SEATTLE -- Former Nintendo vice president Perrin Kaplan isn't done with gaming. Speaking as part of a panel on sex and violence at Penny Arcade Expo on Sunday, Kaplan (pictured far left) told the assembled crowd that she will still be involved in videogames. Kaplan left Nintendo after a lengthy...

Just for the record, readers, I’m here as a Plebeian (and I heart that word) – with a normal three-day pass I paid for with my own hard-earned money. I’m also hanging out with three friends and am subject to what they want to do, not what I want to cover. I have not once pulled rank as a Kotaku...

Iron Chef America is unapologetically similar to Cooking Mama and Destineer is totally OK with that. "Cooking Mama is like cooking with your friends and family at home," said Lisa Mason, the game's lead designer. "We wanted to do things that home cooks don't do: fillet whole fish, quarter chicken. "The...

To: Bash, Luke From: Owen Re: Drool Pillow Awaits!! Just realized I don't have a grill, so I'm off to buy one of those from Target so I can enjoy some flame-broiled flesh like a proper Labor Day observant today and tomorrow. In KFC football action, Otis5757 leads the league with a 6-1 record — he has...

Penny Arcade Expo was Tristan's first video game convention and I think his few hours on the show floor gave him a taste for such things that will live in him for ages. The first thing he wanted to do when we arrived? Play Rock Band 2. He didn't even let the fact that he had to get up on stage in front...

Hexiom Connect is a pretty intuitive browser-based puzzle game; you have to rearrange hexagons on the board so that all the colored lines are connected. There are 40 levels (and even a colorblind option, so if you can't tell the difference between red and green, never fear), so I've spent quite a chunk...

So, Mercenaries 2 is already out as of today. Tuesday has several drops with some anticipation behind them, whether that's Infinite Undiscovery, Facebreaker, or Viva Pinata. If anyone is planning on picking up Vampire Rain for the PS3 please do let us know so we can stage a Maury Povich-style intervention....

SEATTLE -- Above, a Pink Godzilla employee cuts China Warrior, maybe the single worst TurboGrafx game ever, off the company's giant wall of retro games in its Penny Arcade Expo booth. I wanted to buy a bad TurboGrafx game but didn't want to make the decision on my own. You, the readers, have...

SEATTLE -- The second episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People is down on the show floor at PAX (right when you walk in, actually), but I didn't want to play it. I want to remain pure and unspoiled for its release next month. That said, I did want to check out the second of the...

SEATTLE -- I watch a lot of those Food Network Challenge cake things, and so it was pretty cool to see that a local bakery had put together this novelty Penny Arcade Adventures cake. Unfortunately, it was all but destroyed by day two, and just sitting there, next to Wil Wheaton, unattended....

There is a hilarious article up on the Escapist on one MMO player's experience with Mabinogi, the Nexon free-to-play MMO that was released in North America earlier this year. I had to laugh because I'm not an MMO player and I've been having a culture shock experience of my own adjusting to a Western-style...

2009 looks set to be a great year for Wii gamers with titles like The Conduit and MadWorld scheduled for release, but there’s been no better time to try out those games you may have missed the first time around because you were too busy Brawling and Galaxy-hopping to care. Even better, many of...

Out in Ohio, a veterans' peace group is dropping a protest against the Virtual Army Experience, a Humvee-sized simulation in which participants zip around through the desert with machine guns shootin' terrists. The Ohio chapter of Veterans for Peace weren't happy with the fact that kids as young as...

Active Contact Lenses will display games onto the retinaVia: Future Blogger - Future Entertainment Becomes Simulated RealityIn his web article, “Views of the Future,” British Telecom futurologist Ian Pearson predicts that by 2020 nano-size electronics inside “active contact lenses” will receive...

One of my most anticipated games for this year is Left 4 Dead, Valve's Zombie Apocalypse game that's all about cooperative play. The thing is I haven't been able to try, and until this week no one has, is the Xbox 360 version of the game. I was worried that a Valve game built to be a PC experience would...