All The Nintendo Consoles In Pokémon Games Over The Years

Lots of elements reappear in Pokémon games across generations—but one of the very first things we experience in every Pokémon game has to be going up to our television and finding a game system hooked up. It’s always a Nintendo system—typically whatever was new at the time. Pokemon X & Y, for example, puts a…

​Well, At Least The Racing Looks Good in the New Need for Speed Movie

Look, it’s pretty clear that the Need for Speed movie is trying to draft off the success of the Fast & Furious films. But the upcoming Dreamworks feature needs, like, 1000% more crazy. Aaron Paul certainly looks wounded in the clip for the upcoming car-stravaganza—which comes just days after the debut of the latest NFS…

Three Nintendo Systems Share a Birthday Today

Though plenty of attention this week is on the PlayStation 4’s launch last Friday, and the Xbox One arriving on the next, at the midpoint—today—is a rather significant date in video gaming history: Three Nintendo systems all released in North America on Nov. 18. The Wii U, of course, is most recent, launching last year…

Track: Alarm | Album: id | Artist: Wise Blood Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

No The Multiplayer Column Today: Sorry folks, I (Patricia) was caught up in Crimson Dragon/Xbox One stuff this weekend, leaving me little time for today’s column. But feel free to talk about anything multiplayer related here—we’ll be back next week!

Man Shot Dead Over PlayStation 4 Sale

Saturday brought news of the first robbery of a PlayStation 4; today brings news of the first killing associated with one. Police in Orlando, Fla. say two men were shot, one fatally, in the aftermath of a PS4 sale gone wrong Sunday afternoon. Authorities say Emmanuel Johnson, 25, had agreed to meet an unidentified 23-year-old…

11,000-Kid Study Finds That Video Games Aren’t That Bad After All

Any time a high-profile act of violence happens, some media pundits are quick to blame video games for influencing the perpetrators’ actions. But results of a UK study says that such a link may not exist. Recent research from the University of Glasgow —aiming to chart just how consumption of video games and television changes…

New Anita Sarkeesian Video Looks At Gaming’s ‘Ms. Male’ Trope

Feminist Frequency continues its ‘Tropes vs Women in Games‘ series, this time spending some time analyzing female characters who are kind of copy and paste versions of the male lead—only with added stereotypical stuff like the color pink, bows, interest in shopping, amongst other things. Think, for example, of Ms. Pac Man. Or heck, if…

Royal Family PS4 Watch: Prince William Still Does Not Have A PS4

We can confirm that as of today, November 18, 2013, the Duke of Cambridge Prince William Arthur Philip Louis does not have a PlayStation 4. Prince William would like a PlayStation 4, but he does not yet have one, for even the Earl of Strathearn is subject to the iron rule of a small human…

Your New Achievements Are Much Prettier On Xbox One

The little achievement pop-upisn’t the only thing that’s changed on the Xbox One. Actually viewing Xbox One achievements themselves will be better, too. The first image in this post, which comes from Microsoft’s Mike Ybarra, may look like a wallpaper, but it’s actually what a specific achievement in Ryse looks like. It’s the screen you’d…

eSports Is Getting Its Own Network—MLG.tv [Corrected]

Video gaming’s not a sport? Don’t tell that to MLG.TV—an Internet-broadcast network that’ll showcase the league’s major events and, yes, broadcast a studio show with highlights and news, akin to the coverage that, yes, real sports get. MLG announced the new programming venture today in this story at TechCrunch. The broadcast will stream up 1080p…

Xbox One Games, Cheap Playstation Plus, Boardwalk Empire [Deals]

Head over to the Microsoft Store and get $10 credit back on select pre-orders, reducing this great selection of games to $50/piece, or buy 6 get 1 free. You also have the option of walking into a physical Toys R Us and getting a $50 gift card with 3 Xbox One games purchased, which works…

The Big Valve Conference You Probably Can’t Attend

On January 15 and 16, Valve is holding a special event. I’m not invited. You’re probably not, either. It’s called “Steam Developer Days,” and it’s a two-day conference designed to showcase Valve’s upcoming living-room-centric PCs, the Steam Machines. During the conference, which will feature guest speakers from companies like AMD, Oculus, and Nvidia, attendees will…

It Took More Than 12,000 Paintings To Make Blade Runner This Beautiful

Swedish artist Anders Ramsell created 12,597 watercolor paintings to craft a 35 minute long “paraphrasing” of Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult-classic science fiction film Blade Runner. It’s like watching the movie in a dream. First featured on Kotaku last year in the form of a 12 minute teaser, Ramsell’s Blade Runner – The Aquarelle Edition captures…

Team Fortress 2 With Little Dolls Is Just Too Cute To Handle

Made by a group of Source Filmmaker animators for Valve’s annual machinima competition, “Lil Guardian Pyro” tells the heartbreaking story of a miniature Pyro and other Team Fortress characters, in a way that you might think it’s one of Valve’s own animations. Here’s the full clip. Get ready for 4 minutes of cuteness overload: Lil…

It’s a nice day for a white Ouya. Just in time for Christmas, the tiny Android console gets its first limited edition recolor. At$129.99it’s $30 more than the standard edition, but it’s also $30 prettier and comes with 16GB storage instead of 8GB, so it all works out.