America’s First PS1 Games on The Vita Are Final Fantasy VII And…Um…[UPDATE: Europe’s List is AWESOME]

Sony has today revealed re-iterated which PS1 games will be available, and compatible, for direct download and play on the PlayStation Vita when the handheld’s big 1.80 firmware update hits tomorrow. Things start out so well! Sony’s Don Mesa says “We are working hard to ensure that all of your favorite PS one Classics titles…

It’s a Guild Wars 2 Launch Night Dance Party!

Come tomorrow, everybody that wants to play Guild Wars 2 can, as the game officially launches for the people drawn in by everyone else talking about the damn game all weekend. You know what this calls for? You read the headline, fool. DJ Person, give us a beat! I know what you’re thinking. That other…

5 Ways Sleeping Dogs Improves On Grand Theft Auto

You could be forgiven for wondering what all the hubbub is about Sleeping Dogs. “Just another open-world crime game,” you might think. “Been there, done that, yawn.” I’ve seen a few commenters ask why writers at Kotaku keep talking about this game—the simple answer for that is that we write about what we’re playing, and…

Batman Is Actually a Really Vicious Pokémon, We Just Didn’t Know It

Woah, woah Zubatman. Don’t mess with Zubatman, noted. On a somewhat related note, does this animated short make anyone else miss the animated television series? Zubatman The Animated Series Teaser [YouTube]

I Bet You Can’t Name All 50 Of These Famous Bills

No, not the kind of Bill that sits on Capitol Hill. The OTHER kind of Bill. People named Bill. This humorous free game at Newgrounds challenges you to name all of the proper Bills before time runs out. Remember: William and “Will” are fair game, so don’t be surprised to se some goofy versions of…

Guild Wars 2‘s Most Impressive Feet

Characters in Guild Wars 2 are good at lots of things: Fighting, spellcasting, animal-summoning. But they’re also really good at standing still. No, seriously! (Disclaimer: That groaner of a headline is the work of one Mr. S. Totilo. I wash my hands of it. Just kidding, I laughed.) The great standing animations are something that…

League of Legends Pro Gamers Stripped of Winnings for Scheming on the Side

The Major League Gaming (MLG) summer championship events took place this past weekend, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Teams competed in several games, including StarCraft II, Mortal Kombat, and Soul Calibur V. But the biggest upset happened in the League of Legends tournament, which found both the first and second place winning teams disqualified and the…

More OnLive turbulence. Controversial founder Steve Perlman is out; working on other projects. Gary Lauder takes over.

Blending Into A Real-Life Crowd Is Not As Easy As Assassin’s Creed Makes It Seem

This guy is also an impressive shot with a rubber band bow and…rubber band. Assassin’s Creed 3 in REAL LIFE (Public Trolling) [YouTube via Reddit]

Guild Wars 2 Arrives Tonight. Here’s Everything You Need To Know.

Guild Wars 2 has been a long time coming. Years of previews, discussions, developer diaries, demos, betas and a head-start weekend have led to this point: Guild Wars 2 finally unlocks for everyone tonight. You’re all set to play the game. You have some energy drinks/green tea/yerba mate/coffe/other caffinated drink ready. You’ve called in sick…

Why Do People Hate Shopping at GameStop Again? Oh Yeah.

It’s still Speak Up on Kotaku, we’re just taking the posts from TAY now, like God Hand BrynnFlynn‘s story about why a trip to GameStop is so damn entertaining. Alright, so I know there are plenty of “OMG I HATEZ GAMESTOP” stories out there, but my experience this weekend was truly… exemplar. I was in…

Oh Holy Crap It’s A Freaky Screenshot From The Next Episode Of The Walking Dead

Aah! Holy crap! Look out Lee! It’s a motorcycle (okay fine) helicopter pilot zombie! Um… mash the “A” button really hard! You’ll be okay I promise! This screenshot was just tweeted by Telltale Games, who are promising that Episode Three of their excellent Walking Dead series will be available “VERY soon.” While you wait, check…

Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Presents: My Little Portal

Off-Kilter’s Unlikely Crossover Fan Fiction Battles feature has traditionally involved written fan fiction, but today we have something completely different, and slightly wonderful. It’s episodes one and two of My Little Portal, where friendship is science. It’s the battle of the all-powerful sentient AI robot things, as CELesTIA does battle against DISCoRD, a twisted sequel…

The Dorkly Weekly: Chrono Trigger‘s Robo Gets the ‘Girl’

What would you do if a powerful magician could make exact doll duplicates of everyone you know? Yeah, that’s what I thought, so don’t go looking down your nose at Robo for this little indiscretion. Man, someone at Dorkly loves role-playing games, don’t they? Between last week’s Earthbound video and this week’s Chrono Trigger (oops),…

Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls: The Snacktaku Review

Hostess has the name. Tastykake has the heritage. Those two giants in the snack cake game have dominated the hearts and mouths of preservative-infused baked goods since the invention of “creme”. But, as the dead Jedi says, there is another. Forged in the heart of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Little Debbie is a Southern tradition, as sacred…

The World Ends With You Is Actually A Pretty Good Port

Look, nothing justifies what Square Enix did. Setting up a weekly countdown that everyone giddily expects will be a sequel to beloved DS game The World Ends With You only to reveal that it’s actually a $20 iOS port? Indefensible. But I bought the iPad port of The World Ends With You today, and after…

The History Of Tyria Is Written Into Every Square Inch Of Guild Wars 2

I jumped into Guild Wars 2 on Saturday afternoon, re-creating for myself the Human thief I’d been missing since the first beta weekend back in May. But then I remembered my earlier promise to myself: I needed to step outside of my comfort zone. That’s where the Asura engineer came from. Engineers aren’t too far…

In the Guitar Hero That Never Got Made, People Can’t Even Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll

Quick question: does anyone remember the plot of Guitar Hero III? Does anyone remember if it had one? You might remember that Slash, Axl Rose and Bret Michaels showed up in the threequel, which was the first game in the franchise after it moved to Activision. But that’s about all that was memorable about Guitar…

Source: Gaming Accessory-Maker Says Nintendo Will Launch the Wii U on November 18 [UPDATE 4]

The official release date for the Wii U may have just leaked today during a presentation by gaming accessory-maker PDP at a GameStop managers’ conference in Texas. A rep for PDP was showing the company’s fall line-up at the conference and wrapped their presentation by saying the peripherals would be available just ahead of the…

Rock Band Blitz: The Kotaku Review

Let’s say there’s a spectrum. On the one end, hunched in a leather jacket and stubbing out a cigarette on its boot heel, is Music. On the other end, peering over its sunglasses at a strobe-lit LCD, sits Video Games. All music games exist somewhere on that spectrum. It has been fascinating, inspiring, and a…