Ten Years Ago Sonic The Hedgehog Was At Its Worst

On November 14, 2006 Sega celebrated the 15th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog with a 3D adventure marred by unfinished ideas, a convoluted storyline, sloppy mechanics and horrendous loading times. And they sealed it with a kiss. Sonic the Hedgehog’s official title was revealed at E3 2005 by series creator Yuji Naka, the last remaining…

Japan Now Has Sushi Burgers

You know, like, hamburgers with sushi in them. Yummy? As pointed out by Otakomu and Entabe, Japanese sushi restaurant Sushiro is offering what it’s calling the “Saba Burger.” “Saba” is mackerel, and the burger is filled with said fish, sushi vinegar rice, and shiso. So yeah, it’s shime-saba nigirizushi, or cured mackerel hand-pressed sushi, slapped…

Watch Dogs 2’s Fake Ubisoft Employees Aren’t Psyched About Assassin’s Creed Leaks

Watch Dogs 2 takes place in a fictionalized version of San Francisco that occasionally cuts pretty close to the real world. For example, there’s a Ubisoft marketing director in the game who is not happy about Assassin’s Creed games being leaked to the press. As you’re exploring Stanford University in the game, you come across a…

Hayao Miyazaki Is Still A Hard-Ass 

Think Hayao Miyazaki has gone soft in his old age? Nope. As our colleagues at io9 reported, Miyazaki is keen to come out of semi-retirement to make one last feature film. Back in 2013, he officially announced that he would no longer make full-length movies. Since then, he’s worked on other projects, including a short…

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Old Elder Scrolls Game Takes Over 60 Hours To Walk Across

For those playing (or re-playing) Skyrim right now and thinking, gee, this sure is a big game world, remember: for 1996’s Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Bethesda weren’t feeling quite so constrained Recalling that it’s one of the biggest game maps ever made, How Big is the Map? decided to do his thing and walk from…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mask-uerading

What can I say? Dishonored 2 has me at a bit of a loss honestly. Watching Corvo don the mask again simply didn’t have the same effect on me as it did in the first game. In fact, it felt kind of…ridiculous? I mean, after murdering that many people and more or less completely changing…

The Week In Games: Who Watches The Watch Dogs?

Only in the glorious and all-too-bizarre world of video games could something be named Watch Dogs, and then eventually get a sequel called Watch Dogs 2 I guess it’s not altogether different from calling your movie Must Love Dogs, a phrase which, out of context, makes no sense and left me feeling more than a…

Did Ubisoft Sneak A New Game Announcement Inside Watch Dogs 2?

In Watch Dogs 2, there’s a mission about stealing a video game trailer from an in-game version of Ubisoft. With WD2 almost out, footage from that trailer has leaked online, and we’re wondering… is it actually a real game? I mean, my first thought watching this was: I would actually play this. Those spaceships, that…

The NES Classic Carries Over Classic Glitches

If you were one of the few people lucky enough to get your hands on the recently released NES Classic, than you’ve probably already been relishing its retro aesthetic and extensive library, even as you curse its short controller cords But what you might have forgotten is that, because the NES Classic simply acts as…

Shaq’s Rocket League Team Wins North American Championship

Yesterday evening, NRG eSports took a best-of-seven series 4-2 against rivals Orbit eSports to become the North American Rocket League champions. The win cemented their bid for top-place seeding at the global championship later this fall in Amsterdam, as well as earned them $13,500 for their talents at using rocket-propelled cars to smash giant inflated…

Sunday Comics: Look Carefully!

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published November 10. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Watch The King Of Catherine Tournament Going On Right Now

Atlus released Catherine over five years ago on Xbox 360 and PS3. The game was never ported to PC or the current generation of consoles, and the 360 version still isn’t backwards compatible on the Xbox One. Despite all of those obstacles, however, there’s still a thriving competitive community around the game. In fact, there’s…

Fans Race To See Who Can Beat NES Classic Games The Fastest 

The Best of NES routinely gets some of the most veteran speedrunners of old NES games together to have them compete against one another and share their love of old games. At the end of October, it hosted a three day marathon, and before that, a back-to-back race through 20 different NES games. Last night,…