Mario Trades His Pistol for Fireballs in the Updated ‘Real Life Super Mario Bros.‘

Filmmaker Andrew McMurry has posted this updated version of his last “Real Life Super Mario Bros“. In the last version, Mario, played by McMurry’s brother, finds himself up against a group of famous Mario enemies, eventually getting a “power-up” handgun and blowing away a bunch of poor defenseless Goombas. That was a funny joke! This…

Razer’s Naga Hex is a Mouse Made with the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Fan in Mind

Mice aimed at massively-multiplayer online role-playing gamers are all well and good, but what does a League of Legends or Diablo III player need with twelve thumb buttons? That’s why the Razer Naga Hex only has six. I’d say the newly-announced Razer Naga Hex was built from the ground-up with MOBA and action RPG players…

Survive Yarngasms and Shark-Infested Jungles in Saints Row: The Third‘s Genkibowl VII DLC

Next week, Saints Row: The Third players will get the weirdest DLC for the game yet (and that’s counting the gun that launches shark-attacks) with Genki Bowl VII The trailer above gives the gist, as crazy-killer-feline-human-thing Professor Genki takes his Running Man-style competitive/deadly reality show out into the real world. Among the various challenges: Sail…

This Modern Day Live-Action Skyrim Short Proves Some Things Never Change

It is the year 2012 in the province of Skyrim, a land where magic and technology coexist, and shopkeepers still haven’t learned their lesson regarding irresponsibly-placed head-sized buckets. Brothers John and Justin Grosjean take a trip to present-day Whiterun in their latest YouTube creation, Skyrim: 2012. where they find not much has changed since the…

The Piazza Multiplayer Map

The Liberation Multiplayer Map

Modern Warfare 3‘s 9-Month Season of New Content is Ambitious, Surprising and Complicated

There will be at least 20 “drops” of new content for Modern Warfare 3, as a nine-month season of expansions to last year’s big game kicks off this month. The makers of the first-person shooter juggernaut are promising a season of new content, starting with the Xbox 360-first release on January 24 of the first…

Experience Asura’s Wrath First-Hand Today

Capcom’s interactive anime epic Asura’s Wrath doesn’t hit North America until February 21, but you can play it right now via downloadable PlayStation 3 demo, or tomorrow if you’re all Xbox-y. Enjoy the demo trailer, randomly in German.

Only Kinect Rush Will Take You Up and Make You an Incredible Butt-Sliding Rat

Microsoft’s using CES 2012 to talk up its best-selling motion-sensing peripheral, with its announcement of blockbuster sales and a Windows version of Kinect. Part of that push will be the recently announced Kinect Rush, the all-ages game being developed in partnership with Pixar. These new images from Kinect Rush give a glimpse of some of…

Ghost Recon Future Soldier Slides Back to May, Beta in April

Ubisoft’s big revision to the Ghost Recon series, Ghost Recon Future Soldier has been delayed to May 22 in the U.S., May 24 in Europe. And, look at this, we’re getting an apology “We’re pretty much there,” the game’s development director, Adrien Lacey, said in a YouTube announcement of the delay. “We just want to…

The 10 Most Bogus Entries in the Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember being awed at when the TV specials based on the Guinness Book of World Records would show up on network TV. I’d see really big things! Really small things! Weird life forms out of 1950s monster comics! A guy who’d never cut his fingernails, like, ever!…

Art Brut Makes Me Want to Rock Out

Art Brut made the best song ever about not being able to achieve erection. “Rusted Guns of Milan” appears on their 2005 debut album Bang Bang Rock & Roll and its lyrics hit a sweet spot of not-that-it’s -ever-happened-to-me. “I’m sorry/I’m so sorry/Can I get you a cup of coffee?” Indeed. I’ve seen them live…

Mad Catz’s Cyborg Line Grows a Sexy Pair of Ears

I think I’ve finally discovered the sinister plot underlying Mad Catz’s visually and functionally striking line of Cyborg gaming products: They’re preparing to build an actual cyborg, and the newly-announced F.R.E.Q. 5 Pro Gaming Headset is the ears. Mad Catz already has the eyes, the hands, the legs, and the neural interface (fudging it a…

How Can Anyone Be Disappointed By Both Skyrim and Skyward Sword?

Some folks loved the latest Legend of Zelda game but weren’t fond of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Others turned up their noses at Skyward Sword but embraced Bethesda’s latest wholeheartedly. Somehow commenter Sloopydrew found himself disappointed with both games. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku we try to determine what sort of alien he…

A Bluetooth Gamepad, Daisy Chaining Headset, and Other Things SteelSeries is Showing at CES

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is the time for gaming peripheral makers to shine, and not many are quite as shiny as SteelSeries. They’re doing up CES 2012 big with a tiny Bluetooth gamepad, some travel-friendly headsets, and mice, mice, mice. The most intriguing new product in SteelSeries’ lineup would have to be the new…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome back to Kotaku‘s official forum. Please talk here about video games. It’s better if you do. Thanks to reader Dissolved for today’s image. Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share your own riffs on our January image to our #TAYpics thread. Just remember to keep…

Final Fantasy Origins Get Summoned to the PlayStation Network Today

Folks looking to re-visit where Square’s big-deal JRPG franchise started—or encounter it for the first time—can do so today. Final Fantasy Origins bundles the first two Final Fantasy games in a downloadable package that can be had for $9.99 on the PlayStation Network

The Shapeshifting Glory of Muffin Knight Never Grows Stale

I original planed on topping off today’s Gaming App of the Day with “Revolutionary Game Features Unicorns Pooping Explosive Rainbows”, but I didn’t want to oversell Angry Mob Games’ Muffin Knight A pint-sized platformer with role-playing elements, Muffin Knight has been around on iOS and Android devices since last fall, winning hearts with its colorful…

Nyko Parades PlayStation Vita Performance Enhancers at CES

Nyko never met a console or portable it couldn’t make a ton of additional crap for, and the upcoming PlayStation Vita is no different. At CES 2012 in Las Vegas the peripheral maker debuts its launch lineup of Vita accessories. Accessories like the Power Grip, a rechargeable battery pack that boasts three times the battery…

Become the World’s Deadliest Tourist With Assassin’s Creed: Revelations‘ Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack

Take a whirlwind tour of the Mediterranean on January 24 when Ubisoft releases the Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, featuring three brand-new killing floors and a handful of Brotherhood leftovers. Slated for release on January 24, the Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack gives Assassin’s Creed multiplayer fans a chance to romp through the…