Why Is Ash from Pokémon Such a Loser?

The Pokémon Origins anime special offered a reminder of one thing: Ash is a pretty lousy Pokémon trainer. If only he could reach his true potential! Eh, he can’t. Note: This post contains spoilers. If you’ve followed the Pokémon anime, you’ll know that Ash (or “Satoshi” as he’s called in Japan) isn’t exactly the best…

Build A Ship, Lose The Ship, Build Another Ship, Go Shoot Some Ships

Defect SDK is a game about designing a ship, building it then going off into space to do some damage. The catch being that at some point, the perfect ship you’ve designed to beat will be turned against you when your crew defects. Forcing you to design an even more perfect ship to beat it.…

The Video Game That Began With…Pictures Of Ellen Page

It began with an idea. David Cage sits at his desk, but he can’t write. He looks for an image. He can’t remember the words he types into the search engine but, before he knows it, on his screen, a photograph of the actress Ellen Page. A funeral, a single idea and pictures of Ellen…

Cheap Robot Arm Turns Disabled Kid Into Sci-Fi Superstar

Dee Faught is 17, and suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, commonly known as “brittle bone disease”. For years he’s been unable to perform even simple tasks like turning off his own lightswitch. Now, however, he’s got a degree of independence. All thanks to his badass new robot arm. A team of student engineers at Rice Universeity…

Playing As A Blind Girl Is More Colorful Than You’d Think

Beyond Eyes is a game by Sherida Halatoe, where you control a young girl who was blinded in an accident. Fearful of outside spaces, she nevertheless has to set off on an adventure when her cat goes missing. Despite being blind, she gets around by using her other senses to reveal the environment to you,…

Los Santos Is A Beautiful Place (If You Stand Still Long Enough)

Spend your time driving and everything whizzes past you in a blur. Spend your time running around and you’re likely more focused on shooting people than admiring scenery. But if you just stopped for a second and watched Grand Theft Auto V’s world pass you by, maybe you’d appreciate just how beautiful it is. A…

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…