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#pc We've always been big fans of Steam, Valve's game delivering and online game hosting service, but now we have one more reason to love it: Kotaku is an official news provider for the system. More »

New grappling features, career mode updates and fight styles explored.

#paxeast Come hear the tale of how one video game journalist, driven by the love of the Slurpee, overcame tremendous odds to travel one and a half blocks in two hours. More »

Hard-hitting reboot of gritty crime-action series shipping in North America on April 27.

Interactive iPhone horror flick comes to PSP.

Players endure alien mutation to save humanity from certain destruction in upcoming sci-fi third-person shooter.

#paxeast A brief hands-on with upcoming Xbox Live Arcade air combat game Snoopy Flying Ace at PAX East made me realize how badly I missed playing Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. More »

#paxeast This past weekend, N'Gai Croal and I launched an idea two years in the making: The Best Method Of All Time For Selecting The 10 Best Video Games Of All Time. Or, as we more humbly call it: Canon Fodder. More »

#paxeast For Dead Space 2 executive producer Steve Papoutsis, PAX East was an amazing opportunity to connect with the fans that could keep the franchise going for "eight billion years." More »

Super Mario Galaxy 2 drops the hub world from the first game for a much simpler map interface; even simpler than New Super Mario Bros.' map. Speaking to Game Informer, Shigeru Miyamoto explained the change. "We want players to focus on the joy of the action instead of getting to each game course," he said. "We wanted to make it as accessible as possible and as easy as possible for the players." That's not to say the game is being made easier in general. It's just now easier to get to the levels.

"Also, because we're going to incorporate a number of different stars, and conquering all the stars is going to be one of the most challenging missions for the player," Miyamoto added, "we want [players] to understand as easy as possible where they should go next and which places they should go back to in order to get access to the remaining stars." In addition, the new starship mechanic necessitates a streamlined navigation interface.

Game Informer also managed to ask Miyamoto about 3D right before the announcement of the 3DS, so the discussion was all about 3D televisions (and not entirely transferable to 3DS). "We're at the stage right now where it's very difficult to tell whether 3D televisions are going to cater to our needs to make better 3D experiences," he said. "For one thing, our video games are made for as many people as possible, and the number of people who can play those types of games, who can afford to buy the 3D televisions at home, aren't going to be very good." A hint of where Nintendo might be going with 3D followed: "It is also true that certain types of three-dimensional games utilize 3D televisions might help people navigate more freely. Right now we're at the stage where it's very hard for us to determine whether it's very good or bad."

Will the final PlayStation Final Fantasy go downloadable?

Dekaron 6.5: It's a Good Day to Die! kicks off with new events today.

In true revolutionary fashion, Just Cause 2 took the top spot on the UK all-formats sales chart last week. The sandbox title that's more fun when you ignore your objectives beat out Pokémon SoulSilver and HeartGold, which fought to the second and fourth spots, respectively.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 kept on the pressure in third, while the unstoppable Just Dance took fifth. Kratos fell down the charts, like he tumbled out of the good graces of Mt. Olympus, as God of War III went from first to seventh. Check out the complete UK top 10 sales list after the break.

Source - Just Cause 2 Swoops in Ahead of Pokémon [GFK Chart-Track]
Source - Latest UK Software Charts [GFK Chart-Track]

The highly anticipated 4X "Living Galaxy" Sci-Fi strategy game gets some quick post-release fixes to fine-tune the economy and improve stability.

#screengrab What if famed game designer Tōru Iwatani and famed children's book author and illustrator Roger Hargreaves were pals? This is what! More »

It's been nearly five years since Dark Energy Digital began work on the water physics-based action-adventure game Hydrophobia. In that time, the developer has shown approximately nobody the game -- heck, before I heard about the game heading to Xbox Live Arcade last summer, there hadn't been a lick of info on it in nearly nine months. But with this week's announcement of the game's XBLA exclusivity (and subsequent playability at PAX East), Joystiq was offered its first chance to play the title this morning. I'm happy to report that ... it's pretty good!

Alright, so, while Hydrophobia probably isn't going to be taking top spots on my 2010 GOTY list, I could certainly see it making an appearance on my "best of XBLA" list this year. The demo immediately made me think of playing Shadow Complex at last year's E3 -- it doesn't quite look like what you'd expect from XBLA, and the developers made sure to repeatedly affirm the game's "AAA quality" throughout my hands-on earlier this morning. Whether guiding the game's main character, Kate, through platforming areas or underwater, the gameplay itself felt like a solid base for what could be a very interesting (six-hour-ish) experience.

#igaming Street Fighter IV you should be ashamed! How did you allow Justin Bieber on this list? More »

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#paxeast Ska Studios' The Dishwasher returns in Vampire Smile, and he's not alone, as his previously dead sister Yuki takes up arms against an army of twisted enemies, Machine Girl style. More »

The violence in this APB video is jarring. Staff from Realtime Worlds will be talking about one of the game's features, like character customization, and then the camera cuts to a few criminals casually interacting, in order to show off the variety of character appearances. Then, one of them pulls out a machine gun and starts spraying bullets. Were the other guys just wearing the wrong colors?

Aside from the juxtaposition of design discussion and graphic violence, this preview also introduces locations found in the game and fleshes out the Enforcers vs. Criminals gameplay.

#wellplayed I just got an arcade in my basement. It's two floors of rooms, some themed to my favorite game makers, others made to look like a dungeon castle, a westen theme and even a room straight out of the 80s. More »

WarioWare D.I.Y. isn't the only new WarioWare out this week. Well, it sort of is, because WarioWare D.I.Y. Showcase is basically an extension of the DS game, but Showcase is also a load of new microgames on its own.

Joining it on the Wii is, believe it or not, a Nintendo 64 game on Virtual Console! And on DSiWare, a metronome and an instrument tuner? See the full list after the break.

#southkorea One of the country's biggest pop outfit, Girls' Generation, will be hocking the Nintendo DSi in South Korea. Imagine that! More »

WiiWare and WarioWare Join Forces for Maximum Downloadable ExcitementNint

#onlyinjapan You are never too young to start cosplaying. Never! More »

#tv As you know, pop diva Beyoncé has teamed up with Nintendo to help promote a DS game. This is that game's TV commercial, which for anyone around the age of 30 has a surprising conclusion. More »

#hotflashes This game's called Run Jesus Run/Ten Second Gospel, and it was created by Paolo Pedercini. It's pretty simple: you're Jesus, and you've got ten seconds to clear a short stage, performing whatever the relevant bible passage calls for. More »

#clips The end credits of first-person shooter Portal treated players to the song "Still Alive". Wisconsin's own Gifford Children's Choir did the version of the tune. More »

#iphone In case you haven't already seen it, last year author Seth Grahame-Smith released a great book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This year, there's going to be a video game. More »