There's just no two ways about it: the integrated self-timer is easily one of the most amazing technologies to ever be invented. Yeah, we said it. Unfortunatel...

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y1NpU0NwKKk&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[],"width":500,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,...

Sorry if we're the sort of folks to look a gift SD card reader in the mouth, but while we're oh-so-happy that Apple finally opened up application-enabled hardw...

There's not much Shakespeare in video games, no major Hamlet games and only scattered hopes for a Macbeth one. The lead creator of Dante's Inferno thinks the wr...

We don't typically do a lot of coverage of music gear here at Engadget because, by and large, it's an entire world unto itself -- a universe of specialty produ...

Welcome back to the beautiful city of Rapture, the dystopian underworld introduced in 2007's BioShock, a failed utopia all but destroyed by its inhabitants, a w...

Apple's $499 starting iPad price tag is already lower than many people -- and a few competitors -- expected, but apparently Steve and company have left themsel...

Australian developer Halfbrick attempts to stand out in the undead crowd with Age of Zombies, a time-travelling zombie-killing adventure, coming February 25th t...

Platinum Games has made a video game that's really sexy. Before that, one that's really violent. Next: A game that's really... spaceship?Infinite Space is set f...

PC users have been able to take advantage of a range of Wisair-based wireless display adapters for quite a while now, and it looks like Mac users will soon be ...

So, we already assume Amazon's thinking touch for the Kindle, what with that recent Touchco aquisition and word of similar behind-the-screen touch tech being on...

Linux originator Linus Torvalds isn't really big on these "phone" things, but he's finally caved to his Nexus One lust. In a recent blog post he explains how t...

Into the deep we go this week as Bioshock 2 creative director Jordan Thomas joins me and Brian to take your calls live on Wednesday's live Kotaku podcast.Thomas...

Twenty four hours after exposing the 8.9-inch tablet's internals to the world, the guys at ExoPC decided that the Intel Atom-powered slate was ready for its vi...

Gamers need Valentine's Day gifts. If you plan to buy a February 14th present for a gamer - or are a gamer and need to drop some hints — please consult th...

We've always heard to strike while the iron's hot, and that's exactly what Peratech seems to be doing. Just weeks after we heard that the company's pressure-sen...

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rL7VrU6upCA&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[],"width":500,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,...

The iF Design Awards won't officially be handed out until the big ceremony at CeBIT next month, but some of the winners have now already been announced, and th...

With Valentine's Day creeping up on us, ax in hand, we've decided to take a moment here on Kotaku to examine all things Love.What does that mean?It means along...

Funny that this special red edition of the TomTom Ease is actually beating the regular version to market, but hey, it's Valentine's Day. Nothing new here apart...

Xbox 360 owners can begin to explore the mystery behind the world's fastest video game character's need for a car today, as a demo and premium theme for Sonic ...

While we're sitting around complaining about the lack of innovative user interfaces and experiences in modern consumer electronics, a man named Barton Smith is...

Blaster Master Overdrive, Fieldrunners DS, and Princess Tomato shine their love on The Nintendo Download this week, with a new format making it much easier to s...

Using a cellphone to control a robot -- or a pretty sweet helicopter -- isn't exactly a new idea, but there's something about the combination of Android and Le...

I guess dropping a few new songs in the Rock Band store and releasing a free version really boosts sales.Rock Band continues its position as king of the hill f...

If you're a book lover who wants to take your relationship to another level entirely, you're in luck! It looks like Barnes and Noble has finally kicked product...

It's been awhile since we checked in with the player population of the free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms, and Sony Online Entertainment snuck in mo...

LucasArts and TT Games continue to tear apart the Star Wars universe and rebuild it brick-by-brick with LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars.I am continually ama...

. Look familiar? Yep, this is precisely what we expected HTC's rumored Legend to look like based on the renders we'd seen so far. We don't have any informati...

"I've always been a non-violent person," Tim Jones told me last week as we chatted in a subterranean nightclub in Manhattan. He's a "peace and love" kind of guy...

We already caught a fair amount of play time with Inbrics' Android-based M1 at CES, but it looks as if the company is fixing to "officially" reveal it next wee...

It's been something like five years that we've been eagerly waiting for InPhase to finally release that revolutionary holographic storage solution, and while th...

One hundred million copies sold, 36 magazine covers and 100 game critic awards: The Sims franchise continues to thrive ten years after its launch, basking in th...

Okay, so Google has this expansive online translation service, which we all know, use, and sometimes even love. Google also has its own branded phone, with a vo...

Comment here about video games. Sorry, there's still no voice-acting here in TAY. Text-only.Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ.

Corsair has kept quiet on the SSD front here recently, but it looks as if it's about to ruffle a few feathers with two new laptop-centric drives. Fudzilla has ...

To: CrecenteFrom: BashcraftSorry, folks! Eight minutes late, actually. Didn't mean to keep you waiting. What happens when a night note is late?What you missed l...

Canon's just gone and busted out four new cameras in its point and shoot PowerShot line. Up first the PowerShot Sx210 IS boasts a 14.1 megapixel sensor, a 28m...

We'd heard inklings, but Canon's brand new Rebel T2i (also known as the EOS 550D outside the US) is newly official and oh-so-desirable. The camera takes quite ...

. We've just gotten the inside line on the next Droid update that's making the rounds through Verizon's testing department from one of our trusted sources, and...

Peter Molyneux, the guy who designs those Fable games and runs Microsoft's European studios, sees Project Natal as more than just another motion peripheral.For...

. Another day, another Snapdragon handset. It's kind of fun to consider a phone with a thousand megahertz processor common these days, isn't it? We already kn...

Mod DB, the central hub for all things mod-related on the PC, released over the weekend their editors' and readers' picks for the best mods of 2009.You may have...

The trusty old desktop rarely gets the love it deserves these days. Losing gamers to consoles and casual users to laptops, it's left only with a loyal band of ...

Last Friday, Nippon Ichi Software, the developer behind the Disgaea series, announced its financial earnings. They were not good.As Kotaku previously reported,...

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uCG_AbI1ctU&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[],"width":500,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,...

Remember Samsung's new 3.3-inch AMOLED with embedded touch-controls? If not then you'd better go back and brush up on your display tech because the first Samsu...

Screw focus groups. Or corporate brainstorming. Shigeru Miyamoto gets many of his game ideas from real life.Take The Legend of Zelda, which was inspired by Miy...

While the list of tweaks is absurdly small in the latest iPhone OS update, we know that some of you simply have to run the latest and greatest OS at all times r...

Just Dance ahead of Mass Effect 2? Sort it out, Britain. I don't care if you have to hit the streets shouting, placards in hand, you sort this out.Chart regular...

After three years of spent treasure, Sharp and Samsung have finally settled their LCD patent fight. Although the terms of the agreement won't be made public, a...

The past nine months have been rough for many Japanese game companies. But those companies didn't release Dragon Quest IX and Final Fantasy XIII.Oh, and Square...

BenQ is on the warpath today, updating its V series and crying from the mountaintops about unbeatable slimness and contrast ratios. We could care less about th...

Machinarium isn't just a great game, it's got one hell of a soundtrack, which although already available digitally and on CD, can soon be purchased on something...

Expensive, we bet. As seen on Xbox LIVE by Killer_Walrus.

While it doesn't seem to be available to order yet, ASUS' first Pine Trail-equipped nettop is close enough to release that the Taiwanese manufacturer has let s...

Gran Turismo developers Polyphony Digital have released a tally of lifetime sales figures for the series, useful not only for armchair statisticians, but also t...

Maybe you like Mass Effect 2. Maybe you like Swedish popstar Robyn. She likes Mass Effect 2, but that doesn't mean she likes you. Yes, two weeks of Mass Effect...

Happened upon the Taipei Game Show? No? Us neither, but Nicholas Khoo of 9eekonomics was, and we're glad he made it. Spotted at the event was Gigabyte's latest...

While chewing over people's various endings for Mass Effect 2 the other day, one thing that struck me was how many different romantic options you guys had been ...

On February 7, the winter Wonder Festival 2010 was held at Chiba's Makuhari Messe, home of the Tokyo Game Show. The event focuses primarily on figures and figur...

Before you get too excited about the bandwidth number, you should know that Sony's latest wireless innovation works at a range of up to 14 millimeters. So no, ...

If there's one thing this trailer for the upcoming Prince of Persia movie shows, it's that maybe video game adaptations haven't sucked because they had the wron...

Over the weekend, Pokémon morning variety show Pokémon showed the outline of the upcoming Pokemon series — that is, the "entirely new" seri...

Christmas isn't coming early, but at least you're getting a heads up. GM car dealers got their annual model guide, and what has our interests piqued here is th...

. We weren't sure exactly what Beyonce, David Goes to the Dentist and Chocolate Rain all had in common, but VIZIO squeezed them all into its Super Bowl ad. S...

Just in case you missed the Devour's televised debut in the third quarter of the Super Bowl, Motorola and the internet at large have gone ahead and posted it o...

If you believe WiMAX is the future, but just can't deal with that USB appendage ruining the sleek looks of your netbook, fret not. Dell's Mini 10 has dropped b...

To: Luke From: OwenWhat the headline said. Though I will add that Jim McMahon's appearance in the Super Bowl Shuffle spoof ad for Boost Mobile got the first big...

Modern Warfare 2's "Care Package" patch already has released for PS3 and PC; via Twitter, Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling says it was submitted o...

I've never been a fan of the football. But I still watch the Super Bowl every year. Why? The commercials.If you're like me, than feel free to hang out in here a...

EA Sports is mighty proud that its Madden NFL simulation has correctly predicted the Super Bowl winner all but one time since it's run the promotion. But how di...

This might be the best entry yet in Google's Nexus One video series. Today's double feature is marked by the testing and manufacturing of the device, and while...

The wait is over for BioShock 2. The viral marketing is over for Dante's Inferno. 2010 gets its first big head-to-head multiplatform release date. Which one (if...

Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What's better? A list of those. Here's a roundup of the rundowns out...

GameStop posted an image of the rear cover for the Final Fantasy XIII case for Xbox 360, and "game content download" is one of the highlighted features. Is this...

The verdict's still out on whether or not it'll live up to its namesake, but the HTC Incredible is now officially out in the wild and surfing on Verizon's freq...

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel i...

What do three bloggers huddled around microphones in frigid locales across the country have on 22 of America's beefiest athletes gathered on the field in Miami...

Hey, now, this is some great news, right? The trouble-plagued Large Hadron Collider looks to be doing a bang up job in some of its primary tasks. After breakin...