First Look at the New Tales Game

The next Tales game marks the franchise’s 20th anniversary. It’s a PS3 exclusive. And it’s titled Tales of Zestiria. As Namco Bandai explains, the word “zest” in the title refers to “passion” or “zeal.” Or, well, zest! The game features four character designers: Mutsumi Inomata, Kosuke Fujishima, Daigo Okumura, and Minoru Iwamoto, and it will…

Total Gundam Freedom Leads to Crazy Customizations

You buy a Gundam model kit. There are instructions. There’s art on the box. There’s the anime. All of this stares you down, giving you something to live up to. Well, screw that. Earlier this month, a Twitter user uploaded a photo of a customized Gundam model with the hashtag, “For Gundam Models, It’s Okay…

Changing A Game’s Story With A Flick Of The Finger

FRAMED is a game where you aren’t just playing, you’re directing the story itself. It’s broken up into, well, frames, as though you’re reading a comic or sitting in an editing suite. You can move these frames around, changing the way the story unfolds. Sort of like Lemmings-meets-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. It’s been playable at various shows, if…

Please Stop Causing Car Accidents, Video Games. Please.

You know, Scott Hoy, maybe video games are to blame for an increase in single-vehicle accidents. Or not. Who cares. I just love that Scott Hoy, lawyer, is channelling Mickey Rooney in the cutest way possible here. Keep it up. [thanks Matt!]

Our Drone-Controlled Future Looks Like A Video Game

Designer Alex Cornell has made this video called Our Drone Future, which gives us a glimpse of a future where fleets of drones monitor our every outdoor activity. It’s as cool as it is a little creepy. There’s a “story” here, which you’ll get to by sticking around to the end, but the really awesome…

Say Hi To The $1500 Steam Machine

Valve might be aiming for the living room withits idea of the Steam Machine, but that doesn’t mean every “console” released in the family is going to be small and cheap. Digital Storm’s third-party offering, for example, is going to cost a ton. It’ll be showing off a PC at CES next month that it…

NASA Has A Robot, Which Might Die On Mars So We Don’t Have To

Meet Valkyrie. It’s a robot designed for NASA as part of a competition by the organisation’s Johnson Space Center. Don’t get too attached; he’s designed to go to very faraway places we really shouldn’t be going. At least not until we’re ready. Standing nearly two metres tall and weighing in at 125kg, it’s humanoid in…

Battlefield 4 isn’t justflawed. It looks like it’s Lost, too. This video uploaded by YouTuber mormonrage shows an anomaly that looks a whole hell of a lot like the smoke monster from the popular ABC mystery series. Man, watching the trees fold away like that is super weird.

What It’s Like To Play A Fighting Game With A Newbie

The first time you play with someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing in a fighting game, it always goes down a little like this: there is a lot of pausing. Lots of checking movelists. Lots of negotiating returning hits to keep it balanced because they initially got hurt when they weren’t ready. And lots…

Track: The Birds and the Bees | Album: Jim Hall & Pat Metheny | Artist: Jim Hall & Pat Metheny Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The PC Versus Console Debate, Simplified

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to feel that being a PC gamer is more advantageous to your hobby. There are also valid statements made about being a console gamer. It’s been said before, and the deft hands at Dorkly are saying it again: let’s just enjoy bonding over a shared love, no matter how…

How Do The Angry Birds Go! Toys Interact With The Game? Watch.

Angry Birds Go! launched worldwide today, several months after the game’s scannable toy line hit stores. Since no one keeps instructions for that long, here’s how Hasbro’s plastic and Rovio’s mobile go-kart game get along. Like Hasbro’sAngry Birds Star Wars II Telepods, the Angry Birds Go! racers scan in using a clever combination of mobile…