Crackdown 2, Left 4 Dead 2 Announced

Microsoft just showed off a bunch of trailers. Some for all-new games! Like Crackdown 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. Crackdown 2 seems to take a different approach than the first, with the city infected with some kind of plague that’s turning people into zombies/monsters. You, naturally, have to kill them. Left 4 Dead 2…

Final Fantasy Coming To Xbox 360 In “Spring 2010”

Square Enix just announced that Final Fantasy XIII will be out on Xbox 360 in North America during “Spring 2010”. Note that’s a hopeful date, not a firm one. 2010 is a while away, and hey, this is Final Fantasy. But still! That’s a whole season you can circle in your reddest red pen.

First Two Modern Warfare 2 Map Packs Timed 360 Exclusives

Revealed at Microsoft’s 2009 E3 press conference, the first two downloadable map packs for Inifinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 will be timed Xbox 360 exclusives. The news was delivered by Microsoft’s John Schappert following a gameplay demonstration of the game involving climbing up the side of an icy mountain, which is perhaps an appropriate parallel…

Microsoft’s E3 Expo Live Blog

It’s that time of year again! Join us as we bring you play-by-play coverage of Microsoft’s 2009 E3 press conference. Be there for the laughter, the tears, and whatever game and hardware announcements that haven’t already been leaked, and some that have! Be sure to stay for the whole thing, or at least come back…

The Beatles: Rock Band Music And DLC Detailed

New details dropped for The Beatles: Rock Band today at Microsoft’s E3 2009 press conference,a partial song list, Xbox exclusive DLC, and the first downloadable album. The three-part harmony feature debuted as the Harmonix folks took the stage. Three vocal bars scrolled across the top of the screen as they played through “Day Tripper”, just…

Follow Us And The Gaming Industry On Twitter At E3 – Now!

Beyond our liveblog for this morning’s Microsoft Xbox 360 briefing, we’ve got two ways for you to check things out through the miracle of Twitter. First, follow us Tweeting the conference via my Twitter feed. Also, check out our custom Kotaku E3 Twitter page full of the industry’s finest Tweeting.

LEGO Harry Potter And The Teaser Trailer Of Doom

Here’s the first teaser trailer for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, to go along with this morning’s official game announcement. I’d like to think that I am a completely grown man and completely immune to the Harry Potter franchise’s mysterious draw, but dammit, that music starts up and I want to start waving my wand…

New And Old Monkey Island Adventures In The Works

The rumors of a remake of the original Monkey Island for Xbox Live Arcade are true, but it gets much better, as LucasArts and Telltale team up to deliver all-new episodic Monkey Island adventures. Starting this July, Telltale will be releasing Tales of Monkey Island, a five-episode monthly adventure game series for the PC and…

Achievements Reveal Halo: Reach, Joy Ride, Shadow Complex, And More

Blank achievement pages at Xbox.com may have outed some of Microsoft’s big game announcements before the press conference has even begun, with Halo: Reach, Joy Ride, Shadow Complex, and more showing up on the page. Credit Xbox360Achievements.Org with discovering the Halo: Reach page on Xbox.com. In the course of keeping abreast of the latest achievement…

Fat Princess, Ghostbusters Demo Out This Month

The onset of June should be greeted a little more warmly than usual this year, as Sony have announced that both Fat Princess and a Ghostbusters demo will be out in Europe later this month. Of course, if they’re out in Europe this month, they should be out everywhere else, too, but just so you…

Bit Boy!! Covers All The Bits

Why settle for 8-bit or 16-bit retro gameplay when you can run the whole gamut from 4 to 128 in Bplus’ newly announced WiiWare title Bit Boy!! From the creators of Niki – Rock ‘n’ Ball, PLÄTTCHEN – twist ‘n’ paint and Vektor Tank comes Bit Boy, an adventure starring a one-pixel hero Kubi on…

The Nintendo Download: Final Fantasy IV Continues

Thanks so much, Nintendo. You decide to release the sequel to Final Fantasy IV on WiiWare while we’re all stuck at E3? Boulder Dash! In a move that is completely not fair to me in particular, Nintendo has chosen today to release Square Enix’s Final Fantasy IV: The After Years on WiiWare today, while I…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

It’s either E3 Day 1 or E3 Day -1, depending on how you look at it. Either way, it’s a day to talk about video games. Do it! Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

Our live blog of Microsoft’s E3 2009 press conference will be going live in about an hour! Stay tuned to this space, or a space much like it, only a bit higher up on the web page.

LEGO: Harry Potter Officially Announced

Having already been revealed earlier this year, Warner Bros. & LEGO have today officially announced LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4. Not the catchiest title, we know, but it gets its point across, with players given the option of controlling Harry, Ron or Hermione as they work their way through the first four books/movies of the…

Please Pardon My Face

Covering E3 2009 became a little bit more difficult for me on Friday, when half of my face suddenly stopped responding to my brain. I was sitting in front of my computer at home around noon Eastern time, typing up the final Robot Wars post, when I blinked, only I didn’t. One moment everything was…

WHO IS READY FOR E3?!

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Hi! I’m not at E3. I’m in Japan, taking care of Micro-Bash! Yay!! But even though I have my hands full with him and Mini-Bash, I am so ready for E3. I was born ready. Not just for E3, but for other stuff. You ready? Are you, are you, are you?…

Sony Still Has Lots of “Shockers” Planned

Over the weekend, Sony “leaked” the PSP Go and a couple game announcements onto the latest eits own videomag Qore. Those thinking Sony already shot its E3 load, think again says a company PR guy. Rather, tweets a Sony PR guy. “Pre-E3 annoucements or not! There’s still lots of shockers planned for you guys @…

Starcraft Could Be Out This Year, If…

The Starcraft II beta starting this summer is a sign of things to come. A release date is a sign of we things come to all of us. We don’t have a release date. Though, we do have Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime saying that Starcraft II will be release in 2009 as long as it “meets…

Street Fighter Online Goes Offline

Computer title Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation is played entirely with mouse controls, with left-clicks for punches, right-clicks for kicks and special attacks performed by mouse movement. Soon that will be was played. The Capcom-licensed, Daletto-developed game for Windows goes offline on August 31. The official reason for the game’s service ending is “due to…