Who Needs A Hero? Let’s Have More Games With Multiple Main Characters

I love a game with a cool, interesting main character. But you know what I think I might love even more? A game with multiple cool, interesting main characters. Why not, right? Modern video games are huge! They’ve got room to spare. I love a hero as much as the next red-blooded American, but it’s…

Check out this lovely tribute to Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP by artist Elizabeth Simins. (It’s full of spoilers, if you haven’t played the game yet.) You might remember Simins from Manic Pixel Dream Girl, the excellent 4-part series about growing up with video games.

Wayne Brady Professes His Love Of Video Games To Man In Sombrero

Despite their many cultural and linguistic differences, Let’s Make A Deal host Wayne Brady and a man in a sombrero bonded over their mutual love of video games. Isn’t that wonderful? It warms the cockles of my heart just thinking about it. (via Let’s Make a Deal)

This Shoot ‘Em Up With A Teleportation Twist Is Perfect On The Vita

Velocity Ultra is a shoot ’em up with a unique twist — your ship can teleport. It’s a nice twist on the normal shmup formula, making you dodge walls instead of bullets. Take a look at the video above to get a taste of the gameplay. The game was brought to Vita in the EU…

Sorry Console/PC Gamers, But The Mobile Deus Ex Is Damn Good

“We didn’t ask for this!” came the cry of PC and console fans, angry with the revelation that the next Deus Ex game would be an episodic mobile adventure. They don’t want to play it on their phones or tablets. It’s a pity, really, because The Fall is nearly every bit the Deus Ex game…

Very Serious Animal Crossing Question

Here’s what I do most nights in Animal Crossing: I play at night, then have my character turn out the lights and go to bed before I turn out the lights and go to bed myself. I’m curious how widespread this phenomenon is. POLL TIME:

These Early Xbox One Designs Didn’t Make The Cut

Polygon brings to our attention a curious reveal from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference today: a bunch of rejected prototypes that the Xbox One team developed prior to the Xbox One design we’re all familiar with. The prototypes pictured above are the result of these early sketches: Seem like a lot? Naw. The Xbox One…

Conan O’Brien Did Not Enjoy The Pacific Rim Trailer

You can’t please everyone, I guess. The red-headed one has watched the trailer for Pacific Rim, and he was none too impressed. Particularly with the robo-bulges

Click for a visual tale. via Brave little princess

Xbox Live to Refund UK Users Pinched by Currency Conversion Mistake

Microsoft is saying some pricing changes seen by U.K. Xbox Live customers trying out the new Xbox Live beta—in which Microsoft Points are converted to local currency—are an error, and these users will be compensated for the difference. The pricing changes, as currently implemented to beta users in Great Britain and elsewhere, amounted to an…

Attack Of The Tiny BioShock Infinite People

As promised back in April, the folks at WizKids/NECA have come through on the BioShock Infinite front, delivering a set of tiny playable figurines that look just like the promotional, only with incredibly sloppy paint jobs. HeroClix players — action figure collectors in general, really — are used to these discrepancies between announcement images and…

There’s So Much Room For Activities In Grand Theft Auto V‘s Open World

Yesterday’s gameplay trailer for Grand Theft Auto V revealed a lot about the game, including the map and all the activities we can do in addition to the main story. Since the whole map is open from the beginning, unlike the previous games, there will be a lot to tempt us away from the main…

Latest sign of our coming robot overlords? Yet another A.I. playing a video game Lots of us here in Kotaku-land like Drop7, the randomized number puzzle game that we think is one of the best iPhone games. So we just had to share Daniel Walton’s video of his Lego Mindstorms NXT robot running up a…

Final Fantasy XV: Everything We Know

The 15th Final Fantasy doesn’t have a release date yet, nor does it even have a release year, but there’s still plenty of information floating around about the next entry in Square Enix’s titanic flagship series. What used to be called Final Fantasy Versus XIII has been in development for over seven years now, and…

Marvelous, Meditative Space RTS Rymdkapsel Hits iOS, Android On 7/25

I raved about the game when it launched on PlayStation Mobile, so I recommend any non-PSM gamers who are equipped with iOS or other Android devices set aside $4 for July 25. That’s when you can buy and enjoy the minimalist real-time strategy game Rymdkapsel on those other mobile platforms. For now, study up on…

The Good News is There’s a Rambo Game. It’s the Bad News Too.

The good news is that First Blood gets its due. We knew this when Fahey showed us screens of Hope, Wash. The bad news is that Rambo: The Video Game looks like something for the PlayStation 2. It just looks terrible. Which, of course, means day-one purchase for me. Make no mistake, I’m a big…

Kingdom Hearts Looks Just As Delightful As You Remember

Man, this new Kingdom Hearts 1.5 trailer brings back memories. I can’t believe it’s already been 11 years since Square’s action-RPG first came out. This trailer, of course, is for the HD remake of Kingdom Hearts that will be out for PS3 on September 10 Really, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 is kind of a dumb name,…

Ahoy! The Best Part of Assassin’s Creed III Looks Even Better in ACIV

No matter what you thought about Assassin’s Creed III, most people agreed that the naval combat sequences were the best features of the game. This new gameplay trailer for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag shows the upgrades coming to the ship-sailing experience and how you’ll take Edward Kenway deep into the 18th Century Caribbean.

Somewhere out there there’s a super-sized working PS4 controller that Sony created during the development of Knack according to Mark Cerny. Wild guess: the super-sized controller influenced the PS4’s new trigger design, based on what Cerny says in the video below.

In case you didn’t know… you can read condensed Kotaku reviews of new games in the New York Times every month. The Arts section in today’s paper includes short versions of our reviews of Game & Wario, Deadpool, Color Zen, The Swapper and Company of Heroes 2. New round-ups monthly. Viva print! (And the Internet,…