Drink Hello Kitty Coffee in Tokyo

And, if coffee isn’t your thing, you can always eat Hello Kitty food. From November 14 to December 25, the limited time only Hello Kitty Cafe will open in Shibuya’s Parco. As Momo points out, the establishment will serve an array of Kitty themed eats and drinks. Have a look. This isn’t the only Hello…

Track: Say My Name (feat. Zyra) | Artist: ODESZA | Album: In Return Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

You Can Call This Video Game From A Real Phone

Dial this number, and it will take you to far away places. MINOR SPOILER ALERT. The game—really more of an interactive phone line—is the latest extension of the brilliant Kentucky Route Zero series, a serenely bizarre (or perhaps bizarrely serene) theatrical adventure game. This is an extension of that universe, and a weird one at…

New City-Building Game Combines Two Of My Favorite Things​

Concrete Jungle is a game where you build a city. But not like you would in SimCity. You construct cities in Concrete Jungle by building a deck, like a card game. How did nobody think of this until now? It all sounds so easy. You get some cards, and each card has a building on…

Valve doesn’t seem too pleased that devs have made a group to upvote each others’ games on Steam Greenlight. A rep said, “Clearly this is not the feedback we are seeking from Greenlight. We do track these sorts of things and folks ‘going this route’ will likely not find the results they may have hoped…

Team Fortress 2‘s New Map Is Totally Bonkers

It has kart racing. Kart racing! With adorable chubby faced characters. Valve has finally lost it—in a good way, mostly. The new map, Carnival of Carnage, is the biggest addition in Scream Fortress VI, this year’s Halloween event. Here’s an overview from Valve News Network of its relentless spookitude: I wasn’t kidding about the bumper…

​4 Tips for Your Last-Minute Halloween Costume

I haven’t really dressed up for Halloween since I was a kid. Last year, I just grabbed my judo gi and pretended to be some kind of zombified martial artist. The year before, I wore a headcrab hat one of my roommates got me a few years back… and pretended to a headcrab zombie. You…

Glitched Out Pokémon Is The Best Kind of Nightmare

Pokémon Emerald looks a bit different when you corrupt the file you play on. That’s not a bad thing, though. Grass may turn to water. Pokémon might turn into giant question marks. And sometimes, your character can’t decide whether or not he wants his head actually on his shoulders. It’s goofy glitches like this that…

I Bet Brock Lesnar Could Beat Up Goku

I doubt the greatest fighters in modern martial arts will square off against Street Fighter or Dragon Ball Z characters any time soon, largely because of rights issues. Also some of the fighters in this equation are, you know, fictional. But oh what a fight card it would be. I recently stumbled across the artwork…

Supergiant’s wonderful action RPG Transistor is now available for Mac and Linux, developer Greg Kasavin announced today. Huzzah! If you need to refresh your memory about how great the game is, check out our original review

​You’ll Be Getting a Very Different Kind of War Game in Two Weeks

Embodying a soldier has been a staple of video games for a while now. But, on November 14th, players will control the kind of ordinary citizen who the machines of war usually roll right over. Here’s what This War of Mine will look like when you play. This trailer for 11-bit’s upcoming wartime survival PC…

“If games don’t offer us complex heroines, then we apparently stop looking for them.” That’s critic Maddy Myers discussing kink, sex positivity, and female empowerment in Bayonetta in an excellent essay for Paste. Give the whole thing a read, and remember to check out our review of Bayonetta 2

​Assassin’s Creed Unity Will Be Going to World War II

It looked like the new-gen-only Assassin’s Creed game would be sticking only to the time period of the French Revolution. Nope. Somehow, lead character Arno will wind up smack dab in the middle of World War II, with machine guns and everything. A new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity shows some kind of spacetime disturbance…