Mii Fighters Were Almost Part Of Smash Bros. Brawl

The addition of Miis as playable characters in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS opens up a realm of possibilities for players, but this is not the first time the series creator has toyed with the idea. “Incorporating Miis was explored in the previous game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but I…

New LEGO Sets Put Your Buildings In The Virtual World

They’re called LEGO Fusion, and their big new feature is the ability to digitize your structures—to put them on your tablet or phone, basically, where you can then play around with them in various ways. To facilitate this, each Fusion set includes (apart from a set of bricks, of course) a Fusion capture plate. What…

Conan O’Brien Tries Games (And Hijinks) At E3 2014

Looks like someone had a great time at this year’s E3. Conan O’Brien returned to the show to check out Sunset Overdrive, take part in some creepy-funny chats at various stages and to take an embarrassingly close look at Project Morpheus Here’s the full clip: Conan Visits E3 2014 [Team Coco, YouTube] To contact the…

Square Enix Cannot Quit Final Fantasy XIII

With Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix has closed the Final Fantasy XIII chapter and is moving on. Just kidding, of course it isn’t. Hope you like reading and words and stuff! Much like with the Final Fantasy X series that got a 30 minute audio drama after-story, the Final Fantasy XIII series now…

The Making of Monument Valley

Having sold over 500,000 copies for iOS platforms – a pretty tidy return given the £2.49 asking price – in less than two months of App Store visibility, it’s safe to say that ustwo’s Monument Valley is one of the mobile hits of 2014 so far. It’s just launched on Android, too. This post originally…

Sony boss Kaz Hirai was heckled at the recent investors meeting in Tokyo over Sony’s poor performance, AP reports. One investor, for example, asked how Sony had lost its glory and expressed disappointment in Hirai.

CNN Wonders Why Anime Child Porn Isn’t Banned in Japan

This week, it was announced that Japan finally outlawed child pornography. The ban does not cover 2D sexualized representations of children in manga and video games. CNN International wonders why. On Twitter, CNN International posed the following question: Note that, at the time of writing, Kotaku has attempted to select responses that show the variety…

Track: Just One Fix | Album: Psalm 69 | Artist: Ministry Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Take The Time To Appreciate A Game’s…Buttons And Menus

This Destiny video is unlike any other you’ve probably seen about the game, because it’s all about…the user interface. Which, as you may have noticed during the alpha, is really really good. It’s not in visuals or sound that the really expensive games, the ones made by hundreds of experienced developers, can stand apart from…

Panzer Corps: The Kotaku Review

Panzer Corps is not a new game. It’s been out since 2011, and is a faithful remake (in all but name) of a game first released twenty years ago. None of which matters. In 2014, it’s still one of the best strategy games you can get on the PC. Despite being a huge Panzer General…

What 1200 Pounds Of Nintendo Games Looks Like

This large cardboard box measures around 48″x 48″x 48″. It is full of Nintendo DS and 3DS games. Around 1200 pounds of them Redditor HxCurt, who works at an e-cycling plant, says most of them are Activision’s dreadful iCarly 2 on DS, which will never find a home, not at any price. Hence their arrival…