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Nintendo’s Top Brass Blend Cosplay With Product Announcement

Just in case you didn’t stay up and watch the last Japanese edition of a Nintendo Direct presser, Nintendo of America has translated and re-uploaded this opening segment from it. Why? Because at the start it’s got Nintendo’s two biggest names—president Satoru Iwata and legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto—messing around in Luigi cosplasy in just about…

How To Advertise A Video Game In A British Tabloid

When hallowed British media institution The Sun partners with a video game publisher for some advertorial, as you can imagine, the results are deftly subtle The pair have managed to combine detailed coverage of Crysis 3 with a tasteful recognition of the broadening demographics of the video game market. How? By putting a blonde former…

Here’s a new piece of concept art from The Last of Us, by the supremely-talented Maciej Kuciara

This Entire Music Video Is One Incredible 16-Bit Tribute

Regardless of your thoughts on the merits of YouTube rappers, I’d hope that everyone visiting this site can appreciate the merits of the video for Gowe’s Aurora, which takes a healthy slice of inspiration not just from 16-bit video games, but Paul Robertson’s classic Pirate Baby video as well

Let’s Imagine Seinfeld Was Still Being Made. And Every Episode Was About Video Games.

The best thing on Twitter last year was Modern Seinfeld, a feed that gave 140-character episode outlines as though Seinfeld was still being made today. It was so damn good you could see each episode playing in your head as you read them. Well, there’s also one for video games. It’s called Video Game Seinfeld.…

The Sad Story Of A Man Who’s Selling His Game Collection For Love

Aussie games collector Onur Gonullu has, in just five years, amassed a haul of 550 mostly retro video games, which can be played on over 20 mostly retro video game consoles, from the Famicom to the Master System to the Xbox. He’s spent over $6000, and it’s a collection to be proud of. So it’s…

Well, Somebody Got To See Battlefield 4 Today

Battlefield 4 has yet to be properly, publicly announced. We know it’s coming, because it’s a sure bet EA will make more Battlefield games and because people already know they’re in beta, but nobody has seen the game in action or knows anything about it. Unless you work for GameStop, because you got to see…

If You Like This Song, Consider Voting For Henry

Do you like to vote for things? Do you like kicky jams? Then you will probably like this political ad for Henry Heng, who is running for office in Australia, apparently. This video comes to us via Tracy Lien, and I’m just gonna leave it here for you to ponder. Feel free to discuss Henry,…

Rampant, Careless Use Of Phoenix Downs Can Classify As A Drug Addiction, You Know

I have a problem. You probably do too, if you’re a gamer. I’m talking about the inability to stop using life-restoring phoenix downs. But, that’s just something in a video game. What if they actually existed, what if we could use phoenix downs in real life? They would probably be abused—no different than a drug,…

Watch Woody From Toy Story Sling Hadoukens Around Liberty City

There’s certainly no shortage of funny Grand Theft Auto IV mods out there, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for one more. Here’s Woody from Pixar’s Toy Story movies wreaking havoc on Liberty City by… slinging Hadoukens and Fus Ro Dahs like they’re going out of style. The mod is by [0x80075af], and you…

This Call of Duty Harlem Shake Just Wants The Meme To Die Out Already

Maybe you’re sick of all the Harlem Shake videos (they almost never have the real Harlem Shake, dang it!) This take on the dance by SanchoWest knows your pain, knows it well enough to take matters into its own hands and destroy the jerks that are running the meme into the ground. Boom. Gone. If…

Mario Comes To Life In This Dramatic Speed-Painting

This dramatic piece of Mario art starts as a sketch, but winds up displaying the plumber at his most badass Posted by 8-Bit Ego, this speed-painting is the work of artist Josh Summana, who is doing a new “Heroes” series to accompany his “Bosses” set from last year. Nice. (Thanks, Jehrome and Adel.)

They Want $65,000 To Make An Old-School Point-And-Click Adventure

Some people say that the only real purpose of Kickstarter is to rejuvenate old genres. I have no problem with this. Especially if it leads to cool projects like Mage’s Initiation Mage’s Initiation, a new Kickstarter project designed in the vein of old Sierra point-and-click adventures like Quest for Glory and King’s Quest, looks really…

Gamefront has a good guide for tweaking Crysis 3‘s PC settings through the in-game developer console.

Reviewers Say Addictive Combat Is What Makes Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

It seems that Raiden’s new, high-speed romp through the world of Metal Gear has taken hold of everyone. Even the most critical ones found something to like about the adrenaline-pumping limb-slashing gameplay. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance gets praised for a lot of things. Some are utterly enamored with the swordplay. Others are delighted by the…

In an interesting feature, Gamasutra‘s Mike Rose uses SimCity to re-create and diagnose his hometown’s traffic problems.

There are Plenty of Ways to Pay in the Free-to-Play Real Racing 3

Firemonkeys’ eagerly-anticipated Real Racing 3 is the first free-to-play entry in the popular mobile racing franchise. How far you can get without paying real money depends entirely on how much patience you possess—do you mind waiting 10 minutes for tire repair? Car damage and wear is not an imaginary thing, so it certainly falls within…

Source: The PS4 Will Be Out This November, And You’ll Be Able To Control It With Your Phone

A reliable Kotaku source has informed us that the PlayStation 4, codenamed Orbis, will be out this November in the United States. Our source—the same reliable source who back in early 2012 told us the codename for Sony’s next console and the codename for Microsoft’s next console—tells us that there are two models planned for…

Yes, I am an Anti-Aquaman Bigot

It is axiomatic that any statement prefaced with “I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body,” is said by someone with a completely prejudiced skeleton, plus teeth. So I won’t hide from it. I’m prejudiced as fuck against Aquaman. I can’t even say some of my best friends are Atlantean. Because I don’t have…

Activision Lays off About 30 People, Saying There Will Be Fewer Licensed Games This Year

Even the massive money-making game publisher Activision lays off people from time to time, as the company confirmed today that they’ve cut about 30 jobs from their global work force. Kotaku first heard that the cuts were affecting Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty: Black Ops II, but a spokesperson for Activision said that…