Your Official Holiday Gift Guide, For All Your Shopping Needs

Another year, another round of holiday gift shopping. But what should you buy all those special people in your life? What should you be looking for on this hectic Black Friday? We’re here to help. We’ve covered a ton of gift-buying options, from games on various platforms to specific price ranges to help make things…

This Lady Cosplays in Cute Outfits and Then Shoots Deadly Assault Rifles

Japan seems to have an idol for everything. Besides all the typical singing schoolgirl idols, there’s a glasses idol, a retro gaming idol, and even an “ugly” idol. So you can bet there’s also a military idol. Meet Mii Aihara. She got her start working at a Mia Cafe, a maid cafe in Tokyo’s geek…

Report: How Japanese Women Tell If Male Co-Workers Are Totally Unpopular

Are you a working dude? A popular working dude? If not, you might be giving off telltale signs to your female colleagues that you are not popular. Japanese research website Otome Sugoren (via Sugoren) regularly polls its women readers and has come up with the seven most popular ways women (in Japan, at least) know…

If Back to the Future Was Made by Japanese Geeks

It would probably feature a Delorean that looks like this. Behold, the itasha DMC-12, complete with an “OUTATIME” California plate. Itasha (痛車), literally “painmobile”, are cars covered with anime, manga, or video game themed stickers. This Delorean is wrapped in Japanese anime Haiyore! Nyaruko-san and was on display at a recent itasha gathering in Tokyo’s…

Let’s Overdose on All this Wonderful Mecha Plastic

Gundam models are called “Gunpla” (ガンプラ) in Japanese. And at this year’s Gunpla Expo, there were plenty of them. The event, which runs until November 25 in Tokyo’s Akihabara, not only showcases upcoming models, but also the work of master Gunpla builders and famous fans. Let’s have a look. Some of these are actually entries…

Navy Serviceman Says He Wasn’t “Totally Nude” at the Comic Cafe (But He Did Pee)

Manga cafes might be wretched hives of scum and villainy, but they are also a place where people unwind, read comics, play video games, and pass out after missing the last train. Maybe that’s what happened to 23 year-old Navy serviceman Oscar Hayes Weigle, and his buddy. If so, that’s easy to explain. What actually…

The Korean Rating Board apparently approved 3DS title Resident Evil: Revelations for PS3/Xbox 360. [Thanks Catmario!]

The Avengers’ Agent Phil Coulson, Yours to Own And Hold And Do…Whatever

Hot Toys has all the super heroes of The Avengers covered with their amazing line of highly-detailed figures, but what about plain old regular heroes? Here’s one. Everyone’s favourite super dork, Agent Phil Coulson. Available in June 2013 for $175, he comes with all kinds of super accessories like a…folder. And his Captain America trading…

How The World’s Biggest LAN Party Is Built

Over the rest of this week and the weekend, over 10,000 gamers will be gathering in Jonkoping, Sweden for Dreamhack Winter, the world’s largest LAN party. There’ll be games, parties, e-sports, food, swag, you name it, if it’s got to do with PC gaming, it’ll probably be somewhere at Elmia Fair, where the attendees get…

Animal Crossing: New Leaf Doesn’t Seem Like Digital Heroin. But It Is.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is currently one of the most popular 3DS games in Japan. It hit the shelves on November 8th, and as of the 18th, the game has sold 893,344 copies (not including the download version) and is well on its way to being a million seller hit. The game sells itself as…

THQ Tries To Clear Up Comments That The Wii U “Has A Horrible, Slow CPU”

Oles Shishkovtsov, from Metro developers 4A Games, delivered a short-but-interesting verdict on Nintendo’s new console recently when he said “[The] Wii U has a horrible, slow CPU.” 4A & THQ PR man Huw Beynon (THQ being the publisher of 4A’s Metro: Last Light) elaborated a little more at the time, but in the wake of…

Angry Birds is Now Hanging on a Wall as Art

It’s not often you get to see a game guide, of sorts, written by an artist. But then, it’s not often a game is as simple as Angry Birds Artist Evan Roth has finished Rovio’s mobile game in a pretty unique way: he managed to record every swipe of his finger throughout the game’s levels,…

Pump Train Puts You In Charge of Saving New York City’s Subways After Hurricane Sandy

One of the most chilling consequences of last month’s brutal superstorm was how Sandy flooded and shut down huge chunks of New York City’s mass transit system. Entire subway stations were submerged and the tunnels that trains travel through were flooded to an unprecedented degree. Much of the subway system was up and running in…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The Vita Gamer?

Here we have yet another handheld gamer, and the Vita gamer needs holiday love, too. Perhaps more so than any other gamer, since the pickings are still somewhat (at least relatively) slim. What suggestions do you have for the Vita gamer? Watch out for our editors’ picks down below, but feel free to add yours,…

The Slickest, Sickest Dishonored Killing Spree I’ve Ever Seen

You know how you can play Dishonored either violently or stealthily? I tended to opt for stealth, even though I liked how fun the game was when things got action-packed. But I have never, ever seen someone take on the game with the kind of violent aplomb shown by kekkoSoNicSyNdIcAtE in the video above. Dude…

This Is Not The Dark Knight, But It’s Damn Close

Following up my review for the Hot Toys Avengers Hawkeye figure, I was surprised to find my order of the Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece The Dark Knight Rises 1/6th scale figure Batman arrive in the mail. Granted it was one month late, but the Hong Kong collectible company is both notoriously and understandably late in…

Tim Schafer Wants You to Know How Double Fine Makes Its Games

The Amnesia Fortnight sessions at Double Fine have been a sort of open secret at Tim Schafer’s Double Fine development studios. People can point to what’s come out of those brainstorming marathons, in the form of Iron Brigade, Costume Quest and Stacking. And the folks at Double Fine have made the latest Amnesia Fortnight public,…

Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year’s Biggest Games

This year has been chock full of games. With the holidays approaching we’ve rounded up some gift guides covering all sorts of bases for you. Price range, platform, etc. But what if you just want to refresh your memory of this year’s highlights? Here are all of our reviews of the biggest games this year.…

This Digital Boyfriend Game Is Like Dating Cleverbot, Except Even More Hilarious/Creepy

Who knew that you could use an app to get a made-to-order boyfriend? Seriously. I’ve spent the last couple of days occasionally “chatting,” shopping and playing dress up with a virtual boyfriend while playing the game Boyfriend Maker. Yes, I’m aware that this is a game meant for pre-teen girls. I can tell by looking…

Here’s A Trailer For The Enhanced Edition of Baldur’s Gate

Happy Thanksgiving! Take a trailer for the upcoming remake of one of the greatest RPGs ever made. After some big delays, Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition should be out next Wednesday for PC (and somewhere around then for iPad as well). For more on the new enhancements coming in this edition of the iconic game, check…