While we wait for the doors to Zynga’s CoasterVille to open, here’s the launch trailer, complete with horking.

Watch This Guy Shoot $20,000 Worth of Real-Life Far Cry 3 Weaponry

FPS Russia is one of my favorite YouTubers, because I get to live vicariously through him shooting weapons that I doubt I could get my hands on. Yesterday the esteemed shooter uploaded a video to show off some of Far Cry 3‘s weapons, which Kirk is a big fan of Watch FPS Russia shoot Far…

It’s a Mobile Resident Evil Ripoff, But It’s Not Half Bad

From Yingpei Games, the developer formerly known as Epic Games China, comes Mercenary Ops, an Unreal Engine-powered on-rail zombie shooter that’s one of the best Resident Evil games on iTunes, despite not being a Resident Evil game. One look at the game’s iTunes description makes its inspiration abundantly clear: “In Mercenary Ops, you are Leo,…

Wow, This Cancelled Streets of Rage Remake Looks Great

Streets of Rage has to be one of the all-time classic side-scrolling beat-em-ups, right? It had a sense of an atmosphere of menace that other games lacked. After a fan-made game was scuttled by Sega, the only activity on the old-school series has been mobile releases of the original games. So it’s a real shame…

Skyrim: Dragonborn: The Kotaku Review

I’ve never played Morrowind, but when people rave about it—usually in sentences punctuated with faux outrage and admonishments like “How have you never played Morrowind???”—they like to play up its creative, bizarre world, a place where gods interact with mortals on a regular basis and wizards live in houses carved out of overgrown mushrooms. Skyrim‘s…

SongPop Tops Facebook’s 25 Highest-Rated Social Games of 2012

Grabbing social gamers by their dangling music nostalgia glands, SongPop tops Facebook’s list of the top 25 web-based and mobile social games of 2012. It also makes for a lousy top image, so I went with number 14, NaturalMotion’s CSR Racing, instead. Pretty car. Using a mystical combination of App Center star ratings, negative and…

Highly ambitious action RPG Path of Exile will be entering open beta on 1/23/13, not this month as previously reported.

Watch the Latest Nintendo Direct Here

Today’s Nintendo Direct revealed tons of new, great footage of titles coming to the Wii U. In case you missed it, the whole video can be found above. To make looking up the new footage a bit easier, here’s a list with the times to skip to to look at the most interesting games and…

Black Ops II has grossed a billion dollars in 15 days, says Activision, one faster than Modern Warfare 3. What decline?

How Nintendo’s Newest Game Is Like Inception

Inception features dreams that are in dreams. Nintendo’s newest Wario title, Game & Wario, is kind of like that, too. Game & Wario is a collection of 16 mini games, but not a Wario Ware micro game collection that features an onslaught of bit-sized games that last seconds. Fans of the series are well aware…

Zynga Launches CoasterVille, Its Most Expressive Social Game Yet

From the Zynga studio that brought you the company’s most unique game to date, Empires & Allies, comes a theme park management game that offers players unparalleled freedom to create their happiest place on Earth. Build your own farm. Build your own city. Build your own castle. Zynga’s large stable of social games have promised…

These Potato Chips Are Designed for Lovers

This month, Japanese snack maker Koikeya is releasing potato chips that have been designed with couples in mind. The chips are heart shaped and come in two flavors: Lemon Pepper and Sugar Butter. How romantic. The Lemon Pepper chips have a “top hat” on them, so the presumption is that they are aimed at either…

Nintendo’s Panorama View app will be out next spring in Japan. According to Nintendo, the app is free.

Nintendo Is Bringing Google Street View to the Wii U

Tonight, Nintendo showed off how Google Street View will work on the Wii U. It seems like it will work pretty well, with the GamePad able to display Street View as well as maps. Between next January and March in Japan, Nintendo is offering Google Street View as a free download on the eShop. After…

Pikmin 3 on the Wii U Looks Glorious. It’ll Be Out Next Spring in Japan.

Pikmin is coming to the Wii U, and from the footage Nintendo showed today, the game is coming along very well. The HD graphics are expected to bring Pikmin to life like never before. Please be aware that while the game is HD, these internet screengrabs are not! Nintendo Direct 2012.12.5 [Ustream]

How You Can Play Game & Wario Just By Staring at the TV

Nintendo unveiled its latest party game, Game & Wario. Like other Game & Wario games, it only needs one controller. Five players can play, but four of them don’t need controllers. At all. Just good eyes. The mini-game is called “Fruits”. In it, the player with the GamePad is a thief, and picks up the…

Game & Wario Is Nintendo’s Newest Party Game

Coming in early 2013, Game & Wario is the latest entry in Nintendo’s series of Wario party games. Outfitted with 16 games, Game & Wario can support up to five players and needs only one GamePad. Nintendo Direct 2012.12.5 [Ustream]

Why Japanese Fans Are Still Nerd Raging about The Avengers

For years, anime fans have been complaining about crap dubs. It’s either the result of amateurs or celebrities who simply don’t fit the role. Now it’s Japan’s turn to nerd rage. “It’s just as everyone says, the dubbing is horrid,” wrote one individual on Amazon Japan. The Avengers didn’t exactly have a smooth rollout in…

Uh Oh, PlayStation Games Failed to Hit the Million Award in Japan

Sales figures are typically pretty boring! Except for when, they’re interesting. And by interesting, I mean telling. Recently, Sony held the PlayStation Awards in Japan. This is a publicity stunt—and usually a dull one at that—in which Sony gives awards to those domestic studios which sell a certain number of units, such as over a…

The 3DS got a firmware update to improve “overall system stability”, plus minor adjustments to improve the experience.