A 13-year-old in the U.K. admitted to raping his 8-year-old sister, telling police he had been watching porn on his Xbox 360 when he "decided to try it out." The gut-wrenching case adds fuel to the controversy there over whether and how access to online pornography should be controlled. » 2/05/14 1:03pm 2/05/14 1:03pm

The strict "anti-porn" filtering taking full effect in the U.K. this month might cause problems for some League of Legends users who haven't called their ISPs to opt out of the screening. It seems the patcher is trying to access a couple of URLs with the letters S and E followed by X in them, and that's enough to get a… » 1/20/14 11:00am 1/20/14 11:00am

Friday saw the launch of the PlayStation 4 in the U.K., and The Sun's notorious Page 3 treated blokes there to a new model—one much less curvy than usual. » 11/30/13 11:10am 11/30/13 11:10am

Badmouthing the British video games retailer ShopTo on Twitter might just get your order canceled. The company today apologized for canceling the order of a customer who used profanity in complaining to a friend—not to ShopTo—about the pricing of a PlayStation 4 bundle. » 10/13/13 4:30pm 10/13/13 4:30pm

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Kotaku's Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. » 10/06/13 5:00pm 10/06/13 5:00pm

You probably shouldn't watch this. » 9/12/13 2:30pm 9/12/13 2:30pm

Sony has abandoned its appeal of the fine assessed by the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office for negligence in the infamous 2011 breach of users' information that brought down all of PlayStation Network for more than a month. » 7/13/13 3:30pm 7/13/13 3:30pm

According to MCVUK and Eurogamer, SimCity's UK launch seems "fine" and working "for now". Wait until this weekend... » 3/08/13 6:15am 3/08/13 6:15am

Say you're a game developer in the UK. You're working on a new game about, I don't know, aliens planning a casino heist. You're thinking about setting it in Las Vegas, or maybe Dubai. But wait… wouldn't it be cool if you set the game in jolly ol' England? It would be! And best of all, the British government would give… » 12/11/12 4:30pm 12/11/12 4:30pm

If you've ever wondered what all 795 Japanese Game Boy Advance cartridges would look like lined up, wonder no more. And if you've ever wondered how much all those carts would cost, then do likewise! » 12/01/12 2:00am 12/01/12 2:00am

A counterfeiter who made about £600,000 selling cartridges and discs loaded with pirated Nintendo games will do at least a year of hard time in the U.K. after being sentenced last Friday. » 11/14/12 10:00pm 11/14/12 10:00pm