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Don’t Look Back: Seriously, Don’t Look Back

If you find yourself needing an online diversion plus have the keyboard platforming skills and a heap of patience, we’d advise you to spend some of your weekend with Don’t Look Back. We don’t want to spoil too much for you, but as one may be able to glean from the title, Don’t Look Back‘s…

Guitar Hero: Modern Hits Is Totally Official

While it’s been no secret that Activision has been planning a Modern Hits sequel to its Guitar Hero: On Tour series of Nintendo DS games, the publisher has decided to make it official. Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits will pack in 25 master tracks when it ships this June (alongside Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits)…

Daft Punk To Spin The Deadly Discs Of The Tron 2 Soundtrack

The planned Tron movie sequel (that may to borrow the name of the 2003 video game) has at least one aspect that’s promising—a soundtrack from French electronic duo Daft Punk. While the return to the video game world of Tron—which has been titled both Tron 2.0 and TR2N during its pre-production—is still shrouded in mystery,…

inFamous Charges Onto PlayStation 3s Worldwide In June

Sony has narrowed down the release date for its upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive inFamous, announcing that the game would launch worldwide in June. The game is Sucker Punch Productions first PlayStation 3 release. Its last was way back in September of 2005, the PlayStation 2 game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. Obviously, inFamous is huge…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

After the beat downs I was handed by Street Fighter “honored master” Seth Killian—his official title, I believe—it’s clear I need to re-learn how to play the thing. *dusts off arcade stick* With the PlayStation 3 version of Street Fighter IV arriving at Kotaku Towers West yesterday, I can finally take advantage of my Hori…

See Hot Shepherding Action In Capcom’s Flock

The latest trailer for Capcom’s Flock surely is an indicator that we are in for the best UFO animal herding puzzle game ever created by human hands. Sure, Proper Games’ creation might be the only UFO animal herding puzzle game created by human hands, but that just makes the statement even more valid. This trailer…

New Wheelman Screens Got Vin’s Back

Along with several shots of driving and explosions, this latest set of screens for Midway’s Wheelman serve as a showcase for the back of Vin Diesel‘s head. And it’s a lovely shaved head, to be sure. It just tickles me to no end that this season is going to see the release of not one…

An Informed Expert Speaks Out On RE5 Racism (UPDATE)

VideoGamer.com played through the first three levels of Capcom’s latest with one of the UK’s top experts on racism to get the final word – is Resident Evil 5 racist? Rather than simply forming an opinion on the Resident Evil 5 racism controversy from watching trailers, Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology…

The Most Valuable Street Fighter Fan Art Ever

You’re looking at the most valuable piece of Street Fighter fan art created, valued at upwards of $14,000. Why so expensive? This Ryu ink sketch was created by renowned UK artist Dave White, celebrating the release of Street Fighter IV. The pop culture artist, who gained famed via collaborations with brands like Nike and Coca-Cola,…

New Army Of Two Sequel Details Surface – The 40th Day?

With EA teasing a sequel to their co-op shooter Army of Two leading up to a potential reveal on March 12th, numerous details about the game are leaking out all over the internets. Joystiq in particular has received a ton of info from an anonymous tipster, who goes into great detail on the sequel, allegedly…

An Open Letter From the ESRB to Utah’s Parents and Leaders

With Utah legislators on the verge of passing legislation that expands the state’s Truth in Advertising statute, imposing fines on video game retailers and movie theaters that provide M- or R-rated products to minors, ESRB President Patricia Vance has written a letter. Here, in it’s entirety, is Vance’s open letter to Utah’s Parents and Leaders:…

MadWorld Bosses Screens

With MadWorld hitting next week, this will likely be the last batch of black, white and red screens we’ll be seeing from Sega before you can see the gore first hand. These 13 screens seem to be giving us a glimpse of some of the bosses for the Wii brawler.

Big Bang Mini Soundtrack Set Free

Due to overwhelming fan demand, Arkedo Studio and Southpeak have released the soundtrack to their unique Nintendo DS shooter Big Bang Mini as a free download. Big Bang Mini ended up being a very pleasant surprise for the DS, combining simple yet addictive fireworks launching gameplay and great use of the touchscreen to create a…

Rooster Teeth Introduces Captain Dynamic To City Of Heroes

The creators of the Red vs. Blue series take on City of Heroes, in a series of live-action shorts featuring the greatest superhero of all time, Captain Dynamic. The series revolves around the new Mission Architect being released in City of Heroes, with Captain Dynamic, whose superpowers include “super stuff”, hiring a writing team to…

New Pac-Man in the Works for 2010

Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Hirokazu Yasuhara is working on a new Pac-Man title set for a release on the original game’s 30th anniversary in 2010, Gamasutra reports. “We are in the midst of making Pac-Man come back because his 30th anniversary is in 2010 actually,” said Namco Bandai Games America EVP and COO Makoto Iwai…

Rise Against Debuts New Tune In World Tour

Punk band Rise Against is the latest group to debut music in Guitar Hero World Tour, with the previously unreleased song “Death Blossoms” available next week as part of the Rise Against Track Pack. Chicago punk band Rise Against is no stranger to Guitar Hero, with “Prayer of the Refuge” and “Re-Education (Through Labor)” appearing…

Sumner Redstone Subpoenaed Over Fishy Midway Sale

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has subpeonead multimedia mogul Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari in order to investigate the strange circumstance behind his $100k sale of Midway Games to Mark Thomas. Late last year, Sumner Redstone sold his controlling interest in the failing Midway Games to industry unknown Mark Thomas for the sum of $100,000…

Kotaku Podcast: Street Fighter IV With Seth Killian

It’s been a long time in coming, but our February podcast is finally here. Yes, I realize it’s March. In this episode Mike McWhertor and Adam Barenblat talk with Seth “S-Kill” Killian, community manager for Capcom and master Street Fighter. Not only do you get a chance to see if Killian can talk and play…

“Wondering About The Girls In My Class…”

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Have You Ever Seen A Dog Smile? Posted this earlier on my Twitter/Facebook, but think it might need some context! So, we have a baby in the house: Micro-Bash. He has no teeth and drinks milk. Logically (and naturally!) breast feeding is involved. Thus! Mini-Bash probably sees breasts as something…

Happy 200th Issue, Edge

Game magazines come and game magazines go, but there’s one game magazine I’ve bought on a regular basis since I picked up the first issue all the way back in 1993. And that’s Edge. You may hate them for their snooty tone and tough review standards, that’s cool. Just as many people enjoy and respect…