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Men in Spandex. Fighting. At the Tokyo Game Show.

To promote its latest wrestling card venture, Japanese developer Bushiroad held, well, a live wrestling match at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Earlier this year, Bushiroad announced that it had acquired the rights to make card games for New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Every Death From Season Two Of Game of Thrones, In One Big Video

Be warned, there are spoilers ahead. Not that people die in the second series of HBO’s adaptation. That’s, uh, kind of the point. But some of the deaths are kinda important. And I’m not just talking about ***** or that time when ****** gets ****** by that ******. Oh, how we laughed. And then cried.…

Ninja Theory isn’t handling the PC edition of DMC. Polish studio QLOC is, and it’ll be out after the console versions

Sony Wants Your PlayStation to Automatically Know Who You Are

In May this year, Sony Computer Entertainment filed an application for a patent concerning biometric security. Not an entirely new idea, since there are consumer devices like phones (and the Kinect) that already have things like facial recognition, but it’s the scale of Sony’s thoughts on the matter that are important here. The patent, called…

Hands On with the Brand New Circle Pad Pro for 3DS XL

Nintendo has once again made an add-on second Circle Pad for the 3DS. And, you know what, it’s not half bad. Actually, it seems like the Circle Pad Pro for the XL could be pretty good. The smartest thing about the larger Circle Pad Pro is its design. It’s not nearly as bulky as the…

And Now, Ron Swanson Will Perform Slam Poetry About Bacon

You know what’s awesome? That Parks and Recreation comes back on tonight. You know what else is awesome? This video of Nick Offerman, who plays gruff saxophone playing bureaucrat Ron Swanson on the show, playing bongos while performing slam poetry about bacon. Sometimes it’s hard to tell where the Offerman ends and the Swanson begins.…

Super Mario Bros. Level 1 Recreated On A…Mobius Strip?

Mobius strips are pretty neat on their own. You can cut them down the center, and it’ll just make it longer. You can perform multiple cuts, and it’ll just create three Mobius strips, linked together. Fascinating stuff. But this particular Mobius strip is a never-ending level of Super Mario Bros.. And as you turn it…

Slender Is Getting A Sequel With Better Graphics, More Scares

By now, most folks know about Slender: The Eight Pages. The crude yet terrifying indie game has become something of an internet sensation over the last couple of months, scaring the pants off of countless thousands around the world. Mark Hadley, who designed the game, has announced that in a joint effort with Blue Isle…

Up Close with Circle Pad Pro for the 3DS XL

Yesterday, Nintendo revealed that a larger circle pad add-on was headed to the 3DS XL—something that Nintendo first mentioned this past summer. Here is a first look at the new Circle Pad Pro for the 3DS XL. Nintendo has not given a release date for the Circle Pad Pro for the 3DS XL, nor has…

Sony Didn’t Drop the Price of the PS3 So As Not To Upset You

Usually, when a new form factor existing video game hardware debuts, there’s a corresponding change in the asking price. But the upcoming re-design of the PlayStation 3 seem to buck that trend, with the 250 GB bundle announced this week set to go for $270. Prices on older models—a 160 GB version starts at $250…

My Favorite Music From Borderlands 2 Isn’t On The Official Soundtrack

When I heard that well-known video game composer Jesper Kyd was handling the music for Borderlands 2, my first thought was, “Huh.” Kyd, a versatile and icily atmospheric writer best known for his work on the first Assassin’s Creed games, seems like an odd fit for Borderlands, a game loaded to the gills with flesh-eating…

WAVVES Rocker Makes A Zelda-Inspired Mixtape Worthy Of The Princess Herself

Fans of Zelda music would do well to go check out Eternal Champ by Sweet Valley. Sweet Valley is a side project by Nathan Williams of Wavves—this new record combines some wild sounds with some deep Ocarina of Time action to make something truly lovely. The whole album can be downloaded for free from bandcamp.…

Check Out Clips From The Entire Halo 4 Soundtrack Right Now

Thanks to the magic of iTunes, Halo fans can now get a substantial taste of Neil Davidge’s music for the upcoming Halo 4. The soundtrack has been listed for preorder on the British store, and you can listen to short samples of each of the 15 tracks. I’ve been looking forward to hearing the soundtrack…

Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge Slices and Dices, and Still Cuts Through a Beer Can Like This

This is a couple minutes of gameplay for Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge, the Wii U launch title that carves through dough-headed stooges like this and still can slice a tomato like this. The game throws blood all over the screen as Ryu traipses, mostly unchallenged, through what appears to be an early level. On-screen…

10 GameCube Games That Should Be Downloadable On Wii U

The Wii U won’t play GameCube discs. But it will play the Virtual Console, Nintendo’s online shop that lets you buy games from old consoles like the Super Nintendo and N64. We’re two generations removed from the GameCube now. That qualifies it as an old console. So when chatting with Nintendo of America president Reggie…

Sports Video Gaming’s First Panel Show, Available Now by Podcast

Press Row, a discussion of sports video gaming and current topics in the industry and the sports they reflect, debuted yesterday. It’s a collaboration of some of the biggest publications and sites dedicated to the subject, including Operation Sports, GamesRadar and Polygon. I was one of the panelists in the debut discussion. Press Row has…

This Gun From Borderlands 2 Is The Most Annoying Weapon Ever And I Love It

I have not played Borderlands 2. But this gun—this delightfully obnoxious, bizarre gun—is actually kind of making me want to. A gun that shouts at you, and can only be captioned as “annoying sounds?” That’s the kind of silliness I appreciate in my games. Even if it makes me take off my headphones for a…

Torchlight II and the Seven Game Reviewers That Can’t Stop Saying Diablo

Torchlight II is an isometric dungeon-crawler role-playing game in which players, alone or in groups, battle fantasy creatures in order to amass more powerful equipment, with which they can then use to fight even more powerful fantasy creatures. See how easy that was? I got through the entire Frankenreview introduction without mentioning Diablo Oh come…

NBA 2K13‘s Demo Will Put Its Money Where Its Multiplayer Is

NBA 2K12 launched last year with a slew of online problems, disconnects, failures to connect and outright crashes, practically all of it tied to a decision to rewrite the game’s old online codebase, which dated back to the game’s Dreamcast origins and was an agonizing blemish even on a consensus game-of-the-year like NBA 2K12. In…

Let’s Talk About Our Horrible Bosses

In our next-to-last edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, I (Fahey) decided to stick with a simple question that encompasses the very essence of what Speak Up was originally created to do. Commenter Saljuice want to know which video game bosses have given you the most trouble. Stephen Totilo doesn’t count. Last night I spent…