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This Hospital Has Its Very Own Video Game Room… For The Surgeons

“It’s amazing how that little monkey wound up being able to help me and others become better surgeons” said an actual doctor. At a Florida hospital, the doctors are encouraged to play six minutes of video games before surgery. Dr. James Rosser, who co-authored a study on the benefits of gaming and laparoscopic surgery years…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: The Agency Group—Sir Trey’s imaginary video game Criterion Collection—gets another candidate in Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy. LightningLouie asks everyone to look back at this fading console era And Faux Bravo wants to know about music videos where games show up And you can always go…

This Sounds Like The Coolest X-Men Game Ever… Oh, Wait.

They had me at drawing on heroes and villains from the X-Men’s past, present and future. Then they lost me. Gree has an image problem — most of its big-name games are just a collection of images with numbers assigned so they can battle each other. Collectible cards, without the actual cards. I’ve dabbled, but…

First Batch of Free Uniforms Arrives for NCAA Football 14

Twenty teams get new alternate uniform sets in NCAA Football 14 on Xbox 360, thanks to the first free offering from the game’s Uniform Store. This video showcases them all. These are the 20 teams, and the timestamps in which they display. Otherwise the video is kinda, well, boring. It’s 20 minutes of uniform changes…

Mario Needs To Stop Dwelling On The Past

Mario is a man we’ve become well accustomed to, we’ve followed his escapades for decades now. But despite bringing us new experiences he seems to harp on the past an awful lot. The good news is, Mario, today is the first day of the rest of your life. Music: Danse Morialta Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Wish…

I Finally Got My Hands On The Xbox One. Hmm.

Last Thursday night at the 2013 Xbox Comic-Con Media Showcase, I got my first hands-on time with the Xbox One. I was pleased — well, mostly pleased. Having manned home base during both E3 and Microsoft’s initial Xbox One reveal, for the past few months, the extent of my experience with the console has been…

Angry, Grieving Spider-Man Is My Favorite Comics Panel from Last Week

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #25: Spider-Man doesn’t really show up in this issue. And that’s a great thing. It continues to be impressive how Brian Michael Bendis makes it feel like superpowers are zapping across the page when the only thing happening is a bunch of people talking. The writer on many of Marvel’s biggest books…

There’s No Escape For Cosplayers When Deadpool Storms Comic-Con

Only Deadpool could walk up to Bane, Wolverine, Solid Snake and nearly every cosplayer at this year’s (and last year’s) San Diego Comic-Con, and fool around with them without any consequences. Physical, at least. Besides the silly dance moves, it’s good to see there was someone at Comic-Con in a Hello Kitty Iron Man suit…

Tekken Revolution‘s Next Character is a Vampire—Not a Giant Fish

If you were hoping to seea giant, flopping, egg-spewing salmon as the next character in Tekken Revolution, I have bad news: Of 10 concepts they could have picked, Tekken fans picked perhaps the sanest and most predictable: Female Vampire. Female Vampire, as yet unnamed (described on the official Tekken site as, “a young girl, long…

Mighty Morphin Mecha Mario, assemble! If the world ever needs a giant, Koopa-fighting Super Mario, this one straight from Gmod would do the job easily. Especially with that giant drilling tool (hopefully) attached to his left arm. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art…

Pokémon Developer’s New Game Crosses Horse Racing and… Solitaire

Here’s Game Freak’s newest game, which involves a “collaboration” the developer started referencing last week with a mysterious message on its site. It’s called Soritiba, and the collaboration in this case is between two genres: solitaire and horse racing. Huh. According to 4Gamer, gameplay in Soritiba (“Soriti” is a shortening of “solitaire”, while “ba” or…

Ghibli’s New Movie Is Beautiful (But It Has Its Problems)

This past weekend, The Wind Rises (風立ちぬ), the newest film from acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki was released in theaters across Japan. But how does Studio Ghibli’s latest film stack up against classics like Spirited Away, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and Princess Mononoke? Read on to find out! [This review contains spoilers about…

On August 1, Capcom is announcing 13 new games that range from smartphone titles to next-gen games as part of its streaming “Network Game Conference”. There’s also expected to be news regarding Monster Hunter Frontier G and Onimusha Soul.

This Ridiculous Pokémon Load Time Is Fake

There’s a new Pokémon game. It’s called Pokémon X/Y and recently gameplay was showed off on Japanese television. Don’t worry; the game doesn’t appear to have ridiculously long load times. The above GIF is a fake! This is gameplay footage that has been given a long “Now Loading…” screen. As several Kotaku commenters have pointed…

Here’s IGN taking a look at how the Ouya’s games are doing sales-wise. Matt Thorson’s TowerFall, for example, the Ouya’s current best-selling app and a game which we rather liked when it was shown at E3 last month, made a modest $21,000 since its June 25th release.

Modder Makes Current Gen Graphics Look Like the Future

Last year, Konami showed off images created using its upcoming game engine, the Fox Engine. Over on the CryDevforums, modder Gametime decided to recreate that demo with current gen tech. The result isn’t next gen, but damn, it sure is amazing. “While the Fox Engine is very impressive, especially the E3 2013 Trailer, I felt…

If My Heart Had Wings: The Kotaku Review

Winner of several visual novel game awards, If My Heart Had Wings is a romance title centering around a high school glider club known as the “Soaring Club.” It is a touching story about loss, love, and passion that grips you right by the soul from beginning to end. Like many visual novels, a large…

In This Delightful-Looking Game, You’re a Shiny Metal Sphere

This is InFlux, a puzzle game with elements of platforming and exploration, where you step into the role of an alien sphere of some sort which crash-landed on a desert island. It’s also a rather good-looking game, as evidenced by the above trailer. Impromptu Games, the Australian group responsible, is currently hard at work fixing…

Let’s Play Around With Pikmin 3‘s Multiplayer Modes

Like Pikmin 2 before it, Pikmin 3 comes with several multiplayer modes. The first three, Gather the Fruit, Enemy Battle, and Boss Rush are all available for two-player coop (as well as single player). The fourth is a bingo-themed versus game where two players compete to gather the items they need as quickly as possible.…