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Red VS. Blue VS. Halo 3 ODST

The Red vs. Blue team from Rooster Teeth‘s machinima series take a look at the "normal soldiers" of Halo 3: ODST. Their reaction was pretty much the same reaction I have to a new Halo game. I think, “Hooray! I shall be at the same skill level as many other people for a short period…

What Godfather II Did Better Than GTA

This is the first in a series (maybe) of posts labeled “Hindsight” that discuss games you may have thought we were done writing about. Earlier this year, a couple of game developers let me in on one of their secrets: They intentionally play bad games. They play the stuff you or I would avoid not…

Netflix Offers Credit For 360 Service Interrupt

Netflix is offering credit for people who were unable to stream movies or TV shows to their Xbox 360 on Sunday. In an email sent out to members of its service Monday evening, Netflix said technical issues may have made it hard for members to stream video from the service to the Xbox 360 on…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

It is September and there are dogs here… playing poker… betting you can write decent comments about video games. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

Is It Me, Or Is Does It Feel Like Fall Earlier?

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: New PC Apologies to those who live where it will soon be spring or those who don’t like talking about the weather, but yeah, it seems very fall-like here where I live — and it’s usually hot and gross all throughout September. What you missed last night What Square Enix…

Gears Of War’s Imulsion Canned, Available On Earth

Imulsion, the glowy resource at the heart of all things Gears of War, has been canned, laced with sugar and preservatives, and put on sale in the United States for $2.99 a pop. The drinks – of which, sadly, we have no nutritional information – are put out by Boston America, who are also the…

Meet Your New Galaga World Record-Holder

Galaga may be nearly two decades old, but its previous world record score could only last two years, with Andrew Laidlaw’s 2007 mark broken over the weekend by Phil Day. Day, from the small Australian town of Braidwood (not too far from my abode in Canberra), had been practising for six months on an original…

Wii Internet Channel Is Free, Free, Free [UPDATE]

Nintendo has announced that starting today the Opera-powered Wii Internet Channel is available free of charge. That’s right, surf the internet, watch online TV, buy stuff all via your Nintendo. All you need is an internet connection. The browser was priced at 500 Wii Points (US$5) but was originally offered to Wii owners free of…

A Good Look At Monkey Island Creator’s New Game

Ron Gilbert‘s latest game, Deathspank, isn’t new. We’ve know about it for ages. But all this info and screenshots, well, they’re very new. 1UP have a weeklong feature running on the game, which looks set to satisfy a gaping hole in the market by serving as a smart, funny parody on gaming genres and cliches.…

Microsoft To Announce Xbox 360 Price Cut For Japan Tomorrow

While the Xbox 360 has already gotten a price reduction in the States, it hasn’t yet in Japan. That will change tomorrow when the company shaves the console’s price tag for the region. According to Microsoft Hong Kong, the Japanese arm of the company is holding a press conference in Tokyo tomorrow to announce the…

Wii Games Are Getting Better

Like last generation’s dominant console, the PS2, the Wii has come in for a bit of criticism over the amount of shovelware available for the system. But are things really as bad as they seem? Research firm EEDAR have compared 2008’s review scores (for the first six months of the year) for all three consoles…

How Hard Will It Be To Get A PS3 Slim In Japan At Launch?

Who knows! That didn’t stop me from calling five Japanese retailers to find out. Game retailers in Japan run the gamut of small, independent Mom ‘n’ Pop style shops to the larger, nationwide chains. Since the chains get larger product shipments, I called five shops in Osaka and Tokyo. I called one in Kyoto, but…

Sakura Note’s First Trailer

Marvelous’ Sakura Note is going about this the right way. It’s nice seeing a trailer that’s able to set a real tone through nothing but music, kids and some gameplay footage.

Blizzard’s Next MMO Will Be “Significantly Different”

Blizzard can’t work on World of Warcraft forever. Eventually, they’ll release a new MMO. And when they do, apparently it’ll be “significantly different” to their current world-destroying cash machine. “I think the (new MMO) is going to be significantly differentiated enough [from WoW],” Blizzard’s COO Paul Sams told Wired. “Such that, you’re not going to…

Gran Turismo 5 (Probably) Getting Simultaneous Worldwide Release

Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that, if the stars align and the moon is in the seventh house, Gran Turismo 5 will be given a simultaneous worldwide release. This would be a first for the series, whose last outing – GT5 Prologue – was released in the US four months after it was…

How Is Beatles Rock Band Gonna Do?

While, yes, Rock Band is extremely popular, the series isn’t cheap to make. The franchise has been a money loser for parent company Viacom — not because nobody is buying (tons are!), but because of the plastic instruments. It’s costly to make and ship the plastic instruments to retailers around the world from plants in…

Export LEGO Rock Band Tracks To Rock Band

Those of you with children, younger siblings or a LEGO fetish may want to send Harmonix a fruit basket today, because it’s been revealed that anyone picking up LEGO Rock Band will be able to export its tracks. So if you own Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and LEGO Rock Band, you can put all…

What Square Enix Games Are Playable At Tokyo Game Show?

This month brings the Tokyo Game Show to…Chiba, Japan. And what games is Square Enix bringing to TGS? Minus the Japan-only Lord of Vermilion II arcade game and Japan-only cell phone games like Kingdom Hearts: Coded, the list of Square Enix console games appearing at TGS are: Final Fantasy XI: The Vana’diel Collection 2: Trailer…

New Okami Is Coming To The Nintendo DS

Those hoping for a hi-res, hi-def sequel of the PS2 classic Okami, keep hoping. Capcom is making a new Okami, but for the DS. As predicted by 7-Eleven, your source for Japanese game news leaks, the new issue of Famitsu does feature an article on a new Okami game called Okamiden. That’s a snapshot of…