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#toys Toy company Sideshow will be releasing this Lara Croft statue later this year, which is unique for the fact that the emphasis is on her face and equipment, not her...equipment. More »

#explainer It's a question Kotaku gets a lot: Why do you refer to Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski as "Dude Huge". There is a reason. This is it. More »

#psn Reader zachstr just took part in a survey for Sony, about the company's PlayStation Network. For some reason, amidst all the gaming stuff, were these questions about fast food. More »

#deadrising2 Thought this was a two-of-a-kind jacket? It's not really. More »

#military The parallels between video games and the 2007 death of over a dozen Iraqis are clear. Not so clear, but just as important, is the potential games have to prevent such tragedies. More »

#xbox360 Tomorrow was supposed to be the day that Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski was to appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to debut the new Gears of... Epic's new game. There's been a change of plans. More »

#ohcanada Late month, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police searched residence in Roberval, Quebec, which culminated in one arrest of one suspect who advertised selling pirated games through the internet and the seizure of hundreds of counterfeit games. But wait, there's more. More »

The Tetris Company and EA Mobile have launched an application to allow you to achieve a goal you didn't even know you had: transformation into a component of a Tetrimino, the basic building block of the Tetris landscape. It's also a new kind of social networking in which gathering enough of your friends together causes them all to disappear.

The new Facebook app, the Human Tetris Project, allows you to submit an image, which is then cropped into a square and used to make a Tetris piece that will appear randomly in games played by other Human Tetris Project players worldwide. You needed a new excuse to put pictures up on Facebook, right? Photo submission is open today, with the game itself available Friday.

#clips Not that there are a ton of music videos about arcade cabinets. There should be, however. More »

#masseffect Since Mass Effect 2's newest piece of downloadable content deals with crime in the art world, we're left wondering who was behind this, surely the galaxy's most well-endowed art heist? More »

Has the 'little-handheld-that-could' finally run out of steam?

#hideokojima A console-less future. It's a topic that rears its head from time to time, and what do you know, today it rears its head again, courtesy of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. More »

I enjoyed the original Lost Planet, but I wouldn't call myself a fan. The third-person shooting was plain-vanilla at best and maddeningly frustrating at worst. The story and characters were forgettable -- really, do you remember any of it? But man, those bugs.

The giant bugs and beasties, known as Akrid, were the reason to play Lost Planet. I'm no scientist, so I can only postulate that somewhere, deep within the gamer's brain, there's a pleasure center dedicated solely to the destruction of glowing, orange weak points.

After playing through the first three "episodes" of Lost Planet 2 -- each split into several chapters -- the game seems to strike most of the same chords as the original. The formula hasn't changed much; the combat is exactly the same; and there's no real story to speak of -- the characters don't even have names!

The only notable changes in the sequel are the additions of 4-player co-op and a few, much larger Akrid. Unfortunately, I can't say whether co-op makes for an engaging gameplay experience or not, as I was unable to test it out. What I can tell you is that co-op is bound to be better than playing alone, because that isn't very fun at all. As for the bigger baddies? I'm not sure bigger is necessarily better.

#mmo Like the console version(s) of Cryptic's superhero MMO Champions Online, Star Trek Online is having a hard time making the leap from PCs to consoles, as if it were caught in some sort of temporal distortion field, Captain. More »

Follow-up to the best-selling Wii karaoke title of 2009 coming soon.

Since Transformers: War for Cybertron takes place before the robots made it to Earth, they all look like weird alien robots in this game instead of weird alien robots that are half truck. That freedom from real-world machinery means leeway in character design, which then translates to character customization.

What we're saying is that you can make your own Transformer in this game.

In this trailer, see the four different classes available in War for Cybertron's multiplayer mode. Even though the "turning into fighter jets" bit is out in favor of turning into space tanks and other fictional vehicles, the other main linchpin of the Transformers franchise is fully intact: robots fighting constantly.

Transformers: War for Cybertron meets the eye (and the shelf) June 22.

Epic Games announcement pushed back to Monday night.

#capcom Monster Hunter Tri, due for a North American release this month, won critical acclaim and commercial success in Japan last year with a strong assist from its visuals. Nintendo's chief even thinks Capcom's outdoing his company, on its own hardware. More »

Vooks has got a theory about this. I am just as baffled as everyone else. It seems some games are locked with no additions and those that are locked have no warning.