Oh No, Square Enix

DARGON Quest IV. Not a good sign. Not a good sign at all. Dargon Quest IV is pretty good, BTW, and I imagine it’ll be worth checking out when it does hit iTunes in North America, which should be soon. (It launched in New Zealand today.) Hopefully Dargon Quest VII 3DS comes to the U.S.…

“Bonar” And Other Embarrassing Soccer Uniform Sponsors

From 1989 to 1991, Scottish soccer team St. Johnstone was sponsored by a textile company called Bonar. Here are more ill-advised soccer uniform sponsors: You can see more at Uni Watch You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Warlords of Draenor is shaping up to be one giant World of Warcraft nostalgia trip. If the new Upper Blackrock Spire didn’t hit you hard, the revamped Nagrand, one of the fan-favorite zones of the BC era, will. These preview shots look really cool—hopefully the zone will still be exciting without the floating rocks. Warlords…

A Guide To China’s Biggest Game Convention… Through Selfies

Throughout the years, China Joy has been labeled various names by both the foreign and Chinese press. Some have called it a show about busts, others have called it a giant sea of people. Personally, I call China Joy fun! Now, bear with me, China Joy isn’t exactly fun. There isn’t a lot of news…

Eagerly Anticipated Anime Spawns Amusing Water Meme

Kantai Collection, which Kotaku first covered in June 2013, is getting an anime series next year. And the trailer for it has already spawned an amusing meme. Let’s have a look. In one part of the anime trailer (which you can see below), the character Akagi glides across the face of the water, firing an…

This Is Why You Don’t Give an Axe to Little Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood is going to be the protagonist of her very own “cinematic” action platformer called Woolfe – The Red Hood Diaries. This Red Riding Hood is vengeful, angry, and wields an axe. In this case, “cinematic” basically means that the game looks great: It’s like the evil, bloodthirstier twin of Trine, with a…

In Japan, Buy an $18,000 Evangelion Statue from 7-Eleven

Attention Neon Genesis Evangelion fans! Make that, Eva fans with lots and lots of money to spend. 7-Eleven if offering a limited edition statue for a large amount of money. According to 7-Eleven, the Evangelion Unit-01 statue measures around two meters tall and is priced at 1.836 million yen (or US$17,892). It’s limited to 25…

Alleged Toy Thief Threatened with Internet Shame

Besides anime and manga, retail chain Mandarake also specializes in retro toys. One of the rarest was apparently stolen earlier this week. Mandarake says it captured the alleged thief on a security camera and now it wants the toy back. Or else. The missing toy in question is a Tetsujin tin wind-up toy made by…

How Metal Gear Solid: Rising Became Revengeance

This video details how the game initially teased, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, eventually turned into Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance. Along the way, the game lost features like wall-running, abandoned the stealth concept, and settled on a dramatically different story: Via VG247 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming…

What Dune Should Look Like

Mikhail Borulko is a freelance artist based in Russia. This Dune image has stopped me dead in my tracks. I can’t stop looking at it. And wishing it was the poster for a 70s psych rock concept album. You can see more of Mikhail’s work at his DeviantArtand ArtStationpages. To see the larger pics in…

Mario Kart 8’s DLC Is So Gross

That weird Mercedes DLC for Mario Kart 8 is out at the end of the month. And yeah, it’s not pretty. We initially thoughtthere was going to be one real car made available for the game (for free, since this is sponsored content), but there are actually three. Which gives Nintendo/Mercedes enough cars to make…