If you’d rather watch video games than play them on your console, Twitch.tv has the app for you, available for Xbox Live gold subscribers today. The app makes the top 300 live channels available for spectating. No streaming from the 360, only viewing. There’ll be more at the next Xbox reveal in a week.

This Film Wants to Help Everyone Understand The Love for Video Games

You might have somebody in your life who doesn’t get video games. And you may have tried putting them in front of a classic title like Shadow of the Colossus, Braid or World of Goo. But, games might still feel like a foreign experience to them, despite your best efforts. A new documentary wants to…

The Five Anime of Spring 2013 You Should Be Watching

We are now about halfway through the Spring anime season of 2013, and for weeks now I have been bombarded with the question, “What anime should I be watching this season?” Well, with a good chunk of episodes under my belt from many of the different series, I feel it’s now safe to answer that…

This Realistic Remake Of A Minecraft Character Is Super Creepy

The blocky 3D character models in Minecraft are funny, imaginative, and filled with character, but also anything but realistic. We love the little guy, but he’s not very expressive when it comes to creating Minecraft machinima. Andrew Price is trying to fix that. Perhaps he shouldn’t. Price‘s renewed model has all the necessary improvements to…

Nvidia’s New Gaming Handheld Is Out In June For $350

Announced in January as Project Shield, Nvidia’s intriguing new handheld now has a price, a June release window, and the promise of Double Fine’s Broken Age. Who’s ready to spend $350 on a dedicated Android gaming device? Now simply dubbed Shield, Nvidia’s Tegra 4-powered Android portable / streaming PC game device will start accepting preorders…

See Four New Pokémon in Action in the Newest Gameplay Trailer

Pokémon X and Pokémon Y got a new game trailer this morning, and shed more light on the game, including four new Pokémon, when it arrives in October for the 3DS. Say hello to Fletchling, Pancham, Helioptile and Gogoat. The game will take place in an entirely new region, named Kalos, whose central hub is…

Krieg the Psycho Hacks, Slashes, and Burns His Way Into Borderlands 2

Hold on to to your hacksaws, folks; the most psychotic vault hunter yet has landed on Pandora. Krieg, the rampage-tastic psycho berserker is now available in the form of a separate character DLC for Gearbox’s shooter-RPG. He’s not included in the Season Pass, but by the looks of it, there’s enough exciting new content in…

A Rare Look Inside China’s Porn Censors

Last month, Kotaku posted a job listing for a porn censor in China. Maybe you applied! Maybe you didn’t. But if you were curious what kind of people censor porn in China, here’s your chance to have a peek. In an interview with China’s Hunan Television (via SCMP), 70 year-old Liu Xiaozhen talked about his…

Modder Puts Mortal Kombat Inside Doom… Literally

Here’s two guys playing Mortal Kombat II. In a Doom multiplayer match. The mod that lets you do this is still under development, and it’s nowhere near as sophisticated as the one that lets you play Mario in Counter-Strike, but hey, it’s Doom. With Mortal Kombat. [Thanks, DSOGaming!]

War Thunder Is Headed to the PlayStation 4

Today, Gaijin Entertainment announced that it was bringing its military MMO game War Thunder to the PS4. War Thunder: Ground Forces will be on the PlayStation 4 this holiday season. War Thunder: Ground Forces will, the studio stated, offer “intelligent personalization, deeply integrated social capabilities, and innovative cloud options”. What’s more, Ground Forces will feature…

Let’s See Your Desktops, Internet People!

Recently on 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board, a thread popped up. And in this particular thread, people showed off their desktop setups. They showed theirs, so let’s see yours. Below, you can check out the 2ch desktops. Most are…not too fancy! In fact, they might look rather pedestrian. That’s not a bad thing—if anything, it’s…

Tomodachi Life is Pretty Much My Childhood Made Digital

For the past three weeks, Tomodachi Collection: New Life has been the best-selling game in Japan—and in its first week, the best-selling game in the world. When I picked it up, I knew next to nothing about it. I had heard that it was a sequel to the Japan-only DS title Tomodachi Collection and played…

Mass Murderer Denied PlayStation In Prison, Takes Legal Action

In 1987, Julian Knight shot and killed seven people in Clifton Hill, Melbourne. A further 22 were wounded. He’s currently serving seven life sentences. He is also now taking the local state’s corrections department to court because they won’t let him have a video game console. Knight first requested to have a personal computer in…

Recently Tweeted Photos Show The Venue of the Next Xbox’s Reveal

The next Xbox is having its big reveal soon, on the 21st May. Here’s where it will happen. These photos were tweeted by Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb (AKA Major Nelson) and Aaron Greenberg, and show the still under construction briefing space. [via VG247, CVG]

This $500 Game Bundle Comes with a Replica Rifle

And not just any replica rifle, a replica matchlock one! To mark the 30th anniversary of strategy game Nobunaga’s Ambition, Koei Tecmo is releasing a very unusual, limited edition bundle, 4Gamer reports. Here’s what it contains: Windows versions of all thirteen Nobunaga’s Ambition games (some have revamped content), a twelve disc soundtrack set, an art…

Nippon Ichi Software, which is based in Gifu, Japan, just inked a contract to be the official sponsor of Japanese soccer team F.C. Gifu. Hope this means all the players must wear Prinny hats! Here’s more on the long, strange history of video games sponsoring soccer teams. To contact the author of this post, write…

GTA V’s Michael, Franklin and Trevor Get the HD Wallpaper Treatment

You can now get a closer look at the protagonists of GTA V. A really close look. Or, you could decorate your desktop with them. Rockstar has released wallpapers starring Michael, Franklin, and Trevor, which feature the artwork first revealed alongside the three characters’ trailers. Take a gander at them below.

Internet Shocked by Korea’s School Lunch Chaos

According to online reports, this is apparently a high school lunchroom in Seoul. A disaster of a lunchroom, that is. The images were originally uploaded in South Korea with the title “The Worst High School” and have become a hot topic online, reports Rakuten Infoseek. The photos went viral in South Korea, racking up over…

The Quest to Find More Miis

I’ve never really cared too much about Miis. I never even made one for my Wii or 3DS—hell, I’ve never even opened Street Pass. The only reason I made a Mii for my Wii U was because it was part of making an online account. But then I picked up Tomodachi Collection: New Life for…

Finally, A Promising Robotech Game!

Robotech (or, specifically, Macross) games have a chequered past. Some have been OK! Others terrible. Some have even been pretty good, though you wouldn’t know it, since the best ones (on PS2 and PSP) have never been officially been released outside Japan. But anyway. Video games! This isn’t a video game. It’s Robotech RPG Tactics,…