Virtual Racing Is Better With A Race Queen Pit Crew

Codemasters shows off racing game F1 2010 in Tokyo, complete with racing wheel and “race queens”. As seen on Game Watch Impress Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Nintendo Makes Mario’s Creator Drive To Work

There’s a great piece up on Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto over on the New Yorker, and while we knew much of what’s been written, one thing stands out: the guy’s being forced to drive to work! That’s right, apparently while he used to enjoy walking or riding his bike, these days the suits make him…

Come And Play, Everything’s A-KO

Street Fighter and Sesame Street? Mario and Sesame Street worked just fine, so sure, why the hell not. These Sesame Street x Street Fighter designs are available on redbubble, where you can get them as shirts, hoodies or, if you’re a little short on cash, $2.50 stickers. Shame they’re limited to one design per item!…

Totally Sick Of Final Fantasy IV

When not making new Final Fantasy games, Square Enix likes to remake old Final Fantasy games. There’s one title in particular that the company cannot stop remaking, though I really wish it would. Remakes of Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years are headed to the PSP next spring. The games will…

These Are Not Action Figures, They Are Nintendo Games

You’ll usually find something being crammed in a “blister pack” when it’s an action figure or a control pad. You don’t normally see video games shipped that way. But it turns out that in Western Europe (and very rarely Canada), in the 1980s and 1990s, you could find classic Nintendo games encased in plastic, hanging…

What Do You Want For Your 3rd Birthday? A Gun? Hot Pants?

Japanese actress Rei Okamoto might not be voicing protagonist Aya Brea in upcoming PSP title The 3rd Birthday, but that doesn’t stop her from posing with a pistol and dangerously short shorts. The 19-year-old Okamoto is voicing Aya’s adopted sister Eve Brea, who is actually an Aya clone. Guess that gives her the okay to…

Please, Enough With The Tomb Raider Reboots Already!

This new Tomb Raider game is being hailed as a reboot of the series. Really? If my PC had to be rebooted as many times as this franchise, I’d have thrown it out years ago. Since the 1996 release of the first Tomb Raider, there have been – excluding the handheld and mobile versions and…

There’s A New Sakura Wars Game Blossoming

There’s a new Sakura Wars (yay!). It’s a browser game (oh). This is the debut trailer for the upcoming Sakura Wars: Taisho Roman Gakuentan. Set in a school, the game has players duke it out with steampunk-style demons. First released on the Sega Saturn in 1996, Sakura Wars spun off titles for the Dreamcast, the…

The Men Behind The Men Of Uncharted 3

This is, wait for it, a making-of clip for a trailer. Silly, we know, but you may want to click play anyways and skip straight to 3:57, because buried amidst the back-slapping is a cool sight. It is, for those who haven’t viewed the “making of” featurettes on the actual Uncharted game dics, a quick…

A Week In Comments

Concentration Camp Game Was Meant To Be ‘Fun’ Comment by: LucasKane Nominated by: ca$h What the hell is up with Kotaku (and its readers) lately? Here’s a game that will inspire a kind of genuine emotional reaction, a game that puts you into a situation where your nameless enemy deserves killing, and it’s some kind…

Why Do The Spike VGAs Even Bother With “Awards” Part?

The Spike Video Game Awards were a great piece of entertainment, weren’t they? We got a Mass Effect 3 trailer, an Elder Scrolls V reveal, an amazing Batman trailer and awards for…hrm… It’s all a bit sad, isn’t it? That we had as big a reveal, and as expensive a collection of trailers as you’ll…

Tokyo Says “Sayonara” To Freedom Of Speech?

Legislation was voted on today in Tokyo that some contend not only robs creators of their freedom of speech, but is unfair. Earlier this year, legislation to control the depiction of “virtual youth” was shot down. Famed manga artists vocally protested the bill, drawing attention to its vague definition of “virtual youth” and causing it…

Oh Good, Elder Scrolls V Won’t Use That Broken Old Engine

While the reveal of a new Elder Scrolls game was a blast, it wasn’t the best piece of Elder Scrolls news to come out of the weekend. No, the other piece is much more exciting. Bethesda’s Nick Breckon has confirmed that the next game in the fabled role-playing series won’t, as originally suspected, be using…

More Details For SSX: Deadly Descents

The EA.com official page for SSX: Deadly Descents went live sometime last night, shedding a little more light on the return of the snowboarding series and dropping another three screenshots. According to the site’s official writeup, SSX: Deadly Descents tells the story of a team seeking ” to be the first to descend the faces…

Red Dead Redemption Cleans Up At The VGAs

To keep the show to two hours, they didn’t hand out all the hardware on stage at last night’s 2010 Video Game Awards. Here is the complete list of honorees. Neil Patrick Harris’ compensation was limited to just one award. Red Dead Redemption was thebig winner, with four awards, led by Game of the Year.…

PC Need For Speed Won’t Get Consoles’ DLC

Not only is Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit’s first downloadable content package not coming to the game’s PC version, the PC version isn’t getting any of the consoles’ paid DLC extensions, period, according to the game’s studio. Big Download reports that Criterion Games, on the official Need For Speed message boards, confirmed the lack of…

SSX New Screenshots

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: NPH WTF

After about one commercial break, it was clear Neil Patrick Harris was just up there cashing a check last night at the 2010 Video Game Awards. What won’t Doogie host? Is he available for birthday parties? This week’s challenge: Neil Patrick Harris’ rampage continues. His awkward intrusions on video games didn’t end with last night.…

Sunday Comics

Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Dec. 6 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Dec. 10 – Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Dec. 6 – Read more of Penny Arcade Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull published Dec.…

Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves

Every kiss begins with Kay, and every week begins with TAY. Nothing captures the radiant luster of your video game conversation like our one-of-a-kind princess-cut open thread. Nerf Herder is the weekend winner of the #taypics derby. There are six chances each week to get your handiwork featured. Just shop up this image and submit…