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…

It’s Hard To Play Double Fine’s Dropchord Without Shaking Your Ass

With only a couple of fingers needed to keep the music-based puzzle gameplay of Dropchord flowing, the rest of your body is going to want to move. A shining jewel of the Leap Motion controller launch lineup, Dropchord arrived on iOS and Android last week, trading air poking for the gentle stroking of a touchscreen.…

Remembering The Victims Of Nintendo’s 1990 Fruit Snack Rap Attack

In 1990, children across the U.S. flocked to Nintendo Powerfest events to show their appreciation for the company and its products. Nintendo repaid them by making them dance to the Nintendo Fruit Snacks “rap.” Those with sensitive stomachs may want to look away. The video above features Kotaku reader Robert Leonard and his brother RickyLee.…

The Sunburst Turret Statue Is Portal Collectors’ Only Sunshine

It is our sunshine — our only sunshine. It makes us happy when skies are grey. Then it shoots us, but only because we dared love this $325, lighted, motion-sensing, sound producing Portal 2 turret replica too much. You’d have to love it too much, really. Maybe you already purchased Gaming Heads’ original plain white…

You Need To Watch Adventure Time’s Intro Redone With Legos

Oh my glob, this is amazing—and it definitely sells you on the idea of an Adventure Time Lego set, yeah? I’m surprised it doesn’t exist yet, although it does seem like people are trying to make Lego AT happen. Alas, for now we’ll have to settle for this incredible Adventure Time opening that was redone…

Watch Stephen Colbert Awesomely Rip On MTV For Stealing Daft Punk

It’s a tale as old as time: Beloved TV personality books hot band to appear on his show. Sister network ganks booking, claiming a prior exclusive agreement. Beloved TV personality goes on the air and makes a bunch of excellent jokes at sister network’s expense. Okay, it’s not THAT common a story. But that’s what…

Unofficial Police Quest Comeback Hits a Snag, Switching to Plan B

Precinct, the unofficial successor to the classic adventure game series Police Quest, won’t be coming back through Kickstarter. But the project, which is led by Police Quest creator Jim Walls, will live on. The president of Walls’ development studio, Robert Lindsley, blamed gamer anxiety about Kickstarter: “Like other recent high-profile Kickstarters, we quickly saw that…

Six Unlikely, But Possible Breaking Bad Endings

It’s difficult to abstain from guessing what the ending of Breaking Bad might be, given that the upcoming season is the final season. So many things could happen! The mind races with possibilities. Here are six kind of silly guesses about the ending by Thomas Moser, who poses things like having Walt Jr. take over…

Store Perfectly Illustrates One Of Nintendo’s Biggest Problems…

Spotted by the fine folks over at Vooks, the above drawing, seen in JB Hi-Fi just perfectly illustrates one of the biggest challenges Nintendo has with the perennially struggling Wii U: the mainstream audience that adored the Wii simply doesn’t know that the Wii U exists. And, if they are aware of its existence, they…

Here’s Captain Bubblenaut, a nifty-looking iOS game from veteran designers Dean Tate (BioShock, Dance Central) and Owen Macindoe (MIT GameLab). It’ll be out later this month.

A Wolverine Vs. Predator Face-Off. Bets On Who Wins?

How this crossover is possible, I don’t know. That’s not the important part, people. What you should be asking is, who would win in this mash-up by Aaron Shoenke? The actual answer may surprise you. WOLVERINE vs. PREDATOR – Super Power Beat Down [machinima]

I’ve had my eye on the mind-bending exploration game Mirror Moon since I first saw its creators demonstrating it at the Game Developers Conference a couple of years ago. The game is now up for pre-order through their site, and if you do so you can get in on the beta right now.