Ace Attorney 5, announced earlier this year, is for 3DS, according to this week’s Famitsu. Phoenix Wright will star.

Want To Bring Your Indie Game To PAX? It Could Cost $11,758.70.

Got a hot new game? Want to bring it to PAX? Hope you’ve got a trust fund. The people at BitFlip Games have written an entertaining (and eye-opening) blog post that breaks down how they managed to spend close to $12,000 just to get their game Minion Master out on the show floor. Here’s their…

Save Harry From Mortal Embarrassment In This Very Silly Flash Stealth Game

Call it a new kind of stealth game, or perhaps just a riff on a very old one. Based on Prince Harry’s recent attention-grabbing Las Vegas escapades, an enterprising Dutch team has created Save Harry. It’s a flash (ha) game in which players take on the role of the titular, nude prince and attempt to…

What Do You Know, Kingdom Hearts Was Pretty Good

In today’s keybladed episode of the TAY-powered Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter FrogFro, who finally played Kingdom Hearts and has some thoughts on the game. All right, since I’ve gotten my ps2 to work and not burn down my house I’ve been able to get into some of those games everyone is always talking about.…

Dead Island: Riptide‘s Zombies Will Pull You Off Of Your Boat

Dead Island was a great game. It had its problems, sure, but there was something particularly wonderful about Techland’s open-world, survival horror, melee-focused game. It might’ve been how particularly brutal the zombies grew to be. The Butcher is maybe one of the most terrifying enemies I’ve come across in a video game. He’s gross-looking, super…

536 People Set The World Record For Blowing Gum Bubbles

Every once in a while Nintendo does something insane. Like the Wii. Or getting 536 people together to break the Guinness World Record for most people simultaneously blowing chewing gum bubbles. To celebrate Kirby’s anniversary. Because he is a bubble. But hey, they set the record at PAX this past weekend, and these spectacular pictures…

Three Comics That Open Up New Worlds 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…

The New Avengers Looks a Lot Like the Old Avengers

Die-hard comics fans know that Marvel has a universe-shuffling reboot coming up in a few weeks. We’ve already gotten a glimpse at Uncanny Avengers and how Marvel Now’s flagship book will fuse the X-Men and Avengers characters into one unit. Now comes a look at the relaunch of the Avengers, which does that to a…

Guild Wars 2 Trading Post Is Online, Grouping Still Troubled

Although Guild Wars 2 has mostly avoided catastrophic launch problems, the online game has been plagued by a number of small nuisances. Among them, that the “Trading Post,” which is ArenaNet’s term for its auction house, hasn’t been available, and perhaps more problematically, that it’s been difficult to keep a group of players together. The…

Steam’s new community features are now live. An overview can be found here

This Insane Donkey Kong A Capella Makes Me Laugh And Feel Afraid

What the… I don’t… why? Who? You’ll ask all those questions and more as you watch Max and Sam’s “Geekapella” performance of an iconic track from Donkey Kong Country. Why is the guy making claws over his nipples? What’s with the wig? Did someone slip me some drugs this morning? Wow. Props, guys. Your video…

Hey, jerks of the world: do not, ever, expose yourself to women at PAX parties. Or any other party, for that matter.

That’s Not A Cosplayer, That’s Actually Commander Shepard!

Picture it: You’re at DragonCon, enjoying the cosplay during a sunny break away from the con floor. Then yet another guy in a Commander Shepard outfit struts by. There’s something different about him, though. He looks familiar. Kinda. Wait, that’s the guy who actually plays the male version of Commander Shepard’s Voice in Mass Effect…

I Want This Fantastic ED-E Sculpture To Follow Me Around For Real

ED-E and I were inseparable, when I first played Fallout: New Vegas. Well, except for all those times that the demands of the plot separated us. But no matter: his perks, cheerfully sarcastic beeping, and killer laser were great company on an endless trek through the Mojave Wasteland. This real-life ED-E, sent to Geekologie by…

I’d Totally Watch This Live-Action Final Fantasy VII Fan Film

Well done, don’t you think? This was directed by Italian film-maker Gionata Medeot, who told me he hopes to send this teaser to producers and raise funds to turn it into an actual film. “Aren’t you worried about Square Enix’s lawyers asking you to stop?” I asked him in an e-mail. Square shut down a…

Sex Game Pulled From Steam Greenlight. You Can Guess Why. [UPDATE]

In theory, Steam Greenlight will let any aspiring game developer get their game onto PC gaming’s hottest online marketplace as long as enough gamers vote for it. But that promise doesn’t appear to apply to the makers of the erotic game Seduce Me. The game’s listing was pulled from Steam’s new Greenlight service last Thursday,…

Their Last Games Were Cute as Heck. This One Looks Scary as Hell.

The last thing I was expecting from the creators behind cutesy platformer Bumpy Road and funky rhythm/stealth hybrid Beat Sneak Bandit was a gothic scare-fest. But it sure looks like that what their next game is going to be. Due out next winter from indie dev studio Simogo, Year Walk is a first-person iOS game…

Elegant Puzzle Games Should Be On Oprah’s Non-Existent List of Video Game “Favorite Things”

I don’t know if Oprah Winfrey plays video games. For all I know she plays Angry Birds while commuting from her estate in California to her apartment in Chicago. Facebook games, at least, seem to be on her radar. When I was playing Splice, an indie puzzle game born on Steam and now brought to…

Gaming Accessibility Project Hopes To Help More Developers Make Games Disabled Gamers Can Play

There are two kinds of accessibility that come up in gaming discussions. One is that understanding how a game works, or how to master it, can often be impenetrable to the newbie. But the other is that no matter how experienced a gamer is, if he or she has certain disabilities, the games can be…