Heads up: the Miiverse update for the 3DS is now live. With the update comes the ability to interact with Nintendo’s Miiverse on any 3DS (and 2DS, and 3DSXL) system, along with Nintendo Network ID support for the eShop. More info here and full patch notes here

People Mistakenly Sent A Free Vita, Then Threatened With Legal Action

A retailer in the UK has accidentally sent some customers a free PlayStation Vita. And is now resorting to some heavy methods in an attempt to get them back. According to a report on Eurogamer, “a number” of people who had preordered Vita game Tearaway were instead sent a Tearaway PlayStation Vita bundle, which included…

The Kill La Kill Soundtrack Has Funny Titles, But Awesome Songs

For all its over-the-top action and side-splitting humor, my favorite part of this season’s breakout anime, Kill la Kill, may just be its awesome soundtrack. And as it hits shelves on Christmas day here in Japan, it’s pretty much the best Christmas gift I could hope for. The soundtrack was composed by Hiroyuki Sawano—whose music…

Pirate penguins expected in 2014. Hey, remember that pirate game for the 3DS? The one with the penguins, from Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune, slated to arrive in 2012? Well, it didn’t arrive in 2012. Or 2013. And now, its official website has been updated to show a Japan release date of 2014. Maybe someday!

Is This the Oldest Working Comic Book Artist in the World?

Honestly, I don’t know. I do know that 91 year-old manga creator Shigeru Mizuki has a new serialized manga starting later this month. Mizuki is best known for creating supernatural horror manga GeGeGe no Kitaro Going on sale on December 25 in the January issue of Big Comic, Mizuki’s latest manga is titled Watashi no…

Where The Hell Was This LEGO Cleaner When I Was A Kid?

There are two sides to every LEGO play session. The ecstacy (the playing!) and the agony (the cleanup). All those tiny pieces, all the ways they could get lost, or stuck in the carpet, ungh. So this LEGO scooper invention deserves as many design awards as its creator’s shelves can hold. It’s so simple. Just…

You Can Buy BioShock Infinite’s Vigor, But It’ll Cost You. A Lot.

Not that it works. You wouldn’t be reading about that kind of breakthrough on a mostly-video-games website. But the bottles of Undertow Vigor being sold on Irrational’s site sure look nice, and more importantly, authentic. Only 500 have been made, each standing 10″ tall and with some amazing detail on both the bottle and the…

Track: Hive | Artist: Earl Sweatshirt feat. Vince Staples & Casey Veggies | Album: Doris Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Story Of How Notch Turned Down A Job At Valve

Minecraft is one of the biggest games on the planet. Valve is perhaps the most beloved video game developer around. Imagine, for a moment, if the two had somehow joined forces. Finished? OK, now remember: it could actually have happened. All Things D is running an excerpt from Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus ‘Notch’…

DOTA 2 Forgets Halloween, Remembers Christmas

Valve works in mysterious ways. Last year, they held a big DOTA 2 event for Halloween, then didn’t do it this year. People got angry. Last year, they didn’t do anything for Christmas, because Christmas got stolen. This year, they are. Go figure! What it means is that DOTA 2 players are in for a…

College Players Can Get a PS4 From a Bowl Game, But They Can’t Be Paid

The Military Bowl is no one’s idea of a major college football bowl game. It’s a shitty bowl, in fact, inviting five-loss teams to stage background-noise football two days after Christmas. Despite that, every player from Maryland and Marshall will receive a PlayStation 4 for showing up this year. Sports Business Journal looked at the…

The Most Surprising Mii That I Ever Met

I StreetPassed with this person some time in the last two days. I’ve never met a Mii this… creative. Meet any unusual Miis? Share below, please! To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @stephentotilo.

A Link To The Future: what if A Link To The Past had the wall-merging mechanic that appears in the newer Zelda, A Link Between Worlds? Well, then it might look a little like this awesome GIF by johanvinet. (Via Tiny Cartridge)

Lego Mecha Pokémon. LEGO. MECHA. POKEMON.

What would be cooler than commanding fierce beasts to battle against other beasts, as you do in Pokémon? Easy. If the beasts were lego mechs instead—mechs which can be piloted. Does anything else need to be said, really? Check out these “Poke-Mecha” of the final evolutions of the original three starters Stormbringer, originally posted on…

Watch GTA V’s Trevor Try To Dispose of A Dead Body In Real Life

However deranged Trevor might be, he’s just a fictional character. But if he wasn’t? What if he was a real person that roamed our streets? It would be kind of amazing. And by amazing I mean slightly horrifying. Check out these series of pranks by Nathan Barnatt, where he pretends to be a Trevor. Trevor,…

Podcast: Fallout 4, Phoenix Wright, Zelda: Link Between Worlds

Is The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds really all that amazing? When will we actually see a Fallout 4 announcement? Are we suffering from a glut of lawyer simulators? It’s been a long three months since our last podcast, but Kirk and I are back for a quick talk about what we’ve been…