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[Weekend Destructainment is a collection of funny videos brought together from all across the Internet to bring you entertainment on these slow and boring weekends.] The above video is called "We are Bomber-MEEEEEN!!" and is by Takahashi Meijin. It makes no ...

With Indie Nation now all but defunct, I have to apologize: I haven't been pimping out great indie games as frequently as I used to. While games like Machinarium, Canabalt, Gridrunner Revolution and AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAA!!!: A Reckless Disregard for Gravity should already ...

There are only two ways someone could have thought up the design behind the Super Mario games. Either with a ton of drugs or a really bad dream. As today's Woot shirt shows us, the idea behind the Mario games ...

One would think that the only thing better than one really hot woman with a thong pulled so far up her ass it's practically cutting her in half would be two really hot women with thongs pulled so far up ...

If you missed the first Supreme Commander it was a pretty solid RTS that looked amazing and had some very unique features to it. Sadly, it was also a computer destroyer. Enter the the sequel. Gas Powered Games has cut ...

About twenty minutes ago, the headline to this post would have been something along the lines of, "whomever made Flood the Chamber can go f*ck himself and die because he's a bad person and he caused me emotional pain," but ...

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A 30-year-old man suspected of jacking an SUV was arrested at his home recently, and under the most ironic circumstances you could imagine. When police arrived at his home for stealing cars in real life, he was stealing cars in ...

Valve has confirmed that some handy changes are coming to Left 4 Dead 2's Versus mode, mostly giving a little boost to those of the Infected persuasion. Infected teams who find themselves lacking a few players will no longer have ...

Isn't that a cool logo? I like all that squiggly stuff behind the text, and there are some eyeballs behind there that kinda remind me of Patapon, which also has a nice logo. Anyway, Viral Survival's coming to WiiWare, and is ...

Final Fantasy character designer Tetsuya Nomura has told fans not to look forward to a Final Fantasy VII remake any time in the near future, but stated instead that main character Cloud Strife has plenty of cameos and whoring left ...

Perhaps in anticipation of the (upcoming?) release of Samurai Basara: Samurai Heroes, for the PlayStation 3 and, oddly enough the Wii, or Battle Heroes, a PSP game in the same vein, Kaiyodo is producing a Power Shop set of Revoltech ...

I don't know much about Nier except that it's got a hermaphroditic character that cusses like a sailor and that Square Enix is doing something silly with its distribution. It's being released as two different games in Japan: Nier: Gestalt ...

Well. I badly underestimated the participation and interest in a Kotaku photoshopping contest, and as such, we need to make a few changes to accommodate everyone in the future. But first, a roundup of submissions from our Heavy Rain debut. We ...

Once again, The Onion cuts to the chase: Lane Kiffin, the new football coach at Southern California is rumored* to have been wooed away from the job by the chance of a lifetime: Working at a GameStop.(* - By "rumored" ...

2K Sports' baseball franchise, maybe more than any other sports title, will have this year's title judged against and compared to last year's offering, and not for its good qualities. It's hard to tell whether last year's MLB 2K9 - one ...

Uber Entertainment probably can't put it that way - ESPN has a legal division after all - but I can. Uber's sent along three exclusive screens of the classes in its upcoming class-based shooter Monday Night Combat, for Xbox Live ...

Maybe you noticed Vancouver 2010, the official title for the Winter Olympics, released last week. But more than VIII Olympiads since the Activision Decathlon and the Epyx Summer Games, the Olympics still have no real toehold in the sports genre.There ...

Much like it did for Halo 3, Bungie is running a contest to get a fan-designed unit emblem in the game. The contest opened yesterday and will run through Feb. 5.Bungie's rules are pretty straightforward: They want a two-color emblem ...

Me no speakum hackese, but it sounds like the guy who gave us the iPhone jailbreak claims to have finally hacked the PlayStation 3.Without specifying how (and explaining it to me would be like reading Siddhartha to a dog, in ...

Not too many jaw-dropping deals, as we seem to have cleared not only the Christmas sales period, but also the post-Christmas clearance window. But with the first big wave of new releases coming up, some new values can be found.Hardware • ...

BioWare's Casey Hudson, the project director for Mass Effect 2, acknowledged a "tremendous amount of interest" from Hollywood in a Mass Effect film but vows such a movie, if done, will be done right or not at all."Obviously we have ...

This week we hashed out our arguments for 2009's Game of the Year and arrived at a semi-consensus on yours. A slew of other awards conferred by Kotaku staff also officially closed out the previous year in video games.The week ...

It's easy for Washington to dole out the free hits when he doesn't have to do any of the rowing. Are we there yet? Not yet. Please Talk Amongst Yourselves in this open thread as we get the weekend ready.Confused ...

Two welcome additions are coming to the Xbox 360 and PC versions of Left 4 Dead 2, according to Valve, with the addition of Infected bots in Versus modes and the removal of the dreaded multiplayer auto spawn. Valve's "L4D Team" ...

As you'd expect, upcoming Hollywood film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - based loosely on the game of the same name - will have merchandising tie-ins. Like action figures. These are those action figures. Due out in May, there'll ...

Immediately after I file this I'll be engaged in an epic beer pong duel, but we hit the ball with paddles, like a man. Not like all you "Beirut" playing weenises who have to throw it in the cup.We also ...

Most game ideas on Earth are the result of collaborations. Many men and women working together to forge games out of a sea of ideas. Except, that is, for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. That's pretty much all Hideo Kojima. "Well ...

Firing from cover was a staple of Red Dead Revolver, so we can expect to see plenty more of it, and of situations requiring it, in the sequel Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar's released four new screens showcasing the feature. Exclusive New ...

The Sims 3 wasn't just the biggest-selling game at US retail stores for 2009. It was also, according to publisher Electronic Arts, the biggest-selling PC game in the world. Gathering data from North America and Europe, along with "internal EA estimates", ...

A life-size Lancer replica and an original painting from Bungie are among items IGN will auction next week in a 12-hour "webathon" to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti.The fund raiser will be held beginning at noon U.S. Eastern/9 ...

Not having played every game on every platform, I was hesitant to issue genre/platform awards for my "Best Of" individual editor picks. Instead, I opted for one aspect of games that rarely gets award-level attention—costume and character design. For my picks, ...

Guess what game Michael Ray Ekes was playing when the fuzz came to arrest him for stealing a car. Hint: It wasn't "Possession of Burglary Tools with Intent to Use," although he was also wanted for that.The Tampa Tribune had ...

The recently revealed New York City setting for Crysis 2 was met with just a touch of disappointment. "What of the open environments?!" commenters cried. Well, if Crysis 2 uses this tech, I don't think openness will be an ...