Here’s the first trailer for Project Versus J J-Stars Victory VS, the latest Shonen Jump crossover fighting game to grace our consoles. It has been described as the “ultimate Jump game” and, well, it sure does look the part. J-Stars Victory VS is coming out in Japan sometime in 2013 for the PS3 and the…

Japanese Teens Are Now Playing Fake Quidditch

Well, that escalated quickly. First, Japanese schoolgirls started uploading photos of faux Dragon Ball moves. Then, Westerners replied with Star Wars style Force Grips. And now? Japanese schoolboys, it seems, are now uploading photos of imaginary Quidditch games. Quidditch, of course, is the broomstick-based team sport from the Harry Potter books. Why “imaginary”? There already…

The Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II, which I like very much, has been updated. More wars, more stuff, more good times. Get it here

Indie platformer The Other Brothers, which is pretty good, was quietly released on iOS last week. You should check it out (it’s coming to PC soon).

An Upsetting Collection Of Dead Nintendo Hardware

Writer and student Dennis Pham has, with a stomach of iron, catalogued a collection of images of Nintendo hardware – and games – that are dead. Broken. Torn. Smashed. Whatever, you name it, this batch of gore porn has it all. It is not for the faint-hearted. Indeed, if you work in the tech industry…

Skyrim Gets 100 New (Unofficial) Achievements, For The Obsessive-Compulsive Among You

Achieve That! is a mod for Skyrim that, as you’ve probably picked up from the headline, adds 109 new achievements to the game, in case you’ve racked up all the existing ones already. What’s neat here is that they’re actually really cool; way cooler than Skyrim’s fairly boring official ones. Most of them reward you…

A BioShock PC That Lets You Browse Online For Hats, Garbage Food & Racist Rhetoric

BioShock Infinite’s steam(balloon)punk world had a lot of impressive technology, but nothing that could actually play, well, BioShock Infinite. That would have been both too meta, and too implausible. And yes, I know that world featured cyborgs and floating cities Reddit user CodyOdi has filled in the blanks with this casemod, turning a weird PC…

This Week’s Best Cosplay Includes Dirty Lara, The Other Mario Brother And A Strangely Feminine Metal Gear Outfit

A few familiar faces return in this week’s cosplay roundup, old costumes with new modifications or lavish new photoshoots. Those who aren’t new? They’re just as good. This week we’ve got some gender-bending Metal Gear cosplay, the return of a potato-nosed Mario brother and a Tomb Raider shoot that had everyone, cameraman included, up to…

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Out In May, Has Michael Biehn

If the last part of that headline didn’t make you happy deep inside, then this post – and this game – is not for you. With a lack of any official PR helping keep players in the dark aboutthe finer details of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, we’re left with piecemeal bits of info like…

Portal 2’s Atlas & P-Body Look Even Better In Real Life

Toy Company threeA held a show in Taipei over the weekend, and making their debut were the finished models (we’ve seen earlier iterations before) of Portal 2’s co-op robots Atlas and P-Body. These will be expensive, but for collectors, they also look like they’ll be totally worth it. Note the detail on the paint job…

The Shooter That Lets You Play As Three People At Once

Signal Ops is a new indie shooter that, instead of just giving you one player to control and one screen to control them on, gives you three. Like Space Hulk, then, only cuter, and way more effective, seeing as this is a proper, fluid game, not an ancient, tile-based experience. You play the part of…

Planescape Torment’s Successor Is Now The Biggest Kickstarter Game Of All Time

The spiritual successor to Planescape Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera, once held the record for being the fastest Kickstarter to hit $1 million. It quickly lost that honour, but that’s OK. It’s now got another record to its name, that of being the most successful Kickstarter video game of all time, raising over $4 million…

First-Person Shooter is a fantastic video put together by The Verge, part of this larger report, which looks at the way cameras are being used by police to record when they pursue, and sometimes fire upon, suspects.

The makers of Defiance, the MMO based on the Syfy show of the same name, say they’re aware of crashes and server problems marring the game’s launch week. A patch is planned for April 15, and another is coming two weeks later. “There are so many things we can’t fix, add or improve right away…

America’s Army—remember that thing?—is getting an update. The recruitment tool/official video game of the U.S. Army is taking applications to be a beta tester for the next edition of the game. The game originally launched in 2002; its last update was in 2009.

Super Mario’s Creator Says Wii U Skepticism Mirrors the Nintendo DS Debut

Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda, gave an interview to CNN this weekend about the Wii U that basically amounts to “Please give us a chance.” He thinks the skepticism shown to the Wii U is akin to the early doubts about the first Nintendo DS, and that public…

This Pokémon parody of Trinidad’s “All Gold Everything,” by the gaming rap collective Broken Pixels, is solid gold, too.

The Week in Games: Holy Guacamelee!

Well, if you thought last week was thin, get a load of this week. Indie metroidvania Guacamelee! for the PS3 and Vita is the name that most jumps out. It’s here on Tuesday Tuesday • Age of Empires II HD (PC) • Mystery Masters: Lighter Side of Adventure (PC 10 pack) • Table Mini Golf…

In 30 Tender Portraits, LucasArts Remembers LucasArts

The closure of LucasArts as a video games developer this week hit many right between the eyes. None staggered harder than those who worked for the studio, all of whom were laid off. Gamers and fans took the news personally thanks to nostalgia, remembering the good times playing great games, or because of a keen…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Bad Guys

“The tallest trees catch the most wind,” said Peter Moore, the EA executive, about being a front-runner for a “Worst Company in America” poll. Well, If EA catches the most wind, we’re here to break it, in Kotaku’s weekly ‘Shop Contest. Your mission: Portray EA in the most comically evil way possible. Snidely, Scut and…