Your AR Cards Can Go Fishing

Fishing, Graffiti, AR Shot, Mii Pics and Star Pics are among the titles purported to be heading to the Nintendo 3DS’s AR Games, reports GameLife. While the other games are fairly self-explanatory, Star Pics is an augmented reality title that uses Nintendo characters like Mario, Link, Kirby, Metroid’s Samus and Pikmin (Mii Pics supposedly uses…

America’s Favorite Video Games, All In One Place

Graphic designer Eileen Lopez has put together this very helpful chart, which shows the best-selling games of all time in the United States. All of them. From the 2600 to the 360, Space Battle to Smash Bros. A few things to note before we continue! Firstly, to keep things clean, Lopez rounded off the sales…

Little Japanese Girl Wins Over Our Hearts (And Kinect)

If you are looking for success in the Xbox 360’s uphill battle in Japan, look no further than this. It’s easy to be jaded about the Xbox 360 in Japan. The console isn’t exactly a blockbuster there — ditto for Kinect. But none of that matters, because this four-year-old girl is adorable. On Kinect title…

Nothing Says Dead Space Like Papier-Mâché Knee Pads

Some game character costumes are easy. Link, for example. A pair of tights, a green top and a hat and you’re set. Dead Space’s Isaac Clarke, however, is about as complex as they come. His engineering suit is nothing but a sea of sharp points and angles, while most surfaces not jutting out at 90-degrees…

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How To Knock A Block Out Of A Man’s Head

Filmmaker Martin Waltz loves Minecraft so much that he decided to pay homage the only way he knew how: by knocking a block out of a dude’s noggin. “I’m a big Minecraft player myself,” he tells Kotaku. “I ran a dedicated 24/7 server for some months before I had to shut it down because it…

Why Do Pokémon Games Take So Damn Long To Come Out In The West?

Pokémon games are always released in Japan months before they make their way to Western markets. It’s not conspiracy; instead, it’s because developers GameFreak like to make sure Pokémon names truly mean something, regardless of the language used.

Mario vs Sonic? No, It’s Mario AS Sonic

If the console rivals had come together twenty years earlier, it would surely have looked like this. By Gadget WK

This Is How Minority Report Surfs The Web On Its Lunch Break

Continuing the trend of Kinect doing awesome things in everything but video games, take a look at this web browser that’s been built specifically for Microsoft’s motion-sensing camera. It’s called SwimBrowser. Sounds like a stupid name until you see it in action, because “swimming” is exactly what you’re doing as you gently wave and roll…

The World’s Stupidest DRM Takes A Well-Deserved Break

For its last few big PC releases, publisher Ubisoft thought it was a good idea to force users to stay connected to the internet at all times. It wasn’t, people got upset, and the company’s next big release won’t do it. The upcoming PC release of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (which was released on console last…

Japan’s Most Famous Professor Shamelessly Ripped Off…Again

Professor Layton is the star of a series of puzzle-solving adventure games. Featuring beautiful animated cutscenes, they feature Layton and his young sidekick, Luke. They are hugely popular in Japan, which means one thing: other game companies are now ripping it off. Shamelessly. First there’s — no, wait. First there was Professor Layton, then, there’s…

She Came, She Saw, She Got Pregnant

In 2007, Las Vegas-born Leah Dizon conquered Japan, appearing in PS3 ads, releasing best selling photo-books and music albums. But, as of this month, she’s leaving the country that made her famous. After moving to Los Angeles to attend college, Dizon started working as a booth babe to help cover her educational expenses. She tells…

And You Thought Your 3DS Launch Lineup Was Lacking

When the 3DS launches in the US, there will be sixteen games available. In Europe, there will be thirteen. In Japan, there will be eight. In Australia? Think less Only a single Nintendo title will be available when the handheld launches on March 31, and that is Nintendogs + cats. It will be joined by…

Before Half-Life, There Was A Submarine Game

Valve, the developers of series like Half-Life and Team Fortress, were once working on something a little less fantastical: a submarine game. Speaking on Steamcast, boss Gabe Newell says that he and company co-founder Mike Harrington had, in the very first days of Valve’s existence, toyed with the idea of making a submarine title. “Mike…

The Zelda Games The Whole World Hates

Over the past 25 years, not every single Legend of Zelda game has been made by Nintendo. Some were developed by Capcom, and are outstanding in their own right! And some were made by other people, and are supposed abominations At least, that’s what popular opinion will have you believe whenever the topic of the…

If You’re Going To San Francisco

Tomorrow, Kotaku does some traveling, with one of us heading to San Francisco to look at video games, one of us heading to New York to look at houses. I’m the one heading from LAX to SFO, a trip I’ll do next week too (for GDC 2011). It’s part of the travel associated with the…

A Peek At The Road Rash & Strike Reboots That Never Happened

Two video game series fondly remembered by fans, but almost completely untapped by Electronic Arts are motorcycle combat contest Road Rash and isometric military shooter Strike. EA hasn’t made a new game in either of those series this generation, but it tried during the last. We’ve seen hints of revivals and pre-release video of failed…

New Video of Three Nintendo 3DS Launch Games In Action

The Nintendo Channel has released new video of three of the Nintendo 3DS‘s North American launch games, PilotWings Resort, Steel Diver and Nintendogs + Cats. Will any of them convince you to put in a pre-order? The 3DS will launch later this week in Japan, so we’ll soon have extended hands on coverage of some…

Report: iPad 2 Unveiling Next Week

Apple is set to unveil its next-generation iPad on March 2, smack in the middle of next week’s Game Developers Conference, says AllThingsD. Expect the iPad 2 to be lighter, faster, and camera-equipped

Bulletstorm Rocks My PC

I haven’t yet spent a lot of time with Bulletstorm on my new computer. But I can already tell it’s a match made in heaven. Silky-smooth frame-rates, funny dialog, great action. I can’t wait until I have the free time to play through this. Owen is writing up our review (and I’ve played maybe an…