Stephen Totilo

How Much All Of Today’s Smash Bros. DLC Costs

Nintendo just released a ton of mostly paid downloadable content for Smash Bros. on Wii U and 3DS. Here’s what it’ll cost you, if you’re enticed. Two new characters on their own: New Mii Fighter costumes from Virtua Fighter, Animal Crossing, Mega Man and Splatoon: A classic stage from the original game (two are more…

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One Year Later, Did Sony (And Friends) Keep Their E3 2014 Promises?

Contrary to popular rumor, Sony’s 2014 E3 press conference is not still going on. It has ended, but boy was it epic. For nearly two hours last June, Sony and friends laid out the future of PlayStation. Let’s see what came to pass. Spoiler: They start strong and end on a big whiff. There’s so…

One Year Later, Did Microsoft (And Friends) Keep Their E3 2014 Promises?

The gaming year’s biggest planned spectacle, E3, happens next week, which means that it’s time for us at Kotaku to once again check what the big console makers promised at E3 a year ago. Let’s see how Microsoft did. The Xbox maker had a simultaneously humble and aspirational press conference last June. They thanked fans…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

The official announcement of Fallout 4 was a huge deal for millions of readers last week, spiking traffic to heights we hadn’t seen since January. But were our Fallout stories my favorite Kotaku pieces of last week? Nope. They were good, mind you. Our initial announcement ones were fine, pretty much by-the-numbers with the added…

YouTube’s Top 10 ‘Trending’ Games For May

Courtesy of YouTube, we’ve got their list of the hottest games on the video giant for the month of May. Was there any doubt which game would win May? As explained in our post for the top 10 last month, YouTube determines “trending” status through a combination of number of video uploads and watchtime. Here’s…

YouTube’s big gaming push continues. The video giant will be running more than a dozen hours of live E3 coverage, anchored by friend-of-Kotaku Geoff Keighley, who’d formerly been doing that kind of thing on Spike TV. TV’s loss is streaming video’s gain. The way of the world! Read about YouTube’s ambitious E3 plans

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

I skipped last week—and please don’t mention how late it is this week—but I’ve got my five favorite Kotaku stories of the past week all lined up for praise. Shall we? Kotaku Asks: An Anonymous Video Game Tester | I’m a fan of the Friday Kotaku Asks interview series that Jason has been curating. Mr./Ms.…

Far Cry 4 Is My Favorite 2014 Game Of 2015

I nearly gave up on Far Cry 4. I recently recovered from that mistake. Late last fall, faced with a stack of games to play, I gave Far Cry 4 just a couple of hours to impress me. My quick 2014 take: it’s too similar to the wonderful Far Cry 3, the tropical game about…

Some Ideas For FIFA 16‘s Box Art

The corruption scandal rocking FIFA since last night has produced plenty of jokes at the expense of the world’s leading football/soccer organization. It also produced some unlikely cover ideas for this year’s edition of the FIFA video game, too. Hard to see EA picking any of these, though. Above, via the Facebook page for Grifone…

YouTube’s Top 10 ‘Trending’ Games Last Month

The people at YouTube have given us a list of their top 10 trending games from April 2015—that is, the games that saw the best improvements in number of videos uploaded and increase in watchtime. Some are upcoming games. You won’t guess the last one. Here’s the “trending” top 10 for April: Mortal Kombat X…

Here Is A Thing That Happens In Nintendo’s Zombie Game

This is a Nintendo Mii killing zombies by… making them do math in school. The deadliest maneuver! The dreaded “cram session” is just one of the terrific special attacks in Battleground Z, Nintendo’s zombie game. You knew that Nintendo has a zombie game, right? It’s published by Nintendo, developed by Good-Feel (Wario Land: Shake It,…

Watch Us Play The Wii U’s New 2D RTS, Swords & Soldiers II

The first Swords & Soldiers, released nearly six years ago, was a hidden Wii gem. The new one, released today for Wii U? More of the same in all the best ways. I captured my playthrough of one of the game’s levels so you can see for yourself. What you’ll see is a colorful, briskly…