Looks like we’re getting a new Shantae game, called Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse. GoNintendo’s got the details

Yep, The PSP Is Still Getting Games. This One Is A Strategy-RPG.

It’s called Ragnarok Tactics, and it’s a tactical role-playing game set in the world of Ragnarok Online. Trailer’s above. Out today on disc for $30 and on the PlayStation Network for $25, the game actually looks pretty interesting. I’ve never played Ragnarok Online, but I’m always a sucker for a good strategy-RPG. (Although nothing has…

Microsoft’s SmartGlass Xbox Companion App Now on iOS

Microsoft’s SmartGlass app is now available for iOS devices. SmartGlass lets Xbox 360 users interact with synced game content on their phone or tablet while they play a game—for example, as in a separate map view in Forza Horizon The app has been available on Android devices since last week.

This Week’s iPhone Charts: Wreck-It Ralph Rules the Roost

When we last left our intrepid iPhone gaming app charts, Tumblr had stolen my powers of tracking, leaving me to resort to an image-based solution. This week the rankings are back, which is why it took me so long to get them up. How about that Wreck-It Ralph? The computer animated sensation that’s sweeping the…

Kotaku‘s Election Night Open Thread

Whether you’re just back from the voting station or you’ve been playing Halo 4 all day, tonight you’ll find out who will be president for the next four years. We thought we’d give you all a place to come together and watch the returns come in, talk, argue, fret, hold hands, and stress out together.…

Four Years Ago.

If you’re like me, you play a lot of video games and just might have a game or two baked into your memory of major historical events. I will always associate election night in 2008, for example, not just with Barack Obama’s historic election as America’s first black president but as the night I had…

Too Many Curious Cats Seem To Be Killing the Curiosity Cube

It seems the world is indeed curious about what’s inside the cube. 22 Cans, the new experimental studio headed by Peter Molyneux (Fable, Black & White, Populous), launched their much-discussed new mobile app Curiosity today. By 9:30 this morning, yours truly was already the 32,277th person to download the app and “embark on this unique…

You can listen to the entire Halo 4 soundtrack on Spotify right now. Check it out, it’s really good.

You’ve Never Heard A Master Chief This Creepy

On November 21, close to seven years after it launched in America, the Xbox 360 will come to Israel for the first time. To celebrate the occasion, Master Chief came out to greet Israelis and introduce the system. Check out this video, shot by YNet reporter Shahar Shushan, for what might be the best Master…

The new Donkey Kong world record is 1,138,600 points! Set by Hank Chien, who was breaking his own record.

Watch Halo 4‘s Promethean Weapons Assemble In Mesmerizing Slow Motion

One of the coolest features of 343’s first Halo title that released today is the disassembling and reassembling Promethean weapons. Not only are these weapons incredibly satisfying to shoot and kill with, but they’re also pretty to look at. Reloading will take the weapon apart momentarily, but the best disassembling/reassembling animations occur when you pick…

You Have to Play The Wizard of Oz, If Only to Experience the Joy of MunchkinCam

Spooky Cool Labs’ Facebook game based on movie classic The Wizard of Oz is in beta now, and you should definitely give it a try, if not for the ability to see through the eyes of Munchkins in first-person, then for the most dramatic wood chopping and ore mining in video game history. Riddled with…

PlayStation: The Official Magazine Is Shutting Down

Magazine publisher Future US will end circulation of PlayStation: The Official Magazine this year. As first reported by Game Informer, P:TOM will shut its doors alongside Nintendo Power this holiday “Future US can confirm it will end production of PlayStation: The Official Magazine with the last issue slated for the Holiday 2012 issue,” a Future…

You’d Be Surprised How Fun A Text-Based Multiplayer Shooter Can Be

When I think of fast-paced multiplayer shooters, I think of first-person games like Halo and Call of Duty. I don’t generally think of text-based games. Little did I know that a text-based multiplayer shooter, specifically Eigen Lenk’s Text-Based Multiplayer Shooter, could be so much fun. (Jason tells me that Aliens vs. Predator: MUD was similar,…

Obama Crushes Romney in Ohio (Among Players of Maple Story)

President Barack Obama basically annihilated Mitt Romney in a new poll in the key swing state of Ohio. Too bad for Obama that the vote only involved players of the online game Maple Story It’s not going to be that easy, Obama. Nexon, the creators of Maple Story ran the third of three polls of…

Seven Comics That Will Sharpen Your Skills This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

A Horny Superman and Charles Burns’ Trippy Riff on Tintin Show Up for Panel Discussion This Week

These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” We’re going to kick off a recurring feature here in Kotaku‘s slice of…

Fox News Says Halo 4 May Keep Gamers From Voting

Never one to back away from humorously uninformed hogwash, Fox News has run a new article suggesting that young voters might skip the polls to spend time playing the newly released Xbox 360 game Halo 4 How have they arrived at this provocative conclusion? Because they talked to some people! Um, experts! A PR guy!…

A Big, Leaked Update About The Next Game From The Halo-Makers At Bungie. Plus: More Gaming Secrets.

Editor’s Note: If people in the gaming industry really wanted to hide stuff, they’re going to have to do better. The one and only Superannuation keeps digging and keeps finding gems. Today, on the day that 343 Industries’ Halo 4 is out, Superannuation has a massive update about how Destiny, the next game from the…

New Move-Enabled Portal 2 DLC Now Available on PlayStation Network

The fancy “In Motion” DLC for the PlayStation 3 version of Portal 2 is available today We last saw “In Motion” at E3 this summer, where a Sony representative demonstrated how the Move works with the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. The DLC adds new kinds of controls to the game, including, notably, the ability…