I Choose You, LEGO Pikachu

Master LEGOsmith Fredoichi made this Pikachu for his little girl. Adorable, in a bricky kind of way.

Why Nintendo Made The 3DS So Powerful

The Nintendo 3DS has more graphical umpf than the company’s previous portables. It’s a high-spec machine. Well, a higher spec one. According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, the reason why the company went with a more powerful machine is that Nintendo did not want developers to shy away from developing for it under the pretext…

Friends Hear Guy Getting Robbed Over Voice Comms

A man in Salt Lake was assaulted and robbed earlier this week while he was playing a “computer game online”. Like, literally: his friends could hear over the mic that he was being beaten up, so they rushed to help. The unnamed victim was playing games online (the report doesn’t specify which platform) when a…

Nintendo Loses A Bunch Of Business Cards

Nintendo invited members of the Japanese press, Japanese game industry and Japanese financial industry to its Nintendo Conference. Approximately 1,200 business cards were collected. They have gone missing. Nintendo has confirmed that the business cards have gone AWOL and says the company is investigating the matter. Nintendo is hoping that by making this known publicly,…

Medal of Honor: This Is Beard 1

Oh, sorry, he said Tier 1. It’s just, for all the slow-motion and bullet casings and dramatic score, the one thing I remember about this trailer is that glorious, fleeting glimpse of beard around 18 seconds in. He’s like a Viking with an assault rifle. Or the ghost of Full Throttle, back to blame the…

Let’s Call It A Rejection Simulator

This behind-the-scenes look at the AKB 48 dating simulator shows the girls doing more than simply mugging for the camera. They’re throwing themselves at it. A high speed camera and a crane was involved in the production! There were even background extras. The point of the game is turn down 47 of the 48 AKB…

Pokémon As Self-Portrait

A bunch of webcomic artists have got together and drawn up some self-portraits. Well, they’d be self-portraits if the artists were Pokémon, instead of humans. You can find them over on the Portrait-Dex, with some of the artists including Octopus Pie’s Meredith Gran and Dresden Codak’s Aaron Diaz. I love how the majority of them…

Nintendo Explains The Nintendo 3DS’s Price Point

In Japan, the Nintendo 3DS will cost ¥25,000. That might be high considering how Nintendo has priced its portables in the past. The company explains why. When asked why the portable was going to cost ¥25,000, Satoru Iwata explained the decision was based off things like the response when the actual portable got when it…

World Cyber Games 2010 Kicks Off In LA

The 2010 edition of the World Cyber Games got underway in Los Angeles yesterday, with around 450 gamers from nearly 60 countries competing for a few hundred thousand bucks worth of prize money. A total of $250,000 is up for grabs, with “athletes” competing in games like Guitar Hero 5, Tekken 6, Warcraft III, FIFA…

FIFA Review Gallery

Dead Rising Designer On Diatribes And Promises

In the last couple of years, Keiji Inafune (Dead Rising, Mega Man) has become a somewhat controversial figure in the Japanese game industry. That’s what happens when you say things like the Japan makes “awful games”. Right after the Tokyo Game Show, Inafune wrote a long blog post titled “Don’t Call Me Immature” in which…

Using Magic, The 3DS Can Make A Mii Using A Photo

One of the more useful ways the Nintendo 3DS will be able to interact with Miis is its ability to take a person’s picture then automatically generate an avatar based on the results. Here’s that feature in action. As you can see, all you need to do is take a photo of your (or someone…

Who Is Going To Buy A Nintendo 3DS?

It’s not quite Friday, but it’s close enough. 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 us –…

Thousands Of Starcraft II Cheaters Busted By Blizzard

As warned, Blizzard today swept through the Starcraft II playerbase with knives at the ready, banning or suspending the accounts of thousands of players caught using hack programs or other forms of cheating. The final count was “over 5000” players, Blizzard reminding everyone that it’s not just the spirit of fair play that’s in trouble…

Beyond Good & Evil In High Definition Looks Like…This

The good news? Beyond Good & Evil is getting a high definition makeover on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The better news? Here are the game’s first screenshots. I’m glad Ubisoft has resisted the urge to mess with stuff. Sure, Jade’s lips and outfit were kinda stupid even all the way back in 2003, but…

Pokemon Black & White Show Yakuza Who’s The Boss In Japan

Nintendo and Game Freak see great success in week two of Pokemon Black and Pokemon White’s existence on Japanese store shelves. The Nintendo DS game moves another 800,000 plus copies, handily fending off Sega’s latest Yakuza game. With last week’s take, that puts the latest Pokemon adventure at some 3.3 million units sold. Given the…

A Widely Open Thread

Dear Kotaku readers, won’t you join us in this nightly open thread where the talk of the town is whatever you choose? Please, engage your fellow video game-loving peers in stimulating conversation. Perhaps you can answer this curious riddle: Why does the microwave burrito get such a bad rap? When, in reality, it is quite…

The First Batch Of Screens For Activision’s New NASCAR Game

Not sure what the point is of a site countdown when the game is confirmed and, today, 15 screens for NASCAR 2011: The Game were get put up on the new site. But that countdown’s still a-tickin’ anyhow. Okie doke! Well, take a gander at 11 in-game shots that include tracks at Martinsville and Phoenix,…

NASCAR 2011: The Game Screenshots

Metal Gear Solid: Wyvern Eater

Artist David Hsu Yen reinterprets Snake’s crossover into the Monster Hunter universe, transforming the star of Metal Gear into a Felyne friendly wyvern slayer. Another great video game mash-up, as seen on deviantArt, where much larger versions await.