These Are China’s Biggest Online Games

China’s online game market is breaking sales records year-on-year in the world’s most populous nation. In 2013, this market alone is poised to make over $11 billion, according to Gameindustry.biz. But which are country’s favorite online games? Let’s take a look. Left without a console market due to the exorbitant prices of consoles (and a…

Let’s Compare The New Zelda to its 22-Year-Old Ancestor

Link to the Past has aged quite well, wouldn’t you agree? What we have here is a direct, side-by-side comparison of the new handheld Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds, and its predecessor, the now almost 22-year-old Link to the Past, courtesy of The Bit Block. There’s a stark difference, to say the least, but…

Screw McNuggets, China Has Spicy McPork Balls

Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt is said to be a big fan of pork. It’s also been said that when Bolt was in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, he ate nothing but McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets. Now with McDonald’s China introducing the lovechild of pork and McNuggets, maybe Usain Bolt might just come back to China.…

Final Fantasy X & X-2 Out for PS3 on March 18

Squeenix has revealed the Western release dates for of their upcoming HD remasters for FFX and FFX-2 Both North America and Europe will be getting the games in March next year, on the 18th and on the 21st, respectively. In Japan, the compilation is still set to release in late December. We also have two…

A 1920’s RPG With Four-Player Co-Op? Yes, Please.

As the current series hurtles towards an inevitably violent conclusion, I’m in 100% Boardwalk Empire fanboy mode at the moment. So there couldn’t have been a better time for me to come across Witchmarsh, a game set in the 1920’s and featuring bootleggers, speakeasys and…the occult. An RPG with action and platforming flourishes, it’ll feature…

Persona 3 Movies Look Like The Best, Longest Cutscene Of The Series

Sorry to interrupt this “next generation” stuff for a moment, but it’s been too long since we saw a new trailer for the first Persona 3 movie. So here’s a new trailer for the new Persona 3 movie, which is out in Japan this Saturday. Looks good, but…not enough Mitsuru. 「Persona 3」The Movie #1 fourth…

80’s Cartoon Classic Comes To Life As Incredible Model Kit

Japanese model builder むむむノ53 has ripped a veritech fighter straight out of Macross/Robotech and brought it into the real world, cel-shading and all. While he didn’t built the entire model, the paintjob he’s pulled off to mimic the animated look of the show (and the additions like dramatic hands and a Lynn Minmay) is amazing.…

Track: No Vowels | Album: Battlefields Forever | Artist: Big Business Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Remember, The DayZ Game Is Still Coming

The actual standalone game DayZ, not the ArmA II mod DayZ, was supposed to be out by now. It’s not, of course, and won’t be for a little while, but if you’d like an update on how it’s going, creator Dean Hall has posted this ten-minute video. A note: this is “raw, unedited…pre-alpha footage, so…

Battlefield 4 Servers Attacked

The PC version of Battlefield 4 has been either broken or down for many people all weekend long, after the game’s servers came under a denial-of-service attack A notice on Battlelog’s main page (since replaced by a PS4 server warning) read “We are currently experiencing attacks on our infrastructure that is impacting online gameplay on…

The ESRB Provides the Latest Preview of South Park: The Stick of Truth

It should be no surprise that South Park: The Stick of Truth is chock full o’ filth-flarn-flarn-filth-flarn and hellbent for an M-for-Mature rating. It’s still fun to hear the ESRB reading the dialogue aloud from its fainting couch. The game includes several instances of mature humor and sexual material: one extended sequence depicts characters getting…

Uncharted Craftsman Seeks More Help in Battle Against Cancer

David Vigil, a master leathersmith, is well known for his replicas of props appearing in the Uncharted series (and other games made by Naughty Dog.) The 25-year-old craftsman is also fighting stage 2 pancreatic cancer, and trying to raise money to pay for his treatment. Vigil’s second fund raiser (he held one last year) is…