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Ghostbusters Now Looks Better On PS3

Ghostbusters on PS3 took some flak upon release for looking, well, worse than it did on 360. Significantly worse. So Terminal Reality went back to the drawing board, and have today released a patch that should bridge the gap. IGN say that fixes have been made to both single and multiplayer modes, most important of…

How Accurate Are These TV Ladies’ In-Game Counterparts?

In Japan, female TV anchors are not just anchors, they are idols. Worship away! Adored by males for being classier and more grown-up than your typical pop star (they also know stuff about sports and other stuff), the most popular anchors transcend news-reading and can even become actresses and appear in countless commercials. Itching to…

These iDOLM@STER Figures Cannot Sing

That’s okay. They can stand very, very still. They are figurines, you know. That’s what figurines do. Here 15-year-old Chihaya Kisaragi and 14-year-old Iori Minase find themselves immortalized in PVC. They’re from figure maker Mega House and priced at around US$75 each in Japan. Geek heroin is expensive! Originally an arcade game, THE iDOLM@STER is…

Problems Plague Pinnacle DLC

The Pinnacle Station DLC for Mass Effect went out the door today, and already BioWare’s user forums are reporting problems with the PC and console edition. The good news is for PC users. Bioware expects a reasonably fast fix for some CD key rejection issues. A BioWare QA lead said that an installer had been…

Left 4 Dead 2’s Concept Art

“Zombies in the south”. Simple premise, but sometimes even a simple premise needs a little visual representation before it becomes real. Cue Left 4 Dead 2’s concept art.

NCAA 10 Patch Resolves ‘Gay’ Filtering

Probably not the biggest gameplay issue NCAA 10 players are concerned about, but the “gay” filtering foofaraw has been cleared up as part of a massive patch, the second put out for this game in two months. You might remember, earlier this month, we reported the egg-on-face situation where auto-named rosters from NCAA 10’s Teambuilder…

Wow, there really IS an Arkham Care Website

I know, I know — just one more thing about Batman: Arkham Asylum and I swear I’ll shut up. But there’s actually an Arkham Care website setup for the game. Warden Quincy Sharp welcomes you to the site and there’s an “Inside Arkham” video clip show that reminds me of the Kaiser Permanente health care…

This Week In Video Game Comics

Here’s a rundown of the new video game-based comics going on sale in comics shops in the U.S. this week, including Warcraft, Chun-Li and Sonic (always!). Click the thumbnails for more details. Sonic Universe #7 … Written by Ian Flynn. Drawn by Tracy Yardley. Summary Via Publisher Archie Comics: PART THREE OF THE EPIC “MOBIUS:…

Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo

In a public library, a dude sitting at a monitor with his hands in his lap, covered by a newspaper, implicitly means bad things. Fear not, he’s only sneaked in an Xbox to steal the free WiFi and play Halo. The tumbelog teendrama picked this up – the writer’s pal spied the multiplayer shenanigans in…

Turbine Rolls For Damages In Atari Lawsuit

Turbine slapped Atari with a $30 million lawsuit two weeks ahead of the launch date for Turbine’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online game, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited. The suit, filed August 24 in the state of New York’s Supreme Court, alleges among other things that that Atari breached its contract with the developer to…

New Slim Ads Roll Out Sony’s “Director of Rumor Confirmation”

Hot on the tail of official confirmation of the much-rumored Playstation 3 Slim and price drop, comes a new U.S. marketing strategy from Sony that employees much tongue in much cheek. The ads will be similar to the ones rolled out by Sony for MLB ’09 The Show with Red Sox’s Dustin Pedroia arguing with…

Blizzcon, Gamescom: More Stories Than You Can Read

To: Ashcraft From: Crecente Re: This Meat Is So Raw, So Red And Oh So Meaty And that’s a wrap. It looks like we’ve finally run through all of the reporting, previews, impressions, pictures and videos from Gamescom and BlizzCon today. Though I think McWhertor told me he might have one more for Friday. If…

Maxis Hit With Job Cuts, EA Confirms

Word from Electronic Arts today is that Maxis, the studio behind The Sims and Spore, suffered layoffs today. No word on how many people were affected. EA described the cuts as an attempt to “focus” the studio. “Often in the video game industry, the size of a studio fluctuates in response to business conditions,” an…

Decorate Your PlayStation Home In Early Hellghast

The Visari Throne Room personal space is just one of more than a hundred new pieces of PlayStation Home content flooding Sony’s virtual world with tomorrow’s update. Killzone 2 plays a big part in tomorrow’s PlayStation Home update, with the launch of the Visari Throne Room bringing with it a ton of new Killzone 2…

Testing Games Gets You $9 An Hour

The Minneapolis Star Tribune finds one journalism student who is making some money testing an unnamed, unannounced Activision game. Video game tester Kelly Watkins is 20 and hopes to break into the industry. Watkins has already mastered the art of not naming the secret game he or she is working on — as well as…

New Left 4 Dead 2 Level Appearing At PAX, As Are We

In an un-extraordinary coincidence, Valve announced that a new level of Left 4 Dead 2 will be playable at next week’s Penny Arcade Expo — on the same day Fahey and I did a lot of PAX booking. Valve announced that “Dark Carnival,” the third of the November PC and Xbox 360 game’s five campaigns…

The Mario Scape Pepsi Built

Witness the spectacular aftermath of a Coke versus Pepsi “display war” in a California grocery store. Reader Chris writes that his sister snapped a photo of what she described as a huge 8-bit Mario display Pepsi built out of cases of their drinks at the Safeway in Rohnert Park, California. Keep in mind this isn’t…

Kotaku Talk Radio: BlizzCon

Hear PlayStation 3 debates featuring live calls from Kotaku readers. Listen to our Mike Fahey reveal the secrets of his strange interview with Ozzy Osbourne. Take Crecente’s podcast-naming challenge (Kotalku???). Laugh at my jokes. It’s our newest podcast episode. If you missed the live call-in show you can stream the full episode right here or…

Enter to Win a Copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum

Holy cats—everyone’s talking about the latest Batman game. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, you become the Invisible Predator armed with Batman’s gadgets and abilities and battle the Joker’s crazies, including Harley Quinn, Victor Zsasz, and Killer Croc. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, you can roam freely and explore every inch of Arkham Asylum—the infamous island is presented…

Raven Hit By Layoffs, Some Point to Lackluster Wolfenstein Sales

Raven Software, developers of recently released Wolfenstein and soon to be released Singluarlity, let 30 to 35 go from their Wisconsin studios, sources tell Kotaku. In a prepared statement released to Kotaku today, Activision confirmed that Raven, a subsidiary of the company, had laid people off today, but declined to confirm or deny the number…