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Kotaku Talk Radio is Live: PSPorn, Gay Tony and TGS

In this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll be talking about the latest downloadable content for GTA, Playstation Porn, what we expect from Tokyo Game Show, listening to the Protomen’s new album and fielding calls from you. To listen, head over to our BlogTalkRadio page. Unfortunately, you can only listen live on the BlogTalkRadio…

GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Preview: Crimes For The Crazy Rich

Niko Bellic never had friends, missions or “toys” like Luis Lopez gets next month. Those who have played Grand Theft Auto over the years know that 2008’s adventure of Niko Bellic was, relatively speaking, one of the calmer GTAs. Ballistic bank heists and motorcycle chases in subway tunnels notwithstanding, Niko didn’t parachute from skyscrapers or…

Brutal Legend: Introducing Kabbage Boy

Surprise! The introduction to Brutal Legend contains a cameo appearance from the band Kabbage Boy! What? You’ve not heard of Kabbage Boy? Come on, you have to have heard of Kabbage Boy…what, you’re serious? Everyone who is anyone has heard of Kabbage Boy! Hell, even Tim Schafer has heard of them, and he’s pretty damn…

Calling All Readers: Kotaku Party In Tokyo

It’s time for another Tokyo Game Show and that means it’s also time for another Kotaku Party. This year we decided to go with a subtle, casual setting, something that envelopes you in warmth and subtleness: Note the gold in the picture above. How much gold is too much gold? No such thing apparently. Which…

PSN Gets Bigger, Badder Lost Planet 2 Co-Op Demo

PlayStation 3 owners finally get a shot at the Lost Planet 2 co-op demo next week, with two exclusive missions helping make up for the wait. Xbox 360 owners have been taking down the giant Akrid boss in the Lost Planet 2 co-op demo since August 26th, but their gloating will soon come to an…

Gaming’s Creepiest Couples

From the Marcus and Dom bromance in Gears of War to Midna riding around on Link in Twilight Princess, Crispy Gamer explores some of the creepiest couplings in video game history. Crispy’s list of the twelve most uncomfortable pairings is video game history is pretty much spot-on, echoing my own sentiments at every turn. If…

Adventures in Scribblenauts

When I posted my review of Scribblenauts yesterday quite a few people were asking for a place to talk about their own adventures playing the DS title. This is that place. I’ll reiterate one of my in-game adventures to get you started. The rest is up to you… in comments: Take for instance a problem…

Free Fallout 3 Premium 360 Theme For DLC Fans

Have you purchased all five packs worth of downloadable content for Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360? If so, then this premium theme is yours free come October 1st. Bethesda would like to send their fans a big thank you for sticking with them on the Xbox 360 Fallout 3 downloadable content front. Even after…

Spore Creature Creator Goes Flat

Have you ever wanted to smash your Spore creations flat? EA’s newly-released Spore Creature Creator 2D saves you the trouble. Spore Hero for the Wii and Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS are still several weeks away, so EA offers up the Spore Creature Creator 2D to help keep fans occupied until October 6th…

Can’t Get Tetris Off My Mind

A human head made of Tetris blocks as seen on Walyou. [Thanks Eran]

Talk Amongst Yourselves

The question is: If there was a TAY Special Edition console, what would it come bundled with? That and more can be discussed in the comments section here. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

Nailing Down Party Details

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: And Then There Were Three I was going to write the sound hammers make when hitting something, but I couldn’t figure out if it would be “bang bang” or “dong dong” or “boom boom” or what. I think it would be “don don” in Japanese or maybe even “ton ton”.…

Dutch Retailer Refuses To Sell PSPgo

According to a report on Eurogamer, Dutch chain Nedgame – the country’s largest specialist games retailer – are refusing to stock Sony’s PSPgo. Why? Nedgame (and, apparently, other retailers in Holland and Spain) aren’t happy with the console’s price, believing it to be too expensive to bother stocking. A beef, then, but not their main…

Halo 3: ODST Gets A 360 Bundle

Not a Modern Warfare man? Maybe you’re a Halo man. Or lady! If so, you might be interested in this Halo 3: ODST hardware bundle. It contains a 120GB Xbox 360 Elite, controller (curiously, not an ODST controller), a copy of Halo 3: ODST, a copy of Halo 3 and access to the Halo: Reach…

Nintendo Makes New Company To Improve Quality

Nintendo Seal of Quality is going out on its own. The Kyoto-based company is splitting its quality control branch off into its own, separate company. The name of this Nintendo company is the appropriately named “Mario Club“. Contract employees and part-timers will see work conditions improve, and contract employees will become full-time, full-fledged Mario Club…

PC Sales Charts: Still With The MMOs

Last week’s charts were dominated by two MMOs, Champions Online and Aion. This week? Same story. Both games continue to hold down the top two spots on both the Steam and Direct2Drive charts, ahead of usual suspects like Left 4 Dead, new/old kid on the block KOTOR and, surprisingly, Darkest Days. I say “surprisingly” because…

Fez Will Effe With Your Mind

Game designer Phil Fish showed off his upcoming game Fez at the Austin Game Developer’s Conference. It was the first live demo of the game. Fish walk through some of the features we’ve seen before (2D game rotating through 3D space). However, game site Kombo reports that Fish did touch briefly on the plot line…

Pink Floyd Interested In A Music Game

Veteran British rockers Pink Floyd have told the BBC that, were the offer to come up to create a Rock Band/Guitar game based on the band, they’d definitely “consider it”. It’s an unusually positive outlook from an old-timey rock band, who call the games “interesting new developments”, particularly since so many other ageing acts –…

Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny Dated For Japan

The Xbox 360 version of SNK’s 3D arcade fighter Samurai Spirits: Sen (aka Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny) has been dated for Japan. The game will be out December 10 and priced at ¥7,140 (US$78). It will feature new characters and online support. Developed by Tenchu developer K2 LLC, Edge of Destiny was released in…

Tomb Raider Co-Creator: Games Moving Toward Hollywood Business Model

Toby Gard, co-creator of Tomb Raider who left Crystal Dynamics earlier this month to become a consultant, gave an interview to GamesIndustry.Biz in which he said game development’s going all Hollywood, and that’s where he fits in. Right now, Gard (pictured above) says, the m.o. is to fire a bunch of people at the end…