​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…

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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:…

Wolfenstein, The Walking Dead, Fargo, PS4 Bundle [Deals]

Whatever your console you can grab the surprisingly good Wolfenstein: The New Order on the cheap today, $40 or less.[Wolfenstein: The New Order] The Walking Dead Season 4 Limited Edition is down to $80 today, its lowest price so far. If you missed the Season 3 Limited Edition, that’s also available today for a low…

Watch Us Play Infamous: First Light

Well, Kirk wasn’t a fan in his Infamous: First Light review so let’s play the opening half hour and see what happens. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK, bringing you original reporting, game culture and humour with a U from the British isles. Follow them on @Kotaku_UK

Don’t Expect The New 3DS Outside of Japan This Year

News of a shiny new 3DS upgrade--along with a Xenoblade port—came as a pleasant surprise to many Nintendo fans this morning, but don’t expect to see the New 3DS in North America or Europe this holiday. In an English press release on their website today, Nintendo confirmed that yes, the New 3DS will likely make…

Five Impressive Minutes Of Super Smash Bros. 3DS

With the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. just two weeks out from its release in Japan, Nintendo is holding little back. Today, they’ve tossed up five minutes of mostly in-game footage for us to look at. If you have any nostalgia for Nintendo, you’ll enjoy this. The extended trailer is all in Japanese, but…

Nintendo of Europe Lays Off 320 People

Around 320 employees at Nintendo of Europe will lose their jobs this week, the company confirmed to Kotaku today. That number includes around 130 full-time Nintendo of Europe employees—as was reported in June—and an additional 190 who worked for the company’s Germany-based localization department by way of a leasing agency. Though technically those 190 people…