Power A’s Tiny Controllers for Tiny Hands

Mike got to use Power A’s slightly shrinkified controllers back in January—the PS3 and Xbox models are fine, but it’s the 20 percent smaller, totally rubberized Wii remote that’s a surprise dynamo. And it lasts longer than before, with AA batteries replacing last year’s AAA.

Mass Effect 3 Voice Control Makes You a Devil, Enables Pause-Free Combat

The Kinect integration in next year’s Mass Effect 3 just might be a great idea. Pardon the skepticism, but after two Mass Effect games that did just fine without any connection to Microsoft’s hands-free sensor, it is a surprise. We found out on Monday, officially, that Mass Effect 3 includes optional Kinect support. (That had…

Rise of Nightmare Recreates a Drunk’s Bloody Wander Through a Zombie Cavalcade

There is something wonderful about air chainsawing zombies. And air cleavering them. And air sheering them. I stand in a darkened room facing a big screen, feet apart, my hands are held in front of me as if I’m holding a chainsaw. On the TV I am. More specifically, two disembodied virtual arms and hands…

Graffiti Artist Takes A Stab At The Gears of War 3 Logo

LA-based graffiti artist OG Slick worked with Epic Games and Microsoft to create a cool alternative version the “Crimson Omen” logo from Gears of War as a limited edition tee for Hot Topic. The design got its debut last night in coaster form at Epic’s GoW3 Party last night. If you’re interested in the shirt,…

Nintendo is Such a Close-Knit Company Its Employees are Adopting Each Other

When some people think Nintendo, the first word that comes to mind is family. That’s likely the case for Nintendo employees Ross and Sandra Titus, who recently adopted their first child, 29-year-old Nintendo executive Jillian. The woman now known as Jillian Titus didn’t feel as if she had much of a family when she first…

New Soulcalibur V Screen Shots

Experience New Levels of Multiplayer Manhunting in Assassin’s Creed Revelations

How does a master assassin find deeper meaning in life? By becoming even more calculating, wise, and lethal then he was before-and that’s just what Ezio Auditore intends to do on his hazardous journey through the Ottoman Empire in Assassin’s Creed Revelations, out this fall from Ubisoft. In the latest update to the award-winning series,…

Tekken Hybrid is Sexy PlayStation 3 Exclusive Combo

Take the gorgeous computer animated Tekken: Blood Vengeance movie and bundle it together with the HD remake of Tekken Tag Tournament and you get Tekken Hybrid, a Blu-ray movie you’ll want to watch with a game you might want to poke at. Tekken Tag Tournament HD is nice enough, I suppose, but the real meat…

Watch a Human Play Prey 2

No cinematic trailers or target footage here. Just a guy playing Prey 2 so you know what it actually looks like.

These Are the Wii U Games of Your Dreams

There weren’t many games shown off as part of Nintendo’s Wii U reveal. Not many games actually running on the Wii U, anyway FIlling that void, reader Kyle and his mates put together this gallery of dream Wii U projects, some likely, some possible, maybe (at least in terms of application), and others sadly simply…

Can You Spot the HD Metal Gear Solid Games?

Konami is bringing Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker to the PS3 and Xbox 360 as the Metal Gear Solid HD Edition Kotaku‘s already posted some of these “HD” screens. Here are some more! But can you tell which MGS2 screens are…

Terrifying TriMount Connects All Your Game Console Sensors, Might Just Kill You

For anyone who owns all three of this generation’s gaming consoles, it can be a bitch setting up their respective sensor peripherals. Not anymore, as the dreamGEAR TriMount combines all three. Only it looks like a very angry Wall-E. This behemoth rigs the Xbox 360 Kinect, Playstation Eye, and Wii Sensor Bar together to form…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

It’s been a busy week for games. We’ve seen a deluge of information from E3 and the launch of some stellar new releases (I’m looking at you, inFamous 2). So get talking—you’ve got plenty to talk about. On another note, things are looking a bit samey around here. Why? Because nobody wants to make a…

Who Knew the New Final Fantasy Trailer Was This Sexy?

Not me! One Japanese blog did, pointing how just how erotic Serah Farron is in the trailer Final Fantasy XIII-2. The result is a catalogue of cleavage and panty glimpses. The eroticism isn’t heavy handed or gratuitous, but it’s there. チラシの裏でゲーム鈍報:『ファイナルファンタジー13-2』セラがさらにエロくなって登場！パンチラもあり！ [チラシの裏でゲーム鈍報]

Let’s Look at Resident Evil: Revelations Screens. Together!

You’ve read Kotaku‘s Resident Evil: Revelations impressions (“frightening, delightful”). Now look at these screenshots. Hopefully you’ll find them frightening, and maybe even…delightful? Resident Evil: Revelations is slated for the Nintendo 3DS sometime next year.

Asura’s Wrath Has an E3 Trailer Fit for the Gods

So those Asura’s Wrath screens from yesterday…they were fine, but trailers always speak louder than screenshots. Especially when they’re speaking in Japanese, and it’s loud, and angry.

This Vita Game Will Have You Walking On the Walls

Team Siren, a division of Sony Japan’s internal studio, is working on a Vita game called Gravity. You may not have heard about it earlier in the week amidst all the other big Sony news, and that’s a damn shame. Why? Because it looks fantastic, that’s why. With a cel-shaded visual style and motion controls,…

“Human Tetris” Squeezed Out for Kinect

Game show Hole in the Wall, a Western take on a “human Tetris” game, is coming to Kinect. The game will be released on Xbox Live Arcade sometime this year. It will have single player or multiplayer modes (up to four players). There are unlockables like helmets and silver spandex. Hole in the Wall started…

Rhythm Heaven Looks as Good On Wii as it Did On DS

Brilliant DS music game Rhythm Heaven is coming to the Wii, and you can see how toe-tappingly distracting it’s going to be in this E3 trailer for the title. Looks so simple, but man, it’s going to get its hooks in you.

Cold Water Thrown on Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS

At Nintendo’s E3 press event, Nintendo honco Satoru Iwata revealed that Smash Bros. was heading to the Wii U and the 3DS. There are no screenshots of the games. Nothing. That’s because work on neither title has begun. According to Smash Bros. designer Masahiro Sakurai, “Honestly, at this point, we shouldn’t be announcing these games…