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Take-Two, Circus Defend Against PETA Game Criticism

Allegations about elephant mistreatment do not appear to have shaken corporate support for an upcoming Wii Ringling Brothers circus game. Earlier today, we reported that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization is calling for the cancellation of Take-Two’s upcoming game based on the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (the so-called…

Square Enix’s Vanguard Storm Brings More Crystal Defense To iPhones

Square Enix‘s iPhone endeavors expand today with the release of Crystal Defenders: Vanguard Storm on the iTunes App Store, a “defensive simulation” that follows in the footsteps of the previous Crystal Defenders touchscreen controlled game. Vanguard Storm may not look like your standard “tower defense” title, with a battlefield and multi-tiered plane system that looks…

Bionic Commando’s Giant 360 Box of Schwag

With Bionic Commando due to hit consoles next week and Capcom trying to maintain their absurdly high standard of schwag, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when this arrived in the mail. Inside was a cornucopia of Bionic Commando goodies including an action figure, polo, poster, lanyards and the swankiest USB drive I’ve ever…

True Fact: In that picture, that guy lying down on the steps to the right, liked to masturbate in public, wear no clothes and slept outside on the street in an old wine barrel. Not because he was a bum, but because he believed that since we as humans are animals, we should be more…

Upcoming Racing Game Repeatedly Compared To A Shooter

Activision’s CEO already said Blur could be the Call of Duty of racing games, but it’s the four varied references to shooters in Edge magazine‘s cover story on the game that drive that home. From a “business perspective” it’s not hard to see why Activision would hope that the first racing game Bizarre Creations makes…

Might & Magic Becomes DS Puzzle RPG

Ubisoft does Puzzle Quest with Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, a manga-styled puzzle role-playing game hybrid coming to the Nintendo DS this August. Developed by Capybara, the developers behind the recently revealed PSN rainbow puking game Critter Crunch, Clash of Heroes is a role-playing game set in the Might & Magic universe that replaces…

One World Record, 500 Pounds of Quarters

Steve Wiebe, famed King of Kong underdog, just got 500 more pounds of incentive. UGO is reporting that Stride Gum is offering the one-time Donkey Kong champ $10,001 in quarter if he’s able to beat Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high score. The current score sits at 1,050,200. “Steve Wiebe is an inspiration to gamers everywhere,…

Ghostbusters Multiplayer Promotes Stream Crossing

There’s a great deal of stream crossing going on in this multiplayer trailer for Atari’s upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game. And it isn’t just proton streams being crossed either. The developers have lined up a bevy of backpack-centric weapons for the Ghostbusting team to bust out in multiplayer, including a thin green ray and a…blue…

Bungie Betas Render-To-Video Feature For Halo 3

Frustrated by the fact that you can’t share your in-game Halo 3 movies without a video capture setup? Bungie is beta-testing a service that will set your clips free, for a price. When you record a video in Halo 3, it doesn’t take up much hard drive space. This is because the video is encoded…

EA Plans MERCH Attack

Creative Minx Marketing and Electronic Arts penned a deal today to turn a slew of EA games into t-shirts, collectibles, peripherals and accessories. Among the list of games getting future merchandising are The Sims, MySims, Dead Space, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age, Dante’s Inferno and Army of Two. “Creative Minx is proud to be working…

LinkedIn Profile Refers To Call Of Duty 7

A surprise to absolutely no one, the LinkedIn profile for a senior animator at Treyarch lists Call of Duty 7 as currently in production. With Activision currently focusing on the next Call of Duty: Modern Warfare game from developer Infinity Ward, we aren’t expecting any sort of official announcement on the next Treyarch version of…

Become The Next Duke Nukem

Duke Nukem Forever might be no more, but the Duke can live on through you, as Apogee and Deep Silver take the search for the next live-action Duke Nukem online. Following the closure of Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms last week, Apogee’s Chief Operating Officer Terry Nagy teased an impending Duke announcement via Twitter,…

PETA Targets Ringling Bros. Game

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are at it again, shifting their sights from Cooking Mama to the virtual big top. PETA today launched a campaign to try and put a stop to Take-Two’s Wii game featuring Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, saying that the famed circus is “looking to take…

Blizzard’s Next Online Game Is Completely Original

Dreams of World of StarCraft are dashed as a blue poster in the World of Warcraft forums confirms that Blizzard’s next massively multiplayer online game is part of a brand new franchise. Responding to a forum post suggesting that there was no new online game coming from Blizzard because they hadn’t begun advertising it yet,…

900,000 Castle Crashers And Counting

As of this weekend more than 900,000 players have crashed castles in The Behemoth‘s Xbox Live Arcade title Castle Crashers. Can you guess when they’ll hit the one million mark? That’s what the developer is asking fans in the latest blog posting over at The Behemoth Blog, where they’ve been keeping an eye on the…

Apple, Game Devs Prep For New iPhone Update

The week after E3 the iPhone will be getting some pretty major new additions including the ability to sell DLC through the phone and expanded multiplayer support. The new firmware will arrive during Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference which kicks off on Monday, June 8 at 10 a.m. with a keynote that may also deliver…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Yesterday’s TAY was a commenting success, thanks to that old chestnut: gaming list of shame. And here I expected debate about Wiis draining AA batteries. I had more dead ones today. Anyway, discuss gaming below. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

Hardwood Floors Vs. Carpeting FIGHT!

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: 90 Percent Booked My new house has both. My last place had only carpeting, and my place before that had tatami mats (which smelled nice!). These days, fewer and fewer houses in Japan have tatami. Our new place doesn’t even have a Japanese room and neither did the last one.…

Those Real, Free Sackboys Were Pretty Decent!

When we heard Media Molecule were just giving some Sackboys away, we figured they’d be of a pretty shoddy quality. They were free, after all. Turns out they were better than we thought! Reader Ackers sends in these pics of his recently-arrived plush friend, showing both its build quality and its scale. Looking good! If…

Well, The DSi Didn’t Stay Piracy-Free For Long

I’ve always suspected that whole point of the Nintendo DSi – and its online firmware updates – was not to introduce new features, but to curtail piracy. Fat lot of good it’s done them. See, the DS and DS Lite were easy pickings for anyone looking to play homebrew titles or pirate illegal copies of…