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“We are also incredibly excited to be bringing GTAV to the PC, but the game requires a little more development time in order to ensure that it is as amazing and polished as possible.” Rockstar Games on why the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V isn’t arriving until January 27

Diablo III’s Endgame Dungeons Can Be Disappointingly Empty

Greater Rifts in Diablo III are unforgiving sometimes—not because they’re hard, but because you have 15 minutes to kill a huge amount of monsters, even if the dungeon doesn’t actually have that many of them. YouTuber avtorouc entered one of these dungeons where the monster density was, well, quite low. He was lucky it wasn’t…

Nintendo Is Sorry for Accidentally Banning Smash Bros. Players

Over the weekend, some Smash Bros. 3DS players complained of being banned temporarily from online play. They weren’t sure why. In an official release, Nintendo announced today that there was a “lethal move” spawned by Peach using her “pulling turnips” move right at the start of online play. The problem is that in “For Glory”…

Team Acer’s MMA was the winner of this weekend’s Starcraft II tournament at DreamHack Moscow and while it’s a great achievement, there’s something strange about his trophy… Congrats on your victory MMA and don’t worry about the typo. Misprints always worth more! via MMA’s Twitter To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Console Multiplayer is Changing

Playing together is deeply embedded in video game culture. Long before Xbox Live, before the days of Unreal Tournament and Quake, arcades were filled with friends jostling to get further, score higher and win bigger. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Even those playing solo did so with the high score of a stranger…

Princess Peach’s Underwear Is Protected from Your Gaze

Smash Bros. fans might recall that, for whatever reason, Super Smash Bros. Brawl offered a detailed look at Princess Peach’s underpants. That doesn’t appear true for the newly released 3DS game. Note: This article has content some readers might find objectionable. As numerous gamers in Japan have pointed out on Japanese forum 2ch, it doesn’t…

Iconic Chinese Cartoon Cat Is Back!

Back in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, before internet streaming and before anime, Chinese youth had a different form of animated hero; they had The Black Cat Detective. And now, he will be reborn in a new mobile game. The top image, published on Sina Games, shows the new “updated” look of the Black Cat…

The Most Hardcore Xbox One Customer in South Korea

There is one man in South Korea who wants an Xbox One more than anyone else. But right now, he’s standing in line for the console—a line of one person. He’s got about a week to go before the console is released in South Korea. But can me make it? As mentioned on Ruliweb (via…

Japanese Newspaper Admits Fabricating a Nintendo Interview

One of Japan’s largest newspapers, The Asahi Shimbun, admitted that it made up an interview two years ago with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. On Sunday, Asahi stated that it had asked Iwata for an interview, but the request was turned down. The paper said it planned to use quotes from Nintendo’s Iwata Asks webpage, which…

Nintendo Fans, Given The Chance To Post Porn, Crack Jokes Instead

Something went wrong today with the Mario & Luigi section of Nintendo’s Miiverse community, allowing users to post any kind of image (so long as they could view it on the Wii U’s web browser), not just a screenshot of the game they’re playing. Yet given the opportunity to post anything, the fans there –…

The Iron Giant “Cosplay” Is Safe For Small Towns

Sure, on a technicality you could say this more puppetry than cosplay. But screw technicalities.