Waterslides And Santa Claus? It’s A Very Temple Run 2 Christmas

As if having to deliver toys to every child in the world over the course of a single night wasn’t tough enough, Temple Run 2‘s largest update yet pits Santa Claus against a giant killer gorilla. That dude cannot catch a break. Not only does Imangi Studios’ smash hit free-to-play mobile game get Santa Claus…

A Relaxing Stroll in 800-Pound Iron Shoes

Everyday, I take a walk. It’s good for health, I think. While I wear sneakers, Beijing factory owner Zhang Fuxing wears iron shoes. Each shoe weighs over 440 pounds… each. Zhang has been wearing his iron shoes to walk 15 meters for the past seven years. He tells AP (via SCMP) that the iron shoes…

The Costume Editor Is My Favorite Time-Waster in Lightning Returns

Sure Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII has great gameplay and fun musical quirks, but let’s be serious: We don’t care about that. We’re all here just because we want to dress up Lightning in awesome costumes. There are dozens of unlockable costumes in Lightning Returns to choose from—many of these being inspired by the outfits…

Is this a new PlayStation Move? There’s a newly-published Sony patent for a certain “flat joystick controller” which seems to look a lot like a PlayStation Move, but with a touchpad on the front.

Minecraft Inspires Gamer To Create Awesome Real-Life Building Toy

For most, Minecraft is just a game about building a castle out of colorful blocks then losing it all to a Creeper invasion. But for one man, Minecraft was something else: an inspiration. A Redditor by the name of knightkrawler1167 recently revealed his pet project to the r/minecraft subreddit: a set of magnet-equipped plastic blocks…

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.