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#firstWiiUproblems: Not Knowing Which Screen To Look At

I have a Wii U, so I shouldn’t be complaining. I’m not. I’m observing. And my observation is this, my friends: observing a Wii U game is a brand-new skill I have not yet mastered. When I play this new console, I’m looking at the wrong screen half the time! Or I think I am.…

ChefVille A Little Help Quests: Everything You Need to Know

While the first portion of the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution event may have expired in ChefVille, that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of this famous chef. A new two-part quest series has launched in our restaurants that once again sees Chef Oliver teaching how to cook healthy, delicious dishes. Here’s our complete guide to…

Tron Is Just the Place for Sweet Jumps in This GTA IV Mod

It’s true that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV has given birth to some truly inspired mods. But not many of them totally re-paint Liberty City in as spectacular fashion as this one does. Modder Quechus13 re-skins GTA IV’s open world with the iconic, neon stripes of the Tron movies and throws in…

Some Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Players Encountering Save-File-Killing Bug

It’s starting to seem like fall, 2012 might just be best thought of as bug season. Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, the PS Vita handheld companion to Assassin’s Creed III, has a nasty save-corrupting bug hitting some players. The issue, as reported by players on Ubisoft’s forums, is corrupting save games and causing players to lose…

This Week’s iPad Charts: The Angry Birds Death Star Approaches Completion

In case you hadn’t figured out how this works yet, Rovio releases a new Angry Birds game, and then it sits on the charts for months and months and months. This week we welcome the latest Rovio chart-sitter, Angry Birds Star Wars It’s a week of major releases on the iPad, unlike last week where…

I Was Ashamed of Being a Gamer. I Don’t Feel That Way Anymore.

Ever since I figured out how easy it was to be judged for loving video games, I felt ashamed of them. For years, I labored to widen the distance between my adult life and that comfy digital world I embraced during my formative years. I’d even say that distance bordered on rebuke as I left…

More Than 144,000 People Now Own Natural Selection 2

Natural Selection 2 came out last week, and the folks who made it have created this neat infographic to show off the performance of their new real-time-strategy/first-person-shooter hybrid. Notably: between pre-orders and sales, more than 144,000 people now own the game. Not bad for an indie made by a studio of seven full-time staff Click…

Halo’s Story Got You Confused? This Chart Might Help. [Update]

I’ll be honest, Halo’s story confuses the hell out of me. Not the general outline, I get that, but the specifics and history of the universe are presented as a mess for someone who just plays the games and doesn’t get knee-deep in the external fiction. Why am I here? Who’s that guy? When did…

Silicon Knights Must Destroy Unsold Games

In 2007, Silicon Knights sued Epic over issues with the Unreal Engine (that it was unfinished and, thus, sabotaged Silicon Knights’ work). Epic won the legal tussle earlier this year and was awarded US$4.45 million. The headaches for Silicon Knights don’t end there. NeoGAF member Xenon noticed that page 41 of the court documents give…

North Americans, you can get the PC version of BioShock for free. Right here

Metal Gear Cosplay, Done Right

The Metal Gear series is a pretty popular one with cosplayers, both because it’s a famous franchise but also because a lot of the costumes are pretty easy to make! Not this one. This Grayfox costume looks like it took some serious work, not just to construct, but also to actually wear, since it can’t…

There’s One Less BioWare Studio to Worry About

Once was a time the name “BioWare” meant something. That you were going to get a game, most likely an RPG, with a rich world and expansive story-telling. It would also probably be awesome. But ever since EA bought the company, BioWare has become more of a brand, used not only for “traditional” projects like…

When Aliens Meets Crysis, Good Things Happen

Gearbox will be trying next year, but for around a decade now, it’s been almost impossible to make a better Aliens game than Rebellion’s classic series on the PC. So if new games can’t beat the old ones for design and atmosphere, you may as well just copy them. Modder oldschool.Dave has posted progress work…

Judge Who Beat His Disabled Daughter for Downloading Video Games Gets His Job Back

It was almost a year ago to the day that Texas court-at-law judge William Adams was caught on film beating his disabled daughter Hillary after he had caught her illegally downloading video games. While the incident in question had actually taken place all the way back in 2004, the fact it was made public in…

Check Out This Elaborate, Crazy-Expensive Wii U Prototype

It’s rare we get a look at the very ground level of console hardware design, but that’s what we got this week with an Iwata Asks segment on Nintendo’s website, which shows an adorable little cardboard mock-up of a Wii U controller, used to quickly test out various possible uses for the giant pad. I…

This Should Help Show Just How Big Grand Theft Auto V’s Map Might Be

Rockstar dropped a bit of a surprise earlier today when it revealed Grand Theft Auto V wasn’t going to be a big game, it was going to be freaking huge. Like, bigger than GTAIV, San Andreas and Red Dead combined. But just how big is freaking huge? Maybe the above image can help. It shows…

Am I Really a Credit to Team? What is Team, When I do Not Know Love?

Team Fortress 2’s new Mann vs Machine mode gets surprisingly thoughtful in this series of pieces done by artist biggreenpepper tf2 Heavy MVM [DeviantArt, via Dotcore]

Quite Possibly The World’s Tiniest Terrier

It’s been a long day here in my corner of Kotaku, so let’s wind things down with this video of Meysi, a teeny tiny polish terrier that may well be the world’s smallest dog. If Tina gets to post her cat videos, I get to post my dogs from time to time. Man, I would…

Aspyr is bringing Borderlands 2 to the Mac on Nov. 20. It’s delivering the same drop-in/out co-op action as the PC.

This is What the Wii U’s Online Store Looks Like

Here’s your first look at Nintendo’s eShop. Or at least, the Japanese version. You might think it looks a little bulky, but remember, this console has a touch-screen controller, meaning the whole thing is going to be about a million times faster to get around than Microsoft or Sony’s offerings. eShop [Nintendo]