Artist Elizabeth Simins has completed the final chapter of her wonderful four-part series Manic Pixel Dream Girl, in which she takes a long look back at her life growing up as a girl who plays video games. I recommend reading the whole thing from the top, and you can read the final chapter on its…

Steam Greenlight Users React to “Gayest Game Ever Made”

What you’ll initially notice about My Ex-Boyfriend The Space Tyrant is one of two things: the “Approved for distribution by the Ministry of Homosexual Pornography” screen on the trailer, or the sometimes nearly naked hot men prancing about. This, I assume, is intentional—the recently-launched Steam Greenlight page boasts that My Ex-Boyfriend is the “gayest game…

The 3D remake of Final Fantasy IV is now available on Google Play for Android devices. For $15.99, I’d make damn sure your device can run it before purchasing.

One Year Later, Did Sony Keep Their E3 2012 Promises?

E3 is just around the corner and, for the fifth year in a row, we’re taking a look back at the big three’s big E3 promises. What came true, and what didn’t? First up is Sony, with Nintendo and Microsoft following suit tomorrow and Wednesday, respectively. E3 is fundamentally about video games. Thus, Sony tried…

The Supervillain Who Makes You Want to Puke Returns in Green Arrow #23

Count Vertigo’s always been a weird supervillain. Think about it: his power is essentially to make you epically dizzy. But, if you’ve ever been really, really disoriented—like, Tilt-a-Whirl x 1,000—you know it’s nothing to laugh at. Even if the guy doing it to you is wearing a skirt. It wasn’t just his disorientation super-powers that…

Interested in Tegra 4 gaming but don’t want to drop $350 on a Shield handheld? Asus’ newly-announced Transformer Pad Infinity will be one of the first non-Nvidia devices to feature the world’s fastest mobile processor.

I’ve Never Played With Color And Shapes Quite Like This

Show me a collection of squares arranged on a grid and filled with color, and I’ll show you a game I’ve played before. That’s what I was thinking as I downloaded Blip Blup, a game that would shortly be proving me wrong. Created by ustwo Studio, the developer behind the popular Whale Trail, Blip Blup…

Moneysaver One-Shot: Playstation Vita With $50 Credit

Viva la Vita. No need to wait for a price drop that may not come at E3 or a holiday value bundle with games you may not want. Amazon is giving $50 in credit to anyone who buys a Vita, and there are two options to choose from. • Playstation Vita Wifi + $50 Credit…

Tell Us What You See in this Map of Los Santos [Update]

Rockstar has—probably deliberately—been doling out snippets of the Grand Theft Auto V map for some time. The ultrafans on GTAForums have been collecting them and finally stitched all of them together, giving us what appears to be a map of Los Santos and its surrounding area. [Update: This is not an official map; it’s the…

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…