The Many Memes, References and Homages of Guacamelee!

To say that the game Guacamelee! contains a few references would be a massive understatement — The game is absolutely brimming with them. While playing the game for review (which should be coming soon) I kept track of whatever hat-tips, homages, and internet memes that I could find in Guacamelee!. Most of them should be…

To no one’s surprise (including Peter Moore’s), Electronic Arts was declared “Worst Company in America” for a second straight year in an online poll at Consumerist.com. EA defeated Bank of America for the (dis)honor. Image by ‘Shop Contest all-star Arniejolt

Tearaway—the super-cute papercraft game being made by the creators of LittleBigPlanet—will be coming out on October 22nd for PS Vita

I Lost My Mass Effect Save, So I Gave Up On Finishing The Series

I used to feel like a Mass Effect fan. Like part of that community that gushed about their crush on Garrus, or commiserated over those lengthy elevator rides. I used to talk strategies and relationships and dialogue tree options with fellow fans, scrutinizing decisions with one another and theorizing about what would happen next. Even…

It’s Almost a Pity This Unique and Colorful Puzzle Game Is Free

I’ve always been a big fan of the color samples in the house paint section of Home Depot. Those unassuming sheets of paper, festooned with color gradients, introduced me to a world that was more than simple black and white — a world with 50 shades of grey, several dozen oranges and more green than…

Want to play Lost Planet 3? You’re going to have to wait a while longer, as the sci-fi shooter’s release moves from June 25 to August 27 in North America and to August 30 in Europe from a June 28th date.

Batman: Arkham Origins Is Coming This Fall

The next Batman game is called Batman: Arkham Origins, and it’ll be out October 25 for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and PC. It’s a prequel to Arkham Asylum and Arkham City Warner Bros. Montreal is making the game, taking the mantle from Rocksteady Studios, the developer behind the critically-acclaimed first two. You can see…

Spring has sprung (for some). Let’s talk sunshine! Go join the voices talking about video games and life in Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog.

French Court Says Prisoner Can’t Have a PS3, but Could Use Xbox 360

The latest Xbox 360 exclusive? French prisons. An inmate recently lost his appeal to have his PlayStation 3, and the privilege of playing it, restored to him, and it seems the PS3’s on-board WiFi connection is the problem. Good ol’ Xbox 360, remember, didn’t have that feature on the Elite or the Arcade models. According…

Turns out Armature Studio—the development house made up of ex-Retro folks who worked on Metroid Prime—was working on a Mega Man first-person shooter for Capcom. It was cancelled in 2010. Polygon‘s got the full story

Iron Man 3 Comes Out Next Month. You Can Play Iron Man IV Right Now.

Aspreviously proven, the huge environment of Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City is a perfect playground for billionaire industrialist Tony Stark. Now GTA modder supreme H1Vltg3 teams with JulioNIB to create the ultimate Iron Man mod, complete with multiple suits of armor, a custom interface, and the ability to play as Stan “The Man” Lee,…

There Is No Third Console Curse. Don’t Believe It.

The next Xbox will be Microsoft’s third video game console. And there are already those who say the still unannounced machine is doomed. You see, some believe in a Third Console Curse. Whether it’s gamers on the IGN boards or GameFaqs, there’s chatter of a “dreaded console curse.” Heck, even as early as 2009, there…

After “Gangnam Style”, There’s This Song and Dance

This is “Cutie Song”. In its native Korean, it’s called the “Gwiyomi” or “Kiyomi” song, depending on how you write it in English. And it’s the viral music craze that’s been spreading through Asia in the wake of “Gangnam Style”. Last October, the “Gwiyomi” jingle and dance originally appeared on a Korean variety show called…

Shinichi Watanabe, director of the quirky and hilarious anime Excel Saga, is currently recovering from a heart attack at a hospital. (Tip courtesy of tipster Sang.)

Let’s Compare My Little Pony Voices in English and Japanese

Despite being a phenomenon across the Western world these past three years, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic didn’t make its way to Japanese shores until last Tuesday. We here at Kotaku have already showed you the Japanese theme songs, but that doesn’t answer the real question on everyone’s minds: What do the ponies sound…

VP of development Rod Fergusson, who has previously left Epic to help with the finishing touches on BioShock Infinite, is departing Irrational Games. “Now with the game shipped successfully, I’ve done what I set out to do here and now I’m looking forward to the next chapter in my life and career,” he told Polygon

Gamer Might Just Be The Greatest Game Ever Made About Being a Gamer

Game & Wario is a new mini-game collection on the Wii U which is a spinoff of Nintendo’s popular WarioWare series. One of the included mini-games is Gamer, an aptly titled game about what it’s like to be a young gamer. Gamer is actually multiple games in one. The first is the overall meta-game. You…

Here Are Some Adult Games Made By Famous Japanese Developers

For better or worse, sex sells. And for some of Japan’s most famous game companies, it was what they sold when they first started making games. That’s right, many of Japan’s biggest game makers have turned to or even had their origins in pixelated pornography. Here are some of the more notable examples and some…

Want to Live in a Large Aluminum Box? In Japan, You Can.

Space can come at a premium in Japanese cities. Depending on the area, apartments can get incredibly expensive. One company thinks it has a solution: Aluminum boxes. Dubbed “T2”, the interior of this housing unit measures seven feet by 12 feet across. The ceiling is over seven and a half feet high. The dwellings look…

Akihiro Hino, president of Japanese studio Level-5, recently told Nikkei Trendy that things were still in the planning stages when asked if his studio was doing a PS4 title. “We might be able to announce something shortly,” said Hino.