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Mass Effect 2: Meet Grunt

BioWare has revealed the second party member to join Commander Shepard’s motley crew in Mass Effect 2, Grunt, a violent and unpredictable Krogan fighter. Grunt joins the assassin Thane as part of Shepard’s decidedly darker posse in the second game in BioWare’s epic space adventure. He may be untamed and untrustworthy, but he’s an important…

Dante’s Inferno Dated For February 2010

Electronic Arts announced at its Gamescom press conference the final date for its action adventure Dante’s Inferno, the God of War-like game based ever so loosely on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Dante’s Inferno now has a hard date of February 12, 2010 in Europe, and a date of February 9, 2010 in the United States,…

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Ships In March, Something Amazing Planned

“When Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ships in March, it will deliver the best online multiplayer experience ever,” Karl Magnus Troedsson, Battlefield’s executive producer announced today. We’ll know soonish. Publisher EA announced that the DICE’s next military shooter will ship for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 2 in the U.S. and March 5…

Persona 3 Ported To PSP, Bringing Female Lead Character

Role-playing series Persona is coming to the PSP later this year with Persona 3 Portable. The game appears to differ from the PS2 version of Persona 3 as the game’s hero seems to be a heroine. Few other details are currently known, but the game will be out in Japan on November 1. New features…

Brutal Legend Demo Out Next Month

EA has just announced that a demo for Double Fine’s Brutal Legend will hit the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September. UPDATE: Double Fine president Tim Schafer specified September 17 as the official relase date for the demo during EA’s Gamescom press conference. “We just couldn’t wait,” Double Fine president Tim Schafer said in…

EA Gamescom 2009 Presser Liveblog

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Report: Xbox 360 Failure Rate Over 50 Percent

It’s that time again! Time to talk about Xbox 360 failure rates — you know, the Red Ring of Death and all that jazz. In a survey of the print edition of Game Informer, nearly 5,000 readers were surveyed about the consoles. Here’s how console failure broke down: ¥ Xbox 360 has a 54.2 percent…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Big EA and Sony press conferences in Germany today. Wondering what will be announced? Talk about it here. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

I Saw This Lady At The Train Station, Got Her Autograph For The Kid

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Ich Bin Gamer Hello! I’m back. Busy weekend, filled with living relatives, dead relatives and drinking. I also spent an afternoon at Takashi Murakami’s studio — how’s that for awesome? While at Shin Osaka Station, I lined up to buy some takoyaki at a food stall. In line behind me,…

Gamescom 09: Gran Turismo 5, Fable III, The News Keeps Coming

Gamescom 09 coverage.

PS3 Slimpocalypse Countdown: British Retailer Slashes PS3 Prices

British supermarket retailer ASDA have slashed the price of the 80GB PlayStation 3, ahead of a belief that Sony will soon be discontinuing the model. Speaking with GI.biz, a representative from the chain said that the PS3 is not only being reduced to £250 (from £300), but will also be bundled with Terminator Salvation, Terminator…

Saints Row Added To Games On Demand

Those who felt that Microsoft’s initial line-up of 360 Games on Demand was a little bland, a little lacking in Busey’s teeth, today’s your day: Saints Row has been added to the service. Xbox.com says it’s 3000 Microsoft Points, and that it’s available for Australia, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, North America, Singapore and Taiwan.…

PS3 Slimpocalypse Countdown: More PS3 Sell-Outs In Japan

PS3 inventory in Japan continues to dry up. As we posted late last week, certain retailers no longer are carrying the console in stock. They’re sold out. The issue seems to be more wide spread than intially thought. Granted, it’s impossible to account for every store in the country, but, according to Japan’s Akiba Blog,…

SingStar: Beatles Coming, For Those Who Hate Instruments

In a surprising move, it’s rumoured that later today EA will announce a special deal with Sony that will see the PS3-exclusive release of SingStar: Beatles. The game is quite a unique beast, as according to MCV it’s not a competitor to Beatles: Rock Band. Rather, it’s a “port” of sorts, and will be the…

Inside GamesCom’s Halls One Day Early

Koelnmesse, home to Gamescom, is a mammoth, sprawling complex of buildings, streets and boulevards, so it’s not surprising that Mike and I got lost on the way to the press room. Our wanderings had us walking through GDC Europe and all four of the show’s halls, where we couldn’t help but notice what we’d be…

EVE Comes To Consoles As An Online Shooter

CCP have today taken the wraps off Dust 514, a “hybrid MMO/FPS” that not only brings the world of EVE Online to consoles, but somehow ties the game to the PC MMO as well. Apparently the game will “interact directly” with the PC title, allowing console gamers to manually fight out the battles for planets…

Diablo III Confirmed At Gamescom

Blizzard has said its upcoming games will be here at Gamescom and playable, but they’ve been a bit coy about which games specifically that means. You’ll be happy to know that we’ve seen World of Warcraft, StarCraft II and Diablo III all on the yet-to-be open show floor. While I can’t confirm that Diablo III…

Waiter, There Is A Sgt. Frog In My Tales of Vesperia PS3

The upcoming Tales of Vesperia movie comes courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. Kadokawa is a large Japanese entertainment company and owns loads of famous properties. Properties like Sgt. Frog. Upcoming DLC for ToV offers players a Sgt. Frog costume, which apparently even makes their character sound like Sgt. Frog!

Pay What You Think Championship Manager is Worth

From now until September, U.K. footy fiends can simply pay what they please for the downloadable, PC version of Championship Manager 2010. That’s right, name your price. And if you haven’t got a haypenny, God bless you. You will, however, need a £2.50 “transaction fee” even if the price you name is, “not a rat’s…

Yes, There Are Gothic Lolita Shooter Underpants

DeathSmiles is a Gothic Lolita-themed bullet hell shooter from developer Cave. These are DeathSmiles underpants, designed to look like panties. Spotted at the Cave Matsuri, they’re priced at ¥4,800 (US$50) and come in two sizes: medium and large. Sorry fat Japanese people! Strategically placed cone not included. ゴスロリSTG『デススマイルズ』のキャラクターの絵がプリントされたパンツ [はちま起稿]