to the game, EA’s free-to-play online shooter Battlefield Heroes continues to draw new players in droves, with a new map released today to celebrate surpassing three million registered players. Battlefield Heroes passed the two million player mark in September, prompting EA to celebrate with the…

Interviews With Ex-Hardcore Gamers … And New Casual Ones

Excerpts from A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games And Their Players by Jesper Juul Reprinted with permission of the author [Note from Kotaku: The following excerpts are from a series of interviews published in A Casual Revolution, a new book that chronicles and studies modern styles of gaming, challenging the notions of “casual” and “hardcore,”…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

The Dreamcast duel continues up above. Below, duel about whatever gaming stuff that gets you going. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

Any Movie Recs? Any?

To: Totilo From: Ashcraft RE: It Was Like Magic, But With An Xbox It actually takes me a day or two to get used to hearing English all the time. Like, I have to ask people to repeat things and whatnot. And then, by the time I’m about to leave, I’m all used to being…

The Saboteur Sabotages The Live Action

Pandemic Studios and EA have released a couple live action clips for The Saboteur. They’re short, sexy and have nice music. That’s all you need, no? Well, almost.

Square Enix: Platform Holder Not Surprised By Death of Consoles

Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada looks into his crystallis ball and sees a future in which consoles are simply not necessary, reiterating, what he said in November. “But let’s say in ten years time what we traditionally call ‘console games’ simply won’t exist,” Wada told Develop. “The exact timing at which it will go away…

Final Fantasy XIII Coming To PlayStation Home For Free

To mark the one year anniversary of PlayStation Home in Japan, Sony is teaming with Square Enix to offer Final Fantasy XIII themed goodies. Oh, goody! Besides avatars of FFXIII characters, Lightning, Snow and Sazh, there are also items like FFXIII monsters. Available for free until January 14, 2010.

The PS3 Star Ocean 4 Trailer You Hoped For

Square Enix trailer has released the second trailer for the tri-Ace developed Star Ocean 4. You might remember this game when it was released on the Xbox 360 in February 2009. The PS3 version of the game will be out in February 2010 and will feature additional languages and additional characters in the hopes that…

A Million Copies of Inazuma Eleven 2 Shipped

Level-5, the Fukuoka-based developer behind the Professor Layton games, also has a highly successful series with soccer RPG Inazuma Eleven. When Japanese kids aren’t watching the anime or reading the comic, they might be playing the DS games. Or they might be going to school, eating dinner or doing their homework. Japanese kids are busy!…

This 15-Year-Old PSP Character Is Missing Something

It’s a mystery, but not! The released art for PSP game Misshitsu Sacrifice from Japanese publisher D3 appears to have forgotten things — namely, underpants. This promotional image features more of 15-year-old Miki than perhaps she’d like to be shown. And as the Japanese internet has pointed out, this game makes it appear as if…

Prince of Persia Flick, A Look Behind The Scenes

After an endless slew of ho-hum video game adaptations, Prince of Persia appears to be something to get excited about. This is from the same folks who turned a Disneyland ride, Pirates of the Caribbean, into popcorn entertainment. This short featurette features interviews with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Mike Newell, actress Gemma Atherton, actor Jake…

Interested In Japanese Wii And PS3 Total Sales?

Enterbrain, the publisher behind magazine Famitsu, has collected and crunched the new life-to-date totals for the Wii and the PlayStation 3. As of December 13, the Wii has sold 9,048,012 units since it went on sale in Japan, while the PS3 has sold 4,020,563. The PS3 experienced a significant spike in sales this year. In…

Halo Wars…Clay

Microsoft’s Halo Wars is popular enough to merit its own line of toys — official toys. It also is popular enough to merit a line of rip off toys that come packed in clay. Because if you are going to rip someone off, do it with clay. “It’s one of those kits where you get…