Dunwall City Trials—the previously announced challenge DLC for Dishonored—will be coming out on Dec. 11

The Today Show Fails at the Wii U

Yesterday morning’s Today Show featured the Wii U, the hot new Nintendo console that’s like a tablet merged with a game console. Should be great for live TV, right? Not quite, as you can see above. At least no one has thrown a Wii U GamePad through a TV screen yet. Remember that stuff? Let’s…

This Week’s iPhone Charts: The Cheapest Dental Surgery Available

The magic of mobile gaming affords us countless opportunities to explore magical worlds filled with happiness and joy and comfort. Or we could just take a hammer to our teeth. I must admit that when I first saw Dental Surgery at the top of this week’s free iPhone app charts, I downloaded it immediately. Within…

Yes, Robot Chicken, Kratos Should Be Embarrassed if Sackboy Kicks His Butt

Robot Chicken’s brand of geek humor gets a lot of mileage from imagining the messed-up stuff fictional characters get up to when they’re not busy being all heroic or villainous. So, yeah, a breakroom filled with the cast of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale would be boiling over with all of the shame and neediness you…

Here’s a Devastating Account of the Crap Women in the Games Business Have to Deal With. In 2012.

Over the past 24 hours or so, a number of women working in the game industry (and some male colleagues) have taken to Twitter to share their stories via the hashtag #1reasonwhy They’re not motivational tales. Instead, they’re accounts of the rampant sexism and discrimination many have faced in the past, and are still facing…

The Wii Mini Looks Glorious, Lacks Internet and GameCube Games [Update: Canada Exclusive]

Earlier tonight, a teeny-tiny image of the Wii Mini’s box appeared online. Here’s a better look at the console itself. And hot damn, it’s lovely looking. Smaller than the regular console, the Wii Mini has a red casing and a rough, matte finish with a Wii logo dead in the middle. It appears to be…

PSP picture game Photo Kano is getting a PS Vita version and a TV anime, says Famitsu

Chinese Newspaper Believes The Onion, Really Thinks Kim Jong-un Is The Sexiest Man Alive

People’s Daily is China’s newspaper of record. It’s the paper of the Chinese Communist Party—a mouthpiece of the government. And today, it figured out that The Onion is not America’s newspaper of record. If you’ve been on the internet since forever, you know that The Onion is a humor site that satirizes the news. People’s…

Erotic Game Company Parodies Nintendo Honcho

“Iwata Asks” is a regular online feature in which Nintendo president Satoru Iwata interviews developers. Some of the game creators are in-house and some work for outside companies. All of their games appear on Nintendo hardware. None of them feature hardcore pornography. Instead of “Iwata Asks”, Osaka-based erotic PC game company SoftPal launched a “Shacho…

There’s a New Wii Console, The Wii Mini

While it’s yet to be officially announced by Nintendo, Canada’s Best Buy website has revealed the Wii Mini, a smaller, sleeker version of Nintendo’s console. There’s no price information yet (or larger image), but it’ll be out on December 7, and appears to boast a square form factor, a black & red colour scheme and…

Link Is So Pissed, So Effing Pissed

Bet he’s dealing with Mothula in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I can see it on his angry, tortured face. (We’ve all been there!) This is Link’s “Angry Face” from Figma’s new Skyward Sword figurine (read the Kotaku review). Please, let’s make Angry Face Link a meme. Surely, there are more…

Just a friendly reminder! In Japan, Nintendo said its TVii streaming service hits December 8.

Sometimes, Interaction with Foreigners Is Awkward, Even in Japanese Anime

The long pauses. The nervous gestures. They’re not quite sure what to say, and thus, neither are you. Sometimes when foreigners interact with Japanese people, things can get awkward. Very, very awkward. Good thing there’s anime to remind us how awkward! Japan is around 98.5 percent Japanese. Within that, there are small groups of are…

Nintendo Is Charging People to Change TV Channels (No, Really)

With Nintendo TVii, the Kyoto-based game maker is bringing streaming video to the GamePad. Starting on December 8 in Japan, gamers can watch the pictures as they fly through the air via the comfort of the Wii U GamePad. But if you want easy channel changing, you must barf up extra cash. On December 8,…

The Walking Dead Sure Was Emotional. For Different Reasons, For Different People.

I’m still coming down from the experience that was The Walking Dead. Without getting into spoiler territory, that was… quite the ending. To help cope, I’ve been talking to other people about their experiences, many of which seem to be similar to my own. And then Kirk goes and shows me The Walking Dead Game…

The World of Game of Thrones, Now Available in a Gorgeous iOS App

Random House Publishing and Fantasy Flight Games have teamed up to release A World of Ice and Fire, a stunning guide to the people and places of Westeros. While it’s free to download, you’re only given a limited selection of content; to unlock the full range of entries, you’re going to have to pay. But…

PlayStation Home Has Become The Weirdest Place In Gaming

It feels like an age ago, and in gaming terms I guess it was. The launch of PlayStation Home, one of the cornerstones of the PS3’s launch era, was meant to usher in a new kind of online interaction. A place where the connectivity of Xbox Live could be turned into a virtual world, blurring…

24,000 Games, From 1975 to 2012, Broken Down By Genre & Platform

These two charts turned up today, reportedly from a “recently scraped database of 24,000 videogames to determine percentages of genre and platform releases since 1975”. My inner stats nerd just fainted. Charts like this can tell you a lot about games and the changing way we enjoy them, and even allowing for the fact it…

That’s No Moon…

It might not be the most extensive of Skyrim mods, but it’s certainly one of the most eye-catching. If, that is, you can bend your mind around to the fiction of the Star Wars and Elder Scrolls universes co-existing… If you want to try it out, maybe add it to your need-to-install-these-mods list, you can…

The Artistic Origins of Disney’s Video Game Love Letters

Disney’s Wreck-it-Ralph is, in some ways, the best video game movie ever made. It doesn’t do as much with the whole video games thing as it could have, but still, great movie. One of the things it did really well was parody/pay homage to famous video game series and clichés without (usually) having to directly…