This Week’s Nintendo Download Involves A Little Boy Hanging Out With Grown Men In Spandex

While I’m looking forward to Denpa Men, a new downloadable RPG for the eShop that sort of looks like a cross between Pikmin and Dragon Quest, I would strongly urge the folks behind the game to reconsider the above marketing campaign. This is the type of stuff that traumatizes kids for life. This week’s roundup…

I Hate the Wii U Pro Controller

Okay, so Nintendo is releasing a new console (the Wii U) with a new controller (called the Wii U GamePad). I’m actually cool with the GamePad—even though it’s quite wide. It opens up new takes on multiplayer, which is a very good (and welcome) thing. What I hate is the Wii U Pro Controller. You…

Power A’s Attractive Android Controller Solution Drops October 21

Android gamers craving unified console controls have been following the progress of Power A’s ambitious MOGA controller solution since its debut at E3 2012. Come October 21 it’s time to stop following and start playing. The MOGA is more than just a clip on controller for your Android phone (and a stand-alone 360-style controller for…

Touchy Assassin’s Creed, Social Metal Gear Solid and More Excitement from Tokyo Game Show’s First Day

While the western hemisphere slept, over in Tokyo our Kotaku East team swarmed the first day of the 2012 Tokyo Game Show, gleefully carrying off the latest news, previews and rumors from the show floor. I woke up this morning completely overwhelmed by the amount of stories our eastern contingent published last night. Here’s a…

Introducing Metal Gear…Twitter?

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima loves Twitter. He’s always tweeting up a storm. He loves Twitter so much that his studio now has its own Twitter app, called Metal Gear TW. The modified app uses your Twitter name and followers, but it has a special “camouflage mode” that allows you to censor elements of your…

Today I Played Taiko no Tatsujin With Virtual Gangsters

The Yakuza series of games have always been serious, testosterone-filled stories about hard men kicking each other’s asses, broken up sporadically by mini-games, activities, and general fooling around. The latest game, Yakuza 5, is no different. As previously reported, Namco Bandai’s Taiko no Tatsujin appears as a fully playable game within the Yakuza 5 game.…

Hideo Kojima Might Work on the Metal Gear Movie Script [Update]

In late August, a new Metal Gear Solid movie was announced. This wasn’t the first Metal Gear project Hollywood had seen: back in 2008, there was another MGS film that never got off the ground. Some fans are probably happy about the possibility of seeing Metal Gear Solid on the big screen. Others are not.…

E…A…Sports…These Guys Made the Parts That Say “It’s in the Game”

Even if you’ve never played a sports game in your life, EA’s intro catchphrase has become one of the most ubiquitous in all of gaming. So for Fine Art tody, we’re going to take a break from castles and giant robots to look at the people who are now in charge of the slogan (or…

Checking Out The New Metal Gear Made for Social Butterflies

With Metal Gear Social Ops, Metal Gear is returning to smartphones! This time the game is a tap-based card game in which you sneak from point A to point B, pulling off “Stealth Chains” as you go. Along the way, you can tap your way through, and a flurry of cards appear on screen as…

Rez’s Creator Has Left Games Development “For Now”

Sad news for fans of games like Rez, Lumines and Space Channel: Q Entertainment’s Tetsuya Mizuguchi (pictured) has stepped away from active game development. Seems since the release of Child of Eden in 2011, he’s been pursuing studies, and while he’s still employed at the studio he helped found, Q Entertainment’s director Nobuhiko Shimizu says,…

In Soul Sacrifice, You Kill, Help, or Troll Your Friends

As the game title itself emphasizes, moral choices regarding sacrifice is Soul Sacrifice. Magic is not cast with spells or mana, but with sacrifices. You have two sets of three different kinds of magic that are constantly available to you to fight with, but every time you cast it, you must make an offering. Meaning…

That City Building Assassin’s Creed Spin Off Is Actually Fun

Assassin’s Creed Utopia for iOS is a new take on the world of Assassin’s Creed. As previously mentioned, you build a 17th century colony and watch it develop right up to the American Revolution. And best of all, it’s pretty damn good. At my hands on at the Tokyo Game Show, the city building elements…

Tim Schafer, Notch And John Romero Drew Some Dragons — Because Why The Hell Not?

You go to PAX Prime, you want autographs from all the top developers attending. But then it occurs to you – autographs are a little bit rubbish. Why not, instead of just asking for signatures, get them to draw a dragon instead. Yes – this is true genius at work. When Michael ‘Ventron’ Ventnor went…

The Last Guardian Still Lives, Promises Sony Developer

Noticeably absent from Sony’s press event yesterday was The Last Guardian. The game was first announced in 2009. Since then, fans have been waiting for the finished title to emerge. It hasn’t. Development has not exactly been smooth. The game’s creator, Fumito Ueda, has left Sony, but is contracted out to finish this title. There’s…

Mega Man Fans, You Might Not Want to Watch This

Mega Man fans, if this doesn’t show you how little Capcom now thinks of its once-great franchise, you aren’t just living in Denial, you’re the town mayor. This is the first trailer for Rockman X Over, the iOS game the publisher is using to “celebrate” the character’s 25th birthday. The only way this is a…

The Brand New Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengeance Trailer (And Its Sexy New Bad Guys)

At Tokyo Game Show 2012, Hideo Kojima revealed the latest trailer for Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengeance. In the new trailer, 3 new enemy bosses are revealed. View each image to see who they are. The new trailer also shows Raiden’s slicing combat system in action, as well as his hacking of an enemy drone.…

Nintendo 3DS title Monster Hunter 4 will be out next March in Japan. It will have online multiplayer.

Metal Gear Phone Games Sure Have Come a Long Way

The last big Metal Gear for a phone was 2009’s Metal Gear Solid Touch. It was…look, I’ll be kind and say it was serviceable. Only three years later we’ve come quite some way. Thanks, advancing mobile phone technology! I don’t know how this is going to play, but I imagine Metal Gear fans will be…

It’s Like Game of Thrones, Only With Animals. I Think.

For a game developed by a tiny studio making what’s essentially a digital board game, Armello has one hell of a debut trailer. There’s no gameplay in it, none at all, but Melbourne animation house 12 Field are to thank for the clip above. Armello is about four houses vying to seize the throne from…

Which of These 21 Handhelds Has The Longest Battery Life?

On this table are 21 handhelds, including the Vita, PSP and just about every flavour of Game Boy, DS and 3DS there is/was. The test, conducted by Andy Robertson at Family Gamer TV, is simple. Start them running, and see which one runs the longest. It’s not entirely scientific, as it’s slightly unfair to compare…