I have a rule for my house: no more than a third of the artwork on my walls is allowed to be gaming-related. This rule fell apart pretty quickly when it became clear just how much beautiful video game artwork there is out there. Once, all you could really get was posters designed for the walls of kids' bedrooms; now…
"I want to go out there and prove that there is beauty to be found here." Published by our friends at Kotaku UK, here's an account of what it's like to have your hometown immortalized in RPG Maker as a "grotty drug-infested cesspit."
Kotaku UK's review of Grid Autosport: "A fast but ultimately frustrating racing game that improves on its predecessor in some areas, at the cost of ostracizing anyone but the most devoted of driving game fans."
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You should have seen me during the Bloodborne announcement at Sony's presser. I lost all of my British decorum and let out an involuntary whoop. But the trailer left me wondering what the game actually was - it had all the gloom and gore of a Souls trailer, but we saw no gameplay.
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Fable Legends is one of those games that doesn't quite make sense until you get your hands on it. Fable is such an intrinsically single-player experience for a lot of us that imagining it as a co-op action game requires some mental gymnastics. Once I had a controller in my hands and four other people around me,…
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Like the action movies of the 1980s, mainstream video games view war through a pretty rose-tinted lens. Even when big budget military shooters make an effort with the narrative, war is regularly presented in games as a singular event: 'a war' rather than 'war'; something that parachutes you in for the opening chapter,…
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Despite the amount of annoyance that console fanboys have caused me over the years as a person writing about video games on the Internet, despite the endless comments threads they have derailed with their arguments, I still have a small reserve of affection for these people. There's a passion inherent in fanboyism…
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That. That is a big number. I had to turn my phone sideways and everything to work that out. I don't even know how to say it. The staggering figure is the combined souls lost across both 360 and PS3, and the result of some 252, 163, 804 deaths overall.
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If you missed it last month, we announced a partnership with Future Publishing to launch Kotaku UK, the UK's own version of Kotaku. And that site is officially live today.
