Peter Molyneux confirms that a big update for Curiosity is coming. Also, there might be a GODUS crossover. (via VG247)

Holiday Gift Guide: What Can You Get For Over $100?

Oooo who is that special someone you’re planning on buying such lavish gifts for? Whoever it is, they’re lucky! There are definitely a wide array of fancy gaming gift options. The new Wii U? A swanky headset? A gorgeous leather bean bag chair from Restoration Hardware that I really wanted to get my big brother…

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed: The Kotaku Review

In a year in which I reviewed demanding motorsports simulations like F1 2012, and NASCAR The Game: Inside Line, with Forza Horizon thrown in for good measure, I can guarantee the toughest racing game I’ll play is Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed That is no joke. It’s simply one of the least-accessible cart racers…

See How Pretty Far Cry 3 Looks On PC

For nearly all of its pre-release marketing, Ubisoft has for some reason decided to focus on Far Cry 3’s cast and weird stuff like animals. Instead of, you know, the things people like most about those games: free-roaming action. This 16-minute clip, on the other hand, has almost nothing but, and is of the PC…

Talk Amongst Yourselves is where you should go to talk about games. And life. Happy Thanksgiving, Americans!

Capcom tweets that Dragon’s Dogma is coming to the PC. UPDATE: False alarm. Tweet pulled. Capcom: “sorry.”

Adventure Time’s Creator Has a Word About Video Games

Adorable. This is a clip by Pendleton Ward, Adventure Time creator, drumming up support for the wonderful-sounding LA Game Space And if that’s not enough to get you interested? The venture has also convinced Katamari creator Keita Takahashi to release his next game to backers of its Kickstarter for only $5. If people like this…

In a fascinating interview with RPS, Peter Molyneux talks about over-promising, Curiosity, and his new Kickstarter.

You Can Download the Sequels to Zelda and Pushmo to a 3DS Today

Here in America, it’s Thanksgiving. It’s a day to be be thankful, a day for eating turkey and cranberry sauce and a day for ignoring the normal Nintendo download update. Cutting to the chase, the sequel to Pushmo my favorite 3DS game is out today. The new one is called Crashmo. In the old game…

You can now take a look at the Wii U’s UK/Europe launch lineup, via VG247. The console debuts overseas on the 30th.

Wii U: The Frankenreviiu

It’s a new console! These are momentous events in gaming, and yet nobody seems quite sure how to react to Nintendo’s new entrant, the Wii U. To some, it feels like the last of a generation that launched with the Xbox 360 many years ago. To Nintendo, it’s the first of the next generation, well…

Now the Czech President is appealing to Greece for the release of the imprisoned ArmA 3 devs.

R4 Cartridges Blocked in Japan by the Government

This has been a long legal rodeo, with Japanese authorities cracking down on the sale of R4 cartridges. Things are getting tougher for those gamers in Japan who don’t want to pony up cash for their games. R4 cartridges are devices that allow gamers to play pirated games on their Nintendo handhelds, which is why…

From Nerdy Bikini Model to Japanese Politician

Politicians with, let’s say, interesting backgrounds are nothing new. People have entered politics from acting, modeling, and, yes, even hardcore pornography. Jobs are jobs. Politics, however, is a calling. Rie Sasaki is answering that call. What makes Sasaki so noteworthy is that she could be Japan’s first elected official that has gone from Akihabara street…

How Square Enix Screwed Up Black Ops II for Japan

For years now, Square Enix has published the Call of Duty games in Japan. Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada is apparently a big fan of the series—and Western games. His goal is apparently to make Japanese gamers more open to playing foreign titles. That’s admirable. It would be more admirable if the company didn’t keep…

Ratings agency Fitch just downgraded Sony to “junk”, Reuters reports

It’s Like One Piece Is Ripping Off Disney and Tim Burton

On 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin, a thread popped up with the title, “Concrete Proof of One Piece‘s Plagiarism lulz”. In this thread, an image showed seemed to detail how One Piece continues to knock off Disney and Tim Burton. Or does it? In the above gallery, you can see comparisons from that thread. Most of…

Half Way Through, The Cartoon Suddenly Turned to a Porno

Japanese animation is loved all over the world. From Cleveland to China, there are anime fans everywhere. But one unlucky young anime fan in Guangdong didn’t watch just anime. She saw something she never should’ve. Earlier this month, an eleven-year old girl in the Guangdong region of China asked her mom to buy a Puella…

Making This Iron Man Helmet Required a Shirtless Man Covered in Plaster

Yes, the internet is awash with do-it-yourself Iron Man helmets. That’s okay, because d.i.y. Iron Man helmets are rad This Mark III Iron Man Helmet was painstakingly moulded, sculpted, sanded, and then painted in a highly laborious and time consuming process. It took around a year to complete! The finished helmet, which is motorized and…

Happy Thanksgiving, Here’s Some Pin-Up Girls vs Zombies vs Clowns

Damian Schouweiler, of BioWare, works at the company’s social division, meaning he’s contributed to games like Age of Champions, from which all of today’s images originate. In the past, however, he’s been employed at places like Trion and Sony Online Entertainment, where he helped out on Legends of Norrath, Everquest 2, RIFT and the Untold…