This Is Angry Tetris Sex

Sometimes you want to go slow with your tetronimo stacking. Plan it out. Set aside an hour or two, light some candles, put on some inspiring classical Russian music and explore your relationship with the legendary puzzle game to its fullest extent. Then there are times when your passion for Alexy Pajitnov’s creation run so…

Hey, if you’re wondering what’s next from the House of Mario—and who isn’t?—there’s going to be a Nintendo Direct broadcast during E3. It’s scheduled for 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on June 11th. What do you think they’re going to announce?

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and The Denpa Men: They Came by Wave are part of the Nintendo Download’s weekly offering this time out. See the full list here

How Does Local News Cover The Xbox One? By Asking The Weatherman.

Meteorologists across the country are truly upset that the Xbox One isn’t backwards-compatible. This weatherman, who looks, sounds, and acts a bit like Brick from Anchorman, is not too pleased about having to “buy a whole collection of other games for 90 bucks each.” Poor guy. I bet Don Mattrick thinks he’s really backwards

EA Says Need for Speed Rivals‘ Open-World Chases Are Next-Gen Racing

New video game hardware is coming down the pike and those machines are going to need showpieces, games that show off why the PS4 and Xbox One are a significant step ahead of their predecessors. The guys making Need For Speed Rivals—the next installment of the long-running racing series–believe that they’re making one of those…

Square Enix America CEO Steps Down

The head of Square Enix’s American branch has left his post, just two months after the resignation of CEO Yoichi Wada. Square Enix America boss Mike Fischer left the company this month on good terms, Polygon reports. Fischer, who had been head of the game publisher’s American division for the past three years, is now…

Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Review: The Titan Descendant

The GeForce GTX 680 was Nvidia’s first 28nm part featuring 1536 CUDA cores, 128 texture units and 32 ROP units. It’s remained since release Nvidia’s fastest single GPU graphics card of the series, second only to the dual-GPU GTX 690 which features a pair of GK104 GPUs. And so for the last 12+ months the…

Here’s The Craziest And Funniest Attack on Titan Interpretation So Far

This happens when you leave someone who enjoys the anime series Attack on Titan and who has some dancing skills alone in an empty room. The Japanese edits and remixes of the powerful opening were already hilarious, but with this take, originally posted on NicoNico Douga, just reached a whole new level. Crazy skills! 【涼宮あつき】Shingeki…

Surprise! Dying Light Is A New Free-Running First-Person Zombie Game

Here’s the first big-budget big game surprise of the E3 season: Dying Light, a first-person free-running zombie survival game from Techland, the makers of Dead Island, slated for current and next-gen consoles (and PC) for 2014. Think: Mirror’s Edge with the undead. The game was featured last week at a special pre-E3 showcase for select…

A spiritual successor to the sharp-looking Super Stardust shoot-em-up franchise is in development for the PS4 in addition to another unannounced title for Sony’s upcoming console, development studio Housemarque announced today. Their last PlayStation game was Super Stardust Delta for the Vita.

Get A Load Of Grand Theft Auto V‘s $150 Collector’s Edition

You didn’t think Rockstar would release a new Grand Theft Auto game without doing it up right, did you? Come September 17 there’ll be three ways to get your Grand Theft Auto V on — the $59.99 regular version, a $79.99 special edition, and the $149.99 collector’s edition. What’s the return on your investment? I’ve…

Clothing Stereotypes Exist In Japan, Too

Recently on 2ch, Japan’s largest forum, people have begun collecting images of college students decked out in similar outfits. Online in Japan, this largely became a way to poke fun at college students—because, hey, making fun of college students is universal, no? Not all these photos depict college students (though, most seem to). What’s more,…

Warner Bros. Interactive has confirmed that NetherRealm’s 2011 fighting game Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition is coming to the PC. The pack will include the base game and every piece of DLC. MK Komplete will be released digitally first, with Steam receiving the game on July 3, followed by a boxed version on August 6.

Here Are Ten Games Japanese Players Recommend

2013 is approaching the halfway point and this year, we’ve already seen several heavy-hitting game releases. Oftentimes it’s difficult to choose a single game to buy out of several when you have a limited budget. The biggest and most influential factor in making a choice is usually other players’ opinions. Gamer recommendations will trump the…

Van Helsing Does Diablo. At Least, That’s What This Game Looks Like.

NeocoreGames’ The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing was recently released on Steam to little fanfare. It looks fairly impressive for a $15 RPG, even though I get Diablo vibes so strong I can practically hear the menu music. They made a hell of a launch trailer, at least.

Nintendo Will Have a Large Booth at E3

Previously, Nintendo said it was not holding a big E3 press conference. It also said it was bringing E3 to…Best Buy retailers across the U.S. But that doesn’t mean Nintendo will have a rinky-dink E3 booth. No siree! In fact, Nintendo is wheeling out two booths for E3. And they look pretty darn big! Compare…

MCV reports thatCapcom has cancelled the “blood-filled swimming pool” promo event that they were planning to throw in London this weekend in celebration of the release of Resident Evil Revelations. The event was called off due to yesterday’s terrorist attack in Woolwich, London

Now, This Is One Stunning Retro Japanese Console

The Twin Famicom is an interesting game console. Produced by Sharp, it was Nintendo’s Famicom console and Disk System melded into a single console. While it looked nice enough, there is a way to make it look better: Lots and lots of gloss. Via Tiny Cartridge, this is the work of Slovenian artist Zoki64, who…

In South Korea, Japanese anime Jin-Roh is being turned into a feature film with Kim Ji-woon (The Last Stand) directing. According to Hankooki (via tipster Sang), actor Kang Dong-won is being floated as the possible lead. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is…

Wikipedia Writers Sure Know Their Hentai

Outside of Japan, the word “hentai” is used to refer to a certain type of Japanese anime, manga, or video games. It’s a genre. In Japan, it’s not. Recently on 2ch, Japan’s largest forum, people discovered the Chinese language Wikipedia entry for “hentai”. Many thought it was hilarious how long the entry was. It’s really,…