Aeris Is Dead, Get Over It Already

The latest episode of GameTrailers’ Mythbusters-esque Pop Fiction series adds a few more nails in the coffin of Final Fantasy VII’s flower girl. Are fans still insisting there’s a way for Aeris (or Aerith, in Japanese) to come back to life thirteen years after the release of Final Fantasy VII? Can’t we just let the…

Double Fine’s Next Game Is Costume Quest, A Halloween RPG

The creators of Grim Fandango, Psychonauts and Brutal Legend aren’t making a sequel to their Jack Black-starring heavy metal action game. Instead they’re making four new games, one of which is the Halloween-themed role-playing game Costume Quest. According to a first look from UGO, Double Fine’s new downloadable game—which is due for a timely release…

And The Hello Kitty Shall Devour Thee

Employees flee Hello Kitty’s hungry maw at a Hong Kong exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Kitty-creators Sanrio.

Assault Horizon Rebuilds Ace Combat From The Ground Up

After yesterday’s trailer piqued our curiosity, Namco Bandai delivers more details on Assault Horizon, a game being called a “complete rebirth” for the Ace Combat franchise, or “steel carnage in the sky.” According to today’s press release, Project Aces has always wanted more out of the Ace Combat series. They wanted a game that not…

‘Hot Piece of Ass’ Busts Boss For FarmVille Obsession? [UPDATE: Probably Fake]

Young woman has job. Boss calls young woman “hot piece of ass.” Young woman quits, uses dry erase board to fire back. Boss, it seems, loved playing FarmVille during work hours too much. [UPDATE: Skeptics vindicated. Appears to be fake.] This is a story told in photos. A sampling, picking up at the point where…

Everything Exciting About Guild Wars 2 In One Video

From now on whenever anyone asks me what excites me about Guild Wars 2 as an MMO player, I’ll save myself a lot of time and just point them to this video. Click to view ArenaNet and NCsoft could have saved themselves a lot of time as well, skipping the past year’s worth of blog…

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As Wii Hits 30 Million In U.S., Nintendo Reveals Weird Zelda Fact [UPDATE]

Nintendo boasts today that the company has sold 30 million Wiis in the U.S., making it, they say, the fastest-selling home console in gaming history. This proud news was bundled with a curiosity. Hint: Name the best-selling Wii Zelda game. You will find the answer in the 10th spot of a list Nintendo included with…

Valkyria Chronicles II Demo Marches Onto The PlayStation Network

War spills across a much smaller CANVAS today as Sega releases a demo of Valkyria Chronicles II for the PSP on the PlayStation Network. Check out the sequel to the underappreciated PlayStation 3 game ahead of its August 31 release. The original Valkyria Chronicles for the PlayStation 3 is an amazing game, with striking visuals…

It’s Time To Stop Looking At Legends And Killers Screenshots

This post contains the last four screenshots of Red Dead Redemption’s Legends and Killers downloadable content you’ll ever need, as the pack goes live today for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Pig Josh is now in your hands. That’s right, there’ll be no more screenshots, trailers, or stories telling you about the eight characters…

Best NCAA Football 11 Glitch So Far

We don’t all play sports games, but can’t we all enjoy the great glitches sports games bring us every year? In EA’s NCAA Football 11, YouTube user TheBigCberry probably didn’t want his team’s mascot to be this helpful.

The Two Sides Of Brink’s Civil War

There ain’t no good guys, and there ain’t no bad guys. There’s just the revolutionaries and the security forces, and they just disagree with bullets in this first developer diary for Bethesda’s Brink. Developer Splash Damage lives up to its name with the waterlogged world of Brink, detailing the two sides of the civil war…

Blockbuster Rolls Out Games-By-Mail Nationwide

After testing out the service in several regions over the past year and a half, Blockbuster adds free video game rentals to its Blockbuster By Mail service, giving the specter of death hovering over the company brief pause. Blockbuster started adding video games to its DVD by mail rental service in February of last year,…

Yakuza Review Yakuza 3

There’s a terrific feature over at BoingBoing in which writer Jake Adelstein plays Sega game Yakuza 3 with three real-life members of the Yakuza. I have selected two wonderful excerpts. The set-up of the article is that Adelstein lets three guys from the real-life Yakuza in Japan try the game. They certainly don’t play through…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Time to talk about video games. And time to submit more of your tweaked images for this here official Kotaku forum. Thanks to reader Roth for the Metal Gear submission. Submit your TAY pic to #TAYpics Want to know more about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

They Held A Parade For A Video Game

There was a parade for a video game in New Orleans yesterday. For Madden NFL 11. That makes it a parade that’s also a marketing stunt. Still, we are surely in the early days of video game parades. Baby steps. Official caption for the second pic: Former NFL players Ricky Jackson, Deuce McAllister and Mike…

Weepy Toy Story 3 (An Answer For Ron Gilbert)

To: Totilo From: Bashcraft RE: I’ll Be Me, You Be Ron Gilbert Today, I worked. But Mrs. Bashcraft took Mini-Bash and his friend to the movies. They saw Toy Story 3. When he left the theater, he was apparently sobbing! 🙁 He said Toy Story 3 was “a moving film”. Haven’t seen it yet! I…

What Did Tekken Developers Think Of The Tekken Movie?

You hate the Tekken movie? You’re not alone. The guys that make Tekken hate it, too. “That Hollywood movie is terrible,” Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada tweeted. “We were not able to supervise that movie (It was cruel contract) I’m not interested in that mv.” The movie, which stars…some actors, has gotten a theatrical release in…

Beat Takeshi Hates Games, Computers And Email (What About Twitter?)

In 1986, Japanese comedian and actor Beat Takeshi designed a video game. A very hard video game. Dubbed Takeshi’s Challenge and released by Taito, the game defines video game masochism. In Takeshi’s Challenge, players must sing karaoke into the Famicom controller mic. After they do that successfully, every character in the bar tries to kick…

Portal & Ico Are Perfect For Each Other

While this crossover would make Portal’s combat clumsier, you’d imagine on the flipside it’d make running around that empty old castle a breeze. By junkboy, as seen on Bytejacker