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Fallout 3's latest round of DLC deploys this week for 360 and PC; it's joined by Patapon 2 on the PSP, and Crysis: Maximum Edition for the PC. More »
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Protest
Protest Against Video Game Army Recruiting Ends in Arrests
Yesterday in Philadelphia, a crowd of 100 marched on a mall demanding the shutdown of the "U.S. Army Experience" - a video-game based recruiting station. Seven were arrested forcosplaying Shyguyswearing masks. More » -
Quit your bitching
Survey Says ...
Faithful Kotaku reader Beaver apparently takes marketing surveys over at something called Play Insights, which assures visitors in fine (and grayed) print "Please be assured this is a legitimate research study." More » -
Rumor
Forza 3 Event Spits Out Another Perfect Dark Tease
Last week's Xbox 360 event in Sao Paolo, which teased Forza 3, also spun off another rumor tidbit: That pic, sent over to Destructoid, which is the second in-the-wild sighting of Perfect Dark on XBLA. More » -
Lists
Housers Named to Time's '100 Most Influential' List
Time's latest issue is its "Time 100" in which they name the most influential people in the world, for this year anyway. Rockstar rockstars Dan and Sam Houser are in the "artists and entertainers" category. More » -
Pokemon
Pokémon Remakes Take Gold, Silver?
Adding it all together, a teaser by Japan's Pokémon Sunday TV program points to an announcement next weekend that Pokémon Gold and Silver will be remade. More » -
Military
360 Controller Meets this Sniper
This helicopter-borne robot sniper can fire 7 to 10 aimed shots per minute, and does so using a modified Xbox 360 controller plugged into a laptop. Each trigger squeeze costs $4 (320 Microsoft Points). More » -
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spoiler alert
Another Pic of Wolverine's Secret Areas
Friday, Fahey dug up a screenshot of X-Men Origins: Wolverine's homage to Warcraft. A reader sent us a screengrab of another crossover marvel, one of two mentioned in the game's achievement list. Obligatory spoiler alert. More » -
The concept for the Red Dead Redemption box art got me to thinking - I know I've seen that somewhere before. More »
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Video game hall of fame
Video Game Hall of Fame Gains Momentum, Support
Barely a month old, the movement to place a video game hall of fame in Ottumwa, Iowa has formed a city-backed committee and is hiring legal services to incorporate itself as a nonprofit venture. More » -
Call Of Duty
Rumor: Call of Duty Moving on to Vietnam?
Citing a confidential source, That VideoGame Blog says Activision is pursuing licenses for Vietnam War-era music, as well as Cuban, Soviet Union and African music. They also infer that Treyarch will be the developer. More » - Yesterday - May 2, 2009
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screengrab
For Some Reason, I Want to Jump on this Cake
You know? Like both feet together, straight down, off a brick ledge from a height about three times my own. I bet it's super smooshy, just like a Goomba should be. More » -
Retrospective
A Tribute to Corewar
There is no way in hell I could ever "play" it - my programming days ended with BASIC. But Corewar always intrigued me, because it was the closest thing to real-life Tron I could imagine. More » -
Apple
Apple Getting More Serious About Mobile Gaming?
Forbes looks at some of Apple's latest maneuverings and concludes the company is muscling up on its mobile gaming business. More » -
Zeno clash
Zeno Clash Dev Tries Reasoning with Torrenters
Like stages of grief, game-makers' response to file sharing goes in stages. ACE Team, the Zeno Clash developer, skipped rage and grief and moved on to bargaining - directly with would-be copiers. More » -
What is it with gamer girls sewing gifts for their guys? Sounds like arts-and-crafts meets Stockholm syndrome. Reader Alex K's sis-in-law crocheted these adorable Left 4 Dead guys as a token of her (alienated) affection. More »
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Go Nintendo's a little ahead of the curve with a small pic, of unspecified origin, confirming two original Punch-Out!! pugilists' presence in the forthcoming Wii-make. More »
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Whoa pig sooey
Warcraft is So Over this Swine Flu
IRL Swine Flu sounds like just a nighttime-sniffling-sneezing inconvenience when you read that it's been going around Azeroth since the Lich King beta, and pops you for 120 natural damage every two seconds. More » -
One Million Dollars
High Voltage: New Wii Exclusives Can Handle ... Tens of On-Screen Enemies
High Voltage, the studio behind the (latest) bacon-saver for Wii core gamers, The Conduit, says his house will show off two more Wii exclusives at E3, capable of five dozen onscreen foes, minimum. More » -
Deals
Weekend Coupons: Hordes of Money
Left 4 Dead at 40 percent off for PC is the A-list deal; tipster Gantz told us they extended the multiplayer freeplay, too. What other values can be found this weekend? More » -
It doesn't begins
Analyst: Next Gen Begins After 2013
Everyone's favorite industry analyst, Michael Pachter, says that, rumored Wii HD upgrade not withstanding, this current console generation is gonna be with us at least four more years. More » -
Back atcha
Valve Drops MMO "Code" into TF2 Update
Earlier this week we brought you the delightful Team Fortress 2-as-RPG screens. Valve's returned the favor, dropping some "code" in the latest patch to troll the more gullible players among its base. More » - Friday - May 1, 2009
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In case you couldn't tell from the creepy kid and the gurgling noises, this is the Wii game being overseen by the director of Japanese horror flick "The Grudge". More » -
PC
There Are Now Over 100,000,000 Spore Creatures
Earlier this week, EA's life creator Spore passed a hefty milestone, with the game's Sporepedia registering its one hundred millionth creation. More » -
Retail
So, How Much Of The Market Does GameStop Hold Down?
While GameStop are the most high-profile specialist games retailer, games are sold in a lot of other places. Department stores. Electronics stores. Online. Convenient stores, even. So how big is GameStop's share of the market? More » -
Sure, you've seen the outsides of countless consoles. But have you seen the insides...x-rayed? More »
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I didn't disdain of the first We Cheer because it was a cheerleading game, or even because it required so much shameless Wii-flailing. I sneered at it for being sexist. More »
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What these Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny screens lack in size and boob, they make up for in color and Tira. More »