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Who Is Your Favorite Game Character?

The day after Thursday is……… FRIDAY! It’s time for Tell Us Dammit, time to talk. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably…

Patch Lets Left 4 Dead Out of the Closet

Steam put out a patch this evening solving a problem in the PC version of Left 4 Dead‘s Crash Course campaign, whereby rescue closet doors would not open to let survivors out in Versus mode. The patch was announced around 7:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern time. In addition to the rescue closet glitch, the patch allows…

Want To Know New Resident Evil Movie Plot?

Milla Jovovich and her husband Paul W.S. Anderson are making another Resident Evil movie. This one is due out next summer and called Resident Evil: Afterlife. Want to know the flick’s synopsis? Screen Gems offers this: In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey…

SEGA Takes Full Responsibility For PS3 Version of Bayonetta

Yes, there appears to be a discrepancy in the graphics for the PS3 and Xbox 360 version of Bayonetta. SEGA wants to be very clear, it did the PS3 port. Platinum Games has pointed this out in the past — even going as far to state its own role in the process. But SEGA is…

You Want It, You Got It — College Lacrosse on Xbox 360

Great, Another sport I’ve never played in my life, but will have to review because, you know, I’m the sports guy. Here’s lacrosse, game of Native Americans, Jim Brown, and every Volvo-driving L.L. Bean family between Charlottesville and Albany. College LaCrosse 2010 is on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel and, yeah, yeah, my smirking…

PSP Minis Pay a Premium for ESRB Ratings [Updated]

Those who analogize the PSPgo, with its library of Minis titles, to the iPhone should remember that developing for both is not just about code. It’s also about the costs every Minis game must pay for an ESRB rating. Sergei Gourski, developer of the iTunes App Store hit Fieldrunners, said PSP development is “definitely more…

Eminem, Jay-Z Tracks Revealed for DJ Hero Renegade Edition

Activision gave Rolling Stone first dibs on the Renegade Edition tracklist for DJ Hero, featuring 12 cuts each from Jay-Z and Eminem – who recently endorsed the game by saying “the s—t is dope.” Jay-Z’s set is said to be the first best-of compilation of his career, Rolling Stone reports, although another is said to…

Raven Alexis Enjoys Sex On Camera, World of Warcraft

Our fellow bloggers over at sister site Fleshbot—don’t go there, it’s all naked boobs and erections!—offer a kind introduction to adult film star Raven Alexis, a self-confessed World of Warcraft “geek.” After going through the “How long have you been doing hardcore?” motions, we get to the interesting stuff — Ms. Alexis’ five-year-long career in…

Epic: Unreal The “Unofficial Engine” Of Project Natal

Epic Games, makers of things Unreal and Gears of War, are fully on board with this Project Natal thing that Microsoft has cooked up. VP Mark Rein calls the company’s popular Unreal tech “the unofficial engine of Natal.” In an interview with OXM UK, Rein says he also considers Unreal the “economic engine of Natal,”…

Borderlands Goes Gold, and There Was Much Rejoicing

With two weeks to go before its release, I suppose it would be more newsworthy if Borderlands had not gone to gold master by now. But it has, and so Gearbox has announced is officially on schedule to deliver you postapocalyptic offworld role-playing shooter action on Oct. 20. Considering the fourth-quarter triple-A delays we’ve seen…

On The Future Of Home: If You Ask For It, They’ll Build It

Home Director Jack Buser delivered a state-of-the-software address while walking me through the new Home spaces announced this morning. Far from being concerned by the fact that not all PlayStation 3 owners make use of Home, Buser was excited that so many people have even tried it at all. “We came so close to setting…

Nintendo Delivers Latest Pokemon Via Airmail

Nintendo sent me a bouquet of flowers this morning with an empty case for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky attached. But where was the game? And there’s something in EVERY balloon. First chipping away at stone, now popping balloons. I’m happy Activision hasn’t started doing this. I don’t even want to know how they…

Notebook Dump: The Lack Of Zelda

There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? I pretty much got to everything I wanted to this week, though we’ve entered the time of the year when it’s less a matter of reporting not getting done but…

Tangled Up In Blues

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: My Favorite Former News Lady Trash Talked On TV Hey, do you like Bob Dylan? I’m a huge fan myself. In fact from the day the original Rock Band was released until they finally released Dylan on the game, I would pester Harmonix about it every time I saw them.…

And The Oscar Nominated Writer Goes To… Dante’s Inferno?

Dante Alighieri will have to share writing credit with screenwriter Will Rokos, should the game win any awards for its screenplay. The Academy Award nominated Rokos has been pegged as responsible for the story line for Dante’s Inferno. That means that Visceral Games‘ action game could be as good (or even better!) than Monster’s Ball,…

In An “End Of An Era,” Listen Up Podcast Bids Its Host Farewell

It may have been two years ago when a friend told me I needed to be listening to the main podcast on 1Up.com. Dirt was being spilled on it. In part because the wrong people weren’t listening. I’ve been behind on listening to what used to be called 1Up Yours and, more recently, Listen Up,…

Scribblenauts Dev Moves On To Consoles, “Pretty Big” XBLA Game

Having sufficiently conquered the handheld platform with clever games like Drawn To Life and Scribblenauts, developer 5th Cell is moving onward and upward to console platforms. That includes a “pretty big” unannounced Xbox Live Arcade game. 5th Cell co-founder Jeremiah Slaczka teases his studio’s XBLA game in a new interview with Gamasutra, one that goes…

First Rocket Knight Remake Trailer Is Go!

Konami’s modern-day revival of the Rocket Knight Adventures series was formally announced this week. Good news, for those of us who remember Sparkster’s 16-bit outings. Today, we get another taste, now in trailer form. GameVideos has the first HD clip of Sparkster in motion, sporting sharp new polygons and more pixels than all other Rocket…

When the Going Gets Tough… Let the Game Play Itself

Like many younger brothers I had a contentious relationship with my older brother. We butted heads, fought, lied, accused each other of unimaginable atrocities and genuinely despised one another — while secretly caring deeply what the other thought. But there was one thing that always brought us together: Difficult video games. In the 70s and…

Left 4 Dead Map Recreates Zombie Film Fest Theater For Zombie Film Fest

Skilled modder “ZapWizard” is going above and beyond for a project tied to the “Dismember the Alamo” zombie film festival ambling to Alamo Draft House later this month. He’s recreated the theater in great detail in Left 4 Dead. What’s more, Mr. Wizard is aiming to have the Alamo Draft House-gone-horribly-wrong playable at said film…