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Gran Turismo 5 Trailer Has, Yes, Car Damage

This one kind of passed us all by first time around, but if you look closely at the Gran Turismo 5 trailer from Sony’s E3 press conference yesterday, you can clearly see some car damage. We’ve provided a screengrab above, but if you want to see it for yourself, head to the Subaru rally sequence…

Taking A Dip In Endless Ocean 2 Screenshots

Endless Ocean 2 is the sequel to Endless Ocean 1. Shocking, we know. Players can dive in the big blue, explore shipwrecks and escape sharks. Loot you find can be sold so you can decorate your reef to attract more fish. That’s much better than what I usually do. Saying “Here fishy fishy” doesn’t really…

From Stick Figure To Mind-Blowing Controls

My first real introduction to Microsoft’s motion-controlling Project Natal occurred in a brightly-lit hotel room in LA’s The Standard Hotel. Standing in front of a television with Burnout Paradise on it, I held my hands out as if holding steering wheel and acted as if I was driving a car. It was that simple and…

WarioWare Do-It-Yourself Art

Game art? These aren’t traditional screens, because WarioWare D.I.Y. isn’t your typical game. Released in Japan this April as Made In Ore, the game is outfitted with tools so that players can make their own mini-games and upload them for others to play. Check out Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai trying his expert hand at…

The Beatles Rock Band: I Wanna Hold Your Hands-On Impressions

The Beatles: Rock Band has been playable at E3 this week. So, being fans of both The Beatles and Rock Band, we figured we’d go check it out. Thing is, while “we” may be fans of The Beatles, “I” am not. I don’t hate them, just…never got into them. Which puts me in a unique…

Splinter Cell Conviction Preview: A Smoother Operator

Ubisoft hadn’t shown Splinter Cell Conviction to the public in two years but brought it back impressively this E3. The game’s creative director said it could be tricky for people to play during an E3 demo. But the game seemed to play quite well from what we witnessed. What has wowed people at E3 who…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

The number of games at E3 2009? Absurd multiplied by ridiculous. Talk about them here, please. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

Day Two: What Announcement Did You Like The Best? What Let You Down? (BLUE GRAPES)

To: You (Yes, you, you insolent strumpet!) From: Bashcraft Oh ho ho ho ho! E3 thunders on and guess who spent the entire day writing a buncha posts and now sees spots? Why, because there was a buncha news, a buncha announcements, and now, right now, I’d like a bunch of grapes. Blue grapes. Do…

Final Fantasy XIII “Targeting” A 2010 European Release

Final Fantasy XIII is due in Japan later this year. And in North America during Spring, 2010. But when can Europeans (and by extension, Australians) get their hands on it? Do they dare to hope for a speedier turnaround? After all, the last core Final Fantasy title, FFXII, was released in Europe a whole year…

Somehow They’re Squeezing Fat Princess Onto The PSP

Fitting the other team’s cake-engorged princess into the giant PlayStation 3 was easy; how they’ve managed to cram her into the PSP is something we don’t really want to think about. But cram they have, and Titan Game’s addictive action fantasy blend is indeed coming to the PlayStation Portable in the form of Fat Princess:…

Relax With These Wii Sports Resort Screens

Wii Sports Resort, the sequel to Wii Sports brings more Wii Remote waggling fun — with bonus Wii MotionPlus precision. Out this July, Wii Sports Resort will usher in fresh mini-games, including new additions like ping pong and sword slicing. Yay for swords and little bouncy balls!

Natasha Bedingfield Serenades A DSi

Last night’s Nintendo party starred Grammy-nominated pop singer Natasha Bedingfield. It also starred, for a brief moment, an electric-blue Nintendo DSi. After belting out a number of songs, Bedingfield pulled out a DSi and started, I don’t know, sorta fondling it as she sang. Initially I thought she was going to use it to distort…

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Screens And Trailer

Mario is back and ready to circle around planets in spaaaaaaaaaace. As we posted previously, Miyamoto said that the original plan was to “essentially create new variations of the worlds in Super Mario Galaxy.” But, over time, the developers have had so many ideas that Miyamoto estimates that 90% of the game’s levels are all…

In Russia, Xbox 360 Controller Movie Poster Gun Shoots You

This fall, action flick Gamers will shoot up theaters. Not to be confused with Hollywood flick Game, this movie’s plot centers around the transfers of gaming skills to real life: Fighting, shooting, etc. There’s something about paintball, too. The hand-to-hand combat scenes are filmed like traditional 2D fighters, while the shoot-outs use first-person camera angles.…

Things Unmentioned At The Sony Press Conference

These are the things we thought Sony would or should mention at their E3 2009 press conference, but didn’t: PS3 Slim: If you’re going to show all the other things that leaked in the weeks before the Sony press conference then why not show us the rumored PS3 Slim? Or was that the one leak…

Sony’s E3 Announcements

Well, Sony’s E3 press conference is over. Let’s take a look back, a walk down memory lane and review our Sony E3 press conference coverage. Hooray! Sony’s E3 Expo Live Blog Oh Yeah, PSP Getting Its Own Resident Evil The Last Guardian Is Team Ico’s Latest PSP Go Hands-On Video PSP Go Hands-On Impressions PSP…

Things Unmentioned At The Nintendo Press Conference

These are the things we thought Nintendo would mention yesterday at their E3 2009 press conference, but didn’t: Virtual Console For The DSi: We were almost positive that Nintendo would be expanding the DSi store with downloadable classics for the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, but apparently Nintendo isn’t quite ready to plumb that…

Gizmodo, Kotaku, Reggie: Who’s The Best Virtual Archer

Archery on Motion-Plus-enabled Wii Sports Resort is a surprisingly satisfying experience. Like other motion-controlled sports games on the Wii, playing archery is fairly straight forward. You hold a remote in your off hand — left if you’re right handed, right if you’re left handed — and then lift the controller up at the screen as…

A New Final Fantasy XIII Trailer For You To Watch

.html Pretty cutscenes, check. Gameplay footage, check. Here’s the FFXIII trailer shown at Sony’s E3 press conference.

Heavy Rain Trailer Falls On E3

You’ve seen the screenshots. You’ve seen the gameplay footage. Now watch the E3 trailer. Do it. Heavy Rain will be released on the PS3 later this year.