Don’t Be Afraid of This PS3 Super Slim Commercial

Sony’s new commercial for its new PS3 iteration shows off the new hardware. It seems like just any other commercial. Until… 【TVCM】新型PlayStation®３　「出る。」篇 [PlayStationjp@YouTube] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.

Behold, the Awesome Queen of Gundam Cosplay

Gundam mecha aren’t exactly easy to dress up as. It’s tricky to reproduce that mecha armor—even tougher if you want to give it an original spin. For a while now, Taiwanese cosplayer Ran has been doing both. Whether it’s Gundam RX79 or MSΖ-006 ΖGundam, she puts her own spin on the giant mecha, with heavy…

The New Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Fighting Game Looks as Mental as Ever

Here’s the latest Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle trailer. It’s magical! Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle is headed to the PS3 sometime next year. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.

Japan Gets Its First “Snoozing with Women” Specialty Business

Akihabara is ground zero for Japanese manga, anime, and video games. No wonder the place caters to every nerd fantasy imaginable, such as maid cafes for guys (butler cafes for gals) as well as more adult services. The latest business to make a splash in Japan’s nerdom is always patrons to sleep with ladies. That’s…

Metal Gear Rising‘s special edition comes with a High Frequency Blade plasma lamp, among other goodies.

Pokémon Jack-o’-Lanterns, Gotta Carve ‘Em All!

October is right around the corner—and so is Halloween. While I haven’t picked out my costume (must remember to!), I have been thinking about what I’d like to carve into an orange gourd. These Pocket Monster carvings provide plenty of inspiration. These photos popped up on Tumblr site Think Like No One Else, and I’m…

Flare Is A Free, Open-Source RPG For The PC

Fans of old isometric PC role-playing games, this is for you. Flare is a free, open-source RPG project that’s currently in alpha, but is already generally playable and, given the nature of the game and its price, pretty good! Because it’s open-source, it’ll be a cinch for anyone who wants to modify or improve basically…

StarCraft Was Rebooted Over a Giant Lie

As we’ve seen, StarCraft as we know it today isn’t how the game was originally conceived. Once much closer to WarCraft in design, it was only when Blizzard saw how far ahead its competition was that it was motivated to transform the game into the RTS giant it would eventually become. So you can understand…

FIFA 13 vs Pro Evo 2013: Which Football Game Should You Get?

There are two great football games on the market this week. Most fans will only buy one. It’s a tough call. Alone amongst major sporting series, the battle between FIFA and Pro Evo is actually a pretty fair fight. Both games present compelling arguments as to which is the better football game, depending on who…

Minecraft Sounds Better if You Call it Minesubsidence

Seems this was a question asked earlier in the week on Millionaire Hot Seat, an abridged Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Our friend here went with the worst possible answer. At least A is funny and C is even funnier, because it makes it sound like a Square Enix RPG. The…

We Nearly Got an MC Hammer Game

If nothing says “early 90s” like MC Hammer, then nothing says “mid 90s” like shitty Sega CD games. How wonderful the two could come together, then, in Hammer vs. Evil D. in Soulfire, a game that looked as awful as it sounded. It was never released, sadly/thankfully, and before you go making jokes about developers…

A Gorgeous Indie Game That’s Giving Me Space Madness

This is Orbitor, a game from Evil Alien, an indie studio from Canberra, Australia. It’s about, well, orbits! Before you go saying it’s a fancier Angry Birds Space, don’t; I’ve actually seen this project before, at an earlier stage, and having been in development for a while it pre-dates Rovio’s game by a long shot.…

This Video Game Enemy is More Human Than Humans

A team from The University of Texas have, along with Romanian computer scientist Mihai Polceanu, won a competition for the “BotPrize”, which is awarded to whoever can come up with the most “human-like” piece of artificial intelligence in Unreal Tournament 2004 Why UT2004 and not, say, Counter-Strike? Because the competition was sponsored by UT’s publisher…

The History of Rockstar’s Game Intros

Similar to companies like LucasArts, Rockstar have always sought to mix things up when their games first boot up. Which is why so many of them, even today, feature their own unique intro sequences, where the company’s logo is either introduced, lit up or blown up. The video above runs for over nine minutes, so…

Forget Call of Duty, This is What Real War Looks Like

A generation of military first-person shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield may have millions of kids thinking they know modern warfare, but they don’t. As these videos are about to show. YouTube channel FUNKER530 exists as a repository for veterans to post videos they’ve captured of live, raw combat, and some of the stuff…

Here’s Three Pieces of DLC For This Mario Game

Nintendo has just detailed the New Super Mario Bros. 2 DLC that it first announced back in June at E3 There’ll be three packs made available, all of them courses for the game’s coin rush mode: – Ippatsu Shoubu de Dokidoki Pack (very difficult course) – Gold Mario Go! Go! Go! Pack (try and get…

Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime Jousts With Geoff Keighley. This Is Your GTTV Preview.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime will make an appearance on GTTV tonight on Spike (1am ET/PT) to talk all things Wii U with host Geoff Keighley. Here’s a promo for the segment. It’s kind of hilarious: Reggie Fils-Aime Promo Clip [GTTV]

OK, OK, This is What You’d Call a ‘Roster Update’

The Wii may have been the worst console for sports video games ever—not “worst major,” not “worst of its generation,” flat out the worst console for sports video games. I know it had Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and that version often outperformed the high-definition consoles in reviewer scores. But the prototypical Wii sports video games…

Sword & Sworcery, Pixelated Versus Spray Painted

Sword and Sworcery is an elegant iOS game (now on PC, Mac and Linux). Its quaint, pixelated art is equally charming. But we haven’t seen many renditions of that memorable, triumphant thrust of the main character’s sword-hand into the midnight sky quite like this. That is to say, we’ve never seen stencils of that scene…

Nintendo Japan will release a Nintendo Direct video tonight at 11pm ET. An English video will follow soon after.