Reconstruct the Life of George from Physical Bricks in This LEGO-Powered Gaming App

There are plenty of LEGO video games out there, but most of them focus on the appearance of the popular building toys rather than the most important element—construction. Rather than assembling the LEGO memories of a pretty awesome guy via button presses, Life of George has you build them out of physical bricks. Life of…

Mysterious Dangers Stalk Our Survivors In The Next Episode of The Walking Dead

Around every corner is yet another danger. Around every corner is another hard decision. Another mystery, and more paranoia. Around Every Corner is the next episode in the fantastic episodic series of Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. We find our group of survivors in a new area (episode 3 spoilers)—Savannah, GA—fighting against both zombies and…

Stop Playing Politics on Facebook and Start… Playing Politics on Facebook

Rocket Surgeon’s For the People: Fantasy Politics officially launches on Facebook on the early January swearing in day for new members of Congress. If you consider that a holiday, then you might want to be sworn into the open beta. Congressman Fahey reporting for duty! For the People: Fantasy Politics casts players in the role…

Here Are The Names Of Some Good Things, Mostly Video Game Sequels, That End In 6 (Or “VI”)

The release of Resident Evil 6 raises the question of whether we can reasonably expect any sequels that include the number six. This is a question I asked the good people on Twitter. The good people replied, sometimes usefully. Sometimes not. And… So, yeah, there have been some good sixes, after all!

New Super Mario Bros. 2 Gets Three DLC Packs This Week For $2.50 Each

You can start buying downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. 2 this Thursday. The first three DLC packs for the game, each including three courses, are the Gold Rush Pack, Coin Challenge Pack A, and Nerve-Wrack Pack. Here’s Nintendo’s description of each: Gold Rush Pack: Fun new courses that give novice players the best…

Jimmy Kimmel And His Celebrity Friend Are Pretty Terrible At Draw Something

It’s hard to say, really, who is more at fault in this sadly failed guess from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. While Kimmel got sidetracked and failed to remember pertinent information that would have helped him, the celebrity—armed not with a phone, but with a full-sized iPad—could have done a much better job rendering their…

Xbox Site Says That the Karateka Re-Make Is Coming Out in November

Microsoft’s official site for their game console has been known to let things slip out before they’ve been publically announced. Like that one time it outed Halo 4 before last year’s E3 Jordan Mechner has talked about the re-imagination of his classic kung-fu adventure before but no release date has ever been mentioned by the…

It seems Batman: Arkham City GOTY Edition will be getting a Mac release this November.

Tiger and Bunny: The Beginning is Half-Rehash and Half-Filler (But Not Half Bad)

Without a doubt, Tiger & Bunny was one of the most popular anime of 2011. It took the idea of superheroes and mixed it with reality TV to create what amounts to a buddy-cop anime series. Now a year after the series’ end, the heroes are making their leap to the silver screen with Tiger…

Resident Evil 6: The Kotaku Review

The old dread isn’t coming back. You remember it, don’t you? The shock of terror when you stumbled in on a zombie chomping on a corpse in the first Resident Evil. Or when the undead dogs jumped through the window? Those are signature moments—along with the compulsive hoarding of typewriter ribbon—that anyone who’s played the…

This is What Happens When You Cross Scrabble with Tron‘s Light Cycles

The rise of Words with Friends has brought the slow and plodding casual word game genre into the spotlight. With Lexatron, Fictorial‘s Brian Hammond seeks to add a little excitement to the scene with a keen competitive twist. Rather than trying to fill a board with expensive words, the goal in Lexatron is to make…

Dumb Running Sonic Meets an Untimely End

Call me crazy, but this is the kind of realism I want from my Sonic games, not regrettable mouth-kissing or a never-ending sense of crushing disappointment. Silly Sonic [DeviantArt, via insanely gaming]

One of the Nerdiest Restaurant Discounts Japan Has Ever Had

Monteroza, which owns a handful of izakaya restaurants like Shirokiya and Wara Wara, is offering a special deal at many of its eateries: If you have the same name as a Neon Genesis Evangelion characters, it will discount your bill. The characters include Rei Ayanami, Shinji Ikari, Kaworu Nagisa, Soryu Asuka Langley, and Makinami Mari…

Even EA Couldn’t Kill This Japanese Dating Game

A few years back, EA (of Japan!) was slated to publish a Nintendo DS game dubbed Hachi Koi in which you touch various girls. It was the least EA game EA was ever to release. But by 2009, EA got cold feet—or something—and the game was shelved. Fast forward to October 1. Hachi Koi resurfaced…

Accel World Starts Strong, But Ends Wrong

I have made no secret of how much I have been enjoying Sword Art Online—going so far as to call it the smartest anime in years. When fellow Kotaku East writer Toshi Nakamura told me that there was another anime by the same author also about online games called Accel World, I began watching it…

Hironobu Sakaguchi made Blade Guardian because he *hearts* tower defense games.

Japan’s Panty Vending Machines: The Unreal Hyperbole (and Honest Truth)

Los Angeles. Summer 1997. There was this guy named Kevin in the office I worked at who was obsessed with the notion of panty vending machines. He even wrote a screenplay about them, complete with, as he explained, a scene at the panty vending machine factory. He said, “Dude, in Japan, they’re on every corner.”…

A Spiffy PSP Value Pack for You, Japan

Oh, now this is nice! Look at that red. And the black. And that neat little cloth. Like I said, nice! On November 22, a new Red/Black PSP-3000 value pack is hitting Japan for ¥14,800. Note that quantities are limited. M’kay, noted! “PSP「プレイステーション・ポータブル」（PSP-3000）バリューパック” [4Gamer] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you…

You Won’t Believe How Nice Notch’s Office Is

Well, maybe you will. Mojang, the folks behind Minecraft, is a success story. Great news for them! That not only means Mojang honcho Notch (aka Markus Persson) can afford nicer hats, it also means the studio can afford nicer digs. And boy, look a these digs. The studio recently moved to a bigger pad, MCV…

You Got Your JRPG in my Dating Sim!

Since the plot of the light novel/anime series Accel World revolves around an MMO fighting game, one would think any games based on the series would fall into the fighting game genre. However, the first game of the franchise, Accel World: Awakening of the Silver Wings, mixes two completely different genres instead: traditional dating sims…