Pokemon Leaker Says “Heads Are Rolling” At Nintendo

A bevy of alleged Pokemon X & Y images and videos are currently floating around the web right now, but one leaker in particular caught the attention of a lot of folk on the internet…and Nintendo. The images we posted earlier today, came from Instagram user kosthedin—but by the time of publication, all pictures had…

Track: Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes | Album: Graceland | Artist: Paul Simon Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Space People Of The Future Have Rad Spacesuits

The last we saw of Patryk Olejniczak, he was making Mass Effect fan art so good he won himself a job at BioWare. Today, though, we’re looking at two very different examples of his work: Game of Thrones fan art and insanely-detailed spacesuits. You can see more of Patryk’s work at his personal site and…

Slo-Mo Skateboarding + Chalk = Shredding In Style

It might be messy to pull, but if you add a whole lot of chalk dust to your skateboard before doing a trick, the resulting cloud of colors can be amazing. So while you may have seen slo-mo skateboarding videos before, thanks to the chalk effects here, I doubt they were as visually arresting or…

The power of a dinosaur suit: Hyperbole and a Half is back, and you simply must read their latest update about a four-year-old going mad with power in a dinosaur suit.Freakin’ hilarious.

No objections here: Capcom’s got a great blog post today about the localization process behind Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies. “…we’ve labeled him a samurai instead of a rōnin (which are technically a subset of samurai). This deliberate choice was made because samurai are simply more easily recognizable and readily understood by a Western audience than…

Just What I Needed, A Mod To Make Dark Souls Even More Difficult

With the PC version of the game installed and freshly updated, I’m finally picking away at Dark Souls. I’m liking it, but I think I’ll pass on this new mod for the game, which makes the enemies nightmarishly relentless. The mod, posted toInsane Difficulty by user JITD, makes enemies wander the map, allows them to…

Reminder: Not All Worthwhile PC Games Are On Steam

Steam is a fantastic service—of that, there’s no doubt. It’s so good, that many PC gamers use it as a filter of sorts: if it’s not on Steam, then it won’t be played. Not happily, anyway. Thing is, if you stick exclusively to Steam, you might miss a ton of genuinely worthwhile games. I’m not…

The New Pokémon Anime Was So Brutal

Oh. My. Goodness. You thought Pokémon was safe and all? Ha! Just look how Charmander gets jacked up and starts screaming like bloody hell. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! This appeared in Pokémon Origins, a Pocket Monster special based on Pokémon Red and Blue. It was not effing around. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [AppleHack@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write…

Nemo Goes Retro: Part of me is glad that Finding Nemo didn’t come out in the right era to get an annoyingly difficult side-scrolling tie-in game. But part of me is also happy to imagine what it would’ve been like, helped along by this latest “8-Bit Cinema” video from Cinefix

A PC Version Of Grand Theft Auto V Is For Sale On eBay (Haha)

And it’s only $1! Bargain! From the seller’s description: Selling my PC version of GTAV. Awesome game, finished it already so not really playing it anymore. Hard to find for PC. Requires a decent PC to run it. As you can see in the 2nd images the disk has no scratches. What you see is…

Xbox One’s Day One Patch Takes 15-20 Minutes To Download

Let’s remember this on Nov. 22: Microsoft says the Xbox One will require a day-one patch that, the console’s chief architect says, will take 15 to 20 minutes to download. [first item, via IGN]

Kinect 2.0 Sees Your Face, Muscles and Soul. Maybe Not That Last One.

At-home motion capture. Heart rate detection. Compatibility with smaller spaces. Microsoft has been promising impressive things about the new iteration of Kinect, which they kind of have to do seeing as how they’ve made it a mandatory part of buying an Xbox One. Now they’re trying to show you how the motion-sensing sensor will be…

Yup, The Stuff In Games Can Hurt Men, Too

The unfortunate reality is that society has a certain impossible if not destructive ideal of masculinity that affects both men and women alike. PBS Game/Show here takes the time to talk about what some hurtful and problematic stereotypes video games present of men, and it’s stuff that is definitely worth keeping in mind when we…

Retired Pilot Stuffs a 767 Cockpit Simulator Into His Bedroom

Even after Michael Black retired from his gig as a commercial pilot, he took his work home with him—in the form of a partial Boeing 767 cockpit and flight simulator packed into a bedroom in his Oregon home. Black built his homebrewed simulator from authentic Boeing aircraft parts, supported by five computers and four flat-screen…

Grand Theft Auto Online Launch Woes Put Microtransactions On Hold

The makers of Grand Theft Auto V warned that the game’s online component would probably have a rocky launch. And that turned out to be true. But they’re letting folks know what some of the issues are. And, until things get better, players won’t be able to spend real-world money in the game. An excerpt…

Zynga Boss Proves He’s Totally Out Of Touch With Games

“Right now, I’m pretty bored with all games.” That’s Mark Pincus, founder of Farmville company Zynga, as he spoke with an assemblage of tech entrepreneurs in Israel last night. Bored? More like not paying attention. It’s an incredibly exciting time in game development now, Mr. Pincus. All you need to do to see that is…

Okay, Maybe The High King of Skyrim Can Be A Nice Guy. Sorta.

Just because the High King of Skyrim mod lets youorder people and do whatever you want doesn’t mean you have to be an absolute jerk to your subjects. You can use your limitless power to do good, too! Uh. Kind of. Here’s what trying to be a ‘nice’ High King of Skyrim pans out like,…

How Often Does a Player Get Paralyzed in Madden?

This is the rara avis of outcomes in Madden NFL—the career-ending injury. It is the sports video game equivalent of permadeath, and yes, it’ll actually happen in your living room, although I have never seen this myself. EA Sports’ Madden NFL Twitter retweeted that image earlier today. A fan named Tyler said he’d “played madden…

Stardock deals itself in to the mobile market. Dead Man’s Draw, a rather spiffy-looking card game for iOS, marks the developer’s debut on mobile platforms. You can get it here.