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Talk Amongst Yourselves

Time to step into the squared circle of talking and philosophical wrasslin’, brother! Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss the joys and wonders of gaming all rolled up into one. Shadoroch re-imagines this month’s artistic masterpiece as a sports entertainent battle…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 27, 2012

An Open Letter to Apple: You Need Gaming as Much as Gaming Needs You

Apple needs Gaming as much as Gaming needs Apple. The games business at Apple currently is, as Steve Jobs said about the Apple TV, a “hobby”. Tim Cook agrees – you guys aren’t changing the world with this one. But you sure can! Steve Jobs famously said Apple strives to be at the intersection of…

alfredo gil Published February 27, 2012

Grab Your Helmet and Strap On Your 9mm For A Sons of Anarchy Video Game

Kurt Sutter, creator of FX show Sons of Anarchy that centers on an outlaw motorcycle “club,” tweeted on Friday of the possibility of a game spin-off. SOA and the fictional town of Charming are the perfect setting for an open world game, where gun trafficking and fist fights against rival MCs run rampant. Think of…

By Tina Amini Published February 27, 2012

Pokémon Black and White 2 Catch All the Western Gamers This Fall

Announced this weekend for a June release in Japan, the first pair of main series Pokémon titles with the number two in the title will be hitting North America and Europe this fall. Fans can expect plenty of surprises in Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2, the tag-team sequels everyone was certain would be…

By Mike Fahey Published February 27, 2012

Dan Bull’s Mass Effect Rap Rolls With An “Asari That’s Older Than Atari”

Step aside, “Paragon | Renegade” by Adam WarRock. There’s a new Mass Effect rap opus in town.* The Mass Effect Epic Rap—by Dan Bull, who we’ve featured around these parts before—offers up a clever rhyming synopsis of the events of the first two games in BioWare’s hit series. I think my favorite line might be…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 27, 2012

Pack Your Preorder Bonuses, Dungeons & Dragons Online Goes to the Forgotten Realms June 25

Can you believe Dungeons & Dragons Online turns six-years-old tomorrow? They grow up so fast. Turbine celebrates with the release date and extensive preorder bonuses for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game’s world-hopping expansion pack, Menace of the Underdark In the six years since Dungeons & Dragons Online first launched (as Dungeons & Dragons Online:…

By Mike Fahey Published February 27, 2012

It’s Like Uncharted, But Smaller and with Real Fire

Uncharted | DUBAI, UAE: Uncharted brought to life with miniatures. (Photo: azixero | flickr) Fake iPhone Gas Stoves Seized in China Apple makes a lot of different things, such as laptops, displays, and phones. It does not make gas stoves-regardless if the Apple logo and iPhone brand seem to indicate otherwise. More » The Three Biggest…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 27, 2012

Meet the Chinese Company Who’s Fighting Apple

There’s a legal brouhaha going down. Proview Shenzhen is trying to stop Apple from selling the iPad in China, where it’s made. It’s even filing suit in California, where the iPad is designed. Previously, Kotaku reported that Proview, which developed an “iPad” desktop computer years ago, felt deceived by Apple’s agreement and is trying to…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 27, 2012

Brazilians Shake Their Asses to Mario

Brazil’s Carnival parades are some of the biggest, and certainly the danciest shindigs on Earth. Especially when they draft the Mushroom Kingdom in to help out. Reader Marcelo sends us these clips taken over the weekend in the Rio suburb of Santa Teresa, as a Mario-themed posse shakes their way down the streets. I’ve seen…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012

The Very Best In Cosplay: Beethy

Our running focus on the very best in cosplay is not, as some may have noticed, just looking at models/costume builders. We’ve also been looking at the people behind the camera, like LJinto and Eric Ng Or, in today’s case, Australian photographer Benjamin “Beethy” Koelewijn. Beethy has most recently been taking snaps of the new,…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012

The Dog from the Oscars Also Works for Nintendo

This month is Responsible Pet Owners Month. And to mark it, Nintendo hired Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier from The Artist, as its official spokesdog. This month is also the Academy Awards. During last night’s Oscar presentation, Uggie was on stage as The Artist won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He donned a bowtie…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 27, 2012

Minecraft, now With 100% Added Salt

Bashir Sultani, who in all seriousness I am about to label a salt artist, likes to draw things using salt. Like Minecraft creepers. We saw him last year going all Modern Warfare on us, but I think I like this better. It’s quainter. Which fits, since the dude is drawing pictures with salt. Which is…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012

The Anatomy of Amazing LEGO Pokémon

LEGO builder Mike Nieves has put together these two awesome Pokémon models, one showing Gyarados ready to bite someone’s face off, the other a Magikarp stripped bare to the bones. Literally. So if you’ve ever fancied yourself as a Pokémon osteologist, a rare but dignified branch of Pokémonology, take notes. retinence’s photostream [Flickr, via Brothers…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 27, 2012

The Perfect Moves of an Asshole Video Game Bad Guy

I want to talk about the medusa head, an enemy that has appeared in at least as many games as the goomba in Super Mario, but which moves in a more complex way. The pattern it follows is called a sine wave, and it was inevitable that a memorable entity in one of the most…

Hamish Todd Published February 27, 2012

Please do not get Excited Over This Sonic 4: Episode 2 Footage

So Sonic 4: Episode 1 was a bit of a disappointment. Which should have surprised nobody, but hey, you can’t rely on Sonic fans (which, really most of us are, deep down) for rational expectations of upcoming products So it’s with trepidation, and not excitement, that we take a look at this gameplay footage from…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2012

Mass Effect 3’s Live-Action Trailer is the End of the World as we Know it

This is a new live-action trailer for Mass Effect 3. Because an expensive pre-rendered one last week wasn’t enough! Kind of wish it had stopped at the collapsing roof. The “end of the world” stuff from the perspective from Joe on the Street is a neat angle to show a bombastic sci-fi game from, so…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2012

R2-D2 Birdhouse? R2-D2 Birdhouse

I Bet Birds Actually Understand R2 | Hand-painted R2-D2 birdhouse by Nirdhouse of Etsy. NirdHouse also has C-3PO and Mario designs. (via Neatorama) Pokémon Black 2, Pokémon White 2 Coming This Summer As promised, Junichi Masuda, the director of Pokemon Black and White appeared on Japanese TV show Pokémon Sunday today to announce the next…

By Owen Good Published February 26, 2012

I Bet I Know Why You Will Play Kinect Star Wars’ Dance-Off At Least Once

It’s going to take a hell of a turnaround to get me to change my tune on Kinect Star Wars. Yeah, Totilo said the game’s improved over what I played at E3, but, come on, a dancing game? I mean, how stupid is that. Do I look like a guy who wants to— fast forwards…

By Owen Good Published February 26, 2012

The Pac-Man Saturday Morning Cartoon is Coming to DVD Next Week

Despite how silly it looks, the Pac-Man animated series broadcast on ABC in the early 1980s was a modest success. It lasted only two seasons, but that can partly be attributed to the crash of home console video gaming taking the subject off people’s minds. What’s crazy to me is that it was an animated…

By Owen Good Published February 26, 2012

Looks Like Kingdom Hearts 3D Comes West in Late July

Square-Enix’s official French store briefly listed Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream, Drop, Distance for release on July 27 before the company pulled back the listing and replaced it with “Summer 2012.” Either way, it’s a more precise release window than what we’d heard before. Square may be pulling back the Western release date just to give…

By Owen Good Published February 26, 2012