15 Flavors of Japanese Kit Kats: The Snacktaku Review

This weekend I went on a magical flavor journey across the Pacific, to a land where what Americans deem worthy of snackhood is laughably tame. This weekend I tasted 15 different varieties of Japanese Kit Kats, and I am forever changed by the experience. Snacktaku fans will remember the Japanese Kit Kats as one of…

A Ten-Year-Old Tried Using A 3DS To Find A Girlfriend

There is something about Nintendo and love birds—first, someone tried using the Wii U as real estate for a personal ad. Now, according to Tiny Cartridge, a ten-year-old tried using a 3DS to find himself a girlfriend. How did he try to do it? Using an app, of course. Specifically, the young Masterclaw360 used the…

Four Months After Releasing Virtue’s Last Reward, The Developers Still Can’t Fix A Save-Erasing Bug

The people behind Virtue’s Last Reward can’t seem to figure out how to patch a save-erasing bug that affects the 3DS version of the Japanese visual novel. Publisher Aksys has posted a “workaround” for the bug, which will erase your entire game if you save while solving puzzles in the PEC room (or Crew Quarters).…

Real Racing 3 is Even More Attractive Now That It’s Going Free-to-Play

The latest entry in Firemonkeys’ Real Racing isn’t just going to be the nicest looking entry in the series when it drops on February 28—it’ll also be the first one that’s completely free to play. In an interview with Bloomberg, EA’s senior vice president for mobile and social game development Nick Earl said the company…

Ungrateful Toy Fair-goers Already Hawking Exclusive Skylanders on eBay

Well, this doesn’t look tacky or anything. Skylanders has been giving out exclusive Toy Fair figurines to attendees of the show itself and a couple of preview events last week. Said attendees are not civilians, as Toy Fair is a closed, industry event. But, knowing the demand for these suckers, a bunch have been listed…

Interested in hunting hidden objects? G5 Games’ Letters from Nowhere is free on iOS and Android until February 17.

Things Get Weird When You Look At Pokémon As An Allegory For Slavery

Unlike the Pokémon games before it, Pokémon Black/White almost explored something interesting: why we catch Pokémon, and whether or not keeping/battling with them is “okay.” But before the games said anything meaningful or deep, they took the easy route and made Team Plasma—the group intent on “liberating” Pokémon and therefore the reason you’re thinking about…

The Next Xbox Has Mandatory Kinect, Game-Swapping and New Controllers, According To Leaked Info

The next-generation Xbox—the one that will follow the still-popular Xbox 360—will run multiple games at once, require game installations, and will only work when a much-improved version of the popular but divisive Kinect sensor array is plugged in, according to a source who says he has access to development hardware. Those are a just a…

MLB 2K‘s Perfect Game Challenge is Back Under New—and, One Hopes, Exploit-Proof—Rules

The Perfect Game Challenge offered by the Major League Baseball 2K series, tainted by allegations of cheating and rules loopholes last year, returns under a new format this time, its fourth in as many years. Though the million-dollar prize pool is still the same size, it will now divide the loot among 30 overall winners,…

FarmVille 2 ‘By Any Other Name’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

As the Florist Table event continues to expand in FarmVille 2, we’ve seen the launch of a new series of eight quests called “By Any Other Name.” These eight quests will be available for the next two weeks, and we’re here with a guide to help get you started on completing them. Late Bloomer •…

These Toys Give Us The Best Look At Man Of Steel‘s Villain Yet

With Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel movie arriving on June 14th, more details of his take on Superman’s world are hitting the internet. Yesterday, among the trading cards, maquettes, and plushes at Toy Fair, we spotted your boy Kal-El and three other characters from the film in these gorgeous new toys from DC Collectibles. They…

Electronic Arts Turned Down the Man Who Shot Osama bin Laden, Says Report

Esquire’s fascinating profile of the SEAL Team Six member who killed Osama bin Laden, and his struggles to adapt to civilian life, churned up this intriguing detail: the shooter wanted to consult on Medal of Honor: Warfighter, but Electronic Arts turned him down. Now, EA didn’t know the shooter (who is not named in the…

In Hungry Oni, Your Meals Are Color-Coded

As far as sharp looking iOS games go, Hungry Oni must be one of the most dazzling I’ve seen all year. And yes, I know it’s only February. (It is only February.) The game is the work of Andrzej Zamoyski, a former Lionhead Studios developer who moved to Japan to make video games. This is…

This iPad App Puts Discworld’s Finest City at Your Fingertips. I’d Wear Gloves.

“There’s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it’s wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along the wrong way.” That’s pretty much all you need to know about the central city of Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld books, but if you’re still ill-advisedly curious, there’s now an interactive…

Walter White, Wonder Woman and Jon Snow Walk into a Bar: Toy Fair 2013, Day 1

Toy Fair descends onto Manhattan’s Jacob Javitz Convention this week, bringing with it loads of plastic you don’t care about. But Toy Fair also shines a spotlight on the weirdest, coolest collectibles and playthings that you’ll be lusting over for the next twelve months. In these images—taken by Kotaku video editor Chris Person—you’ll see statues…

Nintendo Fan Is Happy With Nintendo’s $620 Answer to His $570 Wii U Problem

On Friday, we brought you the story of Jon, a Nintendo fan who spent $400 downloading old games to his Wii, but, through a mistake of his own and due to Nintendo’s unusually strict digital-downloads policy, found himself with access to none of those games. The lesson: a Nintendo machine isn’t like an iPhone; your…

Galaxy on Fire Strategically Goes Massively Multiplayer

The premiere mobile space sim, Galaxy on Fire and its sequel have pleased countless fans of Privateer-style combat and trading. Now German developer Fishlabs Entertainment prepares to open up the universe to colonization in Galaxy on Fire: Alliances Set in a remote corner of the Galaxy on Fire universe, Alliances is a free-to-play massively multiplayer…

Square Enix Won’t Release Final Fantasy Type-0 In North America, So Fans Are Taking Over

It’s been a year and a half since Square Enix released the PSP role-playing game Final Fantasy Type-0 in Japan, and the publisher has not yet said a word about a possible U.S. release. Enter the fans. A group of dedicated translators are doing their best to release an English version of Type-0, and you…

For Once, a Politician Defends Games, Saying They’re Not the Cause of Violence

The drill is familiar: a lawmaker goes on a newsmaker show, puts on a Real Serious Face, is teed up some opportunity to tell everyone that scary scary video games bear some responsibility for America’s love affair with gun massacres. Well, that wasn’t the drill yesterday on Fox News Sunday. Not for Rep. Nancy Pelosi.…

Parkour-Powered Vector Races Gracefully to Android

Nekki Games’ stylish free-running platformer Vector is one of the coolest games on Facebook. In December it became one of the coolest games on iOS, and now it’s one of the coolest games on Android. Funny how that works. Vector for Android brings the smooth and sexy silhouette parkour action of the Facebook and iOS…