So Many Pokémon Cheaters Entered Online Tournament

Last month, an official Pokémon wi-fi tournament allowed Pocket Monster players from all over the world a chance to compete. For a large number, it was a chance to cheat. According to The Pokémon Company, the 2013 Global Showdown saw a whopping 1,558 cheaters. These players didn’t use regular in-game Pokémon or special rare Pokémon…

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Gets Its First Major Expansion This Fall

Just when you thought you were out… they pull you back in! Into another war against an invading alien menace, that is. This November, Firaxis’ fantastic (andKotaku Game of the Year-winning) strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown is getting its first major expansion, titled XCOM: Enemy Within. Here’s a teaser, featuring everybody’s favorite faceless guy in…

Not All New Skylanders Split In Half. Some Are Sabertooth Turtles.

More of a sabertooth turtle dinosaur, I suppose. This is Slobber Tooth, and he’s one of the latest non-splitting Skylanders champions, joining the fray when Swap Force hits October 13. The whole Swap Force mechanic is nice and all, but I’m a sucker for a well-designed one piece with a focus on function. I had…

EVE Online‘s Stunning Oculus Rift Demo Becomes A Real Game

Members of the press at E3 2013 and fans at this year’s CCP Fanfest wouldn’t shut up about how cool the Oculus Rift-powered EVE VR demo was, so CCP is making EVE: Valkyrie, a multiplayer space dogfighting game set in the EVE universe. I hope you’re all happy. I know I am. There can never…

Dungeon Keeper Returns… As A Mobile Game

The original dungeon defense game returns, but not to the PC from whence it came. EA is bringing back Dungeon Keeper as an iOS and Android mobile game this winter. I know you’re upset, PC folks. Bullfrog’s classic was the sort of game you could only find on PC back in the late 90s, a…

Defiance ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ Adds Playable Creepy White People

Nothing plays on the TV screen quite as well as an alien race whose defining feature is cake makeup and contact lenses. Defiance‘s dorkiest extraterrestrials look much better as playable characters in today’s ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ release. The ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ is a two-pronged bit of downloadable content for the video game portion of trion…

Well This Ad For Ouya Sure Is…Excessive… [UPDATE]

I don’t really have the words to describe this ad, although it’s not official according to Ouya. Whoever made this sure tried a ridiculous way to try to sell someone on an Ouya, though. Kind of has the style of Superjail!, yeah? In any case, we’ve contacted Ouya to ask about this ad and will…

The Fix For Disney Infinity PlayStation 3 Problems Is In

After two days of PlayStation 3 players being unable to play Disney Infinity properly without the game locking up and save game corruption, patch 1.03 has arrived to make things all better, mostly. The previous patch, 1.01, caused the game to lock up shortly after launching, as well as corrupting game saves. A workaround for…

According to GLaDOS, We’ve All Been Pronouncing ‘Dota’ Wrong

Good news: Dota 2 is getting a GLaDOS announcer pack, meaning that you’ll have the ability to pay to have GLaDOS chide you as you play. “Bad” news: the clip that teases her inclusion has a most surprising revelation. Listen to this GLaDOS clip of the upcoming announcer pack, courtesy of PC Gamer, which they…

YouTube Reacts Hilariously To Video of Geeky Women

Last month, we wrote about a song that featured women who take issue with the idea of a “fake geek girl.” Naturally, these women feel that they shouldn’t have to prove their geek cred. Since that sentiment was expressed via YouTube video, people left comments—and these comments could sometimes be ridiculous. Cue this dramatic reading…

Indie Game: The Infomercial. “If StarCraft is a sport, Divekick is a crime scene.” That’s Action Button founder (and sometime Kotaku contributor) Tim Rogers giving histrademark infomercial-style pitchfor Divekick, an absurd two-button fighting game he did not make but would still like for you to play. Tim, if you ever get sick of making games,…

Saints Row IV: The Kotaku Review

Saints Row IV, much like its predecessor, is a game that doesn’t make any excuses for itself. It knows exactly what it is and just how much it caters to the lowest common denominator. And you know what? It straight up loves it. It relishes it. And I love Saints Row IV for it. If…

With Xbox One Gaining Momentum, Sony Still Has Confidence

The most remarkable thing about Sony’s Gamescom press conference today wasn’t the big game announcements (Sony still loves indie games) or the PS4 feature demonstrations (the new menu looks like a video game console menu). It was Sony’s overarching, at times infectious confidence. While the event didn’t have the same razzle-dazzle of their PS4 reveal…

Looking good, Ratchet. Here’s Insomniac with a very promising look at the next Ratchet & Clank game, subtitled Into The Nexus. Some of this stuff—in particular the Nightmare Box—looks awfully interesting.

New Pokemon Trademarks Could Be Anything, Sound Like Fighting Games

So here’s the official word from The Pokemon Company on that mysterious Pokemon image that seemed to tease a Wii U game: “There is nothing to announce at this time. These are merely conceptual images.” Okay. So what are these new trademarks that Siliconera has unearthed, Pokkén Fighters and Pokkén Tournament? Could be anything. We’ve…

Xbox One Kinect Can Be Used For Motion Capture In Your Living Room

Project Spark, the games-creation toolkit for Xbox One and PC, drew a lot of attention at E3 for a deep feature set. That includes all kinds of motion capture, using the Kinect 2.0 sensor. You can mo-cap in your own living room. Team Dakota, Project Spark‘s makers, told a Gamescom audience today that full-body motion…

Moneysaver: No More Cross-Gen Blues [Updated 9/4]

Bridge the gap on the cheap. Update: Best Buy has launched a similar program, but it’s not as good as Amazon’s, and doesn’t feature any games that Amazon’s doesn’t. Sony made a ton of announcements at Gamescom today, including a $200 Vita with cheaper memory cards, and a $200 PS3. One of these revelations was…

League of Legends Hacked, Some (Encrypted) Credit Cards At Risk

One of the most popular online games on the planet has been attacked by hackers. Riot Games, the company behind the huge multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends, announced today that “a portion” of North American accounts have been compromised Hackers were able to access usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords, and some names,…

Awesome, PS4 Controllers Also Come In Red and Blue

Black? Boring. Check out these color variations of the DualShock 4 controller; up above we’ve got red, and below, blue. Or, well, technically, they’re Magma Red and Wave Blue. Same thing! According to a Sony press release, they’ll become available in North America later this year for $59, and in Europe for € 59. Here’s…

You Can Smoke Pot In GTA V, According to Ratings Board

We had a hunch it was going to be possible, and, now, the people who rate video games are letting the cat out of the dimebag. You can smoke pot in GTA V, according to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. That same group has offered a bunch of other mild spoilers for GTA V, if…