First, there wasn’t going to be a headset included with the Xbox One. But now, Microsoft says that feedback from gamers is the reason that every one of their next-gen consoles will include the communications peripheral

Watch Futurama Make Fun of Adventure Time In Last Night’s Episode

There was much excitement over the Futurama x Adventure Time crossover happening this week—the question was, how would it work? And now that the “Leela and the Genestalk” episode of Futurama aired last night, we know. It’s just a short cameo captured by Superjesterdude102, but still, funny—especially when you consider Bender and Jake are the…

PlayStation All-Stars Lives On As Coke-Sponsored Mobile Mini-Games

Dry those tears, PlayStation All-Stars fans. Your beloved game isn’t quite dead yet. It managed to makes its way to PlayStation All-Stars Island, where Sony and Coke Zero are… oh god, what are they doing to it? Look away, baby. Just look away. Coming soon to iOS and Android, PlayStation All-Stars Island is a free-to-play…

Why We Love Comics

This video celebrating comics is great. It nods at everything from old Sunday newspaper strips to Silver Age superhero epics and underground mini-comics. But, I’m sure that when Stephen Totilo watches it, he will be very disturbed by the lack of Grant Morrison. The BuzzFeed video’s part of YouTube’s Geek Week. I’m sure I’ve been…

Be A Jerk Immigration Inspector In Papers, Please

Have you ever dreamt of being an immigration inspector? Yeah, me too! Well now, thanks to Papers, Please we can enact on that collective dream we’ve all had for so long. Why not learn more about the great country of Arstotzka while getting a big dose of polka music by watching the video I very…

Sharing And Streaming Will Be Free On PS4 (But Not Xbox One)

You’ll need to pay for premium membership to play (non-free-to-play) games online with a PS4, but not to share them: Sony prez Shuhei Yoshida clarified on Twitter today that you can stream and record PS4 gameplay footage without paying any PlayStation Plus fees. In contrast, yesterday Microsoft clarified that you’ll need an Xbox Live Gold…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Zarnyx pens a beautiful essay about Earthbound, unemployment and mushrooms. DanimalCart wonders if The Last of Us‘ story should’ve been told in something other than a video game. And Odin announces the new anime series that Ani-TAY discussions will be focusing on And you can…

The Best Way To Play Android Games Just Got Better

Last year Google released its first official mid-sized Android tablet, the Nexus 7. I called it “The Best Way to Play Android Games.” We can throw that one out now. The new Nexus 7 is here, and its better in every way possible. Asus has done an outstanding job of refining Google’s flagship Android tablet.…

It’s Spin the Bottle time in the Nintendo Download! The Wii U gets physical with the release of KnapNok Games’ touchy-feely party game today, while the 3DS gets an neat looking platform mining adventure in SteamWorld Dig. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team is out on Sunday, and is DuckTales Remastered really just five days away?…

A Modest PS4 Proposal

We know that the PS4 will have a Share button that will enable PS4 gamers to capture, upload and share clips of their best gaming moments. But what if there wasn’t a Share button? What if there was a “Make GIF” button instead? The best thing ever? The worst? Just brainstorming the future of video…

Here’s Everything That Comes With The $500 ‘Day One’ Xbox One

Some of you already have pre-orders in for the Xbox One and it’s simply a matter of waiting until you can find out when it’s actually going to be in stores. You might think you already know enough about Microsoft’s next-gen console but, this morning, the folks in Redmond are showing off what comes with…

What Comes After Cut The Rope’s Renaissance? The Disco Era. Aw Yeah.

After eating his way through Ancient Greece, Egypt, the Stone Age,the Middle Ages, Pirate times and the Renaissance, there’s only one time period left. It’s Cut the Rope: Time Travel‘s free Disco Era update, y’all. Tell you what, Om Nom there is lucky he’s such a cute little bastard. Otherwise one might be upset about…

Don’t Worry About The Wonderful 101 Being Too Short

It’s got it where it counts. Game director Hideki Kamiya previously tweeted about video game length which led some to believe that he must have meant Platinum Games’ upcoming Wii U title The Wonderful 101 would be short. While both Kamiya and producer Atsushi Inaba clarified that a game’s length shouldn’t determine how good a…

This Game’s Forced Stripping Was a Total Turn Off

I initially had some problems with Valhalla Knights 3 with its Sexy Time system. Still, that didn’t keep me from clocking in well over 120 hours of gameplay time. Just a 120 hours! While I was turned off by the Japanese hostess club-ish game system of paying a cover charge to talk to girls and…

Twitter Is Great at Finding Morons

In the past two weeks, Twitter has been news in Japan. I don’t mean Twitter itself. Oh no. Rather, it’s the idiots Twitter finds. This has been a trend of late, especially in the service industry. Previously, Kotaku covered the Japanese convenience store employee who crawled into his store’s ice cream freezer. That employee was…

Why Nintendo Doesn’t Want To Give Its Games to Rivals

Nintendo games appear on Nintendo hardware. That’s the rule! But is Nintendo’s honcho Satoru Iwata interested in bringing the company’s games to competitors’ consoles? Nope. Here’s why. When asked by CVG about the chances of Nintendo’s games appearing on rival systems, Iwata replied, “If I was to take responsibility for the company for just the…

These Transformers Might be Fake, But They’re Still So Cool

Fakes. Copies. Knock-offs. Cheap imitations might get a bad name, but that doesn’t mean they are uninteresting. Take these phony Transformers, for example. They’re pandas! And they’re wonderful. Japanese site Fake Toy Gallery does a bang up job of cataloguing knock-offs found throughout Asia over the years. Of particular interest are the fake Transformers. Some…

Without Pokémon, We Wouldn’t Have Japan’s Nerd Heroine

Japanese nerd heroine, Shoko Nakagawa, loves Pokémon. And for good reason. Pocket Monsters gave her a reason to live. A regular host every Sunday on Japan’s Pokémon Smash! (Formerly Pokémon Sunday), Nakagawa has described her selection as Pokémon Captain (ポケモン部長) for the show as a dream come true. She has also noted that while her…

Why You Should Never Buy a Console at Launch

I’ve decided that I don’t want to buy new consoles at launch anymore for a variety of reasons. Many of them are highlighted in this wonderful School House Rock style video. How about you? Game Launch Rock! [brentalfloss@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft

Taiwan’s Photoshop Masters Attempt the Impossible

Earlier this summer, Japanese site Omocoro tried to see if Photoshop could turn an “ugly” staff writer into a beautiful woman. At the time, it wasn’t doable. Now, Taiwanese Photoshop masters have taken up this seemingly impossible challenge. But did they succeed? Omocoro, a comedy site, described staffer RiqRique as “The Most Atrociously Ugly Person…