Is your apartment too small to hold all of your Pokémon? Don’t worry! You can buy more space soon! On December 27, Nintendo will launch the Pokémon Bank, a cloud-based storage system that can be used to hold Pokémon in the digital world for eternity—or at least until the servers all collapse. There will be…
Valve’s first Steam Machine—the one they’ll be sending out to 300 beta users later this year—will be a super-high-end machine. And the specs are crazy impressive. This afternoon, Valve spilled a whole bunch of details on the first-ever Steam Machine, which the company officially announced last week. This one is a high-end, totally upgradeable box…
Maybe one day, when the rapture comes, every single Japanese game will be instantly translated and localized for English-speaking audiences, and then they will be transmitted into our brains so we can experience them without moving from our fluffy heaven cloud-couches. One day. Today, we are stuck with publishers, and we can do nothing but…
There are Marios, and there are Zeldas, and then there are the little games for 3DS and Wii U—the indies that might not sell systems, but will help bolster libraries and offer up experiences you can’t get elsewhere. Nintendo today released a list of all the indie games they’ll be showing off at the IndieCade…
Today’s Halloween-themed update to The Simpsons: Tapped Out has a new loading screen filled with some excellent gags, including a special shout-out to console gaming. If you can’t read the screenshot up there, here’s a higher-res version (click expand): Particularly poignant when you consider how many kazillions of dollars Simpsons: Tapped Out is bringing in…
It’s fascinating, picking up The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker for the first time. You get something like culture shock—holy crap, everything’s so bright! The faces are so goofy. Is that really what Link’s grandma looks like? And then… after 10 or 15 minutes, you start to get it. Ah, yes. Here’s why this is…
Last night’s South Park took Randy Marsh and the rest of the town’s parents to the blocky world of Minecraft, the unavoidable indie sensation that played a key role in the plot. That meant we got to watch Randy Marsh learn something new, which is always a treat, especially when he’s learning about something as…
No objections here: Capcom’s got a great blog post today about the localization process behind Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies. “…we’ve labeled him a samurai instead of a rōnin (which are technically a subset of samurai). This deliberate choice was made because samurai are simply more easily recognizable and readily understood by a Western audience than…
Deus Ex is going next-gen, and although the next game in Eidos’s popular sci-fi series won’t be here for a while, at least we’ve got some concept art. You can see a 16:9 version above, or the whole thing in high resolution right here “Deus Ex is coming to next-gen,” writes Eidos Montreal boss David…
Best-selling author Tom Clancy, best known in the video game world for his work on big franchises like Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon, has passed away. The New York Times confirms that Clancy died in a hospital last night. He was 66. In 1996, Clancy helped found a video game development studio called Red Storm…
If you regularly frequent Reddit, or NeoGAF, or Kotaku‘s tips inbox, you’ve probably seen people talking about Half-Life 3 today. Don’t get too excited—Valve’s next shooter hasn’t been announced yet. But there are a lot of rumors floating around. It started yesterday, when a user on the gaming message board NeoGAF discovered that Valve had…
Did you forget that Rune Factory 4 is out today? I feel like you forgot. Don’t stress out too much, though: that’s what Kotaku is here for. Rune Factory 4, a 3DS game that is out today, is part RPG, part dating game, part life sim. The shtick is that you, the newly-appointed prince/princess of…
Yes, worse than horse armor. Yes, this is real. Yes, it’s an Amazon pre-order bonus Sonic: Lost World comes out on October 29 for 3DS and Wii U. Hopefully it’s better than its DLC. Hopefully all those risk-taking Sonic players enjoy it. UPDATE: For more elaboration on why I think this is so heinous, check…
Yes, Half-Life 3 was trademarked in Europe over the weekend, but don’t get too excited: trademarks come and go all the time, and this might not mean a thing. We’ve reached out to Valve to see if they’ve got anything to say, but we’re not getting our hopes up.
Here’s the latest trailer for Activision’s upcoming MMO/shooter, Destiny. This one’s set on the moon, and is designed to introduce us to one of the game’s enemy races, “The Hive.” Apparently the moon is going to be a centerpiece for Destiny—the shtick is that you play as a “Guardian” of the Earth, set out to…
If you’re into JRPGs, here’s a game to keep an eye on: Cosmic Star Heroine, a new sci-fi indie from the folks behind Cthulhu Saves The World and the last two Penny Arcade RPGs. Those folks, Zeboyd Games, have just launched a Kickstarter for their newest project, which they describe as a turn-based sci-fi RPG…
This is Bravely Default, a role-playing game for 3DS that will be out for North America in the first quarter of 2014. It’s Final Fantasy with a different name. Check out a new trailer above.
No linear dungeon progression in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds—instead of getting items as you go through the world, you’ll be able to buy items in one big shop and traverse between dungeons in an order of your choice, according to Nintendo. Video above. Bizarre, right? And fascinating. I can’t wait to…
Not exactly a surprise, but nice to know nonetheless: Sega’s blue hedgehog will return in the next Smash Bros. game, which comes out next year for 3DS and Wii U. Video above. For more on the next entry in Nintendo’s mascot fighting series, check out my in-depth interview with designer Masahiro Sakurai
The next Donkey Kong Country game has been pushed back to February of 2014, Nintendo just announced. It was previously slated for this December.
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