To-Do in New York: Explore Alt-Sexuality Gaming at Future Babycastles

Join Kotaku contributing columnist and owner of some of the largest earrings in the industry Leigh Alexander tomorrow evening at Babycastles’ new arcade exhibition space in Williamsburg for the debut of Bad Bitches, a new exhibition of games featuring themes of alternative sexuality. How can that not be a good time? Tomorrow night from 6PM…

Someone Was Not Pleased With the Catherine Demo

The demo for Atlus’ Catherine came out earlier this week, at at least one of our commenters considers it a highly polished piece of crap. Voice your agreement or defend your enjoyment with commenter MonkeyChunks in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Today I played Atlus’ Catherine demo. I think it is a very well made,…

Does This Make Up for the Delay, Japan?

Shadows of the Damned is out in the West. Kotaku‘s Game Club has been playing it. Japan hasn’t. The game won’t be out in Japan until this fall. No worries, Japan, EA will make it up to you. EA is offering Japanese players the chance to get some Shadows of the Damned goodies when they…

Do You Have Ten Hours? Over a Hundred? This Post Is for You.

YouTube user TehN1ppe posts ten hour clips. Ten hours! Ten hours of endless loops, like Mario climbing a vine. For ten hours. Or Mudkip. Yep, Mah, Hiep, Mah, Hiep. For ten hours. Or Nyan Cat. For ten hours. Or epic sax guy. For ten hours. Trololo? Ten hours. As website Game Set Watch points out,…

Did Nintendo Just Out Netflix’s 3D Streaming Plans?

Buried in today’s news that Netflix is now live on Nintendo’s 3DS portable was a potentially much bigger piece of information: The mammoth movie and TV streaming service plans to start streaming 3D content soon. But apparently Netflix knew nothing about a 3D service being announced. Here’s how the press release put it: “The new…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

If you were to ask me what I do on Thursdays, I would, at the drop of a hat, say “Why, I talk about video games, of course! Don’t you?”. I know you would too, so please, share! What in the world of video games tickles your fancy today? Special thanks to our very own,…

This Historical First-Person Shooter is an Iranian National Treasure

In the mid 1700’s an Arab Amir took on the military might of Dutch colonials occupying Iran’s Kharg Island, capturing their fort and liberating the southern Iranian cities from colonial rule. This Amir, called Mir Mahna, is an Iranian national hero. And now he’s a video game hero as well. Shipping this week to local…

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Magnetic Baby, An iOS Platformer With Gravitational Pull and A Portal or Two

If an iPhone game can surprise me, like Magnetic Baby does (but just a little), it’s because I seem to have become accustomed to playing with gravity and leaping through wormholes and understanding the physics of sentient little blobs in my video games. In Bravery Plus’ Magnetic Baby, you control a cute orange blob with…

Puyo Puyo Is Hilarious. I Guess.

So Funny | JAPAN: A still from Sega’s upcoming TV spot for its puzzler. (Photo: Sega) Where Does Batman Get All This Wonderful Concept Art? There may be over seventy years worth of Gotham City imagery to draw from, but that doesn’t mean the developers of Batman: Arkham City were allowed to get lazy. Lady…

Report: Zynga Creators Wanted To Buy PopCap

According to Forbes, Zynga, the folks behind FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia Wars, apparently wanted to buy PopCap, which was recently sold to EA for $750 million, for $1 billion in cash. [Gamasutra]

Netflix Hits the 3DS Today, 3D Movies On the Way

Starting today, Nintendo 3DS owners across the United States and Canada can download a free application that allows Netflix members to watch TV episodes and movies streaming from Netflix with an Internet connection. The 3DS will also also soon have access to “an additional library of select movies” that can be viewed in 3D, Nintendo…

Lady Goes Bananas over Zelda Commercial Appearance

Robin Williams and his daughter are in a commercial for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. They both were probably pretty stoked, but did they go mental? Like this? This is nerd heroine and Pokémon queen Shoko Nakagawa, who previously freaked out on her blog when she bought Ocarina of Time 3D. Now…

Get Your Call of Duty Convention Tickets July 19

Tickets for Activision’s paintball-playing, Modern Warfare 3-sampling, fundraiser celebration of all things Call of Duty go on sale July 19, at 10 a.m. Tickets for the two-day event will sell for $150 with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit that helps returning veterans find employment. The Sept.…

Where Does Batman Get All This Wonderful Concept Art?

There may be over seventy years worth of Gotham City imagery to draw from, but that doesn’t mean the developers of Batman: Arkham City were allowed to get lazy. Continuing on from their work on Arkham Asylum, the artists at Rocksteady Studios have again drawn on the inspiration of famous comics, awesome cartoons and the…

It’s Minecraft, (Sort of) Running On the Nintendo DS

A DS homebrew developer by the name of smealum is taking indie smash Minecraft and bringing it to Nintendo’s portable system. Unofficially, of course. At this stage there’s not much running but the world itself and the ability to smash blocks around, but it’s a start! Hopefully he can get some other stuff, like random…

Where Zelda Meets…Magic Cards?

A Games Radar contributor by the name of KREATIVEassassin has built an entire 242-card deck of Magic cards. Out of characters and locations from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past What’s great about these is that it looks like you could actually use them, as he’s gone to the trouble of not…

Does Working at Square Enix Suck?

Square Enix makes Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Making those games might not be easy. It might be hard. Really hard. No fun hard. Making video games is not easy. But some companies, like Insomniac are supposedly terrific places to work, with employees skipping to work. Singing. But does working at Square Enix totally bite?…

The Horror of Mario’s Enemies

It’s a good thing the early Mario games were so low-fi. If they’d shown your enemies in as high a resolution as they appear here, we’d have all been crapping our childhood pants. These, uh, interpretations of some of Mario’s foes were drawn by Mike Puncekar. Some of them, like Lakitu, are just cool. But…

Watch Ezio’s Dad at Work This November

Assassin’s Creed: Lineage, the series of short, live-action films serving as a prequel to Assassin’s Creed II (and its own to “sequels”), will be out on DVD this November. To be released by New Video, they’ll be collected into the single volume on DVD and Blu-ray and released on November 15. Included with the set…