Street Fighter II For The Virtual Boy Exists, Looks Amazing

And you thought the Virtual Boy was only good for tennis and tired failed hardware jokes. Coder Mr. Anon has somehow modified a homebrew fighting game engine to bring a bootleg version of Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting Edition to Nintendo’s ancient novelty “handheld”. This shouldn’t exist. And yet. It does. If you’ve got the…

The Xbox One Might Be Out On November 8

The PlayStation 4 is out in the US on November 15. The Xbox One? Well, it’s looking like it could hit the market a week ahead of its competitor. While Microsoft is yet to officially announce the big day, and “release dates” on retailer sites are usually little more than window dressing, we’ve heard from…

I Guess Miley Cyrus Owns An Ouya Now

Everyone’s talking about thetwerking/Blurred Lines performance from yesterday’s MTV VMAs, but here’s a different funny detail: the gift bags that celebrities got last night? One of the things included is an Ouya console according to Mashable. There’s other hilarious inclusions, of course—spot the ‘ENDING ADDICTION FOR GOOD’? Or the chocolate syrup? Man, what a random…

Let’s Look At This Breaking Bad Star’s Audition Tape

If you’ve been keeping up with Breaking Bad of late, it’s kind of amazing to compare Jesse as we know him now to the Jesse at the start of the show—nevermind seeing Rapture Productions‘s footage of Aaron Paul, the actor who plays the character, auditioning for said role. Ah, how things have changed. Breaking Bad…

Hmm: here’s Engadget‘s interview with EA’s Peter Moore, where he says that EA doesn’t make offline experiences anymore and free-to-play business models will be “part-and-parcel with every major franchise we do now.”

Final Fantasy XIV (2010 Release): The Kotaku Review

On this, the eve of the official launch of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, let’s take a look back at the original release of Square Enix’s second Final Fantasy MMO, and reflect on the wrongs the new version is trying to right. — Originally posted 10/21/2010 — Forget Cloud, Squall, Tidus, and Lightning; in…

A cloth map, a guide book, a compass and three CDs — yum. Celebrating more than 25 years of mispronunciation, XSEED is bringing a special collector’s edition of Ys: Memories of Celceta to the PlayStation Vita this holiday season. It’ll be $59.99, and I bet it will smell amazing.

And The Newest PS3 Color Is… Blue

This blue thang is the newest PS3 model, to be available only at GameStop for $250 starting on October 8. To quote the press release: The new Azurite Blue PlayStation®3 system includes an Azurite Blue DualShock®3 wireless controller, a 250GB hard drive, a built in Blu-Ray™ player, and can hold over 1800 games, 140 movies,…

Show Us Your Favorite Fighting Game Ultras and Supers

One thing I can’t help but admire about fighting games is how well the genre uses moves and kinetics for characterization: sure, not every game has a fantastic story attached to it, but that doesn’t mean a fighting game can’t have well-defined, unique characters, you know? You don’t need hours of exposition to understand characters…

Giant-Robot Call of Duty Still Looking Like The Coolest Call of Duty

Today’s new trailer for the upcoming and final Call of Duty: Black Ops II expansion, Apocalypse, once again shows why the world would benefit from an old World War I trench warfare planes-and-blimps-and-giant-robot Call of Duty. Just look at this GIF we pulled from it! It’s from the map pack’s latest co-op zombies mission, entitled…

Kid Saving for PS4 is Robbed at His Lemonade Stand—by a BB Gun

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. When Life Gives You Lemons JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—Ten-year-old Anthony Sanders…

If You Hate This Week In Gaming Apps, You’ll Love Next Week

Only one game in this installment of This Week in Gaming Apps is available on Android. That’s sad, and we’re going to make up for it next week, with a very special Android-only Week in Gaming Apps. Next week will be completely iOS-free. Apple platforms have been hogging the spotlight lately, largely due to featuring…

Woman Joins A Game. Things Immediately Get Ridiculous.

If you’ve played a multiplayer game, maybe you’ve watched a scene like the one from this episode of Battlefield Friends by Hank and Jedunfold—one where a woman joins your match or squad, and all of a sudden the atmosphere changes. Archetypes appear. There are people who immediately (and uncomfortably) try to flirt. There are those…

This White Xbox One Sure Is Snazzy. Too Bad It’s Only For Employees.

Images of an employee-only white Xbox One have been circulating today, and the design sure looks neat. Cooler than the black one, even. Too bad it’s just for Microsoft staff. At least for now. As for the image’s veracity… one source familiar with goings-on at Microsoft tells Kotaku it’s real, and IGN is reporting that…

The Best Matches Of The StarCraft II World Championship Finals

As this dramatic recap footage shows above, StarCraft II and the Season 2 finals of the World Championship series took over Gamescom 2013 for the weekend. A new world champion was crowned and incredible games were played. We selected the best ones below. The Two Best Terran Players In The World Face Each Other Possibly…

Moneysaver: Madden 25 + NFL Sunday Ticket, SteelSeries Keyboard, PS+

He could save all the way! Note: Today is the last day to pre-order Madden 25, as it comes out tomorrow. Deal Leaderboard Madden 25 + NFL Sunday Ticket [PS3/360] ($100) | Amazon | Coverage here Pre-Order Weeds: The Complete Collection [Blu-Ray] ($34) | WalMart via Deals Kinja | Amazon’s selling it for $84 Walking…

‘If fighting games didn’t exist, I’d have probably gotten into Karate’

Our weekly Quick Q&A series is only ever four questions long, which should make it the perfect format for a man who came up with a minimalist fighting game that requires only two buttons. Today, that man, Adam Heart answers our four questions and poses one to you. 1. Your new fighting game, Divekick, has…

An Adventure Time x Pacific Rim Crossover Might Look Like This

Jake would make a good Jaeger, I think. Alas, this this illustration by Larry Quach isn’t directly connected to Pacific Rim—it’s just Adventure Time as a mecha show—but still. Your mind goes there too, right? Regardless, I’m sure we can all agree that Quach’s work is awesome. Here are a couple of in-progress screenshots for…

Grand Theft Auto Blamed After Eight-Year-Old Shoots Grandmother

Last week, an eight-year-old boy picked up a loaded gun and shot his grandmother in the head a few minutes after playing Grand Theft Auto IV. You’ll never guess which part of that sentence has become a talking point for pundits and media analysts over the past couple of days. On Thursday, just after 5pm,…

New Video Game Shows How Thrilling It Is To Text While You Drive

This game, designed by my friend Holden Link for the Ludum Dare jam this past weekend, is a more effective tool for caution than any PSA or lecture. Send it to every teenage driver you know. Please don’t download it on your phone and try to play while driving. Download right here