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#clips
Contact Creator Has Another Space Game For The DS
Audio Inc., the brains behind Sakura Note and the excellent Contact, have a new DS RPG in the pipeline, jam-packed with synthesisers and Engrish. Let's take a look! More » -
#madworld
This Lady Will Put Your Eye Out
Platinum Games wheeled out this pointy lady to play through Wii title MadWorld at an Chun Soft and Spike event in Tokyo's Roppongi. More » -
#britain
BBC Upset With Microsoft Over Xbox Live Payments
The BBC and MIcrosoft aren't exactly seeing eye-to-eye at the moment, with the British broadcaster unhappy with the way Microsoft charges users for much its online content. More » -
#gundam
Nothing Says Christmas Like A Gundam Christmas Tree
Deck the halls with boughs of holly and plastic robot toys. On December, a Gundam Christmas 16-foot tree with over 60 Gundam models will go up in Tokyo's Akihabara. More » -
#psp
Royal Navy To Issue Sailors With PSPs
Britain's Royal Navy have begun handing out PlayStation Portables to sailors in the fleet, not so they can work on their (Final Fantasy) Tactics, but so they can "study". More » -
#oddities
Korean Booth Babes Booted For Being Too Revealing
Indecent? Or simply decent? According to website MMO News, two booth companions were asked to leave South Korean game show G-Star for their revealing costumes. This apparently is a first for the G-Star event. More » -
#legal
Is This Game Ripping Off Mario Galaxy?
Duludubi Star is a Chinese PC game and looks familiar. Very, very familiar. Maybe even, too familiar. Watch gameplay here and check out the game's screen shots. More » -
#clips
Teacher Skipping School In Final Fantasy XIII Ad
A real judge might have missed court for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and now a fictional teacher in this television commercial is doing the same. More » -
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#pc
Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters Banned On PC
According to Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, a large number of Modern Warfare 2 players on PC were banned over the weekend for using cheats in multiplayer matches. More » -
#gallery
NSFW: Bikini Gladiator Underboob Cosplay Features Smaller Bikini, Princess Leia
Remember the great Tokyo Game Show underboob cover-up? Sure you do! That bikini cosplay for PSP title Kentoushi: Gladiator Begins has returned. Something is different! More » - Yesterday - November 29, 2009
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#yadontsay
Study: Avatars Dressed in Klan Robes Usually Belong to Unpleasant People
A researcher down in Texas has found that, when people are assigned to play characters wearing the brooding black robes of an emo Jedi, or the coneheaded getup of a KKK grand kobold or whatever, they exhibit antisocial behaviors. More » -
#newreleases
Week in Games: Owen Good's Week in Games: The Post
James Cameron Commands You to Pay Attention to His Name Over the Game Titled Avatar is a five-platform release this week, as movie adaptations commonly are. The film sounds like it'll be a total joke, too, which also is unsurprising. More » -
#lists
Kotaku's Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What's better? A list of those. Here's a roundup of the rundowns out there. More » -
#screengrab
Rise and Shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and Shine.
As seen by reader Aaron G. in the Albuquerque, N.M. airport. -
#charity
Desert Bus Charity Shatters $100K Goal
Desert Bus for Hope, the fund drive dedicated to playing the world's most boring game, ever, logged more than five days behind the wheel and raised a staggering $132,568.94, more than 88 percent over last year's total. More » -
#officialkotakuforum
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Still burpin' up leftovers? Tired of family small talk yet? Slink away from home and hearth, you ungrateful slobs, and join your fellow gamers in Kotaku's Official Open Thread. More » - Saturday - November 28, 2009
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#mmmhmm
Dyack Brags that 'Staggering' Layoffs Make His Studio 'Oldest'
In an interview, Denis Dyack bemoaned the "staggering" layoffs seen in game development over the past 18 months, then went on to talk about how such attrition has helped cement Silicon Knights as one of the longest tenured studios left. More » -
#apps
XBL iPhone App Released, Might It Be Free Someday?
The new 360 Live is more functional and packs more features than previous attempts at remote Xbox Live control over your iPhone, but it comes with a cost $1.99. However, a year-old Microsoft policy might reduce that to $0.00. More » -
#video
Fight Night Has a Message for You Spammers
Fight Night Round 4's next DLC delivers four fighters, rivalry matchups, and "old-school rules," which I assume means a brain-pulping 15 rounds. Its next patch release will tire the hell out of your boxer if you don't fight smart. More » -
#ruhroh
Format Gaffe Prevents PS3 Owners from Playing Dragon Age Soundtrack
Those who bought the Dragon Age: Origins Collector's Edition for PS3 cannot access the bonus soundtrack. The disc is Blu-Ray and the music's mp3, so a PC won't play the former and the PS3 is unable to see the latter. More » -
#weekendreader
Their Bodies, Our Games
That picture above poses an interesting question to Massively's Seraphina Brennan. Why, she wonders, is the knee-jerk reaction to get bent out of shape about a buxom, indiscreetly clothed woman in a video game, but not a ripped, stripped-to-the-waist man? More » -
#stickjockey
Cover Athletes: Putting More Than a Name Into a Game
Michael Phelps might have been on a Wheaties box. It doesn't mean he advised General Mills on how to make the cereal taste better. More » -
#dealtaku
Weekend Coupons: Black Saturday
Not all of the deals this weekend are doorbusters designed to get you to a brick-and-mortar location. If your butt remains fused to the living room couch, you can still get some value-added shopping done thanks to Kotaku Weekend Coupons. More » -
#original
Kotaku Originals: Weekend Edition
Some Saturdays I feel like I should start my shift with NPR's Weekend Edition theme and the dulcet vocals of its host, Mr. Scott Simon (pictured). We weekend shift guys need to stick together, you know. More » - Friday - November 27, 2009
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#toys
New King Of Fighters Figure Bares (Almost) All
Need something to wash the taste of that movie trailer out of your mouths, KoF fans? How about this new Vanessa figure. Yes, Vanessa. Not Mai. Vanessa. Who seems to have lost all her buttons. More » -
#tellusdammit
How Much Do You Game During The Holidays?
You ready to talk? I'm ready to talk. Let's talk. More » -
#clips
Aliens vs Predator Multiplayer Trailer
You know, this is the first time I stopped thinking of this as "some game due next year" and "oh, another Aliens game", and started thinking "oh man, it's an AvP game made by Rebellion, that's so great". More » -
#art
Bayonetta's BlazBlue, Virtua Fighter Cameos
With all that hair-twirling, face-kicking and PVC-wearing, Bayonetta would be a perfect fit for a traditional fighting game. Hence these dream (emphasis on the dream) scenarios. More » -
#clips
New King of Fighters Movie Trailer (With Swords!)
It seems The King of Fighters now has lots of sword fighting. In another dimension. There's something about destroying the universe, too. More » -
#cc
You May Not Like Where Command & Conquer Is Headed
Jon Van Caneghem, EA's new head of all things Command & Conquer, has grand plans for the future direction of the series. Plans die-hard fans of C&C may be interested/horrified to hear. More » -
#toileting
Final Fantasy XIII Toilet Water is Coming Soon
What? What?! That's what "eau detoilettoilette," means, right? Oh, fine, it's perfume, specifically a fragrant homage to Final Fantasy XIII, and it'll be available a month after the game's release in North America. More » -
#ubisoft
Splinter Cell Conviction To Co-op Once Again
Ubisoft won't let Splinter Cell fans fond of cooperative multiplayer down with Sam Fisher's upcoming adventure. Splinter Cell Conviction is reported to have some form of co-op as well as a "new mode" that should be revealed shortly. More » -
#clips
This Is What "Toned-Down" Looks Like In Dead To Rights
When I first got a look at Dead to Rights: Retribution, I had to ditch a whole plate of food lest I upchuck in front of the producer at a Namco Bandai event. More » -
#screengrab
Thank You, Pikachu
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Pikachu balloon, floating through Manhattan yesterday. [Pic: AP Photo. This post inspired by SVGL] -
#photojournalism
Black Friday In Photos
Black Friday still has a few hours left to go, but here's a look at how it's going in several California GameStop and Best Buy locations. You'll notice a lack of insanity and mobbing in the check-out lines. More » -
#namcobandai
We're Up To Our Elbows In Splatterhouse Screens, Blood
Call me cautiously optimistic about the new Splatterhouse, despite the developer switcheroo and year-long delay for the re-imagining of the arcade and Turbografx classic. New screens from Namco Bandai keep me cautiously optimistic. More » -
#consoletaisen
Nintendo DSi LL Grabs XL Hardware Sales In Japan
The Nintendo DSi LL, having officially launched in Japan this past week, has outsold everything else to the tune of 100,000-plus units, adding a "wine red" slice to the weekly Japanese hardware chart. Welcome, wine red. More »
