One of the World’s Best Tekken Players Is a 13 Year-Old Kid

At the recent Tekkeg Tag Tournament Global Championship in South Korea, 13 year-old Alexander “AK” Laverez sure has remarkable skills when it comes to fighting games. The young Filipino was able to beat Japan’s favorite Nobi as well as one of the top Korean player Help-Me!! Although he finished third (that means $1000 and a…

Check Out the Rejected Lightning Returns Logos

This is the Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy logo. You might have also seen this logo with an all-black background. But have you ever seen the rejected ones? At a recent event in Tokyo for Lightning Returns and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD, Square Enix showed off the Lightning Returns logos it didn’t end up using. Below,…

FlatOut developer Bugbear Entertainment’s Next Car Game is now on Kickstarter. The group aims to raise $350,000 to create what they call “Destruction Racing Perfection,” with a next-gen console port of the game promised should the campaign manage to gather $1,500,000. You can take a look here

Becoming a Demigod: Tencent’s Asura Online Ascends Chinese MMOs

Journey to the West is a classic Chinese tale that has been retold millions of times. It’s been referenced by a variety of media, from the movie the Forbidden Kingdom to even Dragon Ball. But despite all the awesome adaptations of the main subject, Tencent’s Asura Online might just be the coolest one yet. Released…

The Chinese Gaming Console with the Jackie Chan Seal of Approval

Chinese super star Jackie Chan, singer, dancer, and all around movie star, has endorsed loads of products in his lifetime, and will probably endorse many more to come. Recently in China, Chinese netizens have been going over some of Chan’s earlier product endorsements, including one that should’ve been banned. While the game console ban has…

Blasting Through Doom’s Levels as Duke Nukem? There’s a Mod For That

What do Duke Nukem, B.J. Blazkowicz, and Doomguy have in common? They’re all stars of a pretty sweet-looking Doom mod, that’s what. As you can see in the above trailer, the aim of Samsara is to take locales and/or characters from the FPS games of old—Duke3D, Heretic, Hexen, Marathon, Chex Quest, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, and…

This Persona 5 “Leaked Image” Looks Really Fake

Over the weekend, a “leaked” Persona 5 image appeared on Reddit. It looks super duper fake. So, so, so fake. Did I mention that it looks fake? A Redditor said the recently uploaded Atlus teaser site looked like this for “a good minute.” If that’s the case, it was created by Japanese people who have…

Track: Sadness Comes Home | Album: All We Love We Leave Behind | Artist: Converge Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Someone Put A Spaceship On This Beautiful Video Game World, Right Now

Outerra, an engine that has the potential to change the way we play certain genres of video games, just keeps looking better every time we see it. This new video highlights the massive engine’s ability to generate and distribute vegetation as it flies over Mexico. Not a tiny, artificial caricature of Mexico. A 1:1 recreation…

This Is How You Make A Video Game Trailer

This is the latest trailer for Capy’s Super TIME Force, and while their lastone was awesome, this might be even better. Forget expensive cinematics or insomnia-curing developer diaries; this is how you sell a video game. You entertain and inform. Seamlessly. If you thought your Xbox 360 was done for, think again, because this hits…

Reports: Nintendo Publishes A Game Dropping F-Bombs

Wii Karaoke U is a service that’s been available in Japan for a while, a built-in app for Nintendo’s console that lets users play a basic singing game using their Miis. The game – developed by Joysound – went and hit Europe last month, converted to a downloadable title, and the song selection is…interesting. According…

Hyper Light Drifter Still Looks Like The Coolest Game In Town

Hyper Light Drifter was oncea tiny little Kickstarter. It was asking for $27,000. It ended up making $645,000 Now that the dust has settled and the cash has been counted, here’s three minutes of gameplay from a “pre-alpha basic demonstration”. Normally that disclaimer is attached because an in-progress game is looking like crap, but this,…

Battlefield 4 Has Some Problems (But They’re Being Worked On)

Like most online games, Battlefield 4 on PC is having some teething problems. While they’re not as severe as certainother gameshave experienced this year, they’re still a pain in the butt for those affected. Things like server crashes, long queues, loss of player progression and in-game bugs are making some people’s experience with the big…

Another Good Look At The Xbox One’s Dashboard

Videos of the Xbox One’s dashboard and user interface in action have been getting progressively better, the latest being this handy clip put together by The Verge Shot with a half-decent camera/phone, and by a man who can keep his hand steady while filming, this video also benefits from uploader Tom Warren narrating the action…

There’s Keyboard and Mouse, There’s Dual Analogs—and Then There’s This

Freddie Wong is one of our generation’s finest war satirists, showing the idiocy of human conflict if everyone fought the way they did in video games. So when mobile gamepad maker MOGA wanted to commission a film showing how shit-tacular touch-screen controls are, there was really only one guy to go to. “Mobile Squad” is…

Warhammer Online, due for a shutdown in mid-December, has gone free-to-play as a “parting gift” to those who had an account in good standing as of Thursday. “We will be adding new NPCs to the game in order to power up your characters,” Mythic promises.