Only One Retailer Gets LEGO Batman 3‘s Best Preorder Bonus

I get it, lots of people hate preorder bonuses. The only thing they hate more is retailer-specific preorder bonuses. LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham features six different retailer-specific incentives, but only one is a Plastic Man minifig. Which retailer gets it? Oh you know. Keychains? Feh. Mini-sets? No reason I couldn’t build them myself. A…

Nintendo’s about to reveal a new character for Super Smash Bros.—you can watch the news right here, or just refresh Kotaku for breaking news as it happens.

​New Spelunky World Record Destroys the Two-Minute Barrier

You’d scream, too, if you did something better and faster than anyone else in the world. Like completing the notoriously hard video game Spelunky. So, yeah, let the guy holler. A combination of luck and gear helped German speedrunner Pibonacci post a completion time of 1:55.353 in an Olmec run last night. The previous record…

Player Gets To Wave 138 Of World of Warcraft‘s Proving Grounds

It’s pretty impressive to survive 30 or 40 waves of enemies in the Proving Grounds, a World of Warcraft scenario where you can test your raiding abilities by facing enemies that get stronger with each wave. So the fact that frost mage Akuyama reached wave 138 and set a new world record is incredible. You…

Video Games Make a Convenient Scapegoat for Weak Students

A recent study by the Chinese Ministry of Education has found that the majority of China’s college student population is physically frail. But what is the reason behind the fact that students are physically inadequate? Well, you’ve probably guessed it, the blame is on video games. That’s right, Chinese media and in part the MoE…

One Of The Highlights Of EVO 2014 Was An Incredible Win With Pikachu

Hyping the crowd with a Pikachu plushie, Smash Bros. player Axe pulled an incredible win against Silent Wolf with his Pikachu, beating the hell out of his opponent in record time. It wasn’t the grand finals, but without a doubt one of the best moments of all the games played at EVO 2014. Here are…

China’s Government Had Enough Of Dirty, Ugly Net Cafes

Chinesenet cafes are a double-edged sword. In a way, they’re a great place to play games, consume copious amounts of ramen and junk food, but at the same time they’re total s**t-holes. The Chinese government is sick of them and now it wants to change what internet cafes are all about. Since February of this…

Survey Says Chinese Gamers More Interested In PS4

With the Xbox One dropping in China in Septemberand the PlayStation 4 dropping some time later, Chinese news portal NetEase took the chance to survey netizens on their preferences. Turns out, Chinese users are more interested in the PS4. Hidden at the bottom of an article about the first major public showing of the PlayStation…

This is what it looks like when Fi from Zelda: Skyward Sword joins the battle in Hyrule Warriors She, as you can see, is very much into sword-themed magical attacks, which makes a lot of sense, really—if you’ve played Skyward Sword, you’ll know why.

Vagina Artist Arrested in Japan

Move over guns. Add 3D-printed vaginas to the things that will get you arrested in Japan. Note: This article contains content some readers might find objectionable. Previously, Kotaku reported that a Japanese artist named Rokudenashiko was trying to make a name for herself with her vagina art. She even made a “pussy boat.” With her…

The 2014 EVO Champ Just Won Using a PS1 Controller

Forget your fancy arcade sticks. The breakout player during this year’s EVO fighting game tournament used a gamepad to beat down all comers. Not just any gamepad, either. Luffy won the top spot with a controller from the original PlayStation. A member of the Meltdown pro team, Olivier ‘Luffy’ Hay ran an incredible winning streak…

Tekken 7 got a premature announcement earliertoday. To give you a little more to chew on than just a logo, here’s the game’s debut trailer.