Super Street Fighter IV Girls Gone Wild

Capcom celebrates Valentine’s Day with a new trailer featuring Chun-Li, Cammy, and Juri from Super Street Fighter IV, beating the living daylights out of each other. I’d like to make it perfectly clear here that it was Capcom that presented this as a Valentine’s Day tie-in, and not me. I personally don’t find women beating…

Sins Of A Solar Empire: Diplomacy Micro-Review: Talk Is Cheap

Developer Ironclad doesn’t call Diplomacy, the second add-on to its popular PC space strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire, an expansion. It’s called, fittingly, a “micro-expansion.” Rather than add a host of things that “clip on” to the existing title – new races, etc. – Sins Of A Solar Empire: Diplomacy instead seeks to…

Dead or Alive Paradise – Screens

Microsoft: This Will be the Biggest Year In The History of Xbox

Microsoft’s robust X10 video game showcase this week in San Francisco was just the tip of the iceberg for the Xbox 360’s 2010 offerings, Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg told Kotaku. “To be this early in the year and able to have an E3-quality line-up with triple-A blockbuster titles, that really speaks to how big a year…

Frankenreview: Heavy Rain

Would Quantic Dream’s cast of characters be depressed over the results of our Heavy Rain Frankenreview? We’ve been entranced with Heavy Rain since the very first screenshots Quantic Dream shuffled our way, and as the meaning behind those rain-dappled faces become clearer, so did our fascination. Now the game is about to be released, the…

Talk Live To Bioshock 2’s Jordan Thomas Right Now On Kotaku Talk Radio

Join us live today on CBS Radio for our latest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio. It is time to talk Bioshock 2, with the main man who made it. Call in now to talk to 2K Marin creative director Jordan Thomas. The show kicks off at 11 a.m. MT, 1 p.m. ET. Want to be…

Star Wars: The Old Republic Will Always Have Taris

It’s civilization annihilated by Sith Lord Darth Malak during the Jedi Civil War, the planet Taris is a symbol of hope for the Republic, and the latest planet revealed for BioWare’s upcoming MMO. You may remember Taris as the first planet you visit in Knights of the Old Republic after escaping from the Endar Spire.…

Halo: Reach Is A More Human Halo Story

Bungie has released the first ViDoc for Halo: Reach, in which the team talks retooling the engine, crafting new weapons, and creating a more human story in the Halo universe. This video elevated Halo: Reach from just another Halo game to a new title to keep my eyes on in the coming month. I mean,…

Original Survivors Get Chatty In Left 4 Dead 2’s The Passing

I wasn’t able to spot one of the new “fallen survivors” of Left 4 Dead 2’s upcoming map pack, The Passing, but I did find one of its new weapons, a monstrous machine gun. I grabbed it while playing through a chunk of the second map, tearing through zombies with abandon until I burnt through…

Final Fantasy XIII Screens – Xbox 360

Final Fantasy XIII Screens – PlayStation 3

Final Fantasy XIII Screens – Xbox 360

Hey Big Daddies…BioShock 2 Is Here

Craving a slice of the BioShock universe filled with breathtaking action set against the backdrop of a decaying underwater Utopia? Well, click through for the trailer and be reborn…BioShock 2 is out NOW!

Square Enix Puts A Price On Cuteness

Now available at the North American Square Enix store, these adorable Tarutaru Play Arts figures represent the best thing to come out of Final Fantasy XI. That is unless you are reading this sometime after the next MMO comes out, in which case these adorable Lalafell represent the best thing to come out of Final…

Your First Look At Fable III In Action

The first episode of the second season of Lionhead’s video diaries gives us our first look at Fable III in motion, showing off the combat, the weapons, and the extreme morals it takes to be a king. Peter Molyneux sure gets excited about his creations, doesn’t he? Look at him talking about the wing-sprouting expression…

Mile Marker 27: Super Meat Boy!

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, Super Meat Boy! In A Sentence An old-school platformer starring cast of indie lead characters, but initially played through with a smiling chunk…

Those Who Play Video Game Tic-Tac-Toe Will Be Judged

Can we who play great video games not cast judgment on those who dabble with lesser games? I saw a man playing Tic-Tac-Toe on his iPhone on the subway yesterday. Did I sneer? Had this man done something wrong? I’ve been involved in debates before about whether something like computer solitaire should even be considered…

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New Left 4 Dead 2 Poster Needs A Tagline

Valve recently detailed the new downloadable Left 4 Dead 2 campaign, The Passing. It will reunite the heroes of the first game and the sequel. There’s an official poster for it. But without the expected witty tagline. Suggest one, please.

Excited About Valentine’s Day? Chocolate Beer, Incoming!

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: This Post Was Written… With your rough schedule, sounds like yer working like a dog in San Francisco. Bet yer looking forward to being back at home with the fam. This weekend is Valentine’s Day. This year, I think I am getting CHOCOLATE BEER. I saw a package and somehow…