Three Months After It Launched, the Wii U is Irrelevant to Sports Gaming

For sports gaming, the Wii U wasn’t looking much better than its predecessor even a month after release, and there are no signs the console is going to be a full partner anytime soon. The signals sent by sports’ dominant publisher indicate it just has no interest in building for the console. It’s not just…

The casualties in this gamer’s breakup would make one reconsider whether it really is better to have loved and lost.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Let Me Google Iwata For You

Yep. This promotional shot for the new Google Wii Street U is exploitable gold for the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. After the image of Nintendo honcho Satoru Iwata wearing a Google Street cam popped up on Wednesday, so did the ‘shops, especially one of him wearing a FLUDD. We can do a lot better than that,…

The Reaction to a Console Rumor Explains Why Some Gamers Aren’t Buying

The rumor going around earlier this week wasn’t really anything new. The console that locks out used games is an anticonsumer bogeyman going back years and though the technology to do it exists, it’s yet to come true, for whatever reason. Still, a report this week repeated the same year old rumor about the next…

Sunday Comics: No Respect

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published Feb. 8. Read more of Brawl In The Family Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Feb.…

Two Foot Tall Metroplex Makes My Transformers Dreams Come True This Fall

When I first discovered the titanic Autobot Metroplex would be making an appearance in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, I experienced a brief rush of excitement—maybe Hasbro would make a new proper Metroplex toy! They’d reused the name for a silly giant from the Transformers: Cybertron line, why not? Eventually I convinced myself this would never…

The First Gameplay Footage For Wasteland 2 Is Here, And It Looks Great

Wasteland 2, the tremendously successful Kickstarter project that earned close to $3 million when it was funded last year, is starting to shape up. Here’s your first look at gameplay footage from the post-apocalyptic role-playing game. Looks great, no? As the folks behind it say: The first part of the video is a collection of…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Horsing Around With Gabe: The Winners

Gabe Newell went to Texas last week and ended up in quite a compromising pose—and not just because of the horsehead mask a student handed him. Overall paparazzi No. 1 dummysystem caught Valve’s chief with Michael Jordan guaranteeing Half-Life 3—as soon as Jordan’s Charlotte Bobcats win an NBA title. Which will happen first? One thing’s…

Knights of the Old Republic II Studio Has an Idea for Another Star Wars RPG, if Disney is Listening

If you enjoyed Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II and hate Electronic Arts, then this next sentence should make your heart flutter: Obsidian Entertainment, the studio that gave us Fallout: New Vegas and an unfinished KOTOR II have pitched another Star Wars role-playing game set between Episodes III and IV Even with the…

Here’s Super Hexagon Recreated in LittleBigPlanet 2

I have no idea how this was done, but then, I fell off the LittleBigPlanet wagon a long time ago. This is “Hyper Hexagon,” an adaptation of Super Hexagon rendered within LittleBigPlanet 2. Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh knows about it; he retweeted a link to the game yesterday. Enjoy. Super Hexagon Meets LittleBigPlanet In…

Evan Narcisse joins Gameological‘s podcast to talk current events and “black cool” in gaming. Give it a listen.

This Hilarious WWE ’13 Glitch Video Looks Like a Magic Trick

Aaand … the flowers are still standing! You’ve got to hand it to the Law of Gravity. It never breaks kayfabe. YouTube video uploaded by GameFails, via Reddit.

This Week in the Business: ‘It’s Highly Unlikely That PS4 or the Next Xbox will be Backwards Compatible’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “It’s highly unlikely that PS4 or the next Xbox will be backwards compatible.”—Chris Morris, veteran game journalist, talking about what Sony needs to do to succeed with the PS4 QUOTE | “EA: Best major publisher of 2012.”—Metacritic’s ranking of Electronic Arts…

Ubisoft, Now Totally Desperate, Promises Rayman Legends Gets a Wii U Exclusive Demo

Disappointment over a six-month delay of a video game’s release may be a first-world problem. But there’s a good case Ubisoft is holding Rayman Legends back from Wii U while it gets the newly announced PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions ready for a September release. Going multiplatform here isn’t raising garden-variety console fanboy butthurt.…

The Moneysaver: Colonial Power

Kotaku’s twice weekly roundup of the best discounts, combinations, offers and incentives in video gaming is brought to you by Dealzon Downloadables Green Man Gaming • Tuesday’s release Aliens: Colonial Marines is $37.50 (next best $45) • March 15 release Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 is $22.50 (list $30) • April 2 release Defiance is $45…

The Best Of Kotaku, This Week

Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. Garrus really does love his calibrations, doesn’t he. Yosh9‘s creation just makes it all the cuter. Thanks to Blue Dog’s Eyes for the find. Now let’s move on to reading this week’s best content, courtesy of us. Hundreds of…

Hasbro Lawyers Stable My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic Fan Project

Since the summer of 2011 a small group of fans calling themselves Mane6 have been toiling away at a fighting game based on the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Working from a rudimentary knowledge of 2D Fighter Maker 2002, they built the fan project into a phenomenon unto itself. They scouted sound-alike voice…

He Set Off Speeding Cameras. While On A Skateboard.

I’d like to think of this as “skateboarded so awesomely that now he has the police on his tail,” but hey. Semantics. The footage above is of Decio Lourenco from South Africa, who apparently shredded so fast that the authorities are looking to prosecute according to The Telegraph They’re citing “reckless and negligent road behavior,”…

Shazam! Here’s Gearbox president Randy Pitchford’s magic-trick-laden DICE talk, “Video Games Are Magic.”

Anti-Gun People Who Cluelessly Mocked Me Still Live in Fantasy Land, Still Don’t Know How To Apologize

The popular, left-leaning Facebook group that mistook me for a gun nut last month has pulled the image of me that they put on their site. They actually pulled it on Monday, shortly after I ran an article illustrating the hilarious cluelessness of many of the Facebook page’s users—many of whom thought I was holding…