Today’s New Batman Games Tease A Very Cool Possible Sequel

We don’t want to ruin any of the surprises in the new Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Arkham Origins: Blackgate games today—not if you don’t want to be spoiled. But if you do want to know about the very exciting future of the franchise that both games are teasing, keep reading. That was a spoiler…

Candy Box, The Best Game To Sneakily Play At Work, Just Got A Sequel

Sure, I love playing Cookie Clicker at work, but that love began with Candy Box. It starts so simply, just a handful of candies and two buttons, then turns into a genuine RPG. The sequel more than lives up to the original, and you need to check it out. The video up above should give…

The PlayStation App Coming November 13 To Enhance Your PS4 Experience

Launching for iOS and Android phones and tablets on November 13 in North America (22 in Europe), the free official PlayStation App adds almost as much functionality to the PlayStation 4 as the day one patch. The PlayStation App is an interface to the PlayStation Network, tying together the Vita, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4…

PS4 Day-One Patch Is 300 MB, Enables Online Multiplayer And More

The PlayStation 4 will get a day-one patch when it launches on November 15, Sony announced today. The patch is 300 megabytes, and it turns on a lot of features: Remote Play, sharing, broadcasting, and so forth. Without the patch, you won’t able to use any of that. You won’t be able to play games…

Nintendo 2DS: A Video Guide

Meet the Nintendo 2DS, the 3DS’s kid-friendly little brother. It plays 3DS games, but it looks and feels totally different. Check out our video guide for a closer look at the latest member of the DS family, which is surprisingly comfortable, although I do wish it kept the clam-shell design. You can also see how…

How To Beat Deathstroke, Batman: Arkham Origins’ Most Annoying Boss

Deathstroke is one of the eight assassins sent to kill Batman in Batman: Arkham Origins, so he should be a formidable opponent. The problem is, he’s a bit too tough, resulting in a pretty frustrating boss fight. Take a look at the video above for how to get through it. Deathstroke aside, Arkham Origins isn’t…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: DocSeuss opens the airlock and lets Mass Effect 2—a Last-Gen Zero in his mind—get sucked out to die in the cold vacuum of space. Stormborn can do more than just fancy pictures. He’s nice with the words, too, as this post on your possible career…

The Xbox One’s TV Commercial Is Full Of TV and Games

Hype season has begun. We are less than a month away from the debut Xbox One and the spot above is one part of how Microsoft will be trying to sell their next-gen console to TV-watching folks around the world. The fusion of television watching and high-end gaming sits at the center of the “Xbox…

The Ultimate Video Game Music Cover Band

Award-winning composer and Blizzard dev Jason Hayes has gathered an army of prolific musicians, from session stalwarts to symphony stars to the pianist from freaking Toto, just to do video game music covers under the name Critical Hit. Here’s the first one. It’s pretty amazing. Not to discount the work of the thousands of video…

Tearaway Is The Best Thing I’ve Played On the Vita

It’s happening, everyone. I think there’s finally a game you really do need a PlayStation Vita to play and a Vita game you’re really going to need to play—at least judging by the first couple of hours I’ve played of this stunning game. How did this happen? Credit the LittleBigPlanet people, Media Molecule, I guess.…

Somewhere beyond the sea, Somewhere waitin’ for me. You’ll be able to go back to Rapture on November 12 when part one of BioShock Infinite‘s Burial at Sea DLC comes out for consoles and PC.

I Wish I Could Make a Transformer Like This

Japanese Twitter user Dori Asuka made this Golden Warrior Gold Lightan robot from candy boxes. It even transforms. Incredible, huh? But making the papercraft was no easy task. Anime Golden Warrior Gold Lightan aired in Japan during the early 1980s and followed the adventures of a young boy and a gold cigarette lighter than turned…

Monogatari Second Season is More of the Greatness You’ve Come to Expect

Back in summer, I called Monogatari Second Season one of the five anime you should be watching. This is because it is, like previous iterations in the Monogatari series, one of the best directed, well written, and most visually stunning anime of the past few years—and it’s only half done. Unlike Bakemonogatari—in which the stories…

“The Scariest Thing” Conan O’Brien Has Ever Seen

To get in the spirit of Halloween, Conan O’Brien checks out some scary PC games in the dark. Conan plays Slender, Amnesia, and Outlast. But which one will frighten him? Bore him? Remind him of German porn? Clueless Gamer: PC Horror Game Edition [TeamCoco@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or…

You Aren’t Looking at Ramen. This Is “Ramen Cake.”

Love ramen? Got a sweet tooth? Listen up! You can now eat cake that’s shaped like the delicious noodle dish. “Ramen cake” (ラーメンケーキ), it’s called. But that’s not the only food in Japan that’s getting caked out. In Japan, more and more people started to take note of ramen cake earlier this year, and today,…

Disney will be participating in this year’s Comiket for the first time as part of a promotion for Ender’s Game. The movie will be released in Japan next January.

Chinese Hairstyles That Might Make You Sad

In parts of Asia, when you get a haircut, there are hairstyle magazines from which you can pick a new ‘do. They tend to have the latest cuts and most of the hairstyles are fairly typical for Asia. But, among the normal styles, there are outliers: The wild ones, the edgy ones, and the very…