Creepy Xbox One Ad Says It’s So Real You’ll Bleed

As a video game aficionado, I often find myself staring at my consoles and wondering, “Why isn’t this more real? Why isn’t this more immersive? Why am I not bleeding right now?” Fortunately for Real Gamers, Microsoft’s latest Xbox One advertisement promises the features we really want, like sweat, blood, and terrifying hallucinations. Because if…

A New Game Mode Is A Great Excuse To Watch More Garden Warfare Footage

The Gardens & Graveyards mode in the upcoming Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is an objective-based multiplayer mode in which the Zombies must capture Plants bases so we can watch five more minutes of gameplay footage from one of my most anticipated Xbox One games. Gameplay on my Xbox One looks bleak now, but the…

Catlateral Damage Should Really Be Called Jerk Cat Simulator 2014

It’s well known that cats are jerks. Now you experience what it’s like for yourself with this first-person cat simulator. Catlateral Damage is just a demo for the moment, but you can play it for free in your browser right now. Originally made for the 7DFPS game jam, Catlateral Damage just has you play as…

Mew-Genics Demonstrates How New Kittens Are Made, More Or Less

The first footage (of sorts) from Team Meat’s upcoming cat breeding sim explores the miracle of kitten birth with 100 percent scientific accuracy, give or take a couple dozen percent. See, when two cats love one another or just feel like having sex, they have sex. Then the mother cat swells up, and new kittens…

Shenmue Fans Sure Are Crazy

We all know that video game fans can be a little… passionate. Fans of the adventure series Shenmue, though? They’re straight-up insane. I say that with nothing but love, of course. Fan insanity makes the world go round. Without crazy fans we wouldn’t have Mother 3, or Project Eternity, or Kotaku.com. If not for rabid…

Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: Why Don’t I Enjoy Japanese Games?•Meet the Guy Who Does All Those Awesome Pokémon Redesigns • Here’s Your Chance to Vote on What 2013’s Best Games Were TAY Classic — TAY Open Forum — Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

In Last Week’s Comics, Angry Gamers Nearly Killed Superman

Modern DC Comics give us such memorable moments as an evil Superman snorting Kryptonite or Batman and Catwoman having sex. The publisher’s New 52 line has also just brought us a three-part story in which the super-villain Mongul has attempted to dominate the Earth by harnessing the rage of gamers. What a plan! The storyline…

SimCity is Finally Getting Offline Play

After insisting a year ago that such a mode was nearly impossible, offline play is coming to SimCity, Maxis has announced. It will be delivered in Update 10 for the game. A timeframe for that update was not included in the announcement. “We are in the late phases of wrapping up its development and while…

It’s official. Confirming the earlier rumor, the Onslaught DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts will release Jan. 28. Activision released the following short trailer detailing the first episode of a four-part Extinction-mode story. It doesn’t look anything like Call of Duty.

Sasuga Minami, the kid’s show host with bad words on her costume, has issued an apology Minami said the language on the outfit was “not on purpose,” adding that she didn’t know or recognize what was written. “I am truly sorry,” Minami wrote, adding, “The onus for this is entirely on me.”

Can Huawei’s Android Console Play PS3 Games? Chinese Media Think So

Last week during the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Huawei, Chinese hardware maker and subject of international security concerns, showed off their newest toy — the Huawei TRON. According to the Chinese media, the TRON can supposedly play PS3 games. PS3 games that have been set for the Huawei TRON. The Ouya-esque Android-based…

Chinese Fans React to Japanese Anime Character’s New Haircut

Chibi Maruko-chan, one of Japan’s longest-running animated shows, has had a slight change recently. The titular character, Maruko-Chan, got a haircut, and Chinese fans are having a field day. That’s right, Chinese fans, in China, are reacting to a Japanese anime character getting a haircut. In the recent-ish 936th episode of Chibi Maruko-Chan, Maruko-Chan changed…

What if Rambo Had Been a Hat-Loving Goldfish?

If there’s one thing I love about Greenlight, it’s all the insanely creative people it attracts. Like the creators of this side-scrolling shooter, Shütshimi To quote the website, Shütshimi is “a randomized shoot’em up about a muscle-bound fish with memory problems defending the seven seas.” It’s a fast-paced game for PC and the 360 where…

Crack Down on Chinese Government Corruption… With a Flash Game

The People’s Daily, the de facto mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party, has recently put a flash game on their site. This particular flash game, despite its cartoony nature, depicts a particularly sensitive subject matter in the People’s Republic—fighting government corruption. Ever since the new leader of the Chinese communist party came to power in…

One of Japan’s Oldest (and Most Hardcore) Gamers Passed Away

On January 11, famed actress Keiko Awaji passed away in a Tokyo hospital from esophageal cancer, reports Nikkan Sports. She was 80 years old. And she loved JRPGs. Awaji has acted in over 160 feature films, including Akira Kurosawa’s 1949 classic Stray Dog. Later in life, she became well-known online as a hardcore gamer—so much…

Oh God, They Are Making Another Tekken Movie [Update]

You remember the last one, don’t you? A movie so bad that the games’ lead developer actually apologized. If you haven’t wiped that from your brain, there’s apparently another live-action Tekken happening. According to Cinema Today, actor Kane Kosugi (Godzilla: Final Wars, DOA: Dead or Alive) announced that he’s starring in an upcoming Tekken film…