Bold Move, Nintendo

Here is the next big game for Nintendo’s Wii U displayed on my TV. Do you see something strange in this picture? Hint: look at that screen on the controller. It’s dark! No graphics! (It might actually be displaying blackness, oddly enough!) That’s right. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, a game for the Nintendo home…

​Decent-Looking Game. Terrible Narrator.

Bound by Flame is a new PlayStation exclusive action/RPG hitting multiple platforms later this year. Without any kind of sense as to how it plays, it looks pretty middle-of-the-road for a game coming out in 2014. But that voiceover—sounding enthralled, huckster-ish and befuddled—will take you back straight to the 1990s, in good and bad ways.…

A Hitman… turn-based strategy game? That’s the tablet/smartphone game that Square Enix just announced. It’s called Hitman GO and you can read more about it right here

Today Is The Last Day Of The Year Of Luigi. Make It Count.

364 days ago, Nintendo made the most important proclamation of the 21st century, declaring a year of peace and prosperity. A year of hope. A year of Luigi. That was February 14, 2013. Assuming we’re operating outside of the Gregorian Calendar—because the Mushroom Kingdom follows its own rules—today, my friends, is the final day of…

Bad news for Virtue’s Last Reward fans—director Kotaro Uchikoshi says he hasn’t been able to get a third game greenlit yet, although he’s optimistic it’ll happen one day. He should start a Kickstarter!

The Space Jam Video Game We Deserve

You haven’t really seen video game basketball until you’ve seen this Space Jam-themed NBA 2k14 mod by YouTuber MkEliteWorksX There have been Space Jam mods in NBA 2k games before, but this is my favorite yet, mostly because it’s the most realistic depiction of cartoons playing basketball we’ve seen to date. This is the Space…

Why Unboxing Videos Are So Popular

I think it’s safe to say that everyone enjoys personally unboxing a brand new item. You’ve been waiting days for your new package and you can’t help but get more and more excited as you uncoil wires and discover pamphlets of welcome messages and instructions you’ll never touch again. But why do so many people…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Best Melee Weapons • Tips For Playing Danganronpa • How To Make A Better Guessing Game TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

MLB The Show Launches April 1 on PS3, Arrives in May for PS4

MLB 14 The Show will release April 1 on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita and will arrive in May on PS4, Sony said today, ending an anxious stretch for baseball fans wondering if they would be playing a new version of the game on Opening Day. Technically, they aren’t—Monday, March 31 is baseball’s traditional Opening…

Iceman Should Really Be in These Superhero Winter Olympics Drawings

Silver Surfer tricking off of Galactus’ head is cool but, come on, Bobby Drake is the gold medalist of doing cool stuff in/with cold weather, right? These drawings comes from superstar comics artist Francesco Francavilla, who’s doing that gruesome Afterlife with Archie series and the excellent superhero pulp noir The Black Beetle among others. He’ll…

Angry Birds Stella Tackles Real Issues Like Inspiration, Empowerment

Following up on yesterday’s tease, Rovio has revealed Stella, a new corner of the Angry Birds universe featuring “strong, passionate characters” ready to inspire and empower. Looks a bit Disney Princess, doesn’t it? I mean, replace the pink bird and the evil-looking one in the distance with Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent and you’re most of…

Here’s a Free Vita App That Lets You Try the New Yakuza Game

One thing that Japan will be getting for its PS4 launch that other countries didn’t/won’t is the latest Yakuza game, Yakuza Ishin!. And for those who can’t wait for the game, there’s a new free PS Vita app to let them experience some of the Yakuza Ishin! world, if not the story. Yakuza Ishin! Free…

Watch The Brutal Destruction of Giant Snow Sculptures

The Sapporo Snow Festival is over! And yesterday, workers began destroying the huge snow sculptures with diggers. For decades now, the Sapporo Snow Festival featured some truly impressive large-scale snow sculptures. And when the event is over, the organizers don’t sit around and wait for them to melt. In the video below, you can see…

No Final Fantasy X-3 on the way: In an interview with sgcafe.com, Square Enix game producer Shinji Hashimoto confirmed that the 30-minute audio drama included with the HD re-release of FFX and X-2 was merely a story to further expand the game’s universe, and that Square Enix has no plans to develop a FFX-3