Feed The Team Fortress 2 Turret Milk, And It Grows Up To Be The Terminator

What the hell did I just watch, you ask? Why, the most adorable squees of delight you’ve ever heard, I respond! Look at that twinkle in the engineer’s eyes. He’s like a proud, excited parent, ready to embrace the possibilities of a new future and… Oh. Oh, my. The Calcium (Source Filmmaker) [YouTube via Reddit]

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You Can Watch Nintendo Announce The Wii U’s Release Date And Price Live Tomorrow Morning

Nintendo’s releasing a new console soon, in case you haven’t heard. And Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is having lots of important meetings with cartoon characters in order to commemorate the occasion. Tomorrow at 10am Eastern, Nintendo is holding an event in New York City to announce some big news about the console—including, presumably,…

It’s Hard to Be Excited About The Secret World‘s Next Update With the Lead Designer Gone

Hey look, it’s a video for the changes coming in The Secret World‘s Issue #2: Digging Deeper update. Plastic surgery, bazookas and an extension of “the Kingsmouth Code” investigation mission — these are things I would have been thrilled about two days ago. Now that lead designer Martin Bruusgaard has been let go, not so…

The Resistance People Are Making a New Shooter. This One Should Be Better.

Last year, Insomniac Games surprised the gaming world by showing up at EA’s E3 2011 press conference with an all-new game called Overstrike. Once the shock of seeing the PS3 stalwart studio outside of a Sony event wore off, the buzz on Overstrike was high, thanks to the developer’s trademark sharp humor and trademark weapon…

Tokyo Game Show Map Reveals a Small Square Enix Booth

The Tokyo Game Show organizers released a map of the show floor—helpful for all those who like comparing sizes. Capcom, Sony, Gree, Level-5, Sega, and Konami all have large booths. The booths for Namco Bandai and Tecmo Koei seem smaller—Square Enix’s booth is even smaller-looking than theirs! Not sure how important all this is as…

Purchase the Japanese Z.O.E. HD on PS3 and get a Metal Gear Rising demo code. Purchase the Xbox 360 version and…sorry!

This PSP Dungeon Crawler Lets You…Tweet

This fall, Shiren the Wanderer 4 is headed to the PSP as Shiren the Wanderer 4 Plus. The port will have three new dungeons as well as the ability to select (and send) pre-written tweets. So go ahead, spam your Twitter feeds, Shiren players! PSP『不思議のダンジョン 風来のシレン４ plus 神の眼と悪魔のヘソ』ＰＶ [YouTube] Kotaku East is your slice of…

Tomorrow, Nintendo is giving an online presentation about the Japanese Wii U release date and price.

Destroying Video Games and Controllers Can Look Mesmerizing

Gaming is great fun. But sometimes it can totally piss you off. And you just want to Hulk Smash—but you don’t. This animated gif is from Japanese anime Shinryaku! Ika Musume (aka Squid Girl), and it’s utterly fantastic. You can see what it looks like when a Super Nintendo cartridge is crushed and when a…

Report: Tomorrow, Sega will tease a “totally new game” currently dubbed “Project Omega”.

I Didn’t Know Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris Requires So Much Button Pressing

In 1972, Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris faced off in Way of the Dragon. Here, that fight has been reimagined as a Shenmue style quick time event. If you’ve never seen the original fight, do yourself the favor of watching it, sans button icons. Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris QTE – Shenmue [YouTube] Kotaku East…

Here’s To Looking Good in Halo Battle Armor

The world is getting a new Halo game this year, Halo 4. That’s pretty exciting, I reckon! Many gamers love Halo, but some don’t just stop at playing the games. They love dressing up in Halo combat gear. And why wouldn’t they? Here’s a sampling of some—certainly not all—of the finest Halo armor cosplays the…

No, This Man Is Not Slicing a Real Dragon

Goodness! These images have popped up online in China, with people speculating that this gentleman is slicing open a real dragon. He’s not. Know how I know? There’s no such thing as real dragons. I think. Note: This post might contain imagery that dragon lovers find disturbing. Commenters online in China are quick to point…

The Newest Game from Dead Rising‘s Creator Is, Well, a Zombie Game [Updated with First Images]

Keiji Inafune, best known for Dead Rising and Mega Man, is hard at work on a new game. This is unconfirmed, but according to the upcoming issue of Famitsu, the game is called Yaiba. All that’s currently known is that the game is a zombie title. More details, including platforms, are forthcoming. Sit tight. Update:…

Metal Gear Rising Cancelled for Xbox 360 in Japan [Update]

Today, Konami announced that the Xbox 360 version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has been slashed, cut, and cancelled. Only the PS3 version will be released in Japan. The studio apologized to those gamers looking forward to the Xbox 360 version, but did not give a reason as to why it had been canned. No…

My, What Enormous Anime Eyes You Have

Revenge of the anime eyes! Earlier this year, models with anime-style eyes stirred up chatter online. The latest one to make waves is Odessa resident Anastasia Shpagina. Anime eyes often appear to be camera tricks or Photoshop; however, Shpagina is also using make up tricks that help make her eyes look abnormally large. If you…

The Story Of a Kotaku Editor And His Lollipop Chainsaw Love Pillow

Like a foamy, flaccid force of nature, she came tumbling into my life. No discernable shape, fluffy, mildly offensive. But somehow, some way—like a tapeworm—she burrowed herself deep into my existence. I know she’ll be mine forever. She is indispensible, an irreplaceable part of my world. 2012 has been a big year for me, an…

Magic Cards Turned Into Basic “Computer”

While not a full-blown computer, as we’d know them today, a Turing Machine is nevertheless an important part of the history of the field, and its design is still studied and referenced today. You can build working representations of the idea out of everything from computer parts to LEGO, but what’s blowing my mind today…

Sorry Father Grigori, Half-Life Has Never Been Scarier Than This Mod

It’s been a good run for true horror games lately. Amnesia scared people’s socks off, Slender is doing much the same, and now we’ve got an update to Cry of Fear, one of the ten lucky games to have been “greenlit” by Steam earlier today. Cry of Fear is a total conversion mod for the…