Day 1 of the Wii U: Everything You Need to Know

It’s here. Nintendo’s sixth console, bringing one new controller and two screens to your living room, hit store shelves early this morning in America. As you would expect, there are are successes, setbacks, and tons of questions for the newest piece of video gaming hardware. Kotaku is here to document them all. What’s Inside: Wii…

Nintendo Burns Up Black Friday with a New 3DS Bundle

On the biggest shopping day of the year, Nintendo is launching a limited edition Flame Red 3DS bundle, the company announced today. Out November 23, the bundle is priced at US$169.99 and comes with Super Mario Land 3D pre-installed in the system.

Internet Cafe Webmaster Steals Internet From Internet Cafe

An internet cafe webmaster in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, was recently arrested for stealing user information, passwords, and money from the very same internet cafe he was working in. The method of his crime was something that seems like something lifted from the 1999 movie Office Space. The internet cafe webmaster, surnamed Zhang,…

3DS game Inazuma Eleven 1・2・3!! has been delayed from late Nov. to “winter” in Japan.

Evangelion 3.0 is (Not) the Film You Were Expecting

Over the past few weeks, we here at Kotaku East have been taking a look at the previous Rebuild of Evangelion films as we eagerly awaited the release of the third in the series: Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo Well, this past weekend, the long anticipated film was released in theaters across Japan. But…

The Wii U isn’t getting Mass Effect 3‘s forthcoming Omega DLC.

One Game Account, Two Gamers

In China, video game property is starting to become legal property. What that means is, player accounts and virtual assets are starting to become real business and this change in the law is starting to affect some players in a negative way. Earlier this year, Wang, 24, purchased a gaming account from a friend of…

Few Anime Get as Pretentious as This

When the latest Neon Genesis Evangelion flick hit theaters this weekend in Japan, the next Evangelion film was revealed. And at first look, its title appears annoyingly pretentious. It is. But it’s also interesting. The teaser webpage this appears on has the world “final” in the URL. The text says, “Next time, a new Evangelion…

Sega is teasing its latest, unannounced game with this site. Full reveal later in the week.

When Balloon Art Goes Very Wrong and Very Phallic

The Tetsuwan Dash is a long running Japanese series that features boy band (and former Xbox 360 spokesmen) Tokio. On the show, the group tries to pull off a variety of feats, like building a foam house or seeing who can last longest on the least amount of money—stuff like that. This weekend’s show had…

How Does Mercedes Benz Promote Cars in Japan? Why with Anime, That’s How.

To help launch the all new A-Class in Japan, Mercedes Benz is releasing an animated short in which the car chases after a noodle truck. One of the country’s biggest studios, Production I. G, carries out the animation duties, while Yoshiyuki Sadamoto of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame does the character designs. Miyuki Sawashiro lends her…

Japan’s Pervert Superhero Might Be Getting His Own Movie

This weekend, when folks settled into dark theaters across Japan to watch the new Evangelion anime, they were, as with most movies, bombarded with previews. Sandwiched betweem the ten or so trailers, was a short, 15-second clip that probably made the audience’s collective mouth drop. Most people probably didn’t know what the hell they were…

What Do Crummy Gamers Have in Common? The Japanese Internet Discusses.

Some gamers are very good at video games. Some are just awful. And that’s okay! Still, there must be common traits of crummy gamers, and that’s what a recent thread of Japan’s largest bulletin board, 2ch, tried to pin down. The name of the thread was “Common Traits of Zero Gaming Aptitude”, and the forum…

The Most Delicious JRPG Enemy There Ever Was

In Japan, Morinaga Milk Caramel has delighted sweet tooths for over a hundred years. Dragon Quest has delighted gamers for decades. And now, both come together in this yummy fan creation. Twitter user Cencho recreated DQ enemy Golem using the soft candy. Below is an image after the Golem has been defeated—and devoured. Since Golem…

Buy Your Own Floating Portal Core (That Actually Floats)

Now that the world has moved on from making giant sharks float around by the magic of fancy air, we can move onto more interesting things like Portal personality cores. Thinkgeek are selling two variants of the item you see above, Wheatley or Space, for $20 each. Sadly, they’re not remote-controlled. They’re basically glorified balloons.…

A Young Mother Battles, Adorably, Against Video Game Addiction

GLUED is a short film released earlier this year by a team of students at Bezalel Academy of the Arts. It’s all about the problems a mother faces trying to deal with her young son, who is so addicted to video games it’s insane. The film, which took ten months to create, was the first…

Play the Halo Theme Song And This Impressive Master Chief Stained-Glass Window is Even Cooler

Seventy hours. Two hundred pieces of glass. 250 feet of copper. An estimated one million colours. That’s the work that went into this Halo stained-glass window, and it was totally worth it. Not sure if the medium was intentional given the religious overtones of the series’ theme song, but that’s exactly why this works. 70…

Comparing Batman: Arkham City on Wii U, Xbox 360 & PS3

Seeing as many of the third-party launch games on Wii U are already out on the PS3 and/or 360, those games are going to have to do one of two things. Or maybe even both of them. Those games are going to need to make real good use of the Wii U controller, and they’re…

Here’s Some Real Screenshots & Video From Assassin’s Creed III on PC. Is it Worth the Wait?

I’m playing Assassin’s Creed: Revelations on PC right now, actually (as a refresher), and even a year on I’m shocked by how much better it looks than the console versions. Even though I shouldn’t be. The cleaner models are nice, sure, but it’s the draw distance that really sets the PC version apart. So I’ve…

When Skyrim Meets Furries, Emotions Are Mixed

I’m not a fan of furries. I just… the concept itself doesn’t concern me. It’s more the execution. All those big eyes, and weird proportions. Too weird. It’s slightly less weird, though, when you combine it with some awesome Skyrim armour. Then look at it in a gallery where it’s joined by Mega Man, Link,…