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Giratina Origin Forme Figure Up Close and Personal

Remember that free Pokemon figure you can get if you preorder Pokemon Platinum Edition? One just landed on my doorstep. Take a gander.

The House Of The Dead: Overkill Tastefully Launched

The grindhouse-flavored prequel to the original zombie shooter, The House of the Dead: Overkill hits stores this week. Here’s the official launch trailer to help you determine if it’s your kind of tasteless. The trailer is chock full of jazzy music and gore, along with quotes from various publications heralding the disgusting fun to be…

New Sacred 2 Screens Show Off Console Co-op

The cooperative multiplayer fun of the PC version of CDV’s action role-playing game Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is alive and well in the upcoming console versions, and we’ve got the screenshots to prove it. This latest set of screens for the Xbox 360 version of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel show off the Diablo-esque co-op gameplay…

BioWare Reveals Six Beginnings For Dragon Age: Origins

BioWare pulls back on the curtains of the origins portion of their upcoming PC role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins, revealing the six different roles players can take on as they start their adventure. Players will begin their adventure in Dragon Age: Origin by selecting one of six different characters, each with different stories, backgrounds, and…

New Lost and Damned Trailer Has A Little Wild Side

In anticipation of next week’s launch of the first downloadable episode for Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned, Rockstar Games has unleashed a bigger, more leathery taste of the expansion’s motley crew. The trailer not only features some fantastic metal flashbacks, but also a few guest appearances from familiar GTA IV faces, including…

Beatles Game Features the Different Periods of the Band

From the early days in Liverpool to psychedelia of Magical Mystery Tour and beyond, the Harmonix-developed Beatles game will let feature the band’s different periods. In a short question and answer session with Entertainment Weekly Paul McCartney dishes tidbits of dirt on the upcoming game first announced last year: Can you tell me about this…

Lips Delivers Xanadu Magic For Valentine’s Day

The classic 1980 film Xanadu finally gets some video game loving, as Microsoft announce Olivia Newton John’s “Magic” as part of their Valentine’s Day downloadable content for karaoke game Lips. Three new tracks drop for Lips on February 13th, celebrating the holiday of love with the songs such as Avril Lavigne’s “My Happy Ending” and…

Imagine Yourself In Street Fighter IV

Paste your face over the fighters of Street Fighter IV with My Fist Your Face, a viral website from The Picture Production Company that allows you create customized Street Fighter IV video clips. The website is pretty straightforward. Choose a clip, upload a photo of your face, wait while the site does its internet magic,…

Rumor: Aliens RPG Canceled, Layoffs Hit

Sources tell Kotaku that Sega has pulled the plug on their upcoming Aliens Roleplaying Game under development by California-based developer Obsidian. We’ve also been told that Obsidian, no longer working on the Sega project, laid off more than 20 people last night. With lack of official confirmation from anyone at the two companies involved, take…

Eidos Stock Explodes In Wake Of Square Enix Bid

Shares of Eidos on the London Stock Exchange skyrocketed today, more than doubling following the announcement of a generous buyout bid by Japanese RPG giant Square Enix. Closing at only 14 pence yesterday, shares of Eidos stock on the London Stock Exchange are currently trading at 31.75 pence, or .25 pence below the 32 pence…

Midway Files for Bankruptcy

The long-struggling publisher of Mortal Kombat filed for bankruptcy this morning, calling it a difficult but necessary decision. The voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 effects all of its U.S. subsidiaries, but none of its international ones. “This was a difficult but necessary decision,” said Midway Chairman, President and CEO Matt Booty. “We have…

Resident Evil Retrospective: Part 2

Part two of Gametrailer’ss retrospective of the Resident Evil franchise talks about the long, bumpy road to Resident Evil 2 and beyond. What elements from the first two games would you like to see pop-up in Resident Evil 5.

Hello Kitty Online Opens Its Heart, Servers For Valentine’s Day

Sanrio Digital celebrates the season of love this Valentine’s Day weekend by opening up the servers of Hello Kitty Online for a public stress test with their four-day Happy Hearts event. Players who have been desperately trying to login to Hello Kitty Online over the course of the past few months only to be frustrated…

Dust Off Your Balance Board For Mario & Sonic At The Winter Olympics

Sega and Nintendo have now officially announced Mario & Sonic at The Olympic Winter Games, detailing some of the events and features we can expect in the frigid follow-up to last year’s summer outing. While we knew it was coming before we knew it was coming, now it’s officially coming, as if Sega and Nintendo…

Guitar Hero Standalone Controllers Hit This Week

Finally. Starting Sunday Guitar Hero World Tour players will be able to purchase individual guitar controllers and drum kit controllers in stores in North America. While the quite lengthy press release goes into all kinds of details we already knew about the drum, the guitar and the songs you can use to play them with,…

Eatin’ With The In-Laws (No, They’re Not Trying To Kill Me)

To: Crecente From: Ashcraft RE: Check Back from a day off — went to the in-laws and ate blowfish cooked in a variety of ways. Blowfish, when not prepared properly is lethal. To prepare or sell it, you must get a license and getting one is quite an ordeal. Some times you see trucks with…

Fashion Label Goes Pouty For Pac-Man

French fashion label Lanvin are trying something a little different with their latest advertising spread. Gone are the leafy sunsets and industrial playgrounds we normally see in such ads, and in comes…Lego. And Pac-Man. Maybe they’re trying to appeal to the the neatly dovetailing demographics of ageing game nerd and continental fashionistas. Maybe not. Maybe…

What Sells More, Dragon Ball Or Soul Calibur?

‘Tis the season for financial results. In keeping with the trend, Bandai Namco released theirs tonight, and amidst all the bean-counting, also revealed some sales figures for their tentpole franchises. The company as a whole (remember, Bandai Namco do arcade machines, toys and cartoons) ended the quarter with a net income of ¥9,019,000,000 (USD$100 million),…

Fashion Model Promotes Mario & Luigi RPG 3 In Japan

That’s the formerly ubiquitous fashion model Yuri Ebihara — who after dominating Japanese print in TV ads has since gone M.I.A. of late. Well, there she is! Playing Mario & Luigi RPG 3. This is not the first time Ebihara, nicknamed “Ebi-chan,” has done game ads. Previously, she appeared in a SEGA ad. There was…

Upcoming Tecmo PS3 Exclusive Started As PC Title

Last fall, Tecmo first announced upcoming Gears-cover-style third person shooter Quantum Theory. It’s not exactly the type of game you’d think coming from the Dead or Alive developer. In a recent interview, Quantum Theory designer Keisuke Kikuchi revealed that the PS3 exclusive was originally a PC game: “Initially the game concept was built around this…