Enjoy the Weekend

To: Owen From: Crecente It’s Friday. I think I’m going to try and catch The Crazies this weekend. That is all. What you missed: Disney’s Guilty Party: Family-Friendly and Fun…Really. FlingSmash: It’s All In the Elbow The Stalling Of An Anti-Bush Video Game This Week In Comics Transformers: War For Cyberton Preview: A World Without…

First Joe Danger Trailer Looks Ridiculously Fun, Fiendish, Gorgeous & Delicious

Hello Games’ Joe Danger is on a very, very short list of downloadable games that we’re unreasonably excited about here at Kotaku, a game that got its first official video showing during last night’s GameTrailers TV. While Joe Danger may not have gotten the airtime that Kratos did on the show’s God of War III…

The Last Laugh in the Pitchers-vs.-Hitters Feud

So, MLB 2K10 releases on Tuesday, officially delivering to you this hitters-vs-pitchers battle it’s been touting the past two months. Here is the final installment, complete with artist’s renderings by the Rangers’ Nelson Cruz. I just got my review copy of this and have already begun working on it. Two things will work you into…

Where Have All The Zombies Gone?

The Infected. Los Ganados. Majini. Parasite hosts. Some of the biggest “zombie” games in recent years don’t feature the undead. Why can’t we call a spade a spade, burying it in the neck of a good old-fashioned undead zombie? This is a conversation we’ve been having fairly often lately at Kotaku Tower, mainly due to…

Hammer Back A Few With Warhammer Online Beer Steins

After a long day in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, one builds up a big Orcish thirst. The best way to quench said thirst? Drinking your beverage of choice (mead, ale, blood, etc.) from an officially licensed WAR stein. Those lager or Mountain Dew-holding steins can be pre-purchased as of right now, one in Order…

Dreamcast’s Rayman 2 Hits iPhone Next Week

Hot off of game developer Gameloft’s Twitter feed is this juicy nugget: Rayman 2: The Great Escape is coming to the iPhone on March 1. That’s Monday for you calendar-challenged readers out there. The game features all 45 environments of the original 3D game and appears to use a virtual thumbstick and two buttons. What…

Star Trek Online Review: A Piece Of The Action

After years of television series, books, cartoons, movies, and video games for both consoles and PCs, Star Trek faces the final frontier: the massively-multiplayer role-playing game. When Star Trek Online was first officially announced back in June of 2008, fans of the series were excited, cautious, and slightly nauseous, all at the same time. The…

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PlayStation Wins, Places In Japan’s Weekly Hardware Race

The PlayStation family bookends this week’s Media Create hardware sales chart thanks to strong sales of Biohazard 5 Alternative Edition and God Eater, as well as dwindling sales of the PlayStation 2 and PSPgo. Sony’s PSP and PlayStation 3 secure spots one and two on this week’s Japanese hardware chart, each platform giving a bit…

Transformers: War For Cybertron DS Preview: Grimlock Goes Portable [UPDATE]

Don’t get excited about this screenshot. It’s from the console version of Transformers: War For Cybertron. But the game still might turn your head. [UPDATE: DS screens added below.] Transformers: War For Cyberton on the Nintendo DS is being made by Vicarious Visions, the veteran studio behind other, recent well-regarded portable 3D Transformers action games.…

Transformers: War For Cybertron Preview: A World Without Michael Bay’s Robots

No humans. No Michael Bay. Two campaigns. Three-player online (only) drop-in/drop-out co-op Transformers with a link to the past and a Gears of War amount of gunfire. Happier? Last week, the developers of Transformers: War For Cybertron began the live demo of their summer game with an audacious claim. “The goal was not to make…

Transformers Gallery

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Despite how former Sega mascot Alex Kidd looks in Sega & Sonic All-Stars Racing—a little off, in my opinion—I’ll be racing my hardest to unlock the paper-rock-scissors expert in the game this weekend. Somehow, Sega & Sonic All-Stars Racing has taken hold of me, presumably because of its well-distributed Achievements and its appeal to the…

Jay Electronica Made This Track With Beaterator

Just in case you forgot how amazingly versitile Rockstar’s Beaterator is, the developer passed us a clip created by unconventional rapper and producer Jay Electronica to remind you. Beaterator is the PSP and iPhone music creation software from Rockstar that was said to be so easy that even a 12-year-old could produce good music in…

This Week In Comics

The “This Week In Comics” effort here at Kotaku weathers a rough February. But here’s a second installment (late!), showcasing a couple of gaming comic books, a couple of others, in shops in the U.S., this week. Mega Man Megamix Vol.1 Written and drawn by Hitoshi Ariga. Summary Via Udon Entertainment: Written and drawn by…

A Million Players Flock To Dungeons & Dragons Online, Seeking Freedom

Proving once again that people really enjoy free games, Turbine announces that more than a million new players have joined Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited since its re-launch as a free-to-play game last September. Having just experienced the joys of IHOP’s free pancake day, I can personally attest to the fact that things taste…

Tree Plus Chainsaw Equals BioShock 2 Big Daddy

I don’t believe I’ve seen anything quite as beautiful as a man dressed as Jason from Friday the 13th carving the Big Daddy from BioShock 2 out of a tree using a chainsaw. I’d imagine it’s hard to find a tree in the underwater city of Rapture, which is probably why Japanese chainsaw artist “Jason”…

Mile Marker 13: Miegakure

Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Miegakure. In A Sentence It’s a puzzle game in four dimensions — really, they swear it — and it’ll make your head hurt…

Just Cause 2 Demo Gives You 35 Square Miles To Explore, Explode

A demo for Just Cause 2 is coming to the PlayStation Network, Steam, and Xbox Live next week, giving players 35 square miles of the Lautan Lama Desert, packed with plenty of things to do, see, and blow-up. Just Cause 2 isn’t due out in North America until March 23, but Avalanche Studios and Square…

Free! Even More Secret Armory of General Knoxx Codes!! (ALL CODES GONE)

Here’s that promised second batch of Xbox 360 download codes for The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. The expansion pack includes new weapons, vehicles, story line and 30 new villain types. It also increases the level cap to to 61. Oh, and some good news, while these dozen codes are only for the Xbox 360,…