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If The Exorcist Had Been An 80s Sitcom…

It’s almost Halloween, which means it’s time to break out our ironic re-cuts of famous horror films and make them seem different than they actually were! I enjoyed this recut by Film School Rejects, though, mostly because it doesn’t just use happy images; it also uses some disturbing ones. And hey, while we’re here, let’s…

Paris, You Don’t Look so Good…

Paris, you used to be the city of romance, and beauty! Then Remember Me’s brutally dystopian sci-fi future came along and ruined everything. This piece is by Paul Chadeisson, who we’ve featured on Kotaku previously. Bonus shots below. Passage parisien [Paul Chadeisson]

It’s a Thursday, So Capcom Must Be Having a Problem With Street Fighter X Tekken DLC

Those who preordered Street Fighter X Tekken on the PS Vita didn’t receive all of the downloadable content bonuses—alternate costumes and additional characters—promised to them. It’s been three days without a definitive answer for what the heck is going on, although Capcom, via Twitter, acknowledged over Twitter that “we’re aware of the DLC redemption issues…

Watch Nine Minutes of the Mass Effect Anime, Right Here

It’s totally understandable to be wary of the upcoming Mass Effect anime. The track record for these kind of adaptations is…spotty at best. So it’s awful nice of FUNimation to share this nine-minute clip, giving us an extended look at how the flick is shaping up. It’s…well, it’s not as bad as I thought it…

Listen To One Of The Best Video Game Soundtracks Of The Year Right Now

Hopefully you are already hip to Hotline Miami, Cactus’ unhinged, techno-drenched top-down murderfest. It’s a wicked cool, incredibly fun game, and it sports one of the best soundtracks of the year. (If you’re not aware of the game, you can read some of my impressions here.) And now, can now listen to the entire soundtrack…

In Da Club: A Musical Moment Few Video Games Get Right

Games take us to all manner of fantastical, unlikely places. But as good as video games have gotten at accurately recreating a space-marine shootout or a mountaintop dragon battle, there’s one thing developers are still learning how to create: A dance club. Many games try to create thriving urban environments for players to occupy, and…

ChrisWarcraft’s Weekly NFL Quest, Level Seven: Repel the Pewter Plunderers of the Southern Coast

Football is a role-playing game. That’s how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, is approaching it. Each week in the NFL, ChrisWarcraft characterizes his upcoming game in terms of an MMO quest. We’re going to chart his progress and see how fast he levels up. This Thursday…

Arse Elektronika is a conference on gaming and sex. Here’s a discussion of sex in games, but it’s very NSFW.

Portal’s Still Alive, Performed Live On…CBS News

Not a headline you were probably expecting to see in 2012, since the song wore out its welcome just as 2008 was coming around, but the world is an amazing place. Jonathan Coulton performs “Still Alive” [CBS]

Is This the Face of a Heel? Debating Fighter Hayabusa’s Virtue in Nintendo’s Pro Wrestling

There were no storylines in Pro Wrestling for the Nintendo Entertainment System, beyond the ones you and your buddies would create for the six wrestlers it featured. But nearly everyone’s status—good guy or bad, face or heel—was easily interpreted in how the character was presented. Star Man was a face. The Amazon would assault you…

These Super Mario and Pac-Man Dioramas Capture the Fatal Charm of Classic Video Games

Death—or its watered-down digital equivalent—was never too far-off in the arcade classics of yesteryear. Whether it’s angry ghosts in primary colors from Pac-Man or a missed jump in Super Mario Bros, players never forgot that they were surrounded by end-of-life scenarios. Maybe that awareness is what makes these game-focused creations from California artist Senor Chips…

You’ve Been Voted In as the Sexy New President of Japan. Time To Get in Your Mech Suit and Save a Nation.

For $8 you can download a game called Liberation Maiden to the 3DS and then you can experience the probable future of the second president of New Japan hopping into a flying mech in order to shoot at the forces of an evil empire that has taken over old Japan. It’s not this premise that…

Wreck It Ralph Takes A Dubstep Dump On Modern Shooters

You can already tell that Wreck-It Ralph is going to gets lots of mileage from romping up and down the timeline of video game history. Disney has thrown in tons of cameos from iconic heroes and villains and created fake arcade machines to make their made-up retro franchise ring true to audiences. But this latest…

Ruby Blast Adds a Heaping Helping of Adventure

Ruby Blast, Zynga’s color-matching game that started life as a shameless clone of Bejeweled‘s Diamond Mine mode, has transformed itself into a shameless Diamond Mine clone with a difference, adding an extensive adventure mode on top of its regularly scheduled weekly tournaments. Ruby Blast‘s quietly implemented adventure mode (which I heard about via Games.com) adds…

StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm To Add Leveling For All Players

A new patch for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm will introduce a progression system to the popular real-time strategy game Starting “soon” (which in Blizzard language usually means “not soon”), Heart of the Swarm beta players will be able to gain experience points by playing both competitive and custom matches. These experience points—which will…

Play This Funky, Spooky Mystery Game For Free

There’ll always be a place for the opaque in gaming—mysterious games that don’t immediately express their intent with garish tutorial pop-ups and button-prompts. Jake Clover’s Nuign Specter, a free experimental PC game, definitely falls into that category. It’d be no fun for me to tell you what happens in the game; you really should just…

Fighting Game Community Gives Out $20,500 In Student Scholarships

The folks at EVO—the biggest community of competitive fighting game players on the planet—are handing out $20,500 in scholarships to selected university students. They picked the winning students from a pool of over 500, EVO’s reps write on Shoryuken. UNLV student Dillon Jay Hageman will receive $10,000; Stanford graduate student Andrew Dotey Jr. will receive…

It’s Halloween Everywhere. Even in Minecraft.

Sure, creepers are, well, creepy on their own. But maybe they’re just not creepy enough The Xbox 360’s version of Minecraft is getting a new, Halloween-themed skin pack tomorrow, the Official Xbox Magazine reports. There are 55 new skins in the pack, contributed by a baker’s dozen of developers like Rare, Tequila Works, and Twisted…

Square Enix’s New Free-to-Play iOS Game is an Evil Revelation

Available today on the iTunes App Store, Square Enix’s free-to-play Wizardlings is a casual tap adventure in which a pair of tiny wizards reveal a magical fantasy world, one block at a time. It’s cute, colorful and incredibly evil. Taking control of one of two wizards—boy or girl—the player moves cross grid-based levels, tapping on…

This Week’s Nintendo Download is Full of Coins to Collect and Puzzles to Solve

It’s getting cold out. There’s a major storm coming this weekend (on the East coast, anyway). You really don’t want to go out to a store to get your games fix. Lucky for you, here’s this week’s Nintendo Download! The brand new Professor Layton game will be downloadable starting this weekend. It’s also a good…