Today, Sony revealed that a 500GB Charcoal Black PlayStation 3 is going on sale in Japan from August 28 for 25,980 yen ($253). The current 250 GB models (here and here) are priced at 23,790 yen ($232) each and will ceased being shipped by late August in Japan. No word about how this impact PS3s…

“Stunning New Pokemon Project” To Be Announced

There’s a new Pokemon project in the works. More details will be revealed in a “big announcement” next week. So yes, this is an announcement of an announcement, with the teaser site saying, “This summer, details of a stunning new project from Pokemon will be announced.” The teaser site specifically states, “shougeki no shin purojekuto”…

Track: Sister Sophia | Artist: Floor | Album: Oblation Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Star Trek Homage Figures It’s “Better Late Than Never”

Ah, Star Command. It was a pretty good mobile game, but the mobile game we got isn’t what we were promised when the project was successfully backed on Kickstarter. That promised game is still coming, though, even if it’s almost two years late. Having promised to keep working on things following the mobile release, Star…

New Minecraft LEGO Will Fit Your Minifigs

There’s been Minecraft LEGO for a whilenow, but it’s been on a tiny scale, with tiny little figures. These new sets are “normal” scale, meaning your Star Wars v Minecraft fan-fic role-playing just got a lot easier. The two sets, “The Cave” and “The Farm”, aren’t huge, but they are big enough to accommodate 3-4…

The Week In Games: Real Ultimate Evil

Who’d have thought I’d still be announcing the impending release of Diablo III more than two years after the initial release of Diablo III? With this week’s release of the Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition for PlayStations and Xboxen, everyone except Nintendo purists should be able to enojy Blizzard’s third installment of the game where…

The saddest little video game convention. Taking place in the same Walter E. Washington Convention Center as the free-to-attend Pokémon World Championships, the $40-per-day Video Gamers United show crowds are just a wee bit smaller. Don’t feel bad, the show’s Twitter feedshows more people. Via Reddit.

No Photoshop contest this week. Due to the current restrctions on uploading images in comments, we’re holding off on the weekly ‘shop contest until that issue is resolved. I spent the morning trying to figure out how to make ASCII art work. It did not, so here we are.