An IndieGoGo campaign for this great-looking Mark of the Ninja fan film is launching on March 11. Trailer to the left.

It’s Full Body Pong, You Guys. Full. Body. Pong.

Perhaps the most creative game at this year’s JAEPO arcade game expo was e Sports Ground. Utilizing a series of motion tracking cameras and projectors, the game transforms the floor into the game screen and your body into the controller. In many ways, e Sports Ground is a retro game collection containing some of the…

The Russian Military. Marching to ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’.

Are ya ready, troops? According to English Russia, one of the most popular marching songs in the country’s military is the SpongeBob SquarePants theme. There’s video proof, too, of numerous troops marching to and singing the song, showing that this is definitely a thing. A delightful thing. [insert joke about how in Russia, SpongeBob SquarePants…

A Collection of Crappy Animated Images

Just as not every anime can be a winner, not every animated image can, either! With all those still frames to deal with, you can bet some stinkers are going to slip past quality control. They always do. In Japanese, horribly drawn anime stills are called “sakuga houkai” (作画崩壊). They’re not necessarily only mistakes, but…

Download title Pokémon Scramble U allows 100 Pokémon to fight at once. It’s slated for this spring in Japan.

iPad? No, Sony Patented Something It’s Calling the “EyePad”

A new Sony patent hints at the possibility of tablet style, motion controlled gaming. It’s called the “EyePad”. Because that’s totally not confusing. Sony has a long proud history of “Eye” devices, such as the EyeToy and the PlayStation Eye. This moniker, which seems to be a codename, isn’t final. It’s not even a product…

Nude Photos, Drugs, and Cockroaches: Wild Stories from Game Shops

Retail is a tough racket. It’s no easy gig. Sometimes, it’s boring. Sometimes, it exhausting. And sometimes, it’s completely bonkers. Here are some colorful, disgusting, and just odd moments from the trenches of gaming retail, dealing with your fellow gamers. Kotaku reached out to a couple retail vets for their war stories. Eric Jou, former…

In This Racing Game, You Shake a Pig

Monster Hunter is everywhere in Japan—including the JAEPO arcade game expo. However, this Monster Hunter arcade is not, as you might expect, a co-op boss hunting game. Rather it is an arcade style racing game titled Monster Hunter Diary: Oink Oink Pig Race As you may have guessed from the title, Monster Hunter Diary: Oink…

Watch the trailer for Lord of Vermillion III, Square Enix’s latest entry in its card-based arcade game series.

Naming Your Son “Pikachu” Will Get Him Girls. Wait, What?

Selecting names ain’t easy—especially in Japan. Some Japanese parents consult with fortune tellers in hopes of picking a name that will bring their child good luck. One soothsayer has one. That name is Pikachu. Kotaku previously covered why Pikachu is a terrible name for Japanese children. Today, a fortune teller tells us why it’s a…

In This New Mario Kart, You Can Drive a Tank

Later this year, Nintendo and Bandai-Namco will release a new Mario Kart game, Mario Kart Arcade GP GX, in arcades across Japan. Today at the JAEPO arcade game expo, Kotaku East was able to get some hands-on time with the game. Mario Kart Arcade GP GX will feature at least one new character (Don from…

The Dreamcast, the Saturn, and the Genesis Have Returned! (…as Laptop Computers…)

Sega is back in the game console business! Well, sorta. Okay, not really. But this is pretty cool anyway. The Tokyo-based gaming company is licensing out its iconic consoles to be branded on laptop computers. The result is several Sega-themed notebooks: there’s the basic Sega motif, the Genesis Model, the Saturn version, and the Dreamcast…

A Beautiful GIF Of My Most Hated Video Game Enemy

Look, I know if there was a list of the top 100 toughest bosses in video gaming, Minish Cap’s Vaati wouldn’t make the cut. There are NES games, or games that end in “Souls”, that are way harder than any handheld adventure Nintendo has ever conjured for Link. But for me, for some reason, I…

The Last Barfighter Is An Arcade Game That Literally Pours The Winner A Beer

This is The Last Barfighter. It’s a 2D arcade fighting game. It looks pretty awful, but that’s OK. The point here isn’t to simply enjoy a video game. It’s to beat your opponent so you get beer The video above explains it all. Players insert their cups, they fight, and the winner’s cup is filled…

Meteorite Explodes Over Russia, Crazy Footage Looks Like A Disaster Movie

A meteorite has exploded over central Russia, resulting in some absolutely nutso footage. The first video above shows the moment the meteorite streaks across the sky before exploding, while the subsequent videos give you an idea how loud the thing was, before showing you the amazing trail left behind. If ever there was a time…

The World, Or At Least What’s Left Of It, Is Yours

Nivanh Chanthara is a French concept artist who works at Beenox, a studio that’s worked on a bunch of games for Activision over the last few years. His latest project is an “unrevealed” AAA project. Before that, though, he did some work in animation, getting his start on the Iron Man: Armored Adventures series. You…

Watch Capcom Get Sound Effects By Recording Some Very Angry Zoo Animals

If there was a list of the most underappreciated fields in the video game industry, surely sound design would be up near the top. Despite creating and capturing one of a game’s most crucial aspects, you never really hear from the men and women working in the field, and you rarely get a chance to…

You Can Preorder This Game Before You Even Know What It Is

Indie developer 11 Bit Studios has quite the deal for you: if you preorder their game now, you’ll get 50% off the final price. That’d be quite the saving, if we actually knew a damn thing about the game. But we don’t. The deal “is for those brave souls who are willing to jump into…

All This Beautiful Landscape Needs Is An Actual RPG To Play It With

Unigine are a busy little company. They make games, like 2012 RTS Oil Rush. They make PC benchmark tools. And they also make engines. We’re looking at a combination of the latter two here today, as this video takes us on a sweeping tour of an enormous, 64 square-kilometre wooded landscape that looks just perfect…

Maybe Mods Can Improve Aliens: Colonial Marines On PC

No other version of Aliens: Colonial Marines is as disappointing as the PC edition, seeing as it ships with such limited support for even the most basic level of visual flair gamers on the platform are accustomed to. Seeking to fix that, though, as they always do, are modders, who in only a few days…