New Comics With Time-Stopping Orgasms and Superheroes for Hipsters

Sex that gives you superpowers sounds awesome, right? But, in one new comic-book series that came out last week, it’s also kind of sad. And, Kotaku bossman Stephen Totilo is still annoyed by hipsters, even when they’re world-saving superheroes. In this week’s Panel Discussion video, Stephen and I talk about what Sex Criminals #1 and…

Starting December, You Can Pay For Your Very Own Pokémon Storage Unit

Is your apartment too small to hold all of your Pokémon? Don’t worry! You can buy more space soon! On December 27, Nintendo will launch the Pokémon Bank, a cloud-based storage system that can be used to hold Pokémon in the digital world for eternity—or at least until the servers all collapse. There will be…

GTA Online, Log #1: We’re Connected But a Little Lost

The road to Rockstar’s nihilistic online paradise has been full of potholes. But, with enough prayers to Kraff, it is in fact possible to connect to the online version of Los Santos. When you get there, you’ll want to find your friends and do stuff together. Figuring out how to do that is damn trickier…

Valve’s First Steam Machine Prototype Is Crazy Powerful

Valve’s first Steam Machine—the one they’ll be sending out to 300 beta users later this year—will be a super-high-end machine. And the specs are crazy impressive. This afternoon, Valve spilled a whole bunch of details on the first-ever Steam Machine, which the company officially announced last week. This one is a high-end, totally upgradeable box…

Getting JRPGs Out In English Is Harder Than You Think

Maybe one day, when the rapture comes, every single Japanese game will be instantly translated and localized for English-speaking audiences, and then they will be transmitted into our brains so we can experience them without moving from our fluffy heaven cloud-couches. One day. Today, we are stuck with publishers, and we can do nothing but…

Of Course This Wonky Game Featuring A Sloppy Drunk Dude Is On PC

With a title like Day One: Garry’s Incident you might be mistaken into thinking Garry had a small traffic accident, or maybe grazed his knee. But no, Garry does nothing in half measures. He’s only gone and crashed his airplane through a strange rift. The mix of first person shooting, survival, and crafting might as…

Proof That Trevor Is The Best GTA V Character

Hands down. No competition. Nothing comes close to that crazy, gross gross gross dude. Mild spoilers for fun Trevor moments (nothing for the plot) in the video above. If you rather have your experience completely fresh, feel free to skip this one. The folks at Machinima put together a montage of Trevor’s transition moments—those moments…

Deals: GTAV, Free Gamefly And Hulu Plus Trials, Blu-ray Collection

If you haven’t gotten your hands on this year’s biggest release yet, pick up Grand Theft Auto V at a decent discount from Gamestop today by stacking some promo codes to nab $6 off and free shipping. PS3 Grand Theft Auto V ($54) | Gamestop | Use promo code 10FWT and SAVER 360 Grand Theft…

Tom Clancy’s Splintered Legacy: Great Video Games, Troubling Worldview

If you’d asked me in 1998 to look fifteen years in the future and guess who the the most enduring names in video games would be, I might’ve listed the usual suspects: Sid Meier, Tim Schafer, Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto and maybe a few others. I probably wouldn’t have included Tom Clancy. And yet here…

They’re Making a Tiny Tower Set In The Death Star

Did you feel that? It was as if millions of productive work hours just cried out in pain and then were silenced. Tiny Tower is one of themost addictive mobile games ever made. Star Wars is Star Wars. This combination, teased via the Star Wars Twitter account, is the death of productivity. Here’s the official…

The Internet’s 2001 Hate For One Of The Most Beautiful Video Games Ever

The average person over the age of 13 can no longer proudly stand by all the opinions they expressed 12 years ago. In time, a person simply decides that dirt no longer tastes good. Later, one regrets the pants they wore in middle school or, further into life, feels some shame when recalling the thing…

A team at Maxis is exploring the possibility of making an offline mode for the always-online SimCity, because you demanded it, according to an official update on the state of the game. (But they can’t offer bigger cities; hurts performance.) Previously, Maxis management had said that an offline mode was rejected as inconsistent with the…

Pokémon X And Y Is Everything You Wanted Pokémon To Be As A Kid

Here’s what I like to imagine. Game Freak shipped Black and White 2, and production then started for a new Pokemon game. They didn’t have any specifics yet, but they knew they want to breathe some life into the franchise—make it feel fresh, sure, but still keep the core of what makes Pokemon games so…

Does Saints Row IV Work As A First-Person Shooter? Hell Yes.

They did a first-person mod for GTA IV, so it was bound to happen for Saints Row IV, too. And thank goodness it did. The mod is being developed by a group of modders led by ImmortalSin, who hails from the Saints Row Mods forum. It is currently in alpha—a fact that’s readily apparent in…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: StygianKnight explains why he’s holding off on getting the PS4, EtchedChamp discusses different ways video games handle death and violence, Leigh Harrison wonders about all the little things you can do in GTA V alongside all the very violent things you can do.

I’m Playing Assassin’s Creed IV Right Now. On My Desk. With Toys.

While the rest of the world has to wait until the end of this month to get their hands on Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, I’ve got Edward Kenway and friends right here on my desk, ready to pillage, loot, burn, and maybe make-out a little. With three generations of Kenways — Edward, Hatham and…

Let This BioShock Infinite DLC Trailer Convince You Rapture Is Real

In Bioshock, we’ve always been directly in the center, there to witness the world-changing events transpiring in both Rapture and Columbia. But what about the outside world? This short live-action teaser, shot in the style of an old-school documentary series, shows a civilian investigation into the legend of Rapture—the underwater city where Burial At Sea,…

Attack on Titan Has Finished, But the Games Are Just Beginning

Attack on Titan has finished its TV run, and with no second anime announced, many of you are likely already jonesing for your colossus-killing fix. But don’t worry. Not only is there the manga to read, but also no less than seven official games are either out or on the way. Attack on Titan: The…

Pokémon, Sonic, And Mega Man, All Made Out Of… Meat?

Ground meat ain’t just for hamburgers, you know. It’s also for art. Over at Tumblr, a blog called Epic Grinds serves as the purveyor of artistic objects created out of ground meat. The owner’s skill doesn’t stop at meatifying game characters, mind you—there’s a great variety of objects from anime, live-action series, and real life…

Grand Theft Auto Comes to Life in Hong Kong Car Chase

Whenever there’s a car chase, GTA comparisons inevitably arise. But this particular car chase totally looks like Grand Theft Auto. Really! The chase happened earlier this summer, and the footage is taken from an undercover Hong Kong cop car and was recently uploaded by Next Media For twenty minutes, police chased the 33 year-old driver,…