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Crysis 2 Footage Looking As Nice As Expected [Crysis] - 03/13/2010 08:00 AM
Crysis 2 is at the Game Developers Conference, seemingly there not just for its own ends, but to help developer Crytek shill its engine, CryEngine 3. It's doing a very good job. More »
PAL PlayStation Store Update: Tester-Free [Europe] - 03/13/2010 06:30 AM
It's a pretty slim week on the PAL PlayStation Store, but then, looking at the stuff Europeans and Aussies are missing out on - like the Tester - maybe that's not such a bad thing. More »
Rumor: Ratchet & Clank Devs Going Multiplatform? [Rumor] - 03/13/2010 06:00 AM
According to "a trusted source", IGN is reporting that Insomniac Games - creators of both Resistance and Ratchet & Clank - is about to abandon the land of PS3 exclusivity and become a multiplatform developer. More »
I Am A Master of Picross 3D, At Least The Tutorial Part [Gdc] - 03/13/2010 05:30 AM
I may have liked Tetrisphere, but I am not a man who believes the puzzle games, like Mario games, can be as good in three dimensions as they are in two. More »
Sony Says PlayStation Move Precise Enough To Play StarCraft [Gdc10] - 03/13/2010 05:00 AM
There's been a flood of information coming from Sony about the new PlayStation Move controller for the PS3, but Sony's technically inclined folks showed off some of the more technically capable members of GDC, getting down to the finer details. More »
Lady Gaga Must Be A Command & Conquer Fan [Screengrab] - 03/13/2010 04:40 AM
A deadly cocktail of nerd poisons, featuring the toxic element from EA's Command & Conquer series combined with a few equally sly Dune and Star Wars references, as seen in Lady Gaga's (slightly NSFW) "Telephone" video. Thanks, Matt & Charles! More »
What's Will Wright Doing at GDC on Saturday? [Gdc] - 03/13/2010 04:20 AM
I ran into Will Wright yesterday just before the Game Developer Choice Awards kicked off. He was wearing a shiny suit and grabbing a drink. More »
Needle Now or Shotgun Later: A Little Dead Rising Cosplay [Gdc] - 03/13/2010 04:00 AM
Almost lost amid the CCP booth loaded up with free kegs of beer, the PS3 Move set-up and Nintendo was the tiny Zombrex booth packed with faux syringes and a shotgun behind glass. More »
Duo Behind Modern Warfare 2 Sign With Hollywood Talent Agency [Hollywood] - 03/13/2010 03:30 AM
When you've built a zillion-dollar video game brand, you're not going to be hurting for future opportunities no matter how hard your former employer fires you. That said, Call of Duty's creators have signed with Hollywood's biggest talent agency. More »
Dragon Age: Awakening Raises Level Cap To 35, Boosts Lesser Players [Gdc] - 03/13/2010 03:00 AM
You can be more powerful in next week's expansion to Dragon Age: Origins. More »
Look Who Says the Rhode Island Games Legislation is Unconstitutional [Law] - 03/13/2010 02:20 AM
An effort to impose fines and even jail time for selling mature games to underage kids has reached Rhode Island's legislature. "The bill won't survive a court challenge, nor should it," says a certain disbarred Florida lawyer. More »
Final Fantasy XIII Review: A New Paradigm For An Old Franchise [Review] - 03/13/2010 02:00 AM
The role-playing series that launched a million bad attempts at cosplay is back, with a new group of colorful characters carrying the fate of the world on their shoulders in Final Fantasy XIII. More »
PSP Grabs A Big Slice Of The Console War Pie In Japan [Console Taisen] - 03/13/2010 01:40 AM
Black is back, as Japan went all in on PSP purchasing recently, giving the PlayStation family the win in the weekly hardware contest, nearly doubling sales of the Wii. More »
BioShock 2's DLC is on the Disc to Keep Us All Together [Dlc] - 03/13/2010 01:20 AM
Technically, BioShock 2's downloadable content released before today. That's because it's on the disc. So, again, we're downloading an unlock. 2K says this was necessary to allow the entire player base to play multiplayer together. More »
How Deus Ex 3's Cyber Renaissance Averted A Puffy Pants Disaster [Gdc10] - 03/13/2010 01:00 AM
How did the combination of Deus Ex's brand of cyberpunk, the Greek myth of Icarus and baroque fashions almost turn Deus Ex: Human Revolution into a futuristic Renaissance fair? With very good intentions by the new Deus Ex team. More »
Play A Video Game Fearfully Inside This Rolling Spherical Cage [Gdc] - 03/13/2010 12:40 AM
I am not the man featured in this video of a first-person shooter played from inside an American Gladiators-style cage. No, I went before this guy and almost fell on my face. Then I filmed him, fearing for his knees. More »
A Listen To Dante's Inferno Lite [Gdc] - 03/13/2010 12:20 AM
Ever wonder what video game composers have to work with when creating those big sounds for big games? More »
Motion-Controlled Teabagging: Why SOCOM Fans Shouldn't Fear Move [Gdc] - 03/13/2010 12:00 AM
Zipper Interactive has a lot to prove with SOCOM 4. More »
Backbreaker Delayed; Now Going Head-to-Head With UFC [Rumor] - 03/12/2010 11:40 PM
Major retailers and multiple sites have all listed Backbreaker with a release date of May 25, one week later than originally planned. If so, the real news here is the football newcomer is going straight up against UFC Undisputed 2010. More »
Gene Simmons Claims 'I'm the Voice of Guitar Hero 6' [Rumor] - 03/12/2010 11:20 PM
KISS frontman Gene Simmons confirming Guitar Hero 6 is about as newsworthy as Simmons confirming tomorrow will be called "Saturday." But he has, technically, and also vows to a British TV program (sigh ... programme) that he's the game's voice. More »
The Next Wii Will Innovate, Nintendo Would Be "Embarrassed" If It Was Sony, Microsoft [Gdc] - 03/12/2010 11:00 PM
In the wake of this week's unveiling of Sony's take on motion-controlled video gaming, and Microsoft's push for their motion-controlled gaming well under way, Kotaku sat down with Nintendo of America's president Reggie Fils-Aime to ask if these high-def entries into a market Nintendo so dominates is concerning. More »
Kneel Before The Hardcore Gamer's IQ Test [Screengrab] - 03/12/2010 10:30 PM
It's Friday afternoon, and you've got a bit of time before work lets out? Here, take this. It should keep you nice and occupied until Monday. As seen on DeviantArt. More »
Mass Effect 2 DLC Adds 90 Minutes, More Earth Teases [Gdc] - 03/12/2010 10:00 PM
The first paid downloadable content for Mass Effect 2 is a heist mission. And it's a tease. [Content spoilers in this post.] More »
Gran Turismo 5 Looks Even Better In The Dark [Sony] - 03/12/2010 09:30 PM
And new trailer included in copies of God of War III gives us a teasing glance of night driving, a new addition to the generally sun-dappled world of Gran Turismo. More »
It Wasn't God of War That Dante's Inferno Borrowed From [Screengrab] - 03/12/2010 09:00 PM
During their Scoring Hell talk at the Game Developers Conference, the folks behind the sounds and music of Dante's Inferno boiled down their game to its essence: Donkey Kong upside down. More »
Civilization Creator Explains Why Everything Game Devs Know Is Wrong [Gdc10] - 03/12/2010 08:30 PM
Firaxis Games co-founder and Civilization creator Sid Meier expanded the minds of GDC attendees by talking about the psychology of game design and breaking some bad news to us. Everything we know, Meier argues, is wrong. More »
Final Fantasy Fans Are Far Too Sensitive About The Xbox 360 [Clips] - 03/12/2010 08:00 PM
At the big Final Fantasy XIII launch at the HMV store in London, fans show their disapproval of the prospect of winning a free Xbox 360 bundle. Really guys? More »
Every Epic Space Saga Needs A Prison Planet [Bioware] - 03/12/2010 07:30 PM
It you thought Mos Eisley was a wretched hive of scum and villainy, wait until you get a load of Belsavis, the Republic prison planet that houses some of the most fearsome criminals in the Star Wars: The Old Republic galaxy. More »
A Musical Journey Through Dante's Hell [Gdc] - 03/12/2010 07:00 PM
As I mentioned in my review of Dante's Hell, I loved the scoring and sound of Visceral's take on hell. More »
What Are You Playing This Weekend? [Lazy Sundays] - 03/12/2010 06:40 PM
Since much of Kotaku will be spending part of its weekend rubbing elbows with game developers, hopefully securing hot inebriated scoops from those developers, there won't be much time to play games this weekend. We might squeeze something in. More »
Thinking, Not Always Joking, About What Video Games Can Be [Gdc] - 03/12/2010 06:00 PM
Our guy in Tokyo has descended upon San Francisco's Game Developers Conference. We asked him for a report. This is what we got. More »
These Fable III Screens From GDC Are All Mine [Gdc] - 03/12/2010 05:40 PM
This batch of Fable III screenshots from the Game Developers Conference are indeed all mine, at least in the 'underground area where ore is extracted from the earth' definition of the word. More »
Time To Put Your Money Where Your iPad Is [Apple] - 03/12/2010 05:20 PM
Apple is now taking preorders for its "revolutionary" new shiny thing everyone must own. Will you succumb to the large, vibrant screen of the iPad, or are you made of sterner stuff? More »
Be The Butler [Screengrab] - 03/12/2010 05:02 PM
Two years ago Sony's Playstation Blogger Lounge was packed with "No In-Shirt Cross Media Bar" shirts. This year's shirt? Each printed with neat name tags for Kevin Butler, VP of all things PS3. More »
Sims Creator Explains Why Doom Creator "Rocks" [Gdc] - 03/12/2010 04:40 PM
Will Wright, the fast-talking, rocket-loving man behind The Sims, took to the stage at last night's Game Developers Choice Awards to present John Carmack, the fast-talking, rocket-loving man behind Doom, with a lifetime achievement award. Guess what he talked about? More »
Talk Amongst Yourselves [Official Kotaku Forum] - 03/12/2010 04:20 PM
Let us not speak too much about Metroid fan fiction or, uh, what happened to yesterday's TAY (You have to hit "publish" on these things???). Can't we just talk about video games? More »
New Brink Trailer Plays Peekaboo (With Big Guns) [Clips] - 03/12/2010 04:00 PM
Splash Damage's Brink, your bright blue shooter for a rainy day, won't be out until later this year. Until then, all you've got are trailers. Trailers like this one. More »
No More Kindergarten, That's It, Kids Grow Up [Note] - 03/12/2010 03:30 PM
To: Crecente More »
Sam & Max & Season 3 & PlayStation 3 [Telltale] - 03/12/2010 02:00 PM
Telltale, developers of the episodic series of Sam & Max, revealed today that not only is there a third season of the dog & rabbit detective series on the way, but that for the first time it'll be on PS3. More »


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