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Let’s Crack Open The HP Firebird 803 And Feast On Its Insides

A lot of you seem to be big on the HP Firebird 803. Maybe for its looks, maybe for its hardware, maybe for its price tag, who knows. Whatever, let’s take a look at its guts! Amazing the difference an external power supply makes to the size of things, no? Gallery: Check Out the HP…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2009

Erotic Game Makers In Female Manga Form

Manga with saucy female content is nothing new at all. Ditto for erotic games. But a manga about female erotic game makers making shojo erotic games? R18! follows Rikako as she gets a job… at an erotic game company. The entire company is staffed with the types of ladies one would expect in a manga…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 6, 2009

Which Is Your Favorite Alone In The Dark Boxart?

Voting time. We’ve picked the contest finalists, and now it’s up to Kotakuland to select the best Alone in the Dark boxart. The winner will get a copy of the game. Here’s the rules: Note which boxart you want to vote for in the comments section directly below by saying which one you are voting…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 6, 2009

Hey, Tribes 2 Is Back!

Turn those frowns upside down, Tribes 2 fans. While the game may be officially six feet under, a group of dedicated fans have brought Tribes 2 back to life, online multiplayer and all. The project is called TribesNext, and you can download and try out a beta version of the game now. The legality of…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2009

Salman Rushdie Killed Time With Computer Games

After novelist Sir Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, many deemed the book blasphemous. The Ayatollah of Iran issued a decade long fatwa, calling for Rushdie’s death. How did he spend that time? “Like everybody else I played a computer game or two,” Rushdie tells The Times. (Well, like everyone else who has to go…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 6, 2009

Catch Real Mexicans In This Real Border Crossing “Game”

There’s a new “project” running in Texas that sounds a lot more like a “game” to us. It involves cameras, the internet, people sitting at home and catching Mexicans. Fun fun fun! At a cost of $2 million, the system – called a “Virtual Stakeout” – involves a series of webcams placed along the Texas-Mexico…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2009

Dan Vs. Dan (Oh, The English…)

Seeing joke character Dan Hibiki fight Dan Hibiki in the home console version of Street Fighter IV? Pretty darn cool. Hearing the English voice work? Not so cool. No worries, there’s still time for Capcom to fix. We think. We hope. Click to view Exclusive Street Fighter 4 Console Character Videos [1Up]

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 6, 2009

Wolverine Is Like God Of War, Only Simpler

The new Wolverine game was always going to be a brawler. A fighter. That’s what Wolverine does, he brawls, he fights. But what kind of brawler? What kind of fighter? Developers Raven have opened up. Speaking with EGM (yes, the article from this month’s mag is now online), Raven’s Dan Vondrak has spoken of the…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2009

Learn, Or Re-Learn, How To Comment On Kotaku

Why, hello there. It’s that time again, time to remind seasoned vets and newcomers alike how to comment right here on Kotaku. Things to keep in mind: We ban. A lot. Every second of everyday. And that’s not all! We disemvowel, too. (Bcs n vwls s fnny!) We also reward stellar commenters with stars, and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 5, 2009

No, Eidos, You Can’t Vote For Your Own Games In A GOTY Poll

Oh look. It’s Eidos. In another PR cock-up. Which we’re posting not for the magnitude of it – it’s just a magazine reader poll – but for the ineptitude of it. Aussie mag Hyper – the country’s longest-running and most respected independent games magazine – are running a little readers poll, trying to find out…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2009

This Early Copy of Dragon Quest IX Is So Not Real

Dragon Quest IX might be out until March, but someone on the Japanese internet claims to have obtained an early copy. Thing is, it’s totally fake for two reasons. They are: • The cover art illustration has already been released by Square Enix as previous promotional material. • The package’s barcode is the same as…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 5, 2009

Puzzle Quest Patch On the Way

TransGaming has gotten back to us with a response to our story last week about Puzzle Quest iPhone randomly deleting heroes. According to Paul Nowosad, Marketing Director at TransGaming, an update is being submitted to the Apple Store this week. This “version 1.1” will fix the bug “as well as address some graphical issues.” Hit…

By AJ Glasser Published January 5, 2009

Microsoft: We’ve Sold 28 Million Xbox 360s

The Redmond giant and relative newcomer to the console wars revealed that it has sold over 28 million Xbox 360s since launch. Yes, that’s much more than the originals Xbox’s lifetime sales. In anticipation of next week’s NPD sales figures for the month of December, Microsoft’s director of product management Aaron Greenberg told the Los…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 5, 2009

So How Long Do People Play Wii Games For?

MTV decided to find out. Using the Wii’s Nintendo Channel – which tracks the playing habits of 1.6 million Americans – they’ve yanked out some data on what games you’re playing, and for how long. The most-played game on the console (at least among those 1.6 million)? That one’s easy. It’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 5, 2009

Fallout 3 On The Cheap At Amazon.com

The deal of the day hasn’t much life left in it, but the non-standard editions of Fallout 3 are wicked cheap at online retailer Amazon right now. Collector’s Edition, just $49.98 USD. The Amazon.com Exclusive Survival Edition, as low as $99.98 USD. Hurry!

By Michael McWhertor Published January 5, 2009

U.S. Army Testing Out Recruitment “Arcades”

The U.S. Army wants you, gamers. It’s testing a new kind of recruitment center, one the New York Times is calling a “model for recruitment in urban areas,” one that smacks of old-school arcades. The first, a $13 million facility built in the Franklin Mills mall in Philadelphia, PA, was designed to lure in shoppers…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 5, 2009

Have Video Games Gotten More Violent?

This article on GamesRadar has me wondering if violence in video games has gotten more intense – or is it just more vivid as a result of technology making blood brighter and guts more realistic. The question matters to me because I just got done playing Fallout 3, a particularly gore-splattered entry in 2008’s blood-saturated…

By AJ Glasser Published January 5, 2009

Madballs Added To Game That Was About Angry Balls Anyway

As an impassioned Madball fan, seeing Oculus Orbus appear in a video game, no matter what the quality, is cause for celebration. Even if the personally enduring 80s fad is simply being slapped on. That’s the case with Madballs In Babo: Invasion, it seems, formerly known as just Babo: Invasion from Playbrains. With guest appearances…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 5, 2009

Sony Looking Forward To PS3 Exclusives In 2009, PSP Not So Much

What are Sony’s top brass looking forward to from the PlayStation family in 2009? Console exclusives, naturally. And “making money.” While the PS3 gets ’em all hot and bothered, the PSP is, at best, remembered. Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, teases “new titles and innovations that will connect and expand the…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 5, 2009

The Long Trip Home

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Has 2009 Hit You Yet? We drove back from El Paso Saturday, speeding under clear blue skies until we hit Pueblo. Than we hit a snow storm. And another. And another. We spent a good hour going 20 miles an hour before things cleared up a bit. I do love…

By Brian Crecente Published January 5, 2009