The Good And Bad of Battlefield 3, One Year (Or So) Later

Last year, Swedish-based developers Digital Illusions CE set out to launch not just a game, but an experience—an ever-changing and evolving experiment, if you will—which would serve as a platform from which future Battlefield titles would stem. More than a year after the release, after more than a year of patches, updates, rule-changes and several…

This Week’s Facebook Winners and Losers: Ruby Blast Adventures Wins at Losing

Despite recent efforts to revitalize the game with an element of progression, Ruby Blast Adventures digs itself a 2 million player hole in this week’s Facebook winners and losers. Maybe the thrill of adventure is wearing thin, or perhaps the recently released mobile version of Ruby Blast is sucking players away from the browser-based version…

Flying Around Far Cry 3 With Wings Strapped To Your Arms

Since you can’t charter a joyflight to give you a leisurely look at Far Cry 3 in its entirety, you’ll just have to do the next best thing: watch someone jump off a roof wearing a wingsuit and film it. There are points where it borders on being the intro to some epic fantasy movie,…

10-Year-Old Girl Steals Over $1,600 to Play Video Games

No one ever suspected a child when about $1600 went missing from a cellphone shop until after security cameras caught the little scamp crawling on the floor behind the counter. Now in Quangang, Fujian province, a 10 year-old girl is in hot water after being caught stealing money, quite a lot of money at that,…

Rumor: Hey Americans! Foxconn Is Apparently Building Factories In LA And Detroit

The Taiwanese tech manufacturing giant, Foxconn Electronics, is rumored to be starting up manufacturing plants in the US next year, moving away from its long time “home” base of mainland China. According to rumors floating around the internet, mostly courtesy of the Taiwanese Digitimes, Foxconn is planning to start up factories in either Los Angeles…

Grown Man Attacks Child Over a Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game

Losing gracefully is hard. Winning gracefully ain’t easy, either. A 29 year-old man in Fukuoka never learned the latter, it seems. According to Sponichi Annex, the man was recently playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! card battle game against an 11 year-old boy in a card shop. After the man won twice, the sixth grader got up to…

Dark Souls II has a website. It’s… dark.

Young Chinese Surgeon Attributes Medical Success To Long Nights of Counter Strike

Post 80’s generation Chinese (people born on and after 1980) get a lot of flack in China for being a group of entitled children. The reasoning behind this scorn for the post 80’s generation partially has to do with the fact that they were born during a time when China first started economic reforms and…

J.J. Abrams Should Direct the Metal Gear Movie

While in Los Angeles for the Video Game Awards, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima squeezed in some Hollywood meetings: One was with producer Avi Arad; the other was with filmmaker J.J. Abrams. The tweets didn’t exactly offer any details. In one, Kojima said he had a meeting with Arad about the movie. In the other,…

The Best (Cardboard) Wii U Review the Internet Has To Offer

Japanese comedy site Megwin bought a cardboard Wii U and put it through the paces, complete with plastic throwing stars, toy swords and pellet guns. If you don’t know Japanese, click on the annotations button for English subtitles. WiiU世界最速レビュー!!体験体感超楽しい!! [Megwin@YouTube via Tiny Cartridge] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the…

Love Don’t Cost A Thing, Well Maybe An iPhone 4

A young boy in Wuhan, Hubei province, was left heartbroken over the weekend when he learned that his feelings for a girl in his class were unrequited. After learning the object of his affections didn’t feel the same, he decided to ask her directly only to be told “xxx bought me an iPhone 4”. After…

The World Is Better When Everything Is Kawaii

Just look at Jabba! He’s so cute. And George Washington. And Bismarck. All of them are just adorable with those big Japanese anime eyes. This fall, Tumblr site The Kawaii Project started getting attention online for its series of “cuted up” photos of famous (and regular) folks with giant anime eyes. Since then, the Tumblr…

There’s a teaser site up for a Theatrhythm game. Smart money says it’s a mobile port.

In Less than 24 Hours, This Lady Broke Her Wii U GamePad [Update]

Longtime owners of Nintendo hardware know how the handhelds and game machines have always been built tough. In recent years, that seems less true (DS Lite hinge problems, anyone?). And even less so for Nintendo’s newest hardware, the Wii U. In Japan, a Twitter user uploaded this pic of a busted GamePad, writing that it…

Gangnam Style Rapper Apologizes for His Anti-American Past

PSY is sitting on top of the world. His song Gangnam Style is about to log its one billionth view, and PSY is performing in Washington D.C. in front of the President. Everything is going well for PSY, except one thing: his anti Anti-American protests. Born Park Jae-sang, the 34 year-old rapper went to college…

It’s Like The Last Guardian, Only With Link. And a Cat.

When I reviewed my amazing little Link figma last month, I was missing one thing for my photoshoot: a cat. This is Moire, one of Japan’s most famous internet cats (though of course not the most famous), messing around with a Link figma. If Beyoncé can advertise the DS, this is about as fitting an…

So, How Well Does Darksiders II On Wii U Actually Run?

Let’s say you don’t yet own Darksiders II, do own a Wii U, and are considering picking the game up for your new console. How’s it shape up against the versions that have been out on the market on competing platforms for a few months now? Like most other games, it’s not really a clear-cut…

Video Gaming’s Greatest Moustaches

Gaming’s greatest moustaches, together in one incredible gif. Here’s the original, in video form (with sound), while the gif was made by Dotcore

Tons of Classic PC Games Have Had Their Multiplayer Modes Silently Killed Off

In August, mobile giants GLU Mobile bought Gamespy, which you may know as a gaming news site but which has mostly served lately as a multiplayer gaming hub for older titles. Well, GLU haven’t taken long to start making an impression, quietly and without warning shutting down the multiplayer servers for games like Star Wars:…

Meet The Chinese Workers Building Your Cheap Christmas Toys

Photographer Michael Wolf took these shots back in 2006, showing some Chinese toy factories responsible for the kind of cheap plastic crap that lines store shelves and Christmas stockings all over the world. If you thought most of the work on that toy car or Disney figure you’re giving away was done by robots, you…