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Who’s Hand Modeling For Boom Blox Bash Party?

Oscar winning filmmaker and budding game designer Steven Spielberg is! The idea man behind Boom Blox and the newly released sequel Boom Blox Bash Party shows what a lifetime of directing does to one’s extremities. Normally a job reserved for Japanese idols, voice actors and bikini models, EA has tapped Mr. Spielberg to hold aloft…

When Robot Chicken And Spore Collide

Witness the Robot Chicken creative team using the Spore Galactic Adventures editor to create their own fanciful tales of poo-flinging. Hot on the heels of this morning’s announcement that the Robot Chicken team was providing downloadable adventures for Spore’s Galactic Adventure’s expansion comes this video, proving the fact. It features one hell of a Spore…

Raven Squad Blends RTS and FPS

This batch of new screens shows off SouthPeak and Evolved’s upcoming tactical action game, Raven Squad. Raven Squad hopes to blend the first-person shooter experience with the command and overview elements of a real-time strategy game in battles that take place in the jungles of the Amazon. The game will let players switch between the…

Gears Of War Movie Maker Getting Into Game-Making Game

Legendary Pictures, the studio responsible for The Dark Knight, 300 and Watchmen, is getting into the video game production business, with a new internal digital development arm headed by former Electronic Arts exec Kathy Vrabeck. The production company has plans to development games and other interactive entertainment based on the films it backs, according to…

Is your job cool enough to win you a brand new computer??

Submit photos of the crazy grind that is your job to [email protected]. Show us that you’ve got the wackiest, most unique job out there and we’ll send YOU a brand new Dell XPS M1730 ( pictured below ), with a retail value of $1400! Standard contest rules apply. Standard contest rules apply. Brought to you…

These Are Your Kotaku Trip To E3 Finalists

This morning we picked through the thousand or so entries for our win a trip to E3 contest. Using Random.org, we selected a dozen finalists out of those who answered our questions correctly. The finalists, listed below, will have to turn in a story to us for final judging so we can determine which of…

Drum King Is Now Rolling Stone: Drum King

The fact that all of Drum King’s musical selections are covers now makes sense, as 505 Games teams with the world’s foremost music magazine, transforming the title into Rolling Stone: Drum King. Rolling Stone is famous for its covers, and perhaps Rolling Stone Drum King will be as well. Developed by Arc System Works and…

Resident Evil 5 Producer Meets His Chief Critic

Reporter N’Gai Croal sparked a debate when he commented a year ago about his gut reactions to the racial dynamics of the first Resident Evil 5 trailer. Recently, he and the game’s producer met. Ex-Newsweek reporter Croal wrote about his meeting with RE5 producer Jun Takeuchi in the June 2009 issue of Edge. The column…

APB Putting In Appearance At E3

Crackdown developers Realtime Worlds aren’t keen to miss another chance to show off their upcoming massively multiplayer online crime fest, announcing that APB will definitely be making this year’s E3 Expo. While the timing just wasn’t right last year, this year Realtime Worlds seems to be on point, announcing their E3 2009 presence via the…

The Sims 3 Trailer

Sure this Sims 3 trailer doesn’t feature a baby-snatching goth woman, but it does give us another look at how Sims 3 will expand the Sims concept.

Capcom Tries To Teach Us Monster Hunting

Capcom has released the first in a series of video tutorials for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the PlayStation Portable, in which a man with far too thick an accent discusses porcupines. At least I think he said porcupines. The narrator, assumedly one of the four expert monster hunters from Capcom’s Encyclopedia Gigantica website, explains…

World Of Warcraft Equipment Manager Patched In

The introduction of the long-awaited Equipment Manager feature in today’s patch 3.1.2 makes playing World of Warcraft even easier, if that’s possible. Originally scheduled to be released alongside patch 3.1’s dual talent specs, the Equipment Manager is one of those features that World of Warcraft players have using add-ons to take care of for years.…

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Multiplayer Preview: All The Pretty Horses

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood builds upon the multiplayer mode from the original Call of Juarez by adding a lot more character classes. The new classes are trapper, gunsmith, spy, officer, duelist, veteran, scout, native and hombre. The spy, officer, duelist and veteran are all locked initially, but the four original classes – gunslinger,…

Next Tomb Raider Film Features Younger Lara Croft

It looks like Angelina Jolie’s time as Lara Croft could be at an end, with the next Tomb Raider movie being an origin story featuring a much younger Lara Croft. Speaking in an interview with About.com during the premier of Terminator Salvation, producer Dan Lim explains that the new Lara Croft film will be an…

Zoë Mode Expands Into San Fran

That enigmatic blonde girl from Brighton sets her eyes on the states, with independent music and party game developer Zoë Mode launches a San Francisco studio next month. Zoë Mode, the Kuju Entertainment subsidiary perhaps best known for Sony’s SingStar series, is making the move to San Francisco next month with the June 1st launch…

Wii MotionPlus Ads Slice Up Bamboo Slowly

The Japanese Wii MotionPlus television advertising campaign show how the add-on can replica small movements in ping pong, golf, frisbee and SWORD SLICING. The adverts were filmed with a “super slow camera” and part of the clip explains how it works. Slowly.

Explore Strategic Options In Halo Wars Today

Players looking to add a little more meat to their Halo Wars experience need look no further than Xbox Live Marketplace, where the Strategic options downloadable content is now available for purchase. Announced last month, the Strategic Options pack introduces three new single and multiplayer skirmish game types to help players play out the war…

Fallout 3 DLC Announced For Playstation 3 and Two New DLC For All

The wait is finally over for Playstation 3 owners, this morning Bethesda announced that downloadable content will be coming to the PS3 version of Fallout 3. They also revealed two new DLC packs for all. Operation: Anchorage will hit the PS3 in late June, followed by the release of The Pitt and Broken Steel four…

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Robot Chicken Invades Spore Galactic Adventures

The secret behind the mysterious Spore WTF website is revealed, as Maxis announces day one downloadable content for the Spore Galactic Adventures expansion from the deranged minds behind Robot Chicken. Robot Chicken co-creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich conceptualized a special campaign for Spore Galactic Adventures, which was then handed off to their writing team…