Madden 11 Cover To Be Put Up To A Vote

Doritos and the Super Bowl. Chances are you’ll be picking up a bag of the former before watching the latter this weekend. On the back of said bag is a promotion inviting you to vote on the game’s cover athlete this year. In a statement, EA Sports only confirmed that it had partnered with Doritos…

Perhaps We’re Sending The Wrong Message

An ad for Auto Show 2010 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. “Drive it like you stole it” is the slogan of the show, as well as the show’s marketing department. Thanks Kyle!

The Zone Sega Looks Like A Wii, Plays Like A Genesis

Sega has given its licensing blessing to the makers of the Wii doppelganger Zone 40, resulting in the Zone Sega, a cheap, wireless gaming alternative that plays 20 of your favorite Sega Genesis games… and so much more! Unfortunately, that so much more appears to be built-in dreck like Fight & Lose, Bomber and Darts,…

The Lich King Would Like A Word With You

I wasn’t sure how I felt about a rap song about World of Warcraft‘s Lich King at first. Then he beat the crap out of Edward Cullen, and I decided I could live with it. Convoke has released a music video for “Get Lich or Die Tryin,” a song that celebrates the cooler side of…

Building The Perfect Star Trek Frankengame

Has the perfect Star Trek video game been created? Perhaps not, but by taking key elements from the Star Trek games we’ve played over the past three decades, I believe we can come up with the perfect Star Trek Frankengame. Over the years, many Star Trek video game titles have come close to perfection in…

“New” Duke Nukem Forever Footage Opens Old Wounds

More remains from the exploded corpse of Duke Nukem Forever have been found, uploaded to YouTube and paired with unusually inappropriate music, giving followers of the Duke Nukem soap opera another chance to grieve the loss of 3D Realms’ game. The apparently leaked footage is dark, blurry, occasionally covered in on-screen blood and might be…

Capcom’s Dark Void, Resident Evil Expectations, Plus A Probable Typo

Here are screengrabs from a Capcom’s earnings report, in beautiful black-and-white chart form. A report of sales since April 1, 2009, which may have helped the company make a profit: A list of hoped-for sales: And, in a list of upcoming titles, a probably typo I’ve e-mailed Capcom about. Note there was no listing for…

On The iPhone, GT May Not Stand For Gran Turismo

The trick with checking out a new iPhone game from Gameloft, the makers of many hits on the platform, is to look for a clue of resemblance to some other game you’ve heard of. Cars? “GT Racing”? A ha! Later this week or early next, Gameloft will release GT Racing: Motor Academy on the iPhone…

Chime Rings In Release, ‘Splosion Man Goes Cheap On XBLA This Week

This week’s Xbox Live Arcade release is Chime, the Zoë Mode developed musical puzzle game that may evoke thoughts of Lumines with its quad-building mechanic, quad-clearing timeline and choice soundtrack selections. The XBLA game features tunes from the likes of Moby, Orbital, Philip Glass and more, giving your Xbox 360 a bit more music cred.…

Try A Little Miles Edgeworth On For Size

Capcom takes advantage of the Nintendo DS’s download capability today, putting up a demo for Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth two weeks ahead of the game’s release date. Sometimes I forget that I can download things to my regular old DS. Hell, sometimes I forget I can do it with my DSi, and I write…

Romance With Disabled Girls: How (And Maybe Why) An Unusual Video Game Came To Be

About three years ago, one of the most notorious online message board communities decided to create an unusual video game. It would be a Japanese-style erotic dating simulator starring girls with disabilities, a topic not unfamiliar to the 4chan group. The genesis of Katawa Shoujo, an erotic visual novel set on a private campus for…

Aliens Vs. Predator’s Horde Mode

Check out this trailer for Aliens Vs. Predator’s Survivor Mode, in which up to four players co-operatively take on the Alien hordes. I suppose it’s time to set aside the comparisons to Gears of War 2 and simply accept Horde Mode as a standard game type in online multiplayer shooters. It’s just the natural progression…

The Last Guardian Screen Shots

Raven (and I) Need You!

Tomorrow I’m writing up my review of Playstation 3’s MAG. But today, today I need to earn my command stripes and spend an inordinate amount of time playing the game. Unlike our typical reviews, games with heavy multiplayer aspects, like massively multiplayer online titles and online-only games, get a bit of a different approach. We…

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Review: Repetitious Rebel

Well, fun was never a given in a game made by Suda 51 anyway. What do you want from a video game? Fun? What if it makes you laugh? And smile? What if it can surprise you? What if it’s a sequel that removes the bad parts from its predecessor and replaces them with…. wait…

Days Of Thunder Drops The Hammer This Summer

Are you ready to drop the hammer? Test your speed against greats like Cole Trickle, Rowdy Burns, and Russ Wheeler in Days of Thunder, coming this summer to PC, Mac, Xbox Live Arcade, and the PlayStation Network. Yes, Piranha Games and Paramount Digital Entertainment are making the dreams of early-90’s racing movie fans come true…

Dante’s Inferno: The Original World Map

As seen at The World of Dante, an illustration by Lindsay McCulloch. Speaking to Kotaku commenters during today’s live chat, Dante’s Inferno producer Jonathan Knight said that the real “ah ha” moment for him in deciding whether Dante’s Inferno the book could be turned into Dante’s Inferno the video game was seeing a map of…

EA Brings Hell To The Super Bowl

EA is dropping a huge portion of the Dante’s Inferno advertising budget this Sunday with the company’s first Super Bowl commercial, hoping to capture the massive cross-section of football fans familiar with the work of Dante Alighieri. With the estimated cost of a half-minute Super Bowl commercial estimated to cost close to $3 million, EA…

Live Chat in the Comments with Jonathan Knight, Executive Producer, Visceral Games

Let’s give a sound Kotaku welcome to our special guest, Jonathan Knight, Executive Producer at Visceral Games. Ask him about his work on the new EA game Dante’s Inferno. You’ve got an hour…ready, set, comment! [More about Jonathan after the jump.] Jonathan grew up playing games on the family Apple II that still sits in…

The Nintendo Download: Monkey Island Ends, Shinobi World Beckons

WiiWare finally sees Tales of Monkey Island through to its dramatic conclusion, and Alex Kidd takes a trip to Shinobi World, plus golf, cards, puzzles, and a little action RPG, all in this week’s Nintendo Download. It’s been nearly two months since PC players got their hands on the fifth chapter of Telltale Games’ Tales…