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  iTunes Chart Toppers: It’s a Smurfy Day

  Smurfs are smurfing their way up the Smurfing iPhone and iPad charts. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Smurfs’ Village (Capcom) Free (Paid DLC) 1 — 2 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 27 1 3 Tap Zoo (Street View) Free (with paid DLC) 2 3…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 15, 2010
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  The Lancia You Want Is In Another Garage

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft I’ve said it before, but Mini-Bash and I like to go to car dealerships for fun. It’s a great way to spend an afternoon! A car dealership in North Osaka is importing the newish Lancia Delta from Italy. I don’t *believe* the Delta is sold in the UK — hence the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2010
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  Drumroll Please, Japan’s Top Ten Dragon Quest Games

  Square Enix polled Japanese gamers about which Dragon Quest titles they liked the best. Those gamers replied, the votes were tallied, and now, we have the results. They are, along with the preferred platform, where applicable: 10. Dragon Quest VI (Super Famicom) 9. Dragon Monsters Joker 2 8. Dragon Quest IV (DS) 7. Dragon Quest…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2010
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  Pushing Forty In A Maid Outfit

  Aya Brea, protagonist of the forthcoming 3rd Birthday, is 39 years old. And she gets her jeans blown off, her stockings ripped up and even squeezed by a tentacle. Her latest fan service humiliation? A maid costume. The latest issue of Japanese magazine Jump Festa shows Aya’s maid costume. This isn’t an old granny maid…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2010
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  Your First (And Last) Look At Mercenaries 3

  Mercenaries developers Pandemic went bust last year, while members of the studio were hard at work on a third game in the sandbox warfare series. This is what it would have looked like, had it ever been released. The game had the working title of Mercenaries 3: No Limits and was still in the early…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2010
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  “Try To Bite Aircrafts And Pull Them Down Into The Water”

  That’s one of the only player instructions in this flash game, Sydney Shark. What more do you need? You are Sydney, a great white shark on the loose in…Sydney, Australia, and you’ve got a finite amount of coastline to roam, pulling down anything and everything you can cram into your toothy maw. That includes humans…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2010
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  Do You Take This Avatar To Be Your Wife?

  By day, 27-year-old Paul Turner was a computer programmer. By night, he played Final Fantasy XI as a Hume, hanging out with a Tarutaru named Branwen. Paul left his girlfriend for that Tarutaru and married the woman behind the avatar. When Turner stopped playing FFXI, Vicky Teather realized how much she cared for him. “It…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2010
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  PSPgo On Its Deathbed In The UK? [Update]

  Sony’s PSPgo, a brave (if flawed) discless portable gaming system, looks to be on its last legs in the United Kingdom, with Sony making its second official price cut on the device in less than a month. Last month, October, Sony reduced the price of the handheld from £200 (USD$320) to £160 (USD$260). That reduction…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2010
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  Mafia Boobs Censored In Japan

  In the Western version of crime game Mafia II, there are vintage copies of Playboy as collectible items. The game even tracks how long players stare at the centerfolds. Cut that time in half for Japan. The first image is from the Western version of Mafia II and is free of nudity. Other centerfolds, however,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2010
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  This Shooter’s Warfare Isn’t Modern

  Hexen was one of the finest – and most underrated – shooters to come out during the 1990s. And it’s part of a franchise that hasn’t been seen since. Oh, until now! Last week, a fan-made Hexen mod for PC shooter Doom III was released, called Hexen: Edge of Chaos. It’s looking very slick, and…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2010
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  No, This Isn’t Wii Fit For Babies

  Those babies might be fat, but this Wii Fit Plus campaign isn’t for them. It’s for their moms. Nintendo is targeting new mothers with Wii Fit Plus and has a load of data. According to Nintendo’s data, 78 percent of new mothers do not exercise, with the two most popular reasons being that they must…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2010
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  Sam Worthington Nearly Ruined Black Ops For Me

  I didn’t enjoy Black Ops as much as some others did, but it was still a pretty good shooter. Oh, except for the fact that a single casting decision nearly ruined the game for me. In the lead-up to the game’s release, publisher Activision was strangely quiet when it came to Black Ops’ roster of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2010
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  Japan: We Love Cars, Kinect, Notsomuch

  PS3 exclusive Gran Turismo 5 might be released a week after Kinect hits Japan on November 20, but the game already looks set to run over Microsoft’s motion control system this holiday season. The following photos were taken at the Bic Camera in Tokyo’s Yurakucho. This one of the largest electronics stores in the country.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2010
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  Naruto Gallery

  Expect to take this trip back and forth many times during your playthrough. Playing online is better with a nicer connection, but still pretty fast and fluid. I CAUGHT A BIRD. Watching the computer fight itself is a blast.

  By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2010
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  Europe Getting “Director’s Cut” Version Of Donkey Kong

  Japan’s “hacked” version of Super Mario Bros. isn’t the only modified classic included with red Wiis around the world. Turns out the copy of Donkey Kong hitting Europe has been messed with as well. Or, edited, at least. See, the original home console version of Donkey Kong had to run a little short, because the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2010
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  How Kinect Can Build A 3D Model Of Your Bedroom

  You’ve no doubt heard (or even seen) how Kinect works, by projecting thousands of points of infrared light around a room. Now see what it can do once it takes all that information in. Okreylos has posted this handy little video on YouTube – produced by hacking his Kinect, of course – showing how Microsoft’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2010
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  What Do You Think Of Kinect?

  Hello, it’s Friday. Doh. No it’s not, it’s Monday. Still, let’s talk. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know oodles about…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2010
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  Don’t Know Your Noir From Your L.A. Noire?

  Crime game L.A. Noire is Rockstar’s take on 1940s-era Los Angeles, complete with guys in hats, guns and big, fancy cars. But what is noir? There is disagreement among film scholars regarding what exactly “noir” is. Some say it is a genre, others disagree. There are elements of noir, sure, such as femme fatales, detectives,…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 15, 2010
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  The Original Entertainment System

  To: Luke From: Owen Re: Tomorrow, I’ll Play A Video Game In A Car Whenever the time changes back to standard time, that first week I always sleep a ton. I’ve had two 10 hour sleep days since the change. What’s weird, though, is that I find myself waking up, feeding the cat, getting some…

  By Owen Good Published November 14, 2010
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  GoldenEye Cheats Resurrect Big Head Mode [Updated]

  An intrepid Kotaku reader found three working cheat codes for GoldenEye 007 on the Wii, but, so far, we only know what two of them do. Update: The third unlocks Big Head mode (pictured) in local multiplayer. WireX, the reader, dumped the data out of the main executable file and found three codes, which must…

  By Owen Good Published November 14, 2010