Meet the Brand-New Dead or Alive Competitor. She’s My Favorite.

With her two-toned hair, spunky attitude and part-time job at a diner (free food!), Mila might be my favorite Dead or Alive fighter yet. The up-and-coming MMA fighter makes her debut in Dead or Alive 5 Considering Mila’s admiration for Tina’s father, she seems to have a thing for giant balding men with beards, so…

Resident Evil 6 To Get Three New Multiplayer Modes As Paid DLC

If you’re worried that Resident Evil 6 won’t feature enough content for you, fret not: Capcom has announced that they will be releasing three additional multiplayer modes for the game. All three modes will be timed exclusives for the Xbox 360 The fact that the three modes share names with three TV shows/movies is likely…

There’s More Information Than You Think Buried In Your World of Warcraft Screenshots

It turns out that there’s a lot more information captured in a World of Warcraft screenshot than most players would ever think to look for. A user at OwnedCore unearthed the invisible watermarks, which then spilled forth onto Reddit. The gist is that a screenshot taken inside World of Warcraft with its screenshot function includes…

It Took an Astounding Amount of Work to Make You Lose Yourself in Dishonored

From its beginnings in London of the 1600’s to the bizarre magical/industrial city of Dunwall we’ll hopefully come to know and love, some incredibly talented people have been working their asses off for years to make sure Dishonored doesn’t feel like they did. It’s fascinating to watch how the design of Dishonored transformed during the…

Watch American McGee’s Gritty Take On Red Riding Hood In Action With Akaneiro

Spicy Horse, the developers behind Alice: Madness Returns, have released a first gameplay look at the action-RPG Akaneiro: Demon Hunter In much the same way that Spicy Horse took the tale of Alice in Wonderland and turned it into a dark fantasy where Alice brandished a large butcher knife for the majority of the game,…

The lead designer of The Secret World says that he and many others got laid off by Funcom

Tekken Tag Tournament 2: The Kotaku Review

Fighting games are prom. Seriously, think about it. All the parties involved get gussied up in their best finery and enter a space that lets them reconcile grudges and/or crushes with as much flair as possible. So the best thing, I’ve found, is to start with the dance that you know how to do. My…

The American Civil War Flares Up Once Again, This Time On iOS

Civil War: 1863, a new game from Scottish studio Hunted Cow, achieves that rarest of strategy gaming feats: balancing accessibility with depth and challenge. On first glance, you might see hexes and the Civil War setting and freak out that this is a serious strategy game, one full of numbers and variables and weird icons…

Farewell to the Wii, A Great Gaming System After All

I will not speak ill of the Nintendo Wii, even though others have done so for years. My Wii was a very good gaming console. A weird one, yes. It somehow managed to be popular while remaining niche. Its games were fun, but, often a bit ugly. Its best games came out in the middle…

Beloved PC Indie Terraria Reborn on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3

PC gamers were saddened when the developers of the pixel-perfect 2D building, exploration and combat game Terraria announced an end to game updates. Well good news, sort of! Terraria is returning with brand-new content… to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. The announcement that appeared this morning on the game’s official Facebook page was…

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Borderlands 2‘s Mechromancer Has a Name, You Know

It’s always “Mechromancer this” or “Nerchromancer” that. Why does no one call the robot-riding downloadable character for Borderlands 2 by her real name? Oh, we didn’t know it. Now we do. Hello, Gaige. Nice death machine you’ve got there.

This Is The Movie We Would Get If Hollywood Got Their Hands on Day Z

The YouTube user who made the Dishonored “film” trailer earlier this summer has been busy. This one’s for DayZ, and it looks quite good. (Although I’d have to skip it; horror movies and I just do not get along.) There are dozens more at Bloodrunsclear’s YouTube channel. A small handful of fun ones are embedded…

The Next Xbox Could Transform Your Living Room Into One Massive 3D Display

It’s not quite holodeck technology, but it’s not far off. A patent filed back in March by Microsoft describes advanced display technology that extends the gaming environment from the television to all four walls of a room. Imagine playing Call of Duty or Gears of War and being able to see an enemy approaching from…

In China, McDonald’s Makes Both a White Burger and a Black Burger

You are looking at a Black and White Hamburger combo. That’s right, the hamburger wizards at McDonald’s in China figured out how to make what looks like the hamburger equivalent of the black & white cookie—but needed two burgers to do it. As website TheBeijinger points out, this isn’t just a black and white burger…

The Greatest Pokémon Mystery: Where Is Ash’s Father?

If you’ve ever seen the Pocket Monsters anime series, you’ll wonder where the heck Ash’s father is. His mom, Delia Ketchum, pops up in the series. But dear old Dad? He’s nowhere to be seen. What’s more, from what I can remember, Ash’s father hasn’t really been referenced in the anime, save for a mention…

Some Guy Remade Final Fantasy VII in LittleBigPlanet 2

Gamer Jamie Colliver poured six months of his life into recreating classic role-playing game Final Fantasy VII in LittleBigPlanet 2—including all the conversations, characters, enemies, bosses, and music. To complete the effect, Colliver used LBP2‘s Final Fantasy VII costumes, which have been available for a while You can see the entire FFVII story retold in…

Why I Would Play the Hell Out of the New Final Fantasy Dating Sim (If it Really Existed)

Last week at the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary event here in Tokyo, some of the biggest names in Square Enix talked about the franchise. Square Enix showed off the first material related to Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn was put through its paces. Then Hajime Tabata—director of Crisis…

See Kenshin Return to Action in This New Fighting Game

Two-and-a-half weeks ago, popular 90’s anime Rurouni Kenshin exploded onto the Japanese cinema scene with the series’ first live-action movie. However, that was not the only Kenshin-related item to get a release that week. Sequel to last year’s Rurouni Kenshin Saisen, Rurouni Kenshin Kansei is a PSP fighting game with a roster of nearly all…

Playing Video Games on the Train Is Both Frustrating and Wonderful

This animated gif is from the Production I.G version of manga Yondemasuyo, Azazel-san and shows just how some handheld gaming can liven up the most boring of commutes. yondemasuyo azazel san [Transethnic Japanese] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune…