Hitman: Absolution Site Wants You To Threaten Your Friends With Really Tacky Insults [Update: Square Enix Apologizes]

Look, it’s already pretty clear that the folks at IO Interactive like a particularly adolescent style of joke-making, what with the closet-humping and all. But the latest effort at promoting the Square Enix published game invites you to fling their poor taste at your Facebook friends. It’s pretty tacky. As spotted on Rock, Paper, Shotgun,…

When Dragons and Unicorns Fight, Everybody Wins

A crazy mix of arcade and defense gameplay with a sweet sense of style, Digital Harmony’s Dragons Vs. Unicorns is available for free in the iTunes App Store today. It’s not as cool as Dragons Vs. Unicrons, but it’ll do nicely.

Someone Made An Entire Song Out Of Random Wii U Noises. It’s Pretty Catchy.

From the snapping noise a Wii U game case makes to the menu music, this Wii U song by YouTube user jimmy incorporates a whole bunch of sounds the Wii U can make. And the result is great. But it does kind of get awkward in the middle there.

There’s a demo for PS3 role-playing game Ni no Kuni going live on the PlayStation Network today. Go check it out!

Reddit says that back in August, Valve registered three movie site domain names. Wait… three? (via PCGamesN)

It’s A Desperate Fight For Survival In The Opening Hours Of Tomb Raider

You’re a young woman, crash-landed on an uncharted island in the south pacific. You’re wounded, it’s pouring rain; there are wolves everywhere. Your shipmates are scattered to the wind, and you’re starving to death. There are scores of people already inhabiting the island, evil men who are hunting you and your friends for some unknown,…

Cut the Rope Creators Peel the Lid Off Pudding Monsters

With Cut the Rope and Cut the Rope Experiments, UK developer ZeptoLab created a pair of the most popular games on any mobile platform, along with one of the most beloved mobile mascots, the candy-munching OmNom. If anything can build on that success, it’s pudding. Due out later this month, Pudding Monsters looks to be…

Ubisoft’s Weird Alice in Wonderland Cameos

Ubisoft’s two big holiday releases don’t just share numerals and second words starting with “cr”. They also both begin, bizarrely, with almost exactly the same quote. Yes, of all the books, movies, TV shows and historical figures that are out there for developers to lift quotes from, both Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed III…

Watch E.X. Troopers in All its Alien Bug-Stomping Glory

E.X. Troopers is a spin-off title to Capcom’s Lost Planet series—though it may not seem like it at first glance. Unlike the realistic graphical style of the main series of games, E.X. Troopers is presented entirely in a manga-esque style. The game’s cutscenes even come complete with panel frames and written onomatopoeic sound effects. The…

Does Call of Duty Camo Work in… Tokyo? Let’s Find Out.

You know in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, when Lt. Price and Cpt. MacMillan wear those “ghillie suits“? The camo outfits look like they’re wearing grass and foliage. Those come in handy while sneaking about the Russian wilderness. They’re less handy when in urban jungle known as Tokyo. Or are they? Japanese site Rocket…

Remember that Microsoft Killer Instinct trademark? Seems it’s been knocked down by a TV show with the same name.

Internet Defends Man Accused of Reading Porn in Public. Things Get Ugly.

“This guy is like totally reading a dirty magazine on the train,” the high school student’s tweet read. Accompanying the tweet was a photo a man, his legs pressed close as he read a magazine. The tweet, and the visible photo of his face set off a flurry of comments online in Japan. This man…

When Tekken Lets Its (Plastic) Hair Down

The latest entry in Kotobukiya’s bishoujo line of cute figures is Emili “Lili” de Rochefort. She joins Julia Chang, Alisa Bosconovich, among others in the bishoujo line. The figurine will be out next April in Japan. If this is your thing, there’s more in the above gallery. TEKKEN美少女 リリ (フィギュア) [Hobby Search] Kotaku East is…

PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida is busy playing with his new Wii U. If you have any words of advice, here’s his Twitter

What Headphones Anime Characters Are Wearing

Female characters wearing large headphones is a trope in Japanese anime. The headphones make the characters’ heads look smaller, thus, by anime standards, appear “cuter”. Tropes aside, the headphones are often based on real products. But which ones? In the past few years, on anime sites, music sites, and anime music sites, audiophiles and casual…

Sword Art Online Exists, So They’re Making an Adult Video of It

In Japan, there are tons of adult movies based on video games and anime. A good way to judge the popularity of a game or a cartoon is to see if it’s inspiring blue movie adaptations. Is new anime Sword Art Online popular in Japan? Well, as porn star Hibiki Otsuki has revealed, she is…

Macross 30 Looks to Be The Macross Game We’ve Been Waiting For

This year has been a great year to be a Macross fan. To celebrate the franchise’s 30th Anniversary, there has been a new movie, concerts, a TV documentary, and the release of the anime classic Macross: Do You Remember Love? on Blu-ray. Yet, the best may be yet to come in the form of the…

Maybe You, Too, Can Get a Job Smelling Farts

Perhaps you don’t have a job. Or maybe you want a new challenge, but you don’t know what you want to do with your life. If you are under 45 years old, you don’t drink, you don’t smoke, you don’t use perfume, and you don’t have nasal problems, there’s a career waiting for you in…

I Watched the Persona 4 Anime Without Ever Playing The Game

There’s a point in every gamer’s life as they get older when they realize that with work and everything else going on in their lives, they just don’t really have time to play every game they want to anymore—no matter how good it is reported to be. And after spending over four years constantly “planning…

Now That’s How You Ride a Chocobo

The magnificently-named Randis Albion takes the humble chocobo and toughens it up in this beautiful piece, which he’s hoping will get him a meeting with legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. You can see the full image below. Go Chocobo Go! [CGHub, via Super Punch]