From Mass Effect to Metal Gear, This is a Symphony in Plastic

Square Enix doesn’t just make video games. It also makes figures. And it doesn’t only make Final Fantasy figures, it makes figures from numerous other games. Square Enix’s Play Arts Kai line features a whole slew of characters from games like Street Fighter, Tekken, Medal of Honor, Metal Gear, Halo, and Dead Space as well…

I Kissed A Girl With My Brain… The Results Weren’t So Good

Find out if you really like each other by testing your brain waves. That’s what the Brain Kiss app tests to see. By wearing a brain wave scanner and looking into each other’s eyes for 15 seconds, you can get the results of how you really feel about the person you’re looking at in 5…

The First Guy in Line Didn’t Come to Play Games

Meet Keita Wada. The 24 year-old was the first person in line for the first public day of this year’s Tokyo Game Show. You’d think he would be the hardest of the hardcore gaming fans. He’s not. In fact he’s not planning on playing a single game at the Tokyo Game Show this year. Instead…

Different Takes on Final Fantasy

At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix is showcasing how various illustrators and manga artists envision Final Fantasy. The result is a different spin on the Final Fantasy games and characters you know and love. Many of the illustrators (such as Higasa Akai, Aguri Igarashi, and Shiro Amano) have either done art for Square…

Guy Does Every Drug Ever, Then Draws Himself While High

Filed right under “Things I’d never do but kind of wish I would” is this art stunt/project by Washington D.C. based artist Bryan Lewis Saunders. A little while back, Saunders took a ton of different drugs and drew a portrait of himself while under the influence of each one. Sure, coke and pot are here,…

Tire Maker Erases All Evidence of Kevin Butler Playing a Wii [Update]

A couple weeks back, a tipster reminded me that Jerry Lambert, the actor who has portrayed “Vice President of Everything” Kevin Butler in the PlayStation ads for the past three years, once appeared in an ad for Bridgestone tires playing a Wii. It was quirky, but a little outdated. Interestingly, that video has since been…

Over 70% of the Games at the Tokyo Game Show Are For Phones And Tablets

There has been a lot of news coming from the Tokyo Game Show this year. We’ve heard about Metal Gear and Phoenix Wright and a host of other games for and from Sony and Nintendo, as we have come to expect. And yet the console and handheld games that so many of us are fans…

What Do You Know, Games Really Do Look Better On The iPhone 5

It sure seemed to make sense that the iPhone 5 would be better for games, given that it has a larger screen. But all the same, I didn’t really care—I was more interested in playing with my friends than I was in upgraded tech. Imagine my surprise, then, when I booted up my new phone…

The Latest in Evil DLC

Holy shit! It’s the return of Evil, Evil DLC! We’ve been on hiatus through all of the summer, but now we’re back to scold all of the pre-release preoder bonuses and day-one DLC drops for the big fall season. Far Cry 3-Monkey Business Pack Available: Why the fuck hasn’t Far Cry 3 come out yet?…

Actually, It is Kinda B.S. That Bayonetta 2 is a Wii U Exclusive

It’s funny when anyone on the Internet flips out, but no one does it better than the video gamer. When the issue involves someone not getting what they want, when they want it, at the price they want it—and you yourself don’t want it—it’s entertaining as hell watching someone break into a Rumplestiltskenian fit on…

Backhanded Box Quotes: “Tolerable With Friends … but So Is Dying of Bowel Cancer.”

Welcome back to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic, Amazon and elsewhere. Two games this week released to nearly universal acclaim, unless you’re The Wall Street Journal. Borderlands 2 and Torchlight II. But in the great shining ideas marketplace and opinion democracy known as consumer reviews,…

DJMAX Technika Tune‘s Limited Edition is Extremely Limited and Ridiculously Fantastic

Korea’s finest export comes to the PlayStation Vita on October 26, but waiting until then to buy would be ill-advised. The spectacular $100 limited edition goes up for preorder on Monday, September 24, and if you want DJMAX Technika Tune, you want this. With it’s lovely musical mix and often insane difficulty, DJMAX is an…

Persona 4 Golden Lets You Sneak Out At Night

The lovely folks at Atlus have put up a short list of some of the new tweaks and changes in Persona 4 Golden, the Persona 4 remake that comes out for PS Vita on November 20. From Atlus’s Aram Jabbari: You can now sneak out at night when your uncle Dojima is out at work…

We Almost Got A Left 4 Dead Expansion Based On Cabin In The Woods

Eagle-eyed gamers watching the tricksy horror flick Cabin In The Woods might have noticed a cool shout-out to Valve’s Left 4 Dead in a sequence in the third act of the movie. Talking today in a Reddit IAmA, the film’s director Drew Goddard said we almost got a lot more than that: If MGM hadn’t…

FIFA 13‘s Early Release is Here, So Let’s See Some Celebrating

You’ll get Roberto Soldado’s somersault, Mario Balotelli’s flex appeal, and tons more goal celebrations as part of the new package of animations in FIFA 13, which unlocked 30 minutes ago for holders of the EA Sports Season Ticket early weekend program (on Xbox 360 and PS3). FIFA 13 arrives in North America on Tuesday, Australia…

NBA 2K13‘s MyTeam Means All Team Sports Have an ‘Ultimate Team’ Mode Now

Spotted earlier in lists of features, achievements and trophies, folks weren’t too sure what to make of “MyTeam” a new mode coming to NBA 2K13. This video explains it and, for lack of a better term, it sounds a lot like the “Ultimate Team” mode EA Sports introduced with FIFA 10 three years ago. That…

“Demand for Wii U has been off the charts,” says GameStop. They’re starting a wait list just for Rewards members

Say Goodbye to Speak Up on Kotaku with the Best Final Fantasy Sequel Ever

That’s right, it’s the end of Speak Up on Kotaku as we know it, at least as a daily feature. For years I’ve (Fahey) been going though the Speak Up and then TAY user forums, scouring them for gems to share with the class, like commenter CannibalTuna stepping up to admit that Final Fantasy X-2…

Here’s Some Terrible Dating Advice For Gamers

The people who run the video game dating site Date a Gamer don’t just have a bad, misleading product, they also think that those of you who like video games are desperate, don’t know how to function in society and most certainly like girls. They are also sure that you’re male. So they’ve put together…

This Week in Gaming Apps Has a Slightly Bigger Screen Than the Previous One

The iPhone 5 started dropping into the eager fans of people that like to play games and make phone calls across the country, and those people need gaming apps. We’ve got your gaming apps right here, buddy. I didn’t order an iPhone 5 myself, because AT&T didn’t want me to. I used to have my…