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10-Year-Old’s Video Game Reporting Featured On Today Show

Some video game reporting can be conducted from a swing-set. Here’s fifth-grader Owen Migel who made it into the Today Show‘s semi-finals of their Kid Reporter contest. Migel appeared on the show a couple of days ago, along with the following clip. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Migel’s…

Beware These Big Borderlands Bugs

Gearbox Software’s Borderlands, while entertaining, is not perfect. From a technical standpoint anyway, things could go seriously wrong (and have) for some players, including the corrupting of character data and the resetting of hard-earned skill points. An ongoing list of the game’s technical shortcomings, ones that may reduce you to crying or controller throwing, is…

Microsoft: Football Toss Is Not A Prototype For Xbox Live Adver-Gaming

Speculation is dangerous, which is why so many companies don’t comment on it. (Nor on rumors.) Over the past 24 hours, Microsoft gently, and Kotaku readers not-so-gently, disabused me of my theories regarding a new Xbox Live game. To refresh you: Football Toss is a very, very simple, football-tossing game that can be accessed in…

Rayman Adventuring To DSiWare

Looks like Ubisoft is bringing more Rayman to the portable gaming arena, with a rating for Rayman for Nintendo’s DSiWare recently levied by Germany’s UnterhaltungssoftwareSelbstkontrolle ratings board. Man, that’s a long word. What else do we know about Rayman DSiWare? Nothing. But at least the listing indicates that Rayman, not those vile Rabbids, will be…

Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars Gets A Cover

Today Capcom reveals the cover art for the Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, featuring All-Stars exclusives Frank West, Zero, Tekkaman Blade, and Joe the Condor. That’s definitely some poster-worthy artwork right there. January 26th seems so far away right now, doesn’t it?

BioWare Reveals Dragon Age’s “Massively Single-Player” Details

Dragon Age: Origins won’t Tweet, but the new single-player game will network console and PC gamers in unusual ways. That’s because the games creators at BioWare believe that solo role-playing games should no longer be lonely experiences. “One of the things for us that was really important and we’re clearly seeing it on PC games…

Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller

Welcome to Bobby Kotick’s nightmare, a world in which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless, a world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air guitar future! In reality, this technical demonstration of muscle-computer interfaces, as shown at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology,…

God Of War Collection Dated And Trophied

Sony has nailed down a November 17th release date for the God of War Collection for the PlayStation 3, revealing the full trophy listing for both remastered games in the process. Until now, all we knew was that the collection, which remasters God of War I & II in full HD on a single Blu-ray…

Hands On With Garters & Ghouls

Garters & Ghouls is a fun little adventure game that puts you in control of recently deceased débutante Marie Dupois as she fights her way through the horrors of The Thrum on the hunt for her still living husband. I had a chance to play through a a hefty chunk of the Big Blue Bubble…

3D Dot Game Heroes “Definitely” Coming To America

Cool your importing jets, patient PlayStation 3 owners. Silicon Software and From Software‘s blocky retro adventure game 3D Dot Game Heroes is coming to North America, hopefully bringing the Best Loading Screens Ever with it. Says who? Says the official PlayStation Twitter account, writing today “No need to import – 3D Dot Game Heroes for…

New Xbox/PS3 Madden Was Born On The Wii

What the Wii makes, the Xbox (and PlayStation 3) takes, at least in the case of some cartoon football. The EA representatives who recently showed Kotaku Madden NFL Arcade, a five-on-five simplified version of a pro football game, said that a mode that is fun on Nintendo’s platform just had to be shared with other…

First Screen Of MMA’s Sweaty, Well-Muscled Men

The first screenshot for EA Sports’ MMA appeared in Sports Illustrated this week, showing off the development teams’ firm grasp of men firmly grasping each other. This image was posted on the EA Sports MMA Facebook page, letting mixed martial arts fans get their first look at EA Sports’ take on the subject. We’ve yet…

The Porn of Borderlands

In-game screencap by Stephen H.

Who’s Who In Halo: Evolutions

Tor Books has released a list of the authors contributing to the Halo: Evolutions anthology novel, along with the cover art, featuring everyone’s favorite green suit of armor with a guy inside it. Halo: Evolutions, due out on November 24th, is an extended look at the Halo universe through the eyes of popular science fiction…

Majesco Brings Ghostwire To The DSi Next Year

Majesco has snatched up publishing rights to augmented reality ghost hunting game Ghostwire for the Nintendo DSi, bringing it stateside in late 2010 as Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal. We first heard about A Different Game Company‘s Ghostwire in late 2008, when the Swedish developer brought home the top prize in Nokia’s Mobile Games Innovation…

Mecho Wars Team Working on SteamPirates For iPhone, PSP

There aren’t much details, but game designer Luc Bernard dropped some screens for an upcoming iPhone game his team is working on. SteamPirates is described by Oyoji Games as a role-playing game for the iPhone and PSP Mini by the team behind Mecho Wars and Fried Green Apps. The images show a woman and animals…

Princess Robot Bubblegum Saves Humanity – By Sleeping With It

Liberty City finally gets some decent anime in Princess Robot Bubblegum. Only an hyper-sexualized nerd fantasy can save humanity – by sleeping with it. Princess Robot Bubblegum is part of the new television lineup coming in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, the standalone compilation of The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost and…

First Brutal Legend DLC Free On PS3

The age of downloadable content dawns in Brutal Legend next month, when the Tears of the Hextadon map pack goes on sale for 400 Microsoft points – or completely free for PlayStation 3 owners. The Tears of the Hextadon map pack consists of two new maps for Brutal Legend’s completely non-real-time strategy online multiplayer mode.…

Schizo Teen Goes on Drunken Ax Rampage After FIFA Losing Streak

> A schizophrenic teenager who killed a grandmother with an axe during a drunken rampage after a FIFA losing streak went on trial this week. After losing three games of FIFA 2008 against his younger brother and a friend, James Callaghan, 17, polished off a bottle of vodka, armed himself with an ax and a…

Crave Does Games Like They Do On The Discovery Channel

Two of Discovery Channel‘s most popular shows are getting the video game treatment courtesy of Crave Entertainment, who will be developing and producing titles based on Man vs. Wild and The Deadliest Catch. This will be the second video game adaptation of crab fisherman show The Deadliest Catch, with Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm having been…