For Ten Minutes, Mario Meets Modern Warfare Yet Again

The latest episode of the gritty and gripping web series Mario Warfare is here, this time focusing on the Smash Club, where Mario has to fight… actually, just watch it. I don’t want to spoil too much. If you haven’t been following this great series (you really should), you can check out episodes one through…

Battlestar Galactica Confused with Futuristic Aircraft Carriers

The Japanese language version of Chinese state media site China.org.cn recently ran an article titled “Four Major Trends in Aircraft Carrier Development.” Guess one of those trends is Battlestar Galactica art. China.org.cn (AKA China Internet Information Center) is a Chinese Government-authorized website (read: state media) and translates articles into a variety of languages, such as…

What Can You Do with a Broken Nintendo DS?

You can play Game Boy Advance games, that’s what! Who needs dual screens? Who? While the Nintendo DS and DS Lite have GBA slots, the Nintendo DSi, released in 2008, does not. こいつのDSレベル高い [Twitter] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is your slice…

Twitter Is Where People Go When Witnessing Crimes

Honestly don’t know if I’ve ever seen someone tweet a photo of an armed robbery in progress. Well, I have now. The tweet read, “There’s a robber now at Kurumaya Ramen,” tweeted @0503Daiki. The photo, which has now been retweeted over six thousand times, shows a man in a white t-shirt, brandishing a knife at…

It’s Like League Of Legends. Only With Mechs…And Laser Guns.

Decimal is an in-development indie game from Orb Interactive. On the one hand, it’s a MOBA game (ala League of Legends, DOTA). On the other, thank the Maker, it’s trying some different things The big one is that there aren’t any wizards, trolls, swords or spells. It’s got a slick sci-fi aesthetic, helped along by…

Monty Python LEGO Is A Flesh Wound For Your Dreams

We see LEGO mock-ups all the time here, and that’s cool, but these ones – for a series of sets based on Monthy Python’s Holy Grail – are so real it hurts. The box art, the product codes, you look, you stare, you dream, and try and convince yourself they’re real, but sadly, no. You…

Danny DeVito + Gears Of War = Day Made

Reader Alan emailed me last night wondering if I’d like to see “a cg model of Danny DeVito in Gears of War style armor”. Yes, Alan, I did, thanks. You can see more of Alan’s work at his portfolio

Final Fantasy XIV Is So Popular, Square Enix is Halting Sales

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn‘s launch is experiencing crowded servers. So what is Square Enix’s temporary workaround? Stop digital download sales. In an official notice on Square Enix’s Facebook page, the company writes: Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn, we are currently experiencing extremely long wait times…

More Stunning Art From 2013’s Prettiest Video Game

If you’re just joining me on the Banner Saga hype train, know that it’s a turn-based combat/strategy game, and that it is already one of the most beautiful video games of all time. So any chance I get to post more art from the game, you can bet your shieldmaiden I’ll be doing just that.…

Kickstarter Games Accused Of Scamming The System

Company offers to double the money a game makes on Kickstarter in exchange for exclusivity. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing concrete, as of yet, but two games looking to take advantage of Ouya’s new Free The Games campaign – which sees the console makers match the funding target of successful Kickstarter campaigns in return…

How A Basically Blind Girl Can Play Nintendo Games

Jennifer Powers suffered an anoxic brain injury at birth, and as a result she’s practically blind, unable to “focus within a few inches of her face, even with very thick glasses”. That should rule her out of playing regular video games, but nope, luckily, she’s found a way to get her game on. As her…

Sega’s Crazy Pitch For Modern Remakes Of Its Classic Games

Here’s something so nutty it might actually have worked: a few years back Sega’s Australian studio pitched an idea for a series of remakes called “Sega Reborn”, which wouldn’t just recreate classic games like Golden Axe and Altered Beast, but somehow tie them into the same, single universe. While the idea was obviously never picked…

This Year’s “Biggest” Video Game Is Not Call Of Duty Or GTA

Not in terms of literal game size, at least. No, the honour of the game with the biggest world will surely go to Bohemia’s upcoming ArmA III, which takes place on an island so damn big one of its designers went out and made this comparison chart. Drawn (roughly) to scale, the top half are…

The Xbox One Will Not Launch On November 8 After All

Yesterday, we heard from a source at a marketing company who had seen documentation pencilling the Xbox One in for a tentative, unconfirmed November 8 launch. Today, a source close to Microsoft tells us that’s not the case. The source says to expect the console at a date later than November 8, though obviously still…

Grand Theft Bigfoot: Writing for The New Yorker, Simon Parkin takes a look at the ongoing hunt for Bigfoot in the woods of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I love this sort of video game myth-hunting, particularly the creepy goings-on we saw in Red Dead Redemption. Will Bigfoot turn up in GTA V? Time will…

The Most Terrifying Team Fortress 2 Mod, Straight From Hell

The proportions of the characters in Team Fortress 2 were already cartoony enough, but a recent mod on Gamebanana from modder tHe_ScOuT39 just elevated the whole thing to a new level. It’s hard to tell if this is a train wreck or the most brilliant reskin ever created. In the pic above you can see…

Gritty Fallout Fan Film Will Tide Us Over Until There’s A New Game

Legate Lanius is a Fallout foe that was forged through blood—and this fan film by FalloutLanius tells his most gruesome story. From the YouTube description: On the brink of ruin, the Hidebark people are about to be wiped out by the slaving organization, Caesar’s Legion. However, their most ruthless warrior would prefer death to dishonour.…

Five Life Lessons I’ve Learned From Pokémon

I’ve grown up — rather fondly, I might add — with Pokémon. Over the years the several different hundreds of pocket monsters have become my dear friends. Simply settling into a new game (like I’ve recently done with Black) is a comfort to me. In a tumultuous, changing world, I find solace in the fact…

Lost Planet 3 Tells A Surprisingly Good Story. Here’s How.

After reading his review, I sat down with Evan to play through a mission in Lost Planet 3. It’s a surprisingly fun and well-made game, and now you can see it for yourself! Lost Planet 3 is out today on Xbox 360, PS3 and personal computers.

Ghost in the Galaxy: Check out this new trailer for Erin Robinson’s lovely indie puzzle/platformer Gravity Ghost, featuring music from FTL composer Ben Prunty. More at GravityGhost.com