So Much Awesome Zelda Cosplay. So, So Much.

Welcome to The Legend of Zelda: Fancy Pants, where of the nine images we’re highlighting today in our weekly cosplay roundup, four of them are from Nintendo’s classic series. One is contemporary Link. None are Zelda. They’ve used their imagination a little more, and come up with great results. Franchise adherence aside, it’s nice to…

What a “Next Gen” RPG Could Look Like

This video, courtesy of Czech developers Warhorse (currently working on a historical RPG), shows some of the game’s assets running as an example of “next gen” graphics. While they’re quick to point out this isn’t an actual scene from the game, which is open-world and still without a name, the fact it’s sharing assets and…

San Andreas Looks Like It’s Coming To The PS3 [Update]

No doubt as savvy marketing in advance of the Grand Theft Auto V, it looks like Rockstar will be re-releasing San Andreas on the PS3. A listing for the game has turned up on Hong Kong’s official PlayStation site, saying it’ll be out on Wednesday. Sadly/interestingly, it’s only listed as having a single player, which…

Only One Man Can Tweet More Than Hideo Kojima… His Swedish Alter-Ego

Mysterious Metal Gear game The Phantom Pain was the star of last week’s Spike VGAs. The Twitter account of its “Head CEO” Joakim N. Mogren, complete with wonderfully photoshopped Kojima head, is the star of your Monday. I’ve got no idea if this is an official joke account or just a joke account, but given…

The Next Assassin’s Creed Game Will Be Set In… Brazil?

Ubisoft Brazil managing director Bertrand Chaverot has reportedly told local site TechTudo that the next game in the publisher’s blockbuster series will be taking place in the South American nation. That’s about all he says, with no further details, but GameSpot says they’ve verified the translation, which is interesting. You’ve got to wonder whether he…

BioShock Infinite‘s Box Art is for ‘Frat Guys’ or ‘People who Aren’t Informed’

I’ll be straight up, and praise Ken Levine—the auteur of Irrational Games—for being honest, at the same time I jape at his justification for the generic bro-shooter motif of BioShock Infinite‘s chin-down-eyes-up cover. Bottom line, says Levine, this cover ain’t for us. ‘Us’ being those who put more care into buying a video game than…

A Game Every Year, but Never a Game of the Year

The Video Game Awards celebrated 10 years of giving out hardware on Friday. Bet you didn’t know, or at least you forgot, who was the first winner of its Game of the Year award. Madden Specifically, Madden NFL 2004—yes, the one with Michael Vick on the cover. It was a different time, for sure, but…

The Week in Games: Hibernation Begins

Fresh off its big evening in Los Angeles on Friday, The Walking Dead gets a retail release on Tuesday. It’s joined by free-to-play indie mecha title Hawken, downloadable content for Dishonored, and not much else as the games publishing business takes its customary extended holiday. Tuesday • The Walking Dead (PS3, 360) • 007 Legends…

Start Kicking Ass 6/10ths of a Second Faster when Street Fighter X Tekken‘s “Version 2013” Arrives

OMFG, you guys are not going to believe what Street Fighter X Tekken has in store for you with its 2013 Version. New characters? Alternate costumes? A bunch of shit already locked on the disc? Nope, nope, and nope. Get ready because you will be able to initiate unobscured combat 0.666666666667 seconds faster once the…

Don’t Like the Winners from the 2012 VGAs? Get a Second Opinion from Machinima’s IGAs.

The gang from 343 Industries, BioWare and Telltale Games stuck around in Los Angeles a second night to take home more honors, as Machinima’s fourth Inside Gaming Awards handed out its hardware on Saturday, a day after the Video Game Awards. Halo 4 was a more traditional game-of-the-year pick, though The Walking Dead did cop…

Ars Technica compiled a list of eight overrated games. On it: Halo, Gears of War, Super Meat Boy

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: VGA Presto Magix

Cleaning out our work folder I found a bunch of goofy caps from the 2012 Spike VGAs. They weren’t really all that good to post on their own, but they did look like decent exploitables for our latest ‘Shop Contest. So here we go. Remember the Presto Magix? Well, maybe if you’re not pushing 40…

Sunday Comics: Unlikely Hero

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. We’ve also got a vote coming up on making over the comics page. Look for news on that in an hour. Brawl In The Family by Matthew…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Chin Down, Eyes Up: The Winners

I feel like we were just talking about BioShock Infinite‘s boring box art. Weren’t we talking about its bad box art? We were. So I put the subject to our corps of ‘Shop artists and asked them to come up with something a little more inspired, while still adhering to the chin-down/eyes-up motif demanded of…

Pat Tillman Returns to the Field, in Madden NFL 13

Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals standout defensive back who forsook a $3 million contract to enlist in the Army in 2002, and who was killed by friendly fire in an operation in Afghanistan, returns to the football field as a special offering within Madden NFL 13‘s Ultimate Team mode. Tillman’s appearance in the game is…

In ending its gaming-themed programming, G4 was rumored to become either an ‘Esquire’ or ‘GQ’ channel. Esquire it is.

Capcom Announces Street Fighter x Mega Man. Yes, Seriously. And It’s Free.

Two of Capcom’s biggest franchises are celebrating quarter-century anniversaries right next to each other. Street Fighter has enjoyed all sorts of lavish promotions: a fancy chess set and an anniversary edition chock full of games and collectible goodies What’s coming for poor, ol’ neglected Mega Man, though? The poor robot hasn’t had a release in…

Bronies Shut Down Their My Little Pony MMO, Blaming Copyright Law

You had to figure this wouldn’t last. Though some publishers have been willing to strike agreements that allow fan projects to go forward, provided no one sells anything from them, many more don’t have the time or the interest in maintaining and monitoring those relationships. So when it came to light last year that some…

Gabe Newell: Living Room PCs Will Compete With Next-Gen Consoles

Steam’s Big Picture mode was just the first step: according to Valve boss Gabe Newell, you’ll be able to buy a living-room-friendly PC package next year. Speaking to me during a brief interview on the red carpet at the VGAs last night, Newell said Valve’s current goal was to figure out how to make PCs…

Call of Duty is “a Good Game, but I Wouldn’t Advise It for Younger Kids,” Says 8-Year-Old

Towheaded and small-voiced, Felix von Perfall’s countenance seems to define childhood innocence. But look into those eyes. Those eight-year-old eyes have seen war, they’ve seen … things, things no seven-, six- or five-year-old should ever know. “Call of Duty, it’s a good game, but it’s really—I wouldn’t advise it for younger kids,” Felix told WNYW-TV…