Why Didn’t Think I of This?

The villagers in Animal Crossing have the most random and amazing suggestions to give you. I hope you guys will add your favorite quotes to the comments, but here are some of mine:

Dress Up as the Most Evil Spider-Man This August in Marvel Heroes

Sure, there are already lots of alt-outfits for Spider-Man in Gazillion Entertainment’s click-battle MMO. But this one is Superior. All those wall-crawling suits in Marvel Heroes are basically Peter Parker get-ups. (Ok, yes, Spider-clone Ben Reilly is represented, too.) But, if you like your web-slinger a bit more malevolent and haughty than the original model,…

Guys, Police Quest Is (Basically) Back

It may not have the official name (that’s lost somewhere in Activision’s archives), but upcoming PC adventure game Precinct is, from the designer down to the fundamentals, trying to be something fans of the classic Sierra series will be very interested in. Police Quest founder and designer Jim Walls is leading development on the project,…

DualShock 4 vs. DualShock 3

Just how similar is the new PlayStation 4 controller to the one that PlayStation 3 gamers have been using for nearly seven years? At a PlayStation event in New York City yesterday, we were able to put a model of the DualShock 4 up against a DualShock 3. The biggest difference between the controllers is…

League of Legends As A Pokémon Game Is One Big Headache

xChinnNin takes the gameplay mechanics of Pokémon and blends them with some intense MOBA action to form what looks to be a nerve-wracking nightmare. Interesting concept though, since both League of Legends and Pokémon are about summoning creatures to fight against others — just in a slightly different way. If League of Legends was a…

There’s no rule against using ladders as weapons in wrestling, but that’s not how you do it! Climbing it might also be problematic, even if it’s just WWE ’13 and not reality. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send…

Flowers of Evil is a Boring, Unengaging Anime

Heading into Flowers of Evil, I was excited. I had heard good things about it through the grapevine, and the fact that it was using rotoscope animation was already getting the series a lot of buzz. But by the time the season hit its halfway point, I had no problem putting it on the list…

Goichi Suda’s side-scrolling shooter Sine Mora is out on iOS. The game will also be available for Android “before the end of the month.” Here’s a few screenshots.

NASA Mission Has Anime Mascots (Anime Mascots?)

NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are launching a satellite for next-gen rain and snow observation for the entire globe. This is an important mission and will help us better understand our planet’s water cycles. And it needs an important mascot. NASA decided to hold a contest to select a mission mascot. Since…

Responding to Polygon, SCEA senior producer Tsubasa Inaba said that there’s a chance The Playroom, Sony’s tech-demo-slash-sandbox which was used to demonstrate the new PlayStation Camera at E3, would be available on the console at launch. “We hope to have a more definitive answer in the next month or two,” he added.

Let’s Spend Some Hands-On Time With Pikmin 3

It’s been nine years since the release of the last Pikmin game. And while it’s still weeks away from a Western release, Pikmin 3 was released in Japan this past Saturday. But what exactly is Pikmin 3 like hands-on? You can count on Kotaku East to give you a sneak peek. Check out the video…

Bethesda, publisher of The Evil Within, Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami’s new horror game, recently posted this new piece of concept art on the game’s official Twitter. The caption read: “Sitting in the back of the car, she’s thinking.” Thinking about what? Who could she be?

In This Game, You Date 8-Bit RPG Stereotypes

Last week, we took a look at a boy-love game that had you date slabs of meat. But this new game has you date something else amazing: 8-bit RPG characters. The game is a visual novel called Dot Boyfriend: We’re 8bit Lovers! (ドットカレシWe’re 8bit Lovers!). In it, you play as a girl surrounded by a…

Kids Find New Studio Ghibli Anime “Boring”, But Adults Dig It

This summer, famed anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki is releasing his latest film, Kaze Tachinu. According to reports, little kids are finding it “dull”. You don’t have kids, do you? Kaze Tachinu is a fictionalized animated biography of Jiro Horikoshi, who created the iconic World War II fighter plane, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. Recently, there have…

American McGee Starts New Kickstarter Campaign to Fund The Alice Film

In order to develop a series of animated shorts based on his Alice universe, series creator American McGee, following the cancellation of his most recent Kickstartercampaign, has now launched a new Kickstarter campaign Asking for $200,000, McGee seeks to create “animated short films inspired by the ‘Alice: Otherlands’ concept,” with the ultimate goal of “[developing…

In Japan, People Do Dumb Crap on the Internet, Too

Like watching people fall out of chairs? How about lighting firecrackers in their butts? Or on their faces? Kids, don’t try this at home—because people on NicoNico already have! Of course, Japan’s no different from any other country in that the internet offers a place for idiots and chaos to collide. Nico Nico is, in…

Looks like that “New Title” Namco Bandai has been counting down tois for the 3DS.

If you’ve ever wanted to see one of the world’s best footballers dressed up like a bad Doctor Who villain, all in the name of video games, now’s your chance.

An American Idol Winner Played In A Fighting Game Tournament…

Just when you thought the stories coming out of fighting game tournament Evo were as interesting as they were going to get, along comes a tale for the reality TV/Street Fighter fans out there. Of which there must be at least one Turns out Taylor Hicks, who won American Idol a few years back, entered…

Amazing Cosplay Video Guest Stars Cersei, Danny Glover &…The Hoff

I’ve already mentioned how great the London Film & Comic-Con looked as an outsider, but this video is only making me wish I’d actually been there. It’s a nice vid! It’s got some terrific cosplay! And it’s got Danny Glover in it! And Lena “Cersei Lannister” Headey! London Film & Comic Con – July 2013…