Live-Action Patlabor Looks… Pretty Great, Actually!

Iconic manga and anime franchise Patlabor is getting a series of live-action shorts and a feature film. Here’s the trailer for the first short. It looks great. 「THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー」第１章 予告 [The Next Generation Patlabor@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is…

The Last of Us Bags 10 DICE Awards, Including Game of the Year

Pictured: Ellie sniping down the other Character of the Year nominees from a safe distance. Yep, out of the twenty-four awards available, a whopping ten went to Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic zombie survival game at tonight’s DICE Awards show. Plants VS. Zombies 2 and BioShock Infinite were the other two multi-award winning games, bringing home two…

Watch Us Play the Newest Excellent Gundam Fighter

The Gundam VS series is one of Japan’s most popular arcade games and one I have been playing for years. Fellow Kotaku East author Toshi Nakamura, on the other hand, has never played a Gundam VS game. So watch us sit down and spend some time with the newest in the series, Gundam Extreme VS…

In this Arcade Game, You Battle Zombie… Schoolgirls

It’s schoolgirls in sailor suits. Make that zombie schoolgirls in sailor suits. Oh, did I mention there’s dancing, too? There is. Namco Bandai’s newest arcade game is called Sailor Zombie: AKB48 Arcade Edition and stars Japan’s biggest girl group AKB48. Gpara reports that the game features seven members, including Yuko Oshima, Mayu Watanabe, and Yuki…

Track: Uruku Tumi Gushiku | Album: Jin Jin | Artist: Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

If Those Facebook “Look Back” Movies Were Actually Telling The Truth

Earlier in the week, you were no doubt buried under people sharing their Facebook “Look Back” videos, which were a robot’s attempt to sum up that person’s history on the service. Here’s what one of those videos would look like if it actually got that right Actually, that’s a little unfair. Mine was a cascade…

A Petition To Change The US National Anthem To…Guile’s Theme

OK, take your usual cynicism for online petitions and give it a rest for a day. Here’s something we can all get behind, even if you’re like me and not even an American. A petitionhas begun on the White House site to change the American national anthem to Guile’s Theme. Unlike most internet petitions, which…

Who needs E!, with their expensive cameras and boring interviews, when you’ve got Kotaku editor Stephen Totilo covering the red carpet at tonight’s DICE awards with a phone.

Fake Zombies Terrorize New York Pedestrians

At this point, we all spend most of our time bracing for a zombie attack anyway… might as well see what happens when people actually experience one. The latest NYC-based “adverprank” (term per Chris Person) is in service of AMC’s The Walking Dead, which returns to finish out its latest season this weekend. Important question…

GTA Cargo: Check out this awesome mid-air cargo plane catch by GTAmissions. Who cares that the stunt jump was failed, really?

App Store Madness Continues As New Terrible Game Tops Charts

While some are still trying to come to terms with just how Flappy Bird got to the top of the App Store charts, another game has come along that will make you wonder just what the hell is going on. Right now, the #2 paid app (#1 paid game) on Apple’s App Store is a…

Human My Little Ponies Are Slightly More Tolerable In Anime Form

Not enjoying Equestria Girls, the Hasbro animated movie in which My Little Pony characters take on human form, YouTube animator Galaxyart got some friends together and magically made this impressive anime take on the hooves-to-hands motif. The art is original, if inspired by popular anime. The designs are fresh and certainly nowhere near as creepy…

Yep, That Looks Like A Feature-Length Minecraft Movie [UPDATE]

Fan films come and go, but making a feature-length Minecraft movie? That’s taking fandom to a whole new level. Enter Birth of Man, the Minecraft fan-film from Rocket Jump co-creator Brandon Laatsch. So far, only the trailer and a Kickstarter exist (the goal is $600,000), but I would not put it past the internet to…

Why do Mega Man characters pose with four fingers held up? I didn’t know either, but now I do, thanks to the latest “Fast Facts” video from Lore