It’s hard to tell who’d win this video game tug of war in digital artist Patrick Ballesteros‘ drawing. The team on the right with all the heavyweight characters or the other group with a curiously evil-looking Princess Zelda. Bonus points for the background characters and for the detailed surronding area. Dayshot is an image-based feature…

Meet The Charming Lovechild of Ocarina of Time And Ico

Although you might not want to. It stars a girl and the robot protecting her. That setup tends to lend itself pretty well to tear-jerking twists. If that’s not an issue, The Girl and the Robot might just be the adventure game you’re looking for. The description on its recently opened Kickstarter page explains the…

Japanese Hotel Rooms Don’t Get Much Cheaper Than This

Traveling to Japan on a budget? Need a place to stay? Don’t mind people having sex all around you? Well, have I got a hotel room for you. Enter hotel San Patchi. It’s located in Juso, which is a stone’s throw from the bustling Umeda district. It’s not the best of neighborhoods, sure (they filmed…

Five years after its Western release, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is finally hitting Japan—as a Club Nintendo Platinum Reward. The game was previously delayed several times in Japan and then cancelled.

Starbound is nearing its Beta release. The side-scrolling Terraria-like RPG which I just can’t seem to shut up about just got an official blog post outlining its three-stage Open Beta program, which, according to lead developer Tiy, is “really not very far off now.”

130+ Games In Two Weeks? Time to Slow Down, Steam

The Steam community is certainly a productive bunch. In total, thelast two weeks gave us one-hundred and thirty seven new Greenlight titles to look forward to. That’s… rather impressive. Of course, this means there’s a whole bunch of platformers, horror games, and RPGs for us to check out, so let’s get started! Note: Being Greenlit…

According to a Japanese arcade, Ultra Street Fighter IV will be released next April in Japan. Kotaku is following up with Capcom and will update this story should the company comment.

Local Chinese Government’s Photoshop Is As Crappy As They Come

Look, if you’re going to be in the propaganda business, you need to remember one thing: Get Photoshop right! According to China News (via HugChina), the above photo supposedly features the vice mayor of Ningguo county and other officials “visiting” a 100-year-old woman—a very small one hundred year old woman, surrounded by a halo and…

Alec Baldwin Turned Down The Chance To Be In Grand Theft Auto

Alec Baldwin, he of 30 Rock, Hunt For Red October and Beetlejuice fame, was once offered an “incomprehensible amount of money” to lend his voice to a Grand Theft Auto game. And he said…no. “[The makers of] ‘Grand Theft Auto’ came to me to do a voice of some mobster, many years ago, for ‘Grand…

That’s A Neat Party Trick, DualShock 4 [Update]

Designer Cory Schmitz is one of the early adopters of a DualShock 4 controller, and found that it can do…this. Weird trick, though surely getting the balance that right means they did it on purpose. Maybe to make things easier for the guys taking the official product images? Update: Turns out life is a lie…

Track: Not Like Before | Album: Nature’s Greatest Mystery | Artist: The Four Owls Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

Think You Can Wait For Assassin’s Creed IV On PC?

Assassin’s Creed IV, like most other big games from Ubisoft, is coming later on PC. You’d think they’d have sorted this out by now. Ungh. So the question is, if you’re impatient, will the fancier visuals of the PC edition make it worth waiting nearly a month for if you already own a 360, PS3…

Screw Champagne iPhones, We Want A Beer iPhone

Warning: this video is very Australian. It is also a glimpse into the future of consumer electronics, if that future was decided by the common man, and not wealthy Silicon Valley types. Aussie Bogan Creates Amazing Beer App! [YouTube, thanks @LukeHopewell]

Deadly Premonition On PC Looks Like Complete S**t (But There’s A Fix)

Weird-ass Japanese horror game Deadly Premonition has made it to the PC! That’s the good news. The bad news is that, like Dark Souls before it, this Japanese game has been ported to the PC in a sorry state indeed. Seems the game’s locked at 720p, acceptable for console gaming on a TV, perhaps, but…

Hunting Down The Fourth Season Of The Walking Dead Action Figures

With the fourth season of AMC’s hit television series underway and the promise of the second round of comic-based interactive adventure coming from Telltale, it’s the perfect time to peruse the painted plastic people (living and dead) of McFarlane Toys The Walking Dead series four TV figures. Now I am more of a comic book…