New Super Luigi U Gets A Full Retail Release August 25

Nintendo’s Luigi-centric remake of New Super Marios Bros. is hitting the Wii U in two varieties this summer. Owners of the original game can download New Super Luigi U for $19.99, while folks that may have say, traded in their original copy already, can purchase the game as a standalone product for $29.99 on August…

Platinum Games’ swarm-of-super-heroes action game The Wonderful 101will launch on the Wii U on September 15. We’ve liked what we’ve played, so this is good news!

Nintendo and Sega just announced Miku Hatsune: Project Mirai 2 for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan. It will have new songs and more features than the previous game.

Yakuza 1 & 2 Coming to Wii U in HD for Japan

Sega and Nintendo just announced that PlayStation 2 crime saga Yakuza 1 and its sequel Yakuza 2 are headed to the Wii U in Japan. The games are getting HD makeovers, and will take advantage of the Wii U GamePad via in-game maps and GamePad only play. This is the first time the series has…

The Next Sonic Game Is A Nintendo Exclusive [UPDATE 2]

Sonic Lost World, the next Sonic game, will launch exclusively on the Wii U and 3DS, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said today in a Nintendo Direct video. It’s part of a new Nintendo-Sega partnership. UPDATE: A Sega press release indicates that this is a three-game deal: “Sonic the Hedgehog has proven incredibly successful on Nintendo…

Old school Legend of Zelda games Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons will be out on May 30th for the 3DS Virtual Console. The games will be $5.99 each but a special promotion will have them at $4.99 through June 20th

Mario & Sonic At The Olympics Coming To Wii U

The Wii U’s next big sports game will star Mario and Sonic. The next Mario & Sonic At The Olympics game is coming to the Wii U. No word on a release date yet, but it’ll take place in Sochi, Russia, where the real 2014 Winter Olympics will also occur. With EA pulling support from…

Killzone Mercenary Is The Vita FPS With Crotch-Stabbing

The PlayStation Vita is a good, powerful handheld machine that’s run some piss-poor first-person shooters. After rushed, clunky Resistance and Call of Duty shooters, the system will get a Killzone in September. It merely needs to be mediocre to improve Vita FPSing dramatically. After having played the Vita’s Killzone: Mercenary last night at a Sony…

There’s a Nintendo Direct coming this morning at 10am Eastern. You can watch it right here, or keep up with Kotaku for live coverage of 3DS/Wii U news as it happens.

A Fünke Bit of Arrested Development Makes These Capcom Games Amazing

Arrested Development’s imminent return means that its stars have turned up in the weirdest places. Like frozen banana stands in various cities. And while Tobias Fünke’s sizzle reel had a brief snippet of video games in it, Capcom’s taken things to a whole new level. The publisher of Street Fighter and Dragon’s Dogma took David…

The Inevitable Minecraft Parody of Psy’s “Gentleman” is Here

Worldwide musical sensation Psy spends the entirety of his music video for “Gentleman” griefing real people. Now it’s time to grief some virtual block folks. StageFiveTV made the vid with the easy-to-use Mine-Imator, deftly capturing the spirit of Psy’s performance without having to spend too much time building sets. With such powerful tools readily available,…

Four Anime You Can Skip This Season

Earlier this week, we looked at the five anime you should be watching this season. But what about all the other anime this season? Well here’s why some of the more notable ones didn’t make the cut. Now, keep in mind that these opinions are based only on the first half of each of these…

First Look at Hi-Res Final Fantasy VIII for PC

Square Enix just announced that 1999 role-playing game Final Fantasy VIII is coming to PC in Japan. The PC version is slated to feature high-resolution graphics, but its release date as well as whether or not it will have additional content is still TBA. Here is a first look at the upcoming PC release: FFVIII…

New GTA V Screenshots Show Chases, Car Theft, Deep Sea Adventures

Rockstar has released five new screenshots for Grand Theft Auto V, and they’re looking as gorgeous as ever. You can take a look at them below, and don’t forget to click ‘expand’ to bask in their full glory.

Japanese Kids Pretending They Are Insects

How many more Japanese photo memes can there be? When will they stop? At this rate, never. In the last 24 hours or so, the above photo has been going viral in Japan. It’s been retweeted over eighteen thousand times. On the original tweet, it says in Japanese, “We’re sick of guitar!! We want to…

It Took Them 19 Years To Add Fishing To The Elder Scrolls

Morrowind even hadfishing poles. No way to use them, though. Luckily, it appears we’ll finally have actual fishing in Bethesda’s RPG series with The Elder Scrolls Online (wading into the water and hitting the use key over fish in Skyrim doesn’t count). Also, crafting and loot and stuff. TES Online is coming in 2013.

I Don’t Remember Virtue’s Last Reward Being About Breast Slapping

Sometimes prior to a game’s release, companies create a flash game tie-in and post it on the game’s official webpage. Earlier this week for example, Capcom released an Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies demo that is playable in your web browser. And before Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy was released in Japan, Square Enix released Social Theatrhythm, a…

Wow, This Counter-Strike Trailer Is Fantastic

Unless you’re actually a player, you probably think Counter-Strike is a bit old-fashioned. A little stale compared to other modern shooters. And hey, I think you’re right. I also think that doesn’t matter here, because this is a Korean commercial commissioned in 2012 for an Asia-onlyCounter-Strike game most of you will never have played anyway…

Four members of LulzSec, the group behind 2011’s hacker attacks against Sony and Nintendo, were sentenced at a London court yesterday. The youngest member received a suspended jail term of two years, while the other three were sentenced to prison time ranging from twenty-four to thirty-two months. [via GI.biz]

The New Pokémon Trainer’s Legs Are Too Damn Long

This is the new male Pokémon trainer for the upcoming Pokémon X/Y. His legs are long—too long. Don’t believe me? Here is a comparison (via Twitter user Twillcoco) of Pokémon X/Y‘s male trainer and the male trainers from Pokémon Black & White and its sequel. The trainer’s legs do look kinda long in the game,…