Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: GiantBoyDetective asks TAYfolk about the secret origins of their screennames. PyramidHeadCrab wants to know what your favorite entries in the Zelda and Final Fantasy franchises are. And Odin unleashes a rant about all the chatter surrounding used games And you can always go join the…

Mortal Kombat‘s Scorpion Coming to Injustice as DLC

As previously rumored, the undead ninja from the iconic Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise will be showing up as a downloadable add-on for Injustice. Scorpion shows up to bedevil the heroes and villains of the DC Comics universe for $4.99/400 Microsoft points. The video above shows superstar comics artist and DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee…

Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Travels Through Time On iOS July 18

Crazy Dave is the Doc Brown of a new generation in Plants Vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time, an appropriate title for the eagerly-anticipated sequel in more ways than one. If anyone could figure out the mysteries of time travel, it’s the mad botanist who saved the world from zombie infestation through vegetation. In what…

Survey: Half of You Won’t Tolerate Any Online Requirement for Xbox One

Just over half of the more than 400 respondents to an informal Kotaku survey about the Xbox One say they will not accept an online requirement for single-player gaming. The other half said they would be able to live with it but offered wildly divergent replies as to how long they’d tolerate their single-player games…

EVE Online publisher CCP said in a statement that “at no time was customer data compromised or accessible,” during a DDoS attack that brought down EVE and Dust 514 this weekend. “We will be looking at ways to compensate players in both EVE and DUST for the outage,” CCP added.

Optimus Prime’s Greatest Moment Recreated In World Of Warcraft

Optimus Prime’s legendary scene from the 1986 Transformers movie gets a badass World of Warcraft remake, only here the Horde is playing the Autobots, and Mimiron’s Head shoots laser beams. Thank goodness they cut away to Stan Bush before getting to the part where Hot Rod ruins everything. Really great tribute from the U.S. horde…

Remember Me: The Kotaku Review

At first, I thought that Remember Me would be one of those games where I liked its ideas more than its execution. But, even though it’s surrounded by some rough gameplay and well-worn templates, the core concept behind the game—control over what we choose to hold onto—comes to life in ambitious ways. The first game…

Sony Calls The Last Guardian‘s E3 Listing “Pure Speculation” [Update]

E3 website E3Insider.com has a listing for long delayed PS3 title The Last Guardian. But does that mean the game is coming to E3? Kotaku reached out to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and asked if Sony would be showing The Last Guardian at E3. The Sony spokesperson said the E3Insider.com listing was “not true”, adding…

Defence Of The Diaoyu Islands, Chinese Newspaper Style

Chinese media company Global Times is a controversial company. They publish a lot of ridiculous articles, slideshows and videos. They’re prone to making mistakes, particularly when it comes to Japan. Despite all their issues, there is one thing that they’re doing that no other major Chinese news outlet is doing, they’re hosting video games. On…

In China, There Are Too Many Giant Rubber Duck Rip-Offs

The world-famous Rubber Duck art installation is spawning a slew of imitators in China. This weekend, at least ten fake ducks appeared across the country in what could only be called a quack up. Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman created the original 54-foot-tall inflatable sculpture, which has been displayed in Amsterdam, Osaka, Sydney, and more recently,Hong…

To help get players interested in Dead or Alive, Tecmo Koei is also releasing Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate as a freemium “base pack”, Siliconera reports. There will be a handful of playable characters and a free online mode included. Story mode and more characters will be available for a fee. To contact the author…

Chinese Health Study: Video Games Making Children Dumb

China has released various studies in the past about the adverse effects of video games on the development of young people. Over the weekend the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Wuhan, Hubei province released a report showing that more than half the city’s teenagers have less understanding about life and death than primary school…

Parents Donate Dead Gamer Son’s Organs To Save Sick Patients

We’ve seen this story many times; a Chinese gamer partakes in a grueling marathon of Internet gaming and then passes away. These stories rarely have a good ending. But for five people in Guangzhou, China, the untimely death of one young man means a new life. Reported on Sunday by the New Express paper, 18…

Truly Surreal Paintings of Japanese Celebrities

Forget canvases. Forget dull poses. Forget all that. That’s exactly what artist Hikaru Cho is doing, so you should, too. Here, you are looking at Beat Takeshi—well, a painting of Beat Takeshi. In case you are not familiar with Takeshi, he’s a famous movie director, actor, and comedian. He also starred in a notoriously difficult…

Expect more about Bayonetta 2 in next Nintendo Direct, hints Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya via TwitterUPDATE: Never mind. It turns out this is a generic response Kamiya gives to lots of questions; no news. The next Nintendo Direct kicks off June 11 am at 10am EST.

Popular Plastic Surgery Apps Cause Concern in South Korea

Plastic surgery? That’s an app for that! In South Korea, there are apparently many apps for that. And according to Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun, their popularity is making some individuals worry. As The Economist (via KoreaBang) pointed out last year, South Korea is the most surgically enhanced nation on Earth, passing countries like Greece, Brazil,…

If you watched tonight’s Game of Thrones, and had previously read the books so knew what was coming, take pleasure in scrolling throughthis Twitter feed collecting the reactions of those who did not know what was coming. Needless to say, serious spoilers ahead

Frontiers, that “Elder Scrolls at a leisurely pace” game we showed you last month, now has an IndieGoGo campaign. If you saw the clip and felt like giving someone money to get the game finished, now’s your chance

A Vib Ribbon Music Video. It’s Glorious.

Kiwi band Delete Delete and effects house Effective…Effects teamed up on this clip for the group’s song What Do You Take Me For? It’s not so much a thinly-veiled tribute as a flat-out homage, and makes me wish this was actually a Vita game so bad. Delete Delete – What Do You Take Me For?…

The Vultures Circle To Pick At The Carcass Of Used Game Sales

Responding to a report last week that claimed Microsoft would be taking a cut from all pre-owned game sales on the Xbox One, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick chimes in with the inevitable follow-up. It’s equally hard to imagine used game sales surviving attitudes like this. Even if they technically make it past this generation of…