I have wanted to play Yakuza forever, and I’ll have no excuse next month, as Yakuza 4 is part of February’s PlayStation Plus lineup. Transistor and Apotheon are for PS4, while Yakuza 3 and Thief are for anyone still booting up PS3s. Rogue Legacy is for every platform, and Kick & Fennick is Vita-only.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U just got a new update that makes 15 more stages available in 8-player form. As is often the case when Nintendo updates stuff, other, bigger changes might have just snuck their way into Smash as well. If you see anything interesting, let us know! Full stage list below. The…

Finally, A GTA V Stunt Montage With Birds

All the jets are grounded. GTA V‘s birds are here to show how to pull tricks off properly. Stunt montages with bikes and jets have always been popular, so it was just a matter of time before someone made a parody focusing on a recently added feature: flying as birds. 8-Bit Bastard visits all the…

New Lego SHIELD Helicarrier Is Gigantic, As It Should Be

It’s going to take 2,996 Lego bricks to make this miniature version of the headquarters of the Marvel Universe’s superspy agency. Hulk better not smash. Revealed today, the Lego SHIELD helicarrier will be one of the toy company’s biggest models when it comes out this March. For $349, the Helicarrier comes with Hawkeye, NIck Fury,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: One Less Resident • Game of the Week—Not Quite D&D, but Sort Of [Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance] • The Eccentric Family: The Ani-TAY Review • This is How Much We 3D • Dying Light Impressions • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 5 TAY…

We’re Getting Jurassic World And Avengers LEGO Games

There might already be a million LEGO games, but they’re not going anywhere, as evidenced by the several new brand-new ones announced this morning. Most importantly, obviously, is the confirmation of LEGO Jurassic World, which will incorporate elements from all the Jurassic Park films. There’s something called LEGO Avengers, too, I guess. Folks probably want…

10 Reasons Why Link From Zelda is Actually Kind of a Dick

Link, the green-capped hero from The Legend of Zelda series, is one of gaming’s most enduring, best loved, and iconic creations. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Fans have gladly followed the stoic elven hero throughout the years on his journeys across the land of Hyrule from their humble 8-bit beginnings, to save the…

Compared to the Original, Dragon’s Dogma Online Will Be a Huge Game

Capcom will be releasing a new online open world action RPG this year based on its 2012 release, Dragon’s Dogma Announced in this week’s Weekly Famitsu, Dragon’s Dogma Online is made to essentially be the original Dragon’s Dogma, but fully online. The game was initially developed in parallel to the expansion, Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen,…

Starbound’s big Winter Update, titled Upbeat Giraffe, went live on Steam overnight. Head over here for the full list of changes and additions, which is rather long—understandable, considering they worked on this patch for nearly a year.

I am Bread is Coming to iOS… Somehow

No idea how this is going to work but Bossa has announced an iOS version of I am Bread. Also re-announced are the new garage level and a new mode, Cheesehunt, staring a crispbread. They’ll apparently definitely be out this Friday, after missing a release last week. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK There’s…

These Aren’t School Test Doodles. They’re Art. 

Exam papers aren’t only for test taking. In South Korea, they’re for drawing. Previously, Kotaku has covered interesting schoolbook doodles (here, here, here, and, um, here). Some of the tests are finished and scored. Some are blank, save for the added illustrations. In Korean, these are called “test examination scribbles” (시험지낙서). That’s not exactly an…

Get Your Ass To Mars (And Maybe Play This Game)

Hey, it’s Soren Johnson, of Civ III & IV fame! And now he and his team are making a new strategy game, called Offworld Trading Company, which is a very literal title for a game that’s about trading on a world that is not this one. It looks pretty cool! Like an RTS, only instead…

Old Video Game Press Releases Were Cool

These days, press releases are awful things. Full of subject lines like MEDIA ALERT, obnoxious jargon and endless fine print. Back in 1990, things were a lot simpler. This is a photoof a press release for Rubicon, a shooter released for the Atari ST, Amiga and Commodore 64. It’s set in the distant future of…

Nintendo’s Kick-Ass 1966 Board Game

Before they made video games, Nintendo made loads of other sweet stuff. One of the sweetest was this Ultraman board game, which has art that looks as awesome today as it did in 1966. As you can see in the gallery on Before Mario, the game — released using the old “Nintendo Game” logo —…