Nervous Girl Fumbles Easy Pokémon Jeopardy Question

And the award for Video On The Web Most Likely To Make You Say ‘Aww’ Today goes to This Video, featuring a young girl who clearly knows the answer to a Jeopardy question, but gets nervous and fumbles it away. Sorry, Erin. If I were in charge, you’d get the money anyway, and so would…

Watch Us Play…Shelter. Now You Can Live The Dream Of Being A Badger

I don’t know what badgers eat. It’s a shortcoming that becomes painfully obvious in this playthrough of Might & Delight’s new game Shelter, which just got greenlit on Steam for personal and macintosh computers. If you enjoyed Journey, but wished the protagonist was something more relatable — like a badger — then Shelter might be…

Kicking Back, Drinking Some Beer And Playing Candy Crush Saga

Voted least likely to be the subject of a drunken ‘Let’s Play’ video on YouTube, here King’s social/mobile puzzle sensation demonstrates it’s near-universal appear as Major and Squarepainter take on Candy Crush Saga‘s dreaded level 65. What the pair have done in this series of videos (see part two and part three), is unwittingly captured…

Live in or near New York City? Like video games? The New York Video Game Critics Circle is holding an event tomorrow night at Barcade—come play games, see cool people, and even hang out with a couple of Kotaku writers!

In GTA V‘s Latest Screens: Cars and Trucks and Things That Go

Rockstar just dropped another dozen shots of Grand Theft Auto V, offering more glimpses of the fast life in Los Santos and the pastoral tranquility of Blaine County. Vehicles are the theme of this latest batch, including an ATV, a corporate jet, a ferry, and a Marine helicopter. To contact the author of this post,…

The Xbox One Controller Costs $60; the Headset is $25.

Microsoft finally got down to officially telling everyone the official price of an extra Xbox One controller, and it’s $59.99. The Xbox One’s headset—which isn’t included in the box—is $24.99. This is important because existing Xbox 360 controllers and compatible headsets won’t work with the Xbox One (Microsoft reasons that Kinect, included with every Xbox…

Tearaway, the lovely paperized platformer for PlayStation Vita, has been bumped back from an October release date to November 22.

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Dear Video Game Expert—Marsh Naylor’s column that answers your burning questions in most humorous fashion—takes on swimming and Red Dead Redemption. JJtheTexan’s lost-games-of-Nintendo survey dives deep into the pool of Game Boy one-offs that very few people remember. NotGoodForYou offers up an opinion piece about…

Ten Random PS4 Questions Answered

2,000 PSN friends! No PS Plus subscription needed for Netflix! Jet black (not piano black)! Via Sony’s official PlayStation Access YouTube channel, here are some answers to PS4 questions you probably didn’t know you had.

This Punch-Out Homage Makes It Seem like Superman Had It Easy

The case has been made that, without his freeze breath, super-speed or invulnerability, Superman really ain’t that tough. In the famous 1978 Superman vs. Muhammad Ali comic, a de-powered Kal-El had to face up against The Greatest of All Time and got smacked around by the champion. But, when you compare Ali to Little Mac’s…

Grand Theft Auto V‘s And Max Payne 3‘s Combat Compared, Side By Side

We’ve reported previously about the shooting mechanics in Grand Theft Auto V, and how it’s going to be somewhat identical to what we’ve seen in Max Payne 3. And now Youtuber datarace1 delivers the visual confirmation, with a side-by-side gameplay comparison. Why fix something if it ain’t broke? The only differences I could catch were…

Quick Q&A: He Used to Like Achievements

Here’s something new for you. A Q&A from Kotaku with a top gaming person—short enough that you can read the whole thing before the bus arrives, before it’s your turn in line, before your date is back in his/her seat. Weekly. First-up: game designer Cliff Bleszinski. Bleszinski is the former creative lead at Epic. His…

How do you transform poor Lucas from Mother 3 into something completely horrifying? Tighten his body and swap his face with Wario’s. The unspeakable result would be a hysterical Smash Bros. character, that’s for sure. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we…

Mid-Summer Cosplay Was Wonderful This Weekend in Japan

At its heart, Wonder Festival is an event in Japan for toy models and sculptures. But wherever there are nerds, there are people dressing up! Here’s a look at some of the standout cosplay from this weekend’s Wonder Festival. Many of these outfits (such as the Kamen Rider Wizard and the Raiden outfits, above) look…

A Most Unusual Pokemon Peripheral for the 3DS

This is Pokemon Tretta Lab for Nintendo 3DS. The app is a free download, but the hardware costs 3,800 yen (around $38). In Japan, there are coin-operated Pokemon games that use chipped plastic pucks. Players put the pucks on a mat on the machine, and the mat “reads” the pucks. So, for example, if you…

And Now, Here’s Gintama’s Sakata Gintoki Beating The Crap Out Of Goku

Also featuring: many other popular anime and manga characters beating the crap out of each other, courtesy of J-Stars Victory VS, the upcoming PS3/Vita crossover fighting game that’s just received a nice gameplay trailer. Sadly, there’s no word on a Western release.

“The truth is we were doing prototype tests of Pikmin for the DS and 3DS, but it turned into unit management with only the touch pen, and no matter what it just didn’t seem like Pikmin.” Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto to 4Gamer, on their early plans to develop Pikmin 3 for handhelds instead of the Wii…

Geeks, Games, and Extremely Bored Booth Companions at China Joy 2013

For the last 11 years, the yearly China Digital Entertainment Expo has been “entertaining” China and the world’s gamers. Commonly known as China Joy, the show is usually known more for its booth companions—in fact, this year’s China Joy was more about the gamers and geeks taking photos of young women. Over 200,000 people attended…

Japanese University Makes Special “Forever Alone” Dining Tables

One of Japan’s most prestigious institutions, Kyoto University, has installed new lunchroom seats for students who don’t want others to watch them while they eat. Alone. The seats are called “bocchi seki”　(ぼっち席), with “bocchi” meaning “alone” in Japanese. According to Asahi News, Kyoto University first installed the “lonely seats” last spring at its engineering school…

Our Australian comrades report that after being re-submitted for classification, Saints Row IV has again been refused classification by the Australian Review Board. No decision has been made about the game’s “safe” low-violence version yet.