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Study: Playing Games Hurts Income, By The Minute

Studies about video games say the darnedest things. Either it is plainly obvious that being a gamer hurts your income — because you have to spend money on these games! — or there is a mathematical revelation here. The New-Brunswick Telegraph Journal reports the findings of Economics student Ryan MacLeod, who has crunched some demographics…

Watch Me Dissect Swag While Being Repeatedly Rick Rolled

The folks at Electronic Arts are putting a lot of time into developing fun, sin-themed marketing for their upcoming release of Dante’s Inferno. Watch the extended cut of me playing around with the box sent me by said marketeers as I try to avoid using the hammer they sent me as part of their wrath-themed…

Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Goes 4 Gold

Xbox Live subscribers of Gold distinction can enjoy the Xbox 360 Left 4 Dead 2 demo as of right now. The 1.69 GB demo is yours for the downloading from Xbox Live Marketplace. Second-class Xbox Live Silver members will have to wait another week to get their hands on the Left 4 Dead sequel. But…

Kotaku Review Round-Up: Tekken, Forza, GTA And More

We cannot stop new games from coming out, but we can at least review them. Here’s what we reviewed last week, for those who may have missed them. Click each thumbnail for a link to each review. Read! Dungeon Hunter Review: Pocketful of Diablo In which Brian Crecente attempts to justify writing the first full-sized…

The 10 Most Avidly-Played Wii Games In America (As Of Nov 1)

Lots to discuss about these stats this month, as Call of Duty rises to fourth and Guitar Hero III begins to dip. Remember, the numbers show hours:minutes, lifetime, for these games. (Click the chart to enlarge) The Nintendo Channel is properly calculating and reporting player data again and so I can provide this month’s look…

A Glimpse at League of Legends’ Champions

Free-to-play, highly addictive PC game League of Legends recently went on sale and live for those wanting to play for free. We’ll have our full review up for the real-time strategy game tomorrow, but until then take a look at this trailer, which shows off some of the more than 40 playable champions in the…

Doom Classic Now on iPhone

In case you missed it, Doom Classic is now available in the App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The $7 game, designed by John Carmack, features customizable control schemes, 36 levels spread across four episodes, a bounty of weapons and multiplayer support. Here’s the full break-down of game features: Play the legendary first…

Penny Arcade Awards $10K College Scholarship

Video game design hopeful Kyla Gorman was awarded the 2009 Penny Arcade Scholarship, which she says she plans to use to pursue a degree in game design at the University of Southern California. “I’ll be forever thankful for the opportunity the PA Scholarship has given me to attend USC, one of the world’s best game…

More Zero-G Fun With Shattered Horizon

Futuremark delivers even more zero gravity first-person shooting gameplay in this new clip from Shattered Horizon, due out for the PC tomorrow via Steam. The last clip Futuremark released was nice, but it didn’t show much of Shattered Horizon’s actual combat. They certainly make up for that oversight in this clip, which is chock full…

Nintendo Love Invades West Hollywood Costume Carnaval

Every Halloween the city of West Hollywood blocks off about a mile of Santa Monica Boulevard for the West Hollywood Costume Carnaval. This year about 400,000 people from all over Southern California converged in costume to walk around and have a good time. As always, the Nintendo love was ever-present.

Konami Forecasts Sharp Fall In Revenue

2008 was a good year for Konami — you could say it was solid. This year isn’t so solid. Later this week, Konami is expected to announce its earnings for the April-September 2009 period, and the company expects a 22.5 percent drop in revenues compared to the same period last year. The companies net income…

Free-To-Play First-Person Shooter Hits iPhone

Ngmoco’s first-person shooter Eliminate hit the iPhone and iPod Touch yesterday sporting a unique pricing system and some pretty slick multiplayer gaming. Eliminate is a pretty straight forward online first-person shooter with average graphics. You play the game with twin virtual thumbsticks, using one to aim and the other to move. We’ll have a full…

Console Arcade, DJ Hero, Rock Band Set for Colorado Child’s Play Fundraiser

The Kotaku Child’s Play fundraiser will include Rock Band and DJ Hero up on stage as well as a free console arcade when it kicks off on Nov. 19 in the historic Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver. Last year our annual fundraiser drew in a crowd of about 300 people before hitting capacity, this year…

Assassin’s Creed II Soundtrack On Sale This Month

Award-winning composer Jesper Kyd returns to score the soundtrack to Assassin’s Creed II, available later this month at fine digital music download websites everywhere. With 20 years of experience in creating video game music and titles like Hitman, Kane & Lynch, and Borderlands under his belt, Jesper Kyd has become one of the go-to guys…

Strategy Game Mecho Wars Goes Online

One of the iPhone and iPod Touch‘s answers to Advanced Wars now supports online play. I mostly-loved Mecho Wars when I reviewed it this summer. But one of the big things the game was missing was online multiplayer. Earlier this week game developers Oyaji released an ad-supported free version of the game that allows players…

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What You Call C3PO And R2-D2 When You Don’t Know Star Wars

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Belated Halloween Long rough weekend with brief and traumatic baby scare, but the tyke seems fine now. Went to the doctor and hasn’t had any further breathing issues. Doctor said it was something we should keep an eye on because it could happen again… Halloween was great — the kids…

Xbox 360 with $100 Card for $200 This Weekend?

A retail tipster sends word that Walmart will be selling an Xbox 360 Arcade with a $100 gift card for $199 this Saturday. The retailer will also be selling a Sony BluRay player for $148, according to our source, who included an image from the retailer’s computer system showing the deals. Sounds like a great…

Let’s Call It DSi LLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

It’s gianormous and should be on sale sometime between never and ever. As seen on Gizmodo Japan. Bonus, original screengrab from Mike Fahey after the jump. Let’s call this the DSi L.L. Thanks Fahey!

But Was This Cat Game Event Really A Disaster?

Some games are big sellers. Some games do okay. Some do horrible. And then, there’s cat game Sukeban Shacho Rena Wii There was an event for the game at the Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara over the weekend. It featured demo play, a tournament and a dearth of players? There have been rumors swirling around the…