QUOTE | "If we need games for 10-year olds do we need to hire 10-year olds to make games? If I can't make a game for someone else I'm a shitty designer." - Laralyn McWilliams, veteran game designer, explaining why hearing 'If we want more games for women we need more women in game development' annoys her.
Are you guys ready for your new weekend Kotaku editor? I sure hope so! I'm certainly excited about it. But before we get into the weekend, be sure to catch up on our best stuff over at Kotaku Selects.
Penis Mods: you've got to read this hilarious write-up by Cara Ellison about "schlongs of Skyrim" mod, which she coupled with the "Bathing Beefcake Luxury Suite" mod. It's as amusing as it sounds.
Orteil42, creator of Cookie Clicker, has a toy on his website that generates random game concepts like "A tycoon game where you stop breathing if you don't hug chores." Now, there's a game jam to make those games real.
Snazzy Snake: check out the awesome reversible cover on the physical copies of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Here's the front cover, for comparison's sake.
Watching TV can be a great communal experience, a thing you love doing with friends and family...or it can suck, depending on the type of person you do it with.
There's nothing quite like the moment in Titanfall when you finally call down your giant mech, sprint across the battlefield, and leap into the cockpit. It's robot fightin' time!
I love playing Gauntlet, but sometimes you want something faster, leaner and more aggressive. Indie hopeful The Hero Trap hopes to fill that void.
And there is only one thing we say to Death: 'Not today'.
So let's talk about jolly cooperation for a bit?
Trippy game gets trippy, interactive trailer. Metrico—which charmed the heck out of me when I saw it at PAX Prime last year—offers a small glimpse at the gameplay and design sensibilities inside its infographic, puzzle-heavy world. There's a bit more about the upcoming Vita release at the official PlayStation blog.
Nice, Card Hunter is getting a tablet version. Blue Manchu's terrific tactics RPG/deck-building game Card Hunter always seemed suited to tablet devices, and now, it's finally happening. The tablet version will be a free-to-play app, similar to the browser-based original. The release date is still TBD.
Valve just sent us this image, a more clear depiction of the latest Steam Controller prototype that they detailed back in January.
You want a game set in a New York City analogue to be made by actual New Yorkers, don't you? Then go lend your efforts to the final few hours of the Kickstarter campaign for Treachery in Beatdown City. The latest development video captures a bit of how Shawn Alexander Allen and his colleagues are trying to pay homage…
There was a point in South Park: The Stick of Truth—somewhere between performing an abortion and farting on Nazi zombies—when it occurred to me that Obsidian's new RPG isn't just ridiculous—it's also kind of brilliant.
Yoshi's New Island is a perfectly pleasant video game that I have a hard time recommending.
The Hulk is Incredible, Indestructible, Rampaging, the Strongest one there is, and a noted smashing enthusiastic. What he is not, however, is undefeated. Before his current insane level of strength, where he can basically punch other dimensions, a variety of heroes and even a villain or two have managed to beat the…
Diablo III action figures by Samo Kramberger.
It's getting so that you can't keep track of them all.
