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Xbox Live Gold Members Can Demo The Darkness II Right Now

2:40AM January 18, 2012 | Mike Fahey

2K Games has unleashed a playable demo for The Darkness II, aka the further adventures of Jackie Estacado, exclusively for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. PlayStation 3 and PC players will get a taste come January 24.


In Real Life

This Hysteria Alice Figure Is A Bloody, Wicked Mess

5:40AM December 16, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Coming to comic shops and specialty retailers near you, these Gentle Giant sculpted action figures give Alice: Madness Returns a chance to play with the darker side of Lewis Carroll’s creations. More »


PC

Guess Which Platform Gets Skyrim DLC First

1:00AM August 27, 2011 | Mike Fahey

The downloadable love affair between Bethesda and Microsoft continues with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as the first two instalments of add-on content are revealed as 30-day exclusives for the Xbox 360. More »


PC

Get Ready For Super Monday Night Combat, A Very DoTA Shooter That Is Free To Play

12:00AM August 26, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

One of the surprise hits of 2010, Monday Night Combat is getting a sequel that its creators don’t exactly call a sequel. They call it Super Monday Night Combat, an evolution of the third-person shooter they launched on Xbox Live Arcade in 2010. More »


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This Is Skulls Of The Shogun. You Should Be Aware Of It.

11:00AM July 23, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Some people have called Skulls of the Shogun the best strategy game of E3. I’ve called it a “Wu-Tang Advance Wars“. Let’s here how the game’s lead creator, Jake Kazdal, describes the game in this exclusive developer documentary provided to Kotaku by Kazdal and his crew. More »


News

Can Comic-Con Save The Locke And Key TV Show?

5:00AM July 23, 2011 | Cyriaque Lamar

Friday morning at Comic-Con, the pilot episode of the supernatural horror show Locke and Keywhich was not picked up by Fox for the (northern) fall season – will be screened to the public for the first time. On the eve of its unveiling, io9 caught up with series writer Joe Hill and illustrator Gabriel Rodriguez about all the keynote issues. More »


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Exclusive: Inside Microsoft’s Fanboy Fantasy, The Star Wars Xbox 360

3:30AM July 22, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Fanboy. There’s perhaps no franchise more immediately connected with our mental conception of a fanboy than Star Wars. Then there’s Xbox. A whole ‘nother world of chest-thumping, battle cries, and utter devotion. Those two worlds just smashed into each other at lightspeed. Meet the Star Wars Xbox 360. More »


Mobile

The Next Pocket God Update Adds Zombies

7:00AM July 13, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

They’re putting zombies in the next free update to the iPhone and iPad Pocket God: Journey To Uranus, possibly because there are no other successful video game series to add zombies to. More »


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Alternate Ending To Limitless: Is Bradley Cooper Heading For The Ultimate Hangover?

1:00AM June 30, 2011 | Meredith Woerner

Did you think the ending of Limitless was too neat and tidy? Did you think Bradley Cooper got off too lightly after spiralling down the rabbit hole of brain-enhancement drugs and superdickery? More »


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New, Better Beast Mode Is Gears Of War 3′s No-Longer-Secret Weapon

4:00AM June 25, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Much has changed in the year since Epic Games last showed Beast Mode, the play-as-the-bad-guys part of this September’s Gears of War 3. Much has changed for the better, I learned, when I played the new Beast Mode yesterday. More »