Turns Out Kirby Is Not Very Good At Playing Piano

Kirby must not be very smart, either, or he would go inhale Elton John instead of just trying to slam his body against a keyboard. Poor Kirby. Other things Kirby is not good at: chores, modeling:

Gameloft’s Mobile Call of Duty Goes Up a Number in This Spectacular Trailer

If I didn’t know this was a trailer for a game coming to iPhone, iPad and Android this fall, I would have complained about how we already have too many modern combat games on consoles. This is just gorgeous. The Modern Combat gets prettier and prettier with each new installment. Gameloft might be making copies…

LittleBigPlanet Vita: The Kotaku Review

Few games beg for physical contact like LittleBigPlanet does. The series is known for its miniaturized, Gondryesque diorama worlds, where fuzzy Beanie Baby-like characters carom off of cloth-covered wheels and cubes like so much bric-a-brac in a shoebox. Any sane player would immediately want to reach out and touch the screen. So it feels only…

Season or No Season, NHL 13‘s ‘Hercules Check’ is Hockey’s Greatest Hit Ever

This is a glitch video to end all glitch videos, and not just because that’s a player getting checked over the glass and into the fourth row of a hockey arena. It’s also Sidney Freaking Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins superstar who has lost, like, an entire season’s worth of games due to concussions, going back…

Mitt Romney’s Campaign Is Sort Of Like A Video Game Because Of Reset Buttons Or Something

Here’s Rachel Maddow with one of the most ham-fisted video game references so far this election season. Hopefully we’ll get more and more Atari references as we get closer to November. Something something Obama something something Commodore-64 something something health-care mandate.

Turn Your Face Into A Portal Turret With This Badass Mask

We’ve seen artist TwoHornsUnited come up with some Portal referencing gas masks before, but this one is even more creepily awesome. I also get the impression that I would look like a Valve-inspired Transformer if I wore that, and then my brain goes on from there to invent wild action sequences where I’m flying through…

Borderlands 2 GPU & CPU Performance Test

Although it was somewhat of an underdog when it arrived in October 2009, Borderlands quickly became a hit among PC and console gamers alike, selling over 4.5 million copies and propelling Gearbox Software to new heights. Despite complaints about repetitive gameplay and finicky menus, fans loved the title’s unique comic-like art style and its seamless…

After a delay, 2001 PS2 classic Grand Theft Auto III is finally available for download on the PS3. File-size: 4.35GB!

The Best Worst Reasons To Punch Someone (According to Dead Or Alive 5)

Unless we’re talking about Persona 4 Arena, stories in fighting games tend to be pretty awful.They usually boil down to a series far-fetched excuses for random characters to beat the tar out of each other. Dead or Alive 5 is no exception. In the video above, I show off some of the more ridiculous rationales…

Watch This Adorable Kitten Desperately Swipe At The Rats In This iPad Game

In preparation for the release of Dishonored in just two weeks, Bethesda recently released an iOS game that’s basically like Fruit Ninja but with rats. So: more delicious. While this little kitty might not understand the precise rules of Dishonored: Rat Assassin, her enthusiasm and adorableness more than make up for it. My 5 weeks…

The New Super-Slim PS3 Looks Great Compared To All Our Other Modern Consoles

We got one of the new 250 GB super-slim PlayStation 3s from Sony today and did what any rational person would do with it: we took it to the roof our New York City headquarters to compare it to all of the other consoles of this generation. Plus: We tried out its new disc tray!…

Another Mobile Game About Obama and Romney Hitting People

Hot on the heels of Chair’s Vote!!! comes another game that involves the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates laying the smack down, only in Vellum Interactive’s Political Arena your in-game purchases directly benefit the candidate you choose to play. A recent Esquire poll Political Arena asked people who they thought would win in a fistfight,…

Goodbye, FarmVille 2. It’s Been Fun, But I’ve Had Enough.

This past weekend, I took a trip out of town. I went outdoors, I sat in the sun. I drove through Northern California, past vinyards and polo fields, plots of land with a strip of earth out front for growing tomatoes and corn. I didn’t really have my computer with me. When I got back,…

The NFL’s Replacement Refs Are Horrible, But At Least There’s Always Madden

One of my favorite moments of last night’s football debacle was this tweet by the folks at EA: That’s one of the nice things about virtual football, isn’t it? You don’t have to worry about lockouts or labor strikes. And there are no replacement referees to screw up game-changing calls and ruin the integrity of…

The “Argul’s Tomb” DLC for Darksiders II is available today. It’s 560 MS Points on 360, or $6.99 on PS3 & PC.

Verily, This Hip-Hop Graphic Novel’s Take on Romeo & Juliet Is My New Joint, Yo

I haven’t read Shakespeare since high school. But Prince of Cats makes me want to go back to 10th grade English class and actually pay attention. Was Romeo a grafitti artist when the Bard of Avon first created him? Of course he wasn’t. But that change and the rest of the updating that writer/artist Ronald…

Two Comics That Ignite Your Minds This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Sumo Will Weigh on Your Mind In Ways You Won’t Expect

Don’t go in expecting E. Honda or Ganryu-style throwdowns in this new graphic novel about sumo wrestlers. Giant near-naked men do slap each around in Sumo, but the true pain comes from one transplanted quarterback’s broken dreams. Like a string of haiku, Sumo captures moments in time, remarking on the power that comes from their…

Final Fantasy Creator’s Blade Guardian Hits iOS Next Week

Mistwalker’s first mobile game, Party Wave, was certainly not what I expected from the company fronted by the creator of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi. Blade Guardian, a real-time tower defense strategy title due out on October 1, is much more like it. It’s not that I don’t like surfing; I plan on picking up a…

These sure look like the first screenshots of Black Ops II‘s zombies. Go look at the rest over at Charlie Intel.