Japanese Viewers List This Summer’s Most Popular Anime

It’s so hot! There’s a good way to pass the time: Watch anime. And recently, male and female anime viewers were polled over their favorite shows of this summer. As Zaikei reports, download music site Recochoku polled 578 people between July 25 and August 5, asking them to name which anime of the summer they…

Pierce Brosnan Kind of Sucks At Goldeneye

Here’s Pierce Brosnan, playing Goldeneye with Jimmy Fallon. Brosnan’s not the best at the game, but hey, that’s OK. He can say he used to be James Bond. Brosnan says that prior to this moment, he had only played Goldeneye once before—so you can’t really fault him for not being the best at it. And…

So THAT’S What They’re Saying In Civ IV’s Intro

Vocalists Peter Hollens (a Kotaku regular) and Malukah (you may have heardher work before) have teamed up to deliver one hell of a cover of the intro song for Civilization IV. The song, Baba Yetu, won a Grammya few years back, and its composer Christopher Tin actually helped the pair out with their pronunciation in…

Track: Towers | Artist: Asteroid | Album: II Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

OK, The XCOM Board Game Sounds Awesome

While the idea of a co-op XCOM board game sounded great, the fact it required use of an app turned a lot of people – myself included – off. Well, maybe I was being premature, because it turns out calling it an “app” is doing it a disservice. PC Gamer got some hands-on time with…

Alone In The Dark Is Coming Back, And I Am Afraid

Alone In The Dark is a series that, long ago, meant something. It was the original 3D survival horror game, and the first two titles weren’t just terrifying and a blast to play, but had a gorgeous old-timey art style as well. In later years, though…well, let’s just say time and some publisher misdeeds pissed…

Watch These Fish Play Street Fighter

Sure, we all know that fish love playingPokémon, but did you know that they also throw down in Street Fighter II? Time to watch them fight! Of course they aren’t really fighting. Just like in Fish Plays Pokémon, the buttons are mapped to whatever part of the tank they happen to be swimming. Let’s watch…

​27 Things You Might (Actually) Not Know About The Simpsons

I knew that Michael Jackson was involved in “Do The Bartman,” but I did not know why The Simpsons movie was banned in Burma. These sorts of videos—the things you didn’t know about the thing—are awfully common these days. That said, this one from Buzzfeed Video is pretty good. I didn’t know a lot of…

Maybe A Stone Age Assassin’s Creed Wouldn’t Be So Bad

“Me make new thing!” “Me already have stick.” “No… Pointy stick.” This fan video takes a tongue-in-cheek look at what would happen if Assassin’s Creed rode a wave of DNA science magic all the way back to the Stone Age, and it does not disappoint. I especially like the new blending mechanic. The supposition that…

Oh Cool, Someone Made A Game Out Of My Greatest Fears

You know those singing, dancing robots at children’s entertainment restaurants like Chuck E. Cheese’s? The ones whose eyes are unblinking, bottomless pools of rancid death? Yeah, Five Nights at Freddy’s is a game about watching them. At night. Greaaaaat. I mean, look at this: and this: This one has its fair share of cheap-ish jump…

A Handy Way to Know When All the Games Come Out

Fall is coming, and it’s bringing a ton of games for you to enjoy. But maybe you’re having a hard time tracking when the titles you’re looking forward to are coming out. If that’s the case, then the Play Date interactive game release calendar is for you. Developed by software engineer Chris Gregori, Play Date…

What Bloodborne Will Look Like When You’re Actually Playing It

Bloodborne looks great—like Dark Souls‘ cool trench-coat-wearing uncle—but we’ve only really seen it in “epic” trailers, screenshots, and gifs. Pure, mostly unfiltered gameplay footage sounds like just what the doctor (Dr. Dark Souls PHD, to be clear) ordered. Everyone in this game world has such great hats. And fashion sense in general. It’s like a…