Why Are You Here? Shigeru Miyamoto On The Ocarina Of Time

For many, Ocarina of Time is the greatest video game ever made or, at the very least, one of the most influential. In this Kotaku feature story we speak to its creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, about the making of the game we waited seven years for. “Mr Miyamoto, what are you doing? Why are you here?”…

Laharl, Etna and Flonne return to their proper headlining roles when NIS America brings Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness to the PlayStation 3 on October 8 in North America, September 27 in Europe. Still too long to wait.

Rockstar Might Actually Bring GTAV, Other Games To PC

Red Dead Redemption never made it to the PC. Grand Theft Auto V hasn’t been announced for PC. Such sadness. But what’s this? A personal computer-shaped rainbow on the horizon? Rockstar’s Leeds studio recently posted a job opening for somebody to “help bring our latest titles to the PC platform”. “Working together with the other…

All Twin Peaks‘ Pie And Coffee References In One Damn Fine Supercut

I finally watched Twin Peaks for the first time about a year ago. Man oh man, did that show make me hungry. All I wanted to do was drink coffee and eat pie. I can’t imagine why that was! Oh wait, yes I can—the show won’t shut up about coffee and pie, as evidenced by…

Now The Secret World Has A Snowmobile Chase, And That’s Beautiful

In the Issue #7 update for Funcom’s paranormal MMO The Secret World, the player gets to wear a tuxedo and participate in a James Bond-esque snowmobile chase. There are rockets. This is why I love The Secret World. While other, more popular MMOs layer on the pop culture references, cramming them into settings where they…

Nintendo Changes Mind, Allows Smash Bros. Streaming

Only hours after Nintendo blocked fighting game tournament Evo from streaming Smash Bros. Melee matches, the publisher has swiftly reversed its decision. A notice on SRK reads: I’ve just receive word from Nintendo that the Evo Smash Bros. Melee stream will be allowed to proceed. We will be restoring the original stream and tournament schedules.…

Little Witch Academia 2 Is Now Officially Funded. Hooray!

Well, that didn’t take long. Little Witch Academia 2 was on Kickstarter for 3 hours before being fully funded.The page lists no stretch goals, although it sounds as if they’re coming soon. Beyond that, Trigger’s Facebook page also suggests they’re looking into dubbing the new animated short. You might recall that Little Witch Academia is…

Valve Finally “Releases” DOTA 2

Guess the earlier accidental release of Dota 2 wasn’t quite a false alarm: now the game is officially out of beta.Finally! Here’s how the launch will work according to Valve: Like we mentioned before, the launch of Dota 2 is going to take on a different shape than products we’ve shipped in the past. Our…

Sweet Mother Of Beards, This A Cappella Sonic Cover Is Great

How many different ways do I need to say that Smooth McGroove‘s a cappella cover of Sonic The Hedgehog‘s Green Hill Zone music is bananas-level good? Just the one? Okay. Enjoy!

Jennifer Carter, mother of the jailed League of Legends player, recently had her petition requesting the release of her son go over 100k signatures. The family is also selling “free Justin Carter” T-Shirts here, the proceeds of which will go to Carter’s legal defense.

Geez, Thank God This Wasn’t Actually Tomb Raider’s DLC

People will try to sell you anything these days, but thankfully none of the DLC for the reboot of Tomb Raider features more brutal (if not WTF) death animations like in this video by Animation Domination High-Def “Thankfully,” I say, and yet I laughed. But I mean…death by Joffrey? Haaaa. TOMB RAIDER: ADDITIONAL DEATHS DLC…

If all this talk of No One Lives Forever has got you fondly remembering your first time playing the game, check out this great 2001 post-mortem by NOLF creative director Craig Hubbard.

The Nintendo Power Glove Gets Its Own Documentary

It was supposed to be the first part in turning yourself into a bad-ass cyborg. An artifact from the glorious gaming future that we couldn’t live inside of yet. Sure, you can laugh at it now but you know you wanted a Power Glove back in the day. The accessory favored by Nintendo superfan Isaiah…

Blizzard has confirmed that yes, an in-game microtransaction store is in the works for World of Warcraft “First, we’ll be testing the in-game store with some new kinds of items we’re looking into introducing (in Asian regions, at the outset) based on player feedback: specifically, an experience buff to assist with the leveling process, as…

Nintendo Won’t Let Top Fighting Game Tournament Stream Smash Bros

UPDATE – Nintendo has reversed its initial decision, allowing the streaming to take place. In a move that’s already ticking off a lot of fans, Nintendo is denying the world’s biggest fighting game tournament, Evo, from streaming footage of Nintendo’s top fighting game, the GameCube’s Super Smash Bros. Melee The news hit today via an…

Final Fantasy XIV Isn’t Coming To Xbox Because Of A Silly Policy

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, the much-improved reincarnation of Square Enix’s online role-playing game, will be out on August 27 for PC and PS3, then later in the future for PS4. No Xbox 360. No Xbox One. Allow Naoki Yoshida to explain why. Speaking with RPGSite, the new director of FFXIV pointed a finger…

How To Make Final Fantasy VII Look Like An HD Remaster

If you’re playing the re-release of Final Fantasy VII on Steam, I have a friendly reminder for you: you can mod the game, just like the original PC release. Like we wrote last year, fans have been modding the PC version of FFVII for a long while—so much so that you could experience something like…

Blanka Is A Troll

Goddammit, Blanka. Look at him go on his public rampages, totally unapologetically. Causing all sorts of havoc! I’m definitely the sort of person to laugh at this kind of slapstick humor, but it’s even more golden with Blanka involved. I somehow missed the first episode of this, so in case you did too, here you…

Brave New World Is A Great Expansion To A Good Game, Six Critics Say

Improving greatly upon the base game while bringing new, fun things to the table? Yep, that’s how expansions should work. In fact, that’s how Civilization V: Brave New World works. After Gods & Kings, Brave New World is the second big expansion to hit Firaxis’ turn-based strategy game, bringing with it nine new civilizations and…

Can you believe this shit? Trampling on my roses?! No shame.