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Digital Storm’s Newest Gaming Rig Swaps Choice For Affordability

Why are custom gaming rigs so expensive? There’s no such thing as a bulk discount when a company has to order each part individually. For players not picky about parts, Digital Storm’s new line of affordable pre-built gaming PCs might be the answer to pricey PC gaming. When last I touched base with Digital Storm…

Let’s Help a Gamer Get Into Anime

Commenter SecretMoblin has yet to experience the joy of sitting in a darkened room at 3AM sobbing hysterically over a Japanese cartoon. He needs anime suggestions, so its time to Speak Up on Kotaku. I’ve never seriously watched any anime, and I’m looking to start. I’ve seen a couple episodes of Ranma and a couple…

L.A. Noire: The Kotaku Review

The best trailer for the video game L.A. Noire that its creators never made would have featured a man’s face. The face would have been that of an unremarkable owner of a liquor store in 1947 Los Angeles, a hard-working type. His face would be creased, just a little, from the effects of encroaching middle…

If You’ve Never Played Halo: Reach, Now’s Your Chance

There’s a new Halo: Reach single and multiplayer demo available on Xbox Live today, coinciding with a week-long $39.99 sale on the Games on Demand version. If you’ve been waiting eight months for a price drop, your time is now.

Talk Amongst Yourselves

It was a dull, grey, no-good kind of Tuesday. The kind of Tuesday that could really put a man in the dumps. The kind of Tuesday that could push the wrong man over the edge. Oh, ahem, excuse me! I’m feeling a little, erm, pulpy today. Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves—a place to chat about…

LEGO Universe Developer: I Will Never Make an MMO Again

An open letter to my fellow developers and gamers who follow the industry. Drafted by Ryan Seabury, Chief Creative Occifer & Founder, END Games Entertainment. I recently departed my beloved old development studio after helping build it from five to two hundred people, with consistent 50% growth year over year for over 10 years. I…

Current Is Currently My Favorite Game

iOS games can be a crap shoot. There are some real diamonds, but a lot of crap. Then, every once in a while, you find a game, and you really get into it. For me, that game is Current According to the game’s developer TinkerHouse Games, Current is an “action match game”. That means the…

Look How Far We’ve Come

TANK VS. FORTERESSE | PARIS, FRANCE: Gaming in 1930 looked like this. (Photo: Hulton Archive | Getty) The First Explosive Modern Warfare 3 Gameplay Trailer Is Here Modern Warfare 3, is a globetrotting tale of destruction, taking the fight to America, England, Germany and France, bringing with it huge destruction and battles more ambitious than…

Would You Like Motion Controls with Your Sony Portable?

A recent Sony patent shows a camera-enable PSP dock that allows players to use PlayStation Move controls. The portable shown in the patent image is a PSPgo, Sony’s failed PSP iteration. However, the NGP already has a camera, so PlayStation Move could be possible. I’d rather that the NGP didn’t support Move controls at all.…

Is This The First Look at the Ace Attorney Movie?

Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) is in Cannes, prompting his latest film, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai. His next film won’t be nearly as heavy. “It is a very light comedy that I am filming now, a court drama, based on a video game, the Nintendo game DS,” Miike told The Huffington Post. The…

Hardcore Shooter Developer Selling Stuff to Foreigners!

Cave, the game developer best known for insane shmups like this, is holding an online version of its annual Cave Festival. Want to purchase Cave art books? Cave keychains? Tea cups? Umbrellas? Head on over. [Cave Game Shop via Wired.it]

They’re Nude. They’re Gaming.

People in New York City are gathering, getting naked and playing video games. Or are they? The XtendPlay product pitch in the middle sends off all sorts of viral video bells. Wonder if they’re really naked…

The Man Who Creates Pokémon For a Living

Ken Sugimori may not be a household name, but the monsters that have flowed forth from his sketchbook certainly are. You see, Sugimori designs Pokémon He’s been involved with the mega-popular franchise from day one, having forged a friendship with Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri in the 1980s, when the pair both worked on a gaming…

It’s Time For Some Good Old-Fashioned Driving Fun

You know, if you asked me to pick my favourite driving game of the past few years, it wouldn’t have the words “Turismo” or “Forza” in the title. That’s because my favourite driving game of the past few years is DiRT 2, which is fast, slippery, gorgeous to watch and, if you’ve got surround sound,…

Sony Non-PSN Hacks Just Don’t Quit

The hacks just don’t stop. First there was the PSN hack. Then Sony Online Entertainment. Then in seemingly unrelated hacks, Sony Thailand’s site was being used for phishing exploit and Sony’s internet provider So-net was hacked. Now? Sony Music Indonesia and Sony Music Greece. Likewise, probably unrelated to the PSN hack, but it could be…

Dreaming of the Perfect Adventure Time Video Game

Adventure Time, possibly the best cartoon on TV right now, is full of video game gags, from the opening credits to a faithful companion. In this clip, we get to see the show’s creators talk about this at length Sitting on this panel (which took place at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival) are Phil Rynda,…

The Geekiest Cars on Earth

For Japanese otaku, itasha—literally “painmobile”—are about as geeky as they come. This past weekend, diehard itasha gathered and gawked in Tokyo’s Odaiba. The fourth annual Ita G Festa was originally slated for March 20, but due to the earthquake, the event was moved. The whole thing seems to have finally gone off without a hitch.…

Persona 2: Innocent Sin Coming to America

According to Atlus, rpg Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2: Innocent Sin is coming to North American PSPs this fall. This is the only Persona game never to receive a North American release. Atlus teased the game’s localization late last week.

The Star Trek Game That Was Actually an Austrian Music Video

Captain Kirk rescuing the Queen of Space from the Klingons? It’s not the plot to a Star Trek movie. Nor a Star Trek game. It’s kind of both. Look, just watch the video. It’s by 90’s outfit Edelweiss and is, well. Very European. In a good way. How Video Gamey Music Videos Used To Be…