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Pokémon Bank is Finally Live
Pokémon Bank is now available on the Nintendo eShop, ending a delay more than a month long. The Bank allows players to store and manage up to 3,000 pokémon online, even moving them between Pokémon X and Y. The app is free to download and use beginning today through March 14. After that, a $4.99…
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2014 -
Patrick Stewart Looks Fantastic in a Moon Rover Costume
All you have to do is follow Sir Patrick Stewart’s Twitter to see he’s always ready for some fun. So it’s only slightly shocking to see him dressed as China’s latest moon rover, which was also the topic of last night’s Daily Show Watch Patrick Stewart’s segment below, or head over to The Daily Show…
By Gergo Vas Published February 5, 2014 -
PSN And LIVE Updates, Persona Games, Let Us Cling Together [Deals]
If you’ve still got a PSP laying around, you better pick up Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together for 5 bucks (choose Amazon as seller). Beyond that, we’ve got your weekly Playstation Network and Xbox LIVE deals, and the former includes a slew of Persona games. We’re big fans of Amazon Prime, so it’s exciting…
By Shane Roberts Published February 5, 2014 -
Boy Admits Raping Sister After He Watched Porn on Xbox
A 13-year-old in the U.K. admitted to raping his 8-year-old sister, telling police he had been watching porn on his Xbox 360 when he “decided to try it out.” The gut-wrenching case adds fuel to the controversy there over whether and how access to online pornography should be controlled. While there are no dedicated applications…
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2014 -
How Bravely Default Became A Classic ‘Old-School’ JRPG
On Friday, Americans will finally get to start experiencing Bravely Default, a new role-playing game by Square Enix that’s really quite great. (Look out for my review of the game by the end of the week.) Last week I hopped on the phone for a chat with producer Tomoya Asano and assistant producer Shinji Takahashi.…
By Jason Schreier Published February 5, 2014 -
Soon You Can Play Assassin’s Creed IV’s Freedom Cry Without AC IV
Starting this month, PS3 and PS4 owners won’t need to own the full version of Assassin’s Creed IV to play its excellent Freedom Cry DLC. Ubisoft’s just announced that they’re releasing the Adéwalé-focused add-on as its own standalone release on February 18th. Make fun of the Black History Month timing all you want, but this…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 5, 2014 -
The Most Worthless Pokémon Could Still Kill You Dead
Magikarp is, fins down, the most worthless Pokémon of them all, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t capable of transforming your upper body into a fine paste. How can this be? I’ll let the deadly Pokémon experts at VSauce3 answer that question. They go into exhaustive detail about how a seemingly harmless Magikarp description element…
By Mike Fahey Published February 5, 2014 -
EVE Online is Building a Monument in Iceland for All of Its Players
One week after declaring they will build an in-game memorial to the ships lost at the colossal Battle of B-R5RB, Eve Online publisher has decided to go whole hog and erect a monument, in real life, to all EVE Online players. Anyone who is an active player on March 1 will get his or her…
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2014 -
Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: The Cathartic Sportsmanship Of A Fencing Simulator • DayZ Survivor Stories • The Complete Skyrim Vs. Dragon Age Retrospective TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By Tina Amini Published February 5, 2014 -
Nintendo Is Slowly Reinventing The Video Game Instruction Manual
Like the daily newspaper, the printed phone bill and personal checks, the video game instruction manual is facing extinction in our increasingly paperless world. Hold off on mourning, though. Nintendo has spent the last year or so quietly implementing a digital revival that’s been a joy to behold. If you haven’t noticed what’s been going…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 5, 2014 -
Signs That You Have An Unhealthy Obsession With A Game
BestGameShowEver is a brand new series on YouTube from one of our favorite DayZ-obsessed YouTubers. In today’s launch of said series, they invite several other hosts and producers of various other YouTube shows to discuss what it means to be obsessed with a game. We’re talking interrupt-your-lifestyle levels of obsession. They may not always be…
By Tina Amini Published February 5, 2014 -
Flappy Bird Won’t Get Any Easier In Minecraft
As if the original mobile version wasn’t frustrating enough, now there’s a remake in Minecraft by CodeCrafted. The gameplay is in 3D, so it’s a bit different, but if you set the difficulty level to the hardest, you’ll probably end up ragequitting after a couple of minutes. Head over to Planet Minecraft for more details.…
By Gergo Vas Published February 5, 2014 -
Drakengard 3 Comes To North America In May. Preorder Now Or Else.
All the dragon-riding and hack-and-slashing a growing action role-playing fan needs arrives with Square Enix’s Drakengard 3 for the PlayStation 3 on May 20. Want to see what comes in the collector’s edition? Maybe you should preorder first. Before we worry about expensive collector’s editions, let’s talk about tiered timed preorders. Doesn’t that sound like…
By Mike Fahey Published February 5, 2014 -
The Xbox One’s First 2014 Dashboard Update Adds Some Important Stuff
The Xbox One is about to improve in a couple of small but useful ways. The console’s first dashboard update, zapping into consoles on Tuesday, February 11, will add a controller battery-level indicator and an interface for managing system storage. The battery indicator is self-explanatory. You can see it in the screenshot above (we added…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 5, 2014 -
Borderlands 2 is getting another dose of DLC on Tuesday. “Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacre.” Then, in April, the game gets “Sir Hammerlock and the Son of Crawmerax,” the fifth and final installment in the Headhunter series. 2K Games has more screens and all of the information here.
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2014 -
If Dark Souls Were a 16-Bit Platformer
Artist Dave Rapoza took Dark Souls and reimagined it as a 2D platformer from the 16-bit era, and man I can already see that health bar dropping like a fly. Besides Castlevania, it kind of reminds me of the boss fights of ActRaiser on the SNES. Those were the nineties equivalent to Dark Souls‘ more…
By Gergo Vas Published February 5, 2014
