It’s Nice To See We Can Still Make Butt Jokes About Portals

Portal’s brand of humour has always been decidedly high-brow. Short on slapstick, high on menacing computers. So it’s a relief to see Mega 64 can find a way to work butt jokes into the universe while still making it feel…Portal-ish.

Xbox Japan Confuses Game’s PS3 Version With Xbox 360

On the latest installment of Xbox Japan’s Inside Xbox, a bunch of games for this April were introduced. Some of the games are Xbox exclusives, some of them, like WRC: FIA World Rally Championship, are not. Out this month in Japan, WRC: FIA World Rally Championship is a rally racing title based on the actual…

Is The PSPgo Out Of Production? [Update]

According to what’s supposedly a Sony Store employee blog, no more PSPgo shipments are planned and the portable is apparently out of production. Over on the official Japanese Sony Style page, it is not in stock and shipments are TBA. When asked about this, Sony replied, “It is a very exciting time for PlayStation portable…

How To Make Old Games Look Better On New TV Sets

Confusing headline, I know, because this is going to take some explaining. This is the SLG 3000, and it apparently can make old games played on a new TV look as good as they were originally designed. How does it do this? The SLG 3000 is a circuit board that you plug your console into,…

Don’t Watch This For T&A, Watch It For Button Mashing

Playboy’s Jo Garcia is a big gamer. Ultimate Fighting Championship octagon girl Brittney Palmer is a big button masher. Together, they go boob-to-boob knuckle-to-knuckle in Mortal Kombat. It’s kinda hard to tell what’s going on, between the shiny pastels, the bizarro controller exercises (PowerGlove, really?) and the whole schtick. Shouldn’t be any surprises for what…

Portal 2 Is The Better Portal, But You Better Bring A Friend

You probably won’t read much of this review. If you know what Portal 2 is you probably just want to know if the new game is great like the old one (it is) and if it is long enough to pay full price (depends on how much money you earn each week). If you don’t…

Portal 2 Comes With An…Interactive Movie Trailer?

This won’t spoil the actual game in any way, so don’t worry, but there’s a unique little bonus included with copies of Portal 2.

This Guy Can Actually Do Mortal Kombat Moves

This is martial artist Pek Pongpaet, who along with his friends Don, Taylor and Yusuf performed the motion-capture for the latest Mortal Kombat trailer. So if you thought that was all just computers and make-believe characters, nunh unh. In the clip above, you can see just how good this guy is. Fun fact: Pongpaet’s favourite…

New Mortal Kombat: Legacy Episode Wants You To Fuck Protocol

Picking up where the first episode left off, the second episode of the new Mortal Kombat web series once again has Jeri Ryan as Sonya Blade and Michael Jai White as Jax hot on the heels of 300’s Darren Shahlavi as Kano. Mortal Kombat: Legacy is a series of nine live-action shorts that explore the…

A Wooden Neo Geo Is A Masterpiece Of Fine Craftsmanship

This is a Neo Geo. A working, fully armed and operational Neo Geo. Made entirely of finely-crafted walnut. I don’t know the precise moment master craftsmen and video games got together, but it’s a union worth celebrating. The entire console’s casing is made out of walnut. Even the cartridge slot. Everything inside, though, is pure…

When Paper Robots Kick Ass

Everything is now digital. This sentence, for example, doesn’t exist in tangible space. But there was a time when you could reach out and touch everything. There was a time when paper was king. That time is over. But don’t tell that to Tomohiro Yasui. In his hand-made ring, paper is still king – and…

Madden 12’s Cover Vote Gets A Little Farcical

When EA Sports drew up 32 options for Madden fans to vote on to determine who would be this year’s cover star, they probably had an absolute worst-case scenario of how the votes would unfold. This is that worst-case scenario. The two finalists – and this is a decision based on public voting, not EA…

Surprise, “Minecraft” Is A Big Hit On The Xbox 360

FortressCraft, a new game on the Xbox 360 which is, to put it kindly, borrowing gameplay elements from indie smash Minecraft, has proven about as popular as you’d expect, given you can’t actually get Minecraft on the Xbox 360. According to FortressCraft’s developers, Projector Games, the game’s trial was downloaded 84,006, with 58,572 then committing…

Did Valve Just Take Everyone For A Ride?

Over the past few weeks, Portal developer Valve and its more devoted fans have been engaged in an alternate reality game, which was believed to have resulted in people getting to play Portal 2 early. Just hours from its conclusion, it hasn’t really worked out that way. Were it just a game, that would fine.…

Inversion Screen Shots

The Tax Man Kometh

It’s the start of a new week, so let’s ease the pain with our semi-nightly open thread on Kotaku, a chance to speak up and speak to your fellow video game-loving friends. I’ve got some Mortal Kombat to play, some Portal 2 co-op to go hands-on with and some dinner to cook. So I’ll get…

Wii Party And Wii Sports Follow The Wii’s Price Cut

The Wii is now $169.99 USD at most U.S. retailers (Best Buy, Target, Amazon, GameStop) as of this week. Budget minded Wii owners will also be happy to know that two Nintendo games, Wii Party and Wii Sports Resort, have also had their prices slashed a cool ten bucks. Both are $39.99 USD, Nintendo of…

The Next Hit Music Game is Already Out There on Facebook

French developer MXP4 says they want you to “play with your music.” They just launched Bopler Games, a set of classic games on Facebook with an added musical slant. To play, choose a song from the Bopler library, (which features an inordinate amount of 80s pop) choose a game, and go. The kicker is that…

Farm, Chill, Whatever—It’s All Cool With Facebook Game Pot Farm

Virtual agriculture has recently become a bit more spliffy. If conventional farming simply isn’t your thing—or if you’re too half-baked to feign an interest in produce and husbandry—then the Facebook game Pot Farm may be just the foray into horticulture you’ve been jonesing for. Pot Farm (which is is still currently “totally Beta or whatever”)…

Posters From The Great Mushroom Kingdom War

This killer set of WW2 / Mario Bros. propaganda posters by Fernando Reza is now up for sale. You can buy the 11″ x 17″ hand signed pieces as a group (cheaper) or individually HERE. Each is a limited edition of 100. Each Poster: Victory! | The Enemy! | Power Ups! | The Boos! MARIO…