2K Sports Duct-Tapes MLB 2K13 to NBA 2K13 and Sells It For $80

Last year, 2K Sports did a shrewd thing, bootstrapping its flagging MLB 2K series to its best-in-class NBA 2K in a combo package announced a month before the baseball game was due for release. The publisher is doing the same thing again this year, but listing the bundle for $10 more. The combo pack is…

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: The Kotaku Review

They had to make up a word for it. For all the over-the-top cyber-machismo dancing across the screen in this new Metal Gear game. Nothing currently extant in the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition would do. And the definition? Something like, “the confluence of bionic ninja warriors, near-future war profiteering and giant, quadraped war machines.”…

Hotline Miami, the indie smash hit of 2012 on PC, is coming to PS3 and PS Vita this spring.

Halo 4‘s Next Map Pack Arrives on Tuesday

A poorly kept secret since November is official now: the Majestic Map Pack, the latest series of multiplayer maps in Halo 4, will indeed be available on Feb. 25 for 800 Microsoft Points ($10). The maps, consistent with a leak earlier this weekend, are Landfall, Monolith and Skyline (above). Longer descriptions may be seen here,…

Free cat inferno simulator Jones on Fire hits iOS on Thursday. Celebrate with the chiptune dubstep trailer of joy.

Star Wars Pinball Launches Next Week on Five Different Platforms

Star Wars Pinball‘s first three tables—The Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett and The Clone Wars—will release next week on a slew of mobile and console platforms. Pricing and release dates are different for all of them, so pay close attention. First, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita gamers may also buy the set of three for…

Blizzard announced the dates for this year’s BlizzCon: Friday Nov 8th, and Saturday Nov 9th.

Get a Load of Gears of War: Judgment’s New Weapons and Multiplayer Features

Sure, the clip above is just a reel that rattles off bullet points of stuff in Gears of War: Judgment. But what makes it sing is the snarky narration provided by Fred Tatasciore, the guy who voices main character Damon Baird. Without him, this would just be a soulless rundown of ways of shooting, things…

What’s Most Impressive About Nvidia’s New $1,000 Graphics Card? How It Sounds.

On Thursday Nvidia’s latest “most powerful graphics card in the world” hits the market—the Kepler-based GeForce GTX Titan. Packed with a ridiculous number of CUDA cores, all the Teraflops you can eat and innovative features like display overclocking, it’s sure to impress the hell out of people that watch performance monitors and keep their frame…

Crysis 3: The Kotaku Review

You’re sitting behind the wheel of a finely tuned luxury automobile. The upholstery creaks as you make yourself comfortable; it smells like quality in here. You haven’t even turned the key and you can feel the car humming, its tightly-coiled energy waiting to be unleashed. This car isn’t designed to make you feel romantic or…

Rayman Legends‘ Online Challenge Mode will be Released Free on Wii U in April

Acknowledging the profound disappointment at the delay of Rayman Legends release on the Wii U—a holdup that seems to have no other reason than to wait for the Xbox 360 and PS3 editions to launch this fall—Ubisoft Montréal has decided to release the game’s Online Challenges mode early, for free, to all Wii U users.…

The Newest Dance Dance Revolution is All Past Editions in One

This past weekend at the JAEPO arcade game expo in Tokyo, Konami showed off Dance Dance Revolution, the latest arcade iteration in the Dance Dance Revolution franchise. The return to the core name makes sense because Dance Dance Revolution will have nearly every song from all 13 major arcade releases in one machine. In addition…

Pokémon Candy Comes with an Important Warning

In the Pokémon game, Rare Candy can be used to increase the level of a Pocket Monster. In Japan, you can buy Rare Candy (“fushigi na ame” or ふしぎなアメ) at Pokémon Centers across the country. But, bad news… As the candy’s label clearly states, “Even if you eat the candy, you will not raise your…

The Room, Apple’s iPad Game of the Year, Is Getting a Sequel

Today, the developers behind The Room announced that they were working on a sequel to their hit game. Slated for a fall release, The Room sequel will take players to “an altogether more spectacular place.” The first title hit last September, and went on to sell 1.75 million copies via iTunes. A free update will…

The Chinese Government decided to develop standards for diagnosing gaming addiction, reports Xinhuanet (via ShanghaiIst)

From Persona 4 to My Little Pony, These Figures Will Overrun Arcades

When you think of Japanese arcades, you probably think of fighting games, music games, and racing games. You might, however, completely forget about one of the most popular staples of arcades in Japan: crane games. Late last year I had my own experience with a Japanese crane game—because it taunted me with a figure I…

If You Find a Russian Meteorite Fragment, Don’t Sell It for Booze

On February 15, the sky above Russia was set ablaze when a meteorite exploded. Over a thousand people were unfortunately injured, and damage is estimated in the tens of millions. Strewn across the landscape were meteorite fragments. Now, valuable meteorite fragments. According to NBC, there’s now a “meteorite rush” around the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.…

Just Playing the Groove Coaster Arcade Brings a Smile to my Face

Groove Coaster was originally a fantastic rhythm iOS game made by the creators of Space Invaders Infinity Gene. This year, however, it moves from its humble touch screen roots directly into Japanese arcades. And at the JAEPO 2013 arcade expo this last weekend, Kotaku East got some hands-on time with the game. Simply put, it…

Thanks for All The Memes, PS3!

Massive damage! Second jobs! Spider-Man font! Boy, I’ll tell you what, the PlayStation 3 has been entertaining at times—and that’s not even when the console’s switched on. The PS3 has produced some of the best (and most loved) memes of this generation. With the PlayStation 3’s successor right around the corner, it’s time to look…

Believe It or Not, The PlayStation 2 Is Getting More Expensive in Japan

Something is only worth what people will pay for it. And these days, they’ll pay more for a PlayStation 2 in Japan. Capitalism! The SCPH-90000 is the final edition of the PlayStation 2. It’s the super slim console that Sony launched in 2007 in Japan for ¥16,000 (US$170 in today’s money) . This past December,…