Playstation Vita For $150 [Updated]

Amazon has made their exclusive Playstation Vita bundle available, which packs in Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Retro City Rampage, The Walking Dead, 400 Days, and a 4GB Memory Card for $175. An excellent start to your Vita library. [Amazon] Update: When it rains, it pours. Here’s eBay’s Playstation Vita deal for…

When Making a Brawler, You Must Consider… Tail Physics

Oh man. Look at that tail sway. Truly a thing of beauty, isn’t it? All made possible thanks to tail physics. Not much time has passed since the last video update on the progress of indie brawler Overgrowth , but let’s face it, tail physics are important. Brawlers need ’em. Especially animal brawlers with fat…

How Many Gaming References Can You Squeeze Into a Two-Minute Song?

Lots! Eric Fullerton, whom we’ve had the fortune to meet before, returns with a song about… um, gaming references. Basically it’s a bunch of quotes. From games. In song. But it’s good! You should give it a listen. If gaming nostalgia had a theme song, this pretty much would be it. Welcome to the Warp…

Expect The Phantom Pain When Lots of People Have PS4s

Excited about Metal Gear Solid V? Wondering when the main part, The Phantom Pain, is coming out? Game creator Hideo Kojima recently named a launch window for the game. It’s incredibly vague. Hideo Kojima was in New York for the release of the PlayStation 4 earlier this month and was approached by Weekly Famitsu about…

Playstation 4 And Xbox One Black Friday Stock

Keep this post bookmarked to let us keep you updated with next-gen console availability both online and in-store. Playstation Plus 12-Month Subscription ($30) | Amazon The Best Black Friday Gaming Deals The Best Black Friday Deals Follow Kotaku Deals on Twitter to never miss a deal. Get in touch with Shane Roberts onTwitter or by…

Smash Bros. Director’s Job Would Kill Me

You’ve heard the stories of games where famous producers are involved in name only. Such is definitely not the case with the upcoming Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Smash Bros. for Wii U Series creator Masahiro Sakurai is nothing if not a hard worker, but as his column in Weekly Famitsu reveals, his involvement…

Playstation Plus One Year Membership For $22 [Updated]

At midnight ET eBay will have a year of Playstation Plus, the second best value in gaming behind the Humble Bundle, for a ridiculously low $22. This is the lowest price ever for the membership, and quite possibly the lowest we’ll see it before next Black Friday. The rush to buy this is going to…

League of Legends, Turned Into Final Fantasy VII… Has Potential

Would it be possible to transform League of Legends into a JRPG, specifically, Final Fantasy VII? The answer is yes! Thanks to Brazilian YouTuber Pato Papao, we now have a highly detailed LoL / Final Fantasy crossover fan-video, with the appropriate dances, moves and skills. There’s also plenty of extra little tidbits for those who…

Battlefield 4 $25, $75 With Season Pass (PS3 Digital) Now Live

At 9:10pm ET Amazon will have the first lightning deal through its new Playstation Network store, discounting Battlefield 4 to $25, or bundled with its Season Pass for $75. We’ve been told that stock will be ample, but after seeing multiple other Black Friday lightning deals sell out in seconds, we recommend you be there…

Bananasaurus_Rex Keeps Breaking Spelunky

Spelunky is a very difficult game. But of course some people aren’t satisfied with just plain difficult. Bananasaurus_Rex has already done the near-impossible solo eggplant run, so he had to invent a new challenge for himself. If you aren’t familiar with Spelunky, it’s a platformer with randomly-generated levels. If you spend too long on a…

Video Games, Reimagined As Classic Paperback Novels

Digital artist Zachary Knoles really touched the spot when he redesigned video games and its characters as aged, dusty covers of classic paperback novels. Given the complex story of Xenogears, it would be quite an interesting read as a sci-fi novel from the 80s. Here’s more of his work: Kerrigan from StarCraft II now looks…

Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a picture of Mario chasing after a decapitated Toad head. (via Alison Rapp)

The Last Of Us And Beyond: Two Souls Discounted To $25 Each [Gone]

At 6:10pm ET, Amazon will knock the prices of game of the year contender The Last of Us and Quantic Dream’s latest game, Beyond Two Souls, down to $25 each. This matches the best doorbuster prices we’ve gotten wind of, and if the speed at which Amazon’s other lightning deals have disappeared thus far is…

Rome’s PS4 Launch Looked Amazing

The PS4 just went on sale in Italy, and the launch event Sony put on in Rome – at the historic Castel Sant’Angelo – looked bananas. Using projectors, lasers and some…dubstep, they turned the old building into the centrepiece of a fantastic light show, at times making it appear as though it had been destroyed,…

​For Thanksgiving, Let’s Take A Trip Down Last-Gen Memory Lane

Sure, the next generation of gaming is upon us. But not only are there still plenty of games coming to current- (or now, last-) gen consoles, there are also plenty of memories worth revisiting. We had a lot of fun with our month-long Last-Gen Heroes series, and I hope you’ll take some time today to…

The Amazing Conversations You Had About Video Games This Thanksgiving

My fellow gaming Americans, Thanksgiving is a day when you can eat turkey, be lazy and answer questions from well-meaning but relatively uninformed relatives about that video game thing you’re into. Surely, grandma asked you about that new PlayStation today? Or your brother-in-law mentioned, while passing the cranberry sauce, that he’s buying an Xbox One…

Xbox One Boxes Going For Nearly As Much As The Console Itself on eBay

Typically, spending a ton of money and only ending up with a box is a scam people don’t want to buy into. Unless, apparently, you really want special Xbox One packaging. Last time we looked at Xbox One listings on eBay, we found that people were paying money for the special “Day One” achievement—they’re a…