This Week In The Business: Casually Pathetic

QUOTE | “It’s kind of a passive attitude they’re taking, and to me it’s kind of a pathetic thing.” – Legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto explaining why Nintendo isn’t going to try to make games specifically for a casual audience like they used to on the Wii Elsewhere in the business of video games this…

Mad Science Cat Game On Hold For Mobile Super Meat Boy

You might remember that Team Meat, two-man studio behind uber-tough platformer Super Meat Boy, was working on a mad science cat breeding sim, Mew-Genics. Moral of the story? Cats are gross, but awwww kitty! Now, though, it’s on hold in favor of a new Meat Boy game—for phones (and Steam). The new game is called…

Peggle 2 No Longer Xbox Exclusive, Coming To PlayStation 4

Peggle 2, PopCap’s previously Microsoft-exclusive black hole time vortex of sheer addiction, is finally coming to PlayStation 4. PopCap confirmed the news on its Twitter account. The game will be out on October 14th. The EA published ball-based rainbow explosion classical music wonderment simulator originally launched on Xbox One late last year. It came to…

​How Mortal Kombat Is Getting More Complex

The next Mortal Kombat is going deep. Not just in the ‘show you highly detailed internal organs’ kind of way, either. The newly announced Variations feature and other tweaks in Mortal Kombat X are going to give players other layers of options for how they beat each other up. As previously detailed, players will be…

The Most Realistic Fighting Game, In A Manner Of Speaking

I believe that Double Fine’s latest venture into indie publishing, Gang Beasts, is one of the most realistic depictions of combat ever seen in a game. This is because 90 percent of fights are sloppy, awkward affairs where all involved fall down and give each other angry hugs. Gang Beasts is a local multiplayer game…

Track: Industrial Revolution | Artist: Immortal Technique | Album: Revolutionary Vol. 2 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

What We Know About The New 3DS So Far

Nintendo woke us all up early this morning with a fresh batch of information about a new and improved 3DS mobile console it’s making. Most of this was geared towards its Japanese audience, however, so let’s break down the relevant parts of the news for gamers outside the company’s home country. Here are the main…

If Christopher Nolan Directed Pixar’s The Incredibles

The Incredibles is already a dark movie at points — It deals with ideas of individuality and conformity, even if it is in a wacky cartoon shell. I’m just glad The Dark Knight director Chris Nolan didn’t get his hands on it. In the video above, Youtuber Bobby Burns uses the deranged rantings of villain…

New Saints Row Expansion And New-Gen Port Coming in January

As part of its big PAX panel Volition just announced a new Saints Row. It’s called Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, and it’ll be out on January 27th. It’s a standalone expansion pack for Saints Row IV in which you play as the ever… colorful Johnny Gat or the booksmart yet utterly badass Kinzie—or…

State Of Decay Coming To Xbox One Next Year

State of Decay, Microsoft’s entrant into the ever-growing field of open-world zombie games, is coming to the Xbox One next year, the company just announced. The game is already available for the Xbox 360 and PC. But the Xbox Wire post assures zombie-curious gamers that the new version is the definitive edition of the game:…