There’s At Least One Guy Who Never Figured Out How to Beat King Hippo

Mike Tyson never beating Glass Joe is one thing. He’s the first opponent in the boxer’s titular Punch-Out!!, so this means Iron Mike played the game once or twice, gave up, and went back to tending pigeons in his spare time. But not being able to defeat King Hippo is a different brand of shame.…

The Calvin & Hobbes Documentary Stars Everyone Except the Artist

Bill Watterson, the Salinger-esque creator of what still may be the most popular comic strip in the United States even 18 years after it ended, does not appear in this trailer. For all we know, Calvin & Hobbes‘ artist will only communicate with the audience as he has for the past 30 or so years:…

Poké-Proposal Makes Pikachu Giddy With Excitement

Look at Pikachu! I mean the little (well, big) fella looks legitimately fired up by this marriage proposal last night Nintendo World’s gala event for the launch of Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. Fiancée, I choose you! This couple, Debbie G. and Jeff W. are the co-founders of Long Island’s StreetPass club. And yes, she…

This Week in the Business: The Good, the Bad and the Medium

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “I do think we have to address the good and the bad our medium might do to consumers.”—Renowned designer Warren Spector, on how the game industry should take a balanced view towards what it does QUOTE | “I think about ……

The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of October 7

New York Comic Con is in session this weekend, Beyond: Two Souls released and we’re still trying to find our footing in GTA Online. Plus other stuff you can read about over on Kotaku Selects And above? Is Nick Furry. The pic from MigraineSky is a little old, but in the spirit of Halloween and…

What Pokémon Is

I write a whole lot about Pokemon here at Kotaku—and every time, at least one person asks what the deal with the franchise is. Why is it so big? Why do people care about it? What’s it about, even? Maybe you wonder these things, too—it’s an especially relevant set of questions now that Pokemon X…

Track: The Mother We Share | Album: The Bones of What You Believe | Artist: CHVRCHES Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Funniest GTA V And GTA Online Glitch GIFs

Time to hit the road cause someone found the best vehicle in the latest GTA. Luckily so many people are playing GTA V that we don’t even need mods or anything like that to see awesome glitches, like this one, or these others… Guessing that all hell will break loose when a PC port comes…

So, Uh, The Cities In SimCity‘s Futuristic Expansion Look Really Cool

Word is that SimCity plays better these days. But it’s safer to just wait for a sequel and not step back into early 2013’s messy metropolis-builder, right? (Well, “smallish-city-builder,” if we’re being accurate, but you get the idea.) I could/should wait it out and write off the current game quite easily if this forthcoming Cities…

There is only one way to celebrate this week’s release of the Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition. Everybody must Wang Chung. Yes, even you. Stop what you are doing and Wang the living hell out of that Chung. This is not a request.

Your Missing GTA Online Characters Are Likely Gone For Good

Was your GTA Online character deleted during the Great Server Catastrophe of 2013? The good news is, you get a free $500,000. The bad news: you probably won’t get your old character back. Although Rockstar has released a patch for GTA V‘s multiplayer service that seems to have fixed things, a representative for the company…

Eight Minutes Of Lovely Zelda: Link Between Worlds Gameplay

Today at New York Comic Con, Nintendo didn’t just show a new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds—they demoed some gameplay footage, too. Kotaku video man Chris Person was in attendance at Nintendo’s panel, and he shot a bunch of the item renting, dungeon crawling, and dimension shifting that will characterize…

Our Favorite New Horror Game Doesn’t Hold Your Hand

I could probably start this off with a knock knock joke, but I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself. No, Knock-Knock deserves better. Knock-Knock is an inherently strange horror game…but perhaps horror’s not the right word. It’s more of an unsettling experience, waking up at night in a cabin in the woods doesn’t exactly sound…

NSFW: Players Uncover A Naked Ellen Page In Her New Video Game

If there’s one thing we can count on, it’s that some people are interested in seeing naked character models—this is true regardless of the game. In a sense, you could say there was a metaphorical timer starting the second that David Cage’s latest game, Beyond: Two Souls, which stars popular actress Ellen Page, was released.…

Violent Games Should All Hire Viscera Cleanup Detail To Scrub The Gore

Now this is the kind of cross-promotion I can get behind! Devlover Digital, the publisher behind such non-nonviolent video games as Hotline Miami, has enlisted the guys behind Viscera Cleanup Detail to help them clean up after their latest game, Shadow Warrior. Players who buy Shadow Warrior will get a free custom standalone game in…

One Of The Weirdest JRPGs We’ll See Next Year

Note: Today on Random Encounters, we’ve got a very special treat for you: a guest column by Kotaku bossman Stephen “JRPG Lover” Totilo. Be nice! —Jason. Thanks, Jason… can I start my column now? —Stephen. Some of us like video games that we might call “insane.” We mean this in the best of possible ways.…

Slick New Zelda: Link Between Worlds Trailer Introduces ‘Lorule’

It’s not Hyrule—it’s Lorule. Get it? That’s the twisted new dark world that Nintendo will introduce in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, which is out for 3DS on November 22. Check out this sleek new trailer for an introduction to Lorule… and someone named Hilda? It’s unclear how Lorule is related to…

You Never Realized Fonts Could Be This Exciting

I’ve been waiting weeks to write about Type:Rider. I’ve not been this excited about a mobile game in ages. It’s all about learning the most important human achievement in the history of humans achieving things: typography — the art and technique of arranging letters to make language visible. Without it, kjfdflkjhsdflsdjfhsdg. Having a language people…

Watch Valve’s Insane Steam Controller In Action

Here’s our first live-action look at the joystick-free Steam Controller, being used to play games like Portal 2 and Civilization V. Valve says they’ve got more live-action demos planned over the next few weeks and months. Valve’s Steam Controller, announced two weeks ago, might be one of the most interesting elements of the company’s living-room-takeover…

GTA Online, Week Two: All People Want To Do Is Kill Each Other

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNfhcD… I’m a week into playing GTA Online. My character mysteriously had a sex change during one of the Social Club outages. She still never has arms when I log in, and changes clothes every time I look away. Somehow I ended up in a dogfight with a fighter jet and, some time before that,…