So That’s What Happens When Repel Wears Off In Pokémon

We might experience hundreds of random encounters over the years in Pokemon games, but everyone seems to remember one specific kind of encounter: Zubat ones. It always happens a little like this: You’re deep in some cave somewhere. Your Pokemon are hurting bad; you need a Pokemon center. You’re almost at the end of the…

50 Of The Best Movies Ever, Akira, Dexter, X-Files, PS Vita [Deals]

Build yourself an awesome blu-ray collection in one click. Amazon is offering the Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection for $180, which is over $400 off the original retail price, and quite the bargain for 50 amazing films. The last time we listed this (for more), it was one of the most popular items…

10-Year-Old Faces Felony After Cops Say He Spent $800—on Minecraft?!

I have no idea how the hell this is even possible but a 10-year-old kid in Nebraska is facing felony-with-an-F charges for using his grandmother’s credit card to spend $800 on a video game online. Authorities and local media say the game is Minecraft. The hell? If there is even $800 worth of skin packs…

GTA V Comes To PC And Mac… As A Screensaver

You might not be able to play Grand Theft Auto V on your computer yet, but you can at least enjoy hundreds of user-taken photos of GTA V and Grand Theft Auto V with Rockstar’s official Snapmatc Screensaver. This kind of makes me wish I had another PC on my desk, set up specifically slip…

How Mandatory Game Installations Will Work On PS4

Call it installation or call it caching, but the bottom line is that you will have to save large chunks of PlayStation 4 games to the system’s hard drive. It’s not an option. It’s mandatory on Sony’s next-gen system. Today, at a stylish waterfront hotel in New York City that’s been taken over by Sony…

It’s The Biggest Week In Gaming Apps Ever

Seventeen amazing games — that’s got to be some sort of Week in Gaming Apps record. I go on vacation for a week, and all the good games come out at once. Luckily a good portion of my vacation was spent sitting on my ass with my iPad or Nexus 7, downloading bite-sized games and…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Rathorial highlights the beauty of pre-loading content in a digital age, Zarnyx shares some favorite tracks that made exploring in games all the more enjoyable, and Marsh Naylor rants about title screens and menus Don’t forget that you can always go join the voices talking…

Sony’s Big PS4 Review Event

It’s just a few days before Sony launches their next-gen console. So they’ve rented out a few floors of New York City’s The Standard hotel to showcase some of the PS4’s upcoming games. Three of us from Kotaku are currently wandering the hotel, preparing to play some games and ask some questions. In the meantime,…

Witness The Glory Of A 64-Man Battlefield 4 Base Jump

It takes up a lot of time and dedication, organizing an event where a full server of 64 people jump off a skyscaper in Battlefield 4, but it’s totally worth the effort. This is so much better than any of those precise and fast killshots that normally dominate Battlefield montages. If you attempt to do…

If You Love Loki So Much, Maybe You Should Just Play Him

Thor: the Dark World is in theaters everywhere, and we all know it’s only for naming uniformity that it’s not called Loki: the Dark World. The god of mischief is hot, so of course he’s the playable star of Marvel Heroes‘ update 2.0: Asgard. The Asgard update for Gazillion’s massively multiplayer Marvel Comics game kicked…

China’s Answer to Pokémon Is… In Space

Pokémon is huge. The Chinese people love it, I love it. But with the console ban, China hasn’t had any legally translated copies of Pokémon until recently, with the Chinese versions of X and Y. How has China lived without Pokémon? They created their own, in the shape of a free to play online browser…

Celebrate Being Single In China By Spending Tons of Money Online

Today, November 11th, is Veterans Day in the good old US of A. But in the far flung part of the world that is China, Nov. 11 stands for something completely different. In China, today is “Singles Day”, a day where people lament and celebrate being single and do so by spending buttloads of money…

Dialogue? In my rabbit brawler? Overgrowth’s latest alpha update vid details the new dialogue system prototype, which shows what creating new levels and scenarios will look like once the game is out. Lots of technical stuff, but there’s a little bit of rabbits beating each other to pulp for all to enjoy.

Let’s Play Dress-Up with the New Lightning Returns Trailer

Good thing mizz Lightning has the time to stay fashionable in between going on missions to save the world. Otherwise, we couldn’t spend all this time looking at her fabulous outfits The latest and shiniest Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII interactive trailer from Squeenix has you help Lightning pick out a dress for her next…